Um... no, just within the Denver (CO) Metro area there are over a HUNDRED tax rates. I have to lookup each address and determine if I share any common nexus with them, like being in the same city, county, or tax district. Shucks, if you're in CO at all I have to pay 2.9% of the purchase to the state. It's so complicated to setup with Google that, instead of letting them bungle it and collect too much, I just pay for it myself out of my profit.

T-bones eliminated? Right, right until you're in the left lane and try to leave the roundabout. Then you get t-boned by the guy in the outer lane because he was going to go one further exit than you...

Umm... polio has not spread within the US since 1983. Look it up, it's easily googled. Even with all of the immigrants, and the international travel, we, as a country, still do not have to worry about polio. Yet we will continue to immunize against it... And they say it's not for the money..

Yay! If people like you had your way, my son would be dead today. We didn't know he was allergic to eggs until he was 20 months old, but if we had followed the standard recommendations, we would have injected him with egg proteins in the flu shot at 6 months and then again at 18 months (assuming he was still alive). His egg allergy is moderate, but strong enough that the allergist told us to never give him anything made with egg, including the flu vaccine. Had we done so, he would either be seriously disabled or dead today.

While I'm not always anti-vax (like chicken pox, which is usually safe enough, and polio, which hasn't spread in the US since 1983 even with all of our international airports..), I'm glad that we decided to wait until he's older and we can probably test him. We will likely be starting him on a modified regiment, with our doctor's approval, later this year so he can have at least some protection when he starts to go to school.

Or maybe the fact that svn takes over 10 minutes to bring up log files for us off the server with a repo of about 30 "websites" each with 250+ files and a total of ~3000 revisions across all of it. Compare that to git where git log runs (like everything else) locally, so I'm not killing the same server everyone else is using. Oh, and its results are back in less than 15 seconds most of the time. I used to use svn, and resisted git as it was so CLI oriented. (And yes, I did learn the CLI commands.) But when TortoiseGit came out, that really lowered the bar and we moved - there's no going back.

Employers in most places can pay in whatever way both they and the employee agree on.

Weeeell, maybe so and maybe no. If there's a nurse at the school (likely) then they could be considered a Covered Entity. In addition, some states have laws about disclosure of information about students from the public school districts to anyone who isn't an authorized parent/guardian/etc.

Perhaps because Credit Unions (at least in my area) SUCK. They have almost no branches, their hours are abysmal, and there is no reason for them to have nice customer service policies. I used to be with one local credit union - they told me there was a fee just to get a VISA Debit card! At least with my bank, I have access all over the western half of the US to a real employee, not just a "credit union servicing center" where the connection to the credit union is down half the time. And no fees - I get direct deposit like most people and I don't pay any fee - I get free VISA Debit cards, checking registers, online access, even bill pay (although I refuse to use it). I have found that the credit unions I've interacted with, either myself directly or in one case through a close family member, have had lower quality of service than my local bank.

Darn, and I lost my New World Order username/password, you know, for monitoring my gentile enemies using these cool new cameras. I need to re-subscribe to the mailing list - having to learn things like this through Slashdot is almost embarrassing!

Please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, talk to your pastor. Or any pastor with their head screwed on right. You don't even know how crazy you are.