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In my post here, I explained how South Carolina is confusing on its language regarding LLCs, is a business repellent in more ways than one, and also has made all Delaware Corps or LLCs pretty much illegal as a way to skirt paying SC taxes. I also explained how many states, not just South Carolina, are a business repellent especially for the online global economy regarding tax and business law,

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I had a cousin from South Carolina in the USA ask me to research for him whether it would be better to form a C corp or an LLC, and whether to do it in his home state of South Carolina or to do it in a tax-friendly state such as Nevada or Delaware. His business was the Free Software Model, where he gives away freely downloadable software as a lure but then sells customization consulting, manuals

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Super Cool Image Shifting Code If using Firefox, and you surf to images.google.com, type in a keyword to see your favorite set of images, and then go to the addressbar and paste into it this code and press Enter... javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style;

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Can't Do This on Windows! My daughter came over to me and said she didn't save her Abiword document for her class, and it crashed. She thought she had lost everything. I asked if she saved it at least once because the program auto-saves every 5 mins. by default after that and she said she had not saved it at least once. She was in a panic. The first thing I did was tell her that in the future

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Planning The Polar Programming Language Over the years I like bits and pieces of certain programming languages and developed a preference. I wanted to build a programming language called Polar to collect it all in. I don't have the brainpower to build an interpreter for the language in C, so at best all I can do is dump out my feature list in great detail, copyright it in a book, and try to get

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This is the image that I have for the article: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1983541&postcount=1

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My Wealth Strategy Of course, I need to follow my own strategy more religiously, but in general these are the steps I plan to take to increase my wealth or are already taking them. Perhaps they can work for you. 1. Start by saving up about $4,000 to always have on hand each year for an emergency. If you deplete it, then you need to slowly replenish it the next year over a 3 or 4 month timeframe

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Taking YouTube Audio from Mono to Stereo You might not know this, but YouTube audio is mono. Of course, many of us never noticed because I guess we were so thrilled to see and hear our favorite bands again. So then I wondered how to pull the audio stream out of the video, and I found several other people wondered that too and built scripts, websites, programs, or browser plugins to handle that.

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Predictions About Microsoft's Next OS After Vista A recent insider told me that Vista is going to be the last OS of its kind once it is released. And that's if it's released, of course. It might, once again, have to go back to the drawing board to have more stuff ripped out that's unpopular, and more goodies added in, in order to lure people in. This process is going to be expensive for Microsoft

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Surviving Freshman Managers in Tech Jobs Do you have a crappy tech job? Is it because you're making wise decisions grounded in experience and logic, but your manager, who's far more the freshman than you, merely implements choices with no bearing on anything, moving, if not at random, on some buzzword he last saw on his cnet homepage, even if it's counter to the corporate direction? Is he always

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Being Held Hostage By Your Computer You know, it amazes me how capitalism works to benefit people at the same time it screws them over. So here we have the unethical capitalists, Microsoft, who wish to not out-innovate their competitors, but crush them, and they have made this really paranoid, stinky OS called Vista. Microsoft got so money hungry that they actually had to make their OS prey on

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Insomnia Okay, I think I have issues now with my sleeping patterns. I'm like way out of whack. I can't get to bed until 4am, and I can't get up until 8:45am or 9am. I've tried different things, but nothing works. I keep wanting to think, think, think and accomplish, accomplish, accomplish. I keep asking myself, in the measure of my day, what have I accomplished that I can be proud about. If you

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I Wrote to Mark Shuttleworth -- My Ubuntu Wishlist Here's my 2007 wish list I wrote to Mark. Command-line Yast-like Tool for Ubuntu Server. Beats having to memorize LDAP commands and other commands that have a lot of switches. GNOME integration of SSHFS for "secure mapped drives" to other Ubuntu workstations and servers. It's more secure than NFS and needs good integration with GNOME.

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Strange Ubuntu iPod Experiences For chrissakes, I just want to get an iPod icon to appear on my desktop when I put it in, and when I double-click it I can assign that to an import/export/playback app that actually works. Sure, the icon appears, but it launches Nautilus instead of an app that I want to assign. They said Rhythmbox on GNOME was all the rage, but I couldn't figure out how to write

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Killing the Reddit Addiction Reddit has to be the most addicting website on the planet. I can't stop myself from going there. It's an OC behavior, I swear. For one thing, it's fast. You can respond on a link in just a couple minutes and far faster than you can respond on Google Groups. For another, the pages load super fast and don't come with a lot of other junk, much like Google. And most of

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A Well-Designed Disinformation Campaign For just about a thousand dollars, you could interact in chat rooms and web and news-based forums to link back to phony but authentic news sites such as "Middle East Times" to promote your own agenda. (The thousand dollars handles the dozens of sites and the GB bandwidth utilization costs.) Think about the disinformation campaigns that started in 1999 and

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My Phone Rings and The Internet Drops Its Connection SYMPTOM Day 1: You hear slight high pitched sounds on the phone at first, along with some mild fuzz. Day 2: When you're talking, people ask you to speak up and you sort of get the feeling that your words are getting cut out. Day 3: When someone calls you, your Internet connection goes down 50% of the time. When they don't call you, even though

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Making Imaging Apps in Linux PHP I found after some research that if you know a little PHP, it's super-easy to make your own imaging apps in PHP on Linux. But wait! Before you read "linux" and get turned off because your users use Windows, do not despair. You can use Ubuntu Linux or your favorite Linux as your scan station, but then the web app can serve up the docs for viewing and printing

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Quit Using DIV Tags Already I don't mean quit using DIV tags altogether, but dang it, if you're going to use them in your HTML to replace where you might be using TABLE tags, test them in all kinds of font situations and on Macs, the top 4 versions of desktop Linux, and Windows, using Firefox, IE6 and 7, and Safari. Please!!!! You see, the problem is that I now go to many sites where the message

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PHP Is My Web Language of Choice As much as I like, I've come to realize that there are 6 forces that will always be in computer programming: THE SCIENTISTS. Computer "scientists" and professors who will espouse the productivity of Scheme and LISP and who end up making big-selling web products from it, oddly enough, such as the fact that most of Yahoo's ecommerce catalog is running on LISP. .....

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The USA Is BetterNo matter where you go, there are these main conditions, where any of these countries may have at least one of these, that make it far worse than living in the USA. You'll deseparately want to come back. Bad healthcare -- sure, it's free, but you wait in tremendous lines for it and the doctor advice is "pat you on the back, send you on your way" style. Welfare state -- the

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Drawing PNG Piecharts in Linux-based PHPAfter a lot of work and articles on the web, I figured out how to draw PNG piecharts in PHP without needing anything more than ImageMagick to be installed on the Linux web server. (You might also need to change file permissions or use a sticky bit here or there to get this going in your environment.) The following code uses the SVG XML standard to create a

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Internet Addiction vs. Web Development from Home Reddit, emails, and YouTube are the enemy of the web developer. They are highly addictive and you end up never getting anything done. Tell yourself you're going to avoid them for a whole two days. The fix for me has been old swing music because it has a steady beat to keep your mind moving and not sleeping like environmental/nature music would,

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Second State Recently I came across an interesting fanatic post on Reddit about a USA citizen wanting to get a bunch of people to move to Kansas and succeed from the USA. He seemed to be reading too much Socrates. I decided it would be a fun exercise to figure something out, even though I don't agree it can work. And, of course, it would be illegal in the USA. His concerns were: High state and

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Getting Wealthy Ain't So Bad Don't you just hate arrogant wealthy people? Me too! *long pause* Wait a minute. I thought this article was about "wealthy not being bad". Yep, that's right. So when you hate arrogant wealthy people, it's because they were arrogant, wasn't it? It wasn't the wealth part. Or perhaps you called them tightwad wealthy people, and you were really upset that they were

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