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Uh. Dance... taxes? What? *checks*

Oh. On... clubs. And suchlike. I was thinking, just. Y'know. If you do a little shimmy Uncle Sam's going to molest your pockets for booze money.

Why the blazes did Washington give MS a 1.5 billion tax amnesty, anyway?

E: Looking into it a bit more... what the flying fuck. Why isn't that in the rage thread? Was it in the rage thread? WA gave MS a 100 mill tax break and 1.5 billion tax amnesty, cut education spending by nearly 175 million, raised taxes, and are letting the unemployment benefits for disabled lapse this last(?) year. What the flying monkeyfuck happened over there? Wait... that happened... a year ago? Two? Site ye' linked to GG doesn't seem to give years

Anyone know what happened?

Frumpy, those spirally ones -are- fluorescent bulbs.

... huh. So they are. Which is... kinda' odd. The small ones seem far less annoying than those huge ceiling ones for some reason or another. I mean... it barely matters anymore 'cause I basically just leave lights off 90-95% of the time, but... hrm.

Have to look into LED lights, then. Got any suggestions for room lighting via LED, MSH?

Didn't accept email requests either -- mailed, in person, or faxed was it. Anything else just thrown out. Important part was the signature, so that might have got through, but... bureaucracy being what it is, that's doubtful.

Seriously though, I don't have a printer or scanner and insofar as I'm aware the public places don't have scanners (or fax machines, o'course). It was fax via commercial service or trip, and well. Three bucks and a bit versus twelve-fifteen in gas for the round trip (plus a ~two hour drive vs ~5 minute one). Not really a choice.

 ... why would I scan it to a PDF, though? Just send a couple .pngs or somethin'. Still have to print out, sign, and scan in, but... eh. PDFs are a pain in the ass.

Wait, wait. Didn't this go freeware a quite a while ago?

*checks* Yeesssss. 2009. No wonder I was feeling confused

Just finding out about it now, eh?

Mm... to the eye conversation, from what I can recall sight deterioration due to lowlight conditions takes, like. Reading/writing intensively in candle level illumination over the course of years/decades. Even just a computer screen is pretty well over the threshold for that, and eye strain is more of an issue than illumination, iirc. So just popping up the zoom a couple degrees nips that in the bud.

Yea, fluorescent lights are bad for your eyes.
Incandescent lights are actually best, but they always burn out and use too much energy.

... which one are those spiraly ones, again? I like those, personally. They last for goddamn ever. Used a single bulb constantly through both middle and highschool, I think. Somewhere in that range, it was over five, six years of almost-always-on. Ultimately the bulb died because it got dropped and shattered, not because it burnt out.

And yeah, fluorescents can go blow themselves. One of the reasons they fuck you up is that they're constantly... shifting or something, just below what the threshold to register as light change but enough to bugger with your eyes. You can actually see it pretty clearly when they're damaged or somethin'.  Iirc, the damned things have be experimentally proven to cause headaches and reduce mental functioning (which is kinda' hilarious/enraging considering how prevalent they are in schools ) because of what they're doing to your eyes. Hate them with a frothing unholy passion.

Or Cakecrustacean :I

Honestly, you'd have nothing "over" maybe chaotic neutral. Like it or not, they're all profit driven as their first and foremost goal and in D&D terms that doesn't leave much room for any variation of good, or true neutral. You'd be left with CN, LE, and NE, I think. CE wouldn't work 'cause they wouldn't organize into a business to begin with in that case. For-profit doesn't really leave much room for alignment shenanigans, usually.

Mm. I'd be fine waiting for the current one to finish or whatev'. I've got... three expansions? Nei-something, something spire, zenith something? So fairly flexible on that front, I think. Someone ping the thread a day or so before the next one starts up, maybe?