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    How much do you pay in tax (percentage)...and more

    I'm paid every two weeks. My last check was for $2594.80. Taxes: FICA-SS = $151.20 = 5.8% FICA=MED = $36.36 = 1.4% State = $73.78 = 2.8% Fed = $0 = 0% Sadly even though I pay no Federal income tax I will still get about $2500 back from filing my fed taxes...
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    47% of households will pay no federal taxes

    I'd be interested if you could point out where the Federal Taxes you paid in over the year on your paycheck is deducted on from your AGI. I've never seen it listed anywhere. SIT is deducted but not FIT.
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    47% of households will pay no federal taxes

    I don't pay any FIT. I make roughly $67K a year. I had my payroll manager change my federal withholdings to 999 so I wouldn't have any federal taxes withheld because once I paid attention to the how they figure your taxes I noticed you get taxed on what you pay in federal taxes. I maxed out my...
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    Cash for Clunkers passed by Congress

    That's why I'm looking at truck prices now to see if the prices go up or the rebates drop off. If they pull a stunt like that they can shove it up their assets. I can live without the new vehicle but I wouldn't mind getting a new truck with better gas mileage I wouldn't loath driving because of...
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    Cash for Clunkers passed by Congress

    My 95 Ford F-150 is rated at 11/16 mpg. The trade-in value was less than $1000 according to Edmunds. I'll seriously consider purchasing 2009 Toyota Tacoma base model for around $14K. I could put an extra $2k down payment on it and finish paying it off in 6 months. It will be the second new...
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    Over Flander's Fields

    Hey Over50, Sorry you're having issues with the game. Personally, I'm having a good time with it. It is definately better, imo, than any other WWI flight sim currently on the market. To me the scenery is quite good. No, there isn't grass like there will be in RoF but I'm not going to be...
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    Over Flander's Fields

    Hey Over50, OFF just came in the mail for me today. I am installing as I type this. I even got "dad's night out" from the wife(and kids) just to be able to play it. You do have to install the 3.1 patch and fly a mission for it to take effect. I just do a quick fight and end it before I...
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    Over Flander's Fields

    Hey Over50, I?ve been follow Rise of Flight too. My one concern with RoF is that they have made the models so nice that the polygon count for each aircraft will be so high that the data packets will be huge and limit the number of planes available for online play around 16 to 32. In RB3D good...
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    Over Flander's Fields

    OFF is an expansion of CFS3 but they have overhauled it so much that it uses very little code from CFS3 according to the OFF team. From what I have read MS allowed them access to the code to be able to make the modifications to it. CFS3 was a dog and I never flew it other than to get it...
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    Over Flander's Fields

    I have played OFF phase 1 and phase 2, which are/were free. I am not sure if they are available any longer since phase 3 is out now but you may be able get someone to send these to you if you ask them over at their website at www.overflandersfields.com. Phase 1 & 2 were beta and they were pretty...
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    Over Flander's Fields

    Released yesterday. I realize most here are more into FPS than flight sims but there might be some interested in WWI flight sims. It does required CFS3 to play as it is a complete overhaul of CFS3. http://www.overflandersfields.com/info.htm
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    Games for a 5 year old?

    A site called Starfall is decent for learning about reading. My 4 year old goes to it on his own now. It helps him learn to read. http://www.starfall.com/ An internet friendly browser for kids. http://www.kidzui.com/
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    Oil & Gas thread:12-17-08 OPEC & non-members agree to largest reduction in history 7 percent

    No gas here to buy in Western NC. We went by at least a dozen stations this morning and a couple had premium left and one still had deisel but otherwise they we all closed. The highest price I saw listed was $4.27 but I don't think they were open.
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    Sarah - she is a good mom, breastfeeding advocate...

    Whoever told you that was misinformed. My wife is nursing one child now and we're expecting again. It didn't take much effort either...unfortunately...
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    getting tired of the republican rhetoric

    "getting tired of the republican bullshit" Yep, sure am...getting tired of the democratic bullshit as well... too bad we couldn't put both parties together and power the whole country with the methane they produce.
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    electronic medical record

    I'm a system analyst at a hospital that uses Meditech C/S. Meditech comes in two flavors "client server" and "magic". client server has more of a gui look to it while magic has more of a DOS appearance. Still they're both using a DOS shell it's just that C/S is made to look prettier. Supposably...
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    Games that just look and/or play better on 3dfx hardware...

    Red Baron 3D. Still has an somewhat active online community...full of cranky old men. The mods to this game have allowed it to stand the test of time. http://www.wings-of-valor.net/ rb3d.net
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    The Earth is Flat...

    "says John Davis, a flat earth theorist based in Tennessee" "Mr Davis, a 25-year-old computer scientist originally from Canada" Didn't read the whole article there Buckwheat... or were you deliberately trying to misrepresent something?
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    most efficiently coded game

    Yep, played in college a couple of decades ago. I was amazed at how they got 800 unique planets on 2 5.25 disks. Very good game for back in the day. The Spemin shall rule the universe one day!
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    The State of PC Gaming | NEW POLICY POLL, VOTE NOW

    Wait until you have children then it won't matter if its PC or Console ...you'll just be glad to play anything. Going to work will be relaxing. Going to the bathroom without having a two year old pole-dancing around your leg is a rare treat too...
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    plz tell your

    Battles of Napoleon (SSI) 1989? Red Baron 3D (Dynamix) 1998 Starflight I (?) 1986 Today's games are good but those I played the longest and still have fond memories of. I still play RB3D online.
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    HOT: KitchenAid 12 Cup 700w Food Processor for $129.95 shipped and maybe 99.95

    Thanks! The wife ordered one. Cook's Illustrated rates this one as very good. It will also offset her anger if she ever finds out I ordered a $150 graphics card without her knowledge. When she gets this and the $500 dishwasher I just bought her maybe I'll tell her...then again maybe not.
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    TV tuner card - Audio lags behind video

    Thanks Marulee, Actually there is nothing running in my system tray during the whole time it runs. I have no apps running other than the program that runs the TV card. It runs fine for 20-30 minutes then it starts to lag. I know the Duron chip is cache deficient. I guess my only recourse is...
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    TV tuner card - Audio lags behind video

    I recently installed a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE. After about 20 ? 30 minutes the audio from the channels gets out of synch with the video. The audio lags behind the video significantly. At first I thought it might have been the MS automatic updates so I turned them off, that did not resolve...
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    Cheap high speed internet

    Hi, my name is Uwe and I am a member of lurker's anonymous. I lurk for deals...when my wife let's me have the money I work all day for while she stays at home...
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    Free Cable TV online

    I don't see many channels left worth watching on it. It takes longer to come up as well.
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    Any bottlenecks in my system?

    Any bottlenecks in my system? AMD XP 2500+ Barton o/c to 3000 Albatron KX18D Pro nForce2 Ultra 400 Chaintech 6600 AGP 256M (vanilla) 768M of Geil Value RAM (3200) (one 512M & one 256M stick) WD 180GB 7200 RPM 8MB WinXP Pro I realize it?s not the latest and greatest anymore but is...