Give it a couple of weeks and Snowden will be labeled a pederast
Doubtful that many in the target audience know what one of those is, considering the trouble they've had with "paedophile" and "paediatrician" in the past.
If Amazon charged for the actual shipping cost, separate from handling or item price, the shipping would not be taxed.
How'd you work that out?
For transactions occurring on or after October 1, 2005, handling charges are included within the definition of delivery charges
For deliveries on and after October 1, 2006, if a shipment includes both taxable and exempt property, the seller should allocate the delivery charge based on either the total sales price or the total weight, and collect tax on the portion of the delivery charge allocated to the taxable goods. In such mixed transactions, if the seller does not allocate the delivery charge, the entire delivery charge is taxable.
Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts...
...which isn't as good as pro kit.
The equipment is big and expensive, with the research costs at almost $500,000.
Research costs don't tell you anything about the cost of "the equipment," whatever that refers to. A modern mobile phone might set you back $200, but you could easily make the research costs total several billion dollars depending how far you want to go back. If someone comes along with a couple of tin cans and a piece of string, I don't really see how that's automatically newsworthy.
But by just using retail components, Chinese professor Chi Nan has built her own Li-Fi wireless system that can use LED lights to send and receive Internet data.
There are plenty of things I can do with retail components that wouldn't be possible without prior billions being spent on research. That doesn't make me the King of Awesome (I am, but it's entirely unrelated).
FWIW, Chi's system works over about 3m, the hardware is large and heavy, and it achieves a speed of about 150mbps.
That's for when the courts want something out of you. In this case it was his employer who wanted something out of him.
It sounds like...
Depends who you listen to. On the one side you've got the blogs and tech reporters, and on the other side you've got the court ruling. Which one of those has scrutinised the case and all the evidence more closely?
So then you'd agree with me. The supernova occurred 20,000 light years away and the light reached Earth in 1604.
The only reference frame in which the supernova also exploded in 1604 is that of a photon making the trip. To us on Earth, it happened as long ago as it takes for the light to reach us (ignoring the negligible expansion of space between the two points in that time).
It's called profit, not a tax scam. I hear they'll even charge you more for the products you order than what they actually paid for them, too! Scandalous!
All the costs are displayed, Amazon aren't charging any tax they shouldn't and pocketing it, and no-one's forcing anyone to click Submit.
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There is the glaring privacy hole.
I'll thank you not to look at my glaring privacy hole.
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Is that - serious question - why it's called cyanide?
(I am an editor: the shudder is real.)
Shouldn't that be a semicolon?
Give it a couple of weeks and Snowden will be labeled a pederast
Doubtful that many in the target audience know what one of those is, considering the trouble they've had with "paedophile" and "paediatrician" in the past.
I can think of another longer-running global biological experiment that produced, among other things, Justin Bieber.
Time to dump the lot in a bright yellow trash bag and start over.
Probably, yeah. But whatcha gonna do?
Oil Recovery May Have Triggered Texas Tremors
Makes it sound like the oil was always ours and the Earth stole it.
I wouldn't, because one can't. What's that got to do with it being a modern browser though?
Why don't you list some reasons for regarding IE to be behind the times instead of only snidely implying it to be so?
If Amazon charged for the actual shipping cost, separate from handling or item price, the shipping would not be taxed.
How'd you work that out?
For transactions occurring on or after October 1, 2005, handling charges are included within the definition of delivery charges
For deliveries on and after October 1, 2006, if a shipment includes both taxable and exempt property, the seller should allocate the delivery charge based on either the total sales price or the total weight, and collect tax on the portion of the delivery charge allocated to the taxable goods. In such mixed transactions, if the seller does not allocate the delivery charge, the entire delivery charge is taxable.
Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts...
...which isn't as good as pro kit.
The equipment is big and expensive, with the research costs at almost $500,000.
Research costs don't tell you anything about the cost of "the equipment," whatever that refers to. A modern mobile phone might set you back $200, but you could easily make the research costs total several billion dollars depending how far you want to go back. If someone comes along with a couple of tin cans and a piece of string, I don't really see how that's automatically newsworthy.
But by just using retail components, Chinese professor Chi Nan has built her own Li-Fi wireless system that can use LED lights to send and receive Internet data.
There are plenty of things I can do with retail components that wouldn't be possible without prior billions being spent on research. That doesn't make me the King of Awesome (I am, but it's entirely unrelated).
FWIW, Chi's system works over about 3m, the hardware is large and heavy, and it achieves a speed of about 150mbps.
You might think that the country that has the fastest average home internet speeds would be a first adapter of modern browsers. Instead...
Disingenuous. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean you can seriously consider IE not to be a modern browser.
Whatever happened to the right to remain silent?
That's for when the courts want something out of you. In this case it was his employer who wanted something out of him.
It sounds like...
Depends who you listen to. On the one side you've got the blogs and tech reporters, and on the other side you've got the court ruling. Which one of those has scrutinised the case and all the evidence more closely?
Reiser: yeah, geeks routing for a geek.
Is that Freudian? I can't decide...
I use Earth's.
So then you'd agree with me. The supernova occurred 20,000 light years away and the light reached Earth in 1604.
The only reference frame in which the supernova also exploded in 1604 is that of a photon making the trip. To us on Earth, it happened as long ago as it takes for the light to reach us (ignoring the negligible expansion of space between the two points in that time).
I'm going out on a limb and suggest that the answer is "long enough."
Why you've got "Insightful" for disingenuously asking a loaded question you - in all likelihood - don't know the answer to is beyond me.
v.intr.
1. To withdraw from or vacate a place or area, especially as a protective measure.
There is still money being pocketed.
It's called profit, not a tax scam. I hear they'll even charge you more for the products you order than what they actually paid for them, too! Scandalous!
All the costs are displayed, Amazon aren't charging any tax they shouldn't and pocketing it, and no-one's forcing anyone to click Submit.
Well, okay, unless you're talking about the reference frame of one of the photons from the supernova, in which case, spot on.
The last star to go supernova in the Milky Way—that astronomers know of—exploded in 1604
Only out by about 20,000 years.
So it seems that the submitter of this rant was entirely wrong, and sales tax does indeed apply to the delivery costs of taxable goods in NJ.
Will Hodejo1 or Timothy now hold their hands up, admit their mistake and promise to do better in future?
It's a clear tax scam
Actually, it turns out the submitter is wrong, so not that clear at all.
Hopefully you won't be so quick to believe the next thing you read (especially if it's come via Timothy).
All my friends live in China, you insensitive clod!
Wow, those EULAs are getting tough if they require you to do that.