You think that $100 a month for 50mbps is overpriced? Well sir, you must not be part of their target audience, and thus are irrelevant. Your criticism has been disregarded. Thank you, and have a nice day.
I know right? I thought it was the same thing. It went from being the biggest news I've probably ever heard to a pretty stupid research project in 4 seconds.
What? You think that the manufacturers wont pass on the savings to their customers? I can't believe that would happen. I mean, they would have to be incredibly greedy.
I'm shocked that people haven't exploited the lax security standards in other countries more. A few years ago, I was flying with a coworker from Mexico City to Detroit. My coworker walked through the metal detector and was not stopped, questioned, or examined in any way. Why is that significant you ask? Because he has a prosthetic leg. I mean, he walked through the metal detector with several guns worth of metal, and the Mexican security didn't even flinch. I'm not sure if they're always so lax, but I can bear witness to this. I know that you get scanned by the TSA once you land in the USA (if you are going on a connecting flight), but what would have stopped someone from hijacking the flight over the USA and doing something bad?
They are complaining that if they get rid of the machines, they WILL have to do the enhanced pat-down. They aren't currently doing the enhanced pat-down. In other words, they want traffic to go through the airport faster, and the scanners speed things up.
Are you kidding me? I'm sure there are several companies that will license use of their service to others. A simple API in your checkout form could call the service and get the tax rules based on zipcode. Heck, there are several free websites that offer this service for manual entry, I can only imagine that there are some that will allow automated entry for some cost structure. The more important thing is not calculating collection of sales tax, but delivering the sales tax to the proper places. If I sell a widget to a man in California, do I have to mail a check to the California IRS? How often do I have to give the sales tax money to these states? If Paypal or some payment processor took care of this for you, it would be quite easy for them to do so. They could immediately take the sales tax from the transaction and place it into a massive account. The money could then be electronically distributed the the correct parties on a daily/weekly basis. Maybe they would charge something for the service, but my guess is that it would be minimal if not free.
Are you kidding me? If Amazon disappeared tomorrow, do you really think that the big winners would be small business? Hell no. It would be the big stores like Home Depot, Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, etc. I'm not going to magically decide to go to the small book shop that costs 40% more than even the inflated prices at B&N. Those small stores are done. Left to the small cities that can't support a national chain.
Also, as a member of a community and a "far-off absentee owner" of several companies, I resent the fact that you think that my profits are less important than the small business owners. The money I make from investments gets either reinvested into the same/similar companies, or spent in my community. If you'd like to be a business partner of mine, the cost of entry is fairly low, depending on the company.
I always thought that there was a lot of waste in the State government, and then I got hired by the State. Now I realize that however much waste I thought was there, would be just a drop in the bucket of how much waste is actually there. It makes me want to vomit. People are getting paid good salaries to surf the web all day. I remember when I used to be so busy. When I left my old job, they had to hire 2 people to fill my spot, because I was that busy. Now...I've gone a full day without providing any service. I'm seriously looking for work again, just because I can't stand to do nothing all day. To those who live in my state, I thank you for your continued support, and I apologize that I can't do anything to help you.
Those businesses would have gone down whether Amazon opened a wharehouse or not. If anything, the extra jobs should help sustain them longer. I'm a fan of local businesses, but I am also a fan of not spending money. It's hard to justify spending 20% more at a local store for no perceived benefit, but that's not what this argument is even about. If you want to hate on Amazon, hate on Amazon. Just don't hate on them because they worked out a deal to avoid sales tax. I personally think that any online store that sells over $100,000 in products a year should be forced to collect sales tax. I would like to see Amazon be brought down a peg and not given a fixed 6% (in my state) advantage over everyone else. Maybe with the extra tax revenue, my state can avoid raising the sales tax like they've been discussing.
If your choice is Amazon builds a warehouse and hires 500 people but you don't get sales tax on Amazon sales or Amazon doesn't come to your state and you don't get sales tax...The choice is pretty easy.
Fact: In science, an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.” Truth in science, however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow.
Law: A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances.
Congratulations though, you have attained that which you thought would be very difficult. You have become more wrong, in fact, than I was.
I don't anticipate it being that big of a problem, except that every #!(#!% health care biller has 9-4 hours. Some of us have what we like to call JOBS, and I can't take 30 minutes out of my work day to call and deal with this crap.
I had varying success. Some nurses would agree to it, but they would tell me when to administer it to my wife. They would also document it on the computer. Other nurses were not so inclined. I hate to see what a pill costs from the hospital. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough once the bills start rolling in. On a side note, when you change insurance companies, don't take some jerks word for it that they have the new information on file. Those dirty jerks billed the old insurance who quickly denied it. Sad thing is the old insurance is the new insurance, just new account numbers. Yet they can't pay the charges because that would be insurance fraud! So now I have to call every jerk doctor who wants to get paid and have them resubmit the bill.
When one asks himself a question that he already has an answer for, he shouldn't be surprised when he answers it the way that he does. This doesn't mean that the person was right...Only that they weren't really interested in finding answers as much as convincing themselves that the answer they already had was right. This applies equally to Christians, Athiests, and any other religion.
I believe in a personal God, and I also believe that the entire argument over evolution/creation is pointless. Scientists can go ahead and believe that something came from nothing, an act that they cannot repeat, observe, study, or otherwise touch. Christians can go on believing that something came from nothing because God willed it to happen, an act that they must have faith in. Quite frankly, to a casual observer, both ideas are just as absurd. Scientists have faith in the fact that there are laws and truths in nature. Christians believe there are laws and truths in nature because God willed it to happen. The two ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Just as there are scientists who have left Christianity because of science, there are scientists who came to Christ because of science. Sounds like being a scientist has about as much of an effect on your religious beliefs as just about every profession in the world (including being a pastor).
Do what? Write congress? I'm sure they'll get right on that. I've written many a note to my representatives. It's never seemed to make a difference. I think the only way we can get change is if we form a SuperPAC and get some good financial backing.
I didn't sell my son. I used the software, and then found that I had apparently agreed to these terms unknowingly. I am a man of my word, and I will not go back on a contract I agreed to. Thus, I am owed $50,000 in support costs, and $15,000 in medical fees. I will take this to court if I must.
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So Apple users don't want gigabit internet?
35mb its faster than any consumer will ever need!
Can I quote you on that in 10 years? I remember when 756 kbps was faster than any consumer would ever need. It didn't last long.
You think that $100 a month for 50mbps is overpriced? Well sir, you must not be part of their target audience, and thus are irrelevant. Your criticism has been disregarded. Thank you, and have a nice day.
If Disney had just used corpses in their Hall of Presidents, this story would be dumber than it already was.
I know right? I thought it was the same thing. It went from being the biggest news I've probably ever heard to a pretty stupid research project in 4 seconds.
I for one welcome our new robosparrow overlords.
What? You think that the manufacturers wont pass on the savings to their customers? I can't believe that would happen. I mean, they would have to be incredibly greedy.
I'm shocked that people haven't exploited the lax security standards in other countries more. A few years ago, I was flying with a coworker from Mexico City to Detroit. My coworker walked through the metal detector and was not stopped, questioned, or examined in any way. Why is that significant you ask? Because he has a prosthetic leg. I mean, he walked through the metal detector with several guns worth of metal, and the Mexican security didn't even flinch. I'm not sure if they're always so lax, but I can bear witness to this. I know that you get scanned by the TSA once you land in the USA (if you are going on a connecting flight), but what would have stopped someone from hijacking the flight over the USA and doing something bad?
They are complaining that if they get rid of the machines, they WILL have to do the enhanced pat-down. They aren't currently doing the enhanced pat-down. In other words, they want traffic to go through the airport faster, and the scanners speed things up.
Are you kidding me? I'm sure there are several companies that will license use of their service to others. A simple API in your checkout form could call the service and get the tax rules based on zipcode. Heck, there are several free websites that offer this service for manual entry, I can only imagine that there are some that will allow automated entry for some cost structure. The more important thing is not calculating collection of sales tax, but delivering the sales tax to the proper places. If I sell a widget to a man in California, do I have to mail a check to the California IRS? How often do I have to give the sales tax money to these states? If Paypal or some payment processor took care of this for you, it would be quite easy for them to do so. They could immediately take the sales tax from the transaction and place it into a massive account. The money could then be electronically distributed the the correct parties on a daily/weekly basis. Maybe they would charge something for the service, but my guess is that it would be minimal if not free.
I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.
Are you kidding me? If Amazon disappeared tomorrow, do you really think that the big winners would be small business? Hell no. It would be the big stores like Home Depot, Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, etc. I'm not going to magically decide to go to the small book shop that costs 40% more than even the inflated prices at B&N. Those small stores are done. Left to the small cities that can't support a national chain.
Also, as a member of a community and a "far-off absentee owner" of several companies, I resent the fact that you think that my profits are less important than the small business owners. The money I make from investments gets either reinvested into the same/similar companies, or spent in my community. If you'd like to be a business partner of mine, the cost of entry is fairly low, depending on the company.
I always thought that there was a lot of waste in the State government, and then I got hired by the State. Now I realize that however much waste I thought was there, would be just a drop in the bucket of how much waste is actually there. It makes me want to vomit. People are getting paid good salaries to surf the web all day. I remember when I used to be so busy. When I left my old job, they had to hire 2 people to fill my spot, because I was that busy. Now...I've gone a full day without providing any service. I'm seriously looking for work again, just because I can't stand to do nothing all day. To those who live in my state, I thank you for your continued support, and I apologize that I can't do anything to help you.
My guess is that places like Paypal will include this as a feature for free. Software should be able to handle the problem easily I'm sure.
Those businesses would have gone down whether Amazon opened a wharehouse or not. If anything, the extra jobs should help sustain them longer. I'm a fan of local businesses, but I am also a fan of not spending money. It's hard to justify spending 20% more at a local store for no perceived benefit, but that's not what this argument is even about. If you want to hate on Amazon, hate on Amazon. Just don't hate on them because they worked out a deal to avoid sales tax. I personally think that any online store that sells over $100,000 in products a year should be forced to collect sales tax. I would like to see Amazon be brought down a peg and not given a fixed 6% (in my state) advantage over everyone else. Maybe with the extra tax revenue, my state can avoid raising the sales tax like they've been discussing.
If your choice is Amazon builds a warehouse and hires 500 people but you don't get sales tax on Amazon sales or Amazon doesn't come to your state and you don't get sales tax...The choice is pretty easy.
Have you seen the women in Iceland? #!$( gorgeous. I'm shocked that anyone would want to look at porn in Iceland.
First the take away Pluto's standing as a planet, but it still gets to have moons? Seriously? Either it's a planet, or it's not. Make up your mind!
Fact: In science, an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.” Truth in science, however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow.
Law: A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances.
Congratulations though, you have attained that which you thought would be very difficult. You have become more wrong, in fact, than I was.
I don't anticipate it being that big of a problem, except that every #!(#!% health care biller has 9-4 hours. Some of us have what we like to call JOBS, and I can't take 30 minutes out of my work day to call and deal with this crap.
I had varying success. Some nurses would agree to it, but they would tell me when to administer it to my wife. They would also document it on the computer. Other nurses were not so inclined. I hate to see what a pill costs from the hospital. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough once the bills start rolling in. On a side note, when you change insurance companies, don't take some jerks word for it that they have the new information on file. Those dirty jerks billed the old insurance who quickly denied it. Sad thing is the old insurance is the new insurance, just new account numbers. Yet they can't pay the charges because that would be insurance fraud! So now I have to call every jerk doctor who wants to get paid and have them resubmit the bill.
When one asks himself a question that he already has an answer for, he shouldn't be surprised when he answers it the way that he does. This doesn't mean that the person was right...Only that they weren't really interested in finding answers as much as convincing themselves that the answer they already had was right. This applies equally to Christians, Athiests, and any other religion.
I believe in a personal God, and I also believe that the entire argument over evolution/creation is pointless. Scientists can go ahead and believe that something came from nothing, an act that they cannot repeat, observe, study, or otherwise touch. Christians can go on believing that something came from nothing because God willed it to happen, an act that they must have faith in. Quite frankly, to a casual observer, both ideas are just as absurd. Scientists have faith in the fact that there are laws and truths in nature. Christians believe there are laws and truths in nature because God willed it to happen. The two ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Just as there are scientists who have left Christianity because of science, there are scientists who came to Christ because of science. Sounds like being a scientist has about as much of an effect on your religious beliefs as just about every profession in the world (including being a pastor).
Do what? Write congress? I'm sure they'll get right on that. I've written many a note to my representatives. It's never seemed to make a difference. I think the only way we can get change is if we form a SuperPAC and get some good financial backing.
I didn't sell my son. I used the software, and then found that I had apparently agreed to these terms unknowingly. I am a man of my word, and I will not go back on a contract I agreed to. Thus, I am owed $50,000 in support costs, and $15,000 in medical fees. I will take this to court if I must.