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Hard to have much sympathy for folks who wait until the last moments to file... particularly when they are relying on PC's, the internet, etc...
Good luck! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
BTW - Pretty sure the US federal deadline is Monday, April 18 this year if that helps.
I've used TaxAct for more than a decade without issue, but then again I usually file in February.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Update, it was early morning phone failure.
Just spoke to a living human, got the magic sauce, I am filing taxes
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So intelligence cannot arise without intelligence create it... 
evolution believer will be angry now
modified 14-Apr-16 11:01am.
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Sure it can - like it always does - and always has: by accident.
Ask those million monkeys on their million typewriters for a million years.
Message to self: Locate. Exterminate.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I've seen no evidence of intelligence yet.. 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Maybe they ought to concentrate on artificial stupidity??? They seem more successful in that area...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Thing is, it's not artificial
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Personally, as Griff can vouch for, I've been researching the possibility of Alcohol Enhanced Intelligence™ (desperately seeking the Ballmer peak). But it's not working out quite as expected. 
Oh well, guess I just have to continue trying... I think I might even have to sacrifice my weekend in the name of science
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: artificial stupidity??
Microsoft break through in this arena with the invention of "clippy" and the XP search puppy.
Now they are more insidious, for instance visio scroll to random place when you paste. Or the ribbon bars.
Common public will not be comfortable on a PC unless it is stupid as them and there friends.
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Somewhere back in the not to distant past I commented to the effect that stupidity is more difficult a problem to fix than death.
You've seen movies about 'the undead', but no one's come up with a movie about 'the unstupid'.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: no one's come up with a movie about 'the unstupid'
The Lawnmower Man (1992)[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Perhaps we could develop a Defibrillator for the brain dead?
If nothing else, it'd be fun giving them electric shocks while testing... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's surely one of your more redeeming qualities - you can really get into the spirit of things.
(Even if it is Gin)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Night of the living brain dead
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Any UK Club around 3AM...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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In that case stupidity cannot exist without someone stupid creating it. And I mean the mental handicap, not ignorance. The absence of potential. Or could it be that genes are partially the ones that help determine that trait along with our surroundings?
I don't think that Microsoft's AI had any problems with "genetics". It was the surroundings that were the problem. Releasing her on Twitter, I mean why not just throw kids into an ocean to teach them how to swim?
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RUs123 wrote: I mean why not just throw kids into an ocean to teach them how to swim?
Sharks. Ocean. Kids. Need I say more?
Just not enough sharks...
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I suspect you still refer to your child's age in months, given your dislike of children.
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I have nothing against children.
And I'm planning on keeping it that way.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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RUs123 wrote: I don't think that Microsoft's AI had any problems with "genetics".
I don't know, it did seem to be programmed to try and be a popular-but-vacant airhead. It just repeated things that it "thought" people wanted to hear, without any ability to really think for itself or any awareness of human reactions, language, culture or history.
I don't think we have much to worry about from AI at the moment, unless the plan is to duckface-selfie us into oblivion
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
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Quote: I don't think we have much to worry about from AI at the moment, unless the plan is to duckface-selfie us into oblivion Smile |
Isn't that what the cool kids are doing? 
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Well I'm almost current, when someone makes a selfie that includes me, I usually pull the old hatchetfish face.[^]
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