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That depends on when you get back from Vladivostok. ..
Dan8267 says

A black man lynched after being falsely accused of raping a white woman? Could that even happen in America?

No one speak to me,I will be offended.

Drug dealer! lol

BlueSardine says

That depends on when you get back from Vladivostok.

You're thinking of Trump.

Fucking a garbage can is a "thing" now?

joeyjojojunior says

wtf. You don't get to make your own defintion. You've been listening to Kellyanne a bit too much--there is no such thing as alternate facts. There is right and wrong.

LOL-republicans bad, dems good-anything else is crazy to you.

Fucking a garbage can isn't half bad. It's licking it to get it aroused that really sucks.

Do you have any Love Knocks in your trench coat?

Ceffer says

Fucking a garbage can isn't half bad. It's licking it to get if aroused that really sucks.

No, you're thinking of Hillary Clinton.

I don't quite get the tax complication ? Do you do your own taxes?

I don't need any of them.
"I high on life."

Goran_K says

Quigleys personal character.

Patnetters have no character!

just_passing_through says

I've never sold a house so far and have just been a purchaser. Does anyone know if its true that when you sell a house the profits are not capital gains; they are regular income? A mix of both?

If it's your primary residence, you pay no taxes on capital gains up to $250,000 if single and $500,000 if married.

If it's a rental, you pay capital gains taxes on every dollar of profit (minus carried over loses, sales related costs, etc)

Otoh, all will be forgiven with the forecast of another successful stockpick.
Capitalism. Don't you just love it?

jazz music says

The definitive explanation of why you should ignore talk radio addicts here and everywhere else you may go.

Actually, no. This is not a reason to ignore idiots and the falsehoods they spread. It's a reason to force those idiots to bear the consequences of their mistakes or lies. The wildebeest who kept saying log should have been made to walk on the "log". Similarly, the idiots who say climate change isn't happening should be made to pay for the costs of climate change.

The problem with ignoring idiots is that they get more and more power the more they are ignored instead of opposed. Then you get a Hitler, an idiot who kills millions, because rational people just chose to ignore the problem while it was small and solvable.

Idiots are problems. Ignoring problems is never the answer. Ignored problems fester and grow. They become big problems.

SubOink says

I don't quite get the tax complication ? Do you do your own taxes?

MLPs are odd beasts in that you become a part business owner wrt income etc.

"The K-1s I receive for holdings in my IRA I typically file. It's a round file on the floor next to my desk that Waste Management conveniently picks up each week. Not much hassle there. Should I exceed the $1,000 UBTI limit in a single IRA account (unlikely), and my broker fails to send me the appropriate 990-T form (not really sure how likely since it's never happened), and I get audited (has also never happened), and the auditor notices the lack of a necessary 990-T form reporting UBTI (hard to notice what is not there, but I guess that's what they get paid for), if all those happen together, I guess I will just have to pay the fine."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/882601-dont-be-afraid-to-put-mlps-in-your-ira

I tried fucking a garbage can earlier today. Totally unsatisfying!

Booger says

I tried fucking a garbage can earlier today. Totally unsatisfying!

That's what everyone says about Ann Coulter.

eBay started by selling Pez dispensers, Maybe PatNet's claim to fame will become illegal sales of prescription medications.

Do you have your malpractice policy up to date, in case whoever receives and takes the medicine has an adverse reaction?

This is rather obvious, which leads me to conclude ..

https://patrick.net/1307352/2017-06-17-i-have-to-legally-sell-30-doses-of-sealed-150mg-lovenox-that-expires-on-1-18-expensive-drug?c=1420344#comment-1420344

anonymous says

I would like to see the statute or guidelines that cause you to believe you have a "legal" ground to sell this unused prescription.

just_passing_through says

I've always done my own taxes. Sort of a control freak in that way I guess.

I get it - my version is that I do my own bookkeeping with QB's for personal and Corp. But then I send that file off to the accountant who handles the rest and together we discuss financial moves forward. Accountant sends me back the finished return for review and done. I can highly recommend using a pro for this as it can be crucial. That is if you have somebody good.

I think that's very good advice. I should probably pony up for some pro-tips. I'm not a kid anymore and can afford it....

Credit where it's due, you did warn about this issue, but on a shorter timeframe. I commented in a different thread about the latest report, will copy&paste here:

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

In America, neither major party has provided any useful answer to the question that matters: how to manage the climate.

"Seventy-four percent of the world's population will be exposed to deadly heatwaves by 2100 if carbon gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. Even if emissions are aggressively reduced, the percent of the world's human population affected is expected to reach 48 percent."

Democrats propose spending vast fortunes on corrupt patronage networks, basically expanding and exploiting the issue rather than addressing it. Their proposals would transfer enormous wealth away from advanced countries that could actually develop climate management systems, empowering instead backwards religious kleptocracies and kickback schemes.

Republicans tend to deny climate change, so the argument tends to stay there.

Even among many independents, e.g. the green party, the issue seems tinged with anti-capitalism, white guilt, patriarchy-bashing, and original sin. Geo-engineering is derided as further man-made interference with mother nature.

"Everybody Talks About the Weather, But Nobody Does Anything About It."

I don't see the point of obsessing over future climate without proposing any realistic way of managing it.

The Paris accord would have stopped all this and taken us back to normal?

anonymous says

L&C - I think this is beyond politics at this point and no, I

What I am trying to say, is these hyped up things are what is hurting the cause. if you are throwing away trillions , while our competitors give up nothing-for a negligible outcome-then it does not help.
Calling your opponents sub-human is not going to attract them to your cause.

curious2 says

I don't see the point of obsessing over future climate without proposing any realistic way of managing it.

Bingo my number resistance stance to Predatory Liberals looking to capitalize on any crisis.
Real imaginary or otherwise.

KILL THE DENIERS! KILL THEM ALL!

Tenpoundbass says

curious2 says

I don't see the point of obsessing over future climate without proposing any realistic way of managing it.

Bingo my number resistance stance to Predatory Liberals looking to capitalize on any crisis.

Real imaginary or otherwise.

Weren't we told to buy LED lights for our house and park a Prius in the garage? That in itself will buy us another 100 years.

Tenpoundbass says

Bingo my number resistance stance to Predatory Liberals looking to capitalize on any crisis.

Real imaginary or otherwise.

More bullshit propaganda. I stand not to make a single cent by ending pollution and preparing for climate change, yet I'm for these things because the alternative is to fuck over ourselves and future generations. How the fuck am I "capitalizing" on climate change?

Meanwhile, polluters are literally stealing from us and our children. That's capitalizing on other people's pain.

#tpbLies

Dan8267 says

More bullshit propaganda. I stand not to make a single cent by ending pollution and preparing for climate change, yet I'm for these things because the alternative is to fuck over ourselves and future generations. How the fuck am I "capitalizing" on climate change?

What does that mean specifically, "yet I'm for these things"? What are you doing to save the world from "climate change"? Creating awareness? LOL. The 98% of people in the world that live hand to mouth don't give a fuck.

komputodo says

What are you doing to save the world from "climate change"?

What the fuck do you think any common American citizen can do about policy?
1. Talk about the problem and solutions.
2. Advocate good policies.
3. Vote for politicians who vote for good polices and against politicians who vote for bad policies.
4. Spread good ideas.
5. Counter misinformation with facts.

You're philosophy of "the everyday man has no power and therefore should disconnect from politics" is just plain stupid. Do I have to explain why?

komputodo says

The 98% of people in the world that live hand to mouth don't give a fuck.

From the World Food Program, Climate Impact on Food Security

Among the most significant impacts of climate change is the potential increase of food insecurity and malnutrition.

Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of some disasters such as droughts, floods and storms. This has an adverse impact on livelihoods and food security. Climate-related disasters have the potential to destroy crops, critical infrastructure, and key community assets, therefore deteriorating livelihoods and exacerbating poverty.

Sea-level will rise as a result of climate change, affecting livelihoods in coastal areas and river deltas. Accelerated glacial melt will also affect the quantity and reliability of water available and change patterns of flooding and drought.

Changes in climatic conditions have already affected the production of some staple crops, and future climate change threatens to exacerbate this. Higher temperatures will have an impact on yields while changes in rainfall could affect both crop quality and quantity.

Climate change could increase the prices of major crops in some regions. For the most vulnerable people, lower agricultural output means lower incomes. Under these conditions, the poorest people — who already use most of their income on food — sacrifice additional income and other assets to meet their nutritional requirements, or resort to poor coping strategies.

Climate-related risks affect calorie intake, particularly in areas where chronic food insecurity is already a significant problem. Changing climatic conditions could also create a vicious cycle of disease and hunger. Nutrition is likely to be affected by climate change through related impacts on food security, dietary diversity, care practices and health.

The climatic variability produced by more frequent and intense weather events can upset the stability of individuals’ and government food security strategies, creating fluctuations in food availability, access and utilization.

Your willful spreading of ignorance, apathy, and misinformation is going to kill millions. The best thing you can do for the world is to shut up.

1. Less people. No potential future tech needed.
1b. Sign up Girls 15-25 for Depo-Provera Shots, aggressive campaigning in HS around the country, esp in poor ass areas. $250 cash for each quarterly shot (MUCH cheaper than Food Stamps, HUD, Medicaid, and eventually Prison for the future bastards)
2. Stop taking low CO2 emitting third worlders and bringing them to high CO2 emitting countries - stop third world immigration
2b. CUT food and med aid to the Third World.
3. More density
4. POV fees gradually rising to $20k per year. Cars are the most difficult problem.
5. Renewables are doable. But switching to Renewables WHILE adding tens of millions of EVs is NOT doable, not to mention the massive pollution involved with Rare Earth refining.
6. 3+ and 4 Gen Nuclear Reactor Investment

Republicans tend to deny climate change, so the argument tends to stay there.

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Why are all the "Independent's" and Republicans in lockstep on this? I mean, everyone knows pollution is bad, and the adverse effects impact everyone, everywhere. Is it the abandonment of reason, in exchange for blind faith, that Christianity demands of them? Love thy brother. Heaven is a place on Earth. If God gave us all that is good on Gods Green Earth, why do they seem so hell bent on aiding and abetting the destruction? Are they intentionally trying to bring about the Rapture?

Islamic terrorists could never dream up such a wide reaching jihad, as the Christian mission to literally destroy the planet. Maybe a more important question, is 'Are their actions derived from Free Will, or have they been brainwashed to act this way?'

Dan8267 says

You're philosophy of "the everyday man has no power and therefore should disconnect from politics" is just plain stupid. Do I have to explain why?

I think you do need to explain why. Explain why people that live in the Bay Area believe that the rest of the world population who live hand to mouth would actually care what they think let alone follow their lead. You should spend a few years in a third world country like I have, where people just throw their garbage anywhere and have been doing it for generations even though they run commercials on TV asking them to quit. Where they pour waste oil and chemicals on the ground in the nearest vacant lot, where they burn fields after the harvest, where they release HVAC gases to the open air. Where you can buy concentrated acids and amonia at the hardware store. Where people still use firewood to cook with.
Nobody is saying that pollution is good. It's just that arguing about it on PATNET sure as hell isn't going to change anything.
Please don't even mentions FINES. The police just take bribes and pocket the money.
I made my point and didn't even call you "stupid".

errc says

Why are all the "Independent's" and Republicans in lockstep on this? I mean, everyone knows pollution is bad,

Yeah - but we are talking about Carbon Dioxide. Otherwise known as plant food and the gas we exhale from our lungs. Kind of weird how CO2 is considered "pollution" when it is vital for the existence of Life on our planet.

Anyhoo - yesterday brought news that the Climate doom monger's models are wrong again. Even Michael Mann contributed to this paper.

"In the early twenty-first century, satellite-derived tropospheric warming trends were generally smaller than trends estimated from a large multi-model ensemble"
https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2973.html

The climate models are ALWAYS wrong. But we are to believe the latest prediction about the year 2100?

Talk about having religious faith!

errc says

Republicans tend to deny climate change, so the argument tends to stay there.

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Why are all the "Independent's" and Republicans in lockstep on this? I mean, everyone knows pollution is bad, and the adverse effects impact everyone, everywhere. Is it the abandonment of reason, in exchange for blind faith, that Christianity demands of them? Love thy brother. Heaven is a place on Earth. If God gave us all that is good on Gods Green Earth, why do they seem so hell bent on aiding and abetting the destruction? Are they intentionally trying to bring about the Rapture?

Islamic terrorists could never dream up such a wide reaching jihad, as the Christian mission to literally destroy the planet. Maybe a more important question, is 'Are their actions derived from Free Will, or have they been brainwashed to act this way?'

TELL 'EM!

Works for me - try this.

https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2973.html

komputodo says

I think you do need to explain why.

www.youtube.com/embed/HzEifN4xt18

When people do not oppose evil, you get the Holocaust, Darfur, ISIS, honor killings, and the lost of liberty.

The fact is that the problems our nation faces, including climate change, are not technologically or administratively difficult to solve. The only reason these problems exist is the lack of political will to solve them. And that is why the common man needs to demand policy change. The one and only thing the common man can really do in our society is foster the political will necessary to make wise policy.

But if you don't believe in the value of this and want people to stop talking policy and politics, then lead by example and shut up.

komputodo says

Explain why people that live in the Bay Area believe that the rest of the world population who live hand to mouth would actually care what they think let alone follow their lead.

We don't need poor countries in Africa to cut coal emissions. We need the United States to. If you don't understand why, then you don't understand this subject matter at all. The U.S. has caused more pollution and climate change than all other nations combined. So yes, it does matter what we do. The other major countries that can make a difference are willing to do so. So again, it matters what we do. This is not politics. It's the difference between foolishness and wisdom.

I don't give two shits about your stupid cultural war with hippies. I don't care whether you like NASCAAR or the Beatles. You stupid fucking cultural preferences don't matter. This isn't about culture wars. Climate change is about science, engineering, and basing our policies so that we don't destroy the very ecosystem that we are completely dependent upon.

There are no honest economic arguments that support polluting and uncontrolled climate change. The cost of these problems is several order of magnitudes more than avoiding the problems, and it's only getting worse. It is nothing but the short-sighted greed of the few that causes us to ignore this problem. You and your family will be poorer because of climate change. You are not saving yourself money. You are costing yourself and everyone else a lot of wealth. So even if wealth is all you care about, it still makes no sense to destroy the vast majority of wealth our species possesses, which is our environment, and I mean that in dollars. The cost of transforming Earth after fucking it up is far greater than the cost of not fucking it up. The lost economic productivity of fucking up the Earth is greater than the cost of not fucking up the Earth.

#shortsightedFoolishness

Dan8267 says

We don't need poor countries in Africa to cut coal emissions. We need the United States to. If you don't understand why, then you don't understand this subject matter at all. The U.S. has caused more pollution and climate change than all other nations combined.

Notice the same switch that clown (John Oliver?) also uses: when subject of US being lesser polluter now than some other countries he promptly goes for "but in the past US polluted more". The past is the past. US economy is now much cleaner than the most of the rest of the world, so it's them who need to catch the fuck up.