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Ban On Internet Sales Tax Ends Saturday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the salivating-pigs dept.

donnyspi writes "As reported in the Rocky Mountain News, among other places, the 5 year ban on collecting sales tax on purchases over the internet is scheduled to end Saturday. 'The original moratorium was established in 1998, renewed in 2001 and is set to expire Saturday. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in September that would expand the ban and make it permanent. Similar legislation hasn't yet been voted on in the Senate.'

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  1. My Mac sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  2. I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX!

  3. dsfasdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FUCK why THE fuck CANT I GET A first POST :(

  4. Doesn't matter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...yer all a bunch of thieves who'll find some way around it anyway.

  5. Re:GNAA Announces acquisition of SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    some retard just blew 5 of their mod points on this crap.
    What a moron.
    Does he not realize he isnt getting paid for this?
    HAhahahah.

  6. BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT WILDCAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And WILDCAT is on TEH SPOKE

  7. Yes this is off-topic, but... by Mrs.+Neutron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I want to resurrect the discussion about a Canada icon, and to throw in my own vote.

    How about Celine Dion's head in the flipping Southpark style?

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    Pet Peeve: Perscription drug advertising to the general public.

  8. Re:There is NO ban on sales tax collection by WTFmonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Thank you, nicely put. This discussion should be closed now, and you can all go home.

    As an offtopic sidenote, THIS FIRE SUCKS. It hurts to breathe and my eyes are watery all the time. On the plus side, it makes for some bitchin' sunsets.

    I just got a new truck and I can't even wash the thing because the ash will turn to sludge and I'll just be rubbing the mud in (not to mention wasting water that firefighters need). Does anyone know if fire ash is acidic enough to ruin a new paint job?

  9. Re:I bought a laptop last monday from Dell... by bfischer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A physics presence? Does that mean that they have a store where Einstein or Hawking worked at one time?