You are not required to pay "sales tax" on items bought out of state but you are required to pay "use tax". And you are not required to pay "use tax" on items you bought in state and hence already paid "sales tax" on (ignoring places which morphed their "use tax" into a "sin tax").
"use tax" is just a way to end run around the inability to enforce a sales tax out of state, but of course almost everyone just doesn't report it and hence doesn't pay it.
The point is NYS does not "demands sales tax on any item purchased out of state for use or consumption within NYS", sure it has a use tax but that wasn't created "a couple years ago without much fanfare".
I'm not concerned with the difficulty involved, either from an administrative POV, or a technical POV. In effect, Amazon is doing business in my county, so it's up to them to comply with the tax laws in my county. And, they are also effectively doing business in New York City, Seattle, Miami, Anchorage, Bangor, and Los Angeles. They OWE it to each of those jurisdictions to collect, then submit, the proper sales taxes.
That's a great way to put huge numbers of small businesses out of business. You know all the home businesses selling stuff on the internet. For example, http://store.schlockmercenary.com/ , http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/ , etc (I have no idea if those are both US based, but just pretend).
And an incentive for big players to move overseas completely.
Clearly a subscription would cost money, and Amazon couldn't wait for someone to do so - they'd have to do so themselves in the meantime.
And it would be a large burden. It would require tracking changes in the rules for every single jurisdiction in the US that can (not just does now) impose a use tax. And for boundary changes in them too (need to notice that some street was moved from being in X to being in Y.
And this is full address level, the ZIP code I live in overlaps with more than one town level local government area.
And would be a huge barrier to entry of small sellers - the person who wants to sell a book containing his web comic archive, the person who wants to sell some software they wrote for $5, the artist who wants to sell images (prints, desktop backgrounds, whatever).
And of course the "unintended consequence" is that foreign competitors don't have that cost and hence now have an advantage - so more jobs and profits move out of the country.
NYS does not demand sales tax on any such thing, to do so would be in violation of the constitution of the United States and would survive about 43 seconds before being struck down.
NYS has had a use tax for a long time - but that isn't a sales tax.
They added a line to the tax return for the use tax in 2003, but that wasn't the addition of the tax itself (which had been required to be paid for a long time previously) just recognition that shopping on the internet had become popular enough to mean a significant number of people would be above the exemption limit so it was worth putting it on the return.
Though personally, I don't like the whole "objects first" concept.
Depends on how motivated the person is and whether they need the "I made a game" reward, or whether "I made the computer do what I wanted" is enough.
Without actually thinking it through, the original Freedom Force game (2002 so will run on basically any modern machine) used python as the scripting language. You could do pretty neat things with small amounts of code and you got a "fun" test environment. But it's been a long time since I looked at that, there might be some drawback I don't recall making it a PITA.
You can be pretty certain someone in the 3000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks was a pedophile, someone was cheating on their spouse, someone was molesting their child, someone was beating their wife, someone was stealing money, etc, etc. They are still "innocent victims" because they weren't involved in any hostilities with the terrorists.
Your false dilemma doesn't apply because the post I was replying to said they tried the module from CPAN but couldn't get be bothered with the dependencies.
Hooking CPAN up to RPMs or DPKGs is obviously the domain of those producing the distribution not "the perl gods". After all they know what their system's name and versioning format is, what paths they install things to, if they used stuff like/etc/alternatives, etc, etc, etc.
Yes you can have an open source DRM library and so on. What you can't have is an open source media player that respects DRM usefully.
Either the user can modify the software doing the DRM to not obey the restrictions the DRM says it should in which case it isn't respecting the DRM. Or the user can't modify the software like that in which case it isn't FOSS.
If it is truly FOSS then I can modify the software to, as well sending the decrypted video to the output device, write it to a storage device in unencrypted non-DRMed format.
Hence the DRM is completely useless and pointless and there can be no FOSS media players that respect DRM.
So move somewhere with no taxes (or no tax collection success). A hut in remote Somalia for example.
Of course I'm not sure how you are going to stop a hundred just as well armed as you men from taking all your stuff what with no government stealing from you to provide law and order.
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Except that lots of terrorists come from wealthy families, or are well educated, or have lived in western countries, and so on.
What exactly do you think they should be given?
The two I've seen both talk about a feature that I assume is part of the "actually good" thing.
be reasonable to have search standards applied to them are the DNS NXDOMAIN search redirects, such as those used by comcast.
Since they are being forced upon their users, and those users are forced by regional monopolies to use that ISP.
Or north.
Since where it was before is south of where it is now, it must have moved north.
No.
You are not required to pay "sales tax" on items bought out of state but you are required to pay "use tax". And you are not required to pay "use tax" on items you bought in state and hence already paid "sales tax" on (ignoring places which morphed their "use tax" into a "sin tax").
"use tax" is just a way to end run around the inability to enforce a sales tax out of state, but of course almost everyone just doesn't report it and hence doesn't pay it.
The point is NYS does not "demands sales tax on any item purchased out of state for use or consumption within NYS", sure it has a use tax but that wasn't created "a couple years ago without much fanfare".
That's a great way to put huge numbers of small businesses out of business. You know all the home businesses selling stuff on the internet. For example, http://store.schlockmercenary.com/ , http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/ , etc (I have no idea if those are both US based, but just pretend).
And an incentive for big players to move overseas completely.
Both just what the US economy needs.
Clearly a subscription would cost money, and Amazon couldn't wait for someone to do so - they'd have to do so themselves in the meantime.
And it would be a large burden. It would require tracking changes in the rules for every single jurisdiction in the US that can (not just does now) impose a use tax. And for boundary changes in them too (need to notice that some street was moved from being in X to being in Y.
And this is full address level, the ZIP code I live in overlaps with more than one town level local government area.
And would be a huge barrier to entry of small sellers - the person who wants to sell a book containing his web comic archive, the person who wants to sell some software they wrote for $5, the artist who wants to sell images (prints, desktop backgrounds, whatever).
And of course the "unintended consequence" is that foreign competitors don't have that cost and hence now have an advantage - so more jobs and profits move out of the country.
NYS does not demand sales tax on any such thing, to do so would be in violation of the constitution of the United States and would survive about 43 seconds before being struck down.
NYS has had a use tax for a long time - but that isn't a sales tax.
They added a line to the tax return for the use tax in 2003, but that wasn't the addition of the tax itself (which had been required to be paid for a long time previously) just recognition that shopping on the internet had become popular enough to mean a significant number of people would be above the exemption limit so it was worth putting it on the return.
Or just jump into java with something like: http://www.greenfoot.org/
Though personally, I don't like the whole "objects first" concept.
Depends on how motivated the person is and whether they need the "I made a game" reward, or whether "I made the computer do what I wanted" is enough.
Without actually thinking it through, the original Freedom Force game (2002 so will run on basically any modern machine) used python as the scripting language. You could do pretty neat things with small amounts of code and you got a "fun" test environment. But it's been a long time since I looked at that, there might be some drawback I don't recall making it a PITA.
Not involved in the conflict that killed them.
You can be pretty certain someone in the 3000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks was a pedophile, someone was cheating on their spouse, someone was molesting their child, someone was beating their wife, someone was stealing money, etc, etc. They are still "innocent victims" because they weren't involved in any hostilities with the terrorists.
I don't think you can call a single molecule a liquid in order for it to be said to evaporate.
debian managed get it working, with some minor idiocy with the perllocal stuff.
If debian can do it, anyone can.
The judgment says why the court believes they have jurisdiction.
Of course getting a judgment enforced is another matter, but not one that the court worries about.
because everyone didn't have that as a shell alias already, though mine wasn't named cpan I guess.
Of course I haven't touched perl for 5 years, it's all python for me these days, so there'll be a lot of perl changes I know nothing about :)
I don't claim the lock on my house is "smash the door" proof. Because it isn't.
Just like FOSS DRM doesn't exist because it isn't FOSS or isn't DRM.
Please do.
Your false dilemma doesn't apply because the post I was replying to said they tried the module from CPAN but couldn't get be bothered with the dependencies.
Hooking CPAN up to RPMs or DPKGs is obviously the domain of those producing the distribution not "the perl gods". After all they know what their system's name and versioning format is, what paths they install things to, if they used stuff like /etc/alternatives, etc, etc, etc.
Did:
perl -MCPAN -e'install "App::SVN::Bisect"
not just download, compile, and install it and all the dependencies?
Yes you can have an open source DRM library and so on. What you can't have is an open source media player that respects DRM usefully.
Either the user can modify the software doing the DRM to not obey the restrictions the DRM says it should in which case it isn't respecting the DRM. Or the user can't modify the software like that in which case it isn't FOSS.
If it is truly FOSS then I can modify the software to, as well sending the decrypted video to the output device, write it to a storage device in unencrypted non-DRMed format.
Hence the DRM is completely useless and pointless and there can be no FOSS media players that respect DRM.
Because there weren't tree formats before XML...
So move somewhere with no taxes (or no tax collection success). A hut in remote Somalia for example.
Of course I'm not sure how you are going to stop a hundred just as well armed as you men from taking all your stuff what with no government stealing from you to provide law and order.
Are they selling Stephen Conroy?
So those more flexible terms still don't cover it.
Except it's bloody obvious that don't have business rights to the name. So why waste time?
So what exactly did the House Judiciary Committee opening impeachment hearings against President Nixon? What was H.RES.611?
Why do members of congress and the top officials in the executive have to disclose their financial information publicly every year?
What was all that discussion about the use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques?