Instead of coming into fights and pressing 1,2,3,4,5 over and over again, you'd be actually engaging your brain.
We'll see how The Elder Scrolls handles as an MMO. I feel like the evolution from Morrowind through to Skyrim has been smooth. They've kept the same basic mechanics for the most part, though things have been refined quite a bit.
They've really blended a lot of Fallout and TES together (Bethesda), but playing Skyrim feels like their intention from the beginning was to build a great MMO, and each iteration in the series was simply a step in that direction.
Listen, it's really not that difficult to charge sales tax online. It might take some time to organize and get working correctly, but it's not difficult.
There are plenty of tax service providers out there these days that all knew this day was coming. TaxCloud, Avalara, Taxware, etc.
While developing our business's new site, this was an area I was adamant about getting correct. Whether we charge sales tax to every state right now or only those we have nexus in, it should be a simple method to begin collecting sales tax in a new state.
I signed for a tax service API, spent a week or so integrating it with our cart platform (Magento), and now when someone checks out, their address is validated down to a Zip+5 (via free service from USPS) and their local tax rate is calculated and added to their order. At the end of a quarter (or whatever fiscal period it is, I can't recall) the payments are remitted to whichever municipality or state associated with the order. We literally do nothing but cut the tax service a lump-sum check and they handle the rest (they do this because they are subsidized by the states that want some extra tax revenue).
I keep reading and hearing comments about how difficult it will be for small business to implement sales tax. It's absolute bullshit and nothing but FUD. Fortunately for our small business, I am experienced enough in Magento development that I know how to do this, but even for those businesses that don't have someone like myself, they can easily hire one that is capable. Not to mention I also intend to open-source my module/solution for others to use (once I polish it up further and it's releasable to the masses).
There is absolutely no reason why Amazon would fail at collecting sales taxes other than they: A) meant to be in error. B) used a third-party service that caused the error. C) It was a front-end error due to a stale cache or something.
Or, even better, use a tax service that remits all your payments for you and provides audit protection. If a problem should ever arise, you point to them and go back to work.
I've ridden on interstate trips and averaged 90-100 on the bike including quick fuel stops... and felt perfectly safe.
After I graduated high school, I took a solo road trip from near San Jose to Denver. There were stretches on US 50 in Nevada and Utah where it was quite easy to top 100mph and feel safe. I was in a mid-80's Buick sedan. The digital speedometer wouldn't display anything over 85mph (it would just flash 85 if you went higher) so I'm really not sure how fast I was going on that road.
I did finish the trip in about 16 hours, though, which included nearly four hours to sleep and wait for gas station to open in Fallon, Nevada. That ends up being approximately 100mph average speed for the roughly 1200 mile trip.
Do you post AC because you like to make up statistics?
75% is a gross exaggeration. There seems to be 20 "American Style" categories (out of 95), and fruit beer, coffee beer, chocolate beer, speciality beer, and honey beer does not add up.
You probably also missed all the non-European beers that won European style categories as well. Marzen, Vienna Lager, Kolsch, German Brown Ale, Hefeweizen, Witbier, Saison, a good handful of Belgian styles, a good handful of English styles (including a win for the local Saturday morning hangover pub in English IPA, Bull & Bush!!!), and the list goes on.
I'm betting that by "real beer categories" you mean something regional to you that may simply not be found outside of that region (save a few craft brewers). So it seems what you're saying in the end is "the beer I like is better than the beer you like". Considering you like to post AC and make false claims, your opinion amounts to roughly nil.
I've always kind of felt the same way. Then one day Michael Kiwanuka came to town.
A few days prior I had found his album somewhere online and listened to it. I loved it. I saw that he was going to be in town in a few days so I got tickets.
The show was wonderful, and afterwards he was meeting fans at the merch table. I waited in line behind girls and fanbois that just wanted his autograph or something... so I waited patiently. When it was my turn, I took $10 out of my pocket and gave it to him and he went to grab a CD to give me. I told him no, the $10 was for the album I already downloaded and that I didn't need a CD and I just wanted to thank him.
Live shows are where you get to potentially have these kinds of moments. I'll never forget that.
Canada had what, like six or eight medals (out of about 300) in the 2012 World Beer Cup? I guess they did sweep the gluten-free category, so there's that.
Yeah, I know American brewers greatly outnumber other countries, so of course they will dominate the medal count. Still, Canada had almost 50 entrants in 2012 and were barely a blip on the radar and 2/3 of the judges are from outside the US.
Point? The best beer in the world likely comes from the brewery that is near where you live.
Yeah, I was wondering about these devices as well. Clicking through a couple links on TFS, I found the Secureuro device that looks not all that different than one of those check (as in checking account) readers.
I've never seen one of these being used, and the closest thing I could think of that might be the same is the insert cash slot thing on the grocery store self-service checkout kiosks. I doubt you're going to be able to hack those devices physically unless you have an insider to grant access after hours or something. The run-of-the-mill "I'm a technician" hack isn't going to work on those, as the store manager is not going to let an unscheduled "service" be done on a device that handles that many transactions.
I imagine the best place to go to find these in the States is a Las Vegas casino cage. Again, another place where physical security is going to be difficult to bypass.
I thought it was already well-known that 2001 (the movie kind) was made so that the US Gov't could practice filming the Apollo landings.
Isn't that what pretty much all the following Kubrick films were trying to explain? Little Danny's Apollo sweater... The symbolism of Eyes Wide Shut...
If you're speaking of the areas around Citrus Heights, etc, well there is your answer. The dollars there allow these things.
The same can be said for various section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. In the locations where there is enough money, there is fantastic internet. In the locations where there isn't, the internet is terrible.
I think not just consolidation, but specialization as well.
I've plugged them before because they've been great, but the main reason I decided on hosting with a company called Nexcess is because they fine-tune their hardware to run the Magento platform. For those not aware, Magento in its infancy was known to be such a terrible resource hog. Horror stories of people trying to run it on cheap shared hosting. To an extent, those horror stories still happen, but there have been some niche hosting providers that saw an opportunity to differentiate themselves and did.
When I have to get in touch with their support, they not only know their own hardware, they know the platform I am using. Having that specialized knowledge available was a godsend before we had the resources of Stackoverflow or the Magento SO beta site (not to mention my own knowledge that has grown about developing on Magento in the last five years).
The specialization is great in so many ways, but I think one of the drawbacks is you have less broad-scoped knowledge, and it just ends up as a bunch of so-so quality services instead of getting high-quality services from seperate providers.
On the morning of June 19, 2006, Haas was arrested by IRS agents for investigation of filing false tax returns, witness intimidation, and conspiracy.[12] Four others were indicted together with Haas.
Haas initially pled not guilty, but after all four of the co-indicted plead guilty and just before his case was to go to trial, a plea agreement was reached with Haas pleading guilty on one count.
Haas made full restitution to the IRS and has served a fraction of a 24-month sentence in federal prison. He was released to a halfway house in November 2008. Since February 2009, he has been living at his home and working at Haas Automation.
I've always had the notion that if you just wait a year, you can get yesterday's models for a great price and instead play the games that now have been out long enough to be properly patched. This has the bonus effect of weeding out a lot of crap games.
I would certainly hope they are both selling the same species. I don't think consumer protection laws would allow a store to tell someone they are buying a tomato when, in fact, they are buying a beet.
I theorized about this exact type of app about five years ago. First off, there would be no requirement to have cell data accessible. You'd simply create an ad-hoc network with WiFi and/or Bluetooth and the devices will communicate over that, using signal strength and GPS coordinates as a locator.
Ultimately, though, the same drawbacks I considered years ago are the same ones mentioned in the review by the CAC, battery life being the most problematic.
After deciding that an avy beacon app would simply not work robustly enough, I thought that the same app could be rebranded into something I called a "Party Beacon", which you could use to find your friends at a concert when they might not be paying attention to their phones to answer your texts of "where are you?" Obviously, the app no longer involves life or death situations, and you've just gained a much wider potential market.
So, there you go avy beacon app makers, there's your out. You're welcome.
Even in a template heavy system such as Magento (which I work with daily), I'm not this many lines of code is necessary. I mean, really, the number seems grossly absurd at its face value.
No, what the reason is is none of your fucking business.
And to be quite honest, it is none of your fucking business if a retailer chooses not to sell to a certain sub-set of customers because they represent a high-risk for fraud.
There are plenty of retailers that choose not to ship to PO boxes, sometimes it's because of the associated risk of fraud, and sometimes it's because they sell chocolate and don't want to ship to a PO box in Phoenix in July. Which one is it in the case of the retailer you're buying from today? You got it... none of your fucking business.
If you want to extend this to those who use Tor, well that again is the retailer's prerogative. There are no laws that say a retailer is obligated to serve customers when those customers can't be identified.
(This is not even going into scenarios where the retailer's CC processor refuses a transaction because of too many red flags.)
I don't know, but it must be based on *something*. The other morning I scratched my ear and I felt a strange hair. Lo and behold I went looking for more and there were a couple dozen gray hairs, nearly an inch in some cases, growing right out the edge of my earlobe.
WTF? Where the hell did those come from?
Study hair growing properties of ear lobes and you will find the answer.
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Instead of coming into fights and pressing 1,2,3,4,5 over and over again, you'd be actually engaging your brain.
We'll see how The Elder Scrolls handles as an MMO. I feel like the evolution from Morrowind through to Skyrim has been smooth. They've kept the same basic mechanics for the most part, though things have been refined quite a bit.
They've really blended a lot of Fallout and TES together (Bethesda), but playing Skyrim feels like their intention from the beginning was to build a great MMO, and each iteration in the series was simply a step in that direction.
(I don't do drugs, never have, but just the CONCEPT of someone demanding I take a drug test to work somewhere? Fuck off. And I work in education)
I'm having a difficult time thinking of a teacher I know that *doesn't* at least smoke pot. None of the them get drug tested either.
When did the country you live in get to control your life?
Listen, it's really not that difficult to charge sales tax online. It might take some time to organize and get working correctly, but it's not difficult.
There are plenty of tax service providers out there these days that all knew this day was coming. TaxCloud, Avalara, Taxware, etc.
While developing our business's new site, this was an area I was adamant about getting correct. Whether we charge sales tax to every state right now or only those we have nexus in, it should be a simple method to begin collecting sales tax in a new state.
I signed for a tax service API, spent a week or so integrating it with our cart platform (Magento), and now when someone checks out, their address is validated down to a Zip+5 (via free service from USPS) and their local tax rate is calculated and added to their order. At the end of a quarter (or whatever fiscal period it is, I can't recall) the payments are remitted to whichever municipality or state associated with the order. We literally do nothing but cut the tax service a lump-sum check and they handle the rest (they do this because they are subsidized by the states that want some extra tax revenue).
I keep reading and hearing comments about how difficult it will be for small business to implement sales tax. It's absolute bullshit and nothing but FUD. Fortunately for our small business, I am experienced enough in Magento development that I know how to do this, but even for those businesses that don't have someone like myself, they can easily hire one that is capable. Not to mention I also intend to open-source my module/solution for others to use (once I polish it up further and it's releasable to the masses).
There is absolutely no reason why Amazon would fail at collecting sales taxes other than they: A) meant to be in error. B) used a third-party service that caused the error. C) It was a front-end error due to a stale cache or something.
Or, even better, use a tax service that remits all your payments for you and provides audit protection. If a problem should ever arise, you point to them and go back to work.
If you deliver with your own equipment, you will also have to collect sales tax.
I've ridden on interstate trips and averaged 90-100 on the bike including quick fuel stops... and felt perfectly safe.
After I graduated high school, I took a solo road trip from near San Jose to Denver. There were stretches on US 50 in Nevada and Utah where it was quite easy to top 100mph and feel safe. I was in a mid-80's Buick sedan. The digital speedometer wouldn't display anything over 85mph (it would just flash 85 if you went higher) so I'm really not sure how fast I was going on that road.
I did finish the trip in about 16 hours, though, which included nearly four hours to sleep and wait for gas station to open in Fallon, Nevada. That ends up being approximately 100mph average speed for the roughly 1200 mile trip.
Do you post AC because you like to make up statistics?
75% is a gross exaggeration. There seems to be 20 "American Style" categories (out of 95), and fruit beer, coffee beer, chocolate beer, speciality beer, and honey beer does not add up.
You probably also missed all the non-European beers that won European style categories as well. Marzen, Vienna Lager, Kolsch, German Brown Ale, Hefeweizen, Witbier, Saison, a good handful of Belgian styles, a good handful of English styles (including a win for the local Saturday morning hangover pub in English IPA, Bull & Bush!!!), and the list goes on.
I'm betting that by "real beer categories" you mean something regional to you that may simply not be found outside of that region (save a few craft brewers). So it seems what you're saying in the end is "the beer I like is better than the beer you like". Considering you like to post AC and make false claims, your opinion amounts to roughly nil.
I've always kind of felt the same way. Then one day Michael Kiwanuka came to town.
A few days prior I had found his album somewhere online and listened to it. I loved it. I saw that he was going to be in town in a few days so I got tickets.
The show was wonderful, and afterwards he was meeting fans at the merch table. I waited in line behind girls and fanbois that just wanted his autograph or something... so I waited patiently. When it was my turn, I took $10 out of my pocket and gave it to him and he went to grab a CD to give me. I told him no, the $10 was for the album I already downloaded and that I didn't need a CD and I just wanted to thank him.
Live shows are where you get to potentially have these kinds of moments. I'll never forget that.
The women I always see in Viagra (or other ED meds) commercials are in their mid 50's and up.
Not to say older women cannot be attractive, but I wouldn't really call them "booth babes".
Canada had what, like six or eight medals (out of about 300) in the 2012 World Beer Cup? I guess they did sweep the gluten-free category, so there's that.
Yeah, I know American brewers greatly outnumber other countries, so of course they will dominate the medal count. Still, Canada had almost 50 entrants in 2012 and were barely a blip on the radar and 2/3 of the judges are from outside the US.
Point? The best beer in the world likely comes from the brewery that is near where you live.
Yeah, I was wondering about these devices as well. Clicking through a couple links on TFS, I found the Secureuro device that looks not all that different than one of those check (as in checking account) readers.
I've never seen one of these being used, and the closest thing I could think of that might be the same is the insert cash slot thing on the grocery store self-service checkout kiosks. I doubt you're going to be able to hack those devices physically unless you have an insider to grant access after hours or something. The run-of-the-mill "I'm a technician" hack isn't going to work on those, as the store manager is not going to let an unscheduled "service" be done on a device that handles that many transactions.
I imagine the best place to go to find these in the States is a Las Vegas casino cage. Again, another place where physical security is going to be difficult to bypass.
I thought it was already well-known that 2001 (the movie kind) was made so that the US Gov't could practice filming the Apollo landings.
Isn't that what pretty much all the following Kubrick films were trying to explain? Little Danny's Apollo sweater... The symbolism of Eyes Wide Shut...
If you're speaking of the areas around Citrus Heights, etc, well there is your answer. The dollars there allow these things.
The same can be said for various section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. In the locations where there is enough money, there is fantastic internet. In the locations where there isn't, the internet is terrible.
Funny how that works, huh?
Thank you. I do recall shenanigans about NEC and TEAC price fixing optical drives, but I wasn't sure if that was recently or like 15 years ago.
No no, it was right the first time.
I think not just consolidation, but specialization as well.
I've plugged them before because they've been great, but the main reason I decided on hosting with a company called Nexcess is because they fine-tune their hardware to run the Magento platform. For those not aware, Magento in its infancy was known to be such a terrible resource hog. Horror stories of people trying to run it on cheap shared hosting. To an extent, those horror stories still happen, but there have been some niche hosting providers that saw an opportunity to differentiate themselves and did.
When I have to get in touch with their support, they not only know their own hardware, they know the platform I am using. Having that specialized knowledge available was a godsend before we had the resources of Stackoverflow or the Magento SO beta site (not to mention my own knowledge that has grown about developing on Magento in the last five years).
The specialization is great in so many ways, but I think one of the drawbacks is you have less broad-scoped knowledge, and it just ends up as a bunch of so-so quality services instead of getting high-quality services from seperate providers.
You mean this guy?
On the morning of June 19, 2006, Haas was arrested by IRS agents for investigation of filing false tax returns, witness intimidation, and conspiracy.[12] Four others were indicted together with Haas.
Haas initially pled not guilty, but after all four of the co-indicted plead guilty and just before his case was to go to trial, a plea agreement was reached with Haas pleading guilty on one count.
Haas made full restitution to the IRS and has served a fraction of a 24-month sentence in federal prison. He was released to a halfway house in November 2008. Since February 2009, he has been living at his home and working at Haas Automation.
I've always had the notion that if you just wait a year, you can get yesterday's models for a great price and instead play the games that now have been out long enough to be properly patched. This has the bonus effect of weeding out a lot of crap games.
I would certainly hope they are both selling the same species. I don't think consumer protection laws would allow a store to tell someone they are buying a tomato when, in fact, they are buying a beet.
I theorized about this exact type of app about five years ago. First off, there would be no requirement to have cell data accessible. You'd simply create an ad-hoc network with WiFi and/or Bluetooth and the devices will communicate over that, using signal strength and GPS coordinates as a locator.
Ultimately, though, the same drawbacks I considered years ago are the same ones mentioned in the review by the CAC, battery life being the most problematic.
After deciding that an avy beacon app would simply not work robustly enough, I thought that the same app could be rebranded into something I called a "Party Beacon", which you could use to find your friends at a concert when they might not be paying attention to their phones to answer your texts of "where are you?" Obviously, the app no longer involves life or death situations, and you've just gained a much wider potential market.
So, there you go avy beacon app makers, there's your out. You're welcome.
Even in a template heavy system such as Magento (which I work with daily), I'm not this many lines of code is necessary. I mean, really, the number seems grossly absurd at its face value.
Whoa whoa whoa... hold on...
Greenland has a prime minister and a parliament?
No, what the reason is is none of your fucking business.
And to be quite honest, it is none of your fucking business if a retailer chooses not to sell to a certain sub-set of customers because they represent a high-risk for fraud.
There are plenty of retailers that choose not to ship to PO boxes, sometimes it's because of the associated risk of fraud, and sometimes it's because they sell chocolate and don't want to ship to a PO box in Phoenix in July. Which one is it in the case of the retailer you're buying from today? You got it... none of your fucking business.
If you want to extend this to those who use Tor, well that again is the retailer's prerogative. There are no laws that say a retailer is obligated to serve customers when those customers can't be identified.
(This is not even going into scenarios where the retailer's CC processor refuses a transaction because of too many red flags.)
Where is +1, Hall of Fame?
I don't know, but it must be based on *something*. The other morning I scratched my ear and I felt a strange hair. Lo and behold I went looking for more and there were a couple dozen gray hairs, nearly an inch in some cases, growing right out the edge of my earlobe.
WTF? Where the hell did those come from?
Study hair growing properties of ear lobes and you will find the answer.