Well, before the stock give-aways, he rented housing and drove a Pontiac. He now owns a house in SV and drives a BMW Z3. Sure, he may not be stinking rich like the Yahoo founders, but he's certainly well off, much more so than the typical H1B visa recipient.
European friends of mine were always quite pissed about that point. They could not believe how any of the Asian grad students could have passed the required verbal & written English tests required to get a student visa (according to them). To prove their point, one of them would periodically ask the lab TA if the lights were on. The TA would usually respond with a different answer (point them to the current chapter in the textbook, 'I do not know..ask Prof X', etc.).
All that will do is get you arrested for littering or whatever environmental violations can be dreamed up.
Our forefathers didn't get their freedom by yelling and dumping tea in Boston harbor. They won because they took their guns, formed armies, and killed those who wished to force their will upon them. The founding fathers of this country saw that we may have to do it again, and that's why we have the 2nd amendment.
Kansas. Eastern and southern Arkansas and west Tennessee are pretty flat too. South Dakota east of the Missouri river is about like most of Iowa. West of the river is more rolling prairie hills, badlands, and of course the Black Hills at the extreme western edge...the 'Wild West' part of the state.
Yes. I believe the University of Iowa and Iowa State are both Big-10 colleges and one of which (can't remember which one) had a very active Internet-based BBS over 10 years ago. That and Rutger's Quartz BBS were big time sinks for me then. =)
Also, if you would look at this post, you would see that the two states that beat Iowa are Minnesota and Montana. Education is still considered very important in those areas. Since many small rural communities don't have the ability to create the jobs needed for their children, unless one plans on taking over the family business, the only way to get a decent job is through education and moving away. Even then, I know several farmers that have Bachelor of Science degrees. These states also have the advantage of generally being very homogenous populations, so there's no incentive to water the school systems down for political-correctness' sake.
Couldn't they also 'rent' space on the several TV/telephone microwave towers that dot the landscape? They are much taller than any grain elevator the the range would be much better(besides, there are a few rolling hills, the entire landscape isn't totally flat like eastern Arkansas or west Tennessee). Would the existing transmitters cause too much interference?
I hope this service expands into neighboring states to the west. My family would enjoy that. My sister has had wireless cable TV (not satellite) for well over a decade, so hopefully her cable TV provider might start offering internet access too.
I you want to go through all the hassles and the govt wants to let you write it off, then that's fine with me. I for one, do not like to put up with the additional paperwork and contort my life in order to get a tax break (which is why I'm in favor of a flat income tax and a national sales tax). Now of course, if there it's for something that I would normally do (ie. paying for college expenses) then I'll take it. A friend of mine tries to get any little tax break or deduction that he can, often doing things that totally illogical just for a tax break. For example, my family and I met him at a science museum one year. He bought a membership because he would get a tax break. It didn't matter that he wouldn't ever go there again for at least another year, it's normally free except for special exhibits and parking (which we split). IMHO, he could probably save more money by not trying to get some of these deductible expenses than he does in the amount of tax reduction that he receives. That doesn't include all the time he spends keeping records and tracking down other things that are tax deductible. Everyone should have a hobby, I guess his is tax avoidance.
Don't you mean a law requiring them to collect the tax? To be authorized to collect the taxes, I'm sure a company just has to get a tax id and file all the appropriate paperwork with the department of revenue. It's not another tax. Most states have a requirement that all retail sales within their borders are taxed at a documented rate for specific groups of merchandise. Some states also have laws requiring that all mail order purchases (which the internet is an extension of) are to be taxed at the local sales tax rate. All they are doing is following the local laws. Unless there is a state law that prohibits this sort of activity, there's nothing wrong as long as all local laws are followed. And no, it's not a bribe. It would be something similar to: 'we want to be a good corporate citizen, therefore we will follow your local laws without having to be prodded by a lawsuit'. This is funny. People on Slashdot are usually bitching about how corps ignore local laws and want to be a government unto themselves, and here's a case where a corp wants to follow local laws even when it doesn't have to and people are still bitching about it. I agree with point #3, but for the first two, I think you're missing my point. Another state isn't attempting to tax your purchases. The taxes are your state's not anyone elses, following the rates & requirements set forth by the legislature. If by chance, the dept of revenue doesn't want the taxes, they will inform the company that a physical presence is required and until then the rates can be set to zero. Again, I'm not sure what the reasoning behind this was, but IMHO, it's probably safer to err on the side of paying taxes than not. For all I know, the remaining states may have mail-order use taxes, in which case, it would be required to collect the taxes.
Now as far as the fraud aspects go, that can be the case with any business. In my home state, they legislature passed a law requiring businesses on the indian reservations to collect sales taxes from all customers, not just non-indians. Of course this caused the tribes to claim this violated their 'soverign nation' status (which I think is total BS. How can you be a soverign nation when practically 100% of your funding, infrastructure, etc is provided by another entity?). The reason behind the law was that several businesses were claiming that most of their sales went to tribal members, when the opposite was true and they were defrauding the state govt of sales taxes. A friend of mine said that it went into effect, but I don't know if the tribes ever got it repealed.
Huh? Is that even legal? Why is your company charging sales tax to people in the 20% of states where you don't have brick and mortar operations? Simplifying your accounting can't be the justification...
Probably because they are in the process of moving into the other 20% at some point in the future anyway. And whether anyone likes it or not, I'm sure that laws similar to the one passed in CA are going to be more common. Local & state govts are going to realize how much revenue they are not getting, coupled with local merchants complaining how unfair it is that they have to charge taxes, but the e-businesses don't have to. I'm sure any state welcomes sales tax revenue, whether it's from a real or virutal store. It's not like they are charging everyone the same rate. Besides, with the scheme presented above, if a state really protested in receiving the collected taxes, they could just set the tax rates for those zip codes to zero. I don't see why it wouldn't be legal as long as the prescribed methods are followed when collecting and submitting the taxes. Again, I don't know why, just that's what it appears to be doing. Who knows maybe the other states actually do have 'use tax' laws like UT or MO and it's legally required.
Do you really think that any governmental body is going to reject a business that's giving them the sales taxes that they've collected? Hell no! You are correct that it's up to the government and its citizens to decide taxes. So what's wrong with collecting the taxes at the rate that the governments have decreed and giving it to them? They are probably accustomed to companies try to not charge the appropriate sales tax and skirting around the law. It also takes away one complaint that local merchants usually have with internet based businesses. It's also good PR for the govt bodies in the states they're not in for the future when they do get a physical presence. The only reason the FTC or anyone else would go after them is if they were collecting taxes and not paying them.
IMHO, I think you are just offended by the chance of having to pay sales tax on something bought via the internet.
I prefer sales or VAT taxes to income taxes any day. I don't have to keep any documents or fill out any forms at the end of the year or have some bureaucrat snooping through my finances. People who aren't residents also pay and so do those who work on a cash-only basis. When I was in Europe, I also liked it that it was automatically included in the price of the item being bought. I know people who structure their entire life around trying to get a tax deduction for any little thing they do. And in doing that, they end up paying a CPA $200+ so they can get maybe $400 more back than they would otherwise get. IMHO, it's not work the hassle.
Mail-order catalogs are tax free. Again, the cost of shipping is greater than that of any tax.
No they're not. Look at the order form. There is a field for entering the sales tax if you are a resident of a particular state. Other states require you to pay local sales tax on mail order items no matter where the company is from (WA, UT, MO, amoung others).
I'm surprised Wal-Mart or some other big retail firm hasn't done something like you suggested: order a product from the web site and a delivery van from the local store drops it off at your door that day. It would be great for people who can't or don't like to leave the house. AutoZone lets you buy parts via the internet for pick up at a local store or will ship them to your house depending if the part is available in the store. They will charge you your local sales tax in either case.
From what I read in the article, this would only apply to CA residents. If WA wants to require any e-business to collect sales tax for them, they will probably follow CA's lead. What do you mean about 'every state the transaction hits will get a cut'? Every state the TCP/IP packet went through to get from the server to the browser and every state the package had to get through from warehouse to your door? I've read that senario being brought up when people start talking internet taxes, and that sounds loopy to me. There's no way anyone can realistically determine that. The easiest way is to just charge the sales tax for the zip code of the shipping address.
Before people get their underwear in a bunch about whether this violates the interstate commerce clause or whether the internet should be taxed, etc., please read the article.
The sales tax would only be charged if a CA resident is buying a product from an internet site of a company that has a physical presence in CA. If the company has no physical presence in California, the residents do not have to pay any sales tax. Residents of other states do not have to pay CA sales tax either. If it was a California mail order firm, they would have to charge you sales tax too. If one looks at the order form for a catalog, there is usually a place near the shipping and handling field where it says something like 'Illinois residents add x% sales tax'. IMHO, shopping via the internet is just like shopping from mail order catalogs. But you can spend your money faster because it's interactive. (Since this was instigated by local bookstores against BN & Borders, there are book price comparison sites that will include sales tax in the final cost if it is required.)
I would not be surprised that more states start beefing up their existing mail order catalog tax laws for the internet. Some states require you to pay sales tax on anything bought via mail order, no matter where it's from and have a section for that on their state income tax forms. As far as they are concerned, the internet isn't any different.
The retail company that I work for recently opened an e-store. Since we have brick-n-mortar operation in about 80% of the states, someone must have saw laws like this coming, because we charge sales tax for everybody. Even residents of states we don't have any presence in at all. While I didn't work on the project, I'm guessing it goes something like this:
The company keeps a sales tax table for all zip codes in the US. We have to do it for the retail stores, so it's no big deal for the internet store.
Take the customer's shipping zip code and use that to retrieve their sales tax rate.
The total merchandise cost is multiplied by this rate to get the total sales tax paid. This is charged to the customer, and is stored in a data warehouse along with any warranty informaiton.
Periodically, a report is run to show the total amount of merchandise bought and sales tax paid by zip code. This is broken down by state and sent along with any other legal paperwork to each state tax commission with a check (this may be totally electronic or involve real paperwork depending on the state)
There are probably software vendors that sell packages that do this or provide the service of handling the paperwork for each state. If there aren't that do this now, if many states follow CA's lead, I'm sure there will be companies offering such services to smaller internet businesses. It's probably simpler than all what's required by each state & the federal govt for COBRA, employment insurance, and all the other insurance/human resource related crap. Good grief, it seems like just about every town/city/county in PA alone has a different income tax, payroll tax, or some odd requirement that's slightly different from anyone else.
In the InfoWorld article, it was mentioned that heat was the problem with at least one customer. They lowered the temperature in the computer room and the problem went away. Have you tried lowering the room temp?
Just which of our presidential candidates comes from a family of oil tycoon
And the answer is: Bush AND Gore.
While the Bush family's involvement in the oil industry is well known, what many people don't know is that after leaving the Senate, Albert Gore Sr. became a big executive with Occidental (sp?) Petroleum. Most of Gore's wealth comes from his father's involvement with the oil industry (not to mention the family tobacco land). At least Bush isn't being two-faced when it comes to the source of his money.
Like organic farming, 'gasohol' will take up much more farmland than is currently in use, effectively wiping out all natural land that can be farmed. Goodbye, nature preserves. Wetlands will be drained, forests razed. It's even worse than windpower, otherwise known as "avian quisinart".
Where have you been? This has already been done in the US. Gasahol would at least provide a welcome addition to the ag market so that the govt could stop price supports and paying farmers to not grow crops. Also, if birds are that fscking stupid to fly into a windmill, so be it.
I completely agree about nuclear power. It's too bad that that the NRC in the US never standardized civilian nuclear plants like the military and the French have. They would be cheaper and safer.
What about hyrdoelectric power? I would think most people would be for that. Take advantage of the potential energy of the millions of gallons of water flowing out to sea. No hazardous waste and they usually create great recreational areas. Sure, they transform one ecosystem into another, but so what! It's not like the original one has been there forever and will change into something else if geologic history is anything to go by.
Yeah, but knowing eBay people will be buying them for $1000+.
Well, the news must not be very widespread as of yet. Most 5300/190 items on ebay now are just misc parts. There are a few (< 10) operational systems that are being bid on, most is a current bid of about $200.
And unless you want to run linux on it via a serial port, it's not going to be of much use to you running Linux. Unless you want to use it to try to figure out how to get it's ADB keyboard to work with Linux m68K. That's been a major problem for a while(I would have loved to have Linux on a Duo...oh well). That and the terrible SCSI performance. I have Debian 2.1 on my SE/30 and it works great (it even runs X on the 9" screen), but my only complaint is SCSI disk performance.
For more info check out http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org for more information. If you have programming experience on the Mac, they need developers.
My current cubicle walls make it just about impossible to pin up pieces of paper, calendars, etc. Thumbtacks and regular stick pins will fall right out. Since I treat the cubicle wals as an extention of the desktop, I need something to stick pieces of paper to them. Regular office tape works if enough is used, but eventually it dries out and the paper it's holding will slide behind the desk. Duct tape sticks too well to the paper and will rip it if I want it removed.
My solution? Magnets. I'm not talking about those wimpy fridge magnets one gets at Wal-Mart. I'm talking about Neodymium magnets like those removed from old hard drives or bought from www.wondermagnet.com (or ebay). They will hold anything to the cube walls and can be obtained in a variety of sizes. I have one that's about the size of a quarter and it can hold a copy of Linux Journal to my refridgerator (back of magazine placed up against the fridge, _one_ magnet placed on the front cover and it will stay). They don't mar the walls or leave marks on the paper either. I've also used them to hold pens, car keys, etc. to my cubicle walls. The only bad thing about them is that they can ruin floppy disks and possibly monitors if left too close to those items.
I would say that if an architect had final say over how the building was to be used, then they should have designed a gallery or museum, not an office building. Once the building is completed, the owner should be able to do with it what they want. I've worked at a places where facility services would knock out and reconstruct walls because more room was needed for the tech staff or some VPs decided they wanted the offices in a different part of a floor. Come on! How does this guy think you are to get any work done? Or are the people just there for show?
I usually clean my desk when I've lost something. I usually find what I'm looking for in the process, so I set that aside and keep cleaning. It will stay clean for a couple days.
I couldn't work in an environment the original poster described. In house clients are always dropping off printouts, meeting notes, etc. I guess I'd have to start piling them up on the floor and have a path to my chair. Cubicles aren't that bad if they have enough desk and shelf space. Before we moved to our new building, there were some cubicles that people referred to as urinals because they were practically the same size and layout as what one would find in a public restroom.
The only reason I compile in APM anyway is to get the machine to turn off by itself. Since that's not very often, it's not a big deal if it doesn't work in SMP mode.
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Well, before the stock give-aways, he rented housing and drove a Pontiac. He now owns a house in SV and drives a BMW Z3. Sure, he may not be stinking rich like the Yahoo founders, but he's certainly well off, much more so than the typical H1B visa recipient.
European friends of mine were always quite pissed about that point. They could not believe how any of the Asian grad students could have passed the required verbal & written English tests required to get a student visa (according to them). To prove their point, one of them would periodically ask the lab TA if the lights were on. The TA would usually respond with a different answer (point them to the current chapter in the textbook, 'I do not know..ask Prof X', etc.).
All that will do is get you arrested for littering or whatever environmental violations can be dreamed up.
Our forefathers didn't get their freedom by yelling and dumping tea in Boston harbor. They won because they took their guns, formed armies, and killed those who wished to force their will upon them. The founding fathers of this country saw that we may have to do it again, and that's why we have the 2nd amendment.
There are a handful of hardware & software based DVD players for Linux. Check out these past Slashdot articles:Are There Linux DVD Players on the Market and Linux DVD hardware support from SiS.
Kansas. Eastern and southern Arkansas and west Tennessee are pretty flat too. South Dakota east of the Missouri river is about like most of Iowa. West of the river is more rolling prairie hills, badlands, and of course the Black Hills at the extreme western edge...the 'Wild West' part of the state.
Do they even have colleges in Iowa?
Yes. I believe the University of Iowa and Iowa State are both Big-10 colleges and one of which (can't remember which one) had a very active Internet-based BBS over 10 years ago. That and Rutger's Quartz BBS were big time sinks for me then. =)
Also, if you would look at this post, you would see that the two states that beat Iowa are Minnesota and Montana. Education is still considered very important in those areas. Since many small rural communities don't have the ability to create the jobs needed for their children, unless one plans on taking over the family business, the only way to get a decent job is through education and moving away. Even then, I know several farmers that have Bachelor of Science degrees. These states also have the advantage of generally being very homogenous populations, so there's no incentive to water the school systems down for political-correctness' sake.
Couldn't they also 'rent' space on the several TV/telephone microwave towers that dot the landscape? They are much taller than any grain elevator the the range would be much better(besides, there are a few rolling hills, the entire landscape isn't totally flat like eastern Arkansas or west Tennessee). Would the existing transmitters cause too much interference?
I hope this service expands into neighboring states to the west. My family would enjoy that. My sister has had wireless cable TV (not satellite) for well over a decade, so hopefully her cable TV provider might start offering internet access too.
I you want to go through all the hassles and the govt wants to let you write it off, then that's fine with me. I for one, do not like to put up with the additional paperwork and contort my life in order to get a tax break (which is why I'm in favor of a flat income tax and a national sales tax). Now of course, if there it's for something that I would normally do (ie. paying for college expenses) then I'll take it. A friend of mine tries to get any little tax break or deduction that he can, often doing things that totally illogical just for a tax break. For example, my family and I met him at a science museum one year. He bought a membership because he would get a tax break. It didn't matter that he wouldn't ever go there again for at least another year, it's normally free except for special exhibits and parking (which we split). IMHO, he could probably save more money by not trying to get some of these deductible expenses than he does in the amount of tax reduction that he receives. That doesn't include all the time he spends keeping records and tracking down other things that are tax deductible. Everyone should have a hobby, I guess his is tax avoidance.
Don't you mean a law requiring them to collect the tax? To be authorized to collect the taxes, I'm sure a company just has to get a tax id and file all the appropriate paperwork with the department of revenue. It's not another tax. Most states have a requirement that all retail sales within their borders are taxed at a documented rate for specific groups of merchandise. Some states also have laws requiring that all mail order purchases (which the internet is an extension of) are to be taxed at the local sales tax rate. All they are doing is following the local laws. Unless there is a state law that prohibits this sort of activity, there's nothing wrong as long as all local laws are followed. And no, it's not a bribe. It would be something similar to: 'we want to be a good corporate citizen, therefore we will follow your local laws without having to be prodded by a lawsuit'. This is funny. People on Slashdot are usually bitching about how corps ignore local laws and want to be a government unto themselves, and here's a case where a corp wants to follow local laws even when it doesn't have to and people are still bitching about it. I agree with point #3, but for the first two, I think you're missing my point. Another state isn't attempting to tax your purchases. The taxes are your state's not anyone elses, following the rates & requirements set forth by the legislature. If by chance, the dept of revenue doesn't want the taxes, they will inform the company that a physical presence is required and until then the rates can be set to zero. Again, I'm not sure what the reasoning behind this was, but IMHO, it's probably safer to err on the side of paying taxes than not. For all I know, the remaining states may have mail-order use taxes, in which case, it would be required to collect the taxes.
Now as far as the fraud aspects go, that can be the case with any business. In my home state, they legislature passed a law requiring businesses on the indian reservations to collect sales taxes from all customers, not just non-indians. Of course this caused the tribes to claim this violated their 'soverign nation' status (which I think is total BS. How can you be a soverign nation when practically 100% of your funding, infrastructure, etc is provided by another entity?). The reason behind the law was that several businesses were claiming that most of their sales went to tribal members, when the opposite was true and they were defrauding the state govt of sales taxes. A friend of mine said that it went into effect, but I don't know if the tribes ever got it repealed.
Huh? Is that even legal? Why is your company charging sales tax to people in the 20% of states where you don't have brick and mortar operations? Simplifying your accounting can't be the justification...
Probably because they are in the process of moving into the other 20% at some point in the future anyway. And whether anyone likes it or not, I'm sure that laws similar to the one passed in CA are going to be more common. Local & state govts are going to realize how much revenue they are not getting, coupled with local merchants complaining how unfair it is that they have to charge taxes, but the e-businesses don't have to. I'm sure any state welcomes sales tax revenue, whether it's from a real or virutal store. It's not like they are charging everyone the same rate. Besides, with the scheme presented above, if a state really protested in receiving the collected taxes, they could just set the tax rates for those zip codes to zero. I don't see why it wouldn't be legal as long as the prescribed methods are followed when collecting and submitting the taxes. Again, I don't know why, just that's what it appears to be doing. Who knows maybe the other states actually do have 'use tax' laws like UT or MO and it's legally required.
Do you really think that any governmental body is going to reject a business that's giving them the sales taxes that they've collected? Hell no! You are correct that it's up to the government and its citizens to decide taxes. So what's wrong with collecting the taxes at the rate that the governments have decreed and giving it to them? They are probably accustomed to companies try to not charge the appropriate sales tax and skirting around the law. It also takes away one complaint that local merchants usually have with internet based businesses. It's also good PR for the govt bodies in the states they're not in for the future when they do get a physical presence. The only reason the FTC or anyone else would go after them is if they were collecting taxes and not paying them.
IMHO, I think you are just offended by the chance of having to pay sales tax on something bought via the internet.
I prefer sales or VAT taxes to income taxes any day. I don't have to keep any documents or fill out any forms at the end of the year or have some bureaucrat snooping through my finances. People who aren't residents also pay and so do those who work on a cash-only basis. When I was in Europe, I also liked it that it was automatically included in the price of the item being bought. I know people who structure their entire life around trying to get a tax deduction for any little thing they do. And in doing that, they end up paying a CPA $200+ so they can get maybe $400 more back than they would otherwise get. IMHO, it's not work the hassle.
Mail-order catalogs are tax free. Again, the cost of shipping is greater than that of any tax.
No they're not. Look at the order form. There is a field for entering the sales tax if you are a resident of a particular state. Other states require you to pay local sales tax on mail order items no matter where the company is from (WA, UT, MO, amoung others).
I'm surprised Wal-Mart or some other big retail firm hasn't done something like you suggested: order a product from the web site and a delivery van from the local store drops it off at your door that day. It would be great for people who can't or don't like to leave the house. AutoZone lets you buy parts via the internet for pick up at a local store or will ship them to your house depending if the part is available in the store. They will charge you your local sales tax in either case.
From what I read in the article, this would only apply to CA residents. If WA wants to require any e-business to collect sales tax for them, they will probably follow CA's lead. What do you mean about 'every state the transaction hits will get a cut'? Every state the TCP/IP packet went through to get from the server to the browser and every state the package had to get through from warehouse to your door? I've read that senario being brought up when people start talking internet taxes, and that sounds loopy to me. There's no way anyone can realistically determine that. The easiest way is to just charge the sales tax for the zip code of the shipping address.
Before people get their underwear in a bunch about whether this violates the interstate commerce clause or whether the internet should be taxed, etc., please read the article.
The sales tax would only be charged if a CA resident is buying a product from an internet site of a company that has a physical presence in CA. If the company has no physical presence in California, the residents do not have to pay any sales tax. Residents of other states do not have to pay CA sales tax either. If it was a California mail order firm, they would have to charge you sales tax too. If one looks at the order form for a catalog, there is usually a place near the shipping and handling field where it says something like 'Illinois residents add x% sales tax'. IMHO, shopping via the internet is just like shopping from mail order catalogs. But you can spend your money faster because it's interactive. (Since this was instigated by local bookstores against BN & Borders, there are book price comparison sites that will include sales tax in the final cost if it is required.)
I would not be surprised that more states start beefing up their existing mail order catalog tax laws for the internet. Some states require you to pay sales tax on anything bought via mail order, no matter where it's from and have a section for that on their state income tax forms. As far as they are concerned, the internet isn't any different.
The retail company that I work for recently opened an e-store. Since we have brick-n-mortar operation in about 80% of the states, someone must have saw laws like this coming, because we charge sales tax for everybody. Even residents of states we don't have any presence in at all. While I didn't work on the project, I'm guessing it goes something like this:
- The company keeps a sales tax table for all zip codes in the US. We have to do it for the retail stores, so it's no big deal for the internet store.
- Take the customer's shipping zip code and use that to retrieve their sales tax rate.
- The total merchandise cost is multiplied by this rate to get the total sales tax paid. This is charged to the customer, and is stored in a data warehouse along with any warranty informaiton.
- Periodically, a report is run to show the total amount of merchandise bought and sales tax paid by zip code. This is broken down by state and sent along with any other legal paperwork to each state tax commission with a check (this may be totally electronic or involve real paperwork depending on the state)
There are probably software vendors that sell packages that do this or provide the service of handling the paperwork for each state. If there aren't that do this now, if many states follow CA's lead, I'm sure there will be companies offering such services to smaller internet businesses. It's probably simpler than all what's required by each state & the federal govt for COBRA, employment insurance, and all the other insurance/human resource related crap. Good grief, it seems like just about every town/city/county in PA alone has a different income tax, payroll tax, or some odd requirement that's slightly different from anyone else.In the InfoWorld article, it was mentioned that heat was the problem with at least one customer. They lowered the temperature in the computer room and the problem went away. Have you tried lowering the room temp?
Just which of our presidential candidates comes from a family of oil tycoon
And the answer is: Bush AND Gore.
While the Bush family's involvement in the oil industry is well known, what many people don't know is that after leaving the Senate, Albert Gore Sr. became a big executive with Occidental (sp?) Petroleum. Most of Gore's wealth comes from his father's involvement with the oil industry (not to mention the family tobacco land). At least Bush isn't being two-faced when it comes to the source of his money.
Like organic farming, 'gasohol' will take up much more farmland than is currently in use, effectively wiping out all natural land that can be farmed. Goodbye, nature preserves. Wetlands will be drained, forests razed. It's even worse than windpower, otherwise known as "avian quisinart".
Where have you been? This has already been done in the US. Gasahol would at least provide a welcome addition to the ag market so that the govt could stop price supports and paying farmers to not grow crops. Also, if birds are that fscking stupid to fly into a windmill, so be it.
I completely agree about nuclear power. It's too bad that that the NRC in the US never standardized civilian nuclear plants like the military and the French have. They would be cheaper and safer.
What about hyrdoelectric power? I would think most people would be for that. Take advantage of the potential energy of the millions of gallons of water flowing out to sea. No hazardous waste and they usually create great recreational areas. Sure, they transform one ecosystem into another, but so what! It's not like the original one has been there forever and will change into something else if geologic history is anything to go by.
Yeah, but knowing eBay people will be buying them for $1000+.
Well, the news must not be very widespread as of yet. Most 5300/190 items on ebay now are just misc parts. There are a few (< 10) operational systems that are being bid on, most is a current bid of about $200.
And unless you want to run linux on it via a serial port, it's not going to be of much use to you running Linux. Unless you want to use it to try to figure out how to get it's ADB keyboard to work with Linux m68K. That's been a major problem for a while(I would have loved to have Linux on a Duo ...oh well). That and the terrible SCSI performance. I have Debian 2.1 on my SE/30 and it works great (it even runs X on the 9" screen), but my only complaint is SCSI disk performance.
For more info check out http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org for more information. If you have programming experience on the Mac, they need developers.
My current cubicle walls make it just about impossible to pin up pieces of paper, calendars, etc. Thumbtacks and regular stick pins will fall right out. Since I treat the cubicle wals as an extention of the desktop, I need something to stick pieces of paper to them. Regular office tape works if enough is used, but eventually it dries out and the paper it's holding will slide behind the desk. Duct tape sticks too well to the paper and will rip it if I want it removed.
My solution? Magnets. I'm not talking about those wimpy fridge magnets one gets at Wal-Mart. I'm talking about Neodymium magnets like those removed from old hard drives or bought from www.wondermagnet.com (or ebay). They will hold anything to the cube walls and can be obtained in a variety of sizes. I have one that's about the size of a quarter and it can hold a copy of Linux Journal to my refridgerator (back of magazine placed up against the fridge, _one_ magnet placed on the front cover and it will stay). They don't mar the walls or leave marks on the paper either. I've also used them to hold pens, car keys, etc. to my cubicle walls. The only bad thing about them is that they can ruin floppy disks and possibly monitors if left too close to those items.
I would say that if an architect had final say over how the building was to be used, then they should have designed a gallery or museum, not an office building. Once the building is completed, the owner should be able to do with it what they want. I've worked at a places where facility services would knock out and reconstruct walls because more room was needed for the tech staff or some VPs decided they wanted the offices in a different part of a floor. Come on! How does this guy think you are to get any work done? Or are the people just there for show?
I usually clean my desk when I've lost something. I usually find what I'm looking for in the process, so I set that aside and keep cleaning. It will stay clean for a couple days.
I couldn't work in an environment the original poster described. In house clients are always dropping off printouts, meeting notes, etc. I guess I'd have to start piling them up on the floor and have a path to my chair. Cubicles aren't that bad if they have enough desk and shelf space. Before we moved to our new building, there were some cubicles that people referred to as urinals because they were practically the same size and layout as what one would find in a public restroom.
The only reason I compile in APM anyway is to get the machine to turn off by itself. Since that's not very often, it's not a big deal if it doesn't work in SMP mode.
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