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Cubey Terra
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10-29-2003 15:23
In celebration of the tax-free week in SL, you can expect to see a 500-meter-tall penguin over my theatre -- made entirely of light. Whoo hoo!
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James Miller
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10-29-2003 15:27
Yay
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Misnomer Jones
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10-29-2003 15:36
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Eggy Lippmann
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10-29-2003 15:48
Err I kinda got the idea that taxes are being counted now, but since we are getting a refund last week was tax-free. So careful with that penguin mate.
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Cubey Terra
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10-29-2003 15:53
Hey, you might be right, Eggy. It's not clear what Robin meant by this: "As for last week, the Linden IRS has decided the best thing to do is to declare a tax free week, and to rebate all tax payments received in the last assessment. "
Two possible interpretations: * Scenario A: Linden IRS is declaring this week tax free AND will rebate tax payments from last week. * Scenario B: Linden IRS is declaring LAST week tax free BY WAY OF rebating tax payments from last week. If it's scenario B, then I'm sorry but I won't be putting up the giant glowing penguin. And SL so badly needs one too. |
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Bosozoku Kato
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10-29-2003 16:13
from Robin Linden in the Announcments forum:
As for last week, the Linden IRS has decided the best thing to do is to declare a tax free week, and to rebate all tax payments received in the last assessment. Last week (the fubar week) is being called "tax free" They're refunding all taxes from that period (which was last tuesday, yesterday) and not reapplying the fixed code to last week's tax routines. Which I suppose might mean no stipends which some rely on for making $, but at least we're note thousands in the hole. Good enough for me. Taxes are ACTIVE right now and will be paid come next tuesday. So don't go overboard :) Bos |
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Pendari Lorentz
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10-29-2003 16:29
Weee! That is so sweet to hear.. Thank you Lindens!
Oh, and Cubey, if you ever do build that penguin, you should make it like your gun and have this Giant Penguin shooting smaller penguins out all over the land. lol _____________________
*hugs everyone*
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Robin Linden
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10-29-2003 16:34
Eggy and Boso are right -- it's a tax rebate, a return of the taxes you paid for last week which were mis-calculated.
Sorry Cubey, but if you build that penguin now it'll be taxed when the assessor runs next Tuesday. _____________________
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Jack Orlowski
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10-29-2003 16:43
when do we get our rebate?
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Loki Pico
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10-29-2003 16:47
I just got mine. 4:45pm Linden time today.
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Alondria LeFay
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10-29-2003 20:03
As a sign of appreciation for the tax refund, I promise for the next week to not shoot the tax collector on sight.
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Crimson Sunchaser
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10-29-2003 21:03
Thank you
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Pituca FairChang
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10-30-2003 00:49
Originally posted by Eggy Lippmann Err I kinda got the idea that taxes are being counted now, but since we are getting a refund last week was tax-free. So careful with that penguin mate. Just a silly Q, but why do Europeans start their corrective statements with "Err"? I have seen it often. _____________________
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Surina Skallagrimson
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10-30-2003 01:00
Err.. We don't...
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Eggy Lippmann
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10-30-2003 01:35
"err..." is just an onomatopoeia like "uhh...", doesnt mean anything =)
I learned it from americans anyway, way back in the dawn of the web when i was still in high school. |
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Eddie Escher
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10-30-2003 03:41
er... and um... are strange language habits for sure. I honestly don't notice how often I use them, until I play back my writing notes from my dictaphone, and then I realise I get through several of them every few minutes.
Personally, I think it's my mouths way of taking up slack while my brain is catching up |
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Pituca FairChang
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10-30-2003 06:26
I didn't ask what it meant, it means "pardon me but I think you are wrong". Strangely in the scarce 5 years I have been online I have only heard Europeans use it. I was merely wondering why.
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Eddie Escher
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10-30-2003 07:15
I have a friend who is interested in the etimology of language and slang... I shall ask her opinion on this, Pituca.
But, much as I hate to disagree with the head muchacha, I think 'er' and 'um' are also used when formulating ones next statement, not just for starting a correction. Well, I seem to anyway And I've heard people from all over the world using it, although they may very well have picked it up form europeans! lol |
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Ezhar Fairlight
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10-30-2003 07:22
Uhm... I picked mine up from yanks :-P
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Bhodi Silverman
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10-30-2003 07:30
Okay, I am ransoming this thread to get BACK to the original post...
CUBEY, what do you mean we won't have a Giant Penguin of Light now that the taxes are back in? I had already begun to form an entire theology based on worshipping it? Does this mean that Nietzsche was right, that God IS dead? A very woeful Bhodi |
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Pituca FairChang
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10-30-2003 07:31
hmm, I use hmm when I am thinking. never used err.
But then I am from Southern California and not a Yank. Yankees are from the Northeast US. Thanks for checking into it Eddie. Could it be from errata? Enquiring minds want to know. PS. Bhodie's post bumped in ahead of mine. I love two-threaded threads. _____________________
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Eddie Escher
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10-30-2003 07:53
Heh... don't start praying to huge light-emitting penguins, Bhodi - there are much more ludicrous established deities around to give your life to
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Cubey Terra
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10-30-2003 08:26
Erm...
Alas, the 500-meter-tall glowing penguin well never be... not until I'm rich in SL, that is. Instead, I built a temporary 200-meter-tall tower of glowing penguins. For a happy 30 minutes, they overlooked the bay in Minna. People saw them and fell to the ground in worship, for then they knew that penguins ruled over all. And then I deleted them. |
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Bhodi Silverman
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10-30-2003 08:36
Cubey, does this make you a meta-God? I'm gettin' real a-scared 'round about now...
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Pituca FairChang
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10-30-2003 08:38
Originally posted by Cubey Terra And then I deleted them. The most dreaded words on the internet. (Also substitute him/her for them) _____________________
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