The Official Status Thread
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It shouldn't count as tax for that purpose but even if it did the amount would be a relatively insignificant amount of the tax I pay in a year so it's not going to cause a problem.
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I agree it shouldn't happen, and that the amount shouldn't be an issue (iirc the guys I'm thinking of both were told they owed about £200ish). It is just the sheer factor about it all...
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(iirc the guys I'm thinking of both were told they owed about £200ish)
I only need to overpay next month (the first month after paying it off) and I'm already owed more than that.
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Status: The dude that experienced a Reduction In Force yesterday? I get the joy of taking over all the manual things he does daily in Access 97.
I don't even....
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Status: Good work Discourse.
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Costco ... you should buy there.
I don't have a Costco membership, because fees, and because when I did I always wound up buying a ton of stuff I didn't need because cheap, thus not actually saving money.
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Status Pissed at BT as it seems that them failing to install a phone line correctly resulting in a major damp issue and the need to replace the NTE unit should cost me £130. Looks like I will be having a long bitchy phone call with them tomorrow...
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BT
I see the problem. They're a Telco.
Looks like I will be having a long bitchy phone call with them tomorrow...
Just tell them you wish to raise a complaint. Complaint is the magic word.
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Just tell them you wish to raise a complaint. Complaint is the magic word.
Yup, that is the plan. I'm willing to take this all the way to Ofcom as I have photo's showing that they didn't put a drip loop on the line, or seal where it enters the house, along with pictures of the nasty damp corner where the NTE5 sits. Hoping it doesn't go that far, but if it does, it does.
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2% food tax here.
The politicians who voted for that should be taken out back and beaten with a sack of potatoes and some pork shoulder attached to an axe handle.
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Status: Nuget packages on the main solutions I work with got all corrupted somehow. So now I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for
update-package -reinstall
to actually finish. It takes fucking AGES.(Gasp yes, Blakeyrat used a CLI for something, OMG panic.)
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I have photo's showing that they didn't put a drip loop on the line
The photo hosted a showing of BT installing your line?
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That does not end the indentured servitude.
So, you got divorced in an alimony state?
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(I recently had this discussion with a friend of mine, saying his CD strategy was probably losing him more retirement money than earning.)
The proper term would be "buying power" or "purchasing ability". The amount of money increases, it just does so at half the rate that overall prices increase.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Make interest work for you.
Ah, the power of compound interest, where you get really rich doing nothing if you can only figure out how to live for 768 years!
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Status: GitHub is down.
For the record, it's been down 8 minutes, not hours.
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Status: Filed my federal & state tax returns. Woohoo! Hurry up, now...
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I filed mine last week. \o/
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Back from Florida.
A brief but beautiful stay.
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Status: Apparently my "hidden" safety function to restart the app pool in this IIS website isn't working.
Which app pool does your app-pool restarter use?
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it also means that people who are shopping don't know the final cost of their items until they get to the register,
North America tends to be "price without tax". It isn't anything like VAT where "the price is the price and I'll pay the government tax on the difference between what I bought it for and what I sold it for, and the guy I bought it from will do the same all the way down the line".
Pro: Makes pricing things easier, since the rules about what gets taxed, and at what percentage, tend to change-- and there's also cases where buying 1 of something is tax free but buying 6 of them isn't. Plus it still allows stores to do psychological pricing-- "$4.99" seems a fuckload less than "$5.00". But would be weird to have to see "$5.24" because of tax.
Con: As you say, people forget tax is added. Most of them can't even calculate it in their heads (even roughly)-- even when it's a round number like 5%. And that ALWAYS bugged me whenever there would be commercials that went like this:
OH MY FUCKING GOD! I JUST FOUND $2 IN CHANGE! I CAN GO BUY SOMETHING FROM THE $2 VALUE MENU HOLY FUCKING SHIT
No. No you dumb fucker, you can't. Because you only have $2, and there's 13% tax, so you need $2.13 to buy that item. It's going to be your own fault when that warm, delicious McShit Sandwich is right there, but you can't eat it because you FUCKING SUCK AT MATH!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Because you only have $2, and there's 13% tax, so you need $2.13
@Lorne_Kates said:you FUCKING SUCK AT MATH!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Make interest work for you. Yo yo yo!
Is Canadian economy that much better? Cause my savings account interest is down to 0.9%.
No, it isn't. My "high interest" savings account is still only about 0.8%-- though they're running a promo for 2.5%. But it is much better than the prime+5% (~7%) compound interest I was paying to the student loan people.
Interest rates are low overall. Of course, my mortgage rate is something like 2.6%, so I kinda benefit more from having a low interest rate on a loan than a high interest rate on less less savings.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Because you only have $2, and there's 13% tax, so you need $2.13
@Lorne_Kates said:you FUCKING SUCK AT MATH!
I'm half right and half is a number so I RULE AT MATH!
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I get the joy of taking over all the manual things he does daily in Access 97.
TIme to start automating!
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@presidentsdaughter said:
Be careful what you wish for. It might not be exactly the same you thought you wished.
Strictly speaking, I wasn't actually wishing for anything. I was just expressing my sentiment that @abarker's shower was not a popcorn-worthy show. Watching someone else whose persona, at least, is female would be more interesting to me (but only if reality matches the persona); however, I was not expressing an actual wish.
I vaguely seem to recall someone who I think might have been you, but maybe not, posting a physical description on some early "introduce yourself" topic (but not "The lurker's thread;" you don't appear to have posted there) that I could probably find, were it not for dicksores's awful search, so if it was, in fact, you who posted that description, I think I understand what you mean in your second sentence. (That is definitely not the longest single sentence posted here, but it's probably the second longest. So far. Now, no doubt, some dickweed will try to beat it.)
Filed under: Minor typo in the last sentence above, and now I have an urge for beets for dinner.
That's a lot of words for "I wanna bone a cartoon"
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Also, Discofuckery dropped me off near the top of the thread, and I didn't realize I was replying to a 2 year old post.
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Status: thrifty eating, day three
- Breakfast: Latte
- Lunch: Roast beef sandwich + second pre-pack salad
- Dinner: What my mom used to call "American Goulash" but I now realize is just we didn't have a ton of money when I was a kid. (Half a lb. hamburger, can of diced tomatos, bit of onion, chili powder, rotelle noodles) Tastes good anyway.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Which app pool does your app-pool restarter use?
A good question! I don't think it's doing it right anyways. (I believe the command only ends the current thread, and not the pool), but I'm no longer at work to investigate. It was deemed a security hole so it was "disabled". I mean, kill the site by visiting a URL? What site does that? Oh wait...
TIme to start automating!
Already in the works.
Get this: The users take a "report", copy it into Excel, and send it back to him, so he can put it into the database (after hand-tweaking it, somehow copy-pasting is hard). This happens about three different processes/reports.
The reason I was given why it doesn't just go straight from the database back to the database? "It's always been done that way."
Probably not worth submitting for an article though...
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You know, these posts would be way better if you included pictures, like in a proper social media feed.
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There is nothing you can do to a Blakeyrat post to make it better. I dunno, I guess maybe put Blakeyrat's name at the top twice instead of just once might do it?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I didn't realize I was replying to a 2 year old post.
I was wondering why you replied to that. I CBA to read those old posts to find out context in which I posted that. Without the context, I'm not really sure what I was saying, but I don't think I said anything about either boning or a cartoon. The text of that post does not mention cartoons. ISTM the main thing I was saying is that I wasn't (and still am not) interested in watching @abarker take a shower. I would be more interested in watching a female shower, but @presidentsdaughter may not be exactly what it says on the tin — I guess — and may not be somebody I'd actually want to watch.
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Well, there is one surefire way to improve anything blakeyrat-related. As has been thoroughly established, foxes are superior to rats.[1][2][3]
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I don't know what this post is in response to, and I don't want to know. It's perfect on its own.
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You don't have one?
You got it when buying Don't Starve during early access.
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I actually don't even have the game. :<
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There is nothing you can do to a Blakeyrat post to make it better. I dunno, I guess maybe put Blakeyrat's name at the top twice instead of just once might do it?
A signed signature in cursive beneath each post?
I had stale food for dinner because I lost all my moneys, then got drunk and played videogames. Another glorious day in the life of Blakeyrat!
Blakeyrat
Founder and CEO of "Blakeyrat Trolling Foundation"
Copyright 2008-2016, All Rights Reserved
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@PleegWat said:
my savings account interest is down to 0.9%.
There's your problem.
And that's the high-interest one too - I only get that much if the money's still on it on 31 December, else it's 0.4%.
However, I have this irrational need to have some backup money I can actually get at. Above that, early-repaying my mortgage is currently probably my best investment.
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STATUS My ide is open where I left off yesterday but I can't for the life of me remember what I was actually doing. I've been looking at it for an hour willing myself to remember.
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STATUS:
Late November, I ordered a book from the book depository. Intended as a new years present for a friend.
Halfway through December, I complain that the book has yet to arrive. They tell me they ordered a replacement.
Today, two packages arrive in mail. Two copies of the same book. One with a visibly faded envelope, from its 2 and a half month long trip.
Yay Royal Mail!
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Royal Fail is good like that. As is ParcelFarce.
And OOPS (UPS), and DH Hell.
In fact they're all shit.
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But none are as shit as Yodel; they truly are the @mikeTheLiar of package delivery
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What about myHermes?
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I've never had the discopleasure of using them, but I can't see how they can be worse than Yodel
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You should try them sometime.
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