I don't know what IRS form you are filling out, but the 1040 I submit has everything on it (wages, tips, capital gains, dividends, etc). The IRS data absolutely includes money you make in capital gains, as it's part of your AGI, and it's all laid out in black and white, sliced up every way you can imagine, on irs.gov.…

Because Warren Buffet makes almost all his income as capital gains. A vanishingly small number of people are in that position, and you don't set public policy based on what's happening with 1000 people. Besides, it's an easy fix to address that edge case if you really want to; the problem is applying a fix that hits…

And they make less than 70% of the total income. So they are paying a disproportionate amount of the tax bill.

The top earners pay a higher percentage of the total tax bill in the US than the percentage of the income that they earn.

"Wasting"? Got news for you: it's not your money. It's his. And the only person who determines whether spending money on X is a waste or not is him. Not you.

"Raise your hand if you love the French! Raise both hands if you *are* French!"

It's magical in Papua, New Guinea.

Thurl Ravenscroft will never get old. One of the best basses of all time, and the Voice Of Disney for decades. And Tony the Tiger, btw.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law

That comment was not intended to offend. Emaciated is emaciated, regardless of the cause. And emaciated people tend to look similar to each other.

I suspect that all really skinny vegetarians (or cancer patients) who are over the age of 50 tend to have a similar look.

You might want to take up a different hobby.

I'm telling you, this is asking for trouble.

00:20:37 What the hell have you got?

A double rainbow connection?

For a more accurate real world set of examples, look up the Faces of Meth mug shots. Scary.

Ah. Didn't read it that way, but it makes sense.

You do know you could do a self signed cert instead of buying one from a CA, right? The only drawback is that everybody who wants to use SSL with you will have to manually add the cert, but it's not that big of a deal. We're supposed to be techies here, right?

It's the timbre and harmonic overtone series created by different resonators. The physics of sound is cool. Take, for instance, the fact the barbershop harmony practitioners deliberately try to use the physics of sound (specifically, harmonic overtones) to achieve an effect whereby you hear more notes than are being…

Because the things he was responsible for bringing to the mass market (Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone, and Pixar films) are like family members to their owners, and in some cases (like the Apple II, early Macs, and Pixar movies) represent significant childhood memories.