The Official Status Thread
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Well at the point you upgrade the CPU, you may as well do the mobo and ram, and at that point I may as well just put my old broken GPU in this one and build a whole second one with my good one. Which I'm not against, since there are definite advantages to doing so, it's just... why must the trigger be a Nexon game?
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@abarker said:
It might be like that time you wore a hat made from the remains of your beloved …
wait... when did that happen?
I don't have yours, but I have mine:
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wait.... that's supposed to be actual scalp, not just an adorably cute matching hat set?
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wait.... that's supposed to be actual scalp, not just an adorably cute matching hat set?
Yeah, I was going with the idea that the hats were partially just swapped scalps on that one. Obviously some additional material had to be provided.
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Yeah, I was going with the idea that the hats were partially just swapped scalps on that one.
.... suddenly those are way less adorable hats....
:ick:
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To be fair, at the time we were made of fabric and fire-resistant stuffing ;)
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fabric and fire-resistant stuffing
Good lord, if the fabric isn't fire-resistant too, that would make for quite a gruesome death by immolation.
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Sonic 4 is the one that's written in Java. Fuck Sega up the ass for that decision.
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At least you're not bitter.
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Why would they write a Sonic game in Java after releasing Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing which has a good graphical engine and is not Java?
I think they did it specifically to piss me off. There can't have been any technical reason for it. Shit, it's a PITA to even run Java on the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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wait what?
EDIT: Oh God Why
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I think they did it specifically to piss me off. There can't have been any technical reason for it. Shit, it's a PITA to even run Java on the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Status:
If it keeps rising, and there is only one winner, we just might see the first billionaire winner of the PowerBall.
Yes, even I bought a ticket. I told the clerk, "10 on PowerBall", he hands me 10 entries at $2/per when I meant $10 worth of PowerBall tickets. I had a total Gambler's Fallacy moment and instead of returning them and get $10 worth, I took the tickets "In case those were the winners".
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.... suddenly those are way less adorable hats....
:ick:
I was using these avatars about the same time:
And I did say this just before completing those avatars:
Oooooh … Evil thought …
It should have been obvious.
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Well, you'll be a billionaire for the 42 ns it takes for the IRS to show up at your door.
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Well, you'll be a billionaire for the 42 ns it takes for the IRS to show up at your door.
Pfffffbt, they take their cut right off the top before you ever see a cent.
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You know you can just join another IRC channel, right?
Ah, but then there'd be nobody to bug with it!
Besides, I was still trying to solve an issue where it doesn't detect all users and didn't remove them when they left etc.Or host a server on localhost ...
Did that, same issue: No reproducibility. An empty chat room does not a good test make.Though with more effort I'm sure I could spoof a bunch of users logging on or something... Or maybe several instances of the bot! That would be trippy! And probably a Bad Idea...
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Well, true. For some of it (they withhold 25%). Here's hoping your
financial plannernephew remembers the other 14.6 percentage points that will be due next April. :p
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Status: Diagnosing errors seen in the logs...
FATAL - {SomeModule} - Unknown year! Can't serialise. Also why the hell is this workaround still being used?
Oh dear.
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Well, true. For some of it (they withhold 25%). Here's hoping your financial planner nephew remembers the other 14.6 percentage points that will be due next April.
And that's before all associated state and local taxes.
I wonder if you could move to Tennessee or Washington or one of the other states that do not have a personal income tax and bypass some of that?
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"Illegal for available reasons" actually makes sense despite being a reversal.
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I suspect there is fine print in the rules for $STATELOTTO that says only residents can buy tickets in that state and that, by purchasing tickets in that state, you agree to pay the state income tax for that state (in addition to whatever taxes your actual residence might decide they want)
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You joke...but that was honestly 80% of it.
Seriously.
I'd love to hear that story.
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If you win, give me a few million. Dibs.
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If you win, give me a few million. Dibs.
If you get a few million, give me a few hundred thousand. Dibs.
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Sure, but I don't play lotto so don't hold your breath.
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Sure, but I don't play lotto so don't hold your breath.
If you got a few mill from Polygeekery's winnings, I want a few hundred thousand of THAT. (Dibs)
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If you get a few hundred thousand, can I have like twelve dollars?
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In Germany you don't pay taxes on lottery winnings for the first year.
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In Germany you don't pay taxes on lottery winnings for the first year.
When do they come due?
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If you win, give me a few million. Dibs.
You still owe me and @abarker money. So, no.
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AFAIK, the money from lottery winnings simply "doesn't exist" to the tax bureau for one year. After that, the normal rules apply.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
If you get a few million, give me a few hundred thousand. Dibs.
If I win, I will give you a few hundred thousand, as long as you promise to never give any money to @blakeyrat.
I will also give @ben_lubar $12 and a lecture about how he needs to dream bigger.
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AFAIK, the money from lottery winnings simply "doesn't exist" to the tax bureau for one year. After that, the normal rules apply.
Sweet, so you can start a new life in Aruba with all the monies?
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You should give Ben the lecture either way.
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Status: Upgraded an SSIS package from 2008 to whatever-version-2013-is. Files are apparently 50% different. Or, at least, 100% changed.
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In the event that I win (on a single ticket purchased using loose change collected from my desk) I will:
- Send Lorne Kates a dollar.
- Quit WTFCorp even before visiting a financial planner.
- Never look at another line of code as long as I live.
Actually, no, that's a lie. I'll stop doing anything at WtfCorp until they fire me. Just to see how long it takes.
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Well, if you can get the money out of the country without paying taxes. Simply having the money isn't taxed. But doing something with it may subject it to taxes.
By the way, I just read that if I myself were to take part in the Powerball and win, I'd be subjected to a 36% tax because the prize is from a foreign country.actually not now that I read some more
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Actually, no, that's a lie. I'll stop doing anything at WtfCorp until they fire me. Just to see how long it takes.
You have to do one last thing. Before you leave the building, take a shit in your boss' desk drawer, wipe your ass on his chair.
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Nah. I'll go up to HQ and do that to a VPs desk. Maybe the CIO.
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That's more like it. Your ass opens many doors, it may as well close a few and burn some bridges also.
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Well, if you can get the money out of the country without paying taxes. Simply having the money isn't taxed. But doing something with it may subject it to taxes.
I was referring to ex-patriation.
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AFAIK, the money from lottery winnings simply "doesn't exist" to the tax bureau for one year. After that, the normal rules apply.
Aside from the the fact that they take a significant portion of it as taxes, sure. The IRS is greedy.
Other countries may differ.
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I mean, you can ex-patriate and you still have to file and pay US taxes.
Granted, there's the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (which is in no way related to the Earned Income Tax Credit, although they sound similar) but still
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Looking forward to the /r/personalfinance tax season without TaxmanKeith :/
God damn it :/ != confused. To me, it's more meh. Discontent, but not unhappy.
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Talking about lottery, which combinations have better chances:
[poll]
- Combinations which already happened
- Combinations that haven't happened
- Same chances for any combination
[/poll]
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Discontent
Is that a camping tool that will collapse on you when you try to put a person inside of it?
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Is that a camping tool that will collapse on you when you try to put a person inside of it?
Yes, and the people who sewed it together also used it as a toilet as they made it.