It's online store is run by Amazon, essentially Amazon bought (long-term leased?) the name. The Kobo was a far too late addition... same release year as the Nook Color and Kindle 3. And it was a rebrand of a 3rd party product.
And Borders is bankrupt. The online store will continue as Amazon IP, I suppose.
There you go - my corporation is not required to collect sales tax since the customers are from another state, and the same goes for the store.
IANAL, but I believe you are correct on all points.
However, your out-of-state corporation must report the sales tax it should have paid for purchasing items in the state of your local store, and then pay that. So, you're flipping the obligation to report/pay, but other than that....
I live in a state with no sales tax, and I still buy from Amazon. Explain me away, please.
The only states without sale taxes lack the kind of big city environs that Border's thrived in and/or you're too far from them? Unless you claim to live in Deleware, which everyone knows is a lie.
Meanwhile, if you look at someone who makes $30 million a year, spends $2 million on taxable goods, and invests or saves the other $28 million, they end up paying an effective 2% tax rate.
Only if the purchase of securities/other investments was exempt from sales tax. Otherwise, it's simply a flat 30% tax.
I'll eat my shoes if you can name one specific feature or UI element that has significantly improved the usability of Windows or Office since 2000 that couldn't have simply been retrofitted with no more effort than it took to add to the current version
I'm confused by your question. You want the description of a feature or UI element. Okay. It has to "significantly improve" the usability of Windows/Office. Subjective, by whatever. But I have no clue what the "simply been retrofitted" requirement is trying to get at. I mean, you (or Microsoft) can "retrofit" an old version of Windows to use NTFS instead of FAT16. That probably would be less work than creating XP. Does NTFS fail this criterion?
It's only feature complete for people who want to browse in 2009. I prefer to browse in 2014, and it's going to take some new code to get us there in time.
Why? What features are missing, other than *gasp* having to use a plugin to render video. A plugin you can make appear wherever you want.
I'm still trying to identify what problem has been solved in HTML5, or for that matter what has been added (other than JS speedups) since tabbed browsing was invented.
I most explicitly covered that. As i said, it's a normal transaction, and has nothing to do with the currency of the United States being backed by the government.
Certainly none of this is a shock to anyone, but I don't get why Google feels the need to come up with G+ and compete with Facebook. Stick to fscking search, stick to what you're best at.
The better profile it has of you, and what your friends like, the better search results it can deliver. See Bing's ads where they claim if you search for "pizza", and 9/10 of your facebook friends say Gino's is the best, they'll correlate that for you and tell you. And bump it up in the list. Similar to how GeoIP makes my life easier when searching for things close by.
They're backed by the resources, goods, and services of the issuing nation.
No they aren't. Not in the slightest. You cannot get gold/M16s or anything else from the US governement as a way of redeeming dollars. (They will auction off some things I suppose, but that's just a regular transaction).
That's not my understanding. Last I heard, there were a bunch of USCG cutters in the Persian Gulf. How the hell the U.S. coast has managed to move thousands of miles across the globe from the west side of the Atlantic Ocean all the way to past the Mediterranean I have no idea.
Because your confusing a name and primary mission with "the only mission". The Army has helicopters and the Navy has planes... herp derp, I guess they really should be called the Air Force then.
The Coast Guard is a branch of the military, and is involved in wars/police actions. So is the National Guard. Both have many peacetime functions at home (disaster relief, etc.) in addition to their wartime operations.
And this is why I think the "support the troops" stuff is total BS. Those people elected to take those jobs, they weren't drafted like in Vietnam. If they weren't willing to sign up for those jobs, there'd be no war because there'd be no one to conduct the war.
Or there would be a draft. The same logic condemns anyone who pays their taxes. I have a hard time condemning people in mass. Maybe they needed the money desperately and had no other options.
The only times that has ever happened was during the Revolutionary War and during WWII, even though WWII was sorta our fault for bailing out the Allies in WWI instead of just letting them lose (which they would have deserved for having started it). Almost all the other wars and engagements that America was involved in were wrong.
Wow... there's just so much historical ignorance. Let's start with all the other wars:
the Civil War. Regardless of which side you thought was right, you have to think one of them was. Or the War of 1812, a defensive war? Or when the US helped an internationally recognized ally who was being attacked (Korean War)? Or when the US helped an internationally recognized ally who was being attacked (First Gulf War)? Or when the US stoped the predation of the Barbary Pirates? Enforcing a cease-fire in Bosnia?
Secondly, WWI was started by Austria-Hungry and Germany... these were not the Allies. Such an incorrect statement makes it hard to understand what you think happened.
As a veteran of the US armed forces and campaign in Afghanistan, I'd also like to stress that "following orders" is not a free pass
As you point out, the duty only applies to unlawful orders. There are many lawful orders that members of the armed forces may be asked to do that may seem distasteful/immoral from a safe distance. Not that there should not be review of those orders (and corrective measures for the issuer, if applicable), but the pilot who bombs a school based on incorrect intelligence should be able to use "orders came to destory coords X,Y" as a legit reason for his action
As I said earlier, I don't think anyone really uses "support our troops" to mean abu garhib is beyond reproach.
Citation needed. The only search results Google turns up are a) "Conspiracy to Witness Tampering", and b) Exactly one use of some guy claiming he got arrested for something on some pothead (literally, some forum about pot) forum.
There's rarely a positive obligation the state puts you under to stop a crime. Maybe, if you said "I want to go beat this mofo" and I said "cool, can I watch" I've committed a crime. Other than that though?
"Our men and women in uniform fight to protect our freedoms from dangerous terrorists overseas. If you dont support our men and women in the armed forces, you are selling out our country, and are complicit in the terrorist's cause."
Both provide "Enforcement" agencies with Carte Blanc to do pretty much watever they feel like, because if you disagree with the tactics or reasons for their activities, "You are a criminal/terrorist sympathizer."
That's a totally different statement. Everyone makes a big deal about supporting our troops because in the past, with Vietnam, opposition to draftees and opposition to the war became intermingled. The point is supposed to be that regardless of how you feel about the foreign policy they are executing, you hold no animosity towards the individual soldiers who execute it.
Besides, no one attempts to use "support our troops" to mean excuse abu gharib or anything like that. They mean "while troops are in harms way, regardless of why, cutting off funding for munitions is anathema". And I tend to agree.
Second. software developers like that are also W2 employees, not independent contractors. And that makes a difference. There's been several run-ins between companies and the IRS about employee status, and the labels may be walking into a minefield
Employee or not is irrelevent. Contractors can also work for hire. However, work for hire has a very specific "at least x-of-y" condition list. Also, work-for-hire requires, with no exceptions, that the contract include those words.
IANAL, and your state/country laws may differ from the ones I'm familar with. I also might be totally wrong. Yada-yada-yada, don't whine to me when what I said turns out to be wrong and costs you and your twin brother ownership of facebook.
. Give a bald guy his hair back with the threat of having it all fall out permanently if he stops paying for your drug, and he'll sell his family into eternal slavery if that's what it takes to avoid losing his hair a second time.
Depends on where you live. Incandescents are far more tolerant of spotty power. CFLs have a much lower lifespan in my house. See also: why I invest in surge protectors/UPS's for everything more complex than a light bulb.
Thinking like a businessman means never curing the common cold at all; a businessman would use his ability to cure colds to produce effective cold remedies, but not total cures, in ten thousand flavors and variations. More money in it that way.
Except you get over the cold in 3 days or something anyway. So all they can sell is an instant cure.
Any news on HIV / AIDS? Strange that that isn't the first virus threw into the petri dish with this stuff, to be honest.
You're thinking like a scientist. Think like a business man. You cure the common cold first. That gets you 9 million units of fame, some nice early revenues from cold cures, and a ginormous grant to test if it can cure HIV as well.
Well, in reality, HIV is a single-stranded retrovirus, and not a double-stranded virus. Although, if this works, it will mitigate some of the negative effects of AIDS, in that it does not appear to rely on the body's immune system.
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It's online store is run by Amazon, essentially Amazon bought (long-term leased?) the name. The Kobo was a far too late addition... same release year as the Nook Color and Kindle 3. And it was a rebrand of a 3rd party product.
And Borders is bankrupt. The online store will continue as Amazon IP, I suppose.
IANAL, but I believe you are correct on all points.
However, your out-of-state corporation must report the sales tax it should have paid for purchasing items in the state of your local store, and then pay that. So, you're flipping the obligation to report/pay, but other than that....
Can you cite please?
Also, if the bottom 2/3 is paying 50+%, that actually would make it more progressive than I would have guessed.
It's a sale. I understand that it would resolve to only very long term investing. Similar to how it becomes ruinous for raw goods.
I don't favor a sales tax at all, and I consider those to be excellent arguments against it.
The only states without sale taxes lack the kind of big city environs that Border's thrived in and/or you're too far from them? Unless you claim to live in Deleware, which everyone knows is a lie.
Only if the purchase of securities/other investments was exempt from sales tax. Otherwise, it's simply a flat 30% tax.
I'm confused by your question. You want the description of a feature or UI element. Okay. It has to "significantly improve" the usability of Windows/Office. Subjective, by whatever. But I have no clue what the "simply been retrofitted" requirement is trying to get at. I mean, you (or Microsoft) can "retrofit" an old version of Windows to use NTFS instead of FAT16. That probably would be less work than creating XP. Does NTFS fail this criterion?
Why? What features are missing, other than *gasp* having to use a plugin to render video. A plugin you can make appear wherever you want.
I'm still trying to identify what problem has been solved in HTML5, or for that matter what has been added (other than JS speedups) since tabbed browsing was invented.
But you could pay in Euros, Yen, or other currencies.
I most explicitly covered that. As i said, it's a normal transaction, and has nothing to do with the currency of the United States being backed by the government.
The better profile it has of you, and what your friends like, the better search results it can deliver. See Bing's ads where they claim if you search for "pizza", and 9/10 of your facebook friends say Gino's is the best, they'll correlate that for you and tell you. And bump it up in the list. Similar to how GeoIP makes my life easier when searching for things close by.
Not true. Modern currencies have a consumer who insists on being paid in them... the country itself.
No they aren't. Not in the slightest. You cannot get gold/M16s or anything else from the US governement as a way of redeeming dollars. (They will auction off some things I suppose, but that's just a regular transaction).
Because your confusing a name and primary mission with "the only mission". The Army has helicopters and the Navy has planes... herp derp, I guess they really should be called the Air Force then.
The Coast Guard is a branch of the military, and is involved in wars/police actions. So is the National Guard. Both have many peacetime functions at home (disaster relief, etc.) in addition to their wartime operations.
Or there would be a draft. The same logic condemns anyone who pays their taxes. I have a hard time condemning people in mass. Maybe they needed the money desperately and had no other options.
Wow... there's just so much historical ignorance. Let's start with all the other wars:
the Civil War. Regardless of which side you thought was right, you have to think one of them was. Or the War of 1812, a defensive war? Or when the US helped an internationally recognized ally who was being attacked (Korean War)? Or when the US helped an internationally recognized ally who was being attacked (First Gulf War)? Or when the US stoped the predation of the Barbary Pirates? Enforcing a cease-fire in Bosnia?
Secondly, WWI was started by Austria-Hungry and Germany... these were not the Allies. Such an incorrect statement makes it hard to understand what you think happened.
As you point out, the duty only applies to unlawful orders. There are many lawful orders that members of the armed forces may be asked to do that may seem distasteful/immoral from a safe distance. Not that there should not be review of those orders (and corrective measures for the issuer, if applicable), but the pilot who bombs a school based on incorrect intelligence should be able to use "orders came to destory coords X,Y" as a legit reason for his action
As I said earlier, I don't think anyone really uses "support our troops" to mean abu garhib is beyond reproach.
Citation needed. The only search results Google turns up are a) "Conspiracy to Witness Tampering", and b) Exactly one use of some guy claiming he got arrested for something on some pothead (literally, some forum about pot) forum.
There's rarely a positive obligation the state puts you under to stop a crime. Maybe, if you said "I want to go beat this mofo" and I said "cool, can I watch" I've committed a crime. Other than that though?
Poor attempt at irony. You used a real universal truth to illustrate a bad stereotype.
That's a totally different statement. Everyone makes a big deal about supporting our troops because in the past, with Vietnam, opposition to draftees and opposition to the war became intermingled. The point is supposed to be that regardless of how you feel about the foreign policy they are executing, you hold no animosity towards the individual soldiers who execute it.
Besides, no one attempts to use "support our troops" to mean excuse abu gharib or anything like that. They mean "while troops are in harms way, regardless of why, cutting off funding for munitions is anathema". And I tend to agree.
Employee or not is irrelevent. Contractors can also work for hire. However, work for hire has a very specific "at least x-of-y" condition list. Also, work-for-hire requires, with no exceptions, that the contract include those words.
IANAL, and your state/country laws may differ from the ones I'm familar with. I also might be totally wrong. Yada-yada-yada, don't whine to me when what I said turns out to be wrong and costs you and your twin brother ownership of facebook.
You left out Duke Nukem Forever.
It's been done.
Depends on where you live. Incandescents are far more tolerant of spotty power. CFLs have a much lower lifespan in my house. See also: why I invest in surge protectors/UPS's for everything more complex than a light bulb.
It's a cold. It's cured in 3 days. What are you going to sell me if not instant relief.
Except you get over the cold in 3 days or something anyway. So all they can sell is an instant cure.
You're thinking like a scientist. Think like a business man. You cure the common cold first. That gets you 9 million units of fame, some nice early revenues from cold cures, and a ginormous grant to test if it can cure HIV as well.
Well, in reality, HIV is a single-stranded retrovirus, and not a double-stranded virus. Although, if this works, it will mitigate some of the negative effects of AIDS, in that it does not appear to rely on the body's immune system.