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  1. Re:Bring back the fax machine? on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Instead of checking out through the website you would click on a button that would have customer service from the site call you to finalize the sale. Since the sale would be a telephone sale the person would have to self-report the sales tax instead of the company charging sales tax.

  2. Re: "Our state is losing millions for education... on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    They won't make it uniform because each state uses taxes to try and implement it's agenda. For example, a state that wants to try and cut down on the consumption of sugar snacks and drinks for health reasons will heavily tax them. Another state that isn't interested in such a program will tax them at the standard rate. Some states may tax bottled water because it's a convenience item but other's won't because water is a necessity.

  3. Re:"Our state is losing millions for education.... on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    One place putting restrictions on isn't onerous. 50 states plus a bunch of cities all putting different restrictions on is onerous. Especially when it only applies to Internet shopping and not other methods of out of jurisdiction shopping.

  4. How's that working out for Puerto Rico lately?

  5. We want that! on Days After Buying Time Warner, AT&T Launches New TV Service (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cried nobody ever for a package of channels that you hate just to get the one or two channels that you do want.

  6. Re:Just create a spam email address on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Every mail account already comes with a folder for dealing with mail from Facebook. It's called the Trash.

    BTW, what have you forgotten about? The Facebook folder or the Hotmail account?

  7. Re:Please, just let it die. on 5 Star Trek Shows in Development, 1 Could Star Patrick Stewart, Reports Say (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had. The first two seasons were good but then it found God and started with the religious theme. Mind you not as bad as Caprica.

  8. Yes, each one will have it's own infernal "All Access" app requiring a separate monthly payment in addition to the one for Discovery (if that's still around).

  9. Re:Keeping companies in the United States on Senate Votes To Reinstate ZTE Ban That's Nearly Shut Down the Company (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt that Qualcomm could get away from US influence. Even if they moved out of the US they would want devices with their products to be able to be imported into the US. The only reason why a Chinese company, ZTE, paid any attention at all to a US law and penalties about selling devices to Iran and North Korea was because they needed supplies they could only get from the US. If they could have found a non-American supplier I'm sure that they would have gladly told the US to get lost and given up the US market (not that they had much of one anyways).

  10. Re:NO it's in Cheyenne Mountain! on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 3

    Just don't put it in San Diego because it gets destroyed by terrorists with a leftover nuke in 2157.

  11. Re:Ontario power generation on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    If you click on the type of generation you can get a list of the plants at gridwatch.ca. If you click on a power plant it brings up a box with a little bit of information and a map. For the most recent hour ending at 13:24 on Jun 17, 2018 wind was contributing 3.6% of supply and solar 1.6%. We would have much more wind power available in Ontario if these fakes didn't complain about getting sick about living near the turbines.

    Thanks for posting the links. They are interesting.

  12. Re:Do you believe in global warming from CO2 or no on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 2

    For the massive cost to build a nuclear plant there are much better ways to spend the money. I used to be for nuclear power but it's just become too expensive. Five or six years ago the province of Ontario sent out a request to build a new plant with two reactors and the least expensive reply was two to three times the maximum amount they were willing to spend.

    The better thing to do is take the money and spread it out over solar, wind, geothermal, micro hydro, storage, and conservation. All the talk is about supply but very little is done about demand, at least seriously.

    A couple of years ago there were approximately 20 condo units built. 10 units long, two high. Each unit had a small air conditioner on the outside. This is very inefficient and waste of energy. A better system would have been to use geothermal heating and cooling. Each unit could still control their temperature but it would be much more efficient. Instead of building a nuclear plant the money for it could be used to subsidize the installation of the heating and cooling system in those units as they are built. As it is those units will be stuck with those inefficient air conditioners for the life of the building without a massive renovation. There isn't even room on the upper condos to install a more efficient air conditioner. Helping a project like this saves energy for much longer than a nuclear plant would exit. Longer than it's replacement would exist too.

    There are still office buildings being built that have the air conditioners being installed on top of the building. They should be using geothermal heating and cooling or some similar system. Toronto uses Lake Ontario for cooling. In Ottawa there is a chilled water loop downtown for computer centres that uses the river. Things like this should be encouraged and helped financially.

  13. Re:Point is solar has a CO2 cost too on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't think CO2 isn't produced when making a nuclear plant? There's a lot of concrete and steel in a plant and both of those create plenty of CO2 when being made. I'd like to see the numbers you are using to say that solar panels creation makes vastly more CO2 than the construction of a nuclear plant. Land use shouldn't be part of the calculation.

    As for the land, you can put the solar panels in places where it doesn't stop it from being used. For example on top of large buildings (schools, factories, shopping centres, grocery/large stores, etc), in fields with grazing animals, or even floating on bodies of water (reservoirs for drinking water which would have the added bonus of cutting evaporation).

  14. Re:Have you read the article you linked ? on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course none of your long term waste storage hasn't harmed anyone. You don't have any long term waste storage to harm anyone. Everyone is storing their waste in short term storage. That's the big problem.

  15. Re:They have to keep track of who pays for ads? on Washington Sues Facebook, Google For Failure To Disclose Political Ad Spending (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    The law sounds like it is about political campaign and lobbying contributions and so I don't know why Google and Facebook would be required to keep track of money spent on other people's campaigns, especially when there are so many ways to get around the spending spending limits (PACs for one).

    If I'm running a political campaign it's up to my campaign to keep track of the money coming in and from whom. When I go to spend money in advertising it shouldn't be up to them to keep track of things as campaign contributions.

    Is this attorney general also saying that newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, and any other company that does online or offline advertising also has to comply with the law?

  16. Re:Two cars gone, just checking the time on Woman Looking At Apple Watch Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 2

    In Ontario, where this happened, all drivers can't look at cellphones anytime they are driving, including while stopped at lights.

  17. Re:So the so-called “right” thinks... on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Training the workers for a new career doesn't get you campaign contributions and other favours from the mine owners.

  18. Re:The coal industry employs fewer people than Arb on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are going to do that then find out:
    The number of farmers growing the food for Arby's
    The number of people employed processing the food
    The people transporting the food and other goods to Arby's and to the processing plants
    The people making the napkins, cups, and other items that they use
    The people that haul away the recycling and garbage
    And anything else similar

  19. Re:Easy selection criterion on NASA Wants 40 Social Media Users To Attend SpaceX's Next Launch (nasa.gov) · · Score: 2

    The non-robots left on Twitter?

  20. Re:Fuck Everything on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Real men find a flat rock and use another to sharpen one edge in order to shave. If they want to take a "picture" they record the scene by carving it onto a piece of wood.

  21. To take a pile of money from an idiot.

  22. Re: My router was being weird on FBI Tells Router Users To Reboot Now To Kill Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Great now everyone knows the password and the bandwidth is going to suck.

  23. It's a self-driving car, not a self-stopping car.

  24. Re:"so massive and powerful" on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then Trump is gonna lose big time. I mean why else would he be paying $130k to Stormy Daniels to keep quiet. That's a lot of money to keep quiet about something.

  25. Re:What about the free market? on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well for years they went on and on about how important it was to cut the deficit (and debt) too but as soon as they could they increased both by a massive amount in order to bring in a massive tax cut to the rich and to companies.