This information may have originally been tweeted. In many places today's journalistic standard seems to be, say what the tweet said. Then say the same text from the actual tweet, maybe as a way to prove the first statement.
I don't know, I am not a journalist and my writing sucks;) Who knows maybe the journalist? is getting paid per word and this gets the word count up.
Has anyone ever talked to anyone @ Google? I in all the years since I first heard "Google". I have never been able to chat with a live person on anything ever.
To be fair, I have chatted with the Azure/365 folks (took time, many calls (2 months), but did get "their" Information Protection/Crypto issues worked out, once they stopped pointing the finger at me), Amazon (not so much, selling mostly, interface & whole experience sucks), AWS, never pulled the trigger, but did get through (pricing is mind numbing and complex), other smaller data centers, GoDaddy (Good/Bad), (their interface just keeps getting worst), others, etc pretty good.
do I have to create an account? do I want to create an account? Generally no!
I really hate the youtube issue with prove your age. right I am required to give them info because they are restricting content based on age. like I cant watch a game of thrones clip. easy to get around but still annoying.
is not relevant, they pass hundreds of bills. Most all die in the US Senate. In the US Senate it takes 60 votes to decide to talk about a bill from the house. Most all bills from the house are never brought to the floor. The 100 senators agree on almost nothing. Heck I can not even recall the last time America even had a budget. Gotta love it, no budget the government just goes and spends what ever they want. Bad karma for the young, the gravy train will come to an end some time.
was taught FORTRAN at a tiny rural high school in 73-74 because we had a fresh out of collage physics teacher who got an 029 punch card machine from his school U of Wis, River Falls and taught 5 of us after school. As I recall we each had blue and red paperback books. Was crazy we would sit for hours writing out code on these pads of coding sheets. the sit for hours at the punch card machine, one line of code per card. The send them off to UW River Falls. in a week to 10 days we would get back our card deck, with a computer printout wrapped around them held by a rubber band;) we would open them up read the printout and AGH! syntax error;). lol or it ran;)
"that Zilog Z-80 paperback book (6"x8"? Weird size.)" I think i have the book your taking about very well worn down at my office;)
CDOS, CP/M, MP/M, Cromemco, Turbo Dos! cbasic, S100 equipment, 8" floppy drives, 16" shuggart? hard disk drives, S100 master processor, Slaves, 64k Static ram Memory card for the master processor, I/O and SMD hardrive controller cards. the I/O cards were a hoot, you got sample I/O drivers and had to write your own from those;). My S100 home computer sat in the living room of my bungalow I was renting at the time. 4 desks/terminals and 2 computer racks i bought at corp recovery.
I was working at Control Data Corp. as an electronics tech in one of their semiconductor fabs. I have booted an older CDC main frame we used to run one of our production test lines.from paper tape, to read the card decks, to create a bootable mag tape, on a phone booth(funny today few understand that reference) sized mag tape drive (had 4 on this system) and a drum printer barely smaller than a VW;) Crazy fun old days;)
Now have 30+ years working as a self employed contract programmer. Just taught myself Apples Swift language and rolled out my first in-house iPad app for a client. Just 50 devices scattered throughout the US, managed with an MDM service. Tech is still a hoot;)
but the fact that the vendors put a secret OS with an api within the cpu below the bois/command set? Who thought that was a good idea. And who did not see the problems and issues.
I know, I know nothing, I wrote z80 assembly as an intro. I am missing the entire point of what the wise individuals are doing..
maybe, but I think I will stay with a republic. The law and justice are sometimes misapplied or unequally applied. But they and our constitution are our only protections. Currently, we do have a very politicized/tiered justice system, especially in bureaucratic leadership at the federal level. Many ethnic, ideological, etc groups are being mistreated in various ways. Which is very problematic, since both political parties are in it up to their necks.
But the majority/mob rule of direct democracy is more dangerous and problematic for all minorities. Whether they be of any type, ideological, ethnic, gender, religious, etc.
I grew up on a farm 10 miles from a town with 800 pop. Insemination, Castration there is a stainless steel hooked knife for that;) sewers no, dark places no but barn gutters with a shovel;)
In the case of online sales it is the shipping address. In the past, yes the company collects sales tax on sales shipped to addresses in the state they are in (you know the tax laws for where you are located), all catalog and online sales that are shipped to other states are not charged the sales tax of the buyers location (a mess to figure out and settle up for). That is what is changing. Because few individuals actually self report and pay the sales tax due to their state/taxing district on out of state purchases. The taxing entities are taking the short cut of dropping the collection/payment processing requirement and cost on the seller. Interesting that even the rich avoid sales tax due. John Kerry the senator and presidential candidate had his new yacht delivered outside of Massachusetts so he could avoid their state sales tax. John Kerry Saves $500,000
Ah I did not answer your question;) "Where is that written?"
I work with small retailers, It is in the State where the retailer resides Sales and Use Tax government regulations. ATM most small retailers setup for charging/paying sales tax in their state. Sales to elsewhere are generally not taxed. Since the rules say the buyer is usually required to self report to their state/local governments. OK,, hardly anyone does;)
This is not about customers. The entire problem is being dropped on online retailers. I am in business, so I have a state sales tax account. I don't sell much in the way of actual products, I am a contract programmer. So I settle up once a year with my state. But I am very careful on the business and personal side to pay my sales tax due. Here they are doing fewer income tax audits and more business sales tax audits. Why, the penalties for a small sales tax mistake by a business are big and a better return for the state. Any small business who has a tax entity come knocking needs to be very careful. The tax entity has the force of government behind them.
A centralized system/rules is what would make sense. But as far as I know those efforts failed. No one wanted to give up their special issues. In order to simplify things. So the taxing entities and buyers(who are required to self report in most places but never do) are just dropping the whole issue on the online seller. Heck I bet few ebay sellers are dealing with sales tax either. You know ebay could be in for problems.
Amazon is loving this. They want as many of the independent online retailers to shut their independent stores and move to an Amazon store. Amazon skims the top 8-15% of the invoice total as it's share for having a store on Amazon. This comes right out of the sellers profit margin. Now if selling on Amazon gets the volume up for the 3rd party seller this can work out. Amazon also plays other games and has other charges. Their product management interface sucks. But it is, what it is. They are calling all the shots ATM.
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And to who? lol Just goes to show don't take any pictures you would not want your Mom to see.
This information may have originally been tweeted. In many places today's journalistic standard seems to be, say what the tweet said. Then say the same text from the actual tweet, maybe as a way to prove the first statement.
;) Who knows maybe the journalist? is getting paid per word and this gets the word count up.
;)
I don't know, I am not a journalist and my writing sucks
Just my 2 cents
Has anyone ever talked to anyone @ Google? I in all the years since I first heard "Google". I have never been able to chat with a live person on anything ever.
;)
To be fair, I have chatted with the
Azure/365 folks (took time, many calls (2 months), but did get "their" Information Protection/Crypto issues worked out, once they stopped pointing the finger at me),
Amazon (not so much, selling mostly, interface & whole experience sucks), AWS, never pulled the trigger, but did get through (pricing is mind numbing and complex),
other smaller data centers, GoDaddy (Good/Bad), (their interface just keeps getting worst), others, etc pretty good.
Just my 2 cents
RIP
3.5" floppy funny then "when a different hipster" in the same post?
by who? any time I see a client with a windows 10 workstation. I shake my head and say "to bad you should have stayed with windows 7 pro"
;)
Just my 2 cents
do I have to create an account? do I want to create an account? Generally no!
:)
I really hate the youtube issue with prove your age. right I am required to give them info because they are restricting content based on age. like I cant watch a game of thrones clip. easy to get around but still annoying.
Just my 2 cents
is not relevant, they pass hundreds of bills. Most all die in the US Senate. In the US Senate it takes 60 votes to decide to talk about a bill from the house. Most all bills from the house are never brought to the floor. The 100 senators agree on almost nothing. Heck I can not even recall the last time America even had a budget.
;)
Gotta love it, no budget the government just goes and spends what ever they want. Bad karma for the young, the gravy train will come to an end some time.
Just my 2 cents
TV, Radio ads triggering, these Alexa, whatever devices? Companies throwing out ads to buy a pretend product just to get peoples money!
;)
Just my 2 cents
a kindred spirit ;)
;) we would open them up read the printout and AGH! syntax error ;). lol or it ran ;)
;)
;). My S100 home computer sat in the living room of my bungalow I was renting at the time. 4 desks/terminals and 2 computer racks i bought at corp recovery.
;) Crazy fun old days ;)
;)
was taught FORTRAN at a tiny rural high school in 73-74 because we had a fresh out of collage physics teacher who got an 029 punch card machine from his school U of Wis, River Falls and taught 5 of us after school. As I recall we each had blue and red paperback books.
Was crazy we would sit for hours writing out code on these pads of coding sheets. the sit for hours at the punch card machine, one line of code per card. The send them off to UW River Falls. in a week to 10 days we would get back our card deck, with a computer printout wrapped around them held by a rubber band
"that Zilog Z-80 paperback book (6"x8"? Weird size.)" I think i have the book your taking about very well worn down at my office
CDOS, CP/M, MP/M, Cromemco, Turbo Dos! cbasic, S100 equipment, 8" floppy drives, 16" shuggart? hard disk drives, S100 master processor, Slaves, 64k Static ram Memory card for the master processor, I/O and SMD hardrive controller cards. the I/O cards were a hoot, you got sample I/O drivers and had to write your own from those
I was working at Control Data Corp. as an electronics tech in one of their semiconductor fabs.
I have booted an older CDC main frame we used to run one of our production test lines.from paper tape, to read the card decks, to create a bootable mag tape, on a phone booth(funny today few understand that reference) sized mag tape drive (had 4 on this system) and a drum printer barely smaller than a VW
Now have 30+ years working as a self employed contract programmer. Just taught myself Apples Swift language and rolled out my first in-house iPad app for a client. Just 50 devices scattered throughout the US, managed with an MDM service.
Tech is still a hoot
but the fact that the vendors put a secret OS with an api within the cpu below the bois/command set? Who thought that was a good idea. And who did not see the problems and issues.
;)
I know, I know nothing, I wrote z80 assembly as an intro. I am missing the entire point of what the wise individuals are doing..
Just my 2 cents
to funny good one ;)
maybe, but I think I will stay with a republic. The law and justice are sometimes misapplied or unequally applied. But they and our constitution are our only protections. Currently, we do have a very politicized/tiered justice system, especially in bureaucratic leadership at the federal level. Many ethnic, ideological, etc groups are being mistreated in various ways. Which is very problematic, since both political parties are in it up to their necks.
;)
But the majority/mob rule of direct democracy is more dangerous and problematic for all minorities. Whether they be of any type, ideological, ethnic, gender, religious, etc.
Just my 2 cents
made it will be and those in power will use it to expand and protect their power
Yes I was
I grew up on a farm 10 miles from a town with 800 pop. Insemination, Castration there is a stainless steel hooked knife for that ;) sewers no, dark places no but barn gutters with a shovel ;)
My first job was dish boy, 1.93 per hour.
lol have already been there, done that. I kid my clients now and tell them I get double if I sweat ;)
fewer snowflakes
I have no issues doing any job (well most! there are some I would turn down).
In the case of online sales it is the shipping address.
In the past, yes the company collects sales tax on sales shipped to addresses in the state they are in (you know the tax laws for where you are located), all catalog and online sales that are shipped to other states are not charged the sales tax of the buyers location (a mess to figure out and settle up for).
That is what is changing. Because few individuals actually self report and pay the sales tax due to their state/taxing district on out of state purchases. The taxing entities are taking the short cut of dropping the collection/payment processing requirement and cost on the seller.
Interesting that even the rich avoid sales tax due. John Kerry the senator and presidential candidate had his new yacht delivered outside of Massachusetts so he could avoid their state sales tax. John Kerry Saves $500,000
Ah I did not answer your question ;) "Where is that written?" ;)
I work with small retailers, It is in the State where the retailer resides Sales and Use Tax government regulations.
ATM most small retailers setup for charging/paying sales tax in their state. Sales to elsewhere are generally not taxed. Since the rules say the buyer is usually required to self report to their state/local governments. OK,, hardly anyone does
This is not about customers. The entire problem is being dropped on online retailers. I am in business, so I have a state sales tax account. I don't sell much in the way of actual products, I am a contract programmer. So I settle up once a year with my state. But I am very careful on the business and personal side to pay my sales tax due.
Here they are doing fewer income tax audits and more business sales tax audits. Why, the penalties for a small sales tax mistake by a business are big and a better return for the state.
Any small business who has a tax entity come knocking needs to be very careful. The tax entity has the force of government behind them.
A centralized system/rules is what would make sense. But as far as I know those efforts failed. No one wanted to give up their special issues. In order to simplify things. So the taxing entities and buyers(who are required to self report in most places but never do) are just dropping the whole issue on the online seller. Heck I bet few ebay sellers are dealing with sales tax either. You know ebay could be in for problems.
Amazon is loving this. They want as many of the independent online retailers to shut their independent stores and move to an Amazon store. Amazon skims the top 8-15% of the invoice total as it's share for having a store on Amazon. This comes right out of the sellers profit margin. Now if selling on Amazon gets the volume up for the 3rd party seller this can work out.
Amazon also plays other games and has other charges. Their product management interface sucks. But it is, what it is. They are calling all the shots ATM.