Thursday, April 22, 2004
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Stroke the rich / IRS has become a subsidy system for super-wealthy Americans IRS winks at rich deadbeats
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...
In the late '90s, a crooked banker gave the IRS records on 1,600 criminal tax cheats who used his Cayman Islands bank. The Justice Department prosecuted 49 of them, but the other 1,551 were not even asked to pay, lawyers for some of them say.
Two billionaires in New York, the art dealer Alec Wildenstein and his former wife, Jocelyn, testified under oath in their divorce that for 30 years they never filed a tax return. They have not been prosecuted.
There are now seminars that show business owners how to drop out of the tax system with virtually no risk of detection by the IRS, which relies on a computer system installed when John F. Kennedy was president
..."
"
...
In the late '90s, a crooked banker gave the IRS records on 1,600 criminal tax cheats who used his Cayman Islands bank. The Justice Department prosecuted 49 of them, but the other 1,551 were not even asked to pay, lawyers for some of them say.
Two billionaires in New York, the art dealer Alec Wildenstein and his former wife, Jocelyn, testified under oath in their divorce that for 30 years they never filed a tax return. They have not been prosecuted.
There are now seminars that show business owners how to drop out of the tax system with virtually no risk of detection by the IRS, which relies on a computer system installed when John F. Kennedy was president
..."
Monday, April 12, 2004
The contents of my VFP9 startup program at work:
_VFP.Caption = VERSION(1)
DO CASE
CASE VERSION(5)=700
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp7picture.bmp"
CASE VERSION(5)=800
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp8picture.bmp"
CASE VERSION(5)=900
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp9picture.bmp"
ENDCASE
IF VARTYPE(_oFoxCodeTips) = "O"
_oFoxCodeTips.Dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(_oTaskPane) = "O"
_oTaskPane.dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(_oToolBox) = "O"
_otoolbox.dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(m._otasklist)="O"
_oTaskList.tASKUI.Dockable= 1
ENDIF
CD f:\dev
? FULLPATH("")
_VFP.Caption = VERSION(1)
DO CASE
CASE VERSION(5)=700
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp7picture.bmp"
CASE VERSION(5)=800
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp8picture.bmp"
CASE VERSION(5)=900
_screen.picture="f:\dev\vfp9picture.bmp"
ENDCASE
IF VARTYPE(_oFoxCodeTips) = "O"
_oFoxCodeTips.Dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(_oTaskPane) = "O"
_oTaskPane.dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(_oToolBox) = "O"
_otoolbox.dockable = 1
ENDIF
IF VARTYPE(m._otasklist)="O"
_oTaskList.tASKUI.Dockable= 1
ENDIF
CD f:\dev
? FULLPATH("")
Friday, April 09, 2004
PBS | I, Cringely "...Bill Gates (it will still be Bill, because this will happen in the next decade I am sure) will again turn his corporate supertanker and add full power, but this time the competing ship will not only have a head start, it will be able to accelerate faster than Microsoft.
It has happened before. In fact it ALWAYS happens."
It has happened before. In fact it ALWAYS happens."
Monday, April 05, 2004
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Four Corners is life and its many facets. Food, technology, music, politics, culture, games, language: interrelated and intertwined. What we want to create is a place to provoke thinking, spawn creation, inspire adventure. Much time is spent in modern media discussing how separate and different everything is -- we want to fuse it all back together into the greater whole. Location doesn't matter: it's all about vectors.
21 Days Later
The "21 Days Later Contest" is designed to motivate and educate Mac game developers. The contest also aims to harness the power of the community to help promote Mac gaming and iDevGames. The contest is open to developers from around the globe and the source code from all entries are released as open-source. Be sure to spread the word, the more people entering, and playing the better!
The "21 Days Later Contest" is designed to motivate and educate Mac game developers. The contest also aims to harness the power of the community to help promote Mac gaming and iDevGames. The contest is open to developers from around the globe and the source code from all entries are released as open-source. Be sure to spread the word, the more people entering, and playing the better!
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Thursday, April 01, 2004
World O'Crap:
bottom of the page...
[Ann Coulter
"Ann, whose gimmick is being a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man, details how 9/11 was the fault of Democrats -- as proven by her totally factual timeline. From it you can see that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton didn't take any real action against our swarthy, Muslim enemies, while Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush killed people every chance they got -- so obviously no blame for 9/11 can be attributed to them. George H. Bush was a sissy Republican, so he's kind of a wash."
A. Guns are our friends. God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal
B. It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted
... ]
bottom of the page...
[Ann Coulter
"Ann, whose gimmick is being a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man, details how 9/11 was the fault of Democrats -- as proven by her totally factual timeline. From it you can see that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton didn't take any real action against our swarthy, Muslim enemies, while Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush killed people every chance they got -- so obviously no blame for 9/11 can be attributed to them. George H. Bush was a sissy Republican, so he's kind of a wash."
A. Guns are our friends. God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal
B. It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted
... ]
Air America Radio:
"Drug-Free Radio Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone. "
and
"The Right has had its say for the last three years. Now, on 'The Majority Report', co-hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder have theirs. Our side just got a little bit louder"
Thanks jMM'
"Drug-Free Radio Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone. "
and
"The Right has had its say for the last three years. Now, on 'The Majority Report', co-hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder have theirs. Our side just got a little bit louder"
Thanks jMM'
Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring:
"Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen"
"Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen"
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: "Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it."
Past Winners of M-LAW's Wacky Warning Label Contests
samples:
A CD player carries this unusual warning: “Do not use the Ultradisc2000 as a projectile in a catapult.”
A 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow warns: “Not intended for highway use”
A warning on a pair of shin guards manufactured for bicyclists says: “Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.”
Thanks Diane via Garrett.
samples:
A CD player carries this unusual warning: “Do not use the Ultradisc2000 as a projectile in a catapult.”
A 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow warns: “Not intended for highway use”
A warning on a pair of shin guards manufactured for bicyclists says: “Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.”
Thanks Diane via Garrett.
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