The totally off-topic thread

[amaroo]

Great day for flying today!

The temperature difference from departure/arrival went from -30C to 20C......and, the four of us got upgraded to F on AA YUL-MIA

Happy days.....heading out in shorts ( no more thermals, 4 coats and a ton of other stuff) to drink beer on Sth Beach, Miami:mrgreen:

 

[JohnK]

Sounds like - Skyline Court Apartments - Basic but OK ....checkout tripadvisor reviews etc . .......bit out of the way unless you need to be in the Bowen Hill / Royal Brisbane Hospital area ......

Wrong street. I wouldn't have any money left if I stayed there.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So Cruiserette goes shopping yesterday and was just so proud of the new trinket she had on display in the lounge last night:

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

So Cruiserette goes shopping yesterday and was just so proud of the new trinket she had on display in the lounge last night:

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Where did she get it ? I need one of those too !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Where did she get it ? I need one of those too !!!!!!!!!!

I will get my paws on one for you young lady - will pm you when I have it.

 

[whatmeworry]

The kid who identified weaknesses in the Myki website and tried to contact the relevant authorities to alert them to the websites flaws. Well for this Kids good deed the PTV want the Victorian Police to charge him under cybercrime laws. FMD. The kid tried to help them and they want to charge him! Hve they ever heard of a white hat?

Hacked site reports boy to police

 

[anat0l]

The kid who identified weaknesses in the Myki website and tried to contact the relevant authorities to alert them to the websites flaws. Well for this Kids good deed the PTV want the Victorian Police to charge him under cybercrime laws. FMD. The kid tried to help them and they want to charge him! Hve they ever heard of a white hat?

Hacked site reports boy to police

Looks like no good deed goes unpunished!

It's actually funny - "cybercrime" prevention apart from that within the owner involved the "committing" of a crime first in order to identify a breach. It's almost like breaking a shop window to see if the alarm goes off, and it doesn't. Even if someone doesn't "steal" anything from the shop, the crime of property damage (at minimum) has still been committed.

As painful as it is to go through the process, I hope this boy has his charges thrown out, with additional criticism laid on the authorities for bringing the action to court. On the other hand, work out a "bargain" with the boy and employ him!

 

[Flashback]

I start tomorrow, have to head into head office which is a 100km journey each way so at least will put the car through its paces!

Well, leaving home at 6.45 wasn't enough .. still took 2.5 hours. The M25 can be cruel! Although, getting onto the M25 took a while too.

Today was much better - went to one of the other offices and arrived 1 hour earlier.

 

[Mal]

The kid who identified weaknesses in the Myki website and tried to contact the relevant authorities to alert them to the websites flaws. Well for this Kids good deed the PTV want the Victorian Police to charge him under cybercrime laws. FMD. The kid tried to help them and they want to charge him! Hve they ever heard of a white hat?

Hacked site reports boy to police

Yes and no. It depends on what he did with the access and a whole raft of other things. Being a "white hat" hacker (and he really isn't IMHO) has legal complications if you arent performing testing with the permission of the owners of the website.

 

[Mal]

Well, leaving home at 6.45 wasn't enough .. still took 2.5 hours. The M25 can be cruel! Although, getting onto the M25 took a while too.

Today was much better - went to one of the other offices and arrived 1 hour earlier.

Just make sure you don't take the wrong exit off the M25. Don't want you ending up in slough.

 

[Flashback]

Just make sure you don't take the wrong exit off the M25. Don't want you ending up in slough.

Don't worry... I went M25/M3 today to make sure there was no chance of that happening

 

[JohnK]

I start tomorrow, have to head into head office which is a 100km journey each way so at least will put the car through its paces!

Is the job market really that bad? That would be torture to do that every day.

Time to do something else.

 

[Mal]

40km as the crow drives from home to my workplace....

We can't all live near our work unfortunately.

 

[anat0l]

40km as the crow drives from home to my workplace....

We can't all live near our work unfortunately.

A crow driving isn't doing much better than you are.

A crow flying on the other hand...

 

[JohnK]

We can't all live near our work unfortunately.

Tell me about it.

 

[penegal]

I start tomorrow, have to head into head office which is a 100km journey each way so at least will put the car through its paces!

Your gas bill and congestion tax will be more than your salary

 

[anat0l]

Your gas bill and congestion tax will be more than your salary

Could he claim back those expenses (viz. either through personal income tax, or through company expenses process)?

I know that in Australia, the former option is not possible if your commute merely takes you from residence to work.

 

[penegal]

Could he claim back those expenses (viz. either through personal income tax, or through company expenses process)?

I know that in Australia, the former option is not possible if your commute merely takes you from residence to work.

It was a joke...



The general principal (everywhere, not just Australia) is that all travel from your primary residence (home) to primary place of work (usual site / office / etc) is a personal expense, and never reimbursable or tax-deductible. Any additional travel beyond that (other sites / offices / etc) is generally considered a business expense and should really be paid for by the business, or in some cases may be tax-deductible.

Having said that, I believe in Flashback's case the car in question is a company car, thus he isn't paying for it anyway?

 

[drron]

It's great not having a primary place of work!

 

[penegal]

It's great not having a primary place of work!

So all travel is business?

Many small businesses are registered at their owner's residential address rather than a premises, therefore the "commute" to work is actually a business expense... This is often reasonably legitimate when the bookkeeping occurs after hours in a home office, or the business is of a consulting-type activity where there is no primary place of work.