Last time I checked you need electricity to run AC units. Yes I know 10% is the low end of the spectrum but for the whole continent 60% of the population is without Electricity.
Only 42% have access to running water. This reminds me of the old joke about the scientist and the frog. Scientist cuts 1 leg off and tells frog to jump, frog jumps. Cuts another leg off and tells frog to jump, frog jumps. Cuts the 3rd leg off tells frog to jump, frog jumps. Cuts 4th leg off and tells frog to jump, nothing happens. He again tells frog to jump, nothing happens. The scientist writes in his notes "cut 4 legs off frog and frog becomes deaf.
I am sure you have a ton of experience filling out the forms and know exactly how much an accounting system costs. If you had read you would have seen that I have software that keeps track of how much I have to pay. NYS won't just accept the software though. You have to fill out the forms either online or on paper and submit the forms. And as others have said, Washington state taxpayers are supposed to pay their own taxes and submit it, why should I do the work of Washington state to police their citizens.
States do not have the right to tax interstate commerce. That is right out of the constitution just like the feds can't tax intrastate commerce. The exception is as others have stated is the Nexus rule. I should not have to collect/pay taxes for a jurisdiction that is thousands of miles away from my only location. As for Ebay. technically they don't sell anything, they provide a platform for others to sell. Their interest is in having to create code that would collect tax for the 1151 different tax jurisdictions that make up this nation. If the Washington law passes and holds up in court (which it won't) it would be a nightmare for Ebay to set this up for their sellers. They already allow their sellers to collect sales tax for where they are located.
It creates a ridiculous amount of paperwork for a business. I am located in NYS I collect sales tax based on the tax jurisdiction where I am located. It takes me about 10 min a quarter to do the paperwork. There are about 50 different sales tax rated in NY. Imagine if I had to collect different rates based on where the buyer resides, fill out 50 collection forms a quarter and write 50 checks to them. While there is software to collect tax so you just have to punch in the numbers on the form it still takes about 10 min. Now multiply that by 1151 tax jurisdictions nationwide. It would take a business 11510 min/ 192 hours / 8 days / 24 8 hour shifts just to fill out all the paperwork for collection of sales tax. That's 5 weeks of work for 1 person and would go beyond the last day to submit the forms in most places (they give you about 1 month).
No business will stand for this, there will be massive lawsuits which will waste millions of taxpayer funds to shoot down a law that is known to be unconstitutional. If it was legal it would have been done years ago. Ebay's interest again is in not having to spend the money for a lawsuit for this.
Thank you to the/. community for their input. Based on the replies my first instinct was correct. Forget about it! I work as a FF/Medic and I know there are apps being developed for that area but I have no ability to create apps for it beyond an idea. I was hoping you could put notes on it as a heads up display that may help in patient care or in rescue.
From the list of apps that some provided me I find the apps all useless.
I appreciated all the input and hope others find it useful as well.
She doesn't even own a computer. My (computer ignorant) wife was there and spoke to them. When they asked her to turn on the computer she said, "well if you can tell there is malware on the computer you would know whether it was on or off and already be able to access it. Do you think I am stupid?"
I should rephrase it as typical federal government thinking. Just FYI I am a FF/Medic we have written procedures for almost everything. There is some leeway but if you deviate from the SOP's and something goes wrong it's your butt on the firing line.
If it is not in the written procedure STOP IT NOW!!!! Seriously. They have a procedure they have to go through and follow to the letter. There is no room for innovation or individual thinking when it comes to Federal agencies. You deviate from written procedure you get written up or lose your job. I have run into it enough times in action to know this was probably the case.
If mining gold in MMORPG's becomes taxable then would you be able to pay in the currency of the game? Will you be able to pay in bitcoins for bitcoin mining? Is there anything that the US Government won't try to tax?
Actually they don't study anything that can be transmitted by rat, They study diseases that effect agriculture (cows, horses, pigs etc...) with the exception of avian diseases.
If there were a lack of containment there is little on Long Island that would be infected as there are few if any cattle ranches there. The deer population would take a hit as would horses, but there are no ranches so to speak of. Kansas on the other hand has plenty of such and an outbreak could devastate the economy. Again this is the reason for it being on an island in the first place. If a deer gets on plum island it is killed to prevent any possibility of the spread of disease. How are you going to control that in an land locked area?
I know people that work on plum island. They say that the place will be open till at least 2021. The decision to move it was purely political. At the time the local governments did not want a level 4 facility on the island, Once it was announced that the research would be moved to Kansas they recanted. There has also been much discussion about the wisdom of moving it to the middle of tornado alley and cattle country. Terrorism has had little effect on the decision, an island makes it very easy to control who comes and goes as compared to a facility reachable by foot. It would not surprise me to see them upgrade Plum island and cancel the project in Kansas, on the other hand it is up to the usual political backroom deals.
Maybe it's just a coincidence but I checked my twitter account and couldn't log in, had to reset my password. Damn now I need to find a password other than 12345, BTW could you pass the Peri-Air?
The point isn't whether the flu vaccine is necessary or not. The point is you are mandated to get it if you work in a NYS article 28 facility (section 205 of the NYS public health law specifically) you are forced to get this shot if you want to keep your job. This includes care agencies, Hospitals, Nursing homes etc...
Is the vaccine safe, who knows? They just started clinical trials. This is the problem Health care workers are being forced into the clinical trial. I know for a fact that it is not FDA approved yet, and because it is a vaccine for a "pandemic" disease it is allowed to bend the rules of acceptable ingredients. The mercury content of the vaccine is higher than normally allowed. available here While a healthy male may have no problem with this, how about a pregnant female? Some of the ingredients are known to worsen thyroid conditions . The problem is no one really knows what will happen.
Also why mandate the swine flu shot but not the regular flu shot. 12% of people die from the flu every year (CDC reports) yet as of June of 2009 the swine flu has about a 6% mortality rate (Again CDC reports).
This disease is less deadly than most other strains of the flu yet there is panic over it. The big deal is while the normal flu may put you out of commission for 3 days the swine flu can knock you out for 6 days to 2 weeks.
The CDC is not mandating health care workers get the shot, only NYS is. Plus you have to sign multiple wavers that you won't sue anyone should you end up sick from it. Basically you are given the choice of playing Russian roulette or lose your job. You have a 1 in 6 chance of getting the bullet but if you get the bullet your chances don't matter you are stuck with the reality. A lot of the people educating people on the Vaccine when asked if they will get it, turn around and say no. How can they truthfully educate people on how safe this vaccine is if they refuse to get it?
I know in Manhattan on Oct 13 an injunction is being filed by PATRICIA FINN on behalf of all health care workers, and it may go class action suit if the injunction is approved.
Fyi I just gave a lecture on swine flu and have a ton more info if any one wants it, most of it is available off CDC websites though.
I work across the street from his old lab (on Tesla st no less) The place is in serious disrepair, but it would be nice to see it preserved. His transmission towers are in wreckage all over the DEC property on the south side of 25a in rocky point.
Last I heard 1 week ago the museum was a go, guess things change.
I had a few friends that worked for Babages back in the early 90's They did the same all the time. Again the management wanted them to take them home and play them so they could advise customers on it.
They had all the equipment in the back to reseal the games and CD's so no one would know.
Same thing hapened to me. My hosting company stopped paying the bills. The planet was where he had his servers and they refused to allow anyone access without the old host's permission.
End result I found a new hosting company and have been doing well with them.
It just pisses me off all the user submitted content I hadn't backed up yet.
To all the people saying domains don't get black listed. Sorry you are wrong.
I posted this exact question to slashdot about 4 years ago, back then you were just pretty much screwed. I was actually recieving threating return mail for sending spam, which is why I posted here.
My domain did end up on a bunch of black lists and is still on a few to this day.
I will say that the better ISP's use a mailserver based black list and not a domain based one, but there are still some out there.
I hate IE, but if it renders Netscape useless as well it is a problem.
I did break away from netscape though (never went the IE route always used netscape) and went to firefox and thunderbird. I gotta say I like them better than netscape.
It's a shame many places will not have compatabel offerings for netscape and firefox though (UPS.com lable printing will not work with mozilla:(
Their are issues that have issues for the CU. Every profession is broken is some way or form. Some items that were once coveted are now useless. Creatures became generic with different healths and skins. It was just a severe dumbing down of a system.
Esentially the players are unhappy that they now cannot use items they were once able to and all Customer service can do is shrug. Promises made to professions like Doctor were broken. Specifically since crafting was removed from DOC and moved to BE, the pre-reques for BE would be lowered so current Master DOCs could easily gain the medicine crafting of BE. They never changed that.
Master scout requires 35K of xp. The cap at 4444 scout is 25k, in other words no one can master. These are just a few examples of glareing problems with it. Each professional forum has lists and lists of game/profession breaking bugs.
They really screwed up this time. Not only was it rushed but also implemented 1 week before promised. No one wants to go back to the days of release when hot patches were placed every day.
I am really hopeing for the x-wing series myself, or the comics like Empire and Republic that have little stories about lesser known (or just created) characters.
Slashdot Mirror
Last time I checked you need electricity to run AC units. Yes I know 10% is the low end of the spectrum but for the whole continent 60% of the population is without Electricity.
Only 42% have access to running water.
This reminds me of the old joke about the scientist and the frog. Scientist cuts 1 leg off and tells frog to jump, frog jumps. Cuts another leg off and tells frog to jump, frog jumps. Cuts the 3rd leg off tells frog to jump, frog jumps. Cuts 4th leg off and tells frog to jump, nothing happens. He again tells frog to jump, nothing happens. The scientist writes in his notes "cut 4 legs off frog and frog becomes deaf.
I am sure you have a ton of experience filling out the forms and know exactly how much an accounting system costs. If you had read you would have seen that I have software that keeps track of how much I have to pay. NYS won't just accept the software though. You have to fill out the forms either online or on paper and submit the forms.
And as others have said, Washington state taxpayers are supposed to pay their own taxes and submit it, why should I do the work of Washington state to police their citizens.
States do not have the right to tax interstate commerce. That is right out of the constitution just like the feds can't tax intrastate commerce. The exception is as others have stated is the Nexus rule. I should not have to collect/pay taxes for a jurisdiction that is thousands of miles away from my only location. As for Ebay. technically they don't sell anything, they provide a platform for others to sell. Their interest is in having to create code that would collect tax for the 1151 different tax jurisdictions that make up this nation. If the Washington law passes and holds up in court (which it won't) it would be a nightmare for Ebay to set this up for their sellers. They already allow their sellers to collect sales tax for where they are located.
It creates a ridiculous amount of paperwork for a business.
I am located in NYS I collect sales tax based on the tax jurisdiction where I am located. It takes me about 10 min a quarter to do the paperwork. There are about 50 different sales tax rated in NY. Imagine if I had to collect different rates based on where the buyer resides, fill out 50 collection forms a quarter and write 50 checks to them. While there is software to collect tax so you just have to punch in the numbers on the form it still takes about 10 min. Now multiply that by 1151 tax jurisdictions nationwide. It would take a business 11510 min/ 192 hours / 8 days / 24 8 hour shifts just to fill out all the paperwork for collection of sales tax. That's 5 weeks of work for 1 person and would go beyond the last day to submit the forms in most places (they give you about 1 month).
No business will stand for this, there will be massive lawsuits which will waste millions of taxpayer funds to shoot down a law that is known to be unconstitutional. If it was legal it would have been done years ago. Ebay's interest again is in not having to spend the money for a lawsuit for this.
Came to say this, Already done, but felt the need to say something.
So yeah old news
Thank you to the /. community for their input. Based on the replies my first instinct was correct. Forget about it!
I work as a FF/Medic and I know there are apps being developed for that area but I have no ability to create apps for it beyond an idea. I was hoping you could put notes on it as a heads up display that may help in patient care or in rescue.
From the list of apps that some provided me I find the apps all useless.
I appreciated all the input and hope others find it useful as well.
Thank you
No, I really have no use for the camera part. I perfer s SLR. My question is more what apps are out there?
She doesn't even own a computer. My (computer ignorant) wife was there and spoke to them. When they asked her to turn on the computer she said, "well if you can tell there is malware on the computer you would know whether it was on or off and already be able to access it. Do you think I am stupid?"
I have never been so proud of her.
I should rephrase it as typical federal government thinking.
Just FYI I am a FF/Medic we have written procedures for almost everything. There is some leeway but if you deviate from the SOP's and something goes wrong it's your butt on the firing line.
If it is not in the written procedure STOP IT NOW!!!!
Seriously. They have a procedure they have to go through and follow to the letter. There is no room for innovation or individual thinking when it comes to Federal agencies. You deviate from written procedure you get written up or lose your job.
I have run into it enough times in action to know this was probably the case.
If mining gold in MMORPG's becomes taxable then would you be able to pay in the currency of the game? Will you be able to pay in bitcoins for bitcoin mining?
Is there anything that the US Government won't try to tax?
Actually they don't study anything that can be transmitted by rat, They study diseases that effect agriculture (cows, horses, pigs etc...) with the exception of avian diseases.
If there were a lack of containment there is little on Long Island that would be infected as there are few if any cattle ranches there. The deer population would take a hit as would horses, but there are no ranches so to speak of. Kansas on the other hand has plenty of such and an outbreak could devastate the economy. Again this is the reason for it being on an island in the first place. If a deer gets on plum island it is killed to prevent any possibility of the spread of disease. How are you going to control that in an land locked area?
Technically they were both downgraded to tropical storms before they hit Long Island. Long Island hasn't had an actual Hurricane since Gloria in 1985.
Actually nothing, The place has survived much worse hurricanes (1978 and 1984) during my lifetime.
I know people that work on plum island. They say that the place will be open till at least 2021. The decision to move it was purely political. At the time the local governments did not want a level 4 facility on the island, Once it was announced that the research would be moved to Kansas they recanted. There has also been much discussion about the wisdom of moving it to the middle of tornado alley and cattle country. Terrorism has had little effect on the decision, an island makes it very easy to control who comes and goes as compared to a facility reachable by foot. It would not surprise me to see them upgrade Plum island and cancel the project in Kansas, on the other hand it is up to the usual political backroom deals.
Maybe it's just a coincidence but I checked my twitter account and couldn't log in, had to reset my password. Damn now I need to find a password other than 12345, BTW could you pass the Peri-Air?
Agree with Daniel
Call the fire marshal, and the town, I am sure there are codes regarding instillation of something like that.
The point isn't whether the flu vaccine is necessary or not. The point is you are mandated to get it if you work in a NYS article 28 facility (section 205 of the NYS public health law specifically) you are forced to get this shot if you want to keep your job. This includes care agencies, Hospitals, Nursing homes etc...
Is the vaccine safe, who knows? They just started clinical trials. This is the problem Health care workers are being forced into the clinical trial. I know for a fact that it is not FDA approved yet, and because it is a vaccine for a "pandemic" disease it is allowed to bend the rules of acceptable ingredients. The mercury content of the vaccine is higher than normally allowed. available here While a healthy male may have no problem with this, how about a pregnant female? Some of the ingredients are known to worsen thyroid conditions . The problem is no one really knows what will happen.
Also why mandate the swine flu shot but not the regular flu shot. 12% of people die from the flu every year (CDC reports) yet as of June of 2009 the swine flu has about a 6% mortality rate (Again CDC reports).
This disease is less deadly than most other strains of the flu yet there is panic over it. The big deal is while the normal flu may put you out of commission for 3 days the swine flu can knock you out for 6 days to 2 weeks.
The CDC is not mandating health care workers get the shot, only NYS is. Plus you have to sign multiple wavers that you won't sue anyone should you end up sick from it. Basically you are given the choice of playing Russian roulette or lose your job. You have a 1 in 6 chance of getting the bullet but if you get the bullet your chances don't matter you are stuck with the reality. A lot of the people educating people on the Vaccine when asked if they will get it, turn around and say no. How can they truthfully educate people on how safe this vaccine is if they refuse to get it?
I know in Manhattan on Oct 13 an injunction is being filed by PATRICIA FINN on behalf of all health care workers, and it may go class action suit if the injunction is approved.
Fyi I just gave a lecture on swine flu and have a ton more info if any one wants it, most of it is available off CDC websites though.
Paramedic.
If they take the place down I will be very disappointed. It's nice to be able to look at history almost every day.
I work across the street from his old lab (on Tesla st no less) The place is in serious disrepair, but it would be nice to see it preserved. His transmission towers are in wreckage all over the DEC property on the south side of 25a in rocky point.
Last I heard 1 week ago the museum was a go, guess things change.
I had a few friends that worked for Babages back in the early 90's They did the same all the time. Again the management wanted them to take them home and play them so they could advise customers on it.
They had all the equipment in the back to reseal the games and CD's so no one would know.
Same thing hapened to me. My hosting company stopped paying the bills. The planet was where he had his servers and they refused to allow anyone access without the old host's permission.
End result I found a new hosting company and have been doing well with them.
It just pisses me off all the user submitted content I hadn't backed up yet.
To all the people saying domains don't get black listed. Sorry you are wrong.
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I posted this exact question to slashdot about 4 years ago, back then you were just pretty much screwed.
I was actually recieving threating return mail for sending spam, which is why I posted here.
My domain did end up on a bunch of black lists and is still on a few to this day.
I will say that the better ISP's use a mailserver based black list and not a domain based one, but there are still some out there.
Now what you can do.
Go to the FTC ID theft complaint form
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/widtpubl$.startup?Z_OR
Yes spoofing your e-mail is a form of ID theft.
The company advertised is just as legally responsible as the spammer.
If you keep fileing complaints the spammers learn not to use your e-mail. The ones in the US and Canada you can actually sue to recover damages.
Good luck
That is just 1 reason for me to get it :)
:(
I hate IE, but if it renders Netscape useless as well it is a problem.
I did break away from netscape though (never went the IE route always used netscape) and went to firefox and thunderbird. I gotta say I like them better than netscape.
It's a shame many places will not have compatabel offerings for netscape and firefox though (UPS.com lable printing will not work with mozilla
Their are issues that have issues for the CU. Every profession is broken is some way or form. Some items that were once coveted are now useless. Creatures became generic with different healths and skins. It was just a severe dumbing down of a system.
Esentially the players are unhappy that they now cannot use items they were once able to and all Customer service can do is shrug. Promises made to professions like Doctor were broken. Specifically since crafting was removed from DOC and moved to BE, the pre-reques for BE would be lowered so current Master DOCs could easily gain the medicine crafting of BE. They never changed that.
Master scout requires 35K of xp. The cap at 4444 scout is 25k, in other words no one can master. These are just a few examples of glareing problems with it. Each professional forum has lists and lists of game/profession breaking bugs.
They really screwed up this time. Not only was it rushed but also implemented 1 week before promised. No one wants to go back to the days of release when hot patches were placed every day.
I am really hopeing for the x-wing series myself, or the comics like Empire and Republic that have little stories about lesser known (or just created) characters.
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Oh and YES!!! I finally achieved a posting to