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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.

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...

What's the basis of the claim? Nude photos of people running naked in their front yard when the Street View car came by?

^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!)

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 ****** - I need to submit a revised W4 to withhold...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

^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.

I hate to see that this is still an issue. I wonder if AAEES has ever taken this up with CA? American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists - they provide the additional "BCEE" board certification credential for enviros. I should check that out since I pay dues! At any rate, I am...

We watched Encanto on Disney + over the weekend, and I really liked it. No villain, a fairly complex story about family, and I loved it that the protagonist never got a power, but ended up being a key member of the family and the solution to their problem anyway. I also really appreciated...

Jeebus. That explains why all the filippino engineers here in Guam always ignore the rules about sewer service and just plan a holding tank for everything, which is illegal but the filippino engineers who filled my position before I got here allowed it anyway. We did an unscientific survey of...