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Thanks for the info, its interesting...
So how come Germany don't want any income tax from you? Or is that just basically the 14% you mentioned earlier on?
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I may be sitting here, but I'm not a part of Germany. (Same with the US Military here.) (We don't even pay VAT on most things.)
BUT, if I did pay German taxes, I would get reimbursed by the US, come tax time. (Or at least it could be claimed as a deduction, which might work out the same, money-wise, depending on how much US tax I would normally have to pay.)
All various agreements with foreign countries doing all sorts of fun things.
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The local tax free benefit is spelled out somewhere in the morass of NATO treaties. The US tax free benefit is just a way for the US Govt to make working for it abroad more attractive.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have no idea how you earn tax free money legally In USA, there was a program (A1B visas, perhaps?) that allowed a legal form of slavery that skirted taxes.
Originally, at least, a foreign worker could get a job via an A1B visa if no US citizen could be found to fill the position. The solution was to advertise a job with specification that perhaps only a few people in the world could meet - and then, with such specialization - and a relatively crappy salary (to make sure no US citizen with the experience would consider the job). In exchange, the company got a cheap employee who could not change jobs for (at least) three years.
So the company got cheap labor, US employees were cheated out of jobs by what amounted to an imported indentured servant.
The above went on in Chemistry - so it's a good guess it went on all over the tech world
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What is more important 800 a month or a job that you like?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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When paying off debt, 800 (twice a month).
And I hate my current job, anyway. Seriously. Not the usual grumbles about any job.
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I live in fear of having to get a real job. I feel for you, mate.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ya
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right after writing CRUD db access code.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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CRUD ? There really is an acronym for everything nowadays.
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And CRUD is one of the oldest
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hey, get out of under my rock.
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you're getting your \d regex escape but it's ASCII for now.
=)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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create/read/update/delete.
The common pattern when implementing code that presents a UI for DB records.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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... by newbs with no clue what they're doing.
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he likes it when i lay my head on him and treat him like a pillow.
that's a dog thing. get it right. the cat is supposed to tear my face off if i do that.
debug!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Just eat some chocolate. Then all will be right with the world.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Your sig always makes me think of what Nietzsche wrote - "Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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yep, pretty much the truth.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I mean, you could always go full Baedan
This world—the police and armies that defend it, the institutions that constitute it, the architecture that gives it shape, the subjectivities that populate it, the apparatuses that administer its function, the schools that inscribe its ideology, the activism that franticly responds to its crises, the arteries of its circulation and flows, the commodities that define life within it, the communication networks that proliferate it, the information technology that surveils and records it—must be annihilated in every instance, all at once. To shy away from this task, to assure our enemies of our good intentions, is the most crass dishonesty.
Never go full Baedan.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Wow. That's crazy talk -- the quote. My quote is basically anti-socialist, anti-communist. We need gov't, but just barely enough to maintain our pre-existing freedoms. The struggle is good.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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i used to call propertarian minarchist libertarians (like you seem to be) "anarchists that haven't run out of excuses yet" - meaning you are a couple of government screw jobs from going over the high wall and joining the dark side (we have cookies)
As for me, I'm post anarchist these days. Government is as inevitable as capitalism, and I can find fault with all of the positive prospects of man, so these days I just play the field I'm on rather than mourn it or even change it. I'm an observer. Less stress, more flexibility to navigate it actually. White knuckling tends to narrow one's field of vision, so @#($ politics
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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