Posts by Zachary White19

After using online banking and the IRS site for five years now, I finally figured out why I occasionally get that "page cannot be displayed" error right after I hit Enter on my PIN... It's not because the PIN is wrong. Not sure if anyone else deals with this stupid glitch or if it's just me...

Samuel Sanders8 said:I’m looking for some guidance if anyone here has more experience with this specific headache—Back on February 28, 2017, our accounting firm had power of attorney for the IRS, but that authorization was officially revoked on that date. Since then, the owner and director of our LLC went ahead and obtained a digital certificate in his own name to handle everything for the company. In my mind, there shouldn't be any need to grant anyone else power of attorney if he’s the primary user, yet every time we try to log in, we get an error message. It says the certificate was issued in his name under that specific EIN, but then claims he lacks the authority to file because someone else is listed as the authorized representative in the registry...

Does anyone have an idea of what the exact next step should be to fix this?

Just shoot them an email.

Amanda Allen4 said:It is a widely held belief that technology is an unalloyed blessing designed to make human life easier. No one is disputing that—but can we really ignore the potential fallout?

We are constantly bombarded with this phrase "disruptive technology"—a term that essentially carries the subtext that certain technological leaps come at a devastating cost to humanity. Specifically, it refers to the kind of rapid development that strips humans right out of the production cycle, driving unemployment through the roof. On a global scale, the scarcity of jobs that allow anyone willing to work to actually earn a living is undeniably one of our most pressing crises today.

Now, let’s be clear: technological progress has always resulted in certain jobs disappearing, but it has also traditionally created new ones. Everything worked fine as long as that ratio remained positive—you know, as long as we were creating more opportunities than we were destroying.

But today? The landscape is shifting under our feet. We are witnessing automation accelerate at such a pace that it is making human labor redundant in almost every sector of manufacturing. This balance has been violently disrupted, and frankly, it’s no wonder we are seeing rising resentment toward the free market and a surge in protectionist rhetoric across the country.

The real question remains: where does this all end, and is there even a way out?

I look at it differently. Maybe the fault isn't with the technology itself, but rather that it gives us all this freedom, and we just don't know what to do with it...

From what I can gather, the IRS.gov system is basically there to verify all the data coming back from the transaction... since the SSN is generated locally on your own computer while the JIRA comes straight from the IRS servers. Depending on which software you're running, you might not even need that certificate because some programs don't bother checking it at all...

Thomas Diaz8 said:After submitting my sales tax return, I realized I made an error. How am I supposed to go about correcting a filing that has already been sent off? Is it sufficient to simply submit a revised version, or am I required to visit the local IRS office to provide a formal explanation regarding why this correction is necessary?

Just send over a new one using the same period dates. It’s only an issue if you mess up the actual date range... then you're stuck...

Brian Campbell36 said:To whom it may concern;

I find myself unable to access the ETA ledgers, as I am repeatedly met with the following notification;

Error retrieving Tax Accounting Ledger. Please try again.

Same thing is happening to me. Been stuck for a few days now... probably gotta wait until tomorrow when someone at the office realizes some idiot stayed late after the holiday party and accidentally unplugged the server while looking for an outlet to charge their phone before heading home... maybe...

Brenda Chase3 said:Quick question for the group... Does everything run smoothly on Windows 10? I’m not just talking about how things are working today, but the general stability of it all. Specifically, I want to know if I can rely on the IRS portal, Social Security Administration sites, Chase, and Wells Fargo. If I decide to make the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 10, am I going to spend half my life fiddling with settings just to get these essential services to behave?

I recently put Windows 10 on a computer. I found Internet Explorer (which means I'm not using Bing, which comes with Windows 10 and acts as the browser, but rather the old Internet Explorer that's there just so older stuff still works, since it doesn't work in Bing anymore) and my Chase and IRS sites are working fine (sent an IRS form and paid my taxes two days ago). Everything worked without any tweaking (except for what I mentioned)...

The only thing is, I don't know if GFI-POD will work, since even before this, you had to set up Internet Explorer to run in some old compatibility mode...

Casey James56 said:Does anyone actually have a fix for this nightmare???? 😠😠😠

I always have to plug the stick in twice before it finally works... I plug it in, wait for the light to stop blinking, pull it out, wait a second just to be safe, then plug it back in. Maybe give that a shot, might help...

Jose Miller3 said:A slightly improved version of this thread, posted on the forums and for everyone 😬

So, look—the recipes we have for elderberry juice are... well, they're hit or miss. But they all share one thing in common: they require an insane amount of sugar (we're talking 1 kg of sugar per liter of water; even Coca-Cola, which we all know is ridiculously sweet, only has 10g of sugar per 100ml—so healthy homemade elderberry juices actually have ten times more sugar than a Coca-Cola 😢). Honestly, I don't get why you need such a massive, terrible amount of sugar, but apparently, it's necessary because I can't find a single recipe where the ratio is any lower. The end result is this super syrupy mess 😢 and then people try to fix it by throwing in some citric acid (or lemon juice, which is basically the same thing), but the syrup stays way too sweet and just doesn't taste enough like elderberry.

Question for the folks here at PZ-ofce: what if we tried taking elderberry flowers and dissolving whatever-it-is-that-gives-juice-its-flavor in some organic solvent, evaporating the solvent to get a pure concentrate (either liquid or, more likely, solid), and then trying to dissolve that in a normal amount of water? Or maybe use it as a powder to make juice like how Nestlé does it? Would that be doable? Is there a talented chemist around here with access to a rotary evaporator, some organic solvent, and maybe thirty minutes to see what happens if we give this a shot? 🙂

For two ounces of elderberry juice you need:
- a spoonful of elderberry syrup
- 2 oz of water minus one spoonful

For two ounces of Coca-Cola you just need:
- 2 oz of Coca-Cola

See the difference now?... 😂

Hannah Barnes said:We find ourselves currently stuck in a stage of scientific development where we can observe phenomena and predict their outcomes with remarkable certainty—thanks to our understanding of physical laws. Yet, we have barely scratched the surface of understanding *why* these things happen in the first place. We know if we drop a stone, it’s going to fall... but how does that stone "know" it should descend? We understand that Earth orbits the Sun, but by what mechanism does Earth know to adjust its trajectory to maintain an elliptical path? One might suggest gravity is the driver, but what, fundamentally, is gravity? We define the Sun's gravitational field as the region where force is exerted on all massive bodies toward its center, yet how does that force act across a vacuum? A possible answer is that the Sun warps spacetime, but then one must ask: what exactly is "space" that can be warped within such a void?
Of course, there is mathematics that models these events and predicts future occurrences with precision. But math alone doesn't provide the underlying reason for existence... it just describes the pattern.
And that is precisely where the impasse lies. Scientists can tell us that a process occurs in a specific way, but the average person is left asking "why?" And right now, there is no answer. At least, not yet. I tend to be an optimist... I likely won't see it in my lifetime, but I truly believe that someday, we will finally have an answer that starts with "because."

The issue isn't science itself, it's just that your expectations are contradicting themselves. Every time science hands you a rule explaining why something happens, you immediately go looking for a different rule to explain that first one. It just becomes this endless loop because you're always hunting for a new rule to justify all the old ones. If I were God and I told you, "It's just because I want it that way," you'd probably ask, "Well, why do you want it that way?" and then God would just send you packing... and you'd still be there pestering Him with questions.

Noah Perez13 said:Do you guys think science is just one big illusion? If so, what kind of arguments would you throw at me to back that up?

Look, science is built on observations, right? But observations are just products of how we perceive things. So, science is basically just a massive collection of human perceptions. And let's be real—perception is often just a series of illusions. We can actually see our scientific rules falling apart once we hit the quantum scale. The whole idea that the mere act of observing an event can change the outcome... it's wild. It's called the "observer effect." It basically proves that an atom is just scattered across a whole area until a conscious person decides to actually notice it.

Schrödinger's cat — that’s the vibe. Even David Bohm, the quantum physicist, touched on this. Without consciousness, the universe would have no shape; atoms would just be drifting aimlessly through space. The emergence of consciousness is really the spark that pushed the universe into existence. Once we became aware, the universe finally had the chance to take shape and form itself into the reality we experience today.

The idea is that our perception actually relates to the world around us... that it reflects reality. Science studies that and finds patterns, which we then call the laws of nature. People figured out a long time ago that different people can perceive the same thing and that there are rules to what we see.

Noah Perez13 said:Do you guys think science is just one big illusion? If so, what kind of arguments would you throw at me to back that up?

Look, science is built on observations, right? But observations are just products of how we perceive things. So, science is basically just a massive collection of human perceptions. And let's be real—perception is often just a series of illusions. We can actually see our scientific rules falling apart once we hit the quantum scale. The whole idea that the mere act of observing an event can change the outcome... it's wild. It's called the "observer effect." It basically proves that an atom is just scattered across a whole area until a conscious person decides to actually notice it.

Schrödinger's cat — that’s the vibe. Even David Bohm, the quantum physicist, touched on this. Without consciousness, the universe would have no shape; atoms would just be drifting aimlessly through space. The emergence of consciousness is really the spark that pushed the universe into existence. Once we became aware, the universe finally had the chance to take shape and form itself into the reality we experience today.

But science isn't just any random set of illusions. There are actual rules used to categorize them...

Noah Perez13 said:Do you guys think science is just one big illusion? If so, what kind of arguments would you throw at me to back that up?

Look, science is built on observations, right? But observations are just products of how we perceive things. So, science is basically just a massive collection of human perceptions. And let's be real—perception is often just a series of illusions. We can actually see our scientific rules falling apart once we hit the quantum scale. The whole idea that the mere act of observing an event can change the outcome... it's wild. It's called the "observer effect." It basically proves that an atom is just scattered across a whole area until a conscious person decides to actually notice it.

Schrödinger's cat — that’s the vibe. Even David Bohm, the quantum physicist, touched on this. Without consciousness, the universe would have no shape; atoms would just be drifting aimlessly through space. The emergence of consciousness is really the spark that pushed the universe into existence. Once we became aware, the universe finally had the chance to take shape and form itself into the reality we experience today.

You can't have perception without interaction, and interaction—just like perception—changes everyone involved. The only way to observe something is by being an active participant in it. You only perceive something because the thing you're watching changes you. That's the only way you even know anything happened...

When you look at a particle, you're interacting with it. In that moment, both you and the particle change. The shift in you is what makes you aware the interaction took place. And in the same way, through the change it undergoes, the particle becomes aware of you... essentially perceiving you.

Noah Perez13 said:Do you guys think science is just one big illusion? If so, what kind of arguments would you throw at me to back that up?

Look, science is built on observations, right? But observations are just products of how we perceive things. So, science is basically just a massive collection of human perceptions. And let's be real—perception is often just a series of illusions. We can actually see our scientific rules falling apart once we hit the quantum scale. The whole idea that the mere act of observing an event can change the outcome... it's wild. It's called the "observer effect." It basically proves that an atom is just scattered across a whole area until a conscious person decides to actually notice it.

Schrödinger's cat — that’s the vibe. Even David Bohm, the quantum physicist, touched on this. Without consciousness, the universe would have no shape; atoms would just be drifting aimlessly through space. The emergence of consciousness is really the spark that pushed the universe into existence. Once we became aware, the universe finally had the chance to take shape and form itself into the reality we experience today.

It's more likely that it just proves we don't know where it is until we detect it somewhere...

Noah Perez13 said:Do you guys think science is just one big illusion? If so, what kind of arguments would you throw at me to back that up?

Look, science is built on observations, right? But observations are just products of how we perceive things. So, science is basically just a massive collection of human perceptions. And let's be real—perception is often just a series of illusions. We can actually see our scientific rules falling apart once we hit the quantum scale. The whole idea that the mere act of observing an event can change the outcome... it's wild. It's called the "observer effect." It basically proves that an atom is just scattered across a whole area until a conscious person decides to actually notice it.

Schrödinger's cat — that’s the vibe. Even David Bohm, the quantum physicist, touched on this. Without consciousness, the universe would have no shape; atoms would just be drifting aimlessly through space. The emergence of consciousness is really the spark that pushed the universe into existence. Once we became aware, the universe finally had the chance to take shape and form itself into the reality we experience today.

It's just a poetic way of saying today's universe comes from endless interactions between particles, fields, and whatever else... even middle schoolers get the concept, they just don't say it so grandly.

Noah Perez13 said:Do you guys think science is just one big illusion? If so, what kind of arguments would you throw at me to back that up?

Look, science is built on observations, right? But observations are just products of how we perceive things. So, science is basically just a massive collection of human perceptions. And let's be real—perception is often just a series of illusions. We can actually see our scientific rules falling apart once we hit the quantum scale. The whole idea that the mere act of observing an event can change the outcome... it's wild. It's called the "observer effect." It basically proves that an atom is just scattered across a whole area until a conscious person decides to actually notice it.

Schrödinger's cat — that’s the vibe. Even David Bohm, the quantum physicist, touched on this. Without consciousness, the universe would have no shape; atoms would just be drifting aimlessly through space. The emergence of consciousness is really the spark that pushed the universe into existence. Once we became aware, the universe finally had the chance to take shape and form itself into the reality we experience today.

That’s just poetic fluff that doesn't really add anything new. It's like saying "I think, therefore I am"... nothing groundbreaking...