So let them learn in college. In all likelihood they will have picked up a lot on their own already, same as someone who, in a previous generations, is interested in auto mechanics would have already confirmed that interest by helping helping replace the oil, air and gas filters, plugs, distributor cap, rotor, points, and wires on the family chariot and gone on to trade school.
That is true of virtually every subject in the school curriculum but we still teach algebra to people who are in all likelihood going to become factory workers or department store managers.
And here we have the root cause of why grade inflation exists - we can't ever tell someone they're no good at something so it's easier to just pass them on to the next level and have it be someone else's problem.
You don't understand, citizen! Every girl must be forced to learn how to code, whether she wants to or not, and this must be done at taxpayer expense. Big business demands it. Social Justice Warriors have even come on board. Teach girls to code, or else you're a misogynist!
The lower wages for women isn't just a problem in IT, so teaching more girls to code fails to address that problem, which is system-wide. Similarly, different people just like different things. Some of that is probably cultural, but there are definitely differences in parts of the brain depending on gender. Forcing people to learn stuff that isn't appealing to them is only going to reinforce the current stereotype that "girls can't code". Sure, reduce barriers to entry, but quotas? Quotas don't work.
The problem with that is after decades of tech BS, my attitude is f*ck the potential customers. They don't know what they want in the first place, they keep changing their minds, they don't listen to advice until it's too late, have a very selective memory, then try to unload the cost and responsibility onto you for their mistakes. Same thing with bosses.
That's one of the reasons that, after a period of decompression, people are actually happy to get out of the rat race, which helps explain the huge drop-off after 50. I love coding. but I'll never go back to it for anyone else - neither a boss nor a customer - there are just far too many asshats.
And they're all listed on the internet. Big deal. Took me only a few seconds to find it here, and for all the sales taxes by state and county and municipality start here.
It's very simple - they can just look up the sales tax rate for where they're shipping to. Just f*cking google for it. There are less than 9,000 different taxation districts in the US, and many countries are far less complicated, such as Canada, since they only have 1 federal sales tax rate and a provincial sales tax that varies by province, with some exemptions for basics like food.
No, I'm not an idiot. Sales tax is something that is very easy to calculate in every jurisdiction, since it's a fixed amount of the total price of the product at the taxation level for that particular product. Profits, on the other hand, are subject to a lot of creative bookkeeping.
Today, some states, such as New York, assert that some types of virtual presence through the Internet can be enough to create nexus. Also, many states assert that the presence of intellectual property such as a trademark creates nexus for income tax. Some of the newer state tax regimes, such as those in Ohio and Michigan, even disregard any requirement for in-state presence but instead focus on activities targeted at customers in the state.
There are less than 9,000 different tax jurisdictions in the US. Certainly Amazon and Google can figure them out. They just don't want to because they don't want to have to charge sale and use taxes.
However, just because a company lacks a permanent establishment doesn’t mean there are no U.S. or state filing responsibilities. Activities in the U.S. that do not create a permanent establishment may still obligate a company to file a U.S. federal income tax return. In addition, since not all states follow the treaty, some states may subject a company to state income tax even if it doesn’t have a permanent establishment. Plus, treaty protection does not extend to non-income taxes, such as sales taxes.
States use a concept called "nexus" to determine the minimum contact necessary for the state to impose its various taxes on an out-of-state company. Different state taxes can have differing nexus standards. Recently, many states have followed a trend to lower the nexus bar.
An actual in-state physical presence created with inventory or other property as well as by employees, independent agents, representatives or contractors, has been traditionally required for state sales tax nexus. Today, some states, such as New York, assert that some types of virtual presence through the Internet can be enough to create nexus. Also, many states assert that the presence of intellectual property such as a trademark creates nexus for income tax. Some of the newer state tax regimes, such as those in Ohio and Michigan, even disregard any requirement for in-state presence but instead focus on activities targeted at customers in the state.
State sales-and-use tax compliance can be more difficult and expensive than income taxes given that there are over 8,000 taxing jurisdictions involved. Once an out-of-state company satisfies the nexus standard for sales and use tax, the burden of collecting taxes on purchasers of taxable goods and services begins. If a company fails to collect from its customers, it effectively converts a customer's tax into its own liability.
If you're not happy with the way government works, then run for office at some level. It might be futile, it might be a waste of time, but at least you'll be able to have some sort of platform from which to make suggestions to improve things.
So, a cop who recklessly shoots 8 times (and hits 5 times - where could those extra bullets have ended up) and then walks back and picks up his taser that he dropped and plants it beside the dead guy, then radios in that he had to shoot the guy because the guy had his taser, isn't a threat?
Or they could just reset them and then give them to participants in the next country. There's enough countries out there that by the time they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, the phone will be obsolete.
In Hasson, the Supreme Court affirmed an order denying a new trial even after finding the defendant presented credible evidence several jurors had been inattentive, i.e., reading a book or working crossword puzzles, during portions of the trial. The majority opinion noted that, due to "the soporific effect of many trials when viewed from a layman's perspective," courts "uniformly decline to order a new trial in the absence of convincing proof that the jurors were actually asleep during material portions of the trial. [Citations.]" (Hasson v. Ford Motor Co., supra, 32 Cal.3d at p. 411.) In another case, the appellate court noted, "` he fact that a juror falls asleep during the trial is not ground for disturbing the verdict if it does not appear that his sleep was for such a length of time or at such a stage of the trial as to affect his ability fairly to consider the case.' [Citation.]" Callegari v. Maurer (1935) 4 Cal.App.2d 178, 184.)
And there are cases of defense lawyers and even judges snoring away, and still not grounds for appeal.
I have yet to see any studies showing a mass exodus from the field by age 40.
I've presented them in other discussions. Not my problem if you're too lazy to search for the actual data.
While some people stay as senior developers their whole careers, plenty of others move into Director of Software Development, Application Architect, Entrepreneur, etc. careers by the age of 40. It doesn't mean they have left the field just because they don't consider themselves software developers anymore.
There are fewer jobs the higher up you climb the ladder, so no, most will be out, not up.
So there are no airplanes passing overhead (federally regulated) or that have to meet federal standards. No cars with tires that have to meet federal standards, or emission controls, or CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), no veterans, nobody in the military. No USDA-inspected meat or fish imported from other states. No FDA-approved medicines.
No EPA to mandate that the water you use is drinkable (Walkerton). No standards for those new bridges you drive over, or the materials used in them, so they don't collapse (all over the place), or that the rail cars meet a certain standard (ka-boom!).
The fact is that the services my (non-municipal) government provides could be had for far, far cheaper if done in an efficient way. I'm not saying I know how to do that, but it is sure a bitter pill to swallow.
Why should a mom-and-pop internet business be exempt from taxes that the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar store has to pay?
Because in the second case, mom-and-pop live in Singapore?
Is this a trick question?
So what? If they're selling to the US, let them pay US sales taxes - after all, if they're selling to any particular area, they're operating in that area (despite Amazon's attempts to avoid paying taxes where it doesn't have a warehouse).
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So let them learn in college. In all likelihood they will have picked up a lot on their own already, same as someone who, in a previous generations, is interested in auto mechanics would have already confirmed that interest by helping helping replace the oil, air and gas filters, plugs, distributor cap, rotor, points, and wires on the family chariot and gone on to trade school.
"simply aren't wired neurologically to code"
That is true of virtually every subject in the school curriculum but we still teach algebra to people who are in all likelihood going to become factory workers or department store managers.
And here we have the root cause of why grade inflation exists - we can't ever tell someone they're no good at something so it's easier to just pass them on to the next level and have it be someone else's problem.
You don't understand, citizen! Every girl must be forced to learn how to code, whether she wants to or not, and this must be done at taxpayer expense. Big business demands it. Social Justice Warriors have even come on board. Teach girls to code, or else you're a misogynist!
The lower wages for women isn't just a problem in IT, so teaching more girls to code fails to address that problem, which is system-wide. Similarly, different people just like different things. Some of that is probably cultural, but there are definitely differences in parts of the brain depending on gender. Forcing people to learn stuff that isn't appealing to them is only going to reinforce the current stereotype that "girls can't code". Sure, reduce barriers to entry, but quotas? Quotas don't work.
Awesome at CS also doesn't mean you have the foggiest clue as to actually write quality code that doesn't go tits up when you look at it funny....
(channeling Steve Jobs) It's not a bug, you're just looking at it wrong.
No state is going to refuse money.
The problem with that is after decades of tech BS, my attitude is f*ck the potential customers. They don't know what they want in the first place, they keep changing their minds, they don't listen to advice until it's too late, have a very selective memory, then try to unload the cost and responsibility onto you for their mistakes. Same thing with bosses.
That's one of the reasons that, after a period of decompression, people are actually happy to get out of the rat race, which helps explain the huge drop-off after 50. I love coding. but I'll never go back to it for anyone else - neither a boss nor a customer - there are just far too many asshats.
And they're all listed on the internet. Big deal. Took me only a few seconds to find it here, and for all the sales taxes by state and county and municipality start here.
The Laffer Curve was a joke. Otherwise the US would not be $18 trillion in debt.
It's very simple - they can just look up the sales tax rate for where they're shipping to. Just f*cking google for it. There are less than 9,000 different taxation districts in the US, and many countries are far less complicated, such as Canada, since they only have 1 federal sales tax rate and a provincial sales tax that varies by province, with some exemptions for basics like food.
No, I'm not an idiot. Sales tax is something that is very easy to calculate in every jurisdiction, since it's a fixed amount of the total price of the product at the taxation level for that particular product. Profits, on the other hand, are subject to a lot of creative bookkeeping.
Amazon does in fact have a presence in every state. It's no longer required to be a physical warehouse - plenty of states now are saying if you do business here, you owe sales tax here.
Today, some states, such as New York, assert that some types of virtual presence through the Internet can be enough to create nexus. Also, many states assert that the presence of intellectual property such as a trademark creates nexus for income tax. Some of the newer state tax regimes, such as those in Ohio and Michigan, even disregard any requirement for in-state presence but instead focus on activities targeted at customers in the state.
There are less than 9,000 different tax jurisdictions in the US. Certainly Amazon and Google can figure them out. They just don't want to because they don't want to have to charge sale and use taxes.
You're going to tell me that neither Google nor Amazon have the capability of figuring this out? Ridiculous.
WRT sales tax, here you go:
However, just because a company lacks a permanent establishment doesn’t mean there are no U.S. or state filing responsibilities. Activities in the U.S. that do not create a permanent establishment may still obligate a company to file a U.S. federal income tax return. In addition, since not all states follow the treaty, some states may subject a company to state income tax even if it doesn’t have a permanent establishment. Plus, treaty protection does not extend to non-income taxes, such as sales taxes.
States use a concept called "nexus" to determine the minimum contact necessary for the state to impose its various taxes on an out-of-state company. Different state taxes can have differing nexus standards. Recently, many states have followed a trend to lower the nexus bar.
An actual in-state physical presence created with inventory or other property as well as by employees, independent agents, representatives or contractors, has been traditionally required for state sales tax nexus. Today, some states, such as New York, assert that some types of virtual presence through the Internet can be enough to create nexus. Also, many states assert that the presence of intellectual property such as a trademark creates nexus for income tax. Some of the newer state tax regimes, such as those in Ohio and Michigan, even disregard any requirement for in-state presence but instead focus on activities targeted at customers in the state.
State sales-and-use tax compliance can be more difficult and expensive than income taxes given that there are over 8,000 taxing jurisdictions involved. Once an out-of-state company satisfies the nexus standard for sales and use tax, the burden of collecting taxes on purchasers of taxable goods and services begins. If a company fails to collect from its customers, it effectively converts a customer's tax into its own liability.
If you're not happy with the way government works, then run for office at some level. It might be futile, it might be a waste of time, but at least you'll be able to have some sort of platform from which to make suggestions to improve things.
You might even get elected ...
So, a cop who recklessly shoots 8 times (and hits 5 times - where could those extra bullets have ended up) and then walks back and picks up his taser that he dropped and plants it beside the dead guy, then radios in that he had to shoot the guy because the guy had his taser, isn't a threat?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will guard (watch) the guardians? Now we know - us!
Most countries and states have reciprocal tax agreements.
Or they could just reset them and then give them to participants in the next country. There's enough countries out there that by the time they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, the phone will be obsolete.
In Hasson, the Supreme Court affirmed an order denying a new trial even after finding the defendant presented credible evidence several jurors had been inattentive, i.e., reading a book or working crossword puzzles, during portions of the trial. The majority opinion noted that, due to "the soporific effect of many trials when viewed from a layman's perspective," courts "uniformly decline to order a new trial in the absence of convincing proof that the jurors were actually asleep during material portions of the trial. [Citations.]" (Hasson v. Ford Motor Co., supra, 32 Cal.3d at p. 411.) In another case, the appellate court noted, "` he fact that a juror falls asleep during the trial is not ground for disturbing the verdict if it does not appear that his sleep was for such a length of time or at such a stage of the trial as to affect his ability fairly to consider the case.' [Citation.]" Callegari v. Maurer (1935) 4 Cal.App.2d 178, 184.)
And there are cases of defense lawyers and even judges snoring away, and still not grounds for appeal.
Except that this survey pretty much mirrors what researchers have found, as well as the conventional wisdom.
Sure, if you want a huge cut in pay. Why not just get a job that has better security and pays more than doing the start-up thing?
The same comments about older guys don't apply to younger guys too?
I have yet to see any studies showing a mass exodus from the field by age 40.
I've presented them in other discussions. Not my problem if you're too lazy to search for the actual data.
While some people stay as senior developers their whole careers, plenty of others move into Director of Software Development, Application Architect, Entrepreneur, etc. careers by the age of 40. It doesn't mean they have left the field just because they don't consider themselves software developers anymore.
There are fewer jobs the higher up you climb the ladder, so no, most will be out, not up.
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So the default tab is 8 spaces. Not 4, 3, 2, or whatever. Thank you for confirming that.
So there are no airplanes passing overhead (federally regulated) or that have to meet federal standards. No cars with tires that have to meet federal standards, or emission controls, or CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), no veterans, nobody in the military. No USDA-inspected meat or fish imported from other states. No FDA-approved medicines.
No EPA to mandate that the water you use is drinkable (Walkerton). No standards for those new bridges you drive over, or the materials used in them, so they don't collapse (all over the place), or that the rail cars meet a certain standard (ka-boom!).
The fact is that the services my (non-municipal) government provides could be had for far, far cheaper if done in an efficient way. I'm not saying I know how to do that, but it is sure a bitter pill to swallow.
One word - Enron.
Why should a mom-and-pop internet business be exempt from taxes that the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar store has to pay?
Because in the second case, mom-and-pop live in Singapore?
Is this a trick question?
So what? If they're selling to the US, let them pay US sales taxes - after all, if they're selling to any particular area, they're operating in that area (despite Amazon's attempts to avoid paying taxes where it doesn't have a warehouse).