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Jan 14, 2024 23:39:02   #
mikee wrote:
My wife and I decided not to as our property is very shaded, but I thought the energy companies HAD to, by law, buy back unused power. It's just that they can pay you less for it than if you bought a kilowatt hour, and it would be a credit towards future energy purchases. Also, the panels will add some value to the house, which has nothing to do with dollars earned from the power company.


No, at least not in Delaware. They have no requirement to buy your excess, but typically would as it would likely be cheaper than the power they generate or buy elsewhere, and they pay you in credits that expire each year. They can also decline to let you tap into the grid if their existing equipment doesn't support your request. For instance, if the nearest transformer to my house was already at capacity with other nearby solar installations, I would have to pay for an upgrade/replacement of the transformer before being granted permission to tie into the grid.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:39:25   #
Indi wrote:
I don’t know about your area & utilities “buying back” electricity but in NY, the utility buys energy back from you at the “wholesale rate” so it wouldn’t be at the rate you pay them. I don’t have solar, but I do believe in
It.


Depends on the state. Here in Delaware, the utility (Delmarva Power) charges us for our net usage, i.e., the same $/kWh whether buying or selling. We do, however, pay a charge for having a connection to the power grid. My bills are around $35/month, but would be around $170/month without our solar panels.
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Jan 8, 2024 16:38:04   #
gvarner wrote:
How about eliminating the general non-photography chit chat forum? It has absolutely no relevance here. Th3 dialogue spirals into nonsense pretty fast. Me, I’m looking for photography insights here.


When I go to the ice cream store I don't order chocolate because I don't like chocolate. I choose a different flavor, but I don't harass the owner and other customers, trying to get them to stop ordering chocolate.
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Jan 8, 2024 16:34:36   #
gvarner wrote:
How about eliminating the general non-photography chit chat forum? It has absolutely no relevance here. Th3 dialogue spirals into nonsense pretty fast. Me, I’m looking for photography insights here.


Seems to me you have two options. 1, you can ignore this section if it doesn't interest you, or 2, you can complain that other people find it interesting. You seem to prefer complaining. It's not rocket science, just don't open this section.
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Jan 8, 2024 09:37:52   #
srg wrote:
Nonsense.
Just don't read it.


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Dec 25, 2023 10:39:04   #
DMCMD wrote:
At the airline check-in one is asked if there are any lithium batteries in the checked luggage.
I understand the fear of causing a fire in the hold.
Does this apply to camera batteries as well?
Thanks, David


Absolutely. No camera batteries allowed in checked luggage!
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Dec 25, 2023 10:36:57   #
Jack 13088 wrote:
Did anybody ever notice that the first thing a CD does is download the actual current program? Not only tax prep software but all software of any value. Why? Of course, the first reason is they want your unique key before activation of the program. It is called theft prevention. And CDs are way too slow and small to load the full program in a reasonable time. And the IRS doesn’t actually approve the programs until long after those boxes and CDs are entered into the supply chain. Oh, I haven’t owned a computer with a built in disk drive in many moons. However, I do know approximately where my $10 dollar USB drive is stored.
Did anybody ever notice that the first thing a CD ... (show quote)


Agreed. I doubt the CD has much more on it than just the activation ID and a link to the website. I've gotten the download version for the last several years. If I ever need to revise a previous return, I can re-download the software from the TurboTax website.
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Dec 25, 2023 10:30:42   #
Manglesphoto wrote:
I switched to a CPA 30 years ago!!! it was so easy stop by his/her office on the home from work drop off papers a few days later stop and pick up.
Enter E Filing stop, sign forms, go home and wait for refund conformation Direct dep. No longer have to do any of that 😉 Getting old ain't so bad 😉😉


Depends on the quality of your CPA. I used a CPA one year when we had a particularly complex filing with a real estate Starker exchange. Three different times I disagreed with his position on various points in our return. He insisted I was wrong and I insisted he check with a senior partner. Each time he came back and conceded he was wrong. Even with all of that, when checking through the return I found multiple math errors! I've never found a math error in TurboTax.
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Dec 10, 2023 11:19:53   #
jlg1000 wrote:
My first O/S was - in reality - none at all, but looked like this:


My job in college was to monitor the card reader, to make sure no one put their cards in upside down, and to help them pick their cards up when they dropped their stack, which happened several times a day. Easy money. The downside was that the reader was in the same room as the line printer, which was deafening. Had to wear earplugs.
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Dec 8, 2023 17:23:43   #
sippyjug104 wrote:
My first computer was an Osborne-1 that had two floppy drives and a five-inch non-graphic screen. The operating system was CP/M2 and I paid a staggering $1,800 when I bought it in 1981.


Spent $2k on my Osborne, but it came with Wordstar and SuperCalc.
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Dec 8, 2023 17:21:51   #
Longshadow wrote:
And 2400 baud was the cat's meow!


I would have killed for 2400! Mine was only 1200.
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Nov 30, 2023 11:59:03   #
You probably have the payee memorized. One way to pull up your list of memorized payees is with CTR+T. Find the payee in your list, highlight it and to the far right you will see buttons for Edit or Delete. Clicking Edit will bring up a popup window titled "Edit Memorized Payee" and near the middle is a checkbox for "Mark as cleared." Uncheck this box.
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Nov 19, 2023 14:51:39   #
Perhaps part of the confusion comes from people thinking Nikon is Nikon. Nikon Corporation is the manufacturer, and it's a Japanese company, part of the Mitsubishi Group. Nikon Inc., USA, is a US corporation that commonly refers to itself as "NikonUSA". NikonUSA is a reseller and servicer. They purchase their cameras from Nikon Corporation. They are two separate and distinct companies.
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Nov 19, 2023 14:23:56   #
BebuLamar wrote:
No you didn't answer my question. My question isn't where to buy gray market goods but where are those gray market goods were originally intended to be sold (They are not intended to be sold in the USA by the manufacturers).


All of these cameras rolled off the same assembly line and were offered to any company wanting to buy them in bulk. None of them were manufactured with the intent of being sold in any specific market. The "gray market" distinction has nothing to do with the actual cameras, it is the result of who bought them and how they sold them. Those cameras that were bought by NikonUSA were bought for sale in the US with a US warranty and repairs through the NikonUSA network, and are considered by NikonUSA to be "legitimate." Those bought by other companies were bought to sell wherever and however they felt it was profitable. The cameras were NOT manufactured for a specific country. Foreign language menus are software/firmware updates made at the request of the purchasing company. For example, a camera sold in Japan by an authorized dealer in Japan is not a "gray market" camera when it's serviced in Japan. It's when the consumer who bought that camera in Japan and then tries to get it serviced in the US, that it becomes deemed a "gray market" camera in the eyes of NikonUSA. Effectively, the term "gray market" means it has no NikonUSA warranty and no access to the NikonUSA repair network, but has nothing to do with where or how it was manufactured.
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Nov 19, 2022 12:57:48   #
For taking selfies, they already are better. Whether you can make the general statement that they are better depends entirely on what you are trying to do with them.
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