An additional point. What about out of state driving?
Out of state driving will not be taxed. That's why they need the GPS.
The other side of that. If gas goes down in OR due to the elimination of the state gas tax, won't drivers from states next drive in to buy gas and screw their own state?
Of course they will. It's a common occurance when you have two jurisdictions with different consumption tax policies next to each other. I imagine Oregon is looking forward to picking up the additional business.
GPS tracking seems needless compared to just doing bi-annual odometer checks and billing based on that (registration requires bi-annual smog checks for all gas cars already)
As I've stated in other posts, they can't do that. It's unconstitutional for them to tax out-of-state mileage, so they have to have some way of knowing what miles were in-state.
Wouldn't a simple wheel odometer work just fine for this? All you're tracking is miles traveled.
No, because that's not all you're tracking. You're tracking the miles traveled *in Oregon*. Oregon can't tax anything outside Oregon, that violates the US Constitution. So they have to prove to a reasonable standard that all the mileage they're taxing was driven in Oregon.
READ my god damned ODOMETER every year when I have to do my registration and whenever I sell the fucking car therein.
That doesn't work. Oregon can't tax the miles you drive outside Oregon--the US Constitution explicitly forbids state taxation of anything outside the state. They *have* to know not only how far you've driven but where you drove it to impose this tax.
I think they need to junk this tax entirely. It's not workable without unacceptable intrusion into your personal information.
It's not different than a calculator making you a better mathematician versus just helping you along
It won't even help you along. Calculators do arithmetic, not math. Most professional mathmaticians work with pencil and paper, although computerized proofs have become common and they no longer *exclusively* work with pencil and paper. Calculators don't come into it, though. Their work has nothing to do with calculating numerical results.
Until you can point at a device that enters text more efficiently than a keyboard, being able to type will remain an essential skill. You can't do that now, and frankly I don't see anything on the horizon that will. Magical mind-reading device might (or might not) do that, but we can worry about that when we have some.
The answer is--indeed, must be, as you'll see for yourself if you think about it for a moment--that you're not correctly calculating your return on advertising expenses. If your company gets no revenue if it doesn't spend on advertising, it must follow that the return on advertising in substantial.
The real question is, is it because of the under-25s' age, or because of their generation? If the former, we won't see overall car buying habits change much in the future as the younger buyers move into the buying habits of older buyers. If the latter, we will see those habits change as the older buyers die off.
A computer doesn't do anything but run the software written for it, so it was natural for the people who controlled the software to become dominant. A car still has to be, y'know, a *car*. It has to perform functions that software is there to enhance, but its purpose is not to run that software.
What about all the people that can ONLY get AOL in their rural areas (the Comcast "go fuck yourself" zones)? It seems strange to think less of them for living in the wrong place.
And AOL service prevents these people from using Google because...? Say what you want, Google usually delivers pretty spare websites. I don't think they'd be much of a problem on dial-up.
I live in the Washington DC area. Our subway (the Metro) has about half its tracks underground. But the trains still have big ol' windows (really big, in fact--they cover a large part of the sides of the cars), in spite of the fact that for a great deal of the time, there's nothing to see out of them.
I never understood this. What are the passengers doing to do if they see something? Cry?
You tell the flight attendant, who is trained to listen to people who notice stuff like this and bring it to the attention of the pilot, William Shatner notwithstanding.
They can't do anything, and the tower / pilot would already know about it if it was dangerous.
Not necessarily. They aren't superhuman, they don't automatically know everyting. They miss things, from time to time.
A "computer company" is one which makes something computer related for sale (hardware or software) as it's primary business.
And Uber does that.
Using computers extensively to provide your primary service (in this case, ride sharing/taxi service) does not make you a "computer company".
And Uber doesn't provide a taxi service. They own not a single car. Not a single driver is on their payroll. They provide a software service that connects riders and drivers. That's what they do. They're a software service company.
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Out of state driving will not be taxed. That's why they need the GPS.
Of course they will. It's a common occurance when you have two jurisdictions with different consumption tax policies next to each other. I imagine Oregon is looking forward to picking up the additional business.
As I've stated in other posts, they can't do that. It's unconstitutional for them to tax out-of-state mileage, so they have to have some way of knowing what miles were in-state.
They don't tax your out-of-state mileage. That's why they need the GPS, so that they can tax only miles driven in Oregon.
No, because that's not all you're tracking. You're tracking the miles traveled *in Oregon*. Oregon can't tax anything outside Oregon, that violates the US Constitution. So they have to prove to a reasonable standard that all the mileage they're taxing was driven in Oregon.
That doesn't work. Oregon can't tax the miles you drive outside Oregon--the US Constitution explicitly forbids state taxation of anything outside the state. They *have* to know not only how far you've driven but where you drove it to impose this tax.
I think they need to junk this tax entirely. It's not workable without unacceptable intrusion into your personal information.
Then I guess it'll only be used in the National League.
Well, there's Dwight Schrute, and Jim Halpert, and Pam Beesly, and...
Wait, those are the major parts of The Office. My bad.
It won't even help you along. Calculators do arithmetic, not math. Most professional mathmaticians work with pencil and paper, although computerized proofs have become common and they no longer *exclusively* work with pencil and paper. Calculators don't come into it, though. Their work has nothing to do with calculating numerical results.
Until you can point at a device that enters text more efficiently than a keyboard, being able to type will remain an essential skill. You can't do that now, and frankly I don't see anything on the horizon that will. Magical mind-reading device might (or might not) do that, but we can worry about that when we have some.
They already do that--it's called Twitter.
The old joke is, "Half of all spending on advertising is wasted--the problem is that we don't know which half."
The answer is--indeed, must be, as you'll see for yourself if you think about it for a moment--that you're not correctly calculating your return on advertising expenses. If your company gets no revenue if it doesn't spend on advertising, it must follow that the return on advertising in substantial.
The real question is, is it because of the under-25s' age, or because of their generation? If the former, we won't see overall car buying habits change much in the future as the younger buyers move into the buying habits of older buyers. If the latter, we will see those habits change as the older buyers die off.
The argument isn't that old people don't buy cars now, it's that they won't buy cars in the future, because they'll be dead.
A computer doesn't do anything but run the software written for it, so it was natural for the people who controlled the software to become dominant. A car still has to be, y'know, a *car*. It has to perform functions that software is there to enhance, but its purpose is not to run that software.
And AOL service prevents these people from using Google because...? Say what you want, Google usually delivers pretty spare websites. I don't think they'd be much of a problem on dial-up.
Shouldn't that be "h...t...t..p...colon...slash...slash...slash...dot...dot...org"?
Somebody who thinks a photograph is just a record doesn't understand photography at all.
I live in the Washington DC area. Our subway (the Metro) has about half its tracks underground. But the trains still have big ol' windows (really big, in fact--they cover a large part of the sides of the cars), in spite of the fact that for a great deal of the time, there's nothing to see out of them.
You tell the flight attendant, who is trained to listen to people who notice stuff like this and bring it to the attention of the pilot, William Shatner notwithstanding.
Not necessarily. They aren't superhuman, they don't automatically know everyting. They miss things, from time to time.
Apparently you skipped over the part where the patient was described as "not contagious".
Actually, they came out of east Africa
And Uber does that.
And Uber doesn't provide a taxi service. They own not a single car. Not a single driver is on their payroll. They provide a software service that connects riders and drivers. That's what they do. They're a software service company.
Uber is a software service company, since always. May I point out that they own no cars, but plenty of computers.
Funny post from a man whose sig celebrates a band thirty years gone.