Yeah. Live a more sustainable lifestyle, don't go to work, just live on Slashdot all day long!
Slightly more seriously, though, the daily commute is still better than the daily dodging bullets, just look at the number of peeps they kill off on CSI every week!
As an aside, with gelatin, latex, and a few common household chemicals, it is possible to make a 'glove' that will at least simulate someone else's prints. Sorry, one more biometric to toss into the toilet of history.
So sorry, but it is not just the fifty states' varied takes on sales taxes you are looking at here.
You also need to look over varied county taxes, different municipal taxes, the odd interweaving between all of those (some municipalities exist in multiple counties; some zip codes exist in multiple states, noted as above; other odd clusterfucks that exist, primary example being New York City), and the mishmash of laws that exist within all of those areas.
Then you need to factor in which greedy bastard of a politician (or is that greedy politician of a bastard? I'm having trouble keeping track) wants to sup from the teat of the public's hard work that particular minute, and will make life more difficult for their serfs and slaves (oops, I meant their representees) to do so.
Personally, I'm of a mind that it should be time for a third party, one where the politicians are not made up of the intellectual castratti.
A lot of level III lasers are used in a common household device. Guess what it is?
Your common household DVD player. All someone has to do is pop the laser out, get a focusing lens and housing, and you've got that evil, evil weapon for use.
Gimme a fucking break. All that this will do is to give those pirates an excuse to steal our^Wyour movies over the intarwebs!
All of a sudden, I'm starting to hear one of the orchestral arrangements from Brad Fiedel running through my mind unwanted... You know, the soundtrack from The Terminator. Then it queues into the opening theme for Battlestar Galactica.
Congratulations, asshole. You've just successfully signed into law the bill that will ensure we leave your smoldering hellhole of a state alone. Have a good day, and do not expect to get any money from us, as we are ceasing operations in New York State.
Undersigned,
E-Bay
Amazon
TigerDirect
et al
Screw this. It is my personal belief that it's time for those of us with the means and ability to do so should either research or cause to be researched, a means for getting off of this shitball of a planet of ours to one with a more hospitable climate.
Alternatively, maybe we will end up killing each other off, because without that pressure valve, there is no reason not to kill anyone who pisses you off.
I'll be off sharpening something.
STOP! Rewind that clock, boys and girls. Just a question for all of you, please humour me for a moment: If every deal over the past 90 days can be considered rewound, if you will, what does that make of SCOG's response in court that they were solvent? I believe that was less than 90 days ago, so does that mean some additional blazing red hot coals will be heaped upon poor Darl's head?
Yes, I believe the term you are looking for is Corporate Extraterritoriality.
In short, the giving of the rights of nations to corporations. And yeah, it sucks Ebola-diseased donkey gonads, just like the advertising jackhole who came up with this idea.
Intriguing. One thing that I have noticed, as has just about everyone else here, is that Microsoft first attempted to create a vertical monopoly (in this case the Windows operating system), but since they brought IE into the mix, it has become increasingly apparent that they are also planning on having a horizontal monopoly over every field their software touches. This may sound a little inane, stupid perhaps, but could Microsoft be planning on becoming the first diagonal monopoly?
That I've never listened to an entire song of our dear Mr. John. After all, the few clips I've heard him sing on YouTube sucked harder than Enya, and that's going some.
The other part of the "oh god, please, no" is more ads. Your average Windows box ALREADY looks like a 150 person marketing department exploded inside it.
Oh, I SO wish they were exploded... Hey, thanks for giving me an idea for my next software product, Salesman Exploder!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a good reason why I never trust some strutting jock-itch to define my actions or moral code.
Oh yeah, that, and the fact that condoms have a failure rate of 10% to 20%. I love watching Russian Roulette just as much as the next guy, but I have the IQ not to point a gun at either of my heads.
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Yeah. Live a more sustainable lifestyle, don't go to work, just live on Slashdot all day long!
Slightly more seriously, though, the daily commute is still better than the daily dodging bullets, just look at the number of peeps they kill off on CSI every week!
This snark is sponsored by the letters F and U.
Hell, if anyone's able to get some pictures of this, I'd be willing to pay, as long as they're put up on Google Images and/or Youtube.
Crap, and me without mod points for hilarity.
As an aside, with gelatin, latex, and a few common household chemicals, it is possible to make a 'glove' that will at least simulate someone else's prints. Sorry, one more biometric to toss into the toilet of history.
So sorry, but it is not just the fifty states' varied takes on sales taxes you are looking at here.
You also need to look over varied county taxes, different municipal taxes, the odd interweaving between all of those (some municipalities exist in multiple counties; some zip codes exist in multiple states, noted as above; other odd clusterfucks that exist, primary example being New York City), and the mishmash of laws that exist within all of those areas.
Then you need to factor in which greedy bastard of a politician (or is that greedy politician of a bastard? I'm having trouble keeping track) wants to sup from the teat of the public's hard work that particular minute, and will make life more difficult for their serfs and slaves (oops, I meant their representees) to do so.
Personally, I'm of a mind that it should be time for a third party, one where the politicians are not made up of the intellectual castratti.
A lot of level III lasers are used in a common household device. Guess what it is?
Your common household DVD player. All someone has to do is pop the laser out, get a focusing lens and housing, and you've got that evil, evil weapon for use.
Gimme a fucking break. All that this will do is to give those pirates an excuse to steal our^Wyour movies over the intarwebs!
Signed, the MPAA
All of a sudden, I'm starting to hear one of the orchestral arrangements from Brad Fiedel running through my mind unwanted... You know, the soundtrack from The Terminator. Then it queues into the opening theme for Battlestar Galactica.
Thanks, guys. I needed that.
Congratulations, asshole. You've just successfully signed into law the bill that will ensure we leave your smoldering hellhole of a state alone. Have a good day, and do not expect to get any money from us, as we are ceasing operations in New York State. Undersigned, E-Bay Amazon TigerDirect et al
As I recall, another name for this is the 'Joe Job', same deal, different nomenclature. The Office Open in OOXML would be one prime example.
Actually, this is the real reason Europe hates us. Especially the French.
Screw this. It is my personal belief that it's time for those of us with the means and ability to do so should either research or cause to be researched, a means for getting off of this shitball of a planet of ours to one with a more hospitable climate.
Like Mars.
Wow, that'll never happen in the US...
Oh, wait a minute...
Dude, you forgot the Japanese Stealth Fighter...
Oh yeah, and don't forget the new mobile suit models too.
Alternatively, maybe we will end up killing each other off, because without that pressure valve, there is no reason not to kill anyone who pisses you off. I'll be off sharpening something.
"You see that light at the end of the tunnel coming for you? It isn't heaven. It's the five o'clock train."
STOP! Rewind that clock, boys and girls. Just a question for all of you, please humour me for a moment: If every deal over the past 90 days can be considered rewound, if you will, what does that make of SCOG's response in court that they were solvent? I believe that was less than 90 days ago, so does that mean some additional blazing red hot coals will be heaped upon poor Darl's head?
Yes, I believe the term you are looking for is Corporate Extraterritoriality.
In short, the giving of the rights of nations to corporations. And yeah, it sucks Ebola-diseased donkey gonads, just like the advertising jackhole who came up with this idea.
Intriguing. One thing that I have noticed, as has just about everyone else here, is that Microsoft first attempted to create a vertical monopoly (in this case the Windows operating system), but since they brought IE into the mix, it has become increasingly apparent that they are also planning on having a horizontal monopoly over every field their software touches. This may sound a little inane, stupid perhaps, but could Microsoft be planning on becoming the first diagonal monopoly?
That I've never listened to an entire song of our dear Mr. John. After all, the few clips I've heard him sing on YouTube sucked harder than Enya, and that's going some.
Well shit, someone getting some money out of this makes it so much better.
After all, blood money always is. Well, proves how much of a batch of bastiches the MPAA is. As if we needed more evidence.
And here again, as is my quota for any article dealing with litigious bastards, the Law of Saint Augustine:
"An unjust law is no law at all."
Should I make that my sig, or Charles Dickens' comment on the same subject, "The law is an ass"?
The other part of the "oh god, please, no" is more ads. Your average Windows box ALREADY looks like a 150 person marketing department exploded inside it.
Oh, I SO wish they were exploded... Hey, thanks for giving me an idea for my next software product, Salesman Exploder!
Just as an aside, did you mean vomit-ware?
Oh yeah, I forgot this is NanoLimp we're talking about here. Almost everything they make is vomit-ware.
Ahh yes, this brings us back to Natural Law vs. Relativistic Law again.
I reiterate the Rule of Saint Augustine once more. "An unjust law is no law at all."
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a good reason why I never trust some strutting jock-itch to define my actions or moral code.
Oh yeah, that, and the fact that condoms have a failure rate of 10% to 20%. I love watching Russian Roulette just as much as the next guy, but I have the IQ not to point a gun at either of my heads.