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Comment Re:No more refunds from here on out (Score 1) 109

Of course the IRS provides you with a convenient way to pay estimated taxes midyear if you think you are underpaying, but they don't provide you with any way of retrieving back money if you are overpaying. Companies that pay a lot of bonuses usually take out the maximum percentage of taxes for the bonus. If you get a large portion of your pay as bonus, you often don't get use of that money until 16 months later when it is worth 5% less according to the government and probably 20% less in real terms.

Comment Re:Ob missing option (Score 1) 109

The IRS wouldn't get much out of me. My expenses are much higher than my income. Especially this year since I don't have a job. However, despite having no income, and despite having several thousand dollars in withholding already given to the IRS for 2015, I still owed over a thousand dollars this year.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 51

If I was looking at 10 TB of storage, I would guess that I might have a need for maybe a 300 or 400 GB SSD along with platter. I use SSD for only a small fraction of my storage. Basically the OS and files which I need to load fast. In my case that is Flight Simulator files. I have 3 TB of platter drive for everything else. If you are storing media (just guessing, based on the 10 TB), then platter is plenty fast enough for loading.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 51

Most blatant slashvertisment I've ever seen.

Problem is as a consumer I could care less about the speed of SSD drives. I would like to care about the speed but they've not addressed the major problem: price. $1/GB is just insane in a $0.03/GB world. I need capacity far more than I need speed.

Actually, in the SSD world, that is more like $0.40/GB. So this new low price point is only 2.5 times the existing price point. But then , the speed is about triple.
I don't think I would pay 2.5 times as much for 3 times the speed, but maybe other people would.
If you REALLY don't care about speed and are only interested in capacity, then SSDs should not even be on the radar for you. Look at Hard Drives instead.

Comment Re:You're misrepresenting the USA there. (Score 1) 700

A charitable organisation has to PROVE it is a charity under the definitions of the tax law rules. A *religious* charitable organisation does not have to give any proof.

Wrong. A Church has to apply for 501(c) just like any other Charitable organization, and is subject to the same tax rules, other than some minor rules about auditing.

Comment Re:Why no charges? (Score 1) 294

Why didn't the TSA refer this to law enforcement?

Nobody wronged the TSA, so the TSA can't call the police. They didn't even witness the crime, they only heard about it afterwards. What needs to happen is for the thousands of men who were sexually assaulted need to bring up criminal charges against the TSA employees and civil charges against the TSA for allowing, enabling and encouraging the sexual assault.

Comment Re:UAC - A Double Edged Sword (Score 1) 187

What you're saying I haven't experienced since maybe 2-3 months after Vista was released. So please share some more details on what exactly you are doing that makes a UAC prompt appear every time you move the mouse, and which of the many millions of programs on the PC actually require administrator to run?

It doesn't happen to me either because after the first day of dealing with dozens of popups, I turned it off.
I don't think I am going to bother with listing out the millions of programs which require administrator to run. I'm sure there is a site out there somewhere. I know i see far too many programs that SAY they need administrator, but maybe do not. Many programmers run as administrator on their own machines so they put in the documentation that the programs they develop must run as administrator.

Comment Re:For when you're too cheap to buy two monitors! (Score 0, Troll) 187

But you still want to look like an asshole. Only egotistical narcissistic assholes use dual monitors.

I used to use a single monitor back when programs were written such that they didn't hog all available screen real estate while still somehow making it necessary for you to do 5 mouseclicks to get to any of the functions of the program. Back when 17" monitors were relatively new, I had a 17" monitor and I could have 3 or 4 terminal sessions going along with several Windows program and could work seemlessly. Now you are constantly paging because every single Windows program is unusable unless it is in full screen even though the number of white pixels is approximately 98%.

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