Despite being "dead in the water" Yahoo has been turning a profit for some time now. As far as I can tell their only recent quarters where they did not make a profit were in 4th Q of 2008 and 1st Q of 2009. Yahoo may not be sexy and "hot", but they also are steadily making a profit.
According to the statistics I can find, the average class size decreased 41% from 1960 to 2010, yet over that same time period the average teacher's salary, adjusted for inflation, has increased 49%. So exactly when was this mythical time when teachers were paid more relative to everyone else than they are today?
The funny thing about that "budget cuts" excuse is that the school budgets did not get smaller after the "budget cuts", they got bigger. If the reason we lost all of these programs is because of budget cuts, how come we are spending more per student today (even after inflation) than ever?
Which of course is the point that you and others (myself included) was trying to get through to "drinkypoo". Who seems to think that the failure of the government to provide the same access to algae growers that they offer to fossil fuel extractors explains the failure of algae growers to have developed algae as an alternative fuel source.
That is not the point. It is only possible to mine coal or extract oil from land that has coal underneath it. What is it about BLM land that makes it more suitable than other land to grow algae for the purpose of creating bio-fuel?
The argument about whether or not the government should allow coal mining and oil drilling on federal lands is completely different from the argument that algae will only become a viable fuel source when someone is allowed to grow it for that purpose on government land. If algae is a viable source of fuel, why is no one using their own land to produce it in quantity?
The problem with using FUD is that it makes it all too easy for someone to sell something as "net neutrality" that is the exact opposite of what you mean by that term.
The only problem with that thought process is that while the dissatisfied customer is unlikely to be able to do anything about it once he discovers that your device does not work, he almost certainly has a large number of now unhappy co-workers, who just happen to be really well trained in, among other things, killing people. In addition the circumstances which resulted in them being unhappy have been observed to leave a small, but significant, portion of the population less than fully in possession of their faculties.
While you are correct that Pyrrhus was, more or less, the aggressor against Rome (he initially began his campaign against Rome in defense of a city which Rome attacked), the term pyrrhic victory refers to any victory in which the winner of the battle ends up losing the war.
So, in other words you are saying that if you run a business that does not have a profit margin large enough to absorb this cost, you are SOL. Big business only need apply in your world. I have a couple of hobbies where the people who make some of the items I buy for the hobby operate a very small business with a customer base spread out throughout the world (although primarily the U.S. and Canada). There are not enough people involved in the hobby in anyone geographic area to make these businesses worth anybody's time. For a significant fraction of these people, having to collect sales tax for every municipality in the country will mean that it is not worth their time to continue.
Just because a problem can be solved for a price, does not make it a good idea to create the problem in the first place (at least now you are admitting that it is a problem).
Although I would bet that you are supposed to pay "Use tax" on those groceries. I have not checked Washington's law on it, but most states require the buyer to pay the sales tax as a "Use tax" on items that they bought out of state that would be subject to sales tax if bought within the state.
That's great, except that zip code does NOT determine what sales tax rate applies to where you live. You are also overlooking all of the sales tax forms that a business is going to have to fill out every quarter, and for good measure, not every state has their fiscal quarters run the same months as everybody else. There is one state on the east coast (I think it is NY) that runs its quarters: December-February, March-May, June-August, September-November, while the neighboring states all run it with the calendar year.
All reporting is biased. Some intentionally, some just because that is how people are. Sometimes things that you would consider important in a story are left out because the reporter, whose world view is different from yours, does not consider them significant. Other times things that you would consider important in a story are left out because the reporter recognizes that they would undermine the narrative he/she is trying to promote with the story.
I avoid news sources I catch doing the latter completely. However, I would prefer news sources to be more honest in their bias. My biggest problem with Fox News is not their "conservative" bias, since they are rather upfront about that. Rather it is several of their other biases that they try to get people to overlook. I cannot give you examples at the moment because it has been several months since I saw the stories and I filed them in my head under "take all Fox News stories with a grain of salt". I do not find it necessary to take their stories about "conservative" issues with a grain of salt because I know where they are coming from and know exactly what information is likely to be missing. These other biases are a result of investments in Fox News and partnerships with Fox News by organizations and individuals who I know to have agendas, but whose agendas I am unfamiliar with the details.
Even if businesses accept bitcoins directly, if they accept $10,000 worth of bitcoins in a single transaction this ruling is that they are required to report it just as they would be required to report it if they accepted USD cash.
The problem is not that mom and pop can't figure out sales tax. The problem is that mom and pop have a business that caters to a couple hundred people worldwide and it isn't worth their trouble to figure out sales tax for a couple thousand municipalities around the country. In the world you favor, if you do not live near that mom and pop, the only way you will be able to buy their merchandise is to travel to where they live, assuming that there are enough people near them interested in their products to be worth their time opening up a shop.
You sound like someone who would shut down children's lemonade stands because they don't meet the health regulations and/or are not properly licensed. I am disappointed that our country is becoming such a country of sheep, only too happy to be herded by the bureaucrats (and fleeced by them as well).
No, I am referring to Bill Ayers, the man who ghost wrote Obama's first autobiography. If you are not familiar with Bill Ayers violent attempts to start a revolution to overthrow the U.S. government, you should do some research into the matter.
The Tea Party does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government today (although some of their more extreme members are beginning to believe that it will be necessary), unlike our current President's political mentor.
That wasn't Joseph McCarthy, that was the Democrats on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, or don't they teach that part in school? When Ayn Rand testified before HUAC, Joseph McCarthy was in the Senate. The HUAC was controlled by Democrats when Joseph McCarthy was making a name for himself.
So, you are saying that these people maintain these sites and I can set up an automatic way to calculate the sales tax for any address in the U.S. without having to lay out money periodically for updates to that information?
Some years back the state I live in changed its sales tax from one that was simple to understand what was taxable to one that was fairly complicated. A local merchant gave up on figuring out was now taxable and what wasn't. He collected sales tax on everything and remitted the full amount to the state. The state prosecuted him for over collecting sales tax, the fines were more than his yearly profit.
OK, how do you figure out what to charge the guy who lives in the county that charges 8% sales tax but has the sip code for the city that charges 8.5% sales tax? How do you know that he does not live in the city? What happens when the county implements a three day tax holiday? On only certain items?
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Despite being "dead in the water" Yahoo has been turning a profit for some time now. As far as I can tell their only recent quarters where they did not make a profit were in 4th Q of 2008 and 1st Q of 2009. Yahoo may not be sexy and "hot", but they also are steadily making a profit.
According to the statistics I can find, the average class size decreased 41% from 1960 to 2010, yet over that same time period the average teacher's salary, adjusted for inflation, has increased 49%. So exactly when was this mythical time when teachers were paid more relative to everyone else than they are today?
The funny thing about that "budget cuts" excuse is that the school budgets did not get smaller after the "budget cuts", they got bigger. If the reason we lost all of these programs is because of budget cuts, how come we are spending more per student today (even after inflation) than ever?
Why stop at $22 an hour? Why not make it $100 an hour?
An important point, the U.S. does not have sales tax, many of the states within the U.S. have sales tax. However, not all U.S. states have sales tax.
Which of course is the point that you and others (myself included) was trying to get through to "drinkypoo". Who seems to think that the failure of the government to provide the same access to algae growers that they offer to fossil fuel extractors explains the failure of algae growers to have developed algae as an alternative fuel source.
That is not the point. It is only possible to mine coal or extract oil from land that has coal underneath it. What is it about BLM land that makes it more suitable than other land to grow algae for the purpose of creating bio-fuel?
The argument about whether or not the government should allow coal mining and oil drilling on federal lands is completely different from the argument that algae will only become a viable fuel source when someone is allowed to grow it for that purpose on government land. If algae is a viable source of fuel, why is no one using their own land to produce it in quantity?
The problem with using FUD is that it makes it all too easy for someone to sell something as "net neutrality" that is the exact opposite of what you mean by that term.
The only problem with that thought process is that while the dissatisfied customer is unlikely to be able to do anything about it once he discovers that your device does not work, he almost certainly has a large number of now unhappy co-workers, who just happen to be really well trained in, among other things, killing people. In addition the circumstances which resulted in them being unhappy have been observed to leave a small, but significant, portion of the population less than fully in possession of their faculties.
While you are correct that Pyrrhus was, more or less, the aggressor against Rome (he initially began his campaign against Rome in defense of a city which Rome attacked), the term pyrrhic victory refers to any victory in which the winner of the battle ends up losing the war.
So, in other words you are saying that if you run a business that does not have a profit margin large enough to absorb this cost, you are SOL. Big business only need apply in your world. I have a couple of hobbies where the people who make some of the items I buy for the hobby operate a very small business with a customer base spread out throughout the world (although primarily the U.S. and Canada). There are not enough people involved in the hobby in anyone geographic area to make these businesses worth anybody's time. For a significant fraction of these people, having to collect sales tax for every municipality in the country will mean that it is not worth their time to continue.
Just because a problem can be solved for a price, does not make it a good idea to create the problem in the first place (at least now you are admitting that it is a problem).
Although I would bet that you are supposed to pay "Use tax" on those groceries. I have not checked Washington's law on it, but most states require the buyer to pay the sales tax as a "Use tax" on items that they bought out of state that would be subject to sales tax if bought within the state.
That's great, except that zip code does NOT determine what sales tax rate applies to where you live. You are also overlooking all of the sales tax forms that a business is going to have to fill out every quarter, and for good measure, not every state has their fiscal quarters run the same months as everybody else. There is one state on the east coast (I think it is NY) that runs its quarters: December-February, March-May, June-August, September-November, while the neighboring states all run it with the calendar year.
I do not watch Fox News or MSNBC, but what you wrote reflects what I have seen in news stories about things that have happened on their shows.
All reporting is biased. Some intentionally, some just because that is how people are. Sometimes things that you would consider important in a story are left out because the reporter, whose world view is different from yours, does not consider them significant. Other times things that you would consider important in a story are left out because the reporter recognizes that they would undermine the narrative he/she is trying to promote with the story.
I avoid news sources I catch doing the latter completely. However, I would prefer news sources to be more honest in their bias. My biggest problem with Fox News is not their "conservative" bias, since they are rather upfront about that. Rather it is several of their other biases that they try to get people to overlook. I cannot give you examples at the moment because it has been several months since I saw the stories and I filed them in my head under "take all Fox News stories with a grain of salt". I do not find it necessary to take their stories about "conservative" issues with a grain of salt because I know where they are coming from and know exactly what information is likely to be missing. These other biases are a result of investments in Fox News and partnerships with Fox News by organizations and individuals who I know to have agendas, but whose agendas I am unfamiliar with the details.
Yeah, I was simplifying when I wrote that.
Even if businesses accept bitcoins directly, if they accept $10,000 worth of bitcoins in a single transaction this ruling is that they are required to report it just as they would be required to report it if they accepted USD cash.
The problem is not that mom and pop can't figure out sales tax. The problem is that mom and pop have a business that caters to a couple hundred people worldwide and it isn't worth their trouble to figure out sales tax for a couple thousand municipalities around the country. In the world you favor, if you do not live near that mom and pop, the only way you will be able to buy their merchandise is to travel to where they live, assuming that there are enough people near them interested in their products to be worth their time opening up a shop.
You sound like someone who would shut down children's lemonade stands because they don't meet the health regulations and/or are not properly licensed. I am disappointed that our country is becoming such a country of sheep, only too happy to be herded by the bureaucrats (and fleeced by them as well).
No, I am referring to Bill Ayers, the man who ghost wrote Obama's first autobiography. If you are not familiar with Bill Ayers violent attempts to start a revolution to overthrow the U.S. government, you should do some research into the matter.
The Tea Party does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government today (although some of their more extreme members are beginning to believe that it will be necessary), unlike our current President's political mentor.
That wasn't Joseph McCarthy, that was the Democrats on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, or don't they teach that part in school? When Ayn Rand testified before HUAC, Joseph McCarthy was in the Senate. The HUAC was controlled by Democrats when Joseph McCarthy was making a name for himself.
So, you are saying that these people maintain these sites and I can set up an automatic way to calculate the sales tax for any address in the U.S. without having to lay out money periodically for updates to that information?
Some years back the state I live in changed its sales tax from one that was simple to understand what was taxable to one that was fairly complicated. A local merchant gave up on figuring out was now taxable and what wasn't. He collected sales tax on everything and remitted the full amount to the state. The state prosecuted him for over collecting sales tax, the fines were more than his yearly profit.
OK, how do you figure out what to charge the guy who lives in the county that charges 8% sales tax but has the sip code for the city that charges 8.5% sales tax? How do you know that he does not live in the city? What happens when the county implements a three day tax holiday? On only certain items?