Eh... took my TS clearance 13 months and I have a crystal clear background and basically no life so it was just a list of landlords and bosses they had to interview. No social media presence, no aliases (OPM grilled the fuck out of me about not listing the shortened version of my first name as an alias for about an…

You can argue this until you’re dark blue in the face...

It contains zero of the two elements of entrapment, so no, it is not. No matter how bad you want it to be true.

That’s not even close to entrapment. If someone takes something that isn’t theirs, even it’s sitting in the open because the police put it there for the express reason to be stolen, they still freely made the choice to take it. Even if an agent of the state says “you should totally take that purse” it’s still not…

How exactly is this using the tax bill to fuck you over? I’m sorry this happened - truly - but I don’t see the connection you’re implying between the two events.

“Facts matter”

It depends on your final effective tax rate, period. There is no magical percentage that a bonus is actually taxed at. Withholding is NOT your tax. It’s an estimated deposit towards your tax burden, that’s all. If they tax the bonus at 25% and your effective tax rate is 2% you’re getting back most of what they…

No, the END result (when you actually file your taxes) is exactly the same as your normal income. Withholding isn’t your actual tax (hell, you can magically change your “tax rate” just by changing your W4 throughout the year) its a security measure to ease the burden on collecting tax and to make it less impactful on…

Do you expect anything else from the same crowd that wildly applauded for Roman Polanski at the Oscars? You know, the guy that plead down the charges for drugging and raping a 13 year old girl only to flee before being sentenced? I seem to recall a lot of people in the media and on their tv shows calling for the…

Ehhhh no. If you clone a car there is loss. The employees who’s rent is paid by the manufacturer, the suppliers of parts, miners of raw materials, etc. While cloning objects is the appropriate comparison to piracy (which is why it’s a copyright issue and not theft), its also fair to point out that both have real…

You say “this guy actually used WMD.” Are you implying Saddam did not? If that’s not what you meant then apologies, but he (saddam) most definitely used them... often.

They were found, purchased, and disposed of.

Yes. I remember. Did you know that we did find them? Did you know that the US purchased them to keep them off the black market?

I have a large fig tree growing on my property. I’ve only lived here a couple years and in the past I’ve missed the short window of opportunity to eat them (the deer and or squirrels seem to enjoy them and are awake before I am). This year I’ve made a point to go out each morning and eat what I can (usually only a few…

It’s JIF. First and foremost the creator of the acronym says so. That should end it, but people want to argue.

Saved me in a rear end chain reaction incident. Driver behind me claimed I hit the car in front of me first before she hit me. Video clearly showed she pushed me into the car in front of me. Put all of the claim on her insurance. Saved me from having to use my collision deductible and the would-be hit on the insurance…

Saved me in a rear end chain reaction incident. Driver behind me claimed I hit the car in front of me first before…

I’m a little confused about your rocket league comment. It’s the only game I play (I’m old and suck at shooters), and I play it on steam. I’ve been playing against Xbox and PS players for a while, or so I thought. I believed the way it works is PC players can be matched with other PC players and Xbox OR PS players…

We have had one for a year. It’s great. It has a lockout function so you can only change the settings via the app. Great if you have a kid that doesn’t understand that setting the thermostat to 65 won’t cool the home from 74 to 72 any faster than just setting it to 72.... repeatedly... one caveat though. If you lock…

We have had one for a year. It’s great. It has a lockout function so you can only change the settings via the app.…

Figures... I never get off that easily.

Fun tip. If you want to record a customer service call to prove BigCorp Inc is treating you unfairly, you can record that call as long as they play the “this call may be monitored or recorded” message or some variant. They give consent by making that announcement and continuing with the call and you give consent by…