A county judge may well *rule* that a law is unconstitutional, and a DA may refuse to prosocute the law, but the ruling has no force of *law* outside that courtroom. The law itself still stands.
Whereas if the highest court of appeal in the state rules on unconstituionality based on the state's constitution that state law is *void* everywhere in the state.
Rinse and repeat as needed until you reach the Supremes.
The county cannot overide the state, the state cannot overide the federal. Think of it as the chain of command.
This does not mean that the county can't issue *local* orders, like to ignore a law.
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Which also serves to illustrate that there are consequences for lower jurisdictions to so act.
on law enforcement, which has already been proven ineffective, and is thus an embaressment to those who enforce the law.
This punts responsibility to the poor ISP who all government officials can now point their scrawny little finger at while cackling "There's the bad guy" to the voters.
This is actually a quite common tactic and if you examine laws closely you'll find any number of examples.
The fact that this ruling makes no sense, is impossible to comply with, and thus defines every ISP as a child pornographer is beside the point.
that MS code is just as good as code written by an ignorant or uneducated dork in his basement.
He'll probably have his mom sticth it into a sampler he can hang on his office wall.
(Of course, personally, I don't think it's true. Bill has the resources to throw at code to make it much worse than any single dork can, but that's just my opinion)
I didn't mean over a "lunch break," I meant to go to a particualar place for lunch.:)
That's about a 12 hour day if I'm in a hurry. 14 if I'm not.
I don't own a car. So yes, I bike as much, or more, than most people drive. Which means I'm in pretty good shape. Which is also why a Segway is absolutely useless to me. Even if it were free. It simply isn't capable of taking where at go, let alone at the speeds I get there.
Certainly conditioning is more important. The rider is the engine.
But on a bike it isn't like a car where buying a more powerful car gives so many miles per hour more. It's more subtle than that. You go a *bit* faster, but the real thing is that on the better bike it takes less out of you to do it. And if you ride 50 to 100 miles a day you might be surprised at what that "feel" can do for eating up the miles in comfort. If you wear out, the engine just doesn't go so good anymore.
If you don't bike a lot your bike is just fine. If you don't race there really isn't any reason to pay more than about $1500.
But for those of us that do bike a lot ( I know you think you do, but I can put on 1000 miles in a single *week* and often go a couple hundred just for lunch) then, yes, that $1500 dollar bike makes one *hell* of a difference, and even costs less in the long run.
While smaller localities have their own sales taxes these are bundled into state returns. The state then redistributes the relevat revenues to those who have earned them.
So there's only one return to file, but the return gets more and more complicated the more counties and cities you have sales in.
I think it falls into the catagory of "why bother?"
If you've got a net everything starts to look like a net problem I guess. I've never known any physical local that suffered a shortage of dramatic wannabes. I know towns with populations in the hundreds that have *more* than one community theater.
While the net would be an ideal medium for *distributing* such works just putting a notice on a college bulliten board should turn up more actors than you need to stage the complete works of Shakepeare without repeating anybody.
Of course the college is likely to bust you for distributing those "illegal" mp3 files, but that's a different issue.
Hardly an Apple fanatic. I've got two. Haven't even hit the power switch on either of them for a year or more.
I guess you missed my point though, understandable because it was in different post, and thus no slam on you, that it's the *fact* that Apple's compliance requirements are so high that makes it easy for them.
It's the guy who sells his hand tied trout flies online that's going to simply be forced out of the market by compliance requirments.
you need to readjust the lenses on your perspective goggles.
Apple is a *huge* comapany with a world wide presence and sales in the billions of dollars.
"Small" business is generally considered to be one with gross annual sales of 3 million or less. Even that's really pretty big.
A *little* company is my mom trying to broaden the market for her handmade jewelry by offering it online. Having to handle sales taxes for every jurisdiction would simply kill that. Dead.
No, where it will hit the small time operator hardest is in implimentation costs.
Toys Be Us and Shit already *has* a presence in all states, and accounting services to deal with it. For them paying online taxes, while costly, isn't really as big a deal as it might appear. It's more a question of how to put it into reasonable practice.
But for the little guy it means setting up tax accounts in every state before he can even do a lick of business, and the cost of maintaining them properly may well exceed his profit margin.
It's already hard enough to deal with the paperwork and compliance issues in *one* state. Having to do it in all 50 will be enough to force many of the moms and pops of the world into tending the fryer istead of being independent business people.
Think about that for a minute and think about why the big boys might be very, very, VERY much in favor of paying all these taxes.
Look, nobody ever accused securities laws of being sensible. It is based on the premise that people lacking a bit in the brilliance department need a bit of help on the side.
Such people are likely to do silly things, and it's only natural that any laws devised to deal with this issue will be inately insensible in some respect or other.
It's law reductio ad absurdum
On the converse side though, although these laws have proven entirely ineffective at preventing such people from ultimately being fleeced, it does at least provide for the social benifit that the fleecers have to provide some modicum of real value before unltimately making of with the booty.
A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
In a world where there are actually people who make investment decisions based on newspaper astrology columns and mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets ( so that they're sure to win) nothing surprises me very much.
The fact of the matter is that most people aren't very bright. Get used to it. The world is populated by most people.
your point would be valid. And here on/. it's usually to much to ask that people do even that.
But for those who have delved a bit deeper into the issue and hunted around a bit for *other* sources of information we've found that, yes, dietary preferences stated to airline personel are indeed being discussed by officials as one way to profile the religion of a passenger without overtly appearing to do so.
The pork comment stands.
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Bill Cosby:Himself.
Rent it.
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No, the high end bicycle market is $3000-$5000. Which actually makes the Segway competitive, but notice all the people here saying "Why not just get a bike?"
Many of those (including me) are people perfectly willing to drop several grand on a bike. Price isn't really the issue. The issue is that the Segway just doesn't really make any sense at all to someone willing to ride a bike.
This isn't a conspiracy. It's an effect of what my granny would have called "knowing what side your toast is buttered on."
It's endemic in the entire "review industry." In fact, it's rampant in the media industry. Do you think The Filthy Critic gets invited on junkets, or out on the yacht with all the hot, willing little starlets?
Many reviewers are nothing more than karma whores. That's the reason for the founding of Consumer Reports.
The ones who are not get "modded down" to the fringes and you're less likely to even come across them.
That's the way it is, that is the way it shall be.
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and can really be thought of as a sort of "pre" wheelchair thingy.
I don't think that's what the investors ready to change the way cities are built had in mind.
Is there a market for Segways? Sure, but it's a marginal one, just like wheelchairs, and it's going to stay that way, so he just better face that fact that he went into the wheelchair business, and ended up in the wheelchair business, even if he didn't intend it that way.
No, I don't think so. I get the feeling it was more of an issue of reputation. More akin to slander than a trademark violation. Some people still rely on the concept of "good name" rather than pulling the trademark card.
Certainly Cage's estate *could* sue Midway, but are either unaware of the issue, or since no *explicit* claim of joint authorship was made simply haven't gotten their noses out of joint over it.
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A county judge may well *rule* that a law is unconstitutional, and a DA may refuse to prosocute the law, but the ruling has no force of *law* outside that courtroom. The law itself still stands.
Whereas if the highest court of appeal in the state rules on unconstituionality based on the state's constitution that state law is *void* everywhere in the state.
Rinse and repeat as needed until you reach the Supremes.
The county cannot overide the state, the state cannot overide the federal. Think of it as the chain of command.
This does not mean that the county can't issue *local* orders, like to ignore a law.
re: medicinal use of marijuana in California
Which also serves to illustrate that there are consequences for lower jurisdictions to so act.
KFG
on law enforcement, which has already been proven ineffective, and is thus an embaressment to those who enforce the law.
This punts responsibility to the poor ISP who all government officials can now point their scrawny little finger at while cackling "There's the bad guy" to the voters.
This is actually a quite common tactic and if you examine laws closely you'll find any number of examples.
The fact that this ruling makes no sense, is impossible to comply with, and thus defines every ISP as a child pornographer is beside the point.
Shit rolls downhill.
KFG
Microsoft is a chicken.
KFG
that MS code is just as good as code written by an ignorant or uneducated dork in his basement.
He'll probably have his mom sticth it into a sampler he can hang on his office wall.
(Of course, personally, I don't think it's true. Bill has the resources to throw at code to make it much worse than any single dork can, but that's just my opinion)
KFG
And the IRA and their friends have all the access to gasoline, styrofoam, old rags and empty coke bottles that they could possibly want.
The only way to regulate explosives would be to ban exothermic chemical reactions.
Which just might have some unintended consequences. Care for some lunch?
KFG
I didn't mean over a "lunch break," I meant to go to a particualar place for lunch. :)
That's about a 12 hour day if I'm in a hurry. 14 if I'm not.
I don't own a car. So yes, I bike as much, or more, than most people drive. Which means I'm in pretty good shape. Which is also why a Segway is absolutely useless to me. Even if it were free. It simply isn't capable of taking where at go, let alone at the speeds I get there.
Certainly conditioning is more important. The rider is the engine.
But on a bike it isn't like a car where buying a more powerful car gives so many miles per hour more. It's more subtle than that. You go a *bit* faster, but the real thing is that on the better bike it takes less out of you to do it. And if you ride 50 to 100 miles a day you might be surprised at what that "feel" can do for eating up the miles in comfort. If you wear out, the engine just doesn't go so good anymore.
KFG
If you don't bike a lot your bike is just fine. If you don't race there really isn't any reason to pay more than about $1500.
But for those of us that do bike a lot ( I know you think you do, but I can put on 1000 miles in a single *week* and often go a couple hundred just for lunch) then, yes, that $1500 dollar bike makes one *hell* of a difference, and even costs less in the long run.
KFG
Yeah, but at least they make good cars in Trollhatten.
KFG
While smaller localities have their own sales taxes these are bundled into state returns. The state then redistributes the relevat revenues to those who have earned them.
So there's only one return to file, but the return gets more and more complicated the more counties and cities you have sales in.
KFG
I think it falls into the catagory of "why bother?"
If you've got a net everything starts to look like a net problem I guess. I've never known any physical local that suffered a shortage of dramatic wannabes. I know towns with populations in the hundreds that have *more* than one community theater.
While the net would be an ideal medium for *distributing* such works just putting a notice on a college bulliten board should turn up more actors than you need to stage the complete works of Shakepeare without repeating anybody.
Of course the college is likely to bust you for distributing those "illegal" mp3 files, but that's a different issue.
KFG
that that pretty much describes most amateur produced *audio* drama.
Pitiful, idn'it?
KFG
But they'll all be displayed shifted 30 spaces to the left.
KFG
Ah, and I'm usually the one whose dry sense of humor puts him the receiving end.
Turn about is fair play I guess.
KFG
Hardly an Apple fanatic. I've got two. Haven't even hit the power switch on either of them for a year or more.
I guess you missed my point though, understandable because it was in different post, and thus no slam on you, that it's the *fact* that Apple's compliance requirements are so high that makes it easy for them.
It's the guy who sells his hand tied trout flies online that's going to simply be forced out of the market by compliance requirments.
KFG
you need to readjust the lenses on your perspective goggles.
Apple is a *huge* comapany with a world wide presence and sales in the billions of dollars.
"Small" business is generally considered to be one with gross annual sales of 3 million or less. Even that's really pretty big.
A *little* company is my mom trying to broaden the market for her handmade jewelry by offering it online. Having to handle sales taxes for every jurisdiction would simply kill that. Dead.
KFG
No, where it will hit the small time operator hardest is in implimentation costs.
Toys Be Us and Shit already *has* a presence in all states, and accounting services to deal with it. For them paying online taxes, while costly, isn't really as big a deal as it might appear. It's more a question of how to put it into reasonable practice.
But for the little guy it means setting up tax accounts in every state before he can even do a lick of business, and the cost of maintaining them properly may well exceed his profit margin.
It's already hard enough to deal with the paperwork and compliance issues in *one* state. Having to do it in all 50 will be enough to force many of the moms and pops of the world into tending the fryer istead of being independent business people.
Think about that for a minute and think about why the big boys might be very, very, VERY much in favor of paying all these taxes.
KFG
Look, nobody ever accused securities laws of being sensible. It is based on the premise that people lacking a bit in the brilliance department need a bit of help on the side.
Such people are likely to do silly things, and it's only natural that any laws devised to deal with this issue will be inately insensible in some respect or other.
It's law reductio ad absurdum
On the converse side though, although these laws have proven entirely ineffective at preventing such people from ultimately being fleeced, it does at least provide for the social benifit that the fleecers have to provide some modicum of real value before unltimately making of with the booty.
Like vinyl siding for instance.
KFG
A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
In a world where there are actually people who make investment decisions based on newspaper astrology columns and mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets ( so that they're sure to win) nothing surprises me very much.
The fact of the matter is that most people aren't very bright. Get used to it. The world is populated by most people.
KFG
your point would be valid. And here on /. it's usually to much to ask that people do even that.
But for those who have delved a bit deeper into the issue and hunted around a bit for *other* sources of information we've found that, yes, dietary preferences stated to airline personel are indeed being discussed by officials as one way to profile the religion of a passenger without overtly appearing to do so.
The pork comment stands.
KFG
Bill Cosby:Himself.
Rent it.
KFG
No, the high end bicycle market is $3000-$5000. Which actually makes the Segway competitive, but notice all the people here saying "Why not just get a bike?"
Many of those (including me) are people perfectly willing to drop several grand on a bike. Price isn't really the issue. The issue is that the Segway just doesn't really make any sense at all to someone willing to ride a bike.
KFG
This isn't a conspiracy. It's an effect of what my granny would have called "knowing what side your toast is buttered on."
It's endemic in the entire "review industry." In fact, it's rampant in the media industry. Do you think The Filthy Critic gets invited on junkets, or out on the yacht with all the hot, willing little starlets?
Many reviewers are nothing more than karma whores. That's the reason for the founding of Consumer Reports.
The ones who are not get "modded down" to the fringes and you're less likely to even come across them.
That's the way it is, that is the way it shall be.
KFG
and can really be thought of as a sort of "pre" wheelchair thingy.
I don't think that's what the investors ready to change the way cities are built had in mind.
Is there a market for Segways? Sure, but it's a marginal one, just like wheelchairs, and it's going to stay that way, so he just better face that fact that he went into the wheelchair business, and ended up in the wheelchair business, even if he didn't intend it that way.
KFG
They had to pay the guy who named the thing by the word.
KFG
No, I don't think so. I get the feeling it was more of an issue of reputation. More akin to slander than a trademark violation. Some people still rely on the concept of "good name" rather than pulling the trademark card.
Certainly Cage's estate *could* sue Midway, but are either unaware of the issue, or since no *explicit* claim of joint authorship was made simply haven't gotten their noses out of joint over it.
KFG