Most other countries don't even recognize them as a religion. They are a money making / power grabbing scheme dreamed up by a second rate megalomaniac science fiction author that has now taken on a life of its own.
So how are they not a religion? Just substitute "science fiction" with "fantasy" and you have pretty much every religion out there.
Gotta make one point: not nearly enough has been said about the CRU email and data. The short version of everything that's come out so far is: the leading climate scientists pushing AGW were lying left, right, and center, and there is absolutely no evidence, not even a little, to support global warming, let alone AGW. If you haven't done so already, go to Wikileaks and read the source code for the software they were using for their famous models. It's pretty damning stuff when the code shows exactly where they were manipulating data and putting in fake numbers.
We only recently gave the right to vote in Presidential elections to our territories and capitol city, what makes you think we'd want the proles from the rest of the world adding their voices to the din?
Besides, our ancient rallying cry of "no taxation without representation" has a flip side: if you have representation, expect to start paying taxes.
What would be the motivator for such a malicious act? There's no money to be gained, and if they were caught, they'd have the book thrown at them.
Yes, because those two attributes have kept criminals from ever doing anything malicious that didn't result in monetary profit sufficient to outweigh the possible jail time.
Sure, you laugh now. But just wait until Obama and Bernanke are done destroying our currency and that number will be the going rate for a contract programmer!
To be fair to Time Magazine, their "man of the year" award is more about which person had the greatest impact on the most number of people in a given year. There's no judgment as to whether that impact was for good or evil.
Over 350 comments and no one has mentioned Stormtroopers (from 40k) carrying hellguns or made jokes about the AP value of these new weapons? For shame, Slashdot, for shame.
It is the IRS's job to collect taxes, not Amazon's.
It's the IRS' job to collect Federal income tax. They don't collect tariffs, use fees, or state or local sales taxes.
As for why should a business collect tax on behalf of the government, that's an excellent question and not one I've seen answered sufficiently well, IMO.
You'd need to know what municipality the buyer is in, then get state, county, and municipality tax rates.
I'm pretty sure you need to know this to ship the item, too. And there are companies that compile tax data for every municipality in the country; it really isn't that hard to figure out how much goes where. Now, there is additional overhead in sending that money to the proper authorities, but as long they have epayment set up it should be pretty easy to automate that, too. Amazon could run a batch job on the first day of each quarter, figure out how much needs to go where, and print and mail the checks, all with the click of a mouse button.
This leaves open the question of whether states and local authorities can, or should be able to, collect from an out-of-state entity. But for Amazon to argue they can't do it easily is just foolish.
Copyrights currently have expiration dates; corporations are owned by living people, so there's no concern over the dead ruling the living.
If more slashdotters took a few intro-to-law classes, comments like these wouldn't be made, or at least they wouldn't be modded Insightful when they were.
Oh well, then I guess no one in Germany gets murdered then. After all, you have to sit in jail for 19 years after killing someone, then you go back to the life you left behind like nothing happened; I can imagine that no one would want to risk having that happen to themselves, so no one would ever brutally murder someone else just because they're gay. Right?
By working harder than anyone else to have the kind of lives they want. Guess what? Actions have consequences. One of the consequences of murdering another human being is that other human beings will be extremely unlikely to trust you in the future. Don't like it? Tough shit; Werle and Lauber need to stop their whining and accept their fate, which is solely their responsibility.
It's not my problem if these guys are stuck doing manual labor for the rest of their lives. They've already proven once they're willing to kill. The authorities apparently think there's a low likelihood they'll do it again, but there's a lot of truth in the old joke* that it's a lot easier to kill someone the second time. So yeah, they have to eat shit, as it were, while trying to rebuild their lives. Maybe they should have thought of that before killing their business partner just because he was gay.
*The joke involves a war vet meeting his daughter's boyfriend for the first time and his attempt to convince the lad to keep his hands to himself.
These guys killed a human being in cold blood (and rather brutally, if the reports are anywhere near accurate). There's no reason to think they won't do it again. So, why are they walking the streets in the first place?
Let's be clear: when you end another human's life, especially as horrifically as these two did, there is no "making up for it". At the end of the day, a man is dead after suffering torture and dismemberment. Try thinking more about the victim and less about the assholes who did the deed in the first place.
But (the present) flamebait mod is quite appropriate, the civilised world doesn't support institutionalised murder a.k. as capital punishment.
In other words; only the non-civilised would contemplate reciprocal killing.
Pay attention kids, this is a textbook example of begging the question. Make sure you memorize it so you can whip it out next time some moron says "That begs the question: what would Jesus do?".
As Stalin once said, quantity has a quality of its own. It's great it you can produce one tank that will kill five of the enemy's; until of course your enemy starts producing six tanks for every one of yours.
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Most other countries don't even recognize them as a religion. They are a money making / power grabbing scheme dreamed up by a second rate megalomaniac science fiction author that has now taken on a life of its own.
So how are they not a religion? Just substitute "science fiction" with "fantasy" and you have pretty much every religion out there.
Yes, because that's what companies want to do, disconnect their customers. That's how they make their money, after all.
This whole thread has been modded Troll. I'm guessing the CEO of Fusion Garage somehow got mod points.
Gotta make one point: not nearly enough has been said about the CRU email and data. The short version of everything that's come out so far is: the leading climate scientists pushing AGW were lying left, right, and center, and there is absolutely no evidence, not even a little, to support global warming, let alone AGW. If you haven't done so already, go to Wikileaks and read the source code for the software they were using for their famous models. It's pretty damning stuff when the code shows exactly where they were manipulating data and putting in fake numbers.
We only recently gave the right to vote in Presidential elections to our territories and capitol city, what makes you think we'd want the proles from the rest of the world adding their voices to the din?
Besides, our ancient rallying cry of "no taxation without representation" has a flip side: if you have representation, expect to start paying taxes.
What would be the motivator for such a malicious act? There's no money to be gained, and if they were caught, they'd have the book thrown at them.
Yes, because those two attributes have kept criminals from ever doing anything malicious that didn't result in monetary profit sufficient to outweigh the possible jail time.
Happened to me too about ten years back when I unwisely sent .csv to Switzerland.
You mean when all those Swiss banks collapsed? Now it all makes sense!
Sure, you laugh now. But just wait until Obama and Bernanke are done destroying our currency and that number will be the going rate for a contract programmer!
No, but it can be grounds for divorce.
Anyone can be nominated by anyone else. The Peace Prize means nothing, and the nominations mean even less. Even Rush Limbaugh was nominated last year!
To be fair to Time Magazine, their "man of the year" award is more about which person had the greatest impact on the most number of people in a given year. There's no judgment as to whether that impact was for good or evil.
Yes.
Over 350 comments and no one has mentioned Stormtroopers (from 40k) carrying hellguns or made jokes about the AP value of these new weapons? For shame, Slashdot, for shame.
It is the IRS's job to collect taxes, not Amazon's.
It's the IRS' job to collect Federal income tax. They don't collect tariffs, use fees, or state or local sales taxes.
As for why should a business collect tax on behalf of the government, that's an excellent question and not one I've seen answered sufficiently well, IMO.
You'd need to know what municipality the buyer is in, then get state, county, and municipality tax rates.
I'm pretty sure you need to know this to ship the item, too. And there are companies that compile tax data for every municipality in the country; it really isn't that hard to figure out how much goes where. Now, there is additional overhead in sending that money to the proper authorities, but as long they have epayment set up it should be pretty easy to automate that, too. Amazon could run a batch job on the first day of each quarter, figure out how much needs to go where, and print and mail the checks, all with the click of a mouse button.
This leaves open the question of whether states and local authorities can, or should be able to, collect from an out-of-state entity. But for Amazon to argue they can't do it easily is just foolish.
Hey! I saw that episode of The Twilight Zone, too! It didn't work too well for the guys trying to pull that one off.
Copyrights currently have expiration dates; corporations are owned by living people, so there's no concern over the dead ruling the living.
If more slashdotters took a few intro-to-law classes, comments like these wouldn't be made, or at least they wouldn't be modded Insightful when they were.
That's a lawyer's problem, not a marketer's.
Oh well, then I guess no one in Germany gets murdered then. After all, you have to sit in jail for 19 years after killing someone, then you go back to the life you left behind like nothing happened; I can imagine that no one would want to risk having that happen to themselves, so no one would ever brutally murder someone else just because they're gay. Right?
Yeah, but how are they supposed to do that?
By working harder than anyone else to have the kind of lives they want. Guess what? Actions have consequences. One of the consequences of murdering another human being is that other human beings will be extremely unlikely to trust you in the future. Don't like it? Tough shit; Werle and Lauber need to stop their whining and accept their fate, which is solely their responsibility.
It's not my problem if these guys are stuck doing manual labor for the rest of their lives. They've already proven once they're willing to kill. The authorities apparently think there's a low likelihood they'll do it again, but there's a lot of truth in the old joke* that it's a lot easier to kill someone the second time. So yeah, they have to eat shit, as it were, while trying to rebuild their lives. Maybe they should have thought of that before killing their business partner just because he was gay.
*The joke involves a war vet meeting his daughter's boyfriend for the first time and his attempt to convince the lad to keep his hands to himself.
I can't imagine why the Germans would want to flush evil acts down the memory hole and pretend they never happened.
Well, your government doesn't. Apparently some of your citizens still do.
These guys killed a human being in cold blood (and rather brutally, if the reports are anywhere near accurate). There's no reason to think they won't do it again. So, why are they walking the streets in the first place?
Let's be clear: when you end another human's life, especially as horrifically as these two did, there is no "making up for it". At the end of the day, a man is dead after suffering torture and dismemberment. Try thinking more about the victim and less about the assholes who did the deed in the first place.
But (the present) flamebait mod is quite appropriate, the civilised world doesn't support institutionalised murder a.k. as capital punishment.
In other words; only the non-civilised would contemplate reciprocal killing.
Pay attention kids, this is a textbook example of begging the question. Make sure you memorize it so you can whip it out next time some moron says "That begs the question: what would Jesus do?".
As Stalin once said, quantity has a quality of its own. It's great it you can produce one tank that will kill five of the enemy's; until of course your enemy starts producing six tanks for every one of yours.