Then we have the "new" approach: Tax everything, which is apparently what KY wants to do when they ask you to declare things you bought somewhere else. That's silly. If you were physically in a different state, why should Kentucky get a cut?
Alabama has a similar use tax. *Anything* that I buy (even while in another state) that has a physical presence in the state of Alabama (no matter how brief of an existence it might have in the state (like a candy bar bought on a road trip)) should be assessed a use tax.
The use tax is 4% (minus the sales tax paid in other states, if I bought it somewhere that is not Alabama). The use tax can not be less than zero.
Basically, Alabama (and presumable other states) say "D4mmit, you're going to pay a tax, either to us or someone else, but you're going to pay a tax."
Even playing by the rules and paying a use tax, for bigger ticket items, it's often cheaper to drive an hour to Tennessee, pay the sales tax there, drive an hour back to Alabama than it is to buy in Alabama.
My sales tax (food is taxed as well) is 10% (Alabama allows counties, cities, and even finer levels of granularity to all assess their own sales tax, 4% of which passed back to the state budget).
Their argument is, in order to bring the good to a physical location in Alabama, you are using Alabama resources (roads, highway patrol, polluting the air, etc).
And they seem to offer the free two months every time you try to quit (to keep their numbers up?) My grandmother has had free service from AOL for over a year now. Every two months she calls up to cancel the service; every two months, they give her a renewal.
Actually you can do this yourself. I did it a year and a half ago. It's called vertical handover, and I did it between 802.11b and bluetooth. I wanted to do GPRS as well, but I had no access to such hardware at the time. It's quite easy to set up using MobileIP and some clever programming.
The source code required for this is slightly larger than the margins in the comment box allow for. The actual coding is left to the reader as a trivial programming exercise. </sarcasm>
As long as the rates, schedules, and special offers are identical between the two
But they're not. SW (and all of the other airlines, now that I think about it) offer special "web only" fares.
Plus there's the whole wait time thing. Sometimes I get through to a human right away, sometimes I have to wait fifteen minutes to book a flight. The web site site is always about the same amount of time.
In the case of Southwest's web site, it's exactly the opposite: they would have to go out of their way to not "discriminate" by accomodating the blind person.
So? Accomodating ADA needs almost always is an added inconvenience to the brick and mortar places. In fact, I can't imagine it being *more* expensive to ADA-enable a page than it would be to add an accessability ramp or make your store dog-friendly.
It's not malicious on SW's part, I agree, but it's not like it takes a lot of work to change ALT="" to ALT="Login".
When your vision *is* corrected, do you have depth perception? I'm in a similar boat (although not quite as bad--just three diopters difference) as you. Corrected (glasses or not), I still don't have depth perception. I went for so long as a kid with unbalanced uncorrected vision that my brain doesn't have highly developed depth perception. I can obtain depth perception one of two ways: 1. use glasses with orthogonally polarized lenses (think 3D polorized lenses) 2. Eat acid.
Neither way is really conducive to work. =) I was wondering if you had found anything that might be of assistance.
J Cherryh wrote "Life, it goes on, you know?" (erm, pardon, dont remember the name of the book, but can describe the cover)
(replying here because apparently uu.net is blacklisted here at work) I want to say that the book was Cyteen, but it might have been Rimrunners. Sorry for the long delay in replying.
What font do you use for your terminal windows? The default font give me hideous eyestrain after about twenty minutes; I'm still searching for terminal settings on OSX that I can use long-term.
Didn't/. already cover this? Yes, but Timothy wouldn't be the Timothy/. knows and loves if he didn't repost articles that were less than 90 days old. We love you Timothy! Keep posting old crap! We love feeling intellectually superior to someone who gets paid to surf all day. Smooches!
Didn't that have a sticker on the package announcing "Soon to be a major motion picture - with soundtrack by Devo!"
Yeah! I remember now! When the game loaded, there was a 30secondish Devo snippet from the alleged soundtrack to the movie. I remember playing the game and thinking how totally badass a move based on the game would be. I guess Matrix fulfilled that desire for me (even though, arguably, it *should* have been Johnny Mnemonic).
I had the same experience you did. Then I thought that maybe they meant '92 as in 1992. Oddly enough, what got me turned onto cyberpunk was Neuromancer, the game for the C64 (with soundtrack by Devo!). After playing that, I stopped reading Golden Age SF and went almost entirely mainstream cyberpunk.
Golden Age seems to have a very rosy outlook on life. Even Asimov's bleakest cloud had the silver lining of the Foundation saving the day. CJ Cherryh wrote "Life, it goes on, you know?" (erm, pardon, dont remember the name of the book, but can describe the cover) Golden Age SF seemed to say "Tech (eventually) conquers all!" but cyberpunk states "Life, even with my Fujitsu eyeballs and Sony GreyMatter upgrades, still sucks."
Okay, first off, this is the *BEST* interview I've ever read on/. bar none. Yes, sometimes he rambled and drifted from the question, but his ramblings (rantings?) were utterly fascinating. I have *tons* more respect for him now (and I didn't hold him in low regard before this).
*HOWEVER*, this little bit from the "Agent Ruby" movie synopsis (he mentions this as a movie he's working on) gave me pause:
The only flaw in Rosetta's creation is that the SRAs (Self Replicating Automations) need injections of male chromo found only in spermatazoa to survive. As they cannnot distinguish dreams from reality, Rosetta programs Ruby via movie tapes to seduce men in the real world and share donations with her sisters.
Sound like a US a *UP* all night soft porn flick. If I were in his position, I think I'd see "working on this movie" as a move that would decrease my credibility, something I think he'd want to avoid. What do you guys think his motivations were on this one? Extra cash?
See, now here's a great reason to 1) allow posters to post with score=0, 2) penalize people who mod with the pansy "overrated" mod, 3) not penalizing people for being FSCKING ontopic.
See, I posted with the no +1 bonus. My post was in response to (and topically related to, I might add) the parent, who's sitting pretty at +5 funny. How was my post (which *I* posted as only a +1 because I didn't think it was highly beneficail to the thread at hand, but pussobily interesting to poster of the parent) overrated?
Attention Fat geeks: Here's how I dropped from 280 to 260 in three months: Stop drinking Coke. Yeah, heresy, right? The *only* thing I did was switch from regular Dr Pepper to Diet Dr Pepper and water (mainly water). I was drinking about 10 DrPs a day. At ~200 calories a pop. That extra 2000 calories a day really adds up.
I haven't yet worked at a place that cared (*truly* cared) if I surfed the net during work. They have *all* cared about people surfing porn. If the employer allows an environment that fosters porn to exist, they open themselves up o all sorts of sexual discrimination and harrassment lawsuits. This is really about CYA and not about "don't surf at work". Like you said, the people who are surfing the net 40 hours a week are the people who aren't going to be productive--who are the best candidates in next round's layoffs.
Yes. Your clothes will catch on fire. In a pinch, you can microwave your socks/boxers to kill the little nasties that make them smell funny. Even with a turntable, however, leaving them in for too long *will* result in a fire.
Not that I speak from personal experience or anything. I, uhm, heard this from a friend.
When I was in the third grade, my sisters watched the smurfs incessantly. It was on three different channels, at staggered times, so I had to sit through over an hour of it a day. I endured.
Actually, truth be told, I thought Smurfette was kinda cute. (Gadget, from Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, on the other hand, was a *hottie*).
Nuisance, but not illegal. That is actually a good idea from a personal responsibility standpoint. Are you still willing to stand by words you spoke many years ago? If not, why?
How old are you? I'll be 29 this year. I've been on the internet since I was 18. My first two or three years saw me posting quite a bit of offensive/tasteless stuff. At the time, I had a reasonable expectation to not have my words archived for my great-great-grandchildren to read.
Somehow, jokes about Roland De Graaf having sex with Chelsea Clinton in the back row during the premier of Jurrasic Park seem a lot less funny now.
Anyhow, my copyrights are being violated. I don't have to opt-in to be granted copyright. The mere act of authoring grants implicit copyright under the Berne convention (US signed on in 1989, which covers all of my web sites *and* gopher sites). Where's my satisfaction?
Yeah, but the wayback machine/internet archive isn't creating a derivative work--they're republishing (without my consent!) my copyrighted material. Copyright isn't opt-in, is it? If it is, I'll be adding a lot more mp3s to my archive.
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Then we have the "new" approach: Tax everything, which is apparently what KY wants to do when they ask you to declare things you bought somewhere else. That's silly. If you were physically in a different state, why should Kentucky get a cut?
Alabama has a similar use tax. *Anything* that I buy (even while in another state) that has a physical presence in the state of Alabama (no matter how brief of an existence it might have in the state (like a candy bar bought on a road trip)) should be assessed a use tax.
The use tax is 4% (minus the sales tax paid in other states, if I bought it somewhere that is not Alabama). The use tax can not be less than zero.
Basically, Alabama (and presumable other states) say "D4mmit, you're going to pay a tax, either to us or someone else, but you're going to pay a tax."
Even playing by the rules and paying a use tax, for bigger ticket items, it's often cheaper to drive an hour to Tennessee, pay the sales tax there, drive an hour back to Alabama than it is to buy in Alabama.
My sales tax (food is taxed as well) is 10% (Alabama allows counties, cities, and even finer levels of granularity to all assess their own sales tax, 4% of which passed back to the state budget).
Their argument is, in order to bring the good to a physical location in Alabama, you are using Alabama resources (roads, highway patrol, polluting the air, etc).
Wow! I guess I didn't RTFM closely enough; I've been an opera user since the 4.0 days, and this is the first I've heard of it. Thanks!
And they seem to offer the free two months every time you try to quit (to keep their numbers up?) My grandmother has had free service from AOL for over a year now. Every two months she calls up to cancel the service; every two months, they give her a renewal.
Actually you can do this yourself. I did it a year and a half ago. It's called vertical handover, and I did it between 802.11b and bluetooth. I wanted to do GPRS as well, but I had no access to such hardware at the time. It's quite easy to set up using MobileIP and some clever programming.
The source code required for this is slightly larger than the margins in the comment box allow for. The actual coding is left to the reader as a trivial programming exercise. </sarcasm>
As long as the rates, schedules, and special offers are identical between the two
But they're not. SW (and all of the other airlines, now that I think about it) offer special "web only" fares.
Plus there's the whole wait time thing. Sometimes I get through to a human right away, sometimes I have to wait fifteen minutes to book a flight. The web site site is always about the same amount of time.
In the case of Southwest's web site, it's exactly the opposite: they would have to go out of their way to not "discriminate" by accomodating the blind person.
So? Accomodating ADA needs almost always is an added inconvenience to the brick and mortar places. In fact, I can't imagine it being *more* expensive to ADA-enable a page than it would be to add an accessability ramp or make your store dog-friendly.
It's not malicious on SW's part, I agree, but it's not like it takes a lot of work to change ALT="" to ALT="Login".
When your vision *is* corrected, do you have depth perception? I'm in a similar boat (although not quite as bad--just three diopters difference) as you. Corrected (glasses or not), I still don't have depth perception. I went for so long as a kid with unbalanced uncorrected vision that my brain doesn't have highly developed depth perception.
I can obtain depth perception one of two ways: 1. use glasses with orthogonally polarized lenses (think 3D polorized lenses)
2. Eat acid.
Neither way is really conducive to work. =) I was wondering if you had found anything that might be of assistance.
Is it just me, or is Slashdot often either "News in Review for Nerds, or Irrelevancies that don't matter"?
I do keep reading it however. Hmmm...
Yeah, I think it's a lot like Springer. You know it's going to be bad, but you watch it anyway.
(and, in all fairness, there have been some good articles/threads posted on
J Cherryh wrote "Life, it goes on, you know?" (erm, pardon, dont remember the name of the book, but can describe the cover)
(replying here because apparently uu.net is blacklisted here at work)
I want to say that the book was Cyteen, but it might have been Rimrunners.
Sorry for the long delay in replying.
What font do you use for your terminal windows? The default font give me hideous eyestrain after about twenty minutes; I'm still searching for terminal settings on OSX that I can use long-term.
Didn't /. already cover this? /. knows and loves if he didn't repost articles that were less than 90 days old.
Yes, but Timothy wouldn't be the Timothy
We love you Timothy! Keep posting old crap!
We love feeling intellectually superior to someone who gets paid to surf all day.
Smooches!
Didn't that have a sticker on the package announcing "Soon to be a major motion picture - with soundtrack by Devo!"
Yeah! I remember now! When the game loaded, there was a 30secondish Devo snippet from the alleged soundtrack to the movie. I remember playing the game and thinking how totally badass a move based on the game would be. I guess Matrix fulfilled that desire for me (even though, arguably, it *should* have been Johnny Mnemonic).
I had the same experience you did. Then I thought that maybe they meant '92 as in 1992. Oddly enough, what got me turned onto cyberpunk was Neuromancer, the game for the C64 (with soundtrack by Devo!). After playing that, I stopped reading Golden Age SF and went almost entirely mainstream cyberpunk.
Golden Age seems to have a very rosy outlook on life. Even Asimov's bleakest cloud had the silver lining of the Foundation saving the day. CJ Cherryh wrote "Life, it goes on, you know?" (erm, pardon, dont remember the name of the book, but can describe the cover)
Golden Age SF seemed to say "Tech (eventually) conquers all!" but cyberpunk states "Life, even with my Fujitsu eyeballs and Sony GreyMatter upgrades, still sucks."
*HOWEVER*, this little bit from the "Agent Ruby" movie synopsis (he mentions this as a movie he's working on) gave me pause: Sound like a US a *UP* all night soft porn flick. If I were in his position, I think I'd see "working on this movie" as a move that would decrease my credibility, something I think he'd want to avoid. What do you guys think his motivations were on this one? Extra cash?
>>I love how non-Americans
>Guess what? I am an American.
I happen to know for a fact, Mr. Porovaara, that you are actually Finnish.
See, now here's a great reason to 1) allow posters to post with score=0, 2) penalize people who mod with the pansy "overrated" mod, 3) not penalizing people for being FSCKING ontopic.
See, I posted with the no +1 bonus. My post was in response to (and topically related to, I might add) the parent, who's sitting pretty at +5 funny. How was my post (which *I* posted as only a +1 because I didn't think it was highly beneficail to the thread at hand, but pussobily interesting to poster of the parent) overrated?
Fsckers.
I did too. I actually had a "cool! futurama will be renewed!" moment there.... ah, well.
I can't believe the number of sites that have fallen for this.
Some of them fall for it twice.
Attention Fat geeks:
Here's how I dropped from 280 to 260 in three months:
Stop drinking Coke.
Yeah, heresy, right? The *only* thing I did was switch from regular Dr Pepper to Diet Dr Pepper and water (mainly water). I was drinking about 10 DrPs a day. At ~200 calories a pop. That extra 2000 calories a day really adds up.
I've lost sixty pounds using the Hacker's Diet.
I haven't yet worked at a place that cared (*truly* cared) if I surfed the net during work.
They have *all* cared about people surfing porn. If the employer allows an environment that fosters porn to exist, they open themselves up o all sorts of sexual discrimination and harrassment lawsuits. This is really about CYA and not about "don't surf at work".
Like you said, the people who are surfing the net 40 hours a week are the people who aren't going to be productive--who are the best candidates in next round's layoffs.
Yes. Your clothes will catch on fire.
In a pinch, you can microwave your socks/boxers to kill the little nasties that make them smell funny. Even with a turntable, however, leaving them in for too long *will* result in a fire.
Not that I speak from personal experience or anything. I, uhm, heard this from a friend.
Slashdot linking to The Economist..... is like the National Enquirer mentioning Scientific American.
Thanks. You made me spit my bacardi and coke all over my monitor.
Jerk.
[+1 funny to parent? please?]
Is Linux dead?
Is OpenSource better?
Natalie Portman: Hot or Not?
Cowboy Neal?
Would you really want to have sex with a smurf?
When I was in the third grade, my sisters watched the smurfs incessantly. It was on three different channels, at staggered times, so I had to sit through over an hour of it a day. I endured.
Actually, truth be told, I thought Smurfette was kinda cute. (Gadget, from Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, on the other hand, was a *hottie*).
So, anyhoo, to answer your question... yes.
Nuisance, but not illegal. That is actually a good idea from a personal responsibility standpoint. Are you still willing to stand by words you spoke many years ago? If not, why?
How old are you? I'll be 29 this year. I've been on the internet since I was 18. My first two or three years saw me posting quite a bit of offensive/tasteless stuff. At the time, I had a reasonable expectation to not have my words archived for my great-great-grandchildren to read.
Somehow, jokes about Roland De Graaf having sex with Chelsea Clinton in the back row during the premier of Jurrasic Park seem a lot less funny now.
Anyhow, my copyrights are being violated. I don't have to opt-in to be granted copyright. The mere act of authoring grants implicit copyright under the Berne convention (US signed on in 1989, which covers all of my web sites *and* gopher sites). Where's my satisfaction?
Yeah, but the wayback machine/internet archive isn't creating a derivative work--they're republishing (without my consent!) my copyrighted material. Copyright isn't opt-in, is it? If it is, I'll be adding a lot more mp3s to my archive.