Cheech

False equivalence. According to the tax brackets from 2000 (way before the Bush tax cuts), the lowest bracket was 26,250 at 15% tax rate. Ohio tax bracket for the same thing is 2.9%. Local taxes are not really significant at this point, which brings us (not counting FICA and other bullshits) to 18%, or $6.30. I think the fearmongering you were after is the OMG SOCIALISM!!1!! raise of exactly 4% for those making more than $297,000.

I had the bottom of the line Chatterbox speakers, and they were crap. The cable pulled out of one just enough so I had music on and off in one ear for 100 miles. I'd recommend the skullcandy asym's, they fit beautifully inside the helmet and provide a little outside noise dampening as well.

Tips have been taxed for decades upon decades. You are also "supposed" to report what you purchased online to the State of Ohio so they can apply sales tax to that too. This has been happening for years. Chev, I'm all for increasing discourse, but fearmongering and inflammatory titles like "the government is going to suck you dry" isn't exactly the way to go about doing it, unless you want people to be inflammatory and fearmongering in return.

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i like pie. discuss.

or, you know, post lolcats. whatever floats your boat.

Thanks for your candor. You can improve your situation by putting down the mainstream American news (CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, which by and large exist purely for entertainment and ratings value) and embrace truly objective news sources like the BBC. Start reading, doing a little research, and you'll begin to get a better, non bullshit-crowded picture of the world in no time. You are correct in that the ME has been in pretty much a perpetual state of conflict for the past, oh, 100 years or so. Seeing as a lot of that is religiously based, I don't see us changing that anytime soon. I do know, as you pointed out, that nature abhors a vacuum and that's essentially what we're creating leaving this puppet government in charge in Iraq. Look how well it worked for Afghanistan.

yep, whenever I want to get a barometer on historical events, the bible's the first book I turn to. Totally historically accurate, and it's predictions for the future are always spot-on. Riddle me this, why is it that just us and our friends should be the only ones to have access to nuclear power? We don't seem to have a problem with India having it, or Pakistan even and they are a Islamic (omg, mooslems! and a unstable and corrupt government to boot!) state. But hey, if Israel wants to thump the Torah and declare that Iran can't have nuclear power (even though they themselves are in talks to build a nuclear power plant), I really hope that this country stays the hell out of it. They won't, of course, but I would love to see it happen. If you can answer this question WITHOUT being xenophobic AT ALL, I'll personally deliver to you a free puppy. no one can argue with a puppy.

very useful for precise sammich making... I'm not really a knife kid, just bought a CRKT money clip mini to toss in my travel bag, that should last about a month before the TSA decides to steal it.

I'm in, I'll be on the Harley making BRUM BRUM BRUM! noises.

i snerked a little. good list.

ah, john bolton's fearmongering mustache is at it again.

i have the unmistakable urge to start another missed connections thread...

I was wondering why my ass was sore after I sat on it in your garage. thanks for the anal probe, dick.

And as the end of the season approaches, it's only going to get worse. I think it's especially early this year due to the economy, the enthusiasm people had at the beginning wore off quick as finances tightened.

i'll buy everyone's bike on here for tree fiddy.

yeah, watch that family is going to live in my development and make my life miserable for days.

we need moar of it.

until you collect enough chips and start to seek out Sarah Connor. I don't buy the "the guy has a disease" defense. I'm not going to argue the possibility that he's an alcoholic, but he almost certainly just doesn't give a shit. He had ample opportunity to go to rehab, counseling, and so on.

streaming video in a remote location from a smartphone? I don't see this ending well, in terms of usability as well as financially. You guys are going to plow through 5gig in no time with video streaming and other stuffs over a 1 month span. @ 170MB a day, you might not go over your ceiling for the month very often, but when you do it's going to hurt, employee or not. Hope it works out for you though.

Not to mention that unless you are staying in the one place where you get ridiculously good cell signal, your download/uploads will vary so much that it may make watching those youtube or hulu videos very frustrating.

First off, installing iOS 4 on a 3G is fucking insane. The amount of RAM on the 3G just won't support it as well as iOS 3. 3GS is borderline (what I'm running now with 4.0.1). Haven't gone to 4.0.2 and won't until it's properly vetted. I jumped into 4.0.1 and regretted it. Now that I jailbroke 4.0.1 (which is the entire reason why 4.0.2 was released to begin with, to fix the PDF exploit jailbreakme.com was using to install Cydia) I'm going to sit tight and wait for the ninjas at iPhone Dev Team to do their thing.

don't get eliminated!

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