Bil
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I was just checking out my tax bill from East Providence and you can now pay via credit card online. For 2% of the total tax to be paid plus $ 1. I kid you not.
I was thinking a little bit about this, and in the end I guess it makes sense. The credit card processor is charging this fee, and the government is passing it on directly to those people (you and me and runawayjim) who benefit from it instead of sharing the cost across all taxpayers. Unlike commerce, there's no profit margin that can be cut into in the interest of increasing gross sales (which is the usual rationale behind paying a fee to accept cards). There's no cost savings to taking credit cards until the tax collector's office takes enough card payments to allow them to reduce staff or hours.
For these reasons, it wouldn't surprise me if governments were exempt from rules about charging different "prices" for card transactions vs. cash.
So it sucks for us, but I can see the logic.
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... the excise tax laws for motor vehicles...
Cue Cotuit on the tax bill for his car. My solution is to have a car too old to retain enough value to be taxed on
But yeah, that's definitely a suck.
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I am an attorney and my firm does quite a bit of commercial real estate financing, etc., which gives me the opportunity to monitor the market, and I'll likely be better off to rent for the year and buy later, given my calculations and experience in the market. Still haven't ruled out buying another place here, I continue to look for condos.
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Did anyone go to the RINexus breakfast thing about workplaces of the future (or whatever they called it)? I wanted to go but my workplace of the present took precedence...
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In 1997, I wrote an article for my school newspaper about the train station. I think it said something like "When I fly home from college next year the first change to Warwick I'll see is the new train station at TF Green being built..."
Good times.
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ummmm... i have no preferences towards any operating system. they all have their place and their use. i use keyboard shortcuts all the time for windows and am quite comfortable with it and vista even. i'm planning on having at least 2 partitions, possibly a third linux one using boot camp. i'll possibly also have parallels.
obviously, i'll be getting tiger unless i don't get it before october, when leopard is supposed to be released (so i've heard from apple reps). i'll have a free upgrade to leopard.
I think I was probably in a similar boat last year when I got my first Mac. If you're better than the average windows user, as I suspect you are, then I'd guess you're not going to be that impressed with OSX. It seems to me that a) most mac people haven't really used windows since at least Win98 and compare that experience to OSX b) if you're not one of those people who is constantly bombarded by viruses and junkware, then the huge advantages of OSX aren't really there. Also, get ready to curse every time you hit ctrl+c instead of command+c and don't get anything copied to the clipboard! I hate that.
However, once you use expose and get your feet wet with quicksilver, it's hard to go back.
If you can get parallels, definitely go that route rather than dual booting/boot camping. Parallels is just awesome.
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Yeah, the Armistice Blvd trees are definitely gone. I was up there last month wondering the same thing. (And questioning my memory of whether or not there ever were trees up there...)
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If you don't like DRM then promote DRM free music sites like Amie Street where music starts out free and the price goes up (upper limit is $0.99) as more people buy the songs.
Good stuff MarkOne.
Just wanted to add that it's "Providence's Own" Amie St.
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how does the 98 el nino compare with the el nino
before that?
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My girlfriend has been working with some weather data from the past couple years, and she says that this "winter" we've been having this year is very similar to the winter of 97-98, which was the also the last el ni
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We did it only on the feeling the water level and decided that the water was too cold, due to start-up costs. It is hard to acquire real estate down there because of the drydocks and the demand for surface parking. If you could manage, the space in the center of this map would be a great spot. Good luck!
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Downtown East Greenwich lacks a grocery store since the Almacs closed years ago.
IN PROGRESS: Metro Centre Plaza | T.F. Green Station
in Rhode Island
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There are only two tracks in East Greenwich.