Tenforty1728

1. ESPN or any other sport leading headlines that make you form an opinion by reading the title. Ex: Rory says Tiger and Phil are "just getting old." The article said they are getting older and have 5-10 playing years left. That is just fact! But if you read the headline he's slamming them.

2. ESPN's constant influx of random people's opinions. I don't really give a shite about Herm Edwards opinion on who will win the super bowl. Not informative or entertaining.

3. Golden Tate

The additional burden on businesses from collecting a sales tax is often overlooked. I'm a CPA and for your average small business collected and paying in sales tax is a never ending pain in the arse. Part of these "consumption" tax discussions is making just about everything sales taxable. Everyone offering a service would have to start charging sales tax.

Consumers do not know or care about the difference between what you are receiving for your goods or service and the sales tax on it. The fact is it would end up making everything look more expensive, causing small businesses to have to eat some portion of the sales tax percentage by lowering their prices.

Couldn't agree more. If he didn't have an every man nickname like Bubba or have long hair he wouldn't get all the passes he gets. What a PR machine

Any charge for flickr? What kind of space do they offer?

I'm not saying "wow playing golf in the heat is such a magic weight loss solution." It's obvious you sweat a ton and lose water weight. I'm talking about calorie burning which would be independent of losing water weight.

If any OTers hit the golf courses this weekend you felt the rath of July in Louisiana.

After being outside for 4+ hours, I felt like I had run about 5 miles. I was just curious and started looking at online estimators for how many calories are burned by playing 18 holes of golf with a cart. The range was roughly 700 - 1250.

My question for the OT geniuses:

If this estimate is based on normal weather (say 70-75 degrees) what kind of additional percentage of calories are likely being burned? If you've played golf when it's 70 and played when it's a heat index of 103, you know the energy used is vastly different.

My personal opinion, albeit an uneducated one, is about 20-30% Seems like your resting heart rate is much higher when you're in those brutal conditions.

I would like to hear some figures on how much less they're spending trying to catch these RUTHLESS pot dealers and maybe catching some real criminals. I imagine if you combine the tax revenue with the savings of cops elsewhere (hoping its not out giving stupid traffic tickets) then you've got a system helping everyone.

I would probably put 2 allowances on my W-4 and enjoy the small bit "extra" i'm keeping each paycheck while still making sure I don't owe at the end of the year.

I'm a CPA, so granted I stay much closer on my taxes than your average joe, but I really like to spot check my withholding around October each year. If you have a good CPA they can do this for you pretty cheaply and see where you stand. Many people have paid in enough by the end of October and can not withhold any on their November or December paychecks rather than waiting until March to get that money that is rightfully yours. Everyone can use a little extra cash around the holidays.

Yes your refund will go down, but your checks throughout the year will go up. You're not leaving any money out there or anything, just spreading it out through each paycheck rather than a big refund at the end of the year.

I graduated undergrad with a BS in Accounting in 2010 and completed the masters program in 2011. If your plan is to sit for the CPA (meaning you'll need the extra 30 hours) I would recommend that if your financial situation allows for another year of school. Can't say that anyone in the professional world has asked me if I have a masters yet or if anyone cares once you have CPA behind your name, but I learned a lot in the program and didn't find it much harder than undergrad other than you have to go to class. Shouldn't be a problem by that point in your academic career.

As far as avenues you can go, I did not go work for one of the big 4 like 90% of my graduating class. There are good smaller companies in Baton Rouge or elsewhere that are looking for qualified, ambitious young people. Don't let the LSU department brainwash you into thinking you absolutely have to be an auditor and MUST go work for the big 4. Any time I told them I was going work for a firm with 10 CPAs and mostly working on small businesses you would have thought I told them I was going teach 1st graders how to add with my masters. Joke is on them, I have a much less stressful job than the 90% of my classmates and make almost what they make and will surely surpass them in a few years.

The CPA is the key in all of that education though. Don't go through it and not seal it with a CPA. Once you have those credentials your possibilities are limitless.

Best thing that I did while building was put a natural gas spout on my back porch for a grill. Never have to fill a propane tank again, and doing this pre-construction cost an incredible $50 where this would cost over $1,000 to do post-construction. I would also recommend having the contractor deck a large portion of your attic for storage. Also easier to do pre-construction. I put a cable outlet in my garage as well. Hasn't come in handy yet, but it was like $20 and I know I'll want it at some point.