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| 2000/2/22 [Uncategorized] UID:17583 Activity:nil |
2/21 http://www.totse.com/DeCSS |
| 2000/2/22-23 [Finance/Investment] UID:17584 Activity:high |
2/21 Can commissions charged by stock brokers be claimed as investment
expenses?
\_ your commission is part of your cost basis. -tom
\_ so what you're saying is
Capital gains = selling price - buy price - (comissionx2)
\_ No times 2. The cost basis is what you actually paid total.
\_ exactly, pipsqueak. 1xbuy, 1xsell
\_ 1xbuy + 1xsell = commisionx2 only if you pay the
same commission both times. In many cases (not
discount brokerages) you won't. The correct formula
is:
gains = (sales price - cost to sell)
- (buy price + cost to buy)
\_ Not if you make more than 1 buy transactions. |
| 2000/2/22-23 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:17585 Activity:high |
2/21 Quick question: For married couples, does filing jointly or filing
separately yield lower tax? Roughly how much difference? Thx.
\_ Yes, lots.
\_ in general, if both people work and makes comperable amounts of
money, filing separately is better.
\_ It isn't called the Marriage Penalty Tax for nothing. -married
\_ Yeah, but the way it is now it encourages one person to stay
home and take care of the kids. It's only a penalty if both
are working.
Tragic headlines from ABC news today:
PERL GUNMAN SLAYS 2, HURTS 8 IN MALL RAMPAGE
\_ Just think of how many innocent lives would have gone unscarred if
he'd used awk, cat, and sed: he'd have wasted so much time trying
to pipe the output of this into the output of that and worrying
about whether or not he was using sh or csh that the authorities
would have apprehended him before he'd done any damage. Languages
should only be in the hands of those who undergo regular
psychiatric evaluation and who are properly licensed by the
government to use them. BAN PERL NOW!!!
\_ I agree. Most people I've met who are hardcore use Perl/use
Linux/ride bike types are definitely in need of regular
psychiatric evaluation.
\_ Love my car, hate bikers, really hate linux fanatics, and
use perl everyday and loving it. Am I suffering from
some sort of MPD? Is there a 12 step program to turn me
into a full-on raving bike riding linux fanatic? Thanks,
motd wisdom! --seeking help
\_ i'm guessing the first step involves reading a man page,
and probably several other steps involve RTFMing. just
a guess.
\_ It is inevitable that something like this would happen
sooner or later. This is what happens when you give away
software to anybody on the Internet. This open-source
stuff has gotten out of hand. There should be a
3-day cooling-off period with in-depth background checks
before letting anyone download Perl source code. I've
known of young 12-year old kids downloading Perl and
then going out and killing children and parent processes,
breaking loops using 4 different types of commands, mixing
scalars and other data types...
Dont get me wrong -- when I was growing up, we consumed
our fair share of stuff like sed/awk/grep/csh/sh. But
things were more innocent back then -- sure, a few guys
I know did C, but we never had this stronger, addictive
scripting stuff like Perl -- and it was not as widespread.
Now with the Internet, video games and Linux, anybody
can get this stuff, and they dont know how to handle it.
Sure, the naysayers will try to argue that they have a
*right* to have Perl in their home and on their computers.
Well, recent studies have shown that a (perl)loaded computer
in the home gives you a 68% increased risk of shooting
yourself in the foot.
\_ You PC liberals are always trying to take away rights
guaranteed by the US Constitution!!!!
It is our right to bear Perl. (1st amendment)
It is our 1st amendment right to bear Perl.
\_ I dont just mean for PC's but even Macs and Sparcs.
And i think you mean the second amendment. The first
is for freedom of religion and expression.
is for freedom of religion and expression.
\_ Not 2nd! It is the 1st amendment: Freedom of
\_ Not 2nd! I said 1st amendment -- Freedom of
regular expressions.
\_ You don't have the choice to file separately.
\_ You don't have enough clue to hold 2 brain cells together.
Go read form 1040 and try again.
\_ hey! that's mean!
\_ I read it every year. And your point was...?
\_ Note the part where you choose "Married filing
jointly" or "Married filing separately"
\_ Yup. And...?
\_ Then you do have the choice to file
separately. |
| 2000/2/22-23 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:17586 Activity:high |
2/21 It looks like Real Networks discontinued support for non windows/mac
clients. This is sad. They released Real Player 7 and there aren't
any links to linux or unix versions. They also destroyed all links
to the G2 beta for Linux. Lame
\_ http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000222/realnetwor_1.html
\_ http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000222/realnetwor_4.html
says that realplayer 7 will be available within 30days
what have you been smoking and where can I get some ?
\_ a recent /. article seems to contradict this statement
\_ What's sad about it? You're lucky to get your sound card running in
Linux in less than 8 hours anyway.
\_ Not if you're using SB16 or any supported PCI card
\_ That sucks if you're limited to those cards. |
| 2000/2/22-23 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17587 Activity:moderate |
2/22 Is it possible for Soda to create a web mail interface similar to
http://mail.yahoo.com to access emails on soda?
\_ No. Soda is a computer and has not yet achieved sentience.
Use POP or IMAP or forward your mail to luser@@yahoo.com.
\_ Soda still allows POP and IMAP? I thought that the whole
point of turning off telnet/ftp/etc was to prevent some
twinks from sending their passwords in clear text over the
net. So, what's the point of turning off telnet and ftp
if POP and IMAP are still running?
\_ There is no point, only trolls.
\_ You may email your request to the entity known as "Soda".
\_ I was looking at something called 'mailman' a while ago. It'd
require nothing more than a few cgi scripts and a cron job that
copies your mail into a directory off your public_html/. They
started charging for mail man, though, and I haven't had time
for it since. Mail me if interested. -John
\_ there are at least a dozen different mail->web gateways
listed on http://freshmeat.net
\_The OCF got acmemail up and running in a few hours -jones
\_http://secure.OCF.Berkeley.EDU/cgi-bin/acme/acmemail.cgi |
| 2000/2/22 [Uncategorized] UID:17588 Activity:nil |
2/22 generic "only idiots go into industry, graduate students are the
greatest" troll. |
| 2000/2/22-23 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:17589 Activity:very high |
2/22 This is a serious environment question. Is it better to flush used
toilet paper down the toilet or is it better to put it in a trash
can and throw it out along with the rest of the garbage? Which
method is more "biodegradable"? Thanks.
\_ FYI in Soda, at least, people generally don't flush
their toilet paper. They throw it away in a trash bin in the
bathroom.
\_ I thought the people in soda ate their used TP.
\_ are you allowed to use the word "serious" in a troll?
\_ FYI in South Korea, at least, people generally don't flush
\_ FYI in Soda, at least, people generally don't flush
their toilet paper. They throw it away in a trash bin in the
bathroom.
\_ Are toilet paper, paper napkins and paper towels recyclable?
\_ Just keep eating it till it's all absorbed.
\_ Don't know about toilet paper, but I once heard that it's better
to dispose of food waste into the in-sink erator than into the trash
can because it gets "absorbed" by the environment faster. Don't
know if it's true. -- yuen
\_ Anything that goes into a landfill these days will take centuries
to biodegrade since landfills are hermetically sealed to prevent
things from leaking out. It'll get processed much faster going
through the sewer system.
\_ Generally you throw away your TP in countries where the plumbing
can't handle flushing it. Throwing it away is pretty gross if
you don't have to. Anyway it all gets chemically treated with
the rest of the sewage. -John
\_ Does the waste water and rain that go down to the sewage on the
side of the road go directly into the ocean?
\_ Yes, hence the "Don't pollute. Drains into Bay" painted
by all the storm drains.
\_ so we shouldn't even wash our cars on the
sidewalks? that's impossible to implement such a
law...
\_ No you shouldn't. Blocking the sidewalk
with your car is rude. Use a driveway or
do it in the street.
\_ your car is probably not as dirty as the average
boat that sits in the ocean all the time. boats
pollute. cars pollute. fish shit. all one can do
is minimize it by not pouring *excessive* waste
into the ocean. Having worked on a boat, I can tell
you there is some *nasty* shit that gets dumped
straight in off of most comercial vessels, that
makes most seepage from land polution look like
a drop in the bucket. not that that stops the
Coast Guard from handing out 10,000 dollar fines
to anyone dripping oil of the side of their boat.
if only the USCG had juristiction over gas stations.
\_ i mean the detergent ppl use on washing
their cars.. it also goes into the ocean.
\_ The ocean is already full of dirt - it's toxic
chemicals they're more worried about.
\_ I generally don't like the idea of other people seeing my shit
on napkins or TP, so I just flush them down the toilet. This is
a normal thing to do in many countries.
\_ This is so disgusting. Flush it and remember that you live in the
first world.
\_ This is in direct contradiction to my ride bike mentality.
Since we live in the first world, we have to act like the
best people, since we know so much more. And bicylcing
is a pro-resource method concerned for the environment.
Think bicycle. Think first world. The answer to flushing
or throwing out toilet paper will come to you in your heart.
\_ Yeah, it goes down the toilet so I don't have to live in
my own third world filth and squalor and disease and the
reek from my own festering shit in the trash can for three
days until the putrid feces filled bag is finally removed.
Ride bike == live in your own shit? Mine is disposed of
properly, not like some animal or barbarian leaving it
where ever it may fall. Disgusting.
\_ Personally, I am willing to say what many probably think but
don't want to say. I don't give a shit about the environment.
I only care about my own immediate comfort and well being.
If we fuck up the environment, science will fix it later.
It's ok. Environment is not as fragile as you think.
It is man's great hubris to think that he is "controling
nature." Even in polluting he fulfills nature's purpose.
\_ I sort of agree but in a different sense. For the most
part, no matter what we do to the planet, life will go on.
It just may not be human life or life as we know it'. I
don't have a problem with that. I *do* have a problem
with barbarians leaving feces stained paper in a public
trash can for _any_ reason. |
| 2000/2/22-23 [Uncategorized] UID:17590 Activity:nil |
2/22 http://www.thinkgeek.com |