@ewwhite Oh well then, at least they have plenty of roughage. Must be nice when they have to pass it through a butt that just got gouged with a broom handle!
@DennisKaarsemaker Man, we're getting a big list here. We might really have to annex Puerto Rico and move everyone to Miami just to have space for all the horrible people we need to torture.
SF's "FAQ" sucks pretty hard now... It think it's incredibly hard to figure out what the site is all about with the chopped up "help" interface they came up with.
@Iain I suppose.. But I'd be frustrated as heck coming to a site that resembles a Forum, and getting swatted for treating it like a forum, and absolutely no clear & concise guidance as to how it's not a forum and what the topicality of each site actually is. Especially since the old sites have names which do not reflect the topic of the site.
We are experiencing performance problem using Windows 2008 CIFS client. We have a FreeNAS server that delivers 1.3GB/s on ZFS write. We have 10Gb network connecting NAS server and CIFS clients. Using two Linux CIFS clients, we can get around 1.2GB/s. But windows 2008 clients can only give us 400M...
@NathanC Even better when the printer release it's jobs, and the job status goes from "Printing" to "deleted" and then the owners and job names gets changed into Japanese/Chinese/Kanjii characters.
@voretaq7 Mini-quiz question after each major section (so maybe 4 questions in total, stupidly simple, but enough that they actually have to read the answers)
Hell, even a tick box saying "did you read" at the bottom of the page. If it's checked, go right through. If it's not, pass them through to the same page until they tick the box.
@ChrisS No, we get paid to do work as dictated in our contracts. Dealing with our Byzantine tax structure is work the government expects us to do for free in addition to that.
@voretaq7 US taxes ... "do it right and for free so you can pay us money. Or pay someone else so you can pay us money. Oh, and if you don't get it right we'll audit you and either throw you in jail or fine you 1000000% the actual taxes."
@MDMarra Yeah, but it's not like you're going to claim short term losses with carry-forward on inside stock trades and section 172 accelerated depreciation on the Cessna you bought for 1/2 personal 1/2 business use (planes also get special treatment on top of the aforementioned complexities)
@Dan Employers withhold and remit to the government the taxes that they think you'll owe... But at the end of each year individuals still have to calculate the actual number and make up the difference
@Dan no, you have to file paperwork to tell them how much to withhold each pay check and if you get it wrong you might owe at the end. And then you have to actually file your taxes (federal, state, and local) each year where you just kinda type shit into a box on hrblock.com or go to a tax accountant that charges you $50-100
That's the same here. Taxes for normal people are mostly automatic - I don't have to fill in any forms, it's primarily down to my employer to sort it with the tax man. We get "codes" as to how much tax should be paid each month.
But when they fuck it up, they get to send you nice letters down the line saying "pay up"
@DennisKaarsemaker Usually it's a relatively small number if they're that big
@JourneymanGeek Welcome, come on down - you're the next contestant on "Straight men say the gayest things!" -- Now meet our defending champion: @WesleyDavid!
@Dan Employers here get to pick from 3 different methods of estimating taxes - none are terribly accurate, a problem Marra is having/had problems with.
@Dan We have a gazillion loopholes for a billion different activities. We have person tax returns (from rich people) that reach 200+ pages long. Just to calculate one dumb number.
heh. I just give all my income and stock trading papers to an accountant. For 70€ he tends to sort out a 3000-4000€ cashback for me without breaking a sweat. And I don't have to read up on tax law :)
@Dan Even for a "average Joe", he probably has 3-4 pages of Federal tax return, 1-4 of State, 1-4 of Local (City) - And this is only the Income Tax stuff. All the "other" taxes you don't file a return for, they don't want you knowing just how much tax you pay.
I hate our taxation system - it's designed to keep people in the dark, encourage outdated behaviors, and has so many loopholes that just the Federal tax code takes up 7500 pages of tiny print.
I need to buy a new laptop for my wife. She travels a lot and I was thinking about an ultrabook (1.5-2 kg). However she says that ultrabooks have problems connecting to projectors. At least some of her colleagues could not connect their ultrabooks to projectors due to “low output issues”.
She is...
@voretaq7 That's a whole other conversation, I'm just trying to get the tax conversation started by making sure people know they pay twice as much Social Security (and Medicare) tax as they think they do (because it only shows half on your paystub)
