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  1. lol, formal ARB hearing was as stupid as the informal hearing. i completely pantsed the tcad guy with a bunch of mistakes in their numbers and that fixing them would reduce it by $450K and the two of the three person panel of morons declared umm, based on the evidence, i guess we will drop it $40K from the tcad noticed value.

    off to arbitration...

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  2. On 5/31/2024 at 10:12 AM, Captain Ron said:

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    Digital cameras have come a long way in just under 20 years. That is the full sized picture there and man it's small.

    I had 2 immediate thoughts to this pic...

    1) it's rare to see a horns jersey wearer rock an "8" but thank god cedric griffin not only smashed the ohio state tight end and separated him from the ball but also thank god he returned that blocked punt for a td when the offense was in the midst of shitting the bed against the agros that year. that game was so freaking dumb.

    2) i never would have thought that captain ron, even in the mid-2000's, would be a jersey wearer.

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  3. 3 hours ago, Bevo said:

    I am considering selling a building and financing it personally. So let's say I sell the building at $350,000 at an annual interest rate of 5% over 10 years. Each month, I need to generate an invoice, receive payment and then recalculate principal, balance... Can this all be done in Quickbooks? Is it better to use a bank as an intermediary to handle it? I know it can be done through Excel, but that seems like a bit of a pain for keeping track of it all and keeping it professional.

    Also, if I go this route, I'll need to get an attorney, but are there any contracts/loan documents for selling a business or building that any of y'all have done in the past so I can think about the risk management side of things this early in the process? At this point, I'm not sure if it will happen but I'm the type who is very proactive.

    it would take about 30 seconds in excel.

  4. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    So, what I've taken from today's proceedings is that surly is 95% lawyers.

    i am not a lawyer but i often do their jobs for them when shit starts to matter.

    4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Excellent post.  You've got more jury trials than me, but I've said the same thing.  I have had one verdict that the jury got dead-wrong, but....they got it dead-wrong because the judge utterly fucked up and the way he laid out the case and the jury charge, it would have been very hard for them NOT to get it dead-wrong.  In other words, in light of the case and questions that were actually presented to them...they got it right.  The error was the judge's fault.

    Which ultimately worked out, as we got the entire thing flipped -- full-on reverse-and-render -- by the court of appeals.  

    But swallowing that shitty verdict at the time SUCKED.  And it took four years of waiting to get it fixed.  I hated that.

    the only truly bitter pill i have had to swallow in my career was a bench trial from a visiting judge assigned from an entirely unrelated federal district who had absolutely no fucking subject matter experience whatsoever and completely fucked up the entire class certification process so bad that when i [played my role] at the merits trial in showing the screwed up [vague stuff] that the plaintiff did to get to their numbers and how it couldn't be done on a class-wide basis given the [vague stuff], i was threatened with contempt.  case currently pending under consideration at the [x]th circuit court of appeals and i cannot wait for them to fucking buttfuck that fucking asshole so hard on a laundry list of error that would make aileen cannon blush.

    i can't think of a jury that i wanted to kick in the nuts. just a few i very much wanted to walk over and shake awake when it was time for them to listen to the important part.

  5. 13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    "Would you like to put your fate in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty?" is often a fair sales pitch to get your client on board with settlement.

    being a someone who has been [vague description] in 5-10 civil trials a year for the last 20 years (with 15-20x as many engagements that ultimately land on settlement), this has always been my mindset.

    but what is weird about that is when i think back over the highest stakes, most complex presentations to juries for unbelievably nuanced liability and damages cases, there are very, very few of them where it wasn't my objective opinion that they got it exactly right.  it is kind of mind blowing to me as a lot of the ones i am involved in are some seriously, down in the weeds nuanced issues related to highly complex finance concepts or other industry concepts but damned if i don't underestimate the jury almost every time. it's wild. can never take it for granted obviously but i have had to remind myself of that a number of times sitting in the back of the room when they seat the jury at the beginning of a month long trial dealing with shit that would be hard to communicate to a grad school finance professor and thinking to myself "there's no fucking way."

    not that this little anecdote informs this impending outcome.

     

    Just now, immamac said:

    What? That doesn't even make sense. 

    you new around here?

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Stringer said:

    Would “All That You Cant Leave Behind” count? 9 years and 2 misfires since Achtung Baby.

    i gotta say, based on my understanding of the prompt, this has to be one of the best possible fits.  u2 undoubtedly past their prime of unforgettable fire, joshua tree, and achtung baby. put out two shit albums in zooropa and pop, and then come back with a really good album in all that you can't leave behind.

    nicely done.

  7. On 5/26/2024 at 3:21 AM, Thatguy said:

    I hear people say this but it is always followed with a "but look where that got me". I never believe they ever voted dem.

    absolutely correct.  anyone who is fucking dumb enough to say: "he's voting for Trump because he was "strong for America" and is the right man to "get this country back on track" and "we can't take any more" of Biden" never fucking voted for barack obama and you'd be a fool, or a communist, to believe it.

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  8. this prompt is a bit of a brain twister, butch...if you said put out an album that was good and you listen to, it might be achievable but since there are so few "great albums" out there, I'm not sure how that works in your mind.

    hmm.

  9. putting aside the "blues" genre, best ones ever in my mind are "Yesterday" and "For No One" by the Beatles, "Black" by PJ, "Purple Rain" and "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Prince, "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers, "I Can't Make you Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt, and while maybe more of a troubled relationship song more than a breakup song, "With or Without You."

    next level down would be "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" by Al Green, "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morisette, "Digging in the Dirt" by Peter Gabriel, "Always on My Mind" by Willie, "River" by Joni Mitchell, "Unbreak My Heart" by Toni Braxton, "Last Goodbye" by Jeff Buckley, and because I was an early teen in the mid-90's when a girl that went on to be a cowboy cheerleader dumped me our soph year of high school, I will throw in "End of the Road" by Boyz2Men. Birdy's version of Bon Iver's song "Skinny Love" hits pretty good for me too.

    my absolute fucking favorite however...

     

  10. 20 hours ago, stc said:

    i'm a little worried about the setlist as he recently said he's reluctant to play songs from the 70s. i have no doubt he'll play his entire new album. 

     

    19 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    I'm a bit worried too but looked at his setlist from 2016.  He played 7 from Rattle that Lock, 2 from on an island, and the rest 14 were PF.  if he plays 22-23 songs with a similar 6 or so from new album, 2 from RTL,  I'm good with that.  He could shorten the setlist dramatically which would suck but I'm gonna really try to not look at any setlists.

    It may just be a shot to say I'm not an oldies act so don't expect 20 PF songs and 2 from the new album.

    I thought the same thing when I read that interview. I have a ticket for the first HB show but if the set lists at the Rome show don’t have wish you were here, numb, us and them, air, money, etc…, I will bail and sell my ticket to no one since no one will want them. His 15/16 set lists were great. But if he’s decided to make a point because of the relationship with Roger, that will be a big letdown. Can’t see it though…come go time, he knows how his bread is buttered. But he’s d as shit so who knows. 

  11. On 5/14/2024 at 7:47 PM, RamjetFDO said:


     

     


    I've been to three EPL matches at Villa Park, but yeah... a Champions League match would be phenomenal.

    /me starts plotting ways to get Mrs. Ramjet onboard.

    tell her to talk to my wife about her hesitancy for the side trip to madrid a month ago from barcelona to catch the man city-real madrid champions league match at bernabeu and then how she felt about it after the experience.

  12. 4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    First, I’m glad.  Second, however, I don’t want to do that work. I want to pay someone else to do it, on contingency like Lionel Hutz.

    It is about as much work as writing this post. It ain’t hard…it is seriously the effort of a nine year old for any adult with a functional grasp on elementary school math.  

    and they aren’t doing that work either. They are just leveraging the corrupt relationships to meet in the middle and then charge you for lowering your assessed value even though it is probably still higher than your taxable value. 

    and you shouldn’t be glad. You should be frustrated that the taxing authority is so bad at its job that an entire cottage industry of law school dropouts exists to rip you off as a result. 

  13. 38 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    How to win protest cases, evidently. 

    Based on what?

    Pithy nonsense aside, I have won every time I have protested. Just have to go to court to get past the stacked nonsense of the TCAD farce of a process. LOL at paying scam artists who live off said process to do the work of a nine year old. 
     

    18 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

    If I was wanting to convince these old folks to rule in favor of my case, I think I'd go in with a friendly and respectful attitude.

    But to each his own.

    I figured you’d just pull your dick out and offer to lay some pipe before your nap. 

  14. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    That sucks but I want to make sure I follow - you argued your own case instead of hiring a professional tax protesting service?

    i do every year.  why wouldn't i? wtf do the idiots whose lives are so shitty they have to work for a property tax protest company know that i don't know?

    This year, they raised my house by 6% despite no changes to the house.  I pulled 27 properties within 700 feet of mine and literally every one of them went down except mine...by a mean of 33% and a median of 39%.  not some of them, all of them.  all in improvements because everyone's land stayed the exact same as the previous year.  i provided this evidence as inequity to neighbors in my informal hearing yesterday with some absolute dipshit reading off a script to describe to me why the three properties that they picked as comps for inequitable treatment to neighbors that averaged over three times larger a lot size and were an average of 2.5 miles away from me were more relevant than the 27 contiguous properties bordering my house.

    that was amusing.  next up, explaining this to three octogenarians that tcad provides lubys for who will just sleep through my explanation of this to do absolutely nothing of value and then i get to go to court. hooray.

  15. i pulled my house and all 37 of my neighboring properties within a radius of 700 feet of my house.

    every single property had precisely the same land value 2023 to 2024.

    36 of the 37 properties that neighbor me went down on improvements by anywhere from 9% to 60% with a mean of 33% and a median of 39% and a stdev of 10%. the one that did not undertook a major renovation and increased their sqft by 1,000 sqft.  It went up 3.9%.

    mine went up 6%.  I did no major updates, renovations, anything.  i got a variance to do some retention walls in the setbacks.  that's it.

    i uploaded the spreadsheet that is overwhelmingly demonstrative of the bullshit take by tcad to support not equitable to neighbors and i get a list of two houses that are on lots three times bigger that are over a mile a way from me and a settlement offer of my noticed amount.

    i suspect my informal protest will not go well by the time i am done ranting to those cocksuckers as to what a bunch of fucking morons they are.  i suspect my formal protest won't go well because armybrat's granddad is going to be asleep after his tcad provided lubys.  so on to court.

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  16. I was possessed by the spirit of Goredho a few weeks back (but went new instead of revolving door of used like our favorite nutcase).

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    i have been surprised by how much I have enjoyed playing it, the fullness of the low end on it, and how inspirational it has been. 

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  17. On 4/26/2024 at 1:55 AM, Napoleon said:

    Notice how it doesn’t have any switches in the strum path?

    Still amazed that Leo Fender sucked so much ass at switch placement. 

    I know that he didn’t play, but only some Mustangs moved the switch out of the strum path. 

    R.L.’s guitar maker apparently fixed Leo’s stupidity. 

    this is downright silliness.

    now the damn switch at the top of my les paul when i start wailing away at it like a jackass?  you would have a point.

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  18. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, the obvious question becomes "what does the average Russian make in US dollars, annual?"
     

    The answer:  ~ $15K

    United States?  ~ $60K

     

    It's a complete wash.

     

    also relative currency value in the international market.

    he has always been a troll and a willing participant in being a mouthpiece for stupid culture war bullshit that get maga all rock hard but he is too fucking stupid to understand any of the variables contributing the idiotic point he thinks he is making.

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  19. correct.  i think it is probably most wrong because i suspect that a material amount of the shares were acquired through compensation after amazon had taken off and had some market value so there would be a cost basis...not just all the shit he gave himself when he started the company.

    but it is not wrong to say he eliminated a hundred million plus tax liability by realizing the gain while a resident of florida instead of washington.  it is, of course, the individually smart thing to do but the ethics of it given the importance of washington's infrastructure contributing to the success of amazon's formative years could certainly be debated.

    as is the fact that he is definitely paying a tres comas club federal tax bill.

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  20. 9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    If he’s “saving” 600mm, how much is he paying in taxes over that same timeframe?

    they are coming to the $610 million by multiplying 7% by the current market value of the 50 million shares he stated he intends to sell - 24 million of which he has already sold.

    the 7% is the capital gains tax for the state of washington that began in 2022.

    florida does not have a capital gains tax so all of that is saved with no alternative taxes paid.

    that is, of course, all notwithstanding the federal capital gains tax he would pay, as well as the article not considering what portion of the current market value of those shares is comprised of the cost basis (if any) which would affect the taxable basis.

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