Industrial production for the EU will also be released, on Wednesday. Meanwhile ZEW economic sentiment indicators are released for both areas tomorrow, both are expected to see some improvement. This will be an interesting one to watch given the decision to not implement further easing last week. Several economic updates for the US will be released this week, most are expected to remain as if there will still an election on — i.
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Industrial production and retail sales are expected to show modest changes. All data will be watched closely given the looming Cliff. Eurozone crisis , Gold bullion , Gold prices Categories: Jan first became interested in precious metals and sound money when she met Ned Naylor-Leyland whilst working alongside him in the summer of Jan then went on to write her undergraduate dissertation on the use of precious metals in the monetary system. She has appeared on news channels including Russia Today to discuss the gold price and gold investing.
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For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section , defining the treatment of workers such as contract engineers for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report http: For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here http: The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section d. Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave.
I spent countless hours on the L. After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect. Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.
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If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back. Instead I got busy working hour workweeks. Then came the L. Again, I lost my retirement. Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. COM bust and the nightmare. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY!
After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed.
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So now we come to the present. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
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When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me. This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented.
Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone.
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The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough. In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. By Nugget on Mon Feb 15 9: Yesterday evening, a couple of thousand people converged at Justin Herman Plaza to beat the stuffing out of each other with pillows.
Why did so many innocent pillows have to die? By Nugget on Mon Feb 15 8: Kevin Smith was in San Francisco last week giving a geek address at Macworld. Well, on his way home to Los Angeles he was kicked off a Southwest flight for being too fat. This led to a super awesome Twitter rant. This morning, Southwest apologized to the director by stating its policy ; a non-apology if you ask me. By Nugget on Thu Feb 04 8: By Nugget on Wed Jan 20 6: A local graphic artist named Arin Fishkin designed the ticket for Burning Man Some of the security features include embossing and two separate foil stamps, one which is holographic.
Other features are so secret that the event promoters asked him her not to include them in his her blog. The ticket is a work of art in itself that should get you excited about the event. By Nugget on Mon Jan 18 1: A San Francisco Mission District local is the founder of Ambient Industries, a company that recently released an awesome iPhone application called Flook.
Flook is described on their website as a location browser which allows you to bookmark and tag the real world around you. It has a cool user interface too! Flook is not about finding the nearest McDonalds but rather about discovering that this fire hydrant is painted gold each year to commemorate its part in saving the Mission from fire after the earthquake http: By Nugget on Thu Dec 31 1: My friend Larry found this bit of comedy on a cork board somewhere in Hawaii. I personally have no judgment on vegans, but this is just funny. By Nugget on Wed Dec 30 7: By Nugget on Wed Dec 30 1: Guerrilla skaters have since removed the anti-skate studs from the bottom stairs to make it partially skateable again.
I watched some skaters rip this thing up at lunch time back in the summer of , before the studs were put in place. My office was just a half block away. Below is a great video documentary of the spot made back in , when I saw some great lunch time sessions. By Nugget on Tue Dec 29 5: Now they are gone. Scientists think they are searching for food. Is this an ominous sign of another large earthquake on the horizon?
By Nugget on Sun Dec 27 I mean this guy literally tried to blow his balls off! You would think that terrorists around the world know that after United 93 if you try and act a fool on a plane, your fellow passengers will beat your ass first and ask questions later. We have a lot of pent up rage in this country and peeps are just looking for an excuse to kick some ass, and to do it with a legitimate reason is just icing on the proverbial cake.
Subdued means you got your ass beat. But these incidents are ancient history, here are some that happened just this year.
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In April, another guy tried to open a cockpit door on a flight to Israel! In August, this guy punched a woman in the face then took off all his clothes on a flight from Oakland to not returning from Las Vegas. Needless to say he got his ass beat. Basically, if you even remotely look like you are going to act up on a plane you are getting your ass beat, Fight Club style. By Nugget on Wed Dec 23 8: The body of a woman was found by a City Parks and Rec gardener who was a bit shaken up by his discovery.
Crazy that someone would dump a body in the heart of the city! By Nugget on Mon Dec 21 9: There was an apparent ninja attack in Gilroy early this morning. You have been warned. By Nugget on Mon Dec 21 8: If you are good enough at what you do, success will find you. By Nugget on Wed Dec 16 6: San Francisco bought Treasure Island from the U. Hank Leukart, the editor of the online travel magazine Without Baggage , just posted a story showcasing several San Francisco day trips that he did with his year-old mom. It is definitely worth checking out his website prior to planning your next day trip out of San Francisco, whether you are taking your mom or not.
Come to think of it, it would be wise to check out his site prior to planning your next vacation. Robot dance competitions looked like this , but now they look like this. By Nugget on Sun Dec 06 4: By Nugget on Sat Dec 05 By Nugget on Thu Dec 03 Sarah Palin supporters were asked in detail what issues or policies they support for her presidential bid at a recent book signing. By Nugget on Thu Dec 03 9: Great blog post on the economics of pinball and how the Williams company made sure that you lost as many quarters as possible to their pinball machines between and Home About Photos Terms.
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