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DoD and java ? This is matching all stereotypes about German Defense so far 
GenJerDan wrote: I'd be sitting in a basement doing something else
I think John may have a lot of basement and DoD stories to tell...
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If it's Contract vs Permanent, then you may want to look a bit more closely: Contract != IncomeTaxFree
It means that you become responsible for your own tax affairs, and will have to pay the government directly instead of the company you work for doing it for you. You need to plan for that, and deduct it from your "pay packet" in advance or you will come a serious cropper at the end of the tax year.
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Nope. There's an income tax exclusion up to $105K. I could pay it and "get it back", or just tell them not to do any deductions, since I will not be going over 105K. The only non-elective deductions I should have will be the 14% (or so) for Social Security & Medicare.
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Nice!
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GenJerDan wrote: There's an income tax exclusion up to $105K
Do you have a link to more information on this? I am just curious more than anything else
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Thanks for the info, its interesting...
So how come Germany don't want any income tax from you? Or is that just basically the 14% you mentioned earlier on?
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I may be sitting here, but I'm not a part of Germany. (Same with the US Military here.) (We don't even pay VAT on most things.)
BUT, if I did pay German taxes, I would get reimbursed by the US, come tax time. (Or at least it could be claimed as a deduction, which might work out the same, money-wise, depending on how much US tax I would normally have to pay.)
All various agreements with foreign countries doing all sorts of fun things. 
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The local tax free benefit is spelled out somewhere in the morass of NATO treaties. The US tax free benefit is just a way for the US Govt to make working for it abroad more attractive.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have no idea how you earn tax free money legally
In USA, there was a program (A1B visas, perhaps?) that allowed a legal form of slavery that skirted taxes.
Originally, at least, a foreign worker could get a job via an A1B visa if no US citizen could be found to fill the position. The solution was to advertise a job with specification that perhaps only a few people in the world could meet - and then, with such specialization - and a relatively crappy salary (to make sure no US citizen with the experience would consider the job). In exchange, the company got a cheap employee who could not change jobs for (at least) three years.
So the company got cheap labor, US employees were cheated out of jobs by what amounted to an imported indentured servant.
The above went on in Chemistry - so it's a good guess it went on all over the tech world
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What is more important 800 a month or a job that you like?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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When paying off debt, 800 (twice a month).
And I hate my current job, anyway. Seriously. Not the usual grumbles about any job. 
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I live in fear of having to get a real job. I feel for you, mate.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ya 
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right after writing CRUD db access code.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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CRUD ? There really is an acronym for everything nowadays.
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And CRUD is one of the oldest
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Hey, get out of under my rock.
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you're getting your \d regex escape but it's ASCII for now.
=)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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create/read/update/delete.
The common pattern when implementing code that presents a UI for DB records.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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... by newbs with no clue what they're doing.
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he likes it when i lay my head on him and treat him like a pillow.
that's a dog thing. get it right. the cat is supposed to tear my face off if i do that.
debug!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Just eat some chocolate. Then all will be right with the world.
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