• (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    So I looked at the published conditions, and these two badges appear to have identical conditions, so you get both or neither, every time.
    Try posting in t/1000 sometime :stuck_out_tongue:
    I notice that a bunch of people "liked" your so-called contribution. They are idiots. You might equally well have suggested posting in argle-flargle for all the use it was.

    Not everybody knows what this so-called "t/1000" is. I certainly don't, and the onus shouldn't be on me to do the work necessary to decode your blitherings.

    Yes, you're right, I'm in an uncharitable and hostile mood today. Live with it. :scream:

  • (disco) in reply to Gaska
    Gaska:
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Each intermediate stage (e.g. manufacturer, wholesalers, and retailer) notionally pays VAT to the stage before and collects it from the stage after
    Unless it doesn't. See reverse charge.

    I said it was complicated, I think. And I said it was notional. But yes.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Except it's not even notional in case of reverse charge.

    VAT is probably the most complicated taxation system in the world.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    t/1000

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/1000

    Have fun

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    t/1000

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/1000

    Have fun

    Wwwwwwaaaaaiiiiit... Am I supposed to do what it says at the beginning, and "like" all 45K+ posts? In the immortal words of one of Monroe's stick figures, FUCK THAT SHIT.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Not everybody knows what this so-called "t/1000" is. I certainly don't, and the onus shouldn't be on me to do the work necessary to decode your blitherings.

    Trust me, you don't want…

    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Wwwwwwaaaaaiiiiit... Am I supposed to do what it says at the beginning, and "like" all 45K+ posts? In the immortal words of one of Monroe's stick figures, FUCK THAT SHIT.

    Never mind.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Not everybody knows what this so-called "t/1000" is. I certainly don't, and the onus shouldn't be on me to do the work necessary to decode your blitherings.

    not sure when that started, but as you've already found out that's the likes thread.

    there was a point where we were changing the title like every five minutes so the topic id became a shorthand for it.(because http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/1000 works no matter what the actual title is at the moment) the variation t/1k is floating around too but is less popular.

    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Am I supposed to do what it says at the beginning, and "like" all 45K+ posts?
    that's the rule of the thread. there's a fair few like scripts floating around to help you catch up, and some of us (most notably my queen and i) run a nerfed version of @sockbot that likes the posts in that thread automatically and over time catches up on the backlog.
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    FUCK THAT SHIT.
    i'll pass. excrement is not sanitary. :laughing:
  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    most notably my queen and i
    :wave:
    accalia:
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    FUCK THAT SHIT.
    i'll pass. excrement is not sanitary. :laughing:
    I approve of this message :fa_thumbs_o_up:
  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    there was a point where we were changing the title like every five minutes so the topic id became a shorthand for it.(because http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/1000 works no matter what the actual title is at the moment) the variation t/1k is floating around too but is less popular.

    I'm currently using T-1000.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    that's the rule of the thread.

    Some of us just post in there once in a while and don't bother catching up on likes. (I have "read" all the messages! But when capture-the-post-number is happening, that involves PgDnPgDnPgDnPgDn.)

  • (disco) in reply to dcon

    And that's why some of us use autolikers ;)

  • (disco) in reply to dcon

    rules were made to be broken...

    i know i've "read" everything here > 4 days old because of this baby: https://github.com/SockDrawer/SockBot/blob/master/sock_modules/reader.js#L38-L55

    i also know that after i turned it on and it went through the first pass it catches less than 1% of posts on this forum (and most of those are in /t/1k where i don't bother going back and rereading if i'm summoned and get jumped ahead.)

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Am I supposed to do what it says at the beginning, and "like" all 45K+ posts? In the immortal words of one of Monroe's stick figures, FUCK THAT SHIT.

    And that's why I don't participate in /t/1000 even if the conversation is interesting :smile:

    I don't think it's actually possible to catch up in likes now, given the MAX_LIKES_PER_DAY discosetting

  • (disco) in reply to sloosecannon
    sloosecannon:
    I don't think it's actually possible to catch up in likes now, given the MAX_LIKES_PER_DAY discosetting

    Considering it's currently at 7500 (at least until an admin decides otherwise), you're probably wrong about that. @eor is certainly making a strong effort.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker

    Huh. Last I saw on that topic it was waaaaay down (low hundreds IIRC). I standsitinternet corrected

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    @eor is certainly making a strong effort.

    Resulting in hundreds of "Good Post" notifications.

    Does anyone else read @eor as Eeyore?

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Does anyone else read @eor as Eeyore?

    Yes.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Does anyone else read @eor as Eeyore?

    http://a.dilcdn.com/bl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/09/Eeyore_1.jpg

    Yes.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Does anyone else read @eor as Eeyore?

    Me, I read it as Exclusive OR, probably a bad habit influenced by one of the eight-bit microprocessor mnemonic sets. (Hmm. Goggle tells me it is more than one of them, as the standard mnemonic sets for both 6502 and 6809 used EOR. Intel and Zilog seem to have preferred XOR.)

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    This is where it works so much better over here: all prices here are inclusive of VAT

    When your definition of better is that you don't want to be reminded about how regressive your tax regime is?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Where my idea of 'better' is not having to worry about the sales tax rate changing when I drive to a neighbouring county

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    Sweet, we have equivalent systems, then. I don't think I've ever worried about that.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    It may have changed since, but when I was in Florida on holiday (August 2001; yes, that close), you could go to one shop and pay 8%, then drive half an hour away to the next county and pay 7% sales tax.

    In the UK, it's 20% everywhere (that's the standard rate; certain items have a lower rate, but it's always the same throughout the country).

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    It may have changed since, but when I was in Florida on holiday (August 2001; yes, that close), you could go to one shop and pay 8%, then drive half an hour away to the next county and pay 7% sales tax.

    And this...worried you? Especially given:

    RaceProUK:
    In the UK, it's 20% everywhere

    :eek:

    I'll bet there was more difference in the base prices than in the sales tax rate.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    And this...worried you?
    Insofar as the rate kept changing and I had to factor it into the price of stuff I was buying, yes
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Insofar as the rate kept changing

    Yeah. We have the federal tax, the state, the county, the city. In some places, they're 0, but it means you never know how much you're paying. For instance, we often have special county tax assessments (like .25%) that is allocated specifically at some project - like BART. These are usually short-term things that expire, but may be renewed. "short" means anywhere from 1 yr to many years. (I think the rate is about 8.5% where I live now.)

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    :eek:

    boomzilla:
    I don't think I've ever worried about that.

    That's because you don't venture far from your Blue-ish front lawn ;)

    Cross the river and the sales tax is different... and if you buy restaurant food in Old Town I believe you'll have a different rate... Did they ever pass the Metro tax district to pay for rail to Dulles? I thought that was going to have county-specific rates

    But *all are less than 20%. :eek:

    Not that it really matters, too, too, much.... all the things have to get paid for somehow... mostly pretty much the same for most folk

  • (disco) in reply to dcon
    dcon:
    We have the federal tax,

    There is no federal sales tax.

    RaceProUK:
    Insofar as the rate kept changing and I had to factor it into the price of stuff I was buying, yes

    What sort of stuff were you buying that this made a difference? I can totally see worrying about this if you're buying appliances or some big ticket item.

    ijij:
    That's because you don't venture far from your Blue-ish front lawn

    Cross the river and the sales tax is different...

    I cross the river several times per week! My purchases there tend to be fairly limited to McDonalds and gas.

    ijij:
    Did they ever pass the Metro tax district to pay for rail to Dulles? I thought that was going to have county-specific rates
    Loudon did in 2013: http://www.loudoun.gov/index.aspx?NID=2911

    Fairfax started something back in 2004: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dta/realestatetax_specialtaxdis.htm

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    There is no federal sales tax.

    Oh right - I was mixing the gas tax into the mess.

  • (disco) in reply to dcon
    dcon:
    Oh right - I was mixing the gas tax into the mess.

    Yes, that's an excise tax, FWIW. Gas is about the only thing I can think of where the tax is incorporated into the advertised price.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    I cross the river several times per week!

    Which river? ;)

    I thought as a work-at-homer and devout Red-stater that you would not be sullying yourself by venturing into Blue.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Where my idea of 'better' is not having to worry about the sales tax rate changing when I drive to a neighbouring county

    You think that's bad? Try worrying about the overall sales tax rate changing just because you cross city lines! Arizona has its sales tax, Maricopa county doesn't, but some of the cities around here do! of course, it's a matter of <2%, so not really a big deal. You only worry about it for big sales, like cars.

  • (disco) in reply to ijij
    ijij:
    I thought as a work-at-homer and devout Red-stater that you would not be sullying yourself by venturing into Blue.

    I go there to punch people.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    It may have changed since, but when I was in Florida on holiday (August 2001; yes, that close), you could go to one shop and pay 8%, then drive half an hour away to the next county and pay 7% sales tax.

    Welcome to local sales tax. Cities and counties sometimes impose their own levies. (When I lived in Tampa, there was an extra 1% tax, to fund a new stadium for..I think the Buccaneers, but probably not.)

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Gas is about the only thing I can think of where the tax is incorporated into the advertised price.

    Seriously? You never buy Cracker Jacks at a stadium?

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat

    Not for some time, which is probably why I didn't think of concessions like those.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    What sort of stuff were you buying that this made a difference? I can totally see worrying about this if you're buying appliances or some big ticket item.
    When you're 16, going from GCSEs to A-levels, £100 is a small fortune
  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    I go there to punch people.

    No amount of Red violence is going to fix the problems of a Blue State.

  • (disco) in reply to ijij
    ijij:
    No amount of Red violence is going to fix the problems of a Blue State.

    You mistake my intentions. It fixes problems for me.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    You mistake my intentions. It fixes problems for me.

    Keep talking that and KillaCoda will never believe you about.... anything.

  • (disco) in reply to ijij
    ijij:
    Keep talking that and KillaCoda will never believe you about.... anything.

    So his deficiencies extend to detecting sarcasm is what you're saying?

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat
    blakeyrat:
    Seriously? You never buy Cracker Jacks at a stadium?

    The Boston Museum of Science used to show prices inclusive of tax, although they's show them as "95¢ + 5¢ = $1.00".

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    There's an intranet marketing company in the UK whose sales shpiel, always to Marketing, is "hey don't listen to those IT guys, they'll saddle you with SharePoint, we know intranets and we'll reach your people". To which our Marketing folk cheerfully signed up and landed us with the biggest pile of sheeite it's been my misfortune to work with for quite some time. And our users blame IT for it!

  • (disco) in reply to Thad
    Thad:
    And our users blame IT for it!

    they always blame IT.

    our vending machines got unplugged one day and we had helpdesk tickets complaining that critical IT infrastructure was compromised.

    ... i wish i was kidding.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    our vending machines got unplugged one day and we had helpdesk tickets complaining that critical IT infrastructure was compromised.

    For us, that could be true. We have a machine that has keyboards, mice, usb sticks, etc in it. (the keycard for getting in the building is also used on the machine)

  • (disco) in reply to dcon

    it was a soda and snacks machine. cash or coin. that was it.

    -_-

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    it was a soda and snacks machine. cash or coin. that was it.

    If that person was critical to the IT structure, it could be true...

    http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Giraffe-Tongue-Orchestra.jpg

  • (disco) in reply to dcon
    dcon:
    If that person was critical to the IT structure, it could be true...

    -_-

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    our vending machines got unplugged one day and we had helpdesk tickets complaining that critical IT infrastructure was compromised.
    I am suddenly put in mind of the scene where it's revealed Rimmer reported Lister for mutiny because Lister stepped on Rimmer's foot

    cc… ah, he'll find it soon enough :smile:

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    the normal non technical user sees the computers like some kind of deep magic. in their eyes there's no difference between a computer and any other kind of technology. so, if it's plugged into the wall it must be an it problem.

    hell, one time they called me because a calculator was out batteries

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