The Official Status Thread
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treats [line manager] as a synonym for "direct manager"
That. Most people just refer to them as "manager" here in the UK though.
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Status: My friend and I reached the upper 60s on US West now, with two chapters until Season 2. Our next opponent is Controlled Black Hammer, who fights with a hilariously dumb hammer (imagine a Warcraft-esque warhammer, except that at the bottom of the handle is an identical handle followed by hammer head. Yes, a quadhammer.) In this raid version of him, we get to bring along 8 people, and when we get him low, he breaks his hammer in half and starts dual wielding.
Then we have to beat Lionotus twice (aforementioned lizard wizard on a lizard), which requires two days, since you can only fight him once a day. Then we finally reach the dragons and the final boss of the season.
The end is in sight! A new day will soon dawn, and then we can be pirates!
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Who the fuck are you calling british?
You bought cat ear headphones, let's not pretend as though you have any pride left.
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You could send @apapadimoulis a nickel so he could by a real computer.
Already covered! I have a Windows® Intel®-based UltraBook™, not some unbunto craptop or a trendy mac airthing.
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Already covered! I have a Windows® Intel®-based UltraBook™, not some unbunto craptop or a trendy mac airthing.
What about a dhromebook?
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I miss @dhromed
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Status: Student loan paid off! hurrah!
Now to see how long it takes for them to stop taking the money from my pay each month, which relies on one government-owned entity telling another government-owned entity, then that government-owned entity telling the company I work for, and then the company I work for actually acting on it. I'm not expecting that to be quick.
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Status: Just reviewed all the StarMade updates for most of the past year since I haven't touched the game in that long. Lots of good stuff, in fact I think StarMade is shaping up to the be the game I wanted Space Engineers to be. Might be time to give it another try.
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Status: either my index finger is really tingly, or my mouse is shorting.
But it's a fucking rubber wheel between two plastic buttons. How.
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either my index finger is really tingly, or my mouse is shorting.
Or you're beginning to show signs of arthritis.
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Status: I have some definite Dylan hair going on. Time for a haircut.
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Status: Why does my AI have a
checkcaonstruct
task queued?
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Because you can't spell?
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You had your wages garnished to pay your student loans
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Typical for UK that once you earn over a threshold, they take off their pound of flesh.
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Status: Student loan paid off! hurrah!
Fuck yeah!
Now take that same amount of money you'd be paying each month, and stuff it into a savings account. Make interest work for you. Yo yo yo!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@accalia said:
(or if you insist steam them, but you destroy so many of the vitamins that way)
Dashit? If you steam them, you preserve almost all of the vitamins. If you BOIL them, you lose a lot of water-soluble nutrients. Steaming takes longer, and people are lazy-- though a lot of those lazy people also don't eat veggies...
But it's my understanding that even though some are lost, because of the damage to the cellulose or whatever, your body actually gets more digestible nutrition from the vegetables than if eaten raw.
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i have 16$ in cash, i need food. a portion of the cash will go to taxes. sales tax in this state are 6% on most things 7% on the rest.... assume 7%..... that gives me 14.88 to spend on food. 14.88 is hard to math with. call it 14.50
simple.
You don't pay taxes on stuff like raw (unprepared) meat.
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your body actually gets more
digestible nutritioncalories from the vegetables than if eaten raw.FTFY.
steaming destroys vitamins, unlocks calories.
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i need food. a portion of the cash will go to taxes. sales tax in this state are 6% on most things 7% on the rest.... assume 7%..... that gives me 14.88 to spend on food.
You live in a state that taxes food? Restaurant or take-out food, yes, but meat for home preparation and consumption? That's something I've never experienced in any state in which I've lived.
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You don't pay taxes on stuff like raw (unprepared) meat.
-blink-
oh.
right.
so my calculation is valid, but my starting cash value is artificially low.
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If you Google "line manager" it says it's a Britishism
I've heard it plenty in America, too, usually to differentiate between more indirect management like HR or finance.
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Status: Apparently my "hidden" safety function to restart the app pool in this IIS website isn't working. Not sure how I feel about that, since it was untested and not supposed to be there, but I kinda need it since I don't have direct access to Test and I'm pretty sure it's just a we-were-called-something-else-and-we're-upset-and-cranky issue....
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Now take that same amount of money you'd be paying each month, and stuff it into a savings account. Make interest work for you. Yo yo yo!
That's the plan. Gotta save to buy a house!
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You live in a state that taxes food?
I live in a state with sales tax, and like all states that have sales tax it has some odd rules about what food is taxable and what aren't.
i simplify and budget as if everything is taxable, that way i'm never short changed at the register.
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@boomzilla said:
your body actually gets more
digestible nutritioncalories from the vegetables than if eaten raw.FTFY.
steaming destroys vitamins, unlocks calories.
No. I guess it's a bit of a mixed bag, actually.
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that way i'm never short changed at the register.
Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
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@accalia said:
@boomzilla said:
your body actually gets more
digestible nutritioncalories from the vegetables than if eaten raw.FTFY.
steaming destroys vitamins, unlocks calories.
No. I guess it's a bit of a mixed bag, actually.
huh.
fair enough.
/me adds another tick to the "things learned today" column and wanders off in search of a sandwich
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Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
yes, that is custom here, and it's fucking annoying.
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@loopback0 said:
Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
yes, that is custom here, and it's fucking annoying.
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@accalia said:
@loopback0 said:
Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
yes, that is custom here, and it's fucking annoying.
my reaction exactly, but what choice do i have?
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@loopback0 said:
@accalia said:
@loopback0 said:
Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
yes, that is custom here, and it's fucking annoying.
my reaction exactly, but what choice do i have?
You can throw a tantrum.
STATUS Tired and in dire need of cheap whiskey.
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You can throw a tantrum.
i tried that. all it got me was a headache and a funny looking rat with a weird gun laughed at me and called me a bad name!
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Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
The only thing I can think of where taxes are included in the advertised price is gas.
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$16 for a cheap steak??
you need to move ASAP
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The only thing I can think of where taxes are included in the advertised price is gas.
That's the only thing I can think of where it's routine, too. I have occasionally seen tax included in the price for food at a venue like, say, a sports stadium, for efficiency. Hand the guy $5; walk away with an overpriced hot dog; let some bookkeeper work out how much has to go to the state. But that's not typical.
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Sounds like NZ to me. It was an odd place to live, where lamb and steak cost the same ludicrous price, because they had to recoup the loss they're making by not exporting it. Glad I left before the sales tax on everything hit 15%.
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Now to see how long it takes for them to stop taking the money from my pay each month
My money is on them keeping it up until April. If you are really lucky, it will be April next year. The link between HMRC and SLC appears to be a single fax machine based on what I have observed of it... On the plus side, you should get all that back at some point to bugger up your tax for the following year...
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@accalia said:
that way i'm never short changed at the register.
Hang on - are the prices on the shelves without tax?!
Taxes include state sales tax and city sales tax. City sales taxes often change often, and around here even city boundaries like to wiggle around due to annexations and disputes over annexations, so this saves them from having to update all the shelf prices due to politics and instead calculate it at the register.
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so this saves them from having to update all the shelf prices due to politics and instead calculate it at the register.
it also means that people who are shopping don't know the final cost of their items until they get to the register, which inevitably leads to somone who isn't so good at budgeting forgetting about tax and having to void items to bring the total down to the point they can afford it... much to the annoyance of everyone around and the acute embarassment of the shopper
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My money is on them keeping it up until April. If you are really lucky
The time it'll take to refund the overpayment afterwards probably takes it that far, but I'm hoping they stop taking it before then.
On the plus side, you should get all that back at some point to bugger up your tax for the following year...
I can't see how it impacts my tax next year.
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I've never seen that happen before, though I do most of my shopping at Hy-Vee and it's "upscale" enough that people who can't math don't really go there. (as opposed to Wal-Mart where you'll run into poor people buying lobster and steak with food stamps and then argue with the cashier over the $200 of liquor they're trying to pay with using cash)
Personally I kind of keep a rough running total in my head and add 10%.10% is greater than the sales tax so it's good enough for me.
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You had your wages garnished to pay your student loans
In the US they'll not only do that, they'll take your federal tax refund, or even social security retirement income. But only if you didn't pay for so long they sued you and got a judgement against you. Of course, that's basically a rubber stamp process.
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yes, that is custom here, and it's fucking annoying.
The Boston Museum of Science used to show after-tax prices on stuff. I've seen a few other places do that. But you have to break out the price and the tax when you do that, so it takes more space, which is maybe why most places dont' do it?
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No. I guess it's a bit of a mixed bag, actually.
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29629761]Here's a fun one[/url]. Pasta is better for you cooked but allowed to get cold. And even better for you cooked, cooled, and reheated. The starch is converted by magic into a form similar to fibre.
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Yeah, but like you said, they don't do it for normal people who actually can pay their student loans.
And they are overly lenient on helping you pay them, e.g. Income Based Repayment, Deferrals, Forebearance, etc.