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I think Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart both have great ideas with all this stimulus stuff. - Trish Jan 30, 12:59 2
- Stewarts is the most sound. It would eliminate most of the housing issues and clear up quite a bit of toxic paper. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 13:03
- I like Colbert's idea. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 30, 13:00
SITWAP: NSF funding in question after allegations of widespread pr0n surfing on the job. -- (link) - TaurusII Jan 30, 12:56 6
- amateurs -- nm - Interior Dept. Jan 30, 13:00
- Why would anyone surf for pr0n at work? -- nm - JaxSean Jan 30, 13:00 3
  - They likely wouldn't. It's probably malware and viruses. -- nm - Chicken Little Jan 30, 13:01 2
    - At least one guy in my dept used to take his work laptop home for "telecommuting" and surf the titties there. -- nm - TFox Jan 30, 13:02
    - no, it sounds like some people very much were (though how many people, I don't know) -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 13:02
- That picture is *perfect* for that article -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 12:57
oh Val . . . -- (link) - pigby Jan 30, 12:54 1
- Bob Hope did it! -- nm - Max Jan 30, 12:57
Also, has kelly heard the band The Gaslight Anthem? - ty97 Jan 30, 12:53 2
- no, I haven't. -- nm - kelly Jan 30, 12:55 1
  - give them a sample on ITunes, I'm (guessing) they may work for you -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 13:00
This is probably a dumb question, but - the fact that I've worked in 2 states this year doesn't affect my federal return, right? - kelly Jan 30, 12:51 6
- fyi, it's based on where you live, not where you work. (a nitpick, but I don't work in the state where I live) -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:54 2
  - although I'm still bitter about New York exemptiong commuters who work in the city from paying city income taxes. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:55 1
    - well, they pay to commute. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:59
- correct. - znufrii Jan 30, 12:53
- you will need to file the Fed and both states where you received income. -- nm - Diva Jan 30, 12:53
- I was using the sales tax estimator, and my move may have effected that, but for those with state income tax I don't see an impact. -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 12:52
When does my tax packet arrive? - ty97 Jan 30, 12:49 10
- You probably won't get one. If you need forms, you go pick them up at the library or download them at irs.gov. - Trish Jan 30, 12:55
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  - how do they get away with that? -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:51 6
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      - oh, okay. - znufrii Jan 30, 12:54 4
        
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        nope. we're going to see The Wrester tonight -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:55 2
        
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        *shrug* -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 13:01
- and, actually, do they still send out the whole big booklet? Isn't that wasteful? -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 12:50
What'd we used to do before tax software? -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 12:42 18
- Last year was the first time I used tax software for my federal return - I'm not sure I'll do it again. - kelly Jan 30, 12:58
- i still do mine by hand -- nm - Guy Jan 30, 12:51
- By hand in pencil, then a second set of forms in ink. It's just fill in the blank stuff, easy-peasy. - Trish Jan 30, 12:49 7
  - this is how I did mine for years, even when I had to do Schedule D -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:50
  - That's how I do mine. -- nm - Chicken Little Jan 30, 12:49 5
    - but can you do a Rubik's cube? Neil Degrasse Tyson can - crash davis Jan 30, 12:50 4
      - I can. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:55
      - He's awesome. I plan on getting his book and hope he gets the nod at NASA. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 12:52 1
        
        "He killed Pluto!" -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:57
      - *seethe* -- nm - Chicken Little Jan 30, 12:50
- an adding macine. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:47
- Carbon paper so when I did them by hand it was in triplicate -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 12:45
- same thing as after - Maxx Jan 30, 12:45 1
  - Who let poor people into ST? -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 12:46
- My wife has always done our taxes. She uses tax software then does it manually again to find the bugs in the tax software. - Mop Jan 30, 12:44
- same thing I do now, pay an accountant -- nm - decline Jan 30, 12:44
- Beats me, we use an accountant an always have. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 12:43
- bluff our way through, send it in and hope it stuck -- nm - Epiphany Jan 30, 12:42
Funny Toilets From Around The World -- (link) - con_carne Jan 30, 12:42 2
- There's the square toilet. -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 12:43 1
  - told you. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:48
Savings is not equivalent to spending. It doesn't have nearly the effect on the economy that spending does. What an individual needs right now is to - TWuG Jan 30, 12:39 19
- Plus the savings-investment mechanism isn't working properly right now. Usually, a bank will take people's savings and lend it to people who want to - Roger More Jan 30, 12:45 15
  - Exactly right. People are *saving* not investing. I think Jack was conflating the two to some extent. Saving, right now, does not equate to free - TWuG Jan 30, 12:50 3
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      - When that happens, then you'll have free flowing capital. Right now you have stagnant capital. People may be saving, but noone's lending. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 12:57 1
        
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    - I'm not exactly clear how this is totally different from what TWuG and znu were saying either -- nm - Roger More Jan 30, 12:49 5
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        I was saying the economy needs "free flowing capital." Save all you want, but if the banks aren't lending, it isn't "free flowing" -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 12:55 3
        
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        The stimulus is government spending. The government spends money in the economy, the economy perks up, people feel more secure, banks start to - TWuG Jan 30, 12:58 1
        
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    - which was exactly what I was saying earlier. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:47 2
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        close enough, anyway. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:48
- I think you're going to find out pretty quickly that the days of spending like there's no tomorrow are well and truly over with. - Loyola Jan 30, 12:43 2
  - I hope that after we stabilize the economy, we take a long hard look at deficit spending as a matter of general policy and that individuals reconsider - TWuG Jan 30, 12:47 1
    - I agree and feel that the US can carry quite well a rolling deficit of 7-10 trillion quite well, strange as it seems to most. - Loyola Jan 30, 12:59
shouldnt those most in need receive the most help, Vermy? - Guy Jan 30, 12:38 [Backboard] 5
- Then you're talking about welfare, not economic stimulus. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 30, 12:40 4
  - but, again - those most in need aren't stuffing the cash in their pants. they're spending it. -- nm - Guy Jan 30, 12:41 3
    - Speak for yourself bub -- nm - Snaps the fun lovin male stripper Jan 30, 12:43 2
      - dad? -- nm - Scraps the fun loving hooker Jan 30, 12:44 1
        
        hee - Epiphany Jan 30, 13:00
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- I'll cash a rebate cheque with the best of them (I still get quarterly rebate cheques up here for our sale tax), however... - Name Withheld By Request Jan 30, 12:50
- Don't spend it, give it back. - Dr.Vermin Jan 30, 12:37 6
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    - I can barely imagine the frustration of being trapped on a board with such morons... compared to you, anyway. - Dr.Vermin Jan 30, 12:43 2
      - Jack makes a very valid point and THIS is your response? god help me that this surprises me at all. -- nm - Guy Jan 30, 12:53
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    - *cries you a river* -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:42
  - Doesn't 99.9% of US spending happen 5000 miles away from you? - ty97 Jan 30, 12:38
- That check changed my life...Trish took it and bought a 360, Rock Band and Halo 3 with it. I owe my Friday nights to Dubya. -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:37 3
  - Thanks Dubya! -- nm - Mop Jan 30, 12:41
  - it must sting a bit each time you pick up the controller. -- nm - Reagen Jan 30, 12:39 1
    - I've found I can live in denial quite comfortably. -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:40
- I've always preferred actual rate cuts to rebates -- (link) - Strongbad Jan 30, 12:37 4
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    - Hmmm... *adds less biased stuff to New Years Resolutions list* -- nm - Strongbad Jan 30, 12:40 2
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        *bookmarks for later investigatin** -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:49
- In all fairness, those stimulus checks could be looked at af smaller government...returning the people's money to them. -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 12:36
- I bet they returned them. -- nm - Don Homer Jan 30, 12:35 1
  - I spent mine on an ATV, gotta take advantage of those new trails coming. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 30, 12:37
Jack - does the average American still have faith in our banks? - Guy Jan 30, 12:34 17
- There are panics, and bank runs, but those, by definition, do not last -- nm - con_carne Jan 30, 12:39
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  - not yet - but is it hard to imagine a panic occuring if things worsen and more banks fold? -- nm - Guy Jan 30, 12:40 1
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  - well there was a run on IndyMac and a couple others out here -- nm - pigby Jan 30, 12:38 2
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      - and hedge fund redemptions are way up, but I've only heard mutterings of a crisis, it hasn't blown up completely. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:42
- No. That is why I rob them on a monthly basis. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 30, 12:36 1
  - "son, you got a panty on your head" -- nm - pigby Jan 30, 12:37
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  - don't even suggest it (It scares me, I could see bank runs) -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 12:37
- I use them, I trust the FDIC. I don't trust the banks. -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 12:36 1
  - right. -- nm - kare Jan 30, 12:36
- i do. -- nm - kare Jan 30, 12:35
- yes -- nm - pigby Jan 30, 12:35
- Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 30, 12:35
- on the individual consumer level, I'd say yes. -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:34
A video with the lovely simplicity of "Snakes on a Plane," I now humbly present to you "Kittens on a Roomba." -- (link) - mara Jan 30, 12:33 [youtube]
I need to get on the stick about learning the guitar. My first songs will be Smoke On The Water and Iron Man, cause the cats want me to serenade them -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:33 5
- i think its kind of cool that Guitar Hero is getting more people interested in playing the real thing -- nm - Guy Jan 30, 12:43 1
  - it is, I was in Hastings yesterday and noticed that they've added an instruments section they didn't have previously -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:45
- I often play the uke for my dog as she dines. -- nm - mara Jan 30, 12:34 2
  - heh. I picture many nervous glances at you while she woofs the food down. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 30, 12:43
  - the image of this makes me smile - thanks! -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:35
Mel, I don't last much longer with those songs, but that's sort of the point. -- nm - Reagen Jan 30, 12:33 1
- But then, this version of Sloop John B kind of works, if you were putting it in a JohN Hughes movie. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 30, 12:35
hey ty, stimulus check stuff - tRuMaN Jan 30, 12:32 3
- This would be the "Recovery rebate credit"? -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:33 2
  - yes -- nm - Don Homer Jan 30, 12:35 1
    - gotcha. - znufrii Jan 30, 12:37
I don't want bo make Bruce cry!!! -- nm - kelly Jan 30, 12:31 1
- Especially with his mental state the way it is. -- nm - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 30, 12:33
ST poll -- predict the next administration .gov website - znufrii Jan 30, 12:31 14
- chickenlittle.gov -- nm - Chicken Little Jan 30, 12:49
- hopeisnowhere.com - TWuG Jan 30, 12:41 1
  - FAIL - znufrii Jan 30, 12:43
- thereisprobablynogod.gov -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 12:39
- youhavenohomenojobnofoodbutatleastyoudonthave acockonyourneck.gov/hopeyoufeelbetternow -- nm - Guy Jan 30, 12:35 3
  - *golf clap* nice. L5. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 30, 12:41
  - *laughing* - kelly Jan 30, 12:40
  - L5 -- nm - znufrii Jan 30, 12:37
- chilloutigotthis.gov -- nm - mara Jan 30, 12:34
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- howtocooksquirrel.gov -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 30, 12:33
- republicansaredoodyheads.gov -- nm - Strongbad Jan 30, 12:33
- yourallf*cked.gov -- nm - pigby Jan 30, 12:32
- Look.gov -- nm - con_carne Jan 30, 12:32
I can't link for you Spawn. You need to d/l it thru XBox Live. -- nm - Shaun Jan 30, 12:31 3
- X-Box? - Rorschach: 03/06/09!!! Jan 30, 12:32 2
  - GET A DANG XBOX!! -- nm - crash davis Jan 30, 12:33 1
    - With what? Wal Mart won't take chickens and beads for trade. -- nm - Amy Jan 30, 12:45
~Credit Report Dot Com Baybee~ -- nm - con_carne Jan 30, 12:30 1
- *puts con_carne on the list* -- nm - mara Jan 30, 12:31
pfui! -- nm - pigby Jan 30, 12:30

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