This is major b.s. they should be THANKFUL when some dumbass posts such content on the web so they can use it to track down the originating perpetrators of the ACTUAL CRIME and arrest them.
This is their next big idea? Seriously, do these guys just sit around all day and think "how can we make the life of the developer even more complicated and confusing?".
Sigh... I've said it many times and I will say it again...
Where ever you place a tax, it always comes out in the wash (the price of a product). So if there is going to be a tax the best thing the government can do it put it where it has the least burden to collect and enforce. With regards to the Internet that would be the shipping companies. Shipping companies already have all the infrastructure required for vary pricing according to zip-codes.
But no, out legislators have no brains. They just decree tax collection like a kings herald and expect everyone to comply on demand, and then stand by idly by as it drags down the economy without a single notion of what it is they've actually done.
Private industry continues to grease the palms of our politicians to undermine every public institution.
If you study the USPS annual report close enough, you can see that they would be in the black if they could simply raise the price of a stamp 3 cents. However, Congress refuses to allow them to raise the prices, hence they knowingly put them into the red. Then they turn to their constituents and bemoan the post office is loosing money and that we will just have to do something radical!
Kucinich is the only one with a clue on this issue.
That a picture is at least a week old (I saw it then) and looks like it may be photoshoped. Of course, they may be lying to us and actually killed him a week ago and decided to wait til May Day to announce it in order to over-shadow May Day, which is celebrated around the world by workers.
Last I read a DNA test took at least three days to complete. Amazing they were able to pull it off in just a few hours of dumping the body. And what DNA did they compare it too, btw?
You've missed the mark by quite a distance. The tacks are the cheapest part of commuter rial systems. Most of the land for rails systems has already been established and additional conduits are a fixed cost. Once laid, tracks last a very long time, and their component materials --steal, rock and concrete are very cheap. While planes do not require track, the money they eat up in fuel quickly overshadows the cost of rail lines. One jetliner uses over 50,000 gallons of jet fuel in approx. one full day of operation. Planes are also much more expensive to build than trains. Airports are also much more expensive that train stations.
People are always talking about rail loosing money b/c it's public tax dollars that help pay for rail systems (and I stress "help" b/c rail tickets offset most of the costs), but the Airlines are loosing much more money. No one mentions government dollars that must be spent to bail them out over and over, but we don't talk about that b/c it's "private industry" --more TBTF bullshit. The 5 top airlines in the U.S. just announced they lost over $1 billion last quarter alone (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110426/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_airlines_3). And airlines lost $5.3 billion world-wide in a year (http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/09/airline-haters/).
I don't know. Maybe the MOON would make a good testbed!
Doesn't it seem like all we do anymore is prognosticate about what we are going to do, but when the time actually comes to get going we just pull the funding?
While metric is better for it's internal scientific consistency, the imperial system is better for use of 2 as the divisor. Speak with carpenters that have used both systems and see which they prefer. Most will take imperial.
I repeat, putting this administrative overhead on every Internet reseller will severely hurt small retailers. It's one thing to be a brick and mortar and have one sales tax to contend with, it's another to have to worry about every sales tax from every little region in the country. It would put a large additional expense on resellers as they will have to buy expensive taxing software and services for their e-commerce systems.
So put the tax where the companies are already well suited to handle them -- Shipping. Shipping companies already price according to location. It would be a much less burden for them to adjust their system to accommodate an additional pricing. The end effect is the same, but the overhead is put where it will have the least detriment to the overall economy.
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This is major b.s. they should be THANKFUL when some dumbass posts such content on the web so they can use it to track down the originating perpetrators of the ACTUAL CRIME and arrest them.
This is their next big idea? Seriously, do these guys just sit around all day and think "how can we make the life of the developer even more complicated and confusing?".
Not too difficult. Woman Hero. Good dialog. Inexpensive. And has a sequel.
http://www.longestjourney.com/
Have fun!
Sigh... I've said it many times and I will say it again...
Where ever you place a tax, it always comes out in the wash (the price of a product). So if there is going to be a tax the best thing the government can do it put it where it has the least burden to collect and enforce. With regards to the Internet that would be the shipping companies. Shipping companies already have all the infrastructure required for vary pricing according to zip-codes.
But no, out legislators have no brains. They just decree tax collection like a kings herald and expect everyone to comply on demand, and then stand by idly by as it drags down the economy without a single notion of what it is they've actually done.
Take your Hydrogen and shove it. We don't want another fracking commodity cartel to control our lives.
Private industry continues to grease the palms of our politicians to undermine every public institution.
If you study the USPS annual report close enough, you can see that they would be in the black if they could simply raise the price of a stamp 3 cents. However, Congress refuses to allow them to raise the prices, hence they knowingly put them into the red. Then they turn to their constituents and bemoan the post office is loosing money and that we will just have to do something radical!
Kucinich is the only one with a clue on this issue.
That a picture is at least a week old (I saw it then) and looks like it may be photoshoped. Of course, they may be lying to us and actually killed him a week ago and decided to wait til May Day to announce it in order to over-shadow May Day, which is celebrated around the world by workers.
5/1/11
I wonder why the most wanted man in the world didn't have an escape tunnel? And decided instead to go down fighting after hiding out for ten years.
Last I read a DNA test took at least three days to complete. Amazing they were able to pull it off in just a few hours of dumping the body. And what DNA did they compare it too, btw?
The people in control of this code are living in a outdated and dismal delusion.
Meant to post this as me...
You've missed the mark by quite a distance. The tacks are the cheapest part of commuter rial systems. Most of the land for rails systems has already been established and additional conduits are a fixed cost. Once laid, tracks last a very long time, and their component materials --steal, rock and concrete are very cheap. While planes do not require track, the money they eat up in fuel quickly overshadows the cost of rail lines. One jetliner uses over 50,000 gallons of jet fuel in approx. one full day of operation. Planes are also much more expensive to build than trains. Airports are also much more expensive that train stations.
People are always talking about rail loosing money b/c it's public tax dollars that help pay for rail systems (and I stress "help" b/c rail tickets offset most of the costs), but the Airlines are loosing much more money. No one mentions government dollars that must be spent to bail them out over and over, but we don't talk about that b/c it's "private industry" --more TBTF bullshit. The 5 top airlines in the U.S. just announced they lost over $1 billion last quarter alone (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110426/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_airlines_3). And airlines lost $5.3 billion world-wide in a year (http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/09/airline-haters/).
Used to be that teachers got apples.
Unfortunate for all those non-magnetic kids though.
I don't know. Maybe the MOON would make a good testbed!
Doesn't it seem like all we do anymore is prognosticate about what we are going to do, but when the time actually comes to get going we just pull the funding?
While metric is better for it's internal scientific consistency, the imperial system is better for use of 2 as the divisor. Speak with carpenters that have used both systems and see which they prefer. Most will take imperial.
+1,000,000,000,000... (i'd put a hell of lot more zeros after that one, but \.'s compression filter rejects it)
I repeat, putting this administrative overhead on every Internet reseller will severely hurt small retailers. It's one thing to be a brick and mortar and have one sales tax to contend with, it's another to have to worry about every sales tax from every little region in the country. It would put a large additional expense on resellers as they will have to buy expensive taxing software and services for their e-commerce systems.
So put the tax where the companies are already well suited to handle them -- Shipping. Shipping companies already price according to location. It would be a much less burden for them to adjust their system to accommodate an additional pricing. The end effect is the same, but the overhead is put where it will have the least detriment to the overall economy.
And the Terrorists WON!!!!
Yep, if first world nations would just sell fridges that are wide and shallow, a lot less food would be thrown away.
+1
USA is BOTH a Democracy AND a Republic.
Or at least it was. It's now a Plutocracy and Corporatocracy.
The patent system is so out of control. The wording of this patent is so broad that it could apply to any biofeedback system.
There is no mention of a "teddy" btw, just an "interactive electronic device".
1) Consumers will go back to their old "disposable" life style just as fast as you can say "mo' money".
2) But why does every just take fro granted that the economy will return to "normal" any time soon?
Doesn't first to file necessarily redefine "prior art"?
A corrupt government that will require very expensive tech to be used to line the pockets the companies paying them off.