Today I learned...

[milfhunter]

I learned that if you mix chicken shit in a drum of water and let it ferment outside in the sun, you can spray the result on your plants/vegetables where the soil and the stems meet, and expect your crops to grow three times as fast. You can then sell your crops to unwitting customers and laugh at them for eating chicken shit.

You can also use human decomposition to grow corn, like in the movie Secret Window. That's what we should be doing with dead people, recycling their nutrients back into the ecosystem. It escapes me why we just cremate our loved ones or let them rot in a casket by themselves. Seems wasteful. Let them rot with the earthworms, I say.

[ES]

Today I learned how to earn 6-10 gold in less than an hour in WoW even if you are lvl 45 below.

[KitKat]

Today I learned that there hasn't been a new noun created in English using the 'th' suffix since the word width was coined in 1627.

I also learned that one of the reasons eating is prohibited at the library may be because if one is snacking on a delicious but crumbly cookie on the second floor balcony, a piece may break off and despite one's efforts to catch it, it may fall and bounce at just the right angle to cause it to fall through the gap and plummet over the edge to the first floor below where it has a (literally) head-on collision with the unsuspecting person studying below.

[Mr Squiggles]

Originally posted by: KitKat
I also learned that one of the reasons eating is prohibited at the library may be because if one is snacking on a delicious but crumbly cookie on the second floor balcony, a piece may break off and despite one's efforts to catch it, it may fall and bounce at just the right angle to cause it to fall through the gap and plummet over the edge to the first floor below where it has a (literally) head-on collision with the unsuspecting person studying below.

Meh, its not like you really liked that guy anyways.

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Today I learned that Panetones(not sure how to spell), with nutella, dipped into hot tea is really good.

I also learnt that an orgasm is actually your blood leaving your lower abdomen. Thank you, friend's younger brother who's taking sex ed.

[masamuneehs]

Today I learned (actually, its been over the past month...) that the proposed changes to the US Tax Code are extremely regressive. Basically almost all the moves will decrease taxes for the rich and raise them for the poor. This effect will be seen in Retail Taxes, elimination of Estate and Gift taxes, repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax and numerous other changes.

Here is the President's Tax Panel's official report of proposed tax changes.

The Future of US Taxes

They claim that the objective is to "simplify the tax code", but that basically means allowing more room for high-income households to worm their way out of paying taxes while sweeping up middle and lower income households under broad categories that generally mean in increase in taxes.

[Carnage]

Originally posted by: masamuneehs
Today I learned (actually, its been over the past month...) that the proposed changes to the US Tax Code are extremely regressive. Basically almost all the moves will decrease taxes for the rich and raise them for the poor. This effect will be seen in Retail Taxes, elimination of Estate and Gift taxes, repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax and numerous other changes.

Here is the President's Tax Panel's official report of proposed tax changes.

The Future of US Taxes

They claim that the objective is to "simplify the tax code", but that basically means allowing more room for high-income households to worm their way out of paying taxes while sweeping up middle and lower income households under broad categories that generally mean in increase in taxes.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, this is gonna get ugly........[img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]

[Winged Dancer]

Today I learned that the minoic period goes from 2800 bC to 1400 bC and that they used to be a matriarcal culture in which women held power as priestess and queens. Then on 1700 some natural disaster hit and they changed to a patriarcal culture whose main god was Zeus.

Fucking traitors.

[complich8]

Originally posted by: masamuneehs
They claim that the objective is to "simplify the tax code", but that basically means allowing more room for high-income households to worm their way out of paying taxes while sweeping up middle and lower income households under broad categories that generally mean in increase in taxes.

There's two reasons that the current tax law is as complex as it is: graduated income taxes and porkbarrel politics.

The first one is easy, and justifiable. It makes a lot of sense not to tax someone making $10,000/year as heavily as someone making $100,000/year, because one of them can afford it and the other can't. Not to mention that (today I learned that) we've had a graduated income tax since the Civil War.

The second one is because everyone thinks they are in the same boat as anyone making $10,000/year. Farmers think they deserve tax breaks and government subsidies because american agriculture produces on average about a 100% surplus every year. Stock traders think they deserve tax breaks because their assets are in the stock market. Rich people think they deserve breaks because they've got to pay for those yachts and limos somehow. Basically, every piece of income tax law is a loophole designed specifically to let someone's campaign contributor bump themselves into a lower tax bracket without actually making less money.

Interestingly, I'm sort of on the fence about taxes in the present. I'd rather see the government stop fucking with the tax system and start tightening their own belts instead (you want to spend HOW MANY billion on the war in iraq now? And wait, wait, how much on running people's shoes through gas chromatographs every year?).

Oh, but any time anyone says "simplify tax law", they usually mean "push the code a step closer to a flat tax, and save the wealthy a lot of money".

[masamuneehs]

Originally posted by: complich8
There's two reasons that the current tax law is as complex as it is: graduated income taxes and porkbarrel politics.

Interestingly, I'm sort of on the fence about taxes in the present. I'd rather see the government stop fucking with the tax system and start tightening their own belts instead (you want to spend HOW MANY billion on the war in iraq now? And wait, wait, how much on running people's shoes through gas chromatographs every year?).

Oh, but any time anyone says "simplify tax law", they usually mean "push the code a step closer to a flat tax, and save the wealthy a lot of money".

Good grief! Someone else understands this stuff too!

You are absolutley right on almost all of these points. Simple tax= flat tax, pork (spending gov't money to subsidize various industries and providing tax breaks) = votegarnering. Someone has to tell all these whiny and flim-flamming scurves that sometimes you need to take your damn medicine and pay far out the ass to maintain the lifestyle and systems that makes you the world's most powerful nation.

As for my opinion on military expenses... they're alot better than most of the 1900s... (as a percentage of gov't expenditure). War is the patron of science. The war in Iraq... not getting into that here...

Today I learned: Dino Buzzati is a watered down Kafka. If someone ever tells you that there is a Buzzati story you should read, there is a Kafka one that is at least 3x better.

[KitKat]

Originally posted by: Mr Squiggles

Originally posted by: KitKat
I also learned that one of the reasons eating is prohibited at the library may be because if one is snacking on a delicious but crumbly cookie on the second floor balcony, a piece may break off and despite one's efforts to catch it, it may fall and bounce at just the right angle to cause it to fall through the gap and plummet over the edge to the first floor below where it has a (literally) head-on collision with the unsuspecting person studying below.

Meh, its not like you really liked that guy anyways.

It was a girl actually, some random person I don't know. Now if it had been Assassin, well that would have been worth 50 points [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]