You should care only about yourself and only the self. THAT SIR is how you win in life.

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I got my first high school girlfriend obliviously - of course, I've always lived a little in my own world. Our school had a mixer and I just started dancing with different girls. I ended dancing more with one because she was fun to dance with. We ended up dancing 6 or 7 times together. At the end of the dance, she came up to me and said that she was so glad that "we finally got this out in the open." I had no idea what she was talking about, but we started dating... It was a funny kind of dating as we really didn't see much of each other outside of school, mainly because, while she was cute, I wasn't very interested in her. It did lead to an awkward situation in the locker room. One of my teammates didn't like me and I couldn't think of a reason, so I asked a friend about it. Apparently I had stolen his girlfriend that night without trying or intention. Needless to say, that first girlfriend didn't last more than 6 or so months. I never told anyone about that because I figured it would needlessly hurt people's feelings.

Happy anniversary! Today marks year number 3 since you first became a Sifter and the community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!

Wow, quick and on the ball!
Thanks!

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Thanks. It's back up if you wanted to watch it.


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*dead

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Well, I didn't do it quickly for this one.

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Oh dear, now I have this compelling feeling to comment on your videos (with the magical @) or your profile at random times during the day to see if I can find a chink in your Videosift rapid response armor.

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/me looks at you and fixes your shirt. Now, bow down and kiss my feet.


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Salute!

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Don't underestimate this ant!

/me looks at you and fixes your shirt. Now, bow down and kiss my feet.


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Salute!

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Don't underestimate this ant!

Don't underestimate this ant!

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Did you fix the embedding right after I made the comment?

Because if you did, your lightning fast reflexes caused me to question reality itself. (Well, maybe not that much...)

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>> ^curiousity:

dead - copyright by Warner Bros.
Luckily I got to see it, but my friend is disappointed.


Try again. We go far as Hungary!

Lol! Grats!!

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No longer dating the wrong woman.

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You are dating the wrong women.

>> ^curiousity:

So God is a woman...

I meant the money you spent on the class.

I'm far from a professional web dev... heck I'm pretty far from an amateur web dev... but I'd steer clear of any class that teaches Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG HTML tool.

In reply to this comment by curiousity:
Actually it's the school's copy so I haven't bought anything yet.

It just that I watched the "Working with CMS frameworks" from http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=59959 and it looked extremely useful because I learning Drupal right now.

I admit that I'm new to this field and have only used Notepad++ beyond the tools at school. Are there any that you would recommend?

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>> ^curiousity:

we are just starting to use Dreamweaver.

Is it too late to get your money back?

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bareboards2 about taxes again....

I think Warren Buffet was including payroll taxes -- until your wages get pretty far up there, folks pay 7.65%. I'm not 100% sure though -- the law is, as has been noted, horribly complex.

I don't know what the answer is. The truth is, any system is going to hurt some people more and benefit others. Nothing is perfectly fair. To me, you set the guidelines as best you can to minimize the disparity.

A flat tax and a sales tax I believe are inherently unfair -- unless you start bringing a load of complexity into it. Clothing is exempt -- but what about haute couture? Clothing bought in Europe and brought into our country? You start to create a new level of complexity on that.

Although I have done taxes for a million years, I am not a policy wonk who understands all the ins and outs. I only know what I have seen grow over the years.

Here is one thing that I didn't say before.... it is because of the increasing power and mobility of computers we have the tax laws we have today. If we professionals had to do taxes by hand with the current laws, we could never get them done. Our industry would have screamed bloody murder before the laws would have been brought into practice.

But since we now all have computers on our desks, an embarrassing percentage of professionals don't really understand the law anymore, I think. Certainly when we get new clients and look at the work from prior accountants we see enough evidence of that.

And we worry in our office about what we don't know -- and don't even know it.

It's scary out here. Let me tell you.

Sorry if I am doing this wrong.... I am writing in response to your comment that showed up as an email to me.

Well, I am not that up on how much tax you would have to collect. According to the Senator in the video, he said that a national sales tax would have to make up the difference.

You still have the problem of RELATIVE tax. So you have a deductible that everyone gets. That would solve the problem of truly poor people. The vast majority of our taxpayers are middle class, however. It's still the same problem, as far as I am concerned. 10% tax to a middle class family is still relatively huge compared to the uber-wealthy.

I live in the State of Washington. We don't have an income tax. I can't quite get my mind around Bill Gates. The only tax he pays to the State of Washington is property tax. Granted, it is something like $25K per year or something, maybe more. But as a percentage of his income? It is laughable.

Gates' personal saving grace is that he "taxes" himself through his Foundation, and helps support a huge number of communities' libraries and schools and what-all.

I am one of those nasty liberals that thinks that a progressive tax makes sense -- to share the relative PAIN. Progressive tax rates are there so that all "suffer" the same. 10% at even $100K income is not the same as 10% at $1 million income.

By the way, I really appreciate your respectful tone in the discussions that I have noticed you in on this thread. It is such a relief to read someone disagree without the personal attacks and angry characterizations of others. Thank you.



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>> ^bareboards2:
lot o' stuff


Thanks for the comment bareboards2.

Do you think that a flat tax would work if it include a deductible? This deductible would be based somewhat on the poverty line and every single person would get it. This way it keeps the simplicity of a flat tax (everything applies to everyone), while also trying to account for low income people and families.

With your experience, does that sound like something that could actually work?

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