Tipping in USA/Canada

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:


"Mr. Travel" wrote:


Greg Procter wrote:


Yes, I've done that - you're effectively saying that a person can be a
permanent resident in two countries at once. That's obviously not
possible, and it has nothing at all to any distinction between the term
and the words.

It has to do with how countries define the term, not the dictionary.


If it's a "term" then you write it capitalized or within quotation
marks, so that it is not confused with the dictionary meaning. This
isn't rocket science.
You could alternatively write "(has) permanent ressidence status".

You sometimes write the abbreviation for NZ in lower case.


I probably had a tired finger that day, or I was using the other hand to
keep the cat off the keyboard - did you get all confused between the
nation and the Urdu word for 'golden dung beetle'?

You seem to be confused, despite previously explaining it, there is no
difference in meaning whether I type "permaent resident" or "Permanent
Resident".


Of course there is - unless you can explain to me what you would type if
you were trying to say permanent resident - which I'm sure you were.


if I am discussing immigration status. You seem confused by
this, but we are not confused by meaning when you type "nz"

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:


What happens when the foreign tax is higher than the US tax level.


You wouldn't owe US tax.


"some credits" doesn't indicate that.

It is also possible you would get money back from the government than
you paid in taxes, but I didn't indicate that either. I left it at "some
credits"

Do you want me to write an FAQ for the entire US Tax Code?


Not at all - unless you feel the need to post something useful to
Wikipedia.

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:

US tax specialist? With the number of yanks seeking asylum here I'm sure
there are oodles of them.

I was under the impression you might live in an asylum.
If they have computers with free internet access at the K-Marts,
putting them in asylums isn't an impossible task.


I did in my childhood live in what might be called "asylums" - my father
ran them.

TMOliver wrote:

"Greg Procter" wrote ...


My answer is absolutely straight.
I own an IBM PC which is significantly different in specification to an
XT.
I don't have a manual for it, but I do have a manual for an XT. They are
not the same.

To most of us, "PC" simply is the vernacular description first accorded
small "desktop" computers of IBM/IBM clone genre.

That's entirely due to your ignorance of computers.



IIRC, IBM itself produced a series of machines of this type, including the
"XT" model and the (earlier, but you're asking for memories from long ago)
"AT". It's possible that the first or an early example of the series of
products may have actually borne the "PC" designation, but the term soon
passed into the more generic usage. I can barely recall my first desktop,
1985 or so, an NCR with 2 5.25" floppies combined with the CPU and the
Monitor, all in single heavy package.

Ok, so you were a later starter. I guess that's not your fault.



I have spoken to the person originally in control of the machine and am
satisfied with it's liniage.

Unless I was present and holding Mac's heavy forequarters whilst he was
breeding, I was never certain of the LINEAGE of the pups whelped by the
bitch in question. That's where English Bulldogs differed from my Jack
Russlls today. Old Mac was dead set on the evolution, dogged and determined
in his efforts, but physically unable to accomplish it without somebody to
hold him. Elijah, the Jack Russell, a dead ringer for the King of Tonga's
prize male, is well able, but easily distracted by alternatives or
surroundings. As for Hannah, my JR bitch, she ain't gonna stand still for
anything, much less getting screwed.

Proggy, by any standard, you've got to be denser than any of the other
members of genus misanthropiae I've encountered to date...


In that case it's a good thing you don't have any standards.

Craig Welch wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

You could alternatively write "(has) permanent ressidence status".
You sometimes write the abbreviation for NZ in lower case.

I probably had a tired finger that day, or I was using the other hand to
keep the cat off the keyboard - did you get all confused between the
nation and the Urdu word for 'golden dung beetle'?

I'm sure your other hand was busy all right ... but it had nothing to do
with any cat.

You're mistaking me for a yank.

Craig Welch wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Do you want me to write an FAQ for the entire US Tax Code?

Not at all - unless you feel the need to post something useful to
Wikipedia.

Have you ever put anything useful in Wikipedia Greg?


Just once.

Craig Welch wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:

You're surely not mistaking the NZ Dollar for the US dollar??? Ours has
just one line through it ($)

As does the US$.

Unless you use a font that has two lines.

I'm typing using a font with one line - you yanks are reading something
that isn't there.

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:03:40 +1000, Craig Welch
wrote:

:Greg Procter wrote:
:
: You're surely not mistaking the NZ Dollar for the US dollar??? Ours has
: just one line through it ($)
:
:As does the US$.
:
:Unless you use a font that has two lines.

I'm a written two line fonter but I play a one line fonter on the
computer $ .

Greg Procter wrote:
TMOliver wrote:

"Greg Procter" wrote ...


My answer is absolutely straight.
I own an IBM PC which is significantly different in specification to an
XT.
I don't have a manual for it, but I do have a manual for an XT. They are
not the same.

To most of us, "PC" simply is the vernacular description first accorded
small "desktop" computers of IBM/IBM clone genre.


That's entirely due to your ignorance of computers.

What about your ignorance of the XT being a PC.
It's name was IBM Personal Computer XT, also known as IBM PC/XT




IIRC, IBM itself produced a series of machines of this type, including the
"XT" model and the (earlier, but you're asking for memories from long ago)
"AT". It's possible that the first or an early example of the series of
products may have actually borne the "PC" designation, but the term soon
passed into the more generic usage. I can barely recall my first desktop,
1985 or so, an NCR with 2 5.25" floppies combined with the CPU and the
Monitor, all in single heavy package.


Ok, so you were a later starter. I guess that's not your fault.

Maybe he was 6 in 1985.

Greg Procter wrote:

"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:


I'm sure no-one cares that you have your own weird and non-standard
measurements, just give them unique names and stop pretending that they
are proper imperial measures.

This is interesting, coming from a person in a country without a
currency called "dollar" until 1967. Since the Kiwi dollar is worth less
than a US dollar, do you think NZ is short changing people?



You're surely not mistaking the NZ Dollar for the US dollar??? Ours has
just one line through it ($)
Five years ago our dollar was worth US 49c, now it's US78-80c. I guess
by the end of the year they will be equal.

I knew you would make a comment about the USD recent decline in value.

However, the NZD was once worth 1.28 USD, so I guess the NZD is just now
starting to recover.

Forget the damn sybol.

You call it a dollar, we call it a dollar.

This is in response to your complaints about the US gallon being
different than a NZ gallon and trying to short-change people due to the
smaller amount.