Court orders to provide customer lists along with what was purchased are routinely issued against online retailers who sell alcohol or tobacco on-line. In the case of tobbaco the state can't really do much to the retailer but in the case of Washington they do routinely issue nasty letters with the threat of legal action to customers who haven't paid the appropriate taxes.
Even if all states adopt a single unified statewide rate for online retailers that is still 46 tax jurisdictions one has to keep track of rates and exemptions in. Furthermore that is 46 jurisdictions with different filing deadlines and requirements, and 46 jurisdictions who can demand an audit of your books.
Then you get the fun corner cases. What happens when I as a Washington State resident order something online and have it shipped to my parents house in Arizona? Do I pay Washington taxes or Arizona taxes?
If you are in the US and got fired because you used up your sick leave and hit some arbitrary cutoff set by HR for unpaid leave that was less than the statutory amounts your former employer is opening themselves up for a lawsuit and Federal fines. The Family and Medical Leave Act entitles you to up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for illness or medical conditions that leave you unable to perform your duties: http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/#.UMIqn7SmClI
The Intrepid's reputation with curation and preservation is shameful. So many other museums like the Air Force Museum in Dayton and the Museum of Flight in Seattle do a much better job with their priceless artifacts.
Given their poor record the Intrepid should not have even been a finalist for a shuttle.
Actually of the museums that were finalists for getting a shuttle but didn't get one the Museum of Flight in Seattle had the best curation plan and the best financial plan. They had an indoor climate controlled gallery next to an airfield that was "Shuttle ready". They actually scored better than the Intrepid did and NASA admits it screwed up the scoring (putting too much weight on metro area population).
But that is water over the seawall as they say, unless NASA decides to take Enterprise back NY will get to keep her.
Aluminum is a ready substitute for copper in most electrical wiring applications.
Similarly aluminum or plastic can be substituted for most piping uses of copper.
Furthermore copper isn't "running out" not by a longshot. The concentrations that are economic to process do change however. At some point it becomes economic to extract copper directly from seawater.
I don't know I'd be quite that pessimistic. While Delta-V can't be gotten around there are a number of ways to skin that cat, everything from building lighter spacecraft to improved propulsion technologies. Even with "conventional" rocketry we really haven't gotten to true economies of scale.
But I doubt space will ever be "cheap". At least until we have orbital elevators and fusion rockets.
3. Current technology gets more and more expensive because of the scarcity of resources. People have to give up the technology completely, and an equivalent technology is not in place, either because it is not possible at all (copper is the best conductor, and can not be replaced by a similar conductor, independent of the amount of money you are willing to pay for it. And no, superconducturs are no replacement, because they require elements that are far more seldom than copper, thus replacing copper wires with them just gets us faster to the final point of no resources left), or because the alternatives have other quirks that make them less desirable: break more often, less productivity, less flexibility.
Well copper is a fairly bad example. There are alternatives to copper for many of its uses. For communications there is optical fiber, for electrical wiring aluminum, for pipe various plastics, etc. There will likely be enough for those uses where there isn't a good substitute.
For that matter there are sources of copper that haven't been economic to exploit. If high prices are sustained long enough then those sources will be developed.
With displays there is always the possibility of going back to say CRTs if necessary. Though I suspect alternatives to Indium and Gallium will be developed first, such as carbon nanotubes.
2 RBOCs (Bell Atlantic, NYNEX), GTE, MCI, and various wireless assets make up Verizon.
4 RBOCs (Southwest Bell, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, and Bell South) what was left of AT&T, and various wireless assets make up AT&T.
1 RBOC (USWest) and Qwest (then mostly a wholesale fiber network), make up, well Qwest.
These days Qwest is kind of the odd man out and much smaller than most of the former pieces of AT&T. The (new) at&t and Verizon are about the same size.
Yea but WA has fairly high sales taxes. Admittedly the property and sales taxes in the bay area are almost the same with the added plus of state income tax, but don't go thinking WA has no taxes.
I set up a machine with snort, tripwire, portsentry, ipchains, and a squid proxy in late 1999, it even had the ability to make some changes to the ipchains configuration based on what the IDS was seeing. I believe there were also commercial products with such capabilities prior to May 17, 2000.
A drive through Detroit, Buffalo, or most of the US midwest clearly shows how the manufacturing capacity of the United States is essentially gone. Not true. Plenty of manufacturing still happens in the US it just mostly isn't in places like Detroit or Buffalo anymore. Also whats left tends not to be vertically integrated for reasons of flexibility and cost.
You Kucinich people. You truly believe the only reason your candidate is having trouble breaking 1 or 2 percent is because of a "corporate media blackout". Lets ignore the fact that he comes across as a spaced out kooky fruit-loop to 98% of the country. I mean UFO's? Meditation? Homeopathic Medicine? Come on!
Sorry kids but Dennis is a fringe candidate and would continue to be so even if he were to receive the same amount of media coverage as say Hillary Clinton.
I was going to write a long ranting reply but decided against it.
Instead I'll simply say don't be so quick to "settle" for Hillary and to give Obama and Richarson a chance. We've got a damn long time before any real delegates are picked and even longer until the party conventions.
As for Hillary, she represents everything I think is wrong with the modern Democratic party and therefore I plan to do everything I can to see she doesn't get the nomination. If she does win the nomination, I'll be in the vanguard of those pushing for a party split.
On the actual policies she has pursued and announced, she's the closest to my own position of the six. I'm surprised she's closest to you. I can't get past how wrong she is on Iraq and the Middle East in general. The flag burning and censorship crap bugs me as well.
I have no faith she will actually do any of the wonderful things she promises.
Obama is basically a blank card, so I have no idea what he actually would do, and I don't vote for platitudes. Obama has a record from his 2 years in the Senate and his 8 years in the Illinois legislature. Based on that I think I have a good idea what he would do and that he walks his talk.
Experience is also important to me.
Vote for McCain or Biden then.
In all seriousness Richardson probably has the best resume of the Democrats running.
I don't see Obama as being all that much less experienced than Sen. Clinton. He's won more elections than she has and has more total elected office experience. Sure she has a bit more total life experience, but again by that token we should all vote for McCain.
She hasn't learned a damn thing from her Iraq war vote. She's arrogant, high-handed, autocratic, tone-deaf, stubborn, too in bed with big-money interests, transparently power-hungry, and seems annoyed she has to run for President rather than just being appointed. Oh and she needs to stop taking herself so damn seriously, I mean she really needs to look into surgery for that pole she has stuck up her ass.
That's just for starters, I could go into more detail.
For the record it has little or nothing to do with her gender, I generally like smart, powerful, no-nonsense women who don't take shit from anyone.
romney's. well, i lead the development team on that one. his campaign hired the company i work for, and my job was to be the architect (design the content management system, and all of the infrastructure that drives the site) and run the engineering team that built/implemented everything. i like it, our visual designers did a bang-up job in making a political site look not overtly political. yeah the usual colors are there, but much more tasteful i believe.
Figures you might like that one.;-)
As I said I thought it was one of the better sites. Mind you I was going on quick first impressions so I didn't really play with the features, infrastructure, or explore the content organization. I agree on the visual design, like the colors too.
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Court orders to provide customer lists along with what was purchased are routinely issued against online retailers who sell alcohol or tobacco on-line. In the case of tobbaco the state can't really do much to the retailer but in the case of Washington they do routinely issue nasty letters with the threat of legal action to customers who haven't paid the appropriate taxes.
Even if all states adopt a single unified statewide rate for online retailers that is still 46 tax jurisdictions one has to keep track of rates and exemptions in. Furthermore that is 46 jurisdictions with different filing deadlines and requirements, and 46 jurisdictions who can demand an audit of your books.
Then you get the fun corner cases. What happens when I as a Washington State resident order something online and have it shipped to my parents house in Arizona? Do I pay Washington taxes or Arizona taxes?
If you are in the US and got fired because you used up your sick leave and hit some arbitrary cutoff set by HR for unpaid leave that was less than the statutory amounts your former employer is opening themselves up for a lawsuit and Federal fines. The Family and Medical Leave Act entitles you to up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for illness or medical conditions that leave you unable to perform your duties: http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/#.UMIqn7SmClI
The Intrepid's reputation with curation and preservation is shameful. So many other museums like the Air Force Museum in Dayton and the Museum of Flight in Seattle do a much better job with their priceless artifacts.
Given their poor record the Intrepid should not have even been a finalist for a shuttle.
Actually of the museums that were finalists for getting a shuttle but didn't get one the Museum of Flight in Seattle had the best curation plan and the best financial plan. They had an indoor climate controlled gallery next to an airfield that was "Shuttle ready". They actually scored better than the Intrepid did and NASA admits it screwed up the scoring (putting too much weight on metro area population).
But that is water over the seawall as they say, unless NASA decides to take Enterprise back NY will get to keep her.
Aluminum is a ready substitute for copper in most electrical wiring applications.
Similarly aluminum or plastic can be substituted for most piping uses of copper.
Furthermore copper isn't "running out" not by a longshot. The concentrations that are economic to process do change however. At some point it becomes economic to extract copper directly from seawater.
I don't know I'd be quite that pessimistic. While Delta-V can't be gotten around there are a number of ways to skin that cat, everything from building lighter spacecraft to improved propulsion technologies. Even with "conventional" rocketry we really haven't gotten to true economies of scale.
But I doubt space will ever be "cheap". At least until we have orbital elevators and fusion rockets.
3. Current technology gets more and more expensive because of the scarcity of resources. People have to give up the technology completely, and an equivalent technology is not in place, either because it is not possible at all (copper is the best conductor, and can not be replaced by a similar conductor, independent of the amount of money you are willing to pay for it. And no, superconducturs are no replacement, because they require elements that are far more seldom than copper, thus replacing copper wires with them just gets us faster to the final point of no resources left), or because the alternatives have other quirks that make them less desirable: break more often, less productivity, less flexibility.
Well copper is a fairly bad example. There are alternatives to copper for many of its uses. For communications there is optical fiber, for electrical wiring aluminum, for pipe various plastics, etc. There will likely be enough for those uses where there isn't a good substitute.
For that matter there are sources of copper that haven't been economic to exploit. If high prices are sustained long enough then those sources will be developed.
With displays there is always the possibility of going back to say CRTs if necessary. Though I suspect alternatives to Indium and Gallium will be developed first, such as carbon nanotubes.
Mine people for rare earth elements.
"Soylent LCD panels, they're made out of people!"
wasting a valuable metal like copper on it
Pennies aren't copper and haven't been for some time, they are mostly zinc.
well no not really.
2 RBOCs (Bell Atlantic, NYNEX), GTE, MCI, and various wireless assets make up Verizon.
4 RBOCs (Southwest Bell, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, and Bell South) what was left of AT&T, and various wireless assets make up AT&T.
1 RBOC (USWest) and Qwest (then mostly a wholesale fiber network), make up, well Qwest.
These days Qwest is kind of the odd man out and much smaller than most of the former pieces of AT&T. The (new) at&t and Verizon are about the same size.
In fact it was the non-monopoly carriers who did.
Sprint and MCI deployed long distance fiber and digital microwave systems long before AT&T felt compelled to due to competition.
For most of the 80's AT&T relied on the old AT&T long-lines coax and analog microwave links.
If AT&T had kept its monopoly we'd probably wouldn't have seen much fiber until very recently and ISDN-BRI would be considered "high-speed".
Yea but WA has fairly high sales taxes. Admittedly the property and sales taxes in the bay area are almost the same with the added plus of state income tax, but don't go thinking WA has no taxes.
I set up a machine with snort, tripwire, portsentry, ipchains, and a squid proxy in late 1999, it even had the ability to make some changes to the ipchains configuration based on what the IDS was seeing. I believe there were also commercial products with such capabilities prior to May 17, 2000.
Oh, dear ...
You Kucinich people. You truly believe the only reason your candidate is having trouble breaking 1 or 2 percent is because of a "corporate media blackout". Lets ignore the fact that he comes across as a spaced out kooky fruit-loop to 98% of the country. I mean UFO's? Meditation? Homeopathic Medicine? Come on!
Sorry kids but Dennis is a fringe candidate and would continue to be so even if he were to receive the same amount of media coverage as say Hillary Clinton.
It was an off the cuff review meant for the 4 or so people who read my journal.
I take no responsibility for whatever may have possessed the editors to promote this to the front page.
I was going to write a long ranting reply but decided against it.
Instead I'll simply say don't be so quick to "settle" for Hillary and to give Obama and Richarson a chance. We've got a damn long time before any real delegates are picked and even longer until the party conventions.
As for Hillary, she represents everything I think is wrong with the modern Democratic party and therefore I plan to do everything I can to see she doesn't get the nomination. If she does win the nomination, I'll be in the vanguard of those pushing for a party split.
She's OK sometimes in a "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" sort of way.
To be fair I believe she's been among the current administration's earliest and harshest conservative critics.
Then again I tend to respect paleo-cons even when I don't agree with them.
I don't know much about him which is probably why he's my favorite of the GOP front-runners.
I wouldn't go that far ... I've seen a few that weren't that bad.
The problem is most of her default facial expressions make her look either mean or smug.
I have no faith she will actually do any of the wonderful things she promises. Obama is basically a blank card, so I have no idea what he actually would do, and I don't vote for platitudes. Obama has a record from his 2 years in the Senate and his 8 years in the Illinois legislature. Based on that I think I have a good idea what he would do and that he walks his talk.
Experience is also important to me.
Vote for McCain or Biden then.
In all seriousness Richardson probably has the best resume of the Democrats running.
I don't see Obama as being all that much less experienced than Sen. Clinton. He's won more elections than she has and has more total elected office experience. Sure she has a bit more total life experience, but again by that token we should all vote for McCain.
She hasn't learned a damn thing from her Iraq war vote. She's arrogant, high-handed, autocratic, tone-deaf, stubborn, too in bed with big-money interests, transparently power-hungry, and seems annoyed she has to run for President rather than just being appointed. Oh and she needs to stop taking herself so damn seriously, I mean she really needs to look into surgery for that pole she has stuck up her ass.
That's just for starters, I could go into more detail.
For the record it has little or nothing to do with her gender, I generally like smart, powerful, no-nonsense women who don't take shit from anyone.
romney's. well, i lead the development team on that one. his campaign hired the company i work for, and my job was to be the architect (design the content management system, and all of the infrastructure that drives the site) and run the engineering team that built/implemented everything. i like it, our visual designers did a bang-up job in making a political site look not overtly political. yeah the usual colors are there, but much more tasteful i believe.
;-)
Figures you might like that one.
As I said I thought it was one of the better sites. Mind you I was going on quick first impressions so I didn't really play with the features, infrastructure, or explore the content organization. I agree on the visual design, like the colors too.