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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:42 pm

Galloism wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:A win - win as I like to call it

What's really funny is that if you are in the business of dealing weed, your expenses are not deductible (other than those you can capitalize under the uniform capitalization rules).

If you're a hitman, however, you can deduct your expenses to produce the income of your illegal business.

However a quick perusal of section 236 shows that if you grow the weed, those costs and interest expenses related to those costs appear to be deductible under the rule.
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Postby Galloism » Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:43 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Galloism wrote:What's really funny is that if you are in the business of dealing weed, your expenses are not deductible (other than those you can capitalize under the uniform capitalization rules).

If you're a hitman, however, you can deduct your expenses to produce the income of your illegal business.

However a quick perusal of section 236 shows that if you grow the weed, those costs and interest expenses related to those costs appear to be deductible under the rule.

263, and yes - and if you package them into brownies or something like that, that's "manufacturing", and many of the costs associated with that would also be capitalized under the uniform capitalization rules.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:54 pm

Galloism wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:However a quick perusal of section 236 shows that if you grow the weed, those costs and interest expenses related to those costs appear to be deductible under the rule.

263, and yes - and if you package them into brownies or something like that, that's "manufacturing", and many of the costs associated with that would also be capitalized under the uniform capitalization rules.


"Package, develope, and improve" does allow a fairly wide interpretation. What's good for business is what's good for america.
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Postby Chrinthanium » Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:39 pm


I never say anything about Disturbed. I usually talk about NFL, weather, and politics. :P
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:58 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:

I never say anything about Disturbed. I usually talk about NFL, weather, and politics. :P


oh sure it is easy for you to talk football
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Postby Chrinthanium » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:19 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Chrinthanium wrote:I never say anything about Disturbed. I usually talk about NFL, weather, and politics. :P


oh sure it is easy for you to talk football

Oh, Ethel. You're a Giants fan. Don't tell me you can't remember when that would be the last thing I wanted to talk about.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:23 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
oh sure it is easy for you to talk football

Oh, Ethel. You're a Giants fan. Don't tell me you can't remember when that would be the last thing I wanted to talk about.


look tbh, when the eagles play the cowboys i root for the blimp to crash into the stadium.

fwiw, you have an excellent quarterback.
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Postby Chrinthanium » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:26 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Chrinthanium wrote:Oh, Ethel. You're a Giants fan. Don't tell me you can't remember when that would be the last thing I wanted to talk about.


look tbh, when the eagles play the cowboys i root for the blimp to crash into the stadium.

fwiw, you have an excellent quarterback.

That's how I feel when any other NFC East teams faces off against any other NFC East team... except the Eagles... who must win.

And, fwiw, we do. Of course, Eli Manning did win 2 Superbowls for the Giants and gave you guys a lot of great times. And interceptions. Not like Tony Romo did for the Cowboys, though.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:34 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
look tbh, when the eagles play the cowboys i root for the blimp to crash into the stadium.

fwiw, you have an excellent quarterback.

That's how I feel when any other NFC East teams faces off against any other NFC East team... except the Eagles... who must win.

And, fwiw, we do. Of course, Eli Manning did win 2 Superbowls for the Giants and gave you guys a lot of great times. And interceptions. Not like Tony Romo did for the Cowboys, though.


i dont feel that way about the redskins.

Eli has about 2 years left, this season is not his fault. It lies squarely on the GM reese. in fairness he does have a point as to there was nothing out there either in the draft or free agency on the OL. But he did nothing and they were one of the worst lines last year.
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Postby Luziyca » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:49 pm

Galloism wrote:My hobby:

Telling an anti-drug person how you can use section 263A uniform capitalization rules to cut down the taxes that drug dealers/small time manufacturers are required to pay.

Sounds fun.
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Postby Kannap » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:35 pm

Finally wrote that policy memo. It's shittily cobbled together - but what first draft isn't?
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Postby Chrinthanium » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:44 pm

Kannap wrote:Finally wrote that policy memo. It's shittily cobbled together - but what first draft isn't?

First drafts are just that... drafts.
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Postby Kannap » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:52 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:
Kannap wrote:Finally wrote that policy memo. It's shittily cobbled together - but what first draft isn't?

First drafts are just that... drafts.


They're ugly and marvelous wrecks.
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Postby Chrinthanium » Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:05 pm

Kannap wrote:
Chrinthanium wrote:First drafts are just that... drafts.


They're ugly and marvelous wrecks.

They are definitely that. Of course, sometimes a first draft leads to a finished edition that's amazing.
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Postby Kannap » Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:07 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:
Kannap wrote:
They're ugly and marvelous wrecks.

They are definitely that. Of course, sometimes a first draft leads to a finished edition that's amazing.


Usually that is the case, I truly hope that it is the case this time.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:27 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:
Kannap wrote:
They're ugly and marvelous wrecks.

They are definitely that. Of course, sometimes a first draft leads to a finished edition that's amazing.


My older brother is the first draft.

I'm the finished version.

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Postby Ardrentt » Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:17 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Chrinthanium wrote:They are definitely that. Of course, sometimes a first draft leads to a finished edition that's amazing.


My older brother is the first draft.

I'm the finished version.

8)

I feel like the reverse with my older brother, paradoxically. :V

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:19 am

Sareva-Hiiro wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:My older brother is the first draft.

I'm the finished version.

8)

I'm the first draft.

Explains a lot, really.

Blaat presents himself as the finished version, but it is also possible that they stopped trying after him. Keep that in mind before you embrace self-loathing.


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Postby Ardrentt » Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:38 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Sareva-Hiiro wrote:I'm the first draft.

Explains a lot, really.

Blaat presents himself as the finished version, but it is also possible that they stopped trying after him. Keep that in mind before you embrace self-loathing.

Still not the first draft, Hurde!

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:05 am

Ardrentt wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Blaat presents himself as the finished version, but it is also possible that they stopped trying after him. Keep that in mind before you embrace self-loathing.

Still not the first draft, Hurde!

If there even was a draft to begin with. Maybe Blaat just kinda happened, without any planning at all.


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Postby USS Monitor » Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:25 am

Sareva-Hiiro wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
My older brother is the first draft.

I'm the finished version.

8)

I'm the first draft.

Explains a lot, really.


Same here. That's why my turret leaks and my rudder jams and I ride so low in the water that the waves slosh over my decks and rivets come flying loose when an enemy shot hits my turret and the noise from my guns echoes off the inside of the turret so my gunners' ears bleed from the deafening noise (poor gunners!) and I can't shoot straight ahead because the pilothouse is in the way and I can't elevate my guns enough to fire at fortifications on hilltops because the tops of my gunports get in the way and I'm very vulnerable to enemy boarding parties.
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:30 am

USS Monitor wrote:
Sareva-Hiiro wrote:I'm the first draft.

Explains a lot, really.

Same here. That's why my turret leaks and my rudder jams and I ride so low in the water that the waves slosh over my decks and rivets come flying loose when an enemy shot hits my turret and the noise from my guns echoes off the inside of the turret so my gunners' ears bleed from the deafening noise (poor gunners!) and I can't shoot straight ahead because the pilothouse is in the way and I can't elevate my guns enough to fire at fortifications on hilltops because the tops of my gunports get in the way and I'm very vulnerable to enemy boarding parties.

All that, and you didn't even mention the incessant rusting.


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Postby USS Monitor » Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:37 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
USS Monitor wrote:Same here. That's why my turret leaks and my rudder jams and I ride so low in the water that the waves slosh over my decks and rivets come flying loose when an enemy shot hits my turret and the noise from my guns echoes off the inside of the turret so my gunners' ears bleed from the deafening noise (poor gunners!) and I can't shoot straight ahead because the pilothouse is in the way and I can't elevate my guns enough to fire at fortifications on hilltops because the tops of my gunports get in the way and I'm very vulnerable to enemy boarding parties.

All that, and you didn't even mention the incessant rusting.


That too. Civil War metallurgy is almost as bad as Civil War medicine. Bleah... :?

Also, that thing where I agreed to be a mod... That was clearly a malfunction.
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:52 am

USS Monitor wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:All that, and you didn't even mention the incessant rusting.

That too. Civil War metallurgy is almost as bad as Civil War medicine. Bleah... :?

Also, that thing where I agreed to be a mod... That was clearly a malfunction.

Mistakes were made. The less said about that delicate subject, the better.


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