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Reagan1k

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  1. All those old Block Buster late fee account holds would come home to roost.
  2. Hope you're right. I have some buddies there sweating bullets right now; probably like a lot on this board are doing. Where did you see that reported?
  3. Correct - for the purpose of the 2.5x calculation, you exclude any compensation above $8333 per month per individual employee.
  4. Yep - With respect to calculating the 2.5x grant/loan amount I think it's fairly clear in that document that state and local payroll taxes are included - but "payroll taxes"- presumed to be Federal- are excluded. EXCLUDED Payroll Cost: 1. Compensation of an individual employee in excess of an annual salary of $100,000, as prorated for the period February 15, to June 30, 2020 2. Payroll taxes, railroad retirement taxes, and income taxes INCLUDED Payroll Cost: 1. For Employers: The sum of payments of any compensation with respect to employees that is a: • salary, wage, commission, or similar compensation; • payment of cash tip or equivalent; • payment for vacation, parental, family, medical, or sick leave • allowance for dismissal or separation • payment required for the provisions of group health care benefits, including insurance premiums • payment of any retirement benefit • payment of state or local tax assessed on the compensation of the employee
  5. Are federal payroll taxes really included? I thought I read a white paper yesterday that said state and local but did not include Federal. I know this thing has been fluid and peoples' interpretations are varied / changing. Any information on the Federal stuff being included is appreciated.
  6. Damn - That would make for a good beginning to an intriguing novel or Law and Order episode. I hope your group survives his antics and that he moves on.
  7. How bad does it have to be to get hauled off from Celebrate Recovery in handcuffs? Good grief. Our ilk tend to work at this to get out of handcuffs- not go into them. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and your group comes out of this unified and reinvigorated by the experience as a result of applying the steps and traditions.
  8. May have been covered above- forgive me if so, but am I reading this CARES Act correctly that in calculating the average monthly payroll number you exclude compensation above $8333/mo ($100k) for each individual or is it saying that you exclude all payroll cost for each $100k employee. I hope it’s the former.
  9. The human experience (life) is what happens while my mind is busy making future plans. A speaker once said that we are simply spiritual beings, being walked through a human experience. I don't know much, but what I do know is that I can't dwell on or pass accurate judgments as on whether my current circumstances are "good" or "bad". I really don't know whether losing a job is "bad" for me or winning the lottery is "good" for me, because those are simply snapshots in time and life will continue to ebb and flow. We don't have the luxury of pressing pause and living out our lives frozen in that moment. The consequences of both "good and bad" events are dictated by my following actions and reactions. All I can do is to remind myself that the human experience (life) will continue to happen around me - that my only option is to pause when in turmoil (or excitement) and do the next right thing. The outcomes are beyond my control....whether they be good or bad. My default is to feel that anything bad is happening "to me" and that anything good is happening "because of me". That's a slippery slope and leads me to to try and tighten my grip on life and the control of it therein - which is the opposite of what I must do to remain at peace.
  10. Sounds like a perfect excuse to go park the drive at idle and listen to a podcast or some music and have an hour a day of alone time preventative vehicle maintenance.
  11. Your answer (if questioned) is that what are in route to where you are staying in order to follow the shelter in place orders.
  12. Parable of the Chinese Farmer is a good reminder in these times. I think I’ve posted it before in this forum or the Alcoholic board.
  13. www.bulkammo.com has some 9mm but it’s $.40/rd in a 1000 round case and is brass FMJ.
  14. If she can personally borrow at the Fed funds rate, why would would you think she'd be required to make any principal payment?
  15. Buddy's wife is telling everyone she knows that since interest rates are now 0%, she's looking to borrow $1mil to buy vacation property to VRBO She "saw it on the news" and can't be persuaded otherwise. He's decided to tell her to go for it as long as she can get it at 0% and is going to let her go see their banker.
  16. Yep - and the worst part about this is that as ammo mfgs ramp up to fill needs / restock, they'll move production away from less popular calibers and then all of a sudden supply of that stuff will drop causing those prices to rise along the demand curve as well.
  17. You dog! That's a beauty and on my list. Such clean lines.
  18. I LOVE shooting pistol caliber carbines, but I have to hold my nose when it comes to the aesthetics. There's something about the large mag-well and the skinny magazine that makes me cringe. Doesn't stop me from using them, but for selfish reasons I wish the mag wells extended so the appearance was more like the traditional rifle caliber versions. I'm sure I'll get over it but I love the function while hating the looks. I guess it's my OCD wanting clean lines and consistent dimensions after handling the larger rifles for so many years.
  19. All January and February my wife and I had been marveling at how busy our spring was going to be starting this week....weddings, trips, conferences, parties - we were booked solid through June....we had things to do, people to see, and places to go. Hahahahahahah. In my few minutes of meditation this AM as I walked the dog, I was reminded of what some old timers told me when i first came in. Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans. All I can do is take things one day at a time, be kind, seek out ways to be of service, and remember that I'm just a passenger on this journey. When I feel anxiety about the future, my business, the markets, the virus.....all I can do and all that I need to do is pause and ask my higher power to remove those feelings. That anxiety, just like any other character defect, is something I have to ask my higher power to work on. Alone, I can't bear down and correct it. I ask my higher power to remove those things that are objectionable or cause me dis-ease. That's my goal for today - every time one of those thoughts pops up and my hamster wheels starts to turn I'm going to ask my higher power to take it from me...it's his to deal with and not mine. All I can control are my actions and reactions in the course of living life on life's terms.
  20. CheaperThanDirt.com gonna do their thing. What they have left in 5.56 is $0.75 a pop or more. 40 S&W at $0.65 and .22 at $0.09 They've never been scared to jack up pricing when demand skyrockets.....They seem to be able to ignore the backlash and generate enough business to offset the customers they piss off. They'll be a good 50% higher than anyone else during this. To each their own i guess. Edit - I don't see much of anything in stock in 5.56 for less than half a buck per round plus shipping......that's more than twice what I paid for bulk on the 8th of this month from SGAmmo. Plenty of searches on the pricing compilers show prices still below $0.30 but there's an update lag and its not really in stock. Strange times......
  21. There are some pretty amazing studies that show what happens if you miss the best days in a rebound / recovery. The odds of picking the bottom are so slim and the cost of missing out on the best days is so high that if you have the proper time horizon then staying invested makes mathematical sense. Even missing the best 5 or 10 days has dramatically decreased performance for long term investors.
  22. I don't think you are wrong that the trigger would be the weak link, but there are plenty of precision AR trigger groups. These bolt action uppers (to me) seem to be able to squeeze the last bit of inherent accuracy out of a lower. The more precision the lower, the more precision the platform. They're guaranteeing sub MOA accuracy fwiw. I don't have a dog in the fight but I find the concept intriguing and the next logical step in the evolution of the platform.
  23. Customer of mine left Sunday for a week. Just heard through his partner they're packing up tonight and heading home tomorrow now that CR has declared a state of emergency. Were told to leave in an orderly fashion..... Not sure what they thought was going to happen when they got over there with all this going on, but I guess he's lucky he's avoiding a 14 day quarantine.
  24. If the accuracy is there as it appears to be , it'll be an alternative to the RPR style rifles and give a user the option of having two uppers and one lower for easily matching the weapon to changing circumstances in the field.....or just be cool to have especially to take advantage of the ballistics in the .224 Val and 6/6.5CM.
  25. Pretty interesting concept here. Turn an AR lower into a precision bolt gun by pinning a new upper - no mods needed...same mags, etc. https://uintahprecision.com/ Options for both the AR-15 and 10 platforms in various calibers.
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