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  1. Dleg

    These boards used to be so active...

    Sorry but the forum went down when you made previously private content public, ignored repeated requests to correct those actions or delete content, and then retaliated against senior members who complained. We may be engineers, but even we know that you don't treat people that way.
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    Google photos law suit - Illinois residents only

    Whoah that's crazy. I wouldn't want businesses scanning my fingerprints (and keeping a database with them). That reminds me of when I first moved to the Northern Mariana Islands in the mid-90s, and businesses there wanted your SSN on every check. Including all kinds of shady foreign-owned...
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    Google photos law suit - Illinois residents only

    What's the basis of the claim? Nude photos of people running naked in their front yard when the Street View car came by?
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    Taxes...and the headaches they cause

    ^I had never heard of that until I made my Hawaii Death Flight and heard about the big money in the BIL for those types of projects. I think. I don't really know because I wasn't really listening (not my problem!)
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    Taxes...and the headaches they cause

    Well I just paid my taxes, and I "only" owed $9,600! I say only because I thought taxes were not withheld from my wife's pay, but they actually were - it was under a different block called "Guam tax" and not under federal income tax. So, still shitty - I need to submit a revised W4 to withhold...
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    Taxes...and the headaches they cause

    thanks @mudpuppy - good to know. My Mom's Raymond James advisor is really good, so I am hoping he will give us a strong recommendation on what to do.
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    Taxes...and the headaches they cause

    Thanks! That was really useful info. This is all new to me... I think we're looking at around $48k each (my sister and I) so this would be a pretty substantial tax bill, so if we can just keep it in an IRA until we are older I think that would be best. My mom is arranging this through her...
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    Taxes...and the headaches they cause

    I am going to put mine together next week, probably looking at over $10k that I will owe based on the wife's employer not withholding anything. This is going to hurt, bad. In other tax news (for next year) - one of my father's IRA accounts is about to be split and distributed to me and my...
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    Taxes...and the headaches they cause

    My wife sent me her W-2 a couple of weeks ago with the message "Does this look like the correct amount of Social Security?" and totally missed the 800-lb gorilla: her new employer didn't take any federal income tax out of her paycheck all year. How could she not have noticed that...
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    Today I Learned...

    Not sure - I also have fond memories of those things, so I can only assume that they dropped in quality over recent years.
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    Flat Earthers

    Some of them (no idea what percentage) appear to be upset because they think evidence of a round earth proves the Bible wrong and will turn people into atheists.
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    Flat Earthers

    I'm doubling down on my initial assessment of where humanity is currently headed.
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    Movie thread

    ^I saw it (the "new" Suicide Squad) on a long flight over the weekend. I thought it was pretty fun.
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    Today I Learned...

    ^Yeah that stuff is garbage! I got one of those over Christmas and dug into it, expecting a delicious, savory snack and it was just trash.
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