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Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing
"The layout of our Web page doesn't do a great job of showing that the story continues on a second page. That's where I explain what is up for taxing.He also provides this link to the full, uninterrupted text.Quoting the story now:
'...That brings them under the purview of the proposed rule, which includes computer networks as 'substitute communications systems' -- subject to a 9.17 percent state tax, plus local option taxes.
In Orange County, the local tax typically runs between 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent. That would bring the total tax to between 14-15 percent.
[end of first page, you hafta click to get to the rest of the story]
Computer networks would be taxed at that percent on either annual lease payments or depreciation.'"
Willie Sutton has met his betters.
Syphtor writes "DE Tech has responded to a reporters inquiries as to their patent claims (DE Tech refuses to say why NZ firms were targeted first)
DE Tech appeared previously in the /. article, Australian Gov't Moves To Block E-commerce Patent. Latest: the patent has been just granted in Virginia 'after five years of making changes in the application.'
Legitimate protection of IP or a 'fishing expedition worthy of a Sicilian Mafia protection racket.'?"
Well, not releasing everything, No, not as such, that is, you see ...
An anonymous reader writes "According to this press release from the BBC, the 'BBC creative archive' (earlier on slashdot) will not be as full as previously assumed. As the page says, 'The BBC Creative Archive would make selected BBC material universally available for private not commercial use in the UK.' (my emphasis) Looks like we won't be able to get the Hitchhiker's Guide and complete works of Monty Python after all, folks."
Who, really, is Peter Lynds, and how old is he? evil_one666 writes "You may remember that Slashdot reported a few weeks ago on ground-breaking work in the understanding of time. Well, it appears that it was all a hoax. While the Guardian is running a story that suggests several interesting conspiracy theories (although they seem to think that Peter Lynds is in fact legitimate), Museumofhoaxes.com present some convincing evidence that he is in fact a 17-year-old student at the same radio college at which he claimed to be a 27-year old-lecturer. Astute Slashdot readers rightly pointed out some big red flags, the first time the topic was aired, and Cesar Sirvent, a researcher in the field, has a list of links related to the controversy here."
Outlook Express not yet left out to rot. dr. electron writes "As stated previously on Slashdot, Outlook was to be slaughtered. Now MS says, in a article on Internet Magazine, it won't be, but developed further. They blame communication problem inside the company about the previous press release. Maybe the ongoing development of Outlook Express isn't the biggest news here, I find the reason 'communication problem' a bit odd (It's not a small decision to kill a product)."
Speaking of Outlook and anguish: caseywest, among others, has had enough blame redirected into his email box. He writes "This is my plea, my Public Service Announcement. Please, please stop bouncing email viruses! I don't run any windows computers, and /dev/null'ing viruses are trivial. I cannot, however, say that this problem is only a Windows-only menace. My email address is plastered all over the internet. As a result, I'm receiving thousands of bounced messages claiming I sent a virus. This is costly, let alone wrong! I didn't send you that virus! If you admin an email server, please answer chromatic's one question test. If you're bouncing email viruses, please reconfigure your filters to send viruses to /dev/null, and save us all money on bandwidth, hard disk space, and general anguish. Thank you."
"That brings them under the purview of the proposed rule, which includes computer networks as 'substitute communications systems' -- subject to a 9.17 percent state tax, plus local option taxes" Does that mean my hand gesture just cost me 9.17%???
Automatics are for old men
Computer networks would be taxed at that percent on either annual lease payments or depreciation.
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Hey Florida engineers : I have a whole lot of 2BaseT networking equipment for sale, so you can get a tax break! Man, I never thought I'd be able to do something with that crap.
Florida sure knows how to promote the concept of *old*
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
So... any creative ideas as to what can be done about this? I am now getting as many bounced emails as I am copies of the sobig virus. Used to be a 1:3 ratio.
And it's not just bounced emails. I get personal responses. Someone actually took the time to write me: "You sent me a virus, you fag."
I thought about making an autoresponder for virus notification bounce-headlines (I'm on a Mac--I'm pretty sure it's not me), but wouldn't sending emails back just add to the net-congestion?
Alex.
when Florida as a State can actaully manage to accurately count votes
Then and only then will I believe they might be able to tell the difference between a LAN and a WAN...
apppollogies to the number one Band to come from Florida--Lynard Skynard..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
Considering slashdot readers don't do a great job of reading the actual sites that are posted here, I don't see what the problem is.
Please help metamoderate.
Uhh... so by your logic, the gov. must want to me to stop working and earning money.
yeah. =)
Uhh... so by your logic, the gov. must want to me to stop working and earning money.
Uhh... so by your logic, the gov. always does what it should do?
The world's largest nuclear arsenal is controlled by a man who is functionally illiterate. Doesn't that bother you?
"Functionally" illiterate? What the hell does that mean? Is that the opposite of decoratively illiterate? Or disfunctionally illiterate? How is Harvard one of the most respected universities in the country if they are giving graduate degrees to illiterate people?
Take your Bush-hating, salon.com glasses off for a minute to see how dumb you look, moron.
we ought to only tax things we want less of
Then why the fsck is there an income tax? Shouldn't we be taxing poverty instead?
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
As long as they don't turn on Skynet, everything will be OK. :^)
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
That would be a great argument if only if it were true. Unfortunately, it makes no sense. Is that a trickly up theory? If you were trying to be funny, I'm sorry, there, too.
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Besides, if we didn't tax smokers, how could we afford all those great social programs? ;)
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Most importantly.. to not seem french?