Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux to be illegal in California? Date: 19 May 2026 00:50:03 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10u03i7$4nle$1@dont-email.me> <10u2bjn$7tk9$1@dont-email.me> <6a07822e$0$3165$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10u843m$hvvd$1@dont-email.me> <6a083124$0$31890$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10ub04s$1ajlh$3@dont-email.me> <6a099f92$0$2517$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10uclqs$1omrb$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net u2ebZaKIP6dfyPB4K28/6QXrrnZlcWj+YxdBhcGT2+/C1yMceK Cancel-Lock: sha1:3SMOa4lyiGa0JLnoHXevj/sLai8= sha256:gtiSyrwyOoLbcEUyndORbacvEOnNPNGtr83k6yEAJco= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86876 On Mon, 18 May 2026 22:49:20 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > In Spain, we no longer fill the taxes in paper, but when we did, years > back, there was a page with several large graphical bit codes that > scanners could read easily. That was the only part that mattered, they > did not OCR the document at all. I haven't used paper in several years. After they sopped mailing the forms you could get them at the library but I'm not sure that you still can. My tax situation is not at all complicated so it's an exercise in filling in boxes. Since all the information has been already reported to the government they could do it but somehow the politicians screw up making it that easy.