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by smkellat 7y ago
Hindsight is very distorting. It was not inevitable 10 years ago that we would get to this point now.
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by smkellat 7y ago
California insists on following its own drummer. There is a National Emergency Communications Plan available at https://www.cisa.gov/necp . Duly-licensed amateur radio operators are discussed under AUXCOMM in the plan as a
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by smkellat 7y ago
Sometimes in trade and negotiations the most powerful tool is being able to walk away. Relative to the PRC, it is past time that we start walking away. There are certainly other partners available on the metaphorical dance card who are ea
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by smkellat 7y ago
The Improper Payments Act report shows just under $19 billion was lost in improper EITC payments in FY2018. NASA’s FY2018 budget was $20.7 billion just to compare the scale of the loss. Every little bit of fraud, waste, and abuse does add
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by smkellat 7y ago
“...and since one can’t ask a stranger to fund him...” That’s been a solved issue since at least the 17th century with joint stock companies. What else is an IPO but asking strangers for money so you can do business?
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by smkellat 7y ago
My city is looking at a total 5G ban. A city charter re-write is going to be needed to topple the current municipal administration. Moving to non-partisan elections would probably help since some of the current city council incumbents eit
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by smkellat 7y ago
Since when is a tropical storm a minor concern? That’s one of the stranger assertions to wake up to on a Saturday morning. The National Weather Service maintains a nice list of EAS event codes here: https://www.nws.noaa.gov&#x2
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by smkellat 7y ago
The LA basin supports over 10 million people. Cut its water supply and the missing water has to be made up somewhere. I know full well it LA is 6 hours away from Silicon Valley but make LA run dry on water and CA-wide water restrictions w
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by smkellat 7y ago
No dam at Boulder City in Nevada and the Los Angeles basin becomes a very different story in terms of habitability. The town of St. Thomas would rise again and we’d find that missing B-29 that ditched into what is currently the very artifi
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by smkellat 7y ago
The Administrative Procedures Act provides great processes to express yourself. I highly doubt this Petition for Rulemaking would proceed to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The Commission rarely conducts proceedings to adopt or change ru
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by smkellat 7y ago
I dumped any “tech” holdings I had and invested in oil tankers as well as bulk shipping. The only thing close to a “tech” stock that I hold now is Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. The portfolio doesn’t fluctuate much and the dividend payouts
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by smkellat 7y ago
Dismissing criticisms because they're "technical" in a field of law that is possibly the most hyper-technical is some of the goofiest yet dishonest hand-waving I've ever seen. There is no Magic Money Tree. Even if we l
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by smkellat 8y ago
State and Local Tax deduction is limited to $10,000. It isn't eliminated.
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by smkellat 8y ago
Things generally not known by the government: deductions & credits you are eligible to take, any changes to your marital status, changes to your address . Often your government cannot find you, has no idea if you're still single&
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by smkellat 8y ago
There is no OCR in play. Real human beings handle code & edit of returns. Real human beings also check for errors at that time, too.
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by smkellat 8y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. Complaining about what you call a book review by providing a book review is a bit crabby.
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by smkellat 8y ago
Simply put, the IRS doesn't have the data access Hollywood makes it look like they have. There are timeframes for the Combined Annual Wage Reporting joint task force to have the data trickle downstream from SSA to IRS. It isn't
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by smkellat 8y ago
There is only one form this year. There is no longer a 1040A or 1040EZ.
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by smkellat 8y ago
Actually, you'd be surprised how little of your life's information is on-hand compared to the eligibility requirements for certain tax credits and benefits. The biggest example is deduction of gambling losses. IRS knows how much
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by smkellat 8y ago
Was there an option to use an anti-satellite weapon to blow these things out of the sky? These rules have been pretty firm since the 1970s so pleading ignorance just looks bad.
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by smkellat 8y ago
Are there any benefits for a US citizen to locate a startup in either Puerto Rico or USVI for bringing in non-US talent? That is to say, beyond the climate and possibly relaxed tax positions are there benefits?
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by smkellat 8y ago
I just hit "Send to..." in Firefox and send it to a different device than what I am currently using. If I'm using my tablet, I send it to the desktop. If I'm using my desktop, I send it to my tablet. Eventually many th
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by smkellat 8y ago
Well, another hosting provider/domain registrar may be getting intense pressure soon enough it seems.
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by smkellat 9y ago
I'm in a position where I sit behind a keyboard and answer the telephone all day. Nonetheless, I pretty much have the raw power to destroy someone's life financially even at such a low rank in the organization. That we don'
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by smkellat 9y ago
Oh, there are contingency plans for that. They're pretty easy. Writing down barcode numbers and then doing a mass "check out" event on a whole list when power is back covers things. In an extended event, some backup supplie
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by smkellat 9y ago
Frankly you get the cataloger(s) out of their office/cubicle/holding pen, sit the cataloger(s) down at the reference desk, and have them work from memory guiding people through the classification system. You won't have the s
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by smkellat 9y ago
I've typed catalog cards. I've maintained a card catalog by hand. My memories aren't nearly as fond as the book review author's. An IBM Selectric is at least still somewhat familiar to me. I haven't been a proper
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by smkellat 9y ago
When your co-workers start getting routinely carted out by emergency workers for cardiac distress, seizures, and other problems developed since they started the job. A job can grind you down and I'm watching my current one eat some co
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‘Historic’ cyber attack hits Ukraine government and businesses(france24.com)
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by smkellat 9y ago
I mostly listen to things from the BBC due to the World Service no longer broadcasting to North America as of 2001. There are some CBC programs since the loss of Radio Canada International. Mostly comedies plus The Archers Omnibus. These

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