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My brother does this, as do some of my friends who are Michigan Militia-types. Works well for them (these guys are in their late thirties and older and have never had a Visa), but I went into a Best Buy-type place, wanted to buy a laptop, and pulled out five grand in cash, and the chump behind...

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Exactly. The great scam of taxation is that it is a percentage of every transaction everyone makes, therefore, if you follow the life of $100 as it changes hands over and over, it is eventually ALL in the pockets of the government (well, not all, it just gets infinitely closer to 100% but never...

I saw Shania Twain on tv a few months ago, and the interviewer said "We reached her at her home in Switzerland, where she lives with her husband, Mutt Lange". Made me smile with understanding. They're not there for the skiing.

LOL! Can I use that? Whenever I'm doing a transaction from now on I'm going to say "Here's 20 depreciating dollars, keep the change" or "I'll bet you 5 depreciating dollars that Mike is just faking sick today."

Here's one for you: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is Cambodian citizen I wonder what the taxes are like in Cambodia. Not that any of these stars are stupid enough to pay taxes on their undeserved zillions in the first place, but this might actually make avoiding taxes legal for Angelina...

No, it looks like you're right to me. Thanks for the link. I remember spending an entertaining evening one time reading posts from his blog. Hitman seemed very determined (ie young and cocky), but with major personality defects that kept knocking him down over and over again. But at least he was...

What happened to him? Blow up? Or did he finally get the girl and move to the Bahamas?

Hey Gummy, thanks for the spreadsheets, they look very good. I just dropped by your website, and it looks like there's a LOT of very interesting stuff there -- I hesitate to use the term "gold mine", but that's what it seems to be. I definitely think I'll be losing a few days of my life to your...

You came out ahead, good for you. Just make sure to keep coming out ahead!

After seeing the last couple elections, I think the people vote for whoever the media tells them to vote for. Elections are nothing more than popularity contests with an emphasis on attacking the other guy rather than putting forward any good ideas of your own. And now the media is clearly...

Can you give us a link? I have found only one location mentioning this story, and the site hosting the story seems to be a personal political website, and as such I can't gauge the veracity of his content. I'd appreciate a link to an actual news source -- I don't trust anything I read on the...

Report: CNOOC May Raise Its Unocal Bid

And this one's a close one, too. I hope they do a recount and check for hanging chads.

Forex doesn't have commissions, but the brokers take more than a regular commission in purposeful slippage when you make your order. Forex is not for beginners or those who are willing to spend less than 16 hours a day working on it, or those who are afraid to lose their entire account...

I say we keep sKaLpZ around, if only for all the cool MP3s.

I wouldn't snub Windows if I were you. If you're giving it away for free, sure, snub Windows. But if you're trying to make a business of it, that's where at least 90% of your potential customers are. If you want to be cross-platform, try QT. Write your front-end once, run it on Windows, Linux...

Lord help us. You'll have to be long oil just to break even with what you'll be paying at the pump. But bigger than the pump is the price of plastics. Everybody forgets that plastics are the main use of oil, I heard 70-80%.... (but that figure may be wrong, of course). Buy an environmentally...

Great timing, during the G-8 summit. This'll help push the focus off "helping those starving black people" and "climate change" and put it back on "building unsustainably overextended empires through the reckless and preemptive use of overwhelming military force", where it belongs. George W...

WHAT? An imposter? Here on ET?!? Impossible!!