- First, be a victim of the horrible web site. - Bring in some tears, tell how you couldn't eat/sleep/poop for days/weeks/years. - Involve children, they are a great pawn. No one wants to see a child cry. - Contact as many media outlets as you can. They will assist in sprucing up your story.Darn submit buttons...
Come on, all it takes is a good victim story.
- First, be a victim of the horrible web site. - Bring in some tears, tell how you couldn't eat/sleep/poop for days/weeks/years. - Involve children, they are a great pawn. No one wants to see a child cry. - Contact as many media outlets as you can. They will assist in sprucing up your story. - Accept nothing less than $10 million. - Lawyers, you can never have too many.
Suddenly that web site reviewing movies (or something innocent) is in the position of defending itself, trying to convince the public into believe they really aren't pedofiles, racists, carpenters, etc. And voila, the web site is gone. - Accept nothing less than $10 million. - Lawyers, you can never have too many.
Suddenly that web site reviewing movies (or something innocent) is in the position of defending itself, trying to convince the public into believe they really aren't pedofiles, racists, carpenters, etc. And voila, the web site is gone.
Last I heard the XFree86 drivers didn't support both ports. Has this changed? I too could go name a bunch of things hardware can do in Windows. That still doesn't help me any.:)
Oh please, we here have a crazy enough legal system to bring you to your knees. When a wacko can sue for ten million dollars for tripping over their own shoelaces, what's to stop anyone from sueing you for a web site? Trust me, it's coming soon. You'll have someone crying that they read your site about mowing the grass, and they felt so bad for the grass that they could not work for two years. Therefore for their lost income, pain and suffering, cruelty to plants, they sue you for $200 million. Your only choices are to either spend hundreds of thousands on a defense, or bring the site down. Until there is some sort of loser-pays-fees laws, you must live your life in fear of some crazy crying on TV how you hurt them.
So it's only natural that ISPs will take sites down rather than go through any PR hassle.
Your understanding of the system is weak at best. I see my neices and nephews growing up spending more and more time on the rain forests than on Abraham Lincoln. There is much more teaching of political correctness than education. Politics is not what six year old should be spending much time on (lame letter copying campaigns).
A large part of the problems today are with society in general. Thugs are made to stay in school (your shit kicking theory) in Decatur, Illinois, when it's obvious most of them have no interest in the learning part. All in the name of political freakin correctness. If Jesse Jackson wants to take on the no-tolerance rules, he needed to pick a better group of people, say the New Jersey Four (kindergarten kids suspended for three days for playing Cops & Robbers with finger pistols, one hand bazooka, and yelling threats).
On a similar note, last night's South Park on hate crime laws was terrific. "I'm going to make an example of you. The next time you want to hurt someone, make sure they are the same color you are." Hippies piss me off, too.
First we waited sixteen years for 4.0 to come out. Now we must wait another forty-three for Precision Insight to get their 3d thing out. Oh what a wonderful time it is. Even with all the hubbub, Nvidia didn't even have those binary modules out.
Speaking for XF4, has anyone done multi-head displays? I just can't for the life of me get a good series of video cards to work together. I have TNT2, Voodoo3, Matrox, Trident, etc cards lieing around my house, but no two want to work simultaneously in the machine. What, must you buy two from the same company? Or is there anyplace that talks about this better? I've heard good things with matrox, but I haven't found any old PCI cards anywhere local. I've been too lazy to go to eBay or something, and I would like to know a setup the does work first. Anyone have firsthand experience in this?
Call me a freak, but I haven't seen an action cartoon I could sit through for more than 1.2 shows. I don't know what it is, but I only watch comedy type cartoons. Come to think of it, I prefer comedy movies over other types as well. Give me Holy Grail any day over Die Hard.
Back in college people with many similar interests would gab on and on about the latest Anime show and stuff. Meanwhile I would be shushing them because a new Animaniacs was on. But for these types, the cartoon network has some good stuff. Give me some Cow & Chicken or Powerpuff Girls anytime, and Johnny Bravo's obsession with the weird Scooby-Doo chic (Thelma?) gets me rollin every time.
Yup, spam does us as many favors as a teacher shooting herself and blaming a 19-year-old man does for school security. We live in a crazy time in this country, where if you claim you do whatever for some "good," you will be accepted and likely praised. So this guys says it's for our own good. Sure thing.
So I just got my Apex MP3 player (I guess it does DVD and other stuff too) and started playing with it. I pop in a CD and set it to random play. Then I head back to my desk to see what's new on Slashdot. What comes up on the player but none other than Weird Al's classic Spam song. Then I see what the ol' browser has loaded and wouldn't you know it. This article.
My guess is Andover is broadcasting some secret signal to the player. How else could this have happened?
Put your fears to rest. If they say they'll refund the charges, just be patient. Once things get out of hand (and they will) you will just have to spend four hours on the phone getting refunds for each message. Trust me, the PHBs then at your cell phone company will care when all their customer service phone takers, customers, etc start bitching about it. When it'a one-message-a-day thing, it takes 30 seconds to clear up, they consider that an acceptable level. When they have to pay their operators $6/hr and they only take 5 calls all day, they get pissed.:)
So MS is buying Bush by hiring someone who's good with public images? I don't know, but has Bush said he is a lackee of Reed and I missed it? Especially in politics, there are separations between people working on a campaign and the one running for office. Reed is good at this, so Bush hired him to do some work, and now MS needs PR help so they go with the man that could do it.
Now if you want some talk of buying your way to political friends, how about that party late last week where Bill Gates gets to sit right next to Bill Clinton at the dinner? Then ask yourself, who has more power currently? Bush isn't even a clear winner, so "buying" some aide of his isn't a sure thing to coming out on top of the anti-trust case. On the other hand, get the ear of Clinton for an evening, and poof the DOJ could magically decide it'll accept MS's plea bargain.
How's that for conspiracy theories? It's more plausible than just hiring an aide to a maybe-president-in-a-year guy.
That's what he's doing. He asked you for specifics to that case so he could look it up independantly. Do you have anything more specific than, "I saw him incite people to beat a woman?" If you have something, dates, places, newspaper articles, etc, share it. Otherwise it's got the same weight as if I made it up.
Your forgetting where you are. Engaging in religious activities is one of the worst things a Slashdotee can do. Republicanism is right up there as well. Top it off with Microsoft and you have paradise. So it's only proper that all three things be rolled into one forum. Wasn't Microsoft working with RIAA and them folks on an encrypted MP3-type format so you couldn't copy them? If only they added a little of this to the story, it'd be pure ecstacy.:)
Besides, no one considers Slashdot to be a neutral news site, it's about Open Source and all. Every story will be baited against Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc. It's been this way since the beginning. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying don't expect the unbiased reporting your crappy typical media claims. At least they're up front with it here.
A PCMCIA port would be better than just an ethernet interface. That way you can plug anything from a standard 10bT, to wireless cards like wavelan, to anything else. Before I'd put one of these things in my house, I'd rather it be as wireless as possible. This could be close enough to work as one of those Webpads, since they will never be anywhere but display items at computer shows...
I suppose if everyone immediately stopped going to Slashdot and all that would help his case. Even more, you have to get millions of Slasheads to believe the AC. Good luck.;)
Heh, I gave up on them when they started pimping out my username to spamers. I used to use that mail regularly, then I stopped for a bit. After just a couple weeks, I went back and had over 100 spammages. I created a new name to give the old spam test, and sure enough, spam started coming through quickly. It's a useless system for anonymous type mail.
Don't leave out the informative interview with the Pets.com sock puppet after Disney bought stake in Pets.com. Or the wise choice of editing out Elian Gonzalez's statement that he wants to stay in the US. Journalism like this just can't come out of places like AOL for a long time. It takes a while to build up the experience to properly pull it off.
Any wagers on if Leo's interview will ever hit the airwaves?
You must put down a $1000 deposit. The top three (not just the winner) can lose that deposit if them or ones above them decide not to buy it after the auction.
You must buy two years, and every year the price increases 5%.
Of course, all fees are non-refundable. So when they decide you aren't using the site for appropriate " purposes of conducting legitimate business." Heh, your site has to be under the "laws of any jurisdiction where the domain name is accessible." Is there any activity any more that is allowed everywhere? Take porn.tv, there are laws in various lands against just about every act. Therefore dotTV is free to yank the domain and keep the $50,000 per year you gave them. Castro has plenty of crazy laws. Should nbc.tv broadcast a report going against Cuba (assuming they buy the domain, and that they would broadcast anything anti-Castro, definately a stretch), they're out.
This seems like some easy and useful ways of generating revenue. Time to start hunting down teeny islands and buy every two-letter word TLD. For several millions, you could even convince them to change their name to Linuxania or something useful for TLDing.:)
The problem here is that most of these domains they advertise are uniq company names. There's an argument that abc.tv is just the first three letters of the alphabet, common use. But things like msn.tv, cnet.tv, or nbc.tv? We know Coca-Cola's feelings on the issue, so I don't expect coke.tv to survive any bidding.:)
Perhaps they just hope some mope will buy a domain, and then let Coke sue them and not dotTV. A lot of these "auctions" end this week. If they actually have serious bidders behind the numbers, they could recover plenty of that $50 million.
Fair competition? I dare you to find in the Constitution where it says things must be "fair?" The problem there is who on earth is going to determine what behavior is "fair?" What it does say though is, "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
I just don't understand how everyone claims Internet/Mail Order is at such a huge advantage because of sales tax. Shipping is (and always has been) much more, and it takes a day or two. Wouldn't "fair" be that WalMarts only let me take my merchandise after a 48 hour waiting period, along with an additional 10% shipping/handling fair tax? I mean, why should some web site have to pay UPS 10% when the local Joe's House O' Spatulas doesn't?
The states are free to assign any form of tax their legislatures or citizenry desire.
No, the rule is that anything not spelled out in the Constitution is given to the states, intrastate commerce taxes, what flags a state flies on its capitol, etc. What is exactly spelled out in the Constitution, is the law for every state, no slavery, interstate commerce taxes, free speech, a census to divide up House seats (not to determine the number of toilets in your house, nor an approximate statistical guess) etc.
Sure the Income taxes are probably the worst. When switching to self-employment, I sat down reading the regs. If you owe more than $1000 at the end of the year, you "may" be subject to fines (they don't say exactly what, if any. I guess it's whatever the IRS agent feels like that day). And if there is one thing this 20th century government has shown us it is that no way in hell will they make substantial changes to it, let alone a minor tax cut like Bush (or what Dole had planned in '96) propose. Not just Income taxes, but any tax, as the Senate demonstrated this week with their failure to remove the 4.3 cent Algore gasoline tax. Sure it doesn't mean much for most Americans, but the motion would take us strides in the right direction. The saddest thing in all this though has got to be the Democrat party's position than any tiny tax cut, giving you a few extra hundred a year, will immediately kill poor/children/elderly and you are pure evil for thinking of it.
Speaking of state vehicle fees, here in Illinois the Assembly passed increases in many of them 50%-100%. License plate renewals go from $48 to $78, transfer of titles went from like $30 to $65. What's funny though is the Secretary of State (a Democrat of all things) went and plastered signs telling he opposes these increases in all the DMV sites. I see he even added it to his web site. I wouldn't blame folks living along the border if they go to the neighboring states.
In the immortal words of Algore and Democrats everywhere, any decrease people pay in taxes is a "risky tax scheme" and "only for the wealthy." Just a handful of years ago this 4.3 cent added gasoline tax was desperately needed, and Algore broke the tie in the Senate. This week, it was deemed that removing this tax wouldn't do much good to anyone. Only the governement knows how to properly dish out money. People are fools.
Heh, I can remember oh, two or three years back the local news doing this story. It was an older woman (say, 60) who ran an antique shop. She was closing the doors to take up shop on the Internet (mainly eBay). They spewed on and on about how there was all this opportunity and stuff. Heh, now hopefully this will do people like her in. Viva la Walmart!
It's simple math. Say the Internet (in US) had $1 billion in sales (made up, but makes for easy math) last year. Now multiply that by say, 6.25% (Illinois sales tax). Therefore, the government failed to get it's due $62.5 million. The government can't be expected to run without $62.5 million. The birds will not continue to chirp unless they get their due share, and every other outrageous claim of starving kids/elderly/etc.
It's all simple idiot-economics. "Idiot" for whoever believes it. New laws can easily take care of any discrepencies between this and traditional mail order. Either the mail order industry donates sufficient funds to politicians campaigns, or they will be taxed as well.
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Darn submit buttons...
Come on, all it takes is a good victim story.
- First, be a victim of the horrible web site.
- Bring in some tears, tell how you couldn't eat/sleep/poop for days/weeks/years.
- Involve children, they are a great pawn. No one wants to see a child cry.
- Contact as many media outlets as you can. They will assist in sprucing up your story.Darn submit buttons...
Come on, all it takes is a good victim story.
- First, be a victim of the horrible web site.
- Bring in some tears, tell how you couldn't eat/sleep/poop for days/weeks/years.
- Involve children, they are a great pawn. No one wants to see a child cry.
- Contact as many media outlets as you can. They will assist in sprucing up your story.
- Accept nothing less than $10 million.
- Lawyers, you can never have too many.
Suddenly that web site reviewing movies (or something innocent) is in the position of defending itself, trying to convince the public into believe they really aren't pedofiles, racists, carpenters, etc. And voila, the web site is gone.
- Accept nothing less than $10 million.
- Lawyers, you can never have too many.
Suddenly that web site reviewing movies (or something innocent) is in the position of defending itself, trying to convince the public into believe they really aren't pedofiles, racists, carpenters, etc. And voila, the web site is gone.
Bring in some tears, tell how you couldn't eat/sleep/poop for days/weeks/years. Involve children, they are a great pawn.
Last I heard the XFree86 drivers didn't support both ports. Has this changed? I too could go name a bunch of things hardware can do in Windows. That still doesn't help me any. :)
Oh please, we here have a crazy enough legal system to bring you to your knees. When a wacko can sue for ten million dollars for tripping over their own shoelaces, what's to stop anyone from sueing you for a web site? Trust me, it's coming soon. You'll have someone crying that they read your site about mowing the grass, and they felt so bad for the grass that they could not work for two years. Therefore for their lost income, pain and suffering, cruelty to plants, they sue you for $200 million. Your only choices are to either spend hundreds of thousands on a defense, or bring the site down. Until there is some sort of loser-pays-fees laws, you must live your life in fear of some crazy crying on TV how you hurt them.
So it's only natural that ISPs will take sites down rather than go through any PR hassle.
Your understanding of the system is weak at best. I see my neices and nephews growing up spending more and more time on the rain forests than on Abraham Lincoln. There is much more teaching of political correctness than education. Politics is not what six year old should be spending much time on (lame letter copying campaigns).
A large part of the problems today are with society in general. Thugs are made to stay in school (your shit kicking theory) in Decatur, Illinois, when it's obvious most of them have no interest in the learning part. All in the name of political freakin correctness. If Jesse Jackson wants to take on the no-tolerance rules, he needed to pick a better group of people, say the New Jersey Four (kindergarten kids suspended for three days for playing Cops & Robbers with finger pistols, one hand bazooka, and yelling threats).
On a similar note, last night's South Park on hate crime laws was terrific. "I'm going to make an example of you. The next time you want to hurt someone, make sure they are the same color you are." Hippies piss me off, too.
First we waited sixteen years for 4.0 to come out. Now we must wait another forty-three for Precision Insight to get their 3d thing out. Oh what a wonderful time it is. Even with all the hubbub, Nvidia didn't even have those binary modules out.
Speaking for XF4, has anyone done multi-head displays? I just can't for the life of me get a good series of video cards to work together. I have TNT2, Voodoo3, Matrox, Trident, etc cards lieing around my house, but no two want to work simultaneously in the machine. What, must you buy two from the same company? Or is there anyplace that talks about this better? I've heard good things with matrox, but I haven't found any old PCI cards anywhere local. I've been too lazy to go to eBay or something, and I would like to know a setup the does work first. Anyone have firsthand experience in this?
Call me a freak, but I haven't seen an action cartoon I could sit through for more than 1.2 shows. I don't know what it is, but I only watch comedy type cartoons. Come to think of it, I prefer comedy movies over other types as well. Give me Holy Grail any day over Die Hard.
.. but I enjoy it.
Back in college people with many similar interests would gab on and on about the latest Anime show and stuff. Meanwhile I would be shushing them because a new Animaniacs was on. But for these types, the cartoon network has some good stuff. Give me some Cow & Chicken or Powerpuff Girls anytime, and Johnny Bravo's obsession with the weird Scooby-Doo chic (Thelma?) gets me rollin every time.
I'm rambling too
Yup, spam does us as many favors as a teacher shooting herself and blaming a 19-year-old man does for school security. We live in a crazy time in this country, where if you claim you do whatever for some "good," you will be accepted and likely praised. So this guys says it's for our own good. Sure thing.
So I just got my Apex MP3 player (I guess it does DVD and other stuff too) and started playing with it. I pop in a CD and set it to random play. Then I head back to my desk to see what's new on Slashdot. What comes up on the player but none other than Weird Al's classic Spam song. Then I see what the ol' browser has loaded and wouldn't you know it. This article.
My guess is Andover is broadcasting some secret signal to the player. How else could this have happened?
Put your fears to rest. If they say they'll refund the charges, just be patient. Once things get out of hand (and they will) you will just have to spend four hours on the phone getting refunds for each message. Trust me, the PHBs then at your cell phone company will care when all their customer service phone takers, customers, etc start bitching about it. When it'a one-message-a-day thing, it takes 30 seconds to clear up, they consider that an acceptable level. When they have to pay their operators $6/hr and they only take 5 calls all day, they get pissed. :)
So MS is buying Bush by hiring someone who's good with public images? I don't know, but has Bush said he is a lackee of Reed and I missed it? Especially in politics, there are separations between people working on a campaign and the one running for office. Reed is good at this, so Bush hired him to do some work, and now MS needs PR help so they go with the man that could do it.
Now if you want some talk of buying your way to political friends, how about that party late last week where Bill Gates gets to sit right next to Bill Clinton at the dinner? Then ask yourself, who has more power currently? Bush isn't even a clear winner, so "buying" some aide of his isn't a sure thing to coming out on top of the anti-trust case. On the other hand, get the ear of Clinton for an evening, and poof the DOJ could magically decide it'll accept MS's plea bargain.
How's that for conspiracy theories? It's more plausible than just hiring an aide to a maybe-president-in-a-year guy.
Don't go bringing facts in here. You're interrupting the nice general anti-conservative, anti-religion, anti-Microsoft atmosphere.
:)
That's what he's doing. He asked you for specifics to that case so he could look it up independantly. Do you have anything more specific than, "I saw him incite people to beat a woman?" If you have something, dates, places, newspaper articles, etc, share it. Otherwise it's got the same weight as if I made it up.
Your forgetting where you are. Engaging in religious activities is one of the worst things a Slashdotee can do. Republicanism is right up there as well. Top it off with Microsoft and you have paradise. So it's only proper that all three things be rolled into one forum. Wasn't Microsoft working with RIAA and them folks on an encrypted MP3-type format so you couldn't copy them? If only they added a little of this to the story, it'd be pure ecstacy. :)
Besides, no one considers Slashdot to be a neutral news site, it's about Open Source and all. Every story will be baited against Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc. It's been this way since the beginning. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying don't expect the unbiased reporting your crappy typical media claims. At least they're up front with it here.
A PCMCIA port would be better than just an ethernet interface. That way you can plug anything from a standard 10bT, to wireless cards like wavelan, to anything else. Before I'd put one of these things in my house, I'd rather it be as wireless as possible. This could be close enough to work as one of those Webpads, since they will never be anywhere but display items at computer shows...
5. He'd have to show that damage was done.
;)
I suppose if everyone immediately stopped going to Slashdot and all that would help his case. Even more, you have to get millions of Slasheads to believe the AC. Good luck.
Heh, I gave up on them when they started pimping out my username to spamers. I used to use that mail regularly, then I stopped for a bit. After just a couple weeks, I went back and had over 100 spammages. I created a new name to give the old spam test, and sure enough, spam started coming through quickly. It's a useless system for anonymous type mail.
Don't leave out the informative interview with the Pets.com sock puppet after Disney bought stake in Pets.com. Or the wise choice of editing out Elian Gonzalez's statement that he wants to stay in the US. Journalism like this just can't come out of places like AOL for a long time. It takes a while to build up the experience to properly pull it off.
Any wagers on if Leo's interview will ever hit the airwaves?
Not just that, but the Auction Rules and Registration Agreement give plenty more ways of making money.
:)
You must put down a $1000 deposit. The top three (not just the winner) can lose that deposit if them or ones above them decide not to buy it after the auction.
You must buy two years, and every year the price increases 5%.
Of course, all fees are non-refundable. So when they decide you aren't using the site for appropriate " purposes of conducting legitimate business." Heh, your site has to be under the "laws of any jurisdiction where the domain name is accessible." Is there any activity any more that is allowed everywhere? Take porn.tv, there are laws in various lands against just about every act. Therefore dotTV is free to yank the domain and keep the $50,000 per year you gave them. Castro has plenty of crazy laws. Should nbc.tv broadcast a report going against Cuba (assuming they buy the domain, and that they would broadcast anything anti-Castro, definately a stretch), they're out.
This seems like some easy and useful ways of generating revenue. Time to start hunting down teeny islands and buy every two-letter word TLD. For several millions, you could even convince them to change their name to Linuxania or something useful for TLDing.
The problem here is that most of these domains they advertise are uniq company names. There's an argument that abc.tv is just the first three letters of the alphabet, common use. But things like msn.tv, cnet.tv, or nbc.tv? We know Coca-Cola's feelings on the issue, so I don't expect coke.tv to survive any bidding. :)
Perhaps they just hope some mope will buy a domain, and then let Coke sue them and not dotTV. A lot of these "auctions" end this week. If they actually have serious bidders behind the numbers, they could recover plenty of that $50 million.
Fair competition? I dare you to find in the Constitution where it says things must be "fair?" The problem there is who on earth is going to determine what behavior is "fair?" What it does say though is, "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
I just don't understand how everyone claims Internet/Mail Order is at such a huge advantage because of sales tax. Shipping is (and always has been) much more, and it takes a day or two. Wouldn't "fair" be that WalMarts only let me take my merchandise after a 48 hour waiting period, along with an additional 10% shipping/handling fair tax? I mean, why should some web site have to pay UPS 10% when the local Joe's House O' Spatulas doesn't?
The states are free to assign any form of tax their legislatures or citizenry desire.
No, the rule is that anything not spelled out in the Constitution is given to the states, intrastate commerce taxes, what flags a state flies on its capitol, etc. What is exactly spelled out in the Constitution, is the law for every state, no slavery, interstate commerce taxes, free speech, a census to divide up House seats (not to determine the number of toilets in your house, nor an approximate statistical guess) etc.
Sure the Income taxes are probably the worst. When switching to self-employment, I sat down reading the regs. If you owe more than $1000 at the end of the year, you "may" be subject to fines (they don't say exactly what, if any. I guess it's whatever the IRS agent feels like that day). And if there is one thing this 20th century government has shown us it is that no way in hell will they make substantial changes to it, let alone a minor tax cut like Bush (or what Dole had planned in '96) propose. Not just Income taxes, but any tax, as the Senate demonstrated this week with their failure to remove the 4.3 cent Algore gasoline tax. Sure it doesn't mean much for most Americans, but the motion would take us strides in the right direction. The saddest thing in all this though has got to be the Democrat party's position than any tiny tax cut, giving you a few extra hundred a year, will immediately kill poor/children/elderly and you are pure evil for thinking of it.
Speaking of state vehicle fees, here in Illinois the Assembly passed increases in many of them 50%-100%. License plate renewals go from $48 to $78, transfer of titles went from like $30 to $65. What's funny though is the Secretary of State (a Democrat of all things) went and plastered signs telling he opposes these increases in all the DMV sites. I see he even added it to his web site. I wouldn't blame folks living along the border if they go to the neighboring states.
In the immortal words of Algore and Democrats everywhere, any decrease people pay in taxes is a "risky tax scheme" and "only for the wealthy." Just a handful of years ago this 4.3 cent added gasoline tax was desperately needed, and Algore broke the tie in the Senate. This week, it was deemed that removing this tax wouldn't do much good to anyone. Only the governement knows how to properly dish out money. People are fools.
Heh, I can remember oh, two or three years back the local news doing this story. It was an older woman (say, 60) who ran an antique shop. She was closing the doors to take up shop on the Internet (mainly eBay). They spewed on and on about how there was all this opportunity and stuff. Heh, now hopefully this will do people like her in. Viva la Walmart!
It's simple math. Say the Internet (in US) had $1 billion in sales (made up, but makes for easy math) last year. Now multiply that by say, 6.25% (Illinois sales tax). Therefore, the government failed to get it's due $62.5 million. The government can't be expected to run without $62.5 million. The birds will not continue to chirp unless they get their due share, and every other outrageous claim of starving kids/elderly/etc.
It's all simple idiot-economics. "Idiot" for whoever believes it. New laws can easily take care of any discrepencies between this and traditional mail order. Either the mail order industry donates sufficient funds to politicians campaigns, or they will be taxed as well.