Why does this hoax refuse to die?
Mars Hoax Circulates: 'Big as the Moon!'
Once again it appears that a Mars hoax that has widely circulated through the Internet since its first appearance during the summer of 2004 has begun to circulate yet again. It comes in the form of an e-mail message titled "Mars Spectacular," which originated from an unknown source.
In turn, this message has gotten passed on to others who couldn't resist forwarding it to their entire address book.
The e-mail declares that on the night of Aug. 27, the planet Mars will come closer to Earth than it has in the past 60,000 years, thereby offering spectacular views of the Red Planet. The commentary even proclaims, with liberal use of exclamation marks, that Mars will appear as bright as (or as large as) the full moon.
The problem is that "Aug. 27" is actually Aug. 27, 2003. Mars made a historically close pass by Earth that night (34.6 million miles, or 55.7 million km). The Hubble Space Telescope used the opportunity to make a great photo of Mars. But even then, to the naked eye Mars appeared as nothing more than an extremely bright yellowish-orange star, not at all like the full moon.
I remember that. Mars was bright and pretty.
True story.(/Ari Gold likes kosher carrots)
I kind of hate him. A lot.
I thought he was kinda irritating, but in no way do I think they laid the groundwork for him to kill himself for the chance of survival of a chick he wouldn't even give his phone number to. Killing him and Tinga and evilfying Brin was probably housecleaning for all the transgenics she freed in season two--it just felt rude and clunky.
a SP is quick and simple to set up
Does it cost?
SP should cost you little if anything, I would think.
We're SP for our income from the music store (1099s) but incorporated our own for the big nonprofit (W2s, but we generate them ourselves.)
It was not that difficult to incorporate, but it does require a good deal of work to maintain, as ND says primarily with the required board meetings & filing requirements.
Taxwise it's six of one, half dozen of the other. We do have to pay monthly (corporate) income taxes and are subject to penalties if late. But technically we're required to do the same for the contractor stuff, it's just that income is less enough to not require too much.
We do need to withhold a little bit more than we do, to balance out the extra contractor income. But because philosophically we'd rather invest our own funds and pay at the end of the tax year, we prefer to withhold just enough to not get hassled by the government.
Finally caught up.
Good news, Jilli!
Happy Sparky Babytime!!!
There's so much more but, for now, I have to say that I rode my bike 140 miles and then went and got a tattoo of our team logo yesterday with a few of my teammates.
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Wheee!
Yay for good news, Jilli!
Mom has been admitted overnight for observation. The only thing they found was a kidney infection. It helped drive her blood sugar through the roof (300) making her feel nauseated and then she didn't eat. Not sure how that pushed her BP so low (it was 64/50).
She had a CT scan and she's on heart monitors now but resting comfortably and feels a little better.
Thanks, everyone for the good thoughts.
Owen just read the last line of my post out loud to me. He wants to say hi to his friend Avery--he doesn't realize she's not a buffista.
