Figures I'd be out of mod points when this hit/. Founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. Could power the whole nation if we hooked up generators to them...
33+% less on most books (and therefore 33+% less sales tax) than your local brick and mortar is still a hell of good deal. As long as Amazon's prices are significantly lower, sales taxes are lower since you pay tax based on the price you pay, not the MSRP. Still a better deal than regular stores.
"'Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not."
Too bad "people" don't vote on the stuff that counts, congress, bought and paid for by coprorate scum, vote on that stuff, the people's will be damned.
Yeah, one part of the article talks about collecting existing State sales taxes, but then another part mentions establishing an "Internet Sales tax". So we're gonna get "double-dipped", paying both state and local taxes AND a federal Internet Sales Tax if all this crap passes?
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Agreed, this should be instant disbarment
Figures I'd be out of mod points when this hit /.
Founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. Could power the whole nation if we hooked up generators to them...
Shoot 'em all, government and civilian....
The dems are far from perfect, but they are currently the lesser of the two big political evils...
Yep, I don't see the "Internet Sales Tax" bill having any lasting effect on Amazon.
33+% less on most books (and therefore 33+% less sales tax) than your local brick and mortar is still a hell of good deal. As long as Amazon's prices are significantly lower, sales taxes are lower since you pay tax based on the price you pay, not the MSRP. Still a better deal than regular stores.
Patches for XP, then the whole OS should fall into the public domain and third parties can provide them.
goes to this judge....
but another reason to never get an iPhone/iPad
I am the one who decides what I can get on my device NOT CRApple...
Fuck you too
They can't make money if we don't buy the garbage...
Yeah, EA is only raping their customers, it's not like they're killing them, so that makes it A-OK
"'Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not."
BULLSHIT.
These corporate and executive assholes would die if they had to do an honest day's work...
Too bad "people" don't vote on the stuff that counts, congress, bought and paid for by coprorate scum, vote on that stuff, the people's will be damned.
Because hosting servers and running the software ain't cheap.
Better description would be let players contact each other directly, IP-to-IP without needing a Sony/MS/etc middleman with their consoles.
The second any business became "Too big to fail", it was over for the government to represent actual citizens...
This guy is proof that you can be a retard and still get into high positions in the corporate world.
I thought that was REQUIREMENT of those positions, along with horrendous levels of Arrogance...
Won't be buying one if it ends up requiring internet connection.
I skipped the X-Box 360 (not for that reason obviously), so I doubt I'll have any problems skipping the 720 either...
and it's all gibberish. Stupid fucking april fools assholery
Piss off.
The Gandhi quote, if it's real, is PERFECT
Why do I only have mod points on the weeks when there's nothing to Mod up?????
The fact that the difference is significantly less than it was 200 years ago suggests that Christianity might not be entirely genetic.
I have always considered religion a disease...
Principles are still important to some people...
Yeah, one part of the article talks about collecting existing State sales taxes, but then another part mentions establishing an "Internet Sales tax". So we're gonna get "double-dipped", paying both state and local taxes AND a federal Internet Sales Tax if all this crap passes?