Many of them can grow their own food but they don't get to eat it because people with guns come to take it and or their land to sell to someone else for more profit than can be made off of feeding their countrymen.
Or the people that knew how to grow the food were killed or forced off the land they knew how to farm so that someone from the right tribe could have the land whether they knew how to farm at all.
If you haven't noticed, we got out of the human rights conflicts in Africa. Blackhawk Down and all that. No western country has seemed all that anxious to get in there and deal with the Darfur issue.
Ahh good ol' Common Sense, I miss that high school. Did you follow that up with a bachelor's degree from "It Stands To Reason" College and a doctorate from "Some Bloke at the Bar Said" University?
Companies are supposed to stoicly fall on their own sword and go out of business instead of committing the atrocity of raising prices to cover rising costs.
Did you actually use OtherOS (having it installed and just sitting on the disk doesn't count as using)?
I'm pretty sure Sony is happier without you being a customer. I can't really see anyone that's not solely a hardware manufacturer wanting the rabid/.er as a customer.
Running around shooting random civilians will tend to show that, in general, street clothes aren't bullet proof.
Is the common person going to take away the idea they should be wearing body armor all the time or that there's thugs running around randomly murdering people?
The first thing I do with any tablet is plug as many usb cords as I can into it and never move it from that spot since it'd take too much work to plug all those wires back in and it's a pain to move with that jungle of cords attached.
I'd say the DRM of a physical book works quite well.
Doesn't get in the owners way, can pass on the book to someone else at will, and the pirated versions of it are generally inferior in quality, enough so that having the real thing is better than the pirated version.
If it can be abused it will be abused and must be abused (and then whined about incessantly when it is taken away because of abuse) is the credo around here.
You'd need much finer detail than state. County, city, particular zone of city, type of good, applicable tax holidays and that's probably not even close to every thing you'd have to track.
"The brick and mortar stores are already subject to it. Everyone who walks through the door and buys something has to pay sales tax."
The store's sales tax, not the customer's home sales tax. To make it fair to online sellers B+M sellers should have to collect (and remit) the customer's home sales taxes.
It's easy to know the tax rate of one location and one definition of goods.
It's a pity you don't have tax holidays on specific types (defined per tax locale) of goods, that'd make it even more "fun" to figure out your tax rate.
You may be too young to know this but there was this thing called "mail order" before there was Amazon and it, like Amazon, did not have to collect sales tax if the company did not have a physical presence in the customer's state.
You are forgetting there are lots of definitions of what food is when it comes to taxes. What one tax locale considers frozen food is another's convenience food which is another's snack food and all will be taxed differently.
"All this occurred because customers flock to Amazon like buzzards to a carcass so they can buy merchandise without having to pay tax (outside of WA)."
No, because outside of a very small selection of goods the closest stores are an hour's drive (one-way) away.
Crappy local selection vs. Amazon and two-day (or 1 day at $4 per item)? I'll take Amazon. I generally don't even compare prices as the crappy local selection is still a 15 minute drive one-way (which becomes 45 minutes, go there, come back, go back and buy it). I even pay for Amazon Prime, so it's not like I'm worried about a dollar or two difference from taxes.
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Many of them can grow their own food but they don't get to eat it because people with guns come to take it and or their land to sell to someone else for more profit than can be made off of feeding their countrymen.
Or the people that knew how to grow the food were killed or forced off the land they knew how to farm so that someone from the right tribe could have the land whether they knew how to farm at all.
If you haven't noticed, we got out of the human rights conflicts in Africa. Blackhawk Down and all that. No western country has seemed all that anxious to get in there and deal with the Darfur issue.
"There's no proof for it, only common sense."
Ahh good ol' Common Sense, I miss that high school. Did you follow that up with a bachelor's degree from "It Stands To Reason" College and a doctorate from "Some Bloke at the Bar Said" University?
All apologies to Pratchett.
Companies are supposed to stoicly fall on their own sword and go out of business instead of committing the atrocity of raising prices to cover rising costs.
Because then you'd be living somewhere with no income taxes?
The idea situation would be to physically live somewhere with high income taxes while financially living somewhere with no income taxes.
Blackwater/Xe agrees.
Did you actually use OtherOS (having it installed and just sitting on the disk doesn't count as using)?
I'm pretty sure Sony is happier without you being a customer. I can't really see anyone that's not solely a hardware manufacturer wanting the rabid /.er as a customer.
Codes specifically involving Quayle seem almost too detailed.
Do not poke snapping turtle with remaining fingers.
Can anyone say echo chamber?
Google good, Apple bad. It's time for your two minutes of hate.
Running around shooting random civilians will tend to show that, in general, street clothes aren't bullet proof.
Is the common person going to take away the idea they should be wearing body armor all the time or that there's thugs running around randomly murdering people?
The salt has to be in the food, in sufficient quantity, not next to it.
"have things like USB connectivity"
The first thing I do with any tablet is plug as many usb cords as I can into it and never move it from that spot since it'd take too much work to plug all those wires back in and it's a pain to move with that jungle of cords attached.
I'd say the DRM of a physical book works quite well.
Doesn't get in the owners way, can pass on the book to someone else at will, and the pirated versions of it are generally inferior in quality, enough so that having the real thing is better than the pirated version.
When they don't want to be spotted over enemy territory.
Cameras don't just look straight down you know, they can look sidelike too, sneaky devils.
How to double your profits selling arms: sell to both sides of the conflict.
After a few password failures the iTunes account clears your CC security code (ie can't purchase anything), so 8 characters is more than enough.
I've never used stored credit so I don't know what happens when there's too many failed attempts.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2362#comic
It's all just busy work.
Tragedy of the commons and all that...
If it can be abused it will be abused and must be abused (and then whined about incessantly when it is taken away because of abuse) is the credo around here.
You'd need much finer detail than state. County, city, particular zone of city, type of good, applicable tax holidays and that's probably not even close to every thing you'd have to track.
"The brick and mortar stores are already subject to it. Everyone who walks through the door and buys something has to pay sales tax."
The store's sales tax, not the customer's home sales tax. To make it fair to online sellers B+M sellers should have to collect (and remit) the customer's home sales taxes.
It's easy to know the tax rate of one location and one definition of goods.
It's a pity you don't have tax holidays on specific types (defined per tax locale) of goods, that'd make it even more "fun" to figure out your tax rate.
You may be too young to know this but there was this thing called "mail order" before there was Amazon and it, like Amazon, did not have to collect sales tax if the company did not have a physical presence in the customer's state.
You are forgetting there are lots of definitions of what food is when it comes to taxes. What one tax locale considers frozen food is another's convenience food which is another's snack food and all will be taxed differently.
"All this occurred because customers flock to Amazon like buzzards to a carcass so they can buy merchandise without having to pay tax (outside of WA)."
No, because outside of a very small selection of goods the closest stores are an hour's drive (one-way) away.
Crappy local selection vs. Amazon and two-day (or 1 day at $4 per item)? I'll take Amazon. I generally don't even compare prices as the crappy local selection is still a 15 minute drive one-way (which becomes 45 minutes, go there, come back, go back and buy it). I even pay for Amazon Prime, so it's not like I'm worried about a dollar or two difference from taxes.