Retired people who are living off their savings may have no income. Or what income they have might easily be offset by charitable giving.  Do such people still have to pay some kind of "alternative minimum tax" or does that only apply to people with income?
For US federal tax, whether a taxpayer is subject to AMT is determined by a complicated way in Instructions for Form 1040, Line 45, which involves an incomprehensible "worksheet to see if you should fill in form 6251".  By simplification and approximation, is there a rule of thumb for an estimate of a salary value of a taxpayer, so that a salary above the value might cause the taxpayer to pay AMT with a big possibility, and a salary below the value might not with a big possibility?  Why do the following two sources seem to differ greatly in estimates of the boundary salary value:    says that  the possible boundary salary value for a single taxpayer  to pay AMT is $53,900.  says that      Taxpayers with small incomes fall within the AMT exemption limits.   That leaves the upper middle class to face the tax, especially those   with incomes between $200,000 and $500,000    Thanks.
Quotes insert problem while working with webservice quotes are not inserting may i know what i have to do. my code is     for(integer l=0;l&lt;reqquotes;l++){          qu = new Quote();          qu.Name = qName;          //opp.CloseDate =system.today();           qList.add(qu);             insert oppList;          insert qList;     } I would like my JSON output in Ruby on Rails to be "pretty" or nicely formatted.   Right now, I call to_json and my JSON is all on one line.  At times this can be difficult to see if there is a problem in the JSON output stream.  Is there way to configure to make my JSON "pretty" or nicely formatted in Rails? How do I cd into a directory in the home folder? How to determine whether a unique factorization domain is a principal ideal domain? Could someone please provide an example of a unique factorization domain that is not a principal ideal domain?  Furthermore, is there some way to determine whether a UFD is a PID? What does the plus sign do in '+new Date' calculator's angle answer for trig ratios that can work in more than 1 quadrant on the unit circle Why does the calculator do a cc (counterclockwise) rotation for positive trig ratios instead of clockwise,  and a clockwise rotation for negative sine &amp; tan instead of cc and a counterclockwise rotation for negative cos ratios instead of a clockwise   ie. in degree mode  $\cos^{-1}(-5/12)=114.62$  $\sin^{-1}(-5/12)=-24.62$  $\tan^{-1}(-5/12)=-22.61$  Is it maybe picking the value that involves the least amount of computing power? or is it a matter of convention? or am I overlooking something? creating variable using variable value as part of new variable name I'm trying to create a new variable using the value of an existing variable as part of the variable name.  filemsg"$word1"=" "   I've also tried   filemsg$word1=" "  filemsg${word1}=" "   on all attempts I get the following when that line executes,  cicserrors.sh[45]: filemsgCICS= : not found [No such file or directory] Is there a ZIP code I can enter when paying-at-the-pump in the USA with a foreign credit card? In the USA, many  fuel dispensers that accept credit cards require a  that corresponds to the billing address of the credit card.  In Canada, for instance, we have , so it's not obvious what you're supposed to type in since the gas dispensers have only numeric keypads.  Entering '00000' or '90210' seems to always result in failed authorization.  Is there a zip code that works for credit cards with foreign billing addresses? Spice containers purchase  I'm planning on upgrading my spice storage. Reading some advice online (e.g. , and ) I came to the conclusion that spice containers should:   Not be exposed to direct sunlight and high temperatures Be airtight   Which means that either you store it inside of some closed cupboard/wardrobe/room or you have containers which do block light and are in a relatively shady place. And the containers need to be airtight.  Available solutions  I've been browsing for some containers available online in my country and the 2 most sensible options I've seen are these:       The problem  The first one is hermetic (it has some rubber around the lid) but it's clear glass. The other one does not have the rubber, just a regular twist-off lid, but it's amber glass.  It'll be hard for me to find any space inside of cupboards to store all of my spices (I need at least 30), so I'd rather buy amber glass container, which I believe will effectively block the sunlight, even when kept on the counter. But I can't find any hermetic amber-glass containers, only ones with regular lid.  The question  Is that regular twist-off lid enough to keep spices airtight and fresh? Or should I focus on buying a hermetic container (like the one in clear glass). I could then for example paint them black to block the sunlight. Change bookmark depth I want all bookmarks after "Anhang" (appendix) to be a level deeper, but I need them to be \chapter{} for the right numbering.  I write a scrbook document and that's what I got:    Is it possible to change the depth of the chapter to act like a section in the bookmarks?  UPDATE  MWE:  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{scrbook}  \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}     % deutsche Worttrennung \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}        % Ausgabe von Sonderzeichen und Akzenten in PDF verbessert \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}         % Eingabe von Sonderzeichen möglich \usepackage{lipsum}  \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}     % subsubsections nummerieren \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}        % subsubsections in TOC  \usepackage[ %     pdfproducer={Texmaker},     %      pdfcreator={pdfLaTeX},      %      hidelinks,          % versteckt die Boxen um die Links in der PDF     bookmarksnumbered,      % nummereiert Lesezeichen     ]{hyperref}         % PDF Metainformationen hinzufügen   \begin{document}  \appendix \pagenumbering{alph}  \thispagestyle{empty}  \vspace*{3em} \begin{center} \begin{Huge} \textbf{\textsf{Anhang}} \pdfbookmark{Anhang}{Anhang} \end{Huge} \end{center}  \chapter{Appendix 1}  \chapter{Appendix 2}  \section{Appendix 2.1}  \section{Appendix 2.2}  \chapter{Appendix 3}  \end{document} Does Earth's Rotation Affect Its Shape? Subspace of Noetherian space still Noetherian The review system suggested something was probably spam, what should I do when I see this? While reviewing suggested edits and first posts by new users today, the review system did something new - an alert appeared that suggested that what I was reviewing was probably spam, and prompted me to take a careful look at it.  Should I be doing anything differently than I otherwise do while reviewing when I see this? Additionally, are my actions contributing to helping the spam prevention systems learn? Regularization using methods such as Ridge, Lasso, ElasticNet is quite common for linear regression. I wanted to know the following: Are these methods applicable for logistic regression? If so, are there any differences in the way they need to be used for logistic regression? If these methods are not applicable, how does one regularize a logistic regression? This question came up after reading , in which it is re-iterated (as it has been many times on this site), that investing in the stock market, especially an index fund that tracks the top 100 / 500 companies in a country, basically always has great returns in the long run.  So my question is: Why isn't everybody rich?  If it is so easy (basically invest as heavily as you can in your youth to be rich into middle age and older), why doesn't everyone do this? There would be no need for pensions or any other savings or financial security that way, why even bother investing in assets like property that you have to manage when you can just have an index fund work for you?  I'm guessing that something is being missed here. Reactjs convert html string to jsx Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? How to find the id of the last added feature using pyQGIS? Is it possible to programmatically (in python) access the attribute info of the last added feature in QGIS 2.0 before edits are saved? I'm failing to find a way to get the ID and subsequently other attributes of my feature of interest (the one most recently added).  idx = layer.fieldNameIndex('myField') myList = [] lastEdited = ID THAT I'D LIKE TO RETRIEVE for feature in layer.getFeatures():     if feature.id() == lastEdited:         print feature.attributes()[idx]   From this I'd like to get 'myField' of my most recent addition.   UPDATE: Following lead of this , I was able to achieve my goals via the Python console, but am failing to get it to work for my plugin.  def updateTableWidget(self, fid):     idx = layer.fieldNameIndex('myField')     myList = []     for feature in layer.getFeatures():         if feature.id() == fid:             myList.append(feature.attributes()[idx])   Via the python console, I was able to connect to my layer like so:  layer.featureAdded.connect(updateTableWidget)   After adding a QgsMessageLog to my function, the attributes were correctly identified. I now have a beginner python issue, however. Calling the function in my plugin as shown below gives me TypeError: updateTableWidget() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given):  self.updateTableWidget()   The function was called from feature form python file. two conditions in one sentence using would How can I bring back the old menu style on Chrome 28 onwards, now that the --disable-new-menu-style switch has been removed?