You can purchase this tax reconciliation service from Amazon . Just tell them who, where, when, what, how much, how often. For a fee they will drive you out of business. And tell you that its your own damn fault.
This is a power grab at the expense of small businesses. The states have long-failed at enforcing their use taxes. Who is lined up for legislating this "fair tax" ? Amazon, WalMart, Governors, Municipalities, National Retailers who have nexus most everyplace anyway. Against ? Ebay and small schmucks like me with one place of business. This court action is now a little long in the tooth. Amazon has already folded in California. Congress loves playing the States' benefactor.
We sell a product that has been sold by catalog for a very long time. If a customer calls the 800 number, where does the sale occur ? Our servers are in another state. Where does the sale occur? A large percentage of our customers purchase our product for resale. They are responsible to collect the Local sales tax on their selling price, not purchase price. In-state resellers must provide a kind of form that attests that they possess a valid "Sales and Use Tax Permit". No one can figure it out. People mistakenly give us their Federal ID number, Drivers License number all kinds of stuff. We are responsible if audited as to why we did not collect sales tax on these transactions. Multiply this by 45 states. So not only will small business like ours be collecting taxes for other States, but having to police the resale laws for these States when the taxes are NOT to be collected. Gives an advantage to in state vendors.
We recognize that we are probably on the losing side of this issue. If Congress manages to pass this mess it would be nice if they would protect us newly minted tax collectors from incessant out-of-state audits.
Most users have set up their own version of this : - their email client is their chronological filing cabinet. The user can sort, file , flag and archive their historical records. The email client is a database of personal records where the user has meaningful control. And they like it!
Twenty years ago Gelernter proposed "lifestreams" where your entire set of data, assets and transactions would be available to you from any network node at all times.
What kind of actions/ transactions are the most immediately critical to an individual user ? Bank transactions. Security and privacy issues are and will continue to be constant.
Seeing large CS ideas move from the abstract to broad societal usage is pretty cool.
As long as I can find that critical email attachment from 2009.
The SX-70 is one of the greatest works of industrial/product design, ever. Henry Dreyfuss's masterpiece. IF we taught design as required unit in art in public schools, the work of Raymond Lowey, BelGeddes, Dreyfus , Noguchi, there would be many competators to Apple Inc.
Dreyfuss never designed a second rate anything. Look it up if you cannot name at least three famous examples of his work, you will be surprised. He said 'I don't do packaging' meaning that he needed to be involved from the very beginning of the design/engineering process. Do not expect an accomplished designer to put a sexed-up veneer on a piece of crap at the eleventh hour.
I have two of these cameras just crying for film stock. A thing that is just a pleasure to hold. Who directed the James Garner commercials for this camera ? Ahead of their time.
Fowler's Refactoring is a remarkable work. Our team revisits it periodically to get our bearings . We throw more crap into the bit bucket because of this book.
Books that address theory rather than technical implementation help you think more clearly.
This thread was remarkably cogent and truthful until here: There is no reason why we can't continue to send robotic probes and continue to further our knowledge of manned space travel at the same time.
Actually there is a reason called taxpayer dollars.
One would hope that after so many years the developers have some ideas for functionality not included by the present employers.
Judges may be reluctant to enforce questionable non compete clauses that preclude some one from making a living using their given expertise.
Why not keep your jobs and develop and release the web version for free . Then when your employer goes belly up you can profit as consultants for users of the free version.
What is the real reason for NASA? If it is science then robots rock- this is proven. Manned exploration is really expensive and limited and dangerous.
If NASA is to keep a strategic toehold in the firmament because the Russians, or Chinese, or Indians could get rowdy then that is a quite different reason - warfare.
Manned exploration of Mars as a short term goal is really quite silly, but makes for good, inspiring, nationalistic PR and interests kids in engineering.
What I really want to know : has the DOD ever exploded a nuclear warhead in space?
And the requisite glitter (very small reflective particles) will serve to reflect the warming rays. We just have to work on getting the rockers to go out during the daylight hours
I have travelled to Europe for business about 40 times in the last decade. Always loaded with photographic equipment and computers. Only once was I briefly interviewed going into NL and once coming back into the US.
The original post seems overly dramatic. It is routinely much worse for non US nationals . They have to under go the disgraceful biometric scan.
My pop built his first crystal radio set during the Hoover administration. He is a complete convert to his Roku internet radios (2) running off his Apple airport access point. I concur that it is a successful user interface and design if an 87 year old can get the best out of it.
But I was called in for network administration the other day. Turns out the Roku Radio website was displaying a short and inelegant 'Unable to connect to MySql' message .
Still trying to get around to bringing a vista box onto the home network so we can try Netflix on demand option. Maybe a dedicated device like the Roku would bypass the pain.
Netflix keeps recommending light romantic comedies starring Meg Ryan. Where the hell are the Buñeul movies?
I thought that encrypting just the home directory was a great security idea on my group's laptops. It is very effective in limiting liability against laptop theft. Except that every day's incremental backup becomes a de facto full backup. So you have to start the backup as soon as you get to the office if you want to leave on time.
Looky at the flood of negative comments. In software design don't get prematurely caught up in implementation. Look at the big picture and you can see the future from here on most days. Security is just part of the design.
Will they have a place to tie up my donkey when I get to the spaceport?
Seems I read about this in the NY Times many years ago. After the collapse of the USSR surgeons there lacking heart-lung machines and anesthetics would ice down ( Really chill them out ) the patients in order to perform major surgery and then gently revive the patients.
I ride my donkey to work every morning. When I tied her up outside the office I don't have to work about someone stealing my blaupunkt radio or siphoning gas.
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Induction cooking requires the use of a ferrous cookware. Iron and steel can get hot enough to really sear something. The addition of iron scraped off into the diet is actually a nutritional plus. Stainless steel has always had problems with scorching, even the copper aluminum sandwich kind.
Copper, glass, aluminum etc are useless for induction schemes. We use copper, steel and aluminum so this technology is out for us. Good pans should be able to cook every meal you eat in your lifetime and then some.
I think that the poster wanted to point out his relief of a use for RFID that didn't directly benefit big brother. Having an eight burner gas stove in your house is like having an AS/400 server at home to manage your 200 recipes.
Software has always had this double standard disconnect . You pay for a license which states that you do not own the program, just allowed to use it under the terms of the agreement. It is explicitly non-chatel. But sales tax is collected ( unless you buy in line from and out-of-state retailer) always. Licenses are not taxable, chatel is . So I figure that the box costs $629 and the software is actually no charge.
I think that this bill may be a non-starter, the large catalog retailers that are not incorporated in every state will fight this one for us.
Our company sells to end users and resellers over the web. We keep a copy of the resellers (tax exempt) certificate for those in our state. On the web resellers can just enter their number and we trust that it is a valid one. So more paperwork in order not to become a tax collector for other states. Will we have to require a fax copy of out of state resale certificates for a web order?
Another nightmare will be the paper mail orders. Those orders are often summed incorrectly. If someone sends a check and shorts us $5 on a $100 order we ship it anyway and eat the mistake What if they stiff you $4 on sales tax to their home state, do you eat it?
The charge card companies enjoy a tremendous benefit from this increased ecommerce. Maybe they could just report my out of state purchases to my home state and I would pay the summary use taxes. Right. I am saying that the states already have a kind of reciprocal agreement, If I paid taxes to another state I am exempt from the use tax here. Sales tax is the most regressive of all taxes, it is also the most prone to downturns in the economy.. It is a shortsighted way to run a railroad.
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ADA keeps you safe. Obscurity is a subjective and possibly argumentative appelation.
You can purchase this tax reconciliation service from Amazon .
Just tell them who, where, when, what, how much, how often.
For a fee they will drive you out of business.
And tell you that its your own damn fault.
Jane Q has made some quite relevant points.
This is a power grab at the expense of small businesses. The states have long-failed at enforcing their use taxes.
Who is lined up for legislating this "fair tax" ? Amazon, WalMart, Governors, Municipalities, National Retailers who have nexus most everyplace anyway.
Against ? Ebay and small schmucks like me with one place of business.
This court action is now a little long in the tooth. Amazon has already folded in California.
Congress loves playing the States' benefactor.
We sell a product that has been sold by catalog for a very long time.
If a customer calls the 800 number, where does the sale occur ?
Our servers are in another state. Where does the sale occur?
A large percentage of our customers purchase our product for resale. They are responsible to collect the Local sales tax on their selling price, not purchase price.
In-state resellers must provide a kind of form that attests that they possess a valid "Sales and Use Tax Permit". No one can figure it out.
People mistakenly give us their Federal ID number, Drivers License number all kinds of stuff. We are responsible if audited as to why we did not collect sales tax on these transactions.
Multiply this by 45 states. So not only will small business like ours be collecting taxes for other States, but having to police the resale laws for these States when the taxes are NOT to be collected. Gives an advantage to in state vendors.
We recognize that we are probably on the losing side of this issue.
If Congress manages to pass this mess it would be nice if they would protect us newly minted tax collectors from incessant out-of-state audits.
Most users have set up their own version of this :
- their email client is their chronological filing cabinet. The user can sort, file , flag and archive their historical records. The email client is a database of personal records where the user has meaningful control. And they like it!
Twenty years ago Gelernter proposed "lifestreams" where your entire set of data, assets and transactions would be available to you from any network node at all times.
What kind of actions/ transactions are the most immediately critical to an individual user ? Bank transactions. Security and privacy issues are and will continue to be constant.
Seeing large CS ideas move from the abstract to broad societal usage is pretty cool.
As long as I can find that critical email attachment from 2009.
New business idea. Mea.culpa.com.
Stock excuses, rationalizations, and contrition for sale.
Ppc campaigns.
Nonprofit townsquare version. Virtual public stockade dot gov.
m.tarandfeather.net
The SX-70 is one of the greatest works of industrial/product design, ever. Henry Dreyfuss's masterpiece.
IF we taught design as required unit in art in public schools, the work of Raymond Lowey, BelGeddes, Dreyfus , Noguchi, there would be many competators to Apple Inc.
Dreyfuss never designed a second rate anything. Look it up if you cannot name at least three famous examples of his work, you will be surprised. He said 'I don't do packaging' meaning that he needed to be involved from the very beginning of the design/engineering process. Do not expect an accomplished designer to put a sexed-up veneer on a piece of crap at the eleventh hour.
I have two of these cameras just crying for film stock. A thing that is just a pleasure to hold. Who directed the James Garner commercials for this camera ? Ahead of their time.
Fowler's Refactoring is a remarkable work. Our team revisits it periodically to get our bearings . We throw more crap into the bit bucket because of this book.
Books that address theory rather than technical implementation help you think more clearly.
This thread was remarkably cogent and truthful until here:
There is no reason why we can't continue to send robotic probes and continue to further our knowledge of manned space travel at the same time.
Actually there is a reason called taxpayer dollars.
One would hope that after so many years the developers have some ideas for functionality not included by the present employers.
Judges may be reluctant to enforce questionable non compete clauses that preclude some one from making a living using their given expertise.
Why not keep your jobs and develop and release the web version for free . Then when your employer goes belly up you can profit as consultants for users of the free version.
Cutting research is seldom wise.
What is the real reason for NASA? If it is science then robots rock- this is proven. Manned exploration is really expensive and limited and dangerous.
If NASA is to keep a strategic toehold in the firmament because the Russians, or Chinese, or Indians could get rowdy then that is a quite different reason - warfare.
Manned exploration of Mars as a short term goal is really quite silly, but makes for good, inspiring, nationalistic PR and interests kids in engineering.
What I really want to know : has the DOD ever exploded a nuclear warhead in space?
And the requisite glitter (very small reflective particles) will serve to reflect the warming rays. We just have to work on getting the rockers to go out during the daylight hours
I have travelled to Europe for business about 40 times in the last decade. Always loaded with photographic equipment and computers. Only once was I briefly interviewed going into NL and once coming back into the US.
The original post seems overly dramatic. It is routinely much worse for non US nationals . They have to under go the disgraceful biometric scan.
My pop built his first crystal radio set during the Hoover administration. He is a complete convert to his Roku internet radios (2) running off his Apple airport access point. I concur that it is a successful user interface and design if an 87 year old can get the best out of it.
But I was called in for network administration the other day. Turns out the Roku Radio website was displaying a short and inelegant 'Unable to connect to MySql' message .
Still trying to get around to bringing a vista box onto the home network so we can try Netflix on demand option. Maybe a dedicated device like the Roku would bypass the pain.
Netflix keeps recommending light romantic comedies starring Meg Ryan. Where the hell are the Buñeul movies?
The horta is an ancient silicon-based life form.
I thought that encrypting just the home directory was a great security idea on my group's laptops. It is very effective in limiting liability against laptop theft.
Except that every day's incremental backup becomes a de facto full backup. So you have to start the backup as soon as you get to the office if you want to leave on time.
Looky at the flood of negative comments. In software design don't get prematurely caught up in implementation. Look at the big picture and you can see the future from here on most days.
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Security is just part of the design.
Will they have a place to tie up my donkey when I get to the spaceport?
Let's do the splash screen first!
Besides, this idea has been around for decade.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.
Seems I read about this in the NY Times many years ago. After the collapse of the USSR surgeons there lacking heart-lung machines and anesthetics would ice down ( Really chill them out ) the patients in order to perform major surgery and then gently revive the patients.
I ride my donkey to work every morning. When I tied her up outside the office I don't have to work about someone stealing my blaupunkt radio or siphoning gas.
Induction cooking requires the use of a ferrous cookware. Iron and steel can get hot enough to really sear something. The addition of iron scraped off into the diet is actually a nutritional plus. Stainless steel has always had problems with scorching, even the copper aluminum sandwich kind.
Copper, glass, aluminum etc are useless for induction schemes. We use copper, steel and aluminum so this technology is out for us. Good pans should be able to cook every meal you eat in your lifetime and then some.
I think that the poster wanted to point out his relief of a use for RFID that didn't directly benefit big brother. Having an eight burner gas stove in your house is like having an AS/400 server at home to manage your 200 recipes.
Software has always had this double standard disconnect . You pay for a license which states that you do not own the program, just allowed to use it under the terms of the agreement. It is explicitly non-chatel. But sales tax is collected ( unless you buy in line from and out-of-state retailer) always. Licenses are not taxable, chatel is . So I figure that the box costs $629 and the software is actually no charge.
I think that this bill may be a non-starter, the large catalog retailers that are not incorporated in every state will fight this one for us.
Our company sells to end users and resellers over the web. We keep a copy of the resellers (tax exempt) certificate for those in our state. On the web resellers can just enter their number and we trust that it is a valid one. So more paperwork in order not to become a tax collector for other states. Will we have to require a fax copy of out of state resale certificates for a web order?
Another nightmare will be the paper mail orders. Those orders are often summed incorrectly. If someone sends a check and shorts us $5 on a $100 order we ship it anyway and eat the mistake What if they stiff you $4 on sales tax to their home state, do you eat it?
The charge card companies enjoy a tremendous benefit from this increased ecommerce. Maybe they could just report my out of state purchases to my home state and I would pay the summary use taxes. Right. I am saying that the states already have a kind of reciprocal agreement, If I paid taxes to another state I am exempt from the use tax here. Sales tax is the most regressive of all taxes, it is also the most prone to downturns in the economy.. It is a shortsighted way to run a railroad.