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  1. Re:Can I please have a robot ... on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if it's a robot hand like Wolowitz had.

  2. That was ten years ago.

    It's just up the road here and we've never been back.

  3. Re:How can people not know... on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    This ain't no shit:

    At a corporate review, the guy said, "Look ... the users love you, but you don't really conform to corporate standards."

    I asked, "Are you even listening to yourself?"

  4. My wife and I went to Hooters.

    The burgers were drier than my humour and the girls were younger than my nieces.

  5. Re:Moscow Donald - History's pee smellingist trait on That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I report bad service to the manager on duty.

    I report excellent service to the manager on duty.

    I'm trying to dump the first and keep the second.

    Service person; not the manager on duty.

  6. There's a reason you failed to cite.

  7. Ok, I'm signing up ... on Facebook Messenger Kids App Is Expanding (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ... under an assumed name and encouraging all my Friends to do the same.

  8. And yours is in your head.

    The other one.

  9. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I can see where I miscommunicated that "e-store" was a brand name.

    Had it been, I would have presented it as, "e-store."

    It's understandable that you would not know that.

    Still, in the literature, "e-store," is a generic name for adding credit card purchasing capabilities to an online store.

    The products support different features, including the ability to collect taxes.

    The increase in cost, like the increase of prices due to the collection of taxes (should a state choose to do so) will not be a shocker to consumers who already pay state sales tax on every goddam thing they buy right now.

  10. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    e-store is a generic offering by every web site that caters to small widget-sellers.

    Alternative names for the activity are "e-tailing", a shortened form of "electronic retail" or "e-shopping", a shortened form of "electronic shopping". An online store may also be called an e-web-store, e-shop, e-store, Internet shop, web-shop, web-store, online store, online storefront and virtual store.

  11. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Small businesses have nothing to throw out.

    They just have to add the tax module to what they already have.

    The additional cost is the consumer's burden.

    Small businesses don't prosper because of price. Big box killed that years ago.

    Many single-owner online businesses use e-store.

    Why would anyone build?

    there are regulations out the wazoo for that shit.

  12. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Neither are you.

    Read your stuff and think, "small business."

  13. Re: Can I please have a robot ... on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    thats who I want mak

  14. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Why in simple hell would anybody, for crying out loud, build?

    That's the thinking that spawned. and still does, in-house tracking systems using Excel or Access.

    You don't seriously think that e-stores will break out in a sweat adding the taxing module to the current e-verify system, do you?

  15. Can I please have a robot ... on Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ... eat it for me?

    I'm wearing my power tie.

  16. Re:Meat? CO2? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The CO2 is used to bring the meat up to room temperature before slicing.

    In the past, global warming made this a simple process because, fuck!, the CO2 was right there in the atmosphere.

    However, despite lack of enthusiasm by the US, the Paris Agreement has already had effects of reducing carbon emissions.

    Meanwhile, the US still has beer.

    There's a lesson in there somewhere.

  17. Re:Beer shortage in England? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to Liverpool when I was in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club back in the 60s.

    At the first bar to starboard, the fucking beer was warm!

    No cold beer at all.

    It was horrid.

    Hold me?

  18. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    78% nitrogen.

  19. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Let them eat beer.

  20. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So, let's discuss Amazon's approach to this.

    It's well-lubricated, as is the other retailers who do online business.

    No need to invent wheels.

  21. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the part about, "online?"

    That's not paper.

    I use Amazon a lot and all the stuff I order is subject to state sales tax.

    It's calculated right at the point of purchase.

    They know what state I'm in and how much to charge.

    That portion is e-filed right to the state.

    What the simple fuck is hard about that?

    Even for small businesses that do credit card business online, having their payment system add that small program change that directly charges the customer is negligible.

    That's how e-store works.

  22. Re:Playing the patriotism card ... on US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Go read the recent news on that.

  23. Re:Terrible for small businesses on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Small businesses are thriving in states that have sales taxes. That will not change.

    The ratio of intra/inter state commerce for small business is not significant.

    As stated in TFS, the consumers will pick up the tab.

    Since the ruling does not provide for exemptions, it's a level playing field.

  24. So what? on The US Startup Is Disappearing (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    It's an interesting fragment of trivia, but how's the larger picture?

    The economy is booming.

  25. Re:Playing the patriotism card ... on US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    So, better dead than red.

    I lived it, read the book, saw the movie.

    Make America Scared Again