So we have an article that talks about a company "sticking it to the man" (even if they lost) and then we have some/. locals come on to talk about how great "the man" is (Amazon) because their size allows them to offer slightly cheaper prices on stuff.
It's a bit like seeing a live performance of "Run Like Hell" and everyone in the audience is clapping because Waters said you should.
And people thought WalMart put a lot of Mom & Pops out of business.
Speaking of thought crimes, after watching the recent Jon Stewart bit about "Good Thing? Bad Thing?" I had the following train of thought...
Picture some time in the not-too-distant future. A time where cyber-neural interfaces exist. A time where Facebook has given way to some other type of massive network of "thoughts".
You could be sitting there on your patio and some type of event happens before you. Your brain starts to mull over the options. Should I do this? Should I refrain?
At the same time, that same set of options is turned into a poll. That poll is sent to the cyber-neural interface of billions of others around the world, much in the same way someone would post something to Facebook looking for feedback. Instantly, the billions of others will respond to those options sub-consciously and the results fed back to you.
No longer will it be necessary to learn the difference between right and wrong or to otherwise obligate yourself into making moral choices. Those choices will be provided to you in real time by the collective morality every time someone clicks the neural "Like" button for your thought.
(I admit I was drinking when this idea came to me, but that shouldn't detract from its disturbing nature)
Pregnancy tests were approved for OTC sale in the late 70's. These tests were quite different than what you would find on the shelf today and were composed of test tubes, solutions, and other components that were not something a typical user might be comfortable with. Often the tests would be sent off to a laboratory or other facility to determine results.
The $5 pregnancy test you refer to is entirely self-contained and is a result of decades of research to reduce the complexity of the test so that it could be taken easily at home. I get your point, regulated products aren't *always* expensive; however, consider the sheer amount of products the FDA regulates. Here's a nice tidbit from the FDA themselves:
FDA regulates over 1 trillion dollars worth of products, which account for 25 cents of every dollar spent annually by American consumers.
And yet the Slashdot summary makes it sound like something new.
Seeing how GP referred to "data centers at altitude", I would say this is indeed something new. You certainly don't see a floating data center in the sky every day!
You use 'altitude' when referring to how high something is above the ground. You use 'elevation' when referring to how high the ground is from sea level.
What you don't see are signs for city limits on the road with 'altitude' on them. They say 'elevation' for a reason. Just like you don't find an elevatometer inside an airplane. You find an altimeter.
Mixing these terms as you've done (and so has TFS, so I don't blame you as you were simply restating the flawed summary) only causes confusion.
I like Sublime. I find that for my workflow, it's light-weight helps it stay out of my way. I used to hang onto Notepad++, but found that Sublime is easier to use.
I've tried and been disappointed from so many IDEs that I basically just gave up. They all have great features, but it's tough finding one that has the correct mix of features I'm looking for. Sublime is cross-platform and not built with Java. That's a big one. S/FTP integrated is essential (so many IDEs make such a mess of FTP integration it's nearly unusable).
...and you can't blame the Americans for saying "no".
You certainly can't. I find it somewhat telling that the US is so eager to raise concern over this. It's as if they're saying, "we can't let them build those stations here, it will make it so easy for them to spy - and you can trust us because we already know how easy it is!"
Indeed. You can pick up a copy of Cook's Illustrated "Best Recipes" and "More Best Recipes" for about $10 at a book store. While yes, they might give you a comparison of which $200 pan is the best, their process is fascinating.
Certainly better than those assholes that think putting chunks of onion in the burger is the best way to go. Sure, I get it, you want your burgers to not be dry an mealy. Instead of ruining the burger with all that nasty onion flavor, just learn to cook properly.
I don't know the details very well, but an uncle of mine had $800,000 in some kind of tax-deferred account (he was using gains from the sale of a business to invest in a new business, whatever that's called... a section 1135 or something) along with a bunch of other people.
Some guy comes along and decides to purchase the bank where these monies are held. He then cleans it out and skips town and was on the lam for some time. Eventually, though, he was caught. The money, however, was gone and my uncle ended up getting back pennies on the dollar of his $800k.
In this case, *a banker* ended up in prison. I think the real crime, though, is that somehow his money was not FDIC insured.
But with holiday movies, your kids are going to be watching it twice a day around that holiday for several years. You might as well just buy the damned thing.... or, of course, they're always telling your kids no.
Try marriage. At least that way if your order gets messed up, you're welcome to leave a simple backhand that will likely correct things. Eating in is cheaper (and more private!) anyways.
A bit of anecdote from a client's site I used to work on...
Client was complaining of some random issue and I went to take a look. Right away I was prevented from doing so because he changed his FTP/SSH permissions and I wasn't able to access the files.
I decided to poke around the front-end to try and find clues while I waited for him to respond with a fresh set of credentials. Eventually, I came across a server log that was mistakenly made available to the public at large (though you would have to know the URL to find it). Inside the log file were hundreds... probably thousands of records of customer information, including last four digits of their CC used for payment (if they had one).
I immediately got back to him about to tell him this information was available on his site to anyone and said that I could fix the permissions once he allowed me access. Unfortunately, he never did get back to me and it was a short time afterward that I was fired from that job (thank god).
I didn't develop his site, but I do know the person who did, and he happens to be a director at the company. Out of curiosity, I just checked, and the information is still openly available on his site, and it's been like 8 months. Now, though, there seem to be some additional logs of juicyness. 'authorize_net.log', 'google_checkout.log'....
To top all this off, he used to (not sure if he's come around by now by I doubt it) store customer's CC info in the store database. Before he started using this, I warned him that it was not a good idea, but he said it was the best way. There can be no way his site is PCI complaint, so in all likelihood an audit would completely put him out of business.
As the other comment said, there is better bird's eye imagery in bing in many cases, and in this specific case, 'better' being an awesome fucking image of the North Korean Army just doing a leisurely Tuesday stroll.
You know there are bright people out there who are willing to work for less money with the understanding that the job itself is more enjoyable and there are rewards down the road.
Not saying any company can just find these people, but they do exist.
In my case, I work for the family business, otherwise it would be nigh impossible for them to hire a developer of my skill level while still paying them the same *relative* peanuts I get. The reward is in knowing I am improving the business in a very cost-effective manner, and that these efforts will pay off down the line when our revenue doubles because of my work.
...and you haven't even touched on exemptions due to the type of product or service you're selling
First off, taxability codes are trivial to implement in Magento. The service I use allows a product to have a tax class assigned, so there are absolutely no worries there other than the data entry that's involved. Second, why would I bother to worry about possible taxability status for products or services I don't sell? I have the products in my own catalog tagged with tax codes, so when those line items are validated in the cart, their codes are compared to the state's list of codes that need to be taxable.
By Zip+5 I assume you mean Zip+4, and actually, yeah, it's pretty accurate to determine sales tax. Even the state of Washington agrees, stating on their DOR website:
It is ideal if the shopping cart can use the actual delivery address or the corresponding ZIP+4 code, either of which will deliver an accurate tax rate and taxing jurisdiction. However, that is not available to many sellers at this time.
Honestly, if there happens to be an edge case where someone needs to be charged a different sales tax because they're in a different suite or something, you handle it when it comes up. If you're an Amazon or Ebay, well, you just implement deeper, but if you're a small business where this doesn't happen that often, you have them contact customer service and handle things accordingly.
Speaking of auditors, let them come. That's the whole point of using a streamlined service. They remit payment for you and provide audit protection. Remember, states aren't going to be going after the people that are doing their best to be compliant and have audit protection. They're going to go after the low-hanging fruit businesses that are negligent.
Slashdot Mirror
So we have an article that talks about a company "sticking it to the man" (even if they lost) and then we have some /. locals come on to talk about how great "the man" is (Amazon) because their size allows them to offer slightly cheaper prices on stuff.
It's a bit like seeing a live performance of "Run Like Hell" and everyone in the audience is clapping because Waters said you should.
And people thought WalMart put a lot of Mom & Pops out of business.
Speaking of thought crimes, after watching the recent Jon Stewart bit about "Good Thing? Bad Thing?" I had the following train of thought...
Picture some time in the not-too-distant future. A time where cyber-neural interfaces exist. A time where Facebook has given way to some other type of massive network of "thoughts".
You could be sitting there on your patio and some type of event happens before you. Your brain starts to mull over the options. Should I do this? Should I refrain?
At the same time, that same set of options is turned into a poll. That poll is sent to the cyber-neural interface of billions of others around the world, much in the same way someone would post something to Facebook looking for feedback. Instantly, the billions of others will respond to those options sub-consciously and the results fed back to you.
No longer will it be necessary to learn the difference between right and wrong or to otherwise obligate yourself into making moral choices. Those choices will be provided to you in real time by the collective morality every time someone clicks the neural "Like" button for your thought.
(I admit I was drinking when this idea came to me, but that shouldn't detract from its disturbing nature)
Pregnancy tests were approved for OTC sale in the late 70's. These tests were quite different than what you would find on the shelf today and were composed of test tubes, solutions, and other components that were not something a typical user might be comfortable with. Often the tests would be sent off to a laboratory or other facility to determine results.
The $5 pregnancy test you refer to is entirely self-contained and is a result of decades of research to reduce the complexity of the test so that it could be taken easily at home. I get your point, regulated products aren't *always* expensive; however, consider the sheer amount of products the FDA regulates. Here's a nice tidbit from the FDA themselves:
FDA regulates over 1 trillion dollars worth of products, which account for 25 cents of every dollar spent annually by American consumers.
You probably shouldn't be reading while you drive a car....
Toonces, look out!!
And yet the Slashdot summary makes it sound like something new.
Seeing how GP referred to "data centers at altitude", I would say this is indeed something new. You certainly don't see a floating data center in the sky every day!
Enough with all the mixing of terminology.
You use 'altitude' when referring to how high something is above the ground. You use 'elevation' when referring to how high the ground is from sea level.
What you don't see are signs for city limits on the road with 'altitude' on them. They say 'elevation' for a reason. Just like you don't find an elevatometer inside an airplane. You find an altimeter.
Mixing these terms as you've done (and so has TFS, so I don't blame you as you were simply restating the flawed summary) only causes confusion.
Shit. I bought stock in Hammerhead Navigation software product. Should I enact my exit plan?
...also create selections with middle mouse+drag.
I like Sublime. I find that for my workflow, it's light-weight helps it stay out of my way. I used to hang onto Notepad++, but found that Sublime is easier to use.
I've tried and been disappointed from so many IDEs that I basically just gave up. They all have great features, but it's tough finding one that has the correct mix of features I'm looking for. Sublime is cross-platform and not built with Java. That's a big one. S/FTP integrated is essential (so many IDEs make such a mess of FTP integration it's nearly unusable).
That is all true, but it does not give the government the right to stop and search me without probable cause.
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Who needs probable cause if you give them permission?
...and you can't blame the Americans for saying "no".
You certainly can't. I find it somewhat telling that the US is so eager to raise concern over this. It's as if they're saying, "we can't let them build those stations here, it will make it so easy for them to spy - and you can trust us because we already know how easy it is!"
Indeed. You can pick up a copy of Cook's Illustrated "Best Recipes" and "More Best Recipes" for about $10 at a book store. While yes, they might give you a comparison of which $200 pan is the best, their process is fascinating.
Certainly better than those assholes that think putting chunks of onion in the burger is the best way to go. Sure, I get it, you want your burgers to not be dry an mealy. Instead of ruining the burger with all that nasty onion flavor, just learn to cook properly.
You have responded with ad hominid attacks and strawmans.
Ad hominid isn't a real thing. Your entire argument is therefore flawed.
I don't know the details very well, but an uncle of mine had $800,000 in some kind of tax-deferred account (he was using gains from the sale of a business to invest in a new business, whatever that's called... a section 1135 or something) along with a bunch of other people.
Some guy comes along and decides to purchase the bank where these monies are held. He then cleans it out and skips town and was on the lam for some time. Eventually, though, he was caught. The money, however, was gone and my uncle ended up getting back pennies on the dollar of his $800k.
In this case, *a banker* ended up in prison. I think the real crime, though, is that somehow his money was not FDIC insured.
Have a look at the CSS. It's no wonder they don't have them styled properly when they have all that kudzu going on.
That's what happens when you sign up to fight the Specificity Wars.
But with holiday movies, your kids are going to be watching it twice a day around that holiday for several years. You might as well just buy the damned thing.... or, of course, they're always telling your kids no.
Try marriage. At least that way if your order gets messed up, you're welcome to leave a simple backhand that will likely correct things. Eating in is cheaper (and more private!) anyways.
I see it so often that it usually just irks me a little, but I think it's time to share...
You use the word "an" instead of "a" when it precedes a word with a vowel *sound* at the beginning (not necessarily a vowel letter, though).
I would like an apple.
You would like a banana.
I have a question.
You have an answer.
It will only take a minute.
It ended up taking an hour.
Please send me a PDF file.
She sent me an EPS file.
I wanted an emu, but instead I got a unicorn.
...cause spammers to waste time and resources?
Don't they already waste enough of our time and resources? Whose side are you on?
A bit of anecdote from a client's site I used to work on...
Client was complaining of some random issue and I went to take a look. Right away I was prevented from doing so because he changed his FTP/SSH permissions and I wasn't able to access the files.
I decided to poke around the front-end to try and find clues while I waited for him to respond with a fresh set of credentials. Eventually, I came across a server log that was mistakenly made available to the public at large (though you would have to know the URL to find it). Inside the log file were hundreds... probably thousands of records of customer information, including last four digits of their CC used for payment (if they had one).
I immediately got back to him about to tell him this information was available on his site to anyone and said that I could fix the permissions once he allowed me access. Unfortunately, he never did get back to me and it was a short time afterward that I was fired from that job (thank god).
I didn't develop his site, but I do know the person who did, and he happens to be a director at the company. Out of curiosity, I just checked, and the information is still openly available on his site, and it's been like 8 months. Now, though, there seem to be some additional logs of juicyness. 'authorize_net.log', 'google_checkout.log'....
To top all this off, he used to (not sure if he's come around by now by I doubt it) store customer's CC info in the store database. Before he started using this, I warned him that it was not a good idea, but he said it was the best way. There can be no way his site is PCI complaint, so in all likelihood an audit would completely put him out of business.
As the other comment said, there is better bird's eye imagery in bing in many cases, and in this specific case, 'better' being an awesome fucking image of the North Korean Army just doing a leisurely Tuesday stroll.
I would try it, but I can't seem to find a URL to access it. Do you have a link?
If you want to know what they're up to in Pyong-yang, check out the Bing Maps sat photos of the promenade near the stadium.
map
You know there are bright people out there who are willing to work for less money with the understanding that the job itself is more enjoyable and there are rewards down the road.
Not saying any company can just find these people, but they do exist.
In my case, I work for the family business, otherwise it would be nigh impossible for them to hire a developer of my skill level while still paying them the same *relative* peanuts I get. The reward is in knowing I am improving the business in a very cost-effective manner, and that these efforts will pay off down the line when our revenue doubles because of my work.
...and you haven't even touched on exemptions due to the type of product or service you're selling
First off, taxability codes are trivial to implement in Magento. The service I use allows a product to have a tax class assigned, so there are absolutely no worries there other than the data entry that's involved. Second, why would I bother to worry about possible taxability status for products or services I don't sell? I have the products in my own catalog tagged with tax codes, so when those line items are validated in the cart, their codes are compared to the state's list of codes that need to be taxable.
By Zip+5 I assume you mean Zip+4, and actually, yeah, it's pretty accurate to determine sales tax. Even the state of Washington agrees, stating on their DOR website:
It is ideal if the shopping cart can use the actual delivery address or the corresponding ZIP+4 code, either of which will deliver an accurate tax rate and taxing jurisdiction. However, that is not available to many sellers at this time.
Honestly, if there happens to be an edge case where someone needs to be charged a different sales tax because they're in a different suite or something, you handle it when it comes up. If you're an Amazon or Ebay, well, you just implement deeper, but if you're a small business where this doesn't happen that often, you have them contact customer service and handle things accordingly.
Speaking of auditors, let them come. That's the whole point of using a streamlined service. They remit payment for you and provide audit protection. Remember, states aren't going to be going after the people that are doing their best to be compliant and have audit protection. They're going to go after the low-hanging fruit businesses that are negligent.