and to top it off, this isnt even an actual law yet. if you (SUemas) had RTFA, its merely a nonbinding proposal. not even a resolution, definitely not a law. merely a proposal, to gauge reactions, open debate, and get dialogue started for the purposes of answering those not yet answered questions. (further illustrating just how ignorant you are)
no, but someone in oregon who crosses into washington does pay sales tax.
likewise if you live in oregon and buy online they COULD have colelcted sales tax on the sale. however, right now, states by and large DONT in these situations.
its a bit of a legal tangle currently, and this is the first step being taken in answering the so-far-unanswered legal questsions involved, and normalizing it to be the same as physical sales. its not a money grab, no asslicking.
you are however woefully ignorant, and apparently prone to knee jerk vitriol.
plus theres the investment vs return factor. why spend a lot of time or money for little added benefit? rather spend that time/money/energy on something else. such as singing along
as for getting funding internally....we could always set it up like china has, where the PLA (the army) owns a majority interest in essentially every single major company or industry in china. every thing you buy made in china....helps them modernize their military. gotta love it! course we have that whole thing against state owned industries...
he didnt say they need more money. just that they need money period. you know, as opposed to being to just say "DO THIS." and you have to do it, without compensation. reading comprehension ftw.
being that we exist in a capitalist, free market (dont quibble with me here; it is the base ideal we use), where people get paid for their time and services, the government MUST work within that framework. even as bad as they are with money, its still better than what we've seen in many other countries through history where they could demand whatever, and not actually have to pay people for it.
so gov really does need money to function. after all, you like your roads paved, your police/firemen paid, your schools funded, dont you?
a database, of every tax code, in every municipality, across the nation? that's not trivial. and these taxes arent static. in some places they change on a monthly basis as city councils tweak funding for schools or what have you. how do you propose keeping this database consistantly up to date? do you realize just how many different taxes you'd actually have to track, from big cities to tine towns?
base it on the vendor's location, money to go to the vendor's locale. simple, easy, no expensive hard to update database needed.
(and would result in competition between towns to attract business, and possibly even result in no sales taxes anywhere, which imo would be an improvement; most places i been property taxes were the major source of funding anyway, the sales tax just being a bonus)
youre supposed to ignore all differences, biological, psychological, physiological, or otherwise, between people. at all times. you know that.
why, if you ask your employee Ted, who goes to the gym everyday and is built like a Mack truck, to lift down a half dozen boxes fromt he top shelf, instead of asking Rita, who's build like a lump of dough and can barely see over the counter....THATS DISCRIMINATION!
if you ask your guy with a PHd instead of the guy with a GED to examine a difficult problem....THATS DISCRIMINATION!
God forbid people actually be evaluated as individuals, and the reality of our differences be acknowledged. All differences MUST be ignored, and everyone treated the same.
Until you ask Rita to get down the boxes and she sues for because she wasnt tall enough to operate the whatever, and they fell on her. then its ok, nay, mandatory, to point out the differences.
i know right? i feel so bad now. here they are helping people....and my project is adding an anti-squirrel/annoying neighbor pellet gun turret to an octocopter.
charge sales tax based on the vendors location rather than the buyers. then its just business like normal for the vendor. downside is it means "your" tax dollars go to other locales instead of your own...but it does mean vastly simpler collection system, no database required (and no location verification needed)
These are state and local taxes, not federal. The biggest reason this has gone so long is by which party do you determine the tax to apply?
IE, the legal question is in what location is the sale considered to have occured when between two parties in two physically seperate locations?
The simplest solution is to have it based on the sellers location, since they are also the one responsible for collecting applicable taxes. then they only have to apply their local applicable taxes , rather than keep tabs on everyones tax codes. but vendors have resisted that too because it means a higher price compared to someone selling out of a locale without sales taxes. normally that sort of competitionsorts itself out because to get to that other locale requires travel or postage. the internet removes those barriers, and creates a distinct business advantage (another reason for relatively lax internet sales tax standards).
so: collect taxes for sales based on vendors location. simple, ease, and just like sales they make in store. probably happen that way as its simple and logical but, as a result of the advtange this gives to certain locales, expect bigger companies to move around or get tax codes changed as a result.
and as you state, the solution to that is a federal collected sales tax. but i just dont think that that will fly or go go very far. or be implemented well, or distributed properly.
there is also a conception that somehow if you're merely genre and not groundbreaking, not totally and utterly unique, you are worthless. (or else write something relly depressing, portaying humanity as a waste of space... that works too)
but to use examples from the game world, there are many RTS's...but there is only one Starcraft. there are many shooters (daikatana, COD, etc), but only one Halflife. its not just about what the story is, but how its presented. or should be.
but somehow people look at the things like scifi, or video games, and dismiss it as simple genre faire, while completely ignoring such works as Dune, or The Gap Cycle (the first book in particular), GRR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice...these are no more simple genre fiction than Les Miserables is, but the wider world compeltely ignores them as if they dont exist.
And let's look at Les Miserables. widely seen as one of hte greatest works of fiction, ever (and i would agree). But what is it really? A giant book that blends several genre stories together. Done extremely well, by a very gifted author, admitted. but if you were to pull out and examine any of hte individual subplots on its own, say changing names and places and publish it by itself, it would be glossed over as simple genre fiction. but that's the whole point. it is the sum of its parts, looked at completely, and not any little piece in isolation.
Before you presume to know me, know that I've read most of those on your list. And most are very overrated, boring, and pointless.
Les Mis though is one of my favorites, and is not merely "a great story" but one of the greatest achievements of western civiliation. anything compared to it, no matter how good, will appear like a pile of dung.
you are an idiot. no really. a class AAA, absolutely clueless, completely uninformed moron, who has exposed his own ignorance about his own nation, about infrastructure, and about the most basic of facts of foreign nations.
the US is the king of subsidies. subsidies to companies that repackage and resell us access to the very resources they theoretically merely hold in trust for us. how nice of you to ignore that.
Lower standard of living? Maybe if you cherry pick the poorest of nations. the US has the lower life expectency of any western nation. the US has a similar or somewhat higher per capita income than many european nations, yet with the money we have less buying power, resulting in being merely on par with or even below the per capita buying power of the majority of European nations, INCLUDING the Sweden and Finland. countries whom you dismiss as socialist, but are in actuality Parlimentary Republics much like own (whcih by the way is not fascist). you should maybe look up the definition of socialist...merely having a socialist party doesnt make ones country a socialist country. in addition most of these countries also have less income disparity (re: extremes, outliers), less poverty, lower unemployment...
But hey, I'm not shooting from the hip, i'm just spouting easily found facts and figures, rather than assuming my preconcieved notion is a fact rather than a hopeful wish.
Diesel engines actually have the broader range of fuels that can be used. Generally, as long as the engine can generate enough pressure to achieve ignition via compression heating, the fuel can be used. Putting gas in isnt actually bad for the engine; it simply lacks the ability to achieve combustion via compression pressures usually found in automotive diesel motors. Gasoline is actually "designed", so to speak, to not combust due to compression, for reasons stated below. so its not harmful, it just simply doesnt run with much power, if at all.
Technically gasoline engines can theoretically use diesel or other fuels if its volatile enough, and the proper air/fuel mixture can be achieved, but the risk is that the fuel is combusted early. ie, not by the spark plug, but the compression cycle itself before the timing cycle can light the sparkplug, which causes engine knock, power loss, and can destroy the engine cylinder eventually. So while the fuel achieves ignition, its not desireable ignition. which is why refined gasoline was developed to have a really really high heat of compression so that it wouldnt combust intil its supposed to.
"Diesel fuel" is actually simpler to produce than gasoline as well, requiring less refinement. Big marine diesels use fuel that is essentially almost basic crude. the major disadvantage is that being less refined the fuel is more prone to gelling in cold temperatures (more viscous components in the molecules).
Jesus himself couldn't get elected today. People would ignore everything, EVERYTHING, else that he did, and focus on just one thing: he hung out with prostitutes and sinners. And didnt try to stone them.
People are so willfully blind and ignorant. They ignore facts that would inconvenience them and their perception of a person, whether its to idolize or villify them.
They only want to see people as all good or all bad. They refuse to instead look at the whole picture, the good and the bad.
after the Darwin Award canidates remove themselves from teh gene pool, we probably won't need additional regulation, because everyone that needed a governement regualtion to protect them from themselves is gone.
Or maybe "I'm a really rich mutha and can do whatever the f I want with my time and money, because I already hired good people to run the company and make my life simple."
High speed internet? You're right. We wont ever get that. By the time we all have 1Gb/s service, the rest of the world will be cruising 100 Gb/s.
Explain to me how its ok that we have the slowest, least advanced, internet industry in the entire western world, AND WE INVENTED THE DAMN THING?!
Small towns of 10k people in Finalnd get 200 Mb/s hookups at 40$ month. For 40$/mo in the Us, you can get, maybe, 20 Mb/s. If you live in a big city, its easier, but thats only about 37% of our population. For the rest, the 25 Mb/S hookup is the top tier, 100+$ a month selection. Living in a small town of 10k people in this country you're lucky to get 12Mb/s for 50% mo, if you arent too far outside the city limits and restricted to dial up only, which is nearly 10% of the nation. (or satellite...but lets not even go there)
Morons? That dont get it? Sir, I believe you just described yourself.
What kind of bloody idiot are you, and what history books have you been reading? His presidency is considered anything but a failure. He may have won by a narrow margin in '68, but he won reelection by a landslide. that doesnt happen to "bad presidents". His presidency oversaw many watershed moments int eh nations history.
-Opening relations with China ("Only a Nixon could have gone to China")...which led directly to.... -The Anit-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the ensuing state of "detente" with Russia (since it was no longer 2 against 1, with China liking us all of a sudden) that lasted until the fall of Communism (regardless of Reagon's rhetoric) -The New Federalism that gave back much power to the states that previously had been the Feds -The first presidential initative to fight/research cancer -Establishing the EPA and staffing it with people with the guts to stand up to his own administration -Enforcing/protecting desegregation before it could be killed by opposition groups and reverted -Prominent supporter of the NEPA, OSHA, and the Clean Air Act -Supported the Equal Rights Ammendment, even though it was killed in Congress -Created the first affirmative action program in the federal govermnment
Stop spreading lies. The supposed October Surprise conspiracy has only ever been disproven. But the quacks still insist on it, just like they still insist Apollo 11 only happened inside a movie studio.
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like the guy down the street living on "assistance"...with a nice shiny Escalade in the driveway.
and to top it off, this isnt even an actual law yet.
if you (SUemas) had RTFA, its merely a nonbinding proposal. not even a resolution, definitely not a law. merely a proposal, to gauge reactions, open debate, and get dialogue started for the purposes of answering those not yet answered questions.
(further illustrating just how ignorant you are)
no, but someone in oregon who crosses into washington does pay sales tax.
likewise if you live in oregon and buy online they COULD have colelcted sales tax on the sale. however, right now, states by and large DONT in these situations.
its a bit of a legal tangle currently, and this is the first step being taken in answering the so-far-unanswered legal questsions involved, and normalizing it to be the same as physical sales. its not a money grab, no asslicking.
you are however woefully ignorant, and apparently prone to knee jerk vitriol.
plus theres the investment vs return factor.
why spend a lot of time or money for little added benefit?
rather spend that time/money/energy on something else.
such as singing along
you're confusing sound level and sound frequency.
they are not the same thing.
as for getting funding internally....we could always set it up like china has, where the PLA (the army) owns a majority interest in essentially every single major company or industry in china. every thing you buy made in china....helps them modernize their military. gotta love it!
course we have that whole thing against state owned industries...
he didnt say they need more money. just that they need money period.
you know, as opposed to being to just say "DO THIS." and you have to do it, without compensation.
reading comprehension ftw.
being that we exist in a capitalist, free market (dont quibble with me here; it is the base ideal we use), where people get paid for their time and services, the government MUST work within that framework. even as bad as they are with money, its still better than what we've seen in many other countries through history where they could demand whatever, and not actually have to pay people for it.
so gov really does need money to function.
after all, you like your roads paved, your police/firemen paid, your schools funded, dont you?
a database, of every tax code, in every municipality, across the nation?
that's not trivial.
and these taxes arent static. in some places they change on a monthly basis as city councils tweak funding for schools or what have you. how do you propose keeping this database consistantly up to date? do you realize just how many different taxes you'd actually have to track, from big cities to tine towns?
base it on the vendor's location, money to go to the vendor's locale.
simple, easy, no expensive hard to update database needed.
(and would result in competition between towns to attract business, and possibly even result in no sales taxes anywhere, which imo would be an improvement; most places i been property taxes were the major source of funding anyway, the sales tax just being a bonus)
but see, that requires actual direct human interaction, person to person like a grownup.
no one does that anymore.
youre supposed to ignore all differences, biological, psychological, physiological, or otherwise, between people. at all times. you know that.
why, if you ask your employee Ted, who goes to the gym everyday and is built like a Mack truck, to lift down a half dozen boxes fromt he top shelf, instead of asking Rita, who's build like a lump of dough and can barely see over the counter....THATS DISCRIMINATION!
if you ask your guy with a PHd instead of the guy with a GED to examine a difficult problem....THATS DISCRIMINATION!
God forbid people actually be evaluated as individuals, and the reality of our differences be acknowledged. All differences MUST be ignored, and everyone treated the same.
Until you ask Rita to get down the boxes and she sues for because she wasnt tall enough to operate the whatever, and they fell on her. then its ok, nay, mandatory, to point out the differences.
i know right? i feel so bad now. here they are helping people.. ..and my project is adding an anti-squirrel/annoying neighbor pellet gun turret to an octocopter.
charge sales tax based on the vendors location rather than the buyers.
then its just business like normal for the vendor.
downside is it means "your" tax dollars go to other locales instead of your own...but it does mean vastly simpler collection system, no database required (and no location verification needed)
These are state and local taxes, not federal. The biggest reason this has gone so long is by which party do you determine the tax to apply?
IE, the legal question is in what location is the sale considered to have occured when between two parties in two physically seperate locations?
The simplest solution is to have it based on the sellers location, since they are also the one responsible for collecting applicable taxes. then they only have to apply their local applicable taxes , rather than keep tabs on everyones tax codes. but vendors have resisted that too because it means a higher price compared to someone selling out of a locale without sales taxes. normally that sort of competitionsorts itself out because to get to that other locale requires travel or postage. the internet removes those barriers, and creates a distinct business advantage (another reason for relatively lax internet sales tax standards).
so: collect taxes for sales based on vendors location. simple, ease, and just like sales they make in store. probably happen that way as its simple and logical
but, as a result of the advtange this gives to certain locales, expect bigger companies to move around or get tax codes changed as a result.
and as you state, the solution to that is a federal collected sales tax. but i just dont think that that will fly or go go very far. or be implemented well, or distributed properly.
there is also a conception that somehow if you're merely genre and not groundbreaking, not totally and utterly unique, you are worthless. (or else write something relly depressing, portaying humanity as a waste of space... that works too)
but to use examples from the game world, there are many RTS's...but there is only one Starcraft. there are many shooters (daikatana, COD, etc), but only one Halflife. its not just about what the story is, but how its presented. or should be.
but somehow people look at the things like scifi, or video games, and dismiss it as simple genre faire, while completely ignoring such works as Dune, or The Gap Cycle (the first book in particular), GRR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice...these are no more simple genre fiction than Les Miserables is, but the wider world compeltely ignores them as if they dont exist.
And let's look at Les Miserables. widely seen as one of hte greatest works of fiction, ever (and i would agree). But what is it really? A giant book that blends several genre stories together. Done extremely well, by a very gifted author, admitted. but if you were to pull out and examine any of hte individual subplots on its own, say changing names and places and publish it by itself, it would be glossed over as simple genre fiction. but that's the whole point. it is the sum of its parts, looked at completely, and not any little piece in isolation.
thank you. this is precisely the point i try to make.
for every xenogears there is a doom.
for every les mis there is a twilight.
for every Grim Fandango there is a Call of Duty #289173
Before you presume to know me, know that I've read most of those on your list. And most are very overrated, boring, and pointless.
Les Mis though is one of my favorites, and is not merely "a great story" but one of the greatest achievements of western civiliation. anything compared to it, no matter how good, will appear like a pile of dung.
so. much. wrong. with. moronic. post.
you are an idiot. no really.
a class AAA, absolutely clueless, completely uninformed moron, who has exposed his own ignorance about his own nation, about infrastructure, and about the most basic of facts of foreign nations.
the US is the king of subsidies. subsidies to companies that repackage and resell us access to the very resources they theoretically merely hold in trust for us. how nice of you to ignore that.
Lower standard of living? Maybe if you cherry pick the poorest of nations. the US has the lower life expectency of any western nation. the US has a similar or somewhat higher per capita income than many european nations, yet with the money we have less buying power, resulting in being merely on par with or even below the per capita buying power of the majority of European nations, INCLUDING the Sweden and Finland. countries whom you dismiss as socialist, but are in actuality Parlimentary Republics much like own (whcih by the way is not fascist). you should maybe look up the definition of socialist...merely having a socialist party doesnt make ones country a socialist country. in addition most of these countries also have less income disparity (re: extremes, outliers), less poverty, lower unemployment...
But hey, I'm not shooting from the hip, i'm just spouting easily found facts and figures, rather than assuming my preconcieved notion is a fact rather than a hopeful wish.
Actually it's the reverse.
Diesel engines actually have the broader range of fuels that can be used. Generally, as long as the engine can generate enough pressure to achieve ignition via compression heating, the fuel can be used. Putting gas in isnt actually bad for the engine; it simply lacks the ability to achieve combustion via compression pressures usually found in automotive diesel motors. Gasoline is actually "designed", so to speak, to not combust due to compression, for reasons stated below. so its not harmful, it just simply doesnt run with much power, if at all.
Technically gasoline engines can theoretically use diesel or other fuels if its volatile enough, and the proper air/fuel mixture can be achieved, but the risk is that the fuel is combusted early. ie, not by the spark plug, but the compression cycle itself before the timing cycle can light the sparkplug, which causes engine knock, power loss, and can destroy the engine cylinder eventually. So while the fuel achieves ignition, its not desireable ignition. which is why refined gasoline was developed to have a really really high heat of compression so that it wouldnt combust intil its supposed to.
"Diesel fuel" is actually simpler to produce than gasoline as well, requiring less refinement. Big marine diesels use fuel that is essentially almost basic crude. the major disadvantage is that being less refined the fuel is more prone to gelling in cold temperatures (more viscous components in the molecules).
Jesus himself couldn't get elected today.
People would ignore everything, EVERYTHING, else that he did, and focus on just one thing: he hung out with prostitutes and sinners. And didnt try to stone them.
People are so willfully blind and ignorant. They ignore facts that would inconvenience them and their perception of a person, whether its to idolize or villify them.
They only want to see people as all good or all bad.
They refuse to instead look at the whole picture, the good and the bad.
after the Darwin Award canidates remove themselves from teh gene pool, we probably won't need additional regulation, because everyone that needed a governement regualtion to protect them from themselves is gone.
its like playing with string, only you can stay sat on the couch, instead of running around the house.
and its funny as hell.
Or maybe "I'm a really rich mutha and can do whatever the f I want with my time and money, because I already hired good people to run the company and make my life simple."
God you're an idiot.
High speed internet? You're right. We wont ever get that. By the time we all have 1Gb/s service, the rest of the world will be cruising 100 Gb/s.
Explain to me how its ok that we have the slowest, least advanced, internet industry in the entire western world, AND WE INVENTED THE DAMN THING?!
Small towns of 10k people in Finalnd get 200 Mb/s hookups at 40$ month. For 40$/mo in the Us, you can get, maybe, 20 Mb/s. If you live in a big city, its easier, but thats only about 37% of our population. For the rest, the 25 Mb/S hookup is the top tier, 100+$ a month selection. Living in a small town of 10k people in this country you're lucky to get 12Mb/s for 50% mo, if you arent too far outside the city limits and restricted to dial up only, which is nearly 10% of the nation. (or satellite...but lets not even go there)
Morons? That dont get it? Sir, I believe you just described yourself.
What kind of bloody idiot are you, and what history books have you been reading?
His presidency is considered anything but a failure.
He may have won by a narrow margin in '68, but he won reelection by a landslide. that doesnt happen to "bad presidents".
His presidency oversaw many watershed moments int eh nations history.
-Opening relations with China ("Only a Nixon could have gone to China")...which led directly to....
-The Anit-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the ensuing state of "detente" with Russia (since it was no longer 2 against 1, with China liking us all of a sudden) that lasted until the fall of Communism (regardless of Reagon's rhetoric)
-The New Federalism that gave back much power to the states that previously had been the Feds
-The first presidential initative to fight/research cancer
-Establishing the EPA and staffing it with people with the guts to stand up to his own administration
-Enforcing/protecting desegregation before it could be killed by opposition groups and reverted
-Prominent supporter of the NEPA, OSHA, and the Clean Air Act
-Supported the Equal Rights Ammendment, even though it was killed in Congress
-Created the first affirmative action program in the federal govermnment
Failure? You need to reexamine your dictionary.
Stop spreading lies. The supposed October Surprise conspiracy has only ever been disproven. But the quacks still insist on it, just like they still insist Apollo 11 only happened inside a movie studio.