Don't you think there a significant difference between buying and reciving goods in person versus buying something on the internet, where there are obvious billing and shipping addresses? This isn't rocket science...
Hey, and what better way to make the internet more accessible to those in lower-income brackets than to make it more expensive to do the things that drive people to the internet, like getting items for less?
What the fuck does a sales tax on purchased goods have to do with internet accessibility? Buying a $300 computer and spending $20/month on internet access isn't going to save you money by triming sales tax on a couple of books or CDs a year. And I hope that people are using library access points for something more educational than amazon.com.
I guess next you'll propose to decrease crime rates by letting convicts out of jail?
... and can you show me exactly how you deduced that?
Re:Why not cut spending/waste/fraud? I shouldn't HAVE to pay sales tax to a state i don't live in if i'm not in it. Thats taxation w/o representation...maybe you've heard of the idea before?
Hmmm, riiiight. The point was news articles quoted are all about the buyer paying the sales tax to the state he lives in. Michigan already has such a "use tax": you are supposed to pay a tax on the goods you use in that state, regardless of what state (or country, as Canada is mere minutes away from the South East corner) (<Eminem>Detroit! What?!?</Eminem>) you live in. New York will often has "tax inspector" coming New Jersey shopping malls looking for New York license plates on cars. Changes are, you owe your home state sales tax no matter where you buy your shit, this is just about collecting it.
It will hurt internet sales even more.
So? "p2p hurts the RIAA", but we tell them to adopt or die. If you don't have a working/profitable business model, get out of your chosen business. We can't all make money being net geeks.
One reason people buy from the net is because its a bit cheaper because there is no sales sax.
As I wrote above, you probably already owe the sales tax, even if it isn't automatically collected. I buy form the internet 'cause I of the selection and convenience: if I want a specific main board or book, I don't have to go to all of the local CompUSA/Frye's/Barnes and Nobel/B. Dalton/etc. to see who may have it in stock. Playing "best price" is a loosing game, markets win on selection and service.
If this is the case, people may stop buying on the internet, and smaller shops may be forced out of business.
See above re: find a profitable business model or get a new job. Also on this point... why should "online" stores have an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores?
This would cause job loss and actually lower the amount of revenue a state takes in. Not only did they lose the sales tax, they lost the other taxes paid by a running business.
You think so? How many people are employed in a MeatSpace mom-and-pop shop vs. an internet mom-and-pop shop? How many small business employ really employ more than the owners?
. . . the state will mismanage its new source of revenue just as bad as it mismanaged its other revenue. Raising taxes when there is waste is not logical.
Welcome to Civics 101: bureaucracies are seldom efficient or logical. And again, government misspending is not the point of the articles quoted in the original post.
This "Internet tax", it's not calculated per-packet, is it?
Don't be a dork. The post should be more correctly be named "Internet Sales Taxation May Be Imminent", and FWIW, why the fuck not?
Don't get me wrong... I know that mostly, tax money is wasted, and government spending (on all levels) should be reduced, but that's not the point of these articles, or the post. If your state has a sales tax in place, you can
pay the tax
vote in people who will repeal the tax laws
move
but just because you buy your stuff over the internet doesn't mean you should be exempt from a tax. Hell, those most likely to buy things over the internet are probably the ones who can most afford paying a tax.
This article is great, and I'm going to show it to my boss as a way of explaining a product that we are being offered by a company called NorVergence, which taps into your PBX and routs calls over there network, instead of the TDM network.
Now, for my question... has anyone ever delt with NorVergence? My web searches have turned up mostly just press releases, I can't find any "customer reviews", positive or negative. If we sign up for their service, what can we expect?
Oh thats right, I had forgotten that little tid bit about twisting the right ear to go faster, and that the clutch is worked with the left ear.
Thank god all the Japanese horse manufacturers have standardized their interfaces; sure, Harelys are still a bit different, but why would anyone interested in actual performance want an air-cooled V-twin horse anyway?
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par for the course... Win2K Service Pack 2 broke a lot of things, most annoying on my end was the ability to stop IIS (How can you/not/ stop a running process? At works, kill -9 has never failed me on a unix machine.) The "can't stop IIS" problem was experienced by several colleagues on many machines, so it wasn't a case of poor administration on my end.
I understand how you feel that you should have skipped the kernel update, but what are your options when the only way to get the whole big ball of security fixes is to install these service packs?
Maybe your best bet is to just read the (intelligent) negative reviews, and see whether the author's arguments make sense. Obviously, comments like "Thi5 b00k sUx()rZ" doesn't do any good, but it's probably better than the glowing "OMG THIS TV REMOTE REVOLUTIONISED MY LIFE!!!"
Sure, install a second network... but what about power faliures? Or if both networks go down?
The company I work for is too small for redundant networks & servers, but I make sure that the there is a manual fall over: fax server doesn't pick up? Fax machines will. db server down? All the forms you need to do your job are available near your desk, and there are tons of extra in on-site storage.
Not only are they stupid comparisons, but unices also have command line completion; long file names by desgin, not kludge; and color to help add some sense to to the plain ol' letters on the screen.
vi is a drag to learn, but once you've got it down, it becomes second nature, and has now become my perfered Windows text editor (see VIM).
Don't get me wrong... I think if people were forced to learn DOS they'd be a bit more cluefull about how Windows & their file system work (and I wouldn't have to keep adding "doskey/insert" to people's autoexec.bat's), but that certainly doesn't mean DOS is an easier to use OS than anything UNIX-like.
I mean someone would have to tear apart their speaker
My PC speakers are held together with a couple of philips heads screws... no real tearing there.
to get to the circuitboards and know what they were going for.
Uhm, I'd just look for the two leads going to the big magnet thingy... not very high-tech at all. Unless you're going to build the decoder into the speaker cone somehow?
Think about it... in all the time we have transitioned from AM to FM to satallite, vinyl records to magnetic tape (in two major formats) to Compact Discs, how much has the technology behind speakers changed? Good luck adding considerably to the price of those low-end speakers and head phones...
In effect, it would extend ones memory. This could only be a good thing.
Yeah, right, and I drink becase of all the good memories beer enhances...
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Had a similar idea myself while I was in college... contemplated a single vehichle that I could use to travel the world, figured my best bet would be a motorcycle/sidecar combo that could turn into a personal watercraft. Glad to see I'm not as insane as all my friends thought I was.
Perhaps this can be employed by your local librarian as well:
"Oh, that's a not a late fee, that's the 'records retrieval' charge... Gee, I'm sorry, that should have been billed to the FBI, let me take that off of your account. Now, do you still want me to fetch that Civil Engineering book on demolition explosives?"
The book is "Database Systems Concepts with Oracle CD", and here's the USian link for us over in the colonies. Seems like an interesting book, but there's only one left, so I'll probably end up getting it on Amazon's re-order.
sure, it's port 5192... and 5190, and it can proxy itself over HTTP, and servers have a gaggle of IP addresses, so without blocking access to every conceivable service on half of the internet, there ain't much you can do.
Of course, you can run NT/2000 and not let anyone install software... or migrate to UNIX desktops, which has the added bonus of users not knowing how to load 12MB images as their wallpaper or install CPU-crunching screen savers on database servers.
Does anyone else think there could be an argument made that calling MS Office "productive software" might be stretching things a bit?
What do you mean? Why, just the other day it took me only three hours to pick just the right font (I went with Comic Sans) for the PowerPoint presentation I may be giving (time permitting) to my peers in middle management during our half day "Effective Use of Bullet Points, Bold, and Underlining" seminar.
I can't wait for next week's "Attaching Word Docs with Large Embedded Images to an Email" class!!!
Second you are judging with your culture, within your law mindest. We have a different culture and law, and I find it perfectly normal, no, DESIRABLE, to supress some information on spreading hate and murder. You find it sick ?
I don't find it sick, in fact, I stayed away from emotionally charged language. I do thing that:
those who fail to learn from the past tend to repeat it
once something is censored because a person/group/government
. ..but here's the standard reply to an American saying something is "wrong" based on their culture or laws.
The world is not American.
No, the world is not American, but what is the UN's position on censorship, especially of historical facts?
The resctrictions on (neo-)Nazi material is especially puzzeling: don't you want to know what the "enemy" is up to, what misinformation they may be spreading? I understand how both France and Germany can be embarassed by their past, but not talking about doesn't make it not happen, and forcing it underground makes it that much harder to keep track of what's going on.
Do you really want to log into a shell using an unencrypted IM chat?
There is no "logging in" to the server; the goal is to have the server only take commands from specific screen names. Authentication and password validation happen through AOL, not his servers. While sessions are generaly sent plain text, login info isn't.
So, what are the real security problems with a setup like this?
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Don't you think there a significant difference between buying and reciving goods in person versus buying something on the internet, where there are obvious billing and shipping addresses? This isn't rocket science...
What the fuck does a sales tax on purchased goods have to do with internet accessibility? Buying a $300 computer and spending $20/month on internet access isn't going to save you money by triming sales tax on a couple of books or CDs a year. And I hope that people are using library access points for something more educational than amazon.com.
... and can you show me exactly how you deduced that?
Hmmm, riiiight. The point was news articles quoted are all about the buyer paying the sales tax to the state he lives in. Michigan already has such a "use tax": you are supposed to pay a tax on the goods you use in that state, regardless of what state (or country, as Canada is mere minutes away from the South East corner) (<Eminem>Detroit! What?!?</Eminem>) you live in. New York will often has "tax inspector" coming New Jersey shopping malls looking for New York license plates on cars. Changes are, you owe your home state sales tax no matter where you buy your shit, this is just about collecting it.
So? "p2p hurts the RIAA", but we tell them to adopt or die. If you don't have a working/profitable business model, get out of your chosen business. We can't all make money being net geeks.
As I wrote above, you probably already owe the sales tax, even if it isn't automatically collected. I buy form the internet 'cause I of the selection and convenience: if I want a specific main board or book, I don't have to go to all of the local CompUSA/Frye's/Barnes and Nobel/B. Dalton/etc. to see who may have it in stock. Playing "best price" is a loosing game, markets win on selection and service.
See above re: find a profitable business model or get a new job. Also on this point... why should "online" stores have an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores?
You think so? How many people are employed in a MeatSpace mom-and-pop shop vs. an internet mom-and-pop shop? How many small business employ really employ more than the owners?
Welcome to Civics 101: bureaucracies are seldom efficient or logical. And again, government misspending is not the point of the articles quoted in the original post.
Ditto.
Don't be a dork. The post should be more correctly be named "Internet Sales Taxation May Be Imminent", and FWIW, why the fuck not?
Don't get me wrong... I know that mostly, tax money is wasted, and government spending (on all levels) should be reduced, but that's not the point of these articles, or the post. If your state has a sales tax in place, you can- pay the tax
- vote in people who will repeal the tax laws
- move
but just because you buy your stuff over the internet doesn't mean you should be exempt from a tax. Hell, those most likely to buy things over the internet are probably the ones who can most afford paying a tax.This article is great, and I'm going to show it to my boss as a way of explaining a product that we are being offered by a company called NorVergence, which taps into your PBX and routs calls over there network, instead of the TDM network.
Now, for my question... has anyone ever delt with NorVergence? My web searches have turned up mostly just press releases, I can't find any "customer reviews", positive or negative. If we sign up for their service, what can we expect?
Oh thats right, I had forgotten that little tid bit about twisting the right ear to go faster, and that the clutch is worked with the left ear.
Thank god all the Japanese horse manufacturers have standardized their interfaces; sure, Harelys are still a bit different, but why would anyone interested in actual performance want an air-cooled V-twin horse anyway?
More like coffee, Rasin Bran, run to the shitter, then shower.
But maybe that's just me...
Or, register one copy of your software several time in Borland's name, and then send your lawyers after them.
The FCC should deffinitly start paying attention to what it's doing.
par for the course... Win2K Service Pack 2 broke a lot of things, most annoying on my end was the ability to stop IIS (How can you /not/ stop a running process? At works, kill -9 has never failed me on a unix machine.) The "can't stop IIS" problem was experienced by several colleagues on many machines, so it wasn't a case of poor administration on my end.
I understand how you feel that you should have skipped the kernel update, but what are your options when the only way to get the whole big ball of security fixes is to install these service packs?
Maybe your best bet is to just read the (intelligent) negative reviews, and see whether the author's arguments make sense. Obviously, comments like "Thi5 b00k sUx()rZ" doesn't do any good, but it's probably better than the glowing "OMG THIS TV REMOTE REVOLUTIONISED MY LIFE!!!"
hmm... seems the best way to mandate HDTV is to start giving away the current TV spectrum.
But I guess this can also open up true "public" TV stations, broadcasting for anyone who has an "old-fashioned" TV set...
Sure, install a second network... but what about power faliures? Or if both networks go down?
The company I work for is too small for redundant networks & servers, but I make sure that the there is a manual fall over: fax server doesn't pick up? Fax machines will. db server down? All the forms you need to do your job are available near your desk, and there are tons of extra in on-site storage.
Not only are they stupid comparisons, but unices also have command line completion; long file names by desgin, not kludge; and color to help add some sense to to the plain ol' letters on the screen.
vi is a drag to learn, but once you've got it down, it becomes second nature, and has now become my perfered Windows text editor (see VIM).
Don't get me wrong... I think if people were forced to learn DOS they'd be a bit more cluefull about how Windows & their file system work (and I wouldn't have to keep adding "doskey /insert" to people's autoexec.bat's), but that certainly doesn't mean DOS is an easier to use OS than anything UNIX-like.
I mean someone would have to tear apart their speaker
My PC speakers are held together with a couple of philips heads screws... no real tearing there.
to get to the circuitboards and know what they were going for.
Uhm, I'd just look for the two leads going to the big magnet thingy... not very high-tech at all. Unless you're going to build the decoder into the speaker cone somehow?
Think about it... in all the time we have transitioned from AM to FM to satallite, vinyl records to magnetic tape (in two major formats) to Compact Discs, how much has the technology behind speakers changed? Good luck adding considerably to the price of those low-end speakers and head phones...
Yeah, right, and I drink becase of all the good memories beer enhances...
Had a similar idea myself while I was in college... contemplated a single vehichle that I could use to travel the world, figured my best bet would be a motorcycle/sidecar combo that could turn into a personal watercraft. Glad to see I'm not as insane as all my friends thought I was.
Actually, you changed two bytes.
Oh, wait, you didn't start that subject...
Perhaps this can be employed by your local librarian as well:
"Oh, that's a not a late fee, that's the 'records retrieval' charge... Gee, I'm sorry, that should have been billed to the FBI, let me take that off of your account. Now, do you still want me to fetch that Civil Engineering book on demolition explosives?"
The book is "Database Systems Concepts with Oracle CD", and here's the USian link for us over in the colonies. Seems like an interesting book, but there's only one left, so I'll probably end up getting it on Amazon's re-order.
sure, it's port 5192... and 5190, and it can proxy itself over HTTP, and servers have a gaggle of IP addresses, so without blocking access to every conceivable service on half of the internet, there ain't much you can do.
Of course, you can run NT/2000 and not let anyone install software... or migrate to UNIX desktops, which has the added bonus of users not knowing how to load 12MB images as their wallpaper or install CPU-crunching screen savers on database servers.
What do you mean? Why, just the other day it took me only three hours to pick just the right font (I went with Comic Sans) for the PowerPoint presentation I may be giving (time permitting) to my peers in middle management during our half day "Effective Use of Bullet Points, Bold, and Underlining" seminar.
I can't wait for next week's "Attaching Word Docs with Large Embedded Images to an Email" class!!!
I don't find it sick, in fact, I stayed away from emotionally charged language. I do thing that:
No, the world is not American, but what is the UN's position on censorship, especially of historical facts?
The resctrictions on (neo-)Nazi material is especially puzzeling: don't you want to know what the "enemy" is up to, what misinformation they may be spreading? I understand how both France and Germany can be embarassed by their past, but not talking about doesn't make it not happen, and forcing it underground makes it that much harder to keep track of what's going on.
There is no "logging in" to the server; the goal is to have the server only take commands from specific screen names. Authentication and password validation happen through AOL, not his servers. While sessions are generaly sent plain text, login info isn't.
So, what are the real security problems with a setup like this?