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  The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any evidence at all and, when there was no reply, dismissed him....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• Nearly half of the 30 million penalty notices the IRS mails out each year are erroneous, according to a study by Money magazine.
  In one case, because of a computer glitch, a barber in Santa Rosa, California, was notified in 1993 that he owed the agency $...
• The following is a memo from the president of Cyberell Computer Company.
  "All of our customer-service employees recently attended a two-day retreat during which they received retraining in effective customer service....
• DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
  2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors....
• I'm from the IRS. The government has spent all your tax money. Could we please have some more?
• Could You Get Fired for Visiting Slashdot? PADUCAH, KY -- Matt Johnson, an employee at Paradigm Shift Consulting, Inc.
  was fired from his programming job because of his addiction to Slashdot....
• A recent addition to the IRS employee manual makes clear that the agency would continue to operate and to collect taxes immediately after any national emergency -- "especially resulting from nuclear attack.
• Electronic Mail: For when you absolutely, positively, have to lose important documents at the speed of light.
  -- Anon....