Couldn't all the states simply reduce state sales tax to 0% and bump up other taxes to cover that loss of income (business and income).
There are six states, such as Washington state, which have only a sales tax. If you live here, you can propose we change our state constitutions, but the day that happens I'll fall over in surprise!
Again, what this stuff is about is the various states wanting me to do their "dirty work" and collect their sales taxes for them and not compensate me for the effort.
When you sell at a store you pay for collecting the sales tax too. Why should the physical stores subsidize you selling on the Net?
There's a very easy solution: Stop taxing Wal-Mart, Target and Circuit City.
Sure, we'll stop taxing any sales anyplace other than where I live. Then I'll get roads, bridges, rail lines, ports, schools, universities and so on, and you can live with a degraded physical infrastructure.
Which is what you're proposing in terms of real impacts.
... the only ones really being hurt by the moratorium are the small retailers w/ web stores who ship items within the same state they have a physical presence. Statistically, 80% of transactions occur within 50 miles of the home...
I think we need some kind of basic exemption for Net retailers, so that any taxes are exempt up to say $50,000 nationwide on gross sales. The idea being to let mom and pops have a physical store, build an embryonic web presence, and once it's a going concern, they pay the Net tax like everyone else.
But, this also should be a lower tax, like half the physical plant tax.
The question doesn't seem to be whether online sales will be taxed -- it's when, and how.
Which was my point exactly in reply to a number of prior posts, but noone wanted to hear the truth, just what worked for their own individual concepts.
My points were that it will happen, but that we can shape the debate if we get our act together early.
I personally would like to see (as a compromise), a lower tax rate for Net and Catalog business done outside the states where they have physical plants, with a $50,000 deduction from sales nationwide before the taxes are imposed. So that people can start up small Net stores and not pay taxes until they get off the ground.
Any other ideas for a workable compromise on taxing the Net?
Yeah, and what's up with about 50 sports channels I could care less about, which they include on the expanded tier, but they charge us for the good channels?
oh, yeah, forget to disclose that ABC is a subsidiary of Disney, which I have shares in.
;-)
Seriously, why is it that, now that we have the SciFi channel, they figure they can run fewer SF shows on the standard channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, WB, and so on? I like comedies and cop shows, but enough is enough...
I'm sure both OpenBSD and Bastille Linux are both good, but no sense getting locked up over the relative merits of both. Security is all well and good, but we need our daily bread, lest we hunger for cake.
Should be using the Auberges, such as Formule1, Balladins, Climat de France, Etap, Ibis, Nuit d'Hotel in addition to other accomodations.
Will be checking with a number of French friends for people who live along the route. Croissants, cafes, vin. Might start with train visit to Champagne before the biking too (optional).
Will check with my film friends as to invites for events at Cannes towards end of trip. Need to get schedule for that part.
I'm thinking of getting together with some people in mid-April 2001 to bike through France. Source book is France By Bike (pub by The Mountaineers), routes 5, 6, 7, and 8. Start in Paris (Versailles), out to the coast (Chinon), down to Burdeaux, across France to end up at Avignon. Time will be about four weeks, basically a segment a week.
Object: to start with easy biking, get drunk on good wine, visit cafes, cherchez les femmes (et pour les femmes de geek, les hommes), and end up at Cannes ready to enjoy the beach. The last week will be a killer, but if you want an easy ride, the first three segments are easy.
Laptops encouraged, but de rigeur stops at Cyber Cafes and Hacker Havens.
If interested, email affleckasch.w.spam@ghc.spam.org but forget the spam. Don't anticipating doing as much Linux as the Beirwanderleung, as we'll be busy chasing French women. Possible side train trip to Barcelona for a couple of days.
Because he heard about the new British law requiring people to hand over their private keys for all software cryptography encoding, and figured hardware was exempt from that law.
Not if they took a large hammer and squashed it flat, pressed it into sheets, and put a cover on it. Then it would be a book, and protected free speech...
I think WillAffleck is investing in MSFT at $80 share based on speculation that Gates funding of Mir and resulting technological, patentable, market cornering spinoffs.
Actually, I'm just trying to make some bucks off of Bill G's misery. Plus, I figure that maybe he'll sell his house and I can use it to store my canoe in and for interactive MUD hosting. But I'm holding out for $74 1/2 pricing for my hostile takeover [grin].
Then maybe we can hack Mir and reset the environment to make sure Bill G's nice and comfy at a balmy 65 degrees Celsius. After all, it's not a bug, it's a feature...
Yet again we see the results of the IBM investment in basic research, especially in regards to copper for circuitry.
What are the impacts? It's not so much the smaller processor or the faster speeds - it's the lower power consumption that will cause the most dramatic change. That plus the lower cost to manufacture.
What's not mentioned in the CNN story is that MSFt has a majority interest in the corporation that's funding the space mission. They plan to retrofit Mir for Bill G to live in, move MSFT's corporate HQ there (to avoid the DOJ reprisals) since it's extra-national, and use all the satellites to bombard their enemies with.
OK, now that we've had our fun, let's see what this really means:
1. Yes, the continuing drop in hardware prices means that the percentage cost of a system attributable to an OS provides downward pressure on OS pricing. With a DOJ victory, Linux should grab a larger share, as should other OS such as BeOS, at the expense of a transparently priced and watchguarded MSFT W2K. But only somewhat.
2. Net appliances are where the growth is. Transmeta and other devices will cause us to embrace Web Pads, PDAs, and so on. The future will be wild and wooly here, with design and function king, and pricing queen. This is the real growth area for Linux. And MSFT will lose most of this chunk.
3. The market corrections you are seeing are reasonable. Tech was overvalued, old growth stocks were undervalued. Deal with it. Me, I'm picking up MSFT and CSCO at fire sale prices...
4. IE will continue to have major market share until AOL [note - own shares] gets it's act in gear and pushes Netscape as the Browser of Net appliances and everything but Windows. Release the Windows version later, maybe three months later. Let IE rule it's dwindling universe, but provide Netscape free with AOL and don't support the extensions MSFT wants to pollute with their browser.
5. It's all about the bandwidth. Who cares about the processor, except geeks? I mean, really, get a grip... why do you need a 1GHz CPU? Just build [grin] Beowulf clusters...
6. The 40% of MSFT shares held in Seattle are mostly held by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and maybe 20 guys. The rest of us diversified. Don't worry about Seattle - we will use Redmond as a Museum of Unnatural History museum and a stockade for day traders... besides, the future growth companies are all in Seattle proper, not the hinterlands.
Maybe we could get together a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the Geeks who become "profiled" as a result of being harassed, beaten up, and taunted by jocks and cheerleaders.
How about offering teens some money to turn in jocks/popular kids that harras the kids that do not fit the "social norm".
Exactly! If it weren't for the tauntings and beatings of the jock class and the humiliations of the cheerleader class, geeks could continue their work improving society to pay for the useless jock and cheerleader drones who sponge off our work.
Don't attack the results of the behaviour, get to the root of the behavioural problems. Geeks don't kill people - Jocks cause Geeks to kill people...
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Couldn't all the states simply reduce state sales tax to 0% and bump up other taxes to cover that loss of income (business and income).
There are six states, such as Washington state, which have only a sales tax. If you live here, you can propose we change our state constitutions, but the day that happens I'll fall over in surprise!
Again, what this stuff is about is the various states wanting me to do their "dirty work" and collect their sales taxes for them and not compensate me for the effort.
When you sell at a store you pay for collecting the sales tax too. Why should the physical stores subsidize you selling on the Net?
There's a very easy solution: Stop taxing Wal-Mart, Target and Circuit City.
Sure, we'll stop taxing any sales anyplace other than where I live. Then I'll get roads, bridges, rail lines, ports, schools, universities and so on, and you can live with a degraded physical infrastructure.
Which is what you're proposing in terms of real impacts.
... the only ones really being hurt by the moratorium are the small retailers w/ web stores who ship items within the same state they have a physical presence. Statistically, 80% of transactions occur within 50 miles of the home ...
I think we need some kind of basic exemption for Net retailers, so that any taxes are exempt up to say $50,000 nationwide on gross sales. The idea being to let mom and pops have a physical store, build an embryonic web presence, and once it's a going concern, they pay the Net tax like everyone else.
But, this also should be a lower tax, like half the physical plant tax.
The question doesn't seem to be whether online sales will be taxed -- it's when, and how.
Which was my point exactly in reply to a number of prior posts, but noone wanted to hear the truth, just what worked for their own individual concepts.
My points were that it will happen, but that we can shape the debate if we get our act together early.
I personally would like to see (as a compromise), a lower tax rate for Net and Catalog business done outside the states where they have physical plants, with a $50,000 deduction from sales nationwide before the taxes are imposed. So that people can start up small Net stores and not pay taxes until they get off the ground.
Any other ideas for a workable compromise on taxing the Net?
Yeah, and what's up with about 50 sports channels I could care less about, which they include on the expanded tier, but they charge us for the good channels?
oh, yeah, forget to disclose that ABC is a subsidiary of Disney, which I have shares in.
...
;-)
Seriously, why is it that, now that we have the SciFi channel, they figure they can run fewer SF shows on the standard channels like ABC, CBS, NBC, WB, and so on? I like comedies and cop shows, but enough is enough
Now, don't go losing your head over that ...
I'm sure both OpenBSD and Bastille Linux are both good, but no sense getting locked up over the relative merits of both. Security is all well and good, but we need our daily bread, lest we hunger for cake.
OK, have at least one other participant for this.
Should be using the Auberges, such as Formule1, Balladins, Climat de France, Etap, Ibis, Nuit d'Hotel in addition to other accomodations.
Will be checking with a number of French friends for people who live along the route. Croissants, cafes, vin. Might start with train visit to Champagne before the biking too (optional).
Will check with my film friends as to invites for events at Cannes towards end of trip. Need to get schedule for that part.
I'm thinking of getting together with some people in mid-April 2001 to bike through France. Source book is France By Bike (pub by The Mountaineers), routes 5, 6, 7, and 8. Start in Paris (Versailles), out to the coast (Chinon), down to Burdeaux, across France to end up at Avignon. Time will be about four weeks, basically a segment a week.
Object: to start with easy biking, get drunk on good wine, visit cafes, cherchez les femmes (et pour les femmes de geek, les hommes), and end up at Cannes ready to enjoy the beach. The last week will be a killer, but if you want an easy ride, the first three segments are easy.
Laptops encouraged, but de rigeur stops at Cyber Cafes and Hacker Havens.
If interested, email affleckasch.w.spam@ghc.spam.org but forget the spam. Don't anticipating doing as much Linux as the Beirwanderleung, as we'll be busy chasing French women. Possible side train trip to Barcelona for a couple of days.
Because he heard about the new British law requiring people to hand over their private keys for all software cryptography encoding, and figured hardware was exempt from that law.
...
Yes, I'm serious
I think, since it's not new, it's on half.com, not e-bay.
...
Look under "Used Crytography Machines"
Because, if they had, it would be returned in broken pieces in garbage bags ...
[apologies to my friend Steve Jackson]
[no, not the British one, the Texan]
My son has CDs for Carmen San Diego for DOS, Windows, and the Mac.
... I'm not quite sure of the relevance of your question as to who Carmen San Diego might be, except to point out that you're a geezer.
So
Or you've been using Linux since the Dawn of Time.
they could be breaking crypto export regulations
...
Not if they took a large hammer and squashed it flat, pressed it into sheets, and put a cover on it. Then it would be a book, and protected free speech
I think that the Human Genome is a prior work. If anyone holds a patent, it would be God, but she forgot to file it.
I think WillAffleck is investing in MSFT at $80 share based on speculation that Gates funding of Mir and resulting technological, patentable, market cornering spinoffs.
...
Actually, I'm just trying to make some bucks off of Bill G's misery. Plus, I figure that maybe he'll sell his house and I can use it to store my canoe in and for interactive MUD hosting. But I'm holding out for $74 1/2 pricing for my hostile takeover [grin].
Then maybe we can hack Mir and reset the environment to make sure Bill G's nice and comfy at a balmy 65 degrees Celsius. After all, it's not a bug, it's a feature
But this still doesn't, given the US Supreme Court's prior rulings, give us the right to free speech while working at a corporation.
They can still tap my keypresses, scan my email, and check my site log and all TCP/IP packets. And the Supremes think that's ok.
That's his backup plan.
I believe this is subsidiary work, in that IBM has patents on various copper technology for microprocessors. I'm sure they've already filed ...
Yet again we see the results of the IBM investment in basic research, especially in regards to copper for circuitry.
What are the impacts? It's not so much the smaller processor or the faster speeds - it's the lower power consumption that will cause the most dramatic change. That plus the lower cost to manufacture.
What's not mentioned in the CNN story is that MSFt has a majority interest in the corporation that's funding the space mission. They plan to retrofit Mir for Bill G to live in, move MSFT's corporate HQ there (to avoid the DOJ reprisals) since it's extra-national, and use all the satellites to bombard their enemies with.
OK, now that we've had our fun, let's see what this really means:
...
... why do you need a 1GHz CPU? Just build [grin] Beowulf clusters ...
... besides, the future growth companies are all in Seattle proper, not the hinterlands.
1. Yes, the continuing drop in hardware prices means that the percentage cost of a system attributable to an OS provides downward pressure on OS pricing. With a DOJ victory, Linux should grab a larger share, as should other OS such as BeOS, at the expense of a transparently priced and watchguarded MSFT W2K. But only somewhat.
2. Net appliances are where the growth is. Transmeta and other devices will cause us to embrace Web Pads, PDAs, and so on. The future will be wild and wooly here, with design and function king, and pricing queen. This is the real growth area for Linux. And MSFT will lose most of this chunk.
3. The market corrections you are seeing are reasonable. Tech was overvalued, old growth stocks were undervalued. Deal with it. Me, I'm picking up MSFT and CSCO at fire sale prices
4. IE will continue to have major market share until AOL [note - own shares] gets it's act in gear and pushes Netscape as the Browser of Net appliances and everything but Windows. Release the Windows version later, maybe three months later. Let IE rule it's dwindling universe, but provide Netscape free with AOL and don't support the extensions MSFT wants to pollute with their browser.
5. It's all about the bandwidth. Who cares about the processor, except geeks? I mean, really, get a grip
6. The 40% of MSFT shares held in Seattle are mostly held by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and maybe 20 guys. The rest of us diversified. Don't worry about Seattle - we will use Redmond as a Museum of Unnatural History museum and a stockade for day traders
Maybe we could get together a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the Geeks who become "profiled" as a result of being harassed, beaten up, and taunted by jocks and cheerleaders.
...
It's America, after all
How about offering teens some money to turn in jocks/popular kids that harras the kids that do not fit the "social norm".
...
Exactly! If it weren't for the tauntings and beatings of the jock class and the humiliations of the cheerleader class, geeks could continue their work improving society to pay for the useless jock and cheerleader drones who sponge off our work.
Don't attack the results of the behaviour, get to the root of the behavioural problems. Geeks don't kill people - Jocks cause Geeks to kill people