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2002/5/12 [Uncategorized] UID:24798 Activity:moderate |
5/11 My uplink is about 12KB/s, but when I'm using Morpheus, the rate is not as fast. Is that a result of AT&T limiting uplink on certain ports (Morpheus ports)? \_ how slow do you go? Have you tried other gnutella clients? \_ you're lame. |
2002/5/12 [Politics/Domestic/Immigration, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:24799 Activity:very high |
5/12 More unbiased reporting from the NYTimes "A Faulty Rethinking of the 2nd Amendment" ... observe the author get eviscerated http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/682165/posts \_ and the Free Republic is the last bastion of unbiased journalism, right? your act is getting so tiresome \_ Umm, there is no pretense of journalism on Freerepublic - it is a message board where much of what is published in the media is critiqued. But no worries, as taught at Berkeley we all know conservatives are evil mean bigots. \_ Being a Berkeley Liberal, I appreciate most true conservative values: States Rights, true Conservative values: States Rights, conservative. However, yes, most conservative Individual Freedom, and being Fiscally Conservative. However, yes, most conservative people I meet happen to be intolerant and mean. \_ Most conservatives are pretty nice and tolerant. It's just the ones in Berkeley (and particularly those in CSUA) are wacko nutcases and not very bright. \_ as opposed to the leftist whacko nutcases of the CSUA? a whacko nutcase who never leaves his computer terminal and has a god complex because he manages a unix cluster is a pain in the ass wether he reads Marx or Freeper. \_ did you kill a drifter to get an errection. |
2002/5/12-14 [Reference/Tax, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:24800 Activity:nil |
5/12 Anybody know how the social security and medicare deduction in the paychecks work? Is it always a fixed % regardless of what tax bracket you're in? With federal income tax you can withold a lot at the beginning of the year and stop it altogether when you've paid enough (by adjusting the exemptions). Can you do that with SS or medicare? Thanks. \_ Yes, Social Security taxes is 6.2% of your GROSS pay, Medicare is at 1.45%. The cap for SS taxes is around $80K, in which any amount above $80K will not be deducted for SS. Yes, the %-age is fixed across all tax brackets and it's static for each paycheck i.e. you can't elect to have more withheld from any check. But then again, there is no advantage of having it withheld at certain period since you have no control of how it's being invested by the gov't, unlike your 401(k) account. Hope this helps! - jthoms \_ Yes. Yes. No. \_ until you hit the cap. |
2002/5/12-14 [Computer/SW] UID:24801 Activity:nil |
5/12 Some people have the following domains, how do I get them? <DEAD>cal.alumni.berkeley.edu/~joeblow<DEAD> \_ you pay the alumni association. Techically you're not supposed to have an alumni account here, because you're supposed to buy it's free _/ an alumni account with the alumn association. \_ Doesn't <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD> have something like this? I don't know if they offer web space, but it's an email address, and it's free. \_ is <DEAD>cal.alumni.berkeley.edu<DEAD> affiliated with <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD>? \_ cal.alumni is the Alumni Association's page. <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD> is a jointly controlled site for all alumni, association members or not. |