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hmm, sounds just like the same things poor white southerners eat.
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A command-line interface (CLI) is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks. This text-only interface contrasts with the use of a mouse pointer with a graphical user interface (GUI) to click on options, or menus on a text user interface (TUI) to select options.
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Just teasing about the color.
Thet will see you coming hopefully.
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I use a Celeron D 2.4 everyday.
Good chip so far.
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Glad it is working out for you Brian, but I dunno about that color.
Puke green?
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Now that it made the critical list I'm gonna upgrade.
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Minor children, like other taxpayers, have a choice between claiming itemized deductions or the standard deduction. Children usually have a small amount of itemized deductions or none at all, so in most cases they claim the standard deduction.
A taxpayer that isn't a dependent of any other taxpayer gets a standard deduction in a fixed amount, depending on filing status. (It's adjusted each year for inflation.) For a dependent child, the size of the standard deduction depends on how much earned income the child has (as opposed to investment income, which is considered unearned income for this purpose).
This complicated rule says your child's standard deduction is the greater of the following two amounts:
the minimum standard deduction ($950 for 2009), or
The child's earned income plus a base amount ($300 for 2009), but not more than the regular standard deduction for a single person ($5,700 for 2009).
Here's a way to make sense of this rule. Your dependent child's standard deduction starts at $950 and stays there if all the child's income is unearned income. When your child begins to have earned income, the first $650 will not cause any increase in the standard deduction — but after that, each additional dollar earned will increase the standard deduction by a dollar (effectively making the earnings tax-free) until the standard deduction reaches the amount that would be allowed if your child were not a dependent.
Personal exemption
The personal exemption is another fairly hefty deduction: $3,650 for 2009. Unfortunately, a child can't claim a personal exemption if someone else is entitled to claim the exemption. That's true even if the other person doesn't actually claim the exemption. The mere fact that someone else qualifies for the exemption is enough to disqualify the child from claiming it.
You can't give a personal exemption to your dependent child by not claiming it, but you may be able to help your child claim an education credit (Hope scholarship credit or lifetime learning credit) by not claiming the exemption. This can be a good idea if the child gets more benefit from the education credit than you can get from the exemption.
Minors can file their own tax returns, or parents can file for them.
You may be surprised to learn that your child is a separate taxpayer, even as a minor. If your child has enough income, he or she has an obligation to file a return and pay the tax. Here's a quote from a recent edition of IRS Publication 929:
Generally, the child is responsible for filing his or her own tax return and for paying any tax, penalties, or interest on that return.
When the IRS says "generally," it often means there are exceptions, and that is the case here. We'll look at three issues: who prepares the return, who signs the return, and who pays the tax if any is owed.
Who prepares the return
If the return isn't complicated, and your child is old enough to read and follow instructions, filling out a tax return could be a good learning experience. Naturally, you can help your child prepare the return, or you can handle the task entirely yourself. In fact, the IRS expects you to do so if your child isn't up to the task:
If a child cannot file his or her own return for any reason, such as age, the child’s parent or guardian is responsible for filing a return on his or her behalf.
If your child's income consists entirely of dividends and interest, you may be able to eliminate the need for the child to file by reporting this income on your own return, using Form 8814. We explain these rules here.
Who signs the child's return
Your child doesn't have to be of legal age to sign an income tax return. Any child old enough to sign his or her name can do this. There's a catch, though. If you sign the return and the IRS ends up having questions, they can deal directly with you. If your child signs the return, there will be limits on what they can discuss with you and what actions you can take to resolve any issues, at least until you have a valid power of attorney to act on your child's behalf.
There's a middle ground. Your child can sign the return but show you as the "third party designee" using a space provided for this purpose near the signature line of the return. That gives you limited authority to deal with the IRS on the tax return without a power of attorney.
For greatest convenience in dealing with any issues that may arise on a minor child's tax return, the easiest solution is for the parent to sign the tax return.
Who pays the tax
As indicated in the quote at the top of this page, paying the tax (and interest and penalties, if applicable) is the child's obligation. For example, if your child owes tax because of income generated by a custodial account (UTMA or UGMA account), it would be appropriate to take money from that account to pay the tax, because the child (the owner of the account) owes the tax.
You can pay income tax for your child from your own money, of course, but generally when you do that you're making a gift to your child.
There is an exception to this general rule. If the law of your state gives you the right to receive income from work performed by your child, and you actually do receive the income, the IRS says you may be liable for the tax. The income is still reported on a tax return for the child (not on your own income tax return), but you'll have to pay if tax is owed for income earned by the child but received by you.
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I joined in 1978
I think every good liberal should own a shotgun and an assault rifle.
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Well they have to do it sometime and there is a possibility of people not being able to access things when they are working on the system.
They had the same problem here with the food stamps debit card once.
It would have been nice if they had warned everyone that there could be delays and complications when they did the transition; and maybe scheduled it for THE WEEK BEFORE rather than when everyone is expecting a new deposit.
You just jogged my memory.
The same independent contractor that used to manage the Texas system took over up here.
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More than 200,000 Hoosiers draw benefits through a debit card. Those whose weekly deposits were supposed to be made Monday ran into a problem.
"We're usually pretty prompt in our payment schedules, usually by ten or eleven o'clock in the morning, folks can go to their debit cards and receive their money," said Marc Lotter, Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
It was around that time the Indiana Department of Workforce Development started getting calls from other people experiencing the same problem. An investigation found problems with communication between the state's computer network and the card vendor's network.
"We have a number of upgrades that are going on with the computer system right now, we also have an unusually large number of claimants that are going through that, so when you add all that together, we have a little bit of a delay," said Lotter.
Conficker?
Some counties are running 18% unemployment because of the automotive RV collapse.
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On the bright side I saw a 1GB stick for $9 at the walgreens yesterday.
Last ditch on yours would be to try a format but the data's gone.
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Ok, It seems like someone in Milton, Queensland thinks it is important for me to have one of those this morning.
Last night an Amsterdam mirror also seemed to think I needed it.
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I keep getting possible SQL Slammer attempts on my ZA firewall log.
Would it do any good to report the origin IPs to someone?
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I suggested on another forum that instead of sitting around in the dark for the hour they might head down to the store (which I am sure will not be observing it) and buy the new fluorescent bulbs to replace the incandescent ones and reduce lighting costs by 90%.
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So ... Windows installs USB support on startup, polls the hardware, sees one USB drive but cannot see the other, but once Windows is or has been running the polling must change somehow because then, it works. What's ON a USB drive that responds to Windows' polling? How is it different between start-up and once running?
Could it be a matter of picking and choosing what to do because on limited resources?
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I've been too disabled to clean this dump. After 6 weeks in the hospital undergoing treatment I will need a couple of more weeks to regain my strength.
Glad to hear you are on the mend.
We buried one of my best friends New Years eve because he could not keep his health up to stay on the transplant list.
Listen to your PT people and do your exercises.
The first time they let me out of bed after three months of surgeries from my accident I took four nurses down with me.
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Since the fix was so easy (unplug-replug) I never dug deeper by checking the device manager while the problem was occurring
Why not?
Are you looking for an excuse to get a new drive?
What is a device boot list?I assumed that you did not leave an old machine like that all the time.
The RAM BIOS startup program surveys hardware resources and needs, and assigns system resources to meet those needs.
The startup program begins the startup process by reading the stored configuration information and then comparing that information to the hardware.
Does that jump drive contain anything nessasary for the system to run?
But to be honest every time I try to research jump drives I end up frustrated as there does not seem to be a lot of information available.
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Is it a matter of not being listed in the device boot list?
No usb errors in device manager?
Does it have anything to do with 9X no longer being supported?
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Yes indeed, lets talk of cigarettes and booze and bullets and cabbages and kings and sealing wax.
Anything but the subject at hand.
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So no one who's ever been involved in an accident resulting in a fatality has had marijuana in their system? No one who's been high has ever died or caused a death?
Substitute alcohol for marijauna in that statement and tell me why it is legal?
So no one who's ever been involved in an accident resulting in a fatality has had marijuana in their system? No one who's been high has ever died or caused a death?
NO, I have said that there has never been a death certificate issued listing cause of death as marijauna use.
Change marijauna to alcohol in that statement and tell me why it's legal?
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My solve was to get rid of McAfee suite and do a format.
I'm sorry dad, I'll never doubt you again.
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I have Comcast hi speed and wait 2-3 minutes for my home page call to go through.
Outlook Express times out waiting for a Comcast POP3 reply.
I have been on this service since 03 and have not had problems for quite awhile.
I run XP / IE7 no updates available with McAfee suite + Ad Aware free anniversary edition + Spyware Blaster + MSMVP host file blockers.
I have released and renewed flushed and cleaned and ran scans and this does not change the fact that every tracert times out on first ping.
Comcast sends me canned replys in response to my querys.
Any ideas?
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What is a "narcotic" drug?
The first thing you should understand about the word "narcotic" is that it is used incorrectly more than it is used correctly. One good, quick way to tell whether someone actually knows anything about this subject is to listen to their use of this word. If they tell you that marijuana, cocaine, and meth are "narcotics" then count them among the vast legions of totally clueless people on this subject.
The word "narcotic" comes from the Greek word "narkos", meaning sleep. Therefore, "narcotics" are drugs that induce sleep. Specifically, that means the opiates such as heroin, morphine and related drugs. This is the correct meaning, so you should accept no other.
Cocaine and meth are not "narcotics". They are "stimulants", the exact opposite of a "narcotic". They cause people to be more awake and more active, not sleepy. Calling them :"narcotics" makes as much sense as calling coffee a "narcotic".
The classification of other drugs such as marijuana, alcohol, and others is open to question. (That is a subject for another page.) Some might call them "tranquilizers", "depressants", or even "hallucinogens". Marijuana and alcohol may even have a tendency to induce sleep at times. However, calling them "narcotics" simply shows a lack of understanding of the different effects.
The problem is that US Government officials, and others who enforce and support drug prohibition, tend to refer to all illegal drugs as "narcotics". They do that for three major reasons.
One reason is that they are genuinely ignorant about these drugs and their effects. That may sound like a strange thing to say about our top drug law enforcers -- people supposed to be the top experts in this field -- but I can assure you that it is 100 percent true. After years of talking to them, I haven't met one yet -- from the official United States Drug Czar to the local narcotics officers on the street -- who could pass the most basic factual quiz on the subject.
The second reason is that "narcotic" sounds dangerous and makes good headlines. Consider how attractive newspaper headlines would be if government officials proclaimed the dangers of "tranquilizers" (which narcotics are, in some respects). It just doesn't have the same sex appeal.
The third reason is that it blurs the line between things like marijuana and heroin. Police can't take a lot of credit for busting someone with an ounce of pot, so they call it a "narcotics bust."
Watch for how people use the word "narcotic". It will tell you instantly whether their opinion on the subject is really worth the puff of air it takes to speak it.
Cannot Download .net Framework Broken Microsoft Site
in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP
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Try running live updates.
I just did a reload and it is on the optional menu not the express.
It offers the base 1.1 plus the full 3.5 overlay for .net.
use IE, it seems to work better.