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Comment Re: Or... (Score 1) 156

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

Comment Re:I never answer them... (Score 1) 156

The BLS request I got was via USMail. They reminded me full force of law not to comply. It was a dumb survey. I filled it out (several year(5) survey they kept sending year after year) even though it was not really applicable to me. I think you'd be wise to do the same. I don't recall the exact penalty, just recall it was large enough to put a serious dent in my bank account. I guess one of the "features" of doing an S-Corp is the privilege of more forms to fill out.

What is BLS? I have a S-Corp and I'm not familiar with with BLS....

Comment Re:For those getting pitchforks ready (Score 1) 134

If you have induction, how do you feel about the sound of the range? I still have an ancient gas burner (though I did install a good ventilation fan), but when I've cooked on an induction stove elsewhere, it both made an annoying high-pitched squeal (think old CRTs but louder) and had fan noises kicking on and off. It annoyed the crap out of me.

I don't want to get another gas burner, and technologically induction does seem like the clear winner, but the noise thing is really throwing me off. What's your experience?

Comment Re: At this point (Score 0) 39

but why don't people like you get so worked up about whats happening in ukraine or myanmar or various provinces in china?

We're not talking about those right now.

Your ADHD is not my problem.

I'm not jewish but I know anti seminitism when I smell it

You mean like when Israel murders people who are more semitic than Israelis?

Comment Re:Why is suicide bad? (Score 1) 107

I agree that suicide is a personal decision, so I don't think a person should be criminalized for attempting it. But it's inconvenient for society, so others should be dissuaded from encouraging it. Even if you remove a humanitarian motive, and please don't but this is slashdot so there will be people who will get mad if one doesn't, there are good reasons why the legal system should act to reduce suicide.

Comment Re:So apparently premium gamer (Score 1) 61

Yeah this. Jet Set/Grind Radio looked amazing on the Dreamcast because it didn't render stuff it didn't have to when creating the cel shaded look. Therefore you could have big complex scenes that performed fluidly at all times. I thought that was the point of this game which I haven't played, get off my lawn etc etc.

There's several OSS FPSes built around this concept, but all of them that I've seen have been pretty lo-fi so it would make sense to me that it would take a commercial title to sell it. Finding out that they aren't doing it is not even funny, but just weird to me.

Comment Re:Similar issues on iOS app store (Score 1) 39

And you don't actually think that having an authenticator on your phone gives your employer access to it, do you?

If you're using your phone for something that winds up being the subject of an investigation, then your phone can be subpoena'd. Even if everything is on the up and up, and everything on your device is ducky, you can still be inconveniently deprived of your device for a time. Therefore you should never use your device for work in any way other than calling in to it, which doesn't leave any traces on your device that it doesn't also leave on the network.

Comment Re:"Lefist Rag Calls for More Trains" News at 11 (Score 1) 67

Availability of guns enabled the crime of course, but I don't think that being raised around lots of guns is the whole problem here. Grandma said they're all MAGAs. He was raised around a lot of violent rhetoric in combination with guns. Did he have to be wired wrong, or was being programmed from an early age enough?

Comment Re:It isn't that simple (Score 1) 67

You can easily add new bus stops near rail, it's not as easy to add rail near bus lines except by luck.

Safe and clean are going to require some upgrades to society. They would be cheaper than what we've been doing, but then some people would get things for free that other people are paying for, and then lots of people would be mad. And not without reason, but not usually for the reason they'd be mad for.

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