Useless Conversation

[Lantyssa]

Nothing sucks worse than vomiting (or even just being nauseated) while sober. Fuck that.

So start drinking?

[Pennilenko]

My general policy is that if I feel like shit for no good reason, I go and give myself a good reason.

[Abagadro]

Really gnarly?  Like what?

Not the drug itself necessarily but how deep into it he apparently was: pounds of stuff, intent to distribute, clandestine lab, weapons, etc. etc.

[HaemishM]

 

[Signe]

So what do you do then?  You have a friend with this secret, scary, possibly violent life that you knew nothing about.  Do you stop being friends with him or carry on as if nothing's changed?  I've wondered about that because I had a friend who went to jail for a very violent crime and when I heard he was coming home I worried over how to act.  He creeped me out after that stuff happened.  It was nasty.  Luckily, I guess, he moved somewhere else and I never got to see him. 

[Selby]

We had a friend in the social circle one time who ended up going away for sexual assault, let's just say it was awkward all around for anyone who knew him.  I'm not sure exactly how you'd react, I know I'd drop off the planet if it was me.

[Numtini]

Watched three pedos go away. Drug dealing psycho seems rather nice actually.

[Sky]

You'll rarely know who the good criminals are. That's part of why they're good at it.

[Ironwood]

My minecraft account is now telling me I've never paid for the game.

What the fuck.


EDIT :  Turns out, in a massive surprise to everyone, I'm a tit.

Carry on.

[Lantyssa]

No, it's a surprise.  We all thought you were a different part of anatomy.

[Sky]

I troll (as in fish the bottom) Prime for movies to watch before bed. I like suspense, mostly. Low budgets don't bother me, in fact I find most high budget movies too slick and over-produced.

Just watched a pretty cool one called Timecrimes. The Color Out of Space was pretty good, the best more or less straight Lovecraft I've seen. Muirhouse is probably one of the most Lovecraftian in that it spends its energy on atmosphere and building the tension, but there is a pretty unfortunate scene close to the climax that drags it down quite a bit. Session 9 is probably the biggest budget one I like, I thought it was really well done and I've watched it a couple time now. The Pact and The Possession a bit less awesome but ok with popcorn. Found footage is a genre I dig, stuff like St Francisville Experiment, Grave Encounters, Apartment 143, 7 Nights of Darkness, V/H/S. Then it gets a bit more out there like the Rollins stuff, Fascination, Shiver of the Vampires.

I warn you, I like janky stuff. But that's my quickie list of stuff you probably haven't seen if you're into more suspenseful horror (I don't mind violence but dislike gore, slasher, jump scare stuff).

[WayAbvPar]

No, it's a surprise.  We all thought you were a different part of anatomy.

 

[schild]

SOMEHOW NSFW?

http://www.reddit.com/r/SFWPornGifs

I'm very sad I've only now found out about this.

[Rasix]

DIE IN A FIRE, VMWARE. 

[RhyssaFireheart]

Assholes gotta be assholes.

Third time (that we know of) that some BMW has parked in the striped off section of our handicapped parking space and then walked across the street to other company building (context - company leases several buildings in a business park, two are next to each other and one is across the street).  Our parking is tight as hell on a good day but with snow sucking up some spaces, it's even more precious.  Same with big shared lot for the other two buildings and people from those buildings have supposedly been told they can't park in our lot and walk.  And yet...

Sadly, security never showed up after being called and we're not sure if the police will ticket since this is a private lot.  Guy's been there all day, too.  Luckily, we don't have anyone who needs to use handicapped parking atm.

[Chimpy]

Police in Illinois will, infact, ticket handicap spaces in private lots.

[Ironwood]

Assholes gotta be assholes.

Third time (that we know of) that some BMW has parked in the striped off section of our handicapped parking space and then walked across the street to other company building (context - company leases several buildings in a business park, two are next to each other and one is across the street).  Our parking is tight as hell on a good day but with snow sucking up some spaces, it's even more precious.  Same with big shared lot for the other two buildings and people from those buildings have supposedly been told they can't park in our lot and walk.  And yet...

Sadly, security never showed up after being called and we're not sure if the police will ticket since this is a private lot.  Guy's been there all day, too.  Luckily, we don't have anyone who needs to use handicapped parking atm.

Car keys.  Glue.  Sugar.  All of these are important tools in the war against the arseholes.

[Strazos]

Eh, the lot probably has video surveillance, which would be used in any possible vandalism case. 

[Ingmar]

DIE IN A FIRE, VMWARE. 

I could set fire to their booth if you want.

[Merusk]

DIE IN A FIRE, VMWARE. 

You sound like my network admin.  We can't get AutoCad running properly in View at the moment.

[Merusk]

Assholes gotta be assholes.

Third time (that we know of) that some BMW has parked in the striped off section of our handicapped parking space and then walked across the street to other company building (context - company leases several buildings in a business park, two are next to each other and one is across the street).  Our parking is tight as hell on a good day but with snow sucking up some spaces, it's even more precious.  Same with big shared lot for the other two buildings and people from those buildings have supposedly been told they can't park in our lot and walk.  And yet...

Sadly, security never showed up after being called and we're not sure if the police will ticket since this is a private lot.  Guy's been there all day, too.  Luckily, we don't have anyone who needs to use handicapped parking atm.

Car keys.  Glue.  Sugar.  All of these are important tools in the war against the arseholes.

Police won't ticket, but surely you have an agreement with a towing company that's posted somewhere on the lot.  If not, they're always agreeable to setting one up.

I've also heard that a 1989 station wagon (or some other steel-bumpered vehicle) backing in to the passenger side and then driving away when nobody sees it fixes the problem.  Not that I've experienced it, only heard.

[Rasix]

Normal vmware software gets me frustrated to the point of wanting to throw my laptop.  Now I have the joy of working with early beta versions.  Such a glorious, special kind of hell. 

"Ohh shit, you rebooted the vcenter.  Hah. You're fucked."

[Chimpy]

Handling vCenter with kid gloves is definitely one of the most annoying parts of using VMware.

[Selby]

I've also heard that a 1989 station wagon (or some other steel-bumpered vehicle) backing in to the passenger side and then driving away when nobody sees it fixes the problem.

Older truck works better, bigger frame and mass.  Personally I'm a fan of carrying around a jack and dollies and moving the car elsewhere, not that I've ever done it before...

Get a tow truck company to patrol.  Or let the air out of more than one tire!  That's fun too!  Construction screws are great for that.

[Morat20]

So I've been waiting weeks for one last 1099 form. Weeks. Finally get my wife to harass the company in question (the company is run by like..three people. It's basically a consulting firm, my wife did work for them, they paid her. Simple story).

So she calls, and the guy she talks to -- the guy that does their books says -- and I'm quoting here "We didn't bother with 1099s this year".

WTF. You can't "not bother" with those forms. (Well, you can, but only if it's someone you paid less than 600 to that year. My wife was well over that cutoff).  So I say "fuck it" because she's not gonna hassle them when they're good for several thousand a year in money during her slow time of the year and because she might be doing even MORE work for them. So I file it as an 'extra' 1099 with no tax id or anything (basically just "misc self-employment income") because I *know* without even seeing the form that they didn't withhold anything. (She never filled out a W-4, she was paid straight from other clients as a consultant, and when tax is taken out you don't end up with checks that end in straight zeros).

*eyeroll*. I'm certain he filed with the IRS, which is the mind-boggling part. He's not going to forget to tell the IRS about all the money he paid out to contractors (what, he's gonna pay taxes on actual expenses? Given how many sub-contractors they employed by my wife, they pay out a minimum of six figures a year to subs), so he basically just didn't want to print out and mail 1099s to anyone that couldn't audit him.

So I claimed it in full and paid my taxes on it and winced because I lost some good deductions so my effective rate went up a lot, and cursed the guy under my breath.

According to folks in the industry, this sort of bush-league shit is depressingly common in non-profits (which they are).

[Paelos]

If they are a non-profit there's almost no recourse against that kind of stuff, unfortunately.

Unless they have to do an audit.

[Morat20]

Yep. I mean technically I can contact the IRS, complain, the IRS can hassle them, but in the end i'd just end up doing what I did.

Now, if they'd withheld taxes on it -- I'd be at least hassling them to email me the fricking numbers.

[JWIV]

SOMEHOW NSFW?

http://www.reddit.com/r/SFWPornGifs

I'm very sad I've only now found out about this.

That also leads to the silliness (and slightly more NSFW) that is http://www.reddit.com/r/gonecivil

[ghost]

You know, the tax code and all the regulations really is such a fucking mess.  If you have anything at all other than the basic W2s you have to have a CPA or you're going to get fucked. 

[Paelos]

You know, the tax code and all the regulations really is such a fucking mess.  If you have anything at all other than the basic W2s you have to have a CPA or you're going to get fucked. 

Uh, yeah.

[Yegolev]

You missed the obvious "home dentistry" setup.  Minus ten points.

[Morat20]

You know, the tax code and all the regulations really is such a fucking mess.  If you have anything at all other than the basic W2s you have to have a CPA or you're going to get fucked. 

Nah, online stuff makes it pretty easy. Hell, half the complexity is gimmies to business lobbiests and the rich, and the other half is patches to how they screwed with the system in the past.

Now if you're running a business, yeah -- but you should have one anyways.

Mostly I was just annoyed these guys went through the effort of filing it with the IRS (no way they failed to report however many tens of thousands in expenses) but didn't bother sending out a simple form to the contractors.

[ghost]

You'll never catch all the stuff that a CPA can, even with online information.

[Morat20]

You'll never catch all the stuff that a CPA can, even with online information.

Probably not, but I bet it's within a 100 bucks for something as simple as my taxes.

[Paelos]

You'll never catch all the stuff that a CPA can, even with online information.

Probably not, but I bet it's within a 100 bucks for something as simple as my taxes.

Depends on if you're a contractor or not. If it's a W-2 and you just have a mortgage and some charitable donations? Yeah it's not a reason to have a CPA. If you're getting 1099's and you have retirement plans? You're going to miss things.