They didn't save 200 whales, that's how many were actually caught, which was only about a fifth of the whaler's quota.
From TFA (emphasis added):
"This is a very effective tactic that we did last year, it was so effective that the whalers went home over a month early and called it quits and we saved 858 whales out of a possible 1,035.
There's no need to explain how to find failed bulbs. Modern lights are designed to keep working with burnt out bulbs. A dead bulb isn't going to affect the rest of the strand. So no searching needed, you just replace the unlit bulbs (or leave them if you're lazy to bother). The lights are still wired in series, but there's a shunt in the bulbs that allows the current to pass if the filament burns out.
Thanks for taking the fun out of this one. We could have all speculated about all kinds of random things that it "may" have been. You ruined my Christmas.
Don't panic!
Even though the mystery is "solved". We still can speculate. If we assume the official explaination and all evidence that supports it is a lie, then this could be anything: aliens, the CIA, time travelers, Steve Jobs' cybernetic brain, etc...
Yeah seriously, what were they thinking? They obviously don't understand their own business model.
When you are making legal threats of questionable validity, you pick people who will cave to your threats and just pay up, you don't target an accomplished trial lawyer.
Did anyone at Righthaven even bother google this guy before they sued him?
You don't even have to click any of links as Google is kind enough to give the following summary of the number one search result for Thomas DiBiase:
In other news, assistant U.S. attorney Thomas “Tad” DiBiase has stepped down. Readers will recall that DiBiase is “the ‘Kevin Bacon’ of high-powered D.C. legal...
That one and a half sentence summary ought to be enough to raise multiple red flags to anyone considering pulling some legal bullying on this guy.
It doesn't matter if there 50 different rates or 5000 different rates. We can store a list of those rates. The problem is that the rules vary. If the rules that apply to the tax were the same across all the different counties and municipalities, it is (or should be) trivial to look up the location and apply a tax rate based on that. A national system could make the rules the same and that is the key to avoiding the convoluted mess.
The complaints of online businesses are that each state has it's own laws and it requires too much work to comply with 50 different sets of laws. It seems a simpler solution would be a national tax policy instituted at the federal level with a single set of rules.
In order to not infringe on state's rights, allow states the option of using this policy or sticking with their own. If they choose this policy, online retailers will be required to charge tax as appropriate and send it to the state. Retailers won't have to deal with the hassle of tracking numerous different laws and won't have to worry about shutting down their business presence in entire states. If the state chooses not to adopt this policy, they can continue with their current system and rely on people to pay the sales tax with their annual income taxes. Seems like this would work for everyone.
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From TFA (emphasis added):
"This is a very effective tactic that we did last year, it was so effective that the whalers went home over a month early and called it quits and we saved 858 whales out of a possible 1,035.
There's no need to explain how to find failed bulbs. Modern lights are designed to keep working with burnt out bulbs. A dead bulb isn't going to affect the rest of the strand. So no searching needed, you just replace the unlit bulbs (or leave them if you're lazy to bother). The lights are still wired in series, but there's a shunt in the bulbs that allows the current to pass if the filament burns out.
Thanks for taking the fun out of this one. We could have all speculated about all kinds of random things that it "may" have been. You ruined my Christmas.
Don't panic! ...
Even though the mystery is "solved". We still can speculate. If we assume the official explaination and all evidence that supports it is a lie, then this could be anything: aliens, the CIA, time travelers, Steve Jobs' cybernetic brain, etc
Once again conpiracy theories save Chirstmas.
When you are making legal threats of questionable validity, you pick people who will cave to your threats and just pay up, you don't target an accomplished trial lawyer.
Did anyone at Righthaven even bother google this guy before they sued him? You don't even have to click any of links as Google is kind enough to give the following summary of the number one search result for Thomas DiBiase:
In other news, assistant U.S. attorney Thomas “Tad” DiBiase has stepped down. Readers will recall that DiBiase is “the ‘Kevin Bacon’ of high-powered D.C. legal...
That one and a half sentence summary ought to be enough to raise multiple red flags to anyone considering pulling some legal bullying on this guy.
It doesn't matter if there 50 different rates or 5000 different rates. We can store a list of those rates. The problem is that the rules vary. If the rules that apply to the tax were the same across all the different counties and municipalities, it is (or should be) trivial to look up the location and apply a tax rate based on that. A national system could make the rules the same and that is the key to avoiding the convoluted mess.
The complaints of online businesses are that each state has it's own laws and it requires too much work to comply with 50 different sets of laws. It seems a simpler solution would be a national tax policy instituted at the federal level with a single set of rules. In order to not infringe on state's rights, allow states the option of using this policy or sticking with their own. If they choose this policy, online retailers will be required to charge tax as appropriate and send it to the state. Retailers won't have to deal with the hassle of tracking numerous different laws and won't have to worry about shutting down their business presence in entire states. If the state chooses not to adopt this policy, they can continue with their current system and rely on people to pay the sales tax with their annual income taxes. Seems like this would work for everyone.