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Kilosmorning all and sundry04:49
Symmetriaman, the rand is just going more and more to shit 10:44
Symmetriaand its becoming a real pain in the ass to calculate my income based on all the currencies involved10:45
Kilosgonna keep dropping according to predictions Symmetria 11:01
Kilosone says 19 to the dollar by year end11:01
Kiloshi gremble 11:01
Symmetriaheh kilos yeah, but I was just trying to calculate11:02
Symmetriaif I was better off or worse off 11:02
Symmetriabased on how it had moved11:02
Symmetriabecause I get paid in dollars into south african accounts which converts it to rands, then I spend it in kenya shillings where I live 11:03
Symmetriaso my net gain comes from calculating dollars -> rand -> kes11:03
Symmetriabecause if the rand is dropping as fast against the shilling as it is against the dollar, I'm not actually gaining 11:03
Symmetria:P turns out its not though 11:03
Kilosai!11:04
Kilosthats one advantage of not having money, nothing to lose11:05
Symmetriaheh, this isnt about gaining or losing11:11
Symmetriaits just about calculating if your salary is effectively going up or down11:11
Symmetriaso when it comes to salary negotiations you can argue more effectively11:11
Symmetria;p11:11
Kiloslol11:15
grembleHey ki12:13
Kiloslol12:34
SquirmMorning13:11
Kiloshi Squirm you still alive lad?13:11
Kilosi see you got your timezones a bit mixed up13:12
Kilosyou been near to inetpro and got infected?13:12
Kilosohi superfly 13:13
inetprogood evening13:13
inetproand ohi OomKilos13:13
Kiloshahaha13:13
Kiloswe have 13mm last night inetpro 13:14
inetpro8.5mm on Friday plus 12mm last night, so I win13:15
inetproagain13:15
Kiloshahaha13:17
Kilosonly enough to make the dubbeltjies happy13:17
SquirmIGT13:21
SquirmIt's always morning :D13:21
Kiloslol13:21
SquirmInternational Greeting Time13:21
Kilosaha13:21
Squirm:P13:22
SquirmHow are you?13:22
SquirmBut yeah - I'm doing well13:22
Kilosim good ty13:22
Symmetriaheh man14:20
Symmetriathe US powerball jackpot14:20
Symmetriais up to 1.3 billion dollars14:20
Symmetriacan you imagine winning that? I mean, honestly, I could probably blow through 1 or 2 hundred million but I'd have no clue what to do with the rest of it ;p14:20
grembleInvest it in SpaceX14:21
Symmetrialike, hai, I want my own submarine cable system, now I got enough bandwidth to last me the rest of my life, then I want my own mini data centre with enough tech toys to keep me amused for ages, and a petabyte or 2 of disk space, add a few cars, then what ;p14:21
Symmetriahaha I'd so build my own cable system to europe ;p14:22
Symmetria"how much bandwidth do you have?!" "Oh, a few terabit!"14:22
Symmetria;p14:22
grembleBuy mweb and fire everyone and burn it to the ground14:22
Symmetriahaha build a cable system, start selling bandwidth on it for $1 a meg14:23
Symmetriadrive everyone else into bankcrupcy 14:23
Symmetriawhy? because you can ;p14:23
grembleconvert it into Rands, drive into town and start handing out insane amounts of money to everyone14:24
Symmetriahaha convert it to rands and drive into whatever suburb you like and buy out all the houses in your road and declare you now own the road and its closed to the public ;p14:24
Symmetria(and make it some busy road that will cause traffic chaos)14:25
grembleHaha Buy an entire block in Brooklyn, flatten it and make a farm in the middle of town14:25
gremble:P14:25
Symmetria:P put it this way, with that kinda money, you could put awake 100 or 200 million to make sure you have enough to live on very comfortably14:26
Symmetriaand then have a hell of a lot of fun14:26
Symmetria:P14:26
Symmetriasomeone irritates you, buy their employer and close their company down 14:27
Symmetriacheers, screw you, you have no job ;p14:27
Symmetriaman, some how I think me getting my hands on that kinda cash would be bad, haha I'd go make a lot of people very unhappy14:27
grembleHaha14:27
grembleSo you are not thinking of using that cash to make more? :P14:28
Symmetriawtf would I want more for?14:28
SymmetriaIm thinking if using it to get even for the last 36 years of my life :p14:28
grembleHaha most people can usually never have enough14:28
Symmetriahahaha14:28
grembleDO you know how much tax you would pay on that?14:28
grembleO.o14:28
grembleI would never work, and just spend my life getting new and interesting degrees14:29
gremblexD14:29
Symmetriagremble in my case, zero ;p14:29
Symmetrialaw in south africa says that if you're an expat and outta the country 180 days a year and 30 days of it is consecutive, anything you earn while outta the country is tax exempt14:29
grembleSymmetria: Why would you not pay tax on that? You'll probably have to pay tax to get it out of the US. 14:29
Symmetria;p14:29
Symmetriaoh yeah you'll pay the flat US tax14:29
grembleDon't you have to pay tax to the country that you live in though?14:29
Symmetria30% ;p14:30
Symmetriaoh well, that screws you down to a billion14:30
Symmetriagremble in KE gambling winnings arent taxable14:30
Symmetria;p14:30
grembleNice14:30
Symmetriabesides, rich people have the means to find ways to avoid tax ;p14:30
grembleLol14:31
Symmetrialol well thats what my brother tells me anyway :P he's always moaning at how I structured things to avoid paying tax myself and telling me that its not fair because others dont have the means to do that14:32
Symmetriamy brother = eternal socialist ;p14:32
Symmetrialol, where as I'm the complete opposite, I'm a hard line capitalist, use whatever legal means I can to get outta paying for anything ;p14:33
smilebye :)19:40

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