Recent content by clooz

I appreciate your real world examples full of practical and realistic details. I do think the way to improve things is to work on understanding these situations by discussing practical models that can be tested by looking logically at evidence of what works and what doesn't. The next step in...

A majority of a population can be duped and manipulated as easily by a political faction in a democracy as in any other kind of state. Manipulating a national population to go change the political map in Europe, has historically been done by starting wars between France, Spain, Holland, Germany...

GS: yes, i think your summary is correct. She can choose to file as married-filing-separately in the year of the sale and take the capital gain exclusion, or if he has never taken it they can file jointly and share the exclusion. it's a once in a person's life time exclusion.

I do agree that there is much biased and sensationalized use of police in stories for film, and all other media. There appears to be both extremely positive and negative bias at work these days in the media. All of this bias obscures the facts and inflames opinion. I can imagine the...

The discussion is about the changing protocols used in confrontations between police and civilians engaged in lawful protests. I'd be interested in your review of the actual investigative evidence in the documentary Peace Officer, which was made by a retired police chief, who takes great pains...

Have things changed for the better in the US? The protesters and police seem to me to have become more polarized in their attitudes and confrontations. The protesters capture police misconduct on small video cameras, and hack into government files. The police departments have created swat...

Having lived in California for a while, I can give you the names of a couple of water districts and aquifers to search for, that illustrate the diversity of public water sources in California, and the long history of issues. Basically each water district in Ca contracts for different water...

I recall attending the GOP or Democrat's political convention in Miami in the late 60's or early 70's. The water cannon in the streets prevented any political assembly and protest. The police state establishment was in full control. Inside the convention the scrubbed pink faces of the...

We provide public funding for primary and secondary education, not to make life easier for parents or politicians but to protect children from exploitation. Child labour worldwide is not declining. We know from experience that if children are left unprotected that they are always exploited...

I have been investigating why almost no banelco ATM's accept my new chipped cards and most do not. I had the manager at Santander Rio phone around their branches to ask why some machines I tried work and some do not. The story I was told is that many of the ATM's have not been upgraded to...

Here is a link to expats solidarios - they have hosted sign up events in BsAs for service projects. the link gives a list of NGO's active here in 2013 looking for help. http://expatssolidarios.com.ar/participating_ngos_en.html

There is a specialist gastro clinic named GEYT on Beruti at Larea, which was recommended to me by the leading ENT. I prefer it to the other central clinics, including IADT. You can walk in and get an appointment within a few days. They have many gastro specialists.

About 35 years ago Silicon Valley started to offshore development and R&D to India, China, and we even tried Austin, Texas. It's taken 35 years to get to where offshoring is today, and offshore development is still very problematic. It takes years to get an offshoring venture going. The...

Milongas that come to mind as earlier, accessible, and tourist friendly are Milonquita on Armenia, Maldita and Bendita on Peru in San Telmo (take a taxi to the door), Nationale, some at Confiteria Ideal, some at Salon Canning. Pick up a copy of the magazine tangauta at DNI tango when you...

Assuming your income is only soc sec etc, your zero US tax fiing will not change.