"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
>
> Dan wrote:
> > >I'm not important enough to be worth kidnapping, anyways :-)
> > >
> > > Gautam
> >
> > Well, according to my stochastic analysis of Brin-L loyalities,
> friendships
> > and financial resources, after 1 million model runs, I've concluded
> that it
> > the most likely outcome of you being kidnapped is that the Brin-L
> community
> > would contribute $167.24 +/- 14.32 to any ransom fund.
>
> Only if I get a receipt. Can I write it off on my taxes?
I tell you what, Adam -- you calculate your taxes, and you calculate
what they would be if you *could* write them off, and I'll be happy to
pay you the difference up to whatever the difference would be if you
contributed the *entire* $181.56 which is the upper limit of Dan's
interval. Of course, I'm going to require that you do the calculations
using TurboTax for tax year 2002, and the software won't be available
for a few more months. ;)
Julia
