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    You won't win

    This is sort of akin to the "giraffe in the refrigerator" quiz in another thread. I mean what's wrong with this picture? The students attend MIT (in MA) and travel all the way to LV?? So, what's wrong with Atlantic City? Not only is it closer but, from what I've been able to glean, there is...
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    paying quarterly taxes

    Did you use the regular installment method or the annualized income installment method? There are quite a few taxpayers who do not receive income evenly throughout the tax year and use the annualized method to reduce one or more of their estimated tax payments. This method only requires your...
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    paying quarterly taxes

    Generally, your futures trades will be initially reported on Form 6781 (60% LT, 40% ST) and then carried over to Form 1040 Sch D. Your capital loss carryforwards (ST and LT) are reported on Sch D and offset gains from futures transactions......again, generally.
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    paying quarterly taxes

    2003 Quarterly ES due dates: 1st quarter: April 15th 2nd quarter: June 16th 3rd quarter: September 15th 4th quarter: January 15th Note: no need to remit the January payment if your return is filed by Feb 2, 2004 and the entire balance is paid with your return.
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    Quiz for Professional Traders

    including, it would seem, a lot of folks at Andersen....................(and you'd think they would know better than to try swimming across that river when the animal meeting was NOT in session).
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    Dick Grasso grabs 139 million $$

    i have never understood why people named "richard" are called "dick." Originally, I believe "Richard" was shortened to "Rick". Given the penchant for rhyming words several hundred years ago, "Dick" evolved from "Rick". do we call girls named "michelle," "pussy?" What about girls named...
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    You think you've been in deep %&@# ?

    Yeah, yeah............that's what happens when the Viagra module on one of those things fails.
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    RIAA suing file swappers

    Not sure that's accurate. Generally, a performance is considered “public” if the performance is at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside a normal circle of family and social acquaintances is gathered. Playing a CD (or the radio, for that...
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    Who is the hottest finance woman?

    Me...... Oh wait......"hottest", "finance", "woman"....... Sorry, I'm none of those.
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    Chicago Bears worst team in NFL

    Hey, I've lived in Chicago nearly all of my life and am a diehard Bears fan. But, what is this? If you're looking for someone to argue that the Bears are NOT the WORST team in the NFL, I strongly suspect you'll have to keep looking. In any event, you're not going to get an argument from me to...
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    Is This Kosher?

    I can empathize. Personally, I hate the word, "word".
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    book from IB wanted

    Not much. I received it from IB and have read (skimming some parts) the thing. I'd be hard pressed to recommend the book to anyone who is not taking Harris' "Introduction to Markets" (or whatever it's called) course; in which case the book is probably required anyway. In short, not much...
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    Insurance Scam

    Christ, is this ever the truth or what? All of the goods and services (particularly the latter) I purchase regularly have gone through the roof. My monthly cable bill, for example, is simply insane and I don't have any premium channels beyond Disney and HBO. I don't even want to discuss my...
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    Quicken or Money?

    That's a good idea, but I probably wasn't being clear. My point was that it's real easy to screw up when signing up for GK through Money. The first option users are presented with during the process is as follows: "I want to import Microsoft Money Portfolio starting with the [drop down box]...
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    Quicken or Money?

    You're correct; they made it easier to use both products together and that is a good thing. Further, Money Premium includes a free one-year subscription to GK. However, there is a limit of 125 "transactions". The problem is users have the ability to "import" their Money portfolios into GK...
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    Quicken or Money?

    Yep, and actually it's just a hook; Money users still have to sign up for GK (through the Money program). Then, Money users have the ability to integrate their Money portfolio into GK which can (in some cases) easily cause them to exceed their transaction limit without even realizing it. In that...
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    Quicken or Money?

    I just learned that, although Money 2004 (the Premium and Small Biz versions) have "integrated" GK, it's really just one of the "complimentary" services included in the package (worth about $50 or so). Money 2004 (Prem & SB) users can import up to 125 transctions at no cost (of course, every...
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    Academic ranking of World Universities

    It is interesting. In a similar fashion, schools on the eastern seaboard dominate the top 50 (National-Doctoral) USNWR rankings (just over 1/2 as I recall). None of this really make a lot of sense, though, because they rank large unversities as a whole when many operate as discrete units...
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    Recession Over???

    I'm not going to say the government isn't "smoking somethin'" (it usually is). The NBER, however, is simply not the government; it's a private, nonprofit research organization. Point is, whether we like the call or not, we can't really blame Washington for this one.
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    Quicken or Money?

    $64k question, I suppose. Anyway, I can't seem to get any more information other than what I posted (MS Money web page still has the 2003 version listed). I can only hope, considering a package like GK is integrated into the product, that MS somehow resolved the short sale import issue.
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