As seen in the blog of the magnificent yndy

Your "thing of the day to get worked up about:"

The IRS, in its infinite wisdom, has proposed new regulations to allow your tax preparer to sell your information to third parties! Yes, under these new regs, if in the process of signing your returns, your tax preparer manages to slip a release past you, he can sell your information - up to your entire return - to credit card companies, mortgage brokers, anyone who's interested in buying. And of course such businesses can be entirely trusted never to have a computer break-in or a dishonest employee who sells your information or just plain turn some extra profit by selling it themselves.

Because identity theft is not a problem in the U.S.

Rest assured, America. You know right where you stand with your federal government.

Bent over, and holding your ankles.

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I have reached what can be referred to as the "Whee-boo" moment.

"WHEEEE!!! My 40+ page portion of the final group project is DONE!!!!"

"BOO!!! I haven't heard a peep from the other 4 members of the group, which means that in the end I will still lose another weekend to the damned thing."

2 of the other 4 have been terrific at putting together their portions, but both require extensive editing.

The other 2, on the other hand, have done a slap-dash job or less. We did poorly on project 3 because none of the three who actually do the work had the time to redo the work of the worst slap-dasher - who literally did not turn in anything until the day before the entire project was due.

I am determined not to see that happen again. I assigned him the simplest part of the project, once that was already partly done. I have no doubt that he will screw it up, but I will at least be able to fix his work.

I hate group projects, but they probably teach the most useful lesson in life: you will always have to work with lazy-ass dicks.