No they don't. That's the entire point. Because of it's classified nature there are very few copies of this report. The copy that was destroyed was the Senate's "copy" (they didn't really have a copy because the entire document was classified to protect the torturers). You may hate Feinman, and I do because she's happy to go along with Jack Booted Thugery, but when she stood on the Senate floor and claimed the CIA was subverting government she was telling the truth. The CIA was hiding and deleting documents the Senate committee had already seen. The CIA was deliberately obstructing the Senate and all "civilian" oversight.
But you know what? No one even cared. I've believed for a long time that the only way to fix the FBI and CIA and the abuses they commit is to destroy them and create new agencies from the ground up to take over their responsibilities. Both agencies have been unelected, corrupt, unchecked little boys clubs that wield influence and power over our democracy.
Disband them both and reassign their responsibilities, because when they reach the point they have the only solution is to burn them down and rebuild them from the ground up.
Al Qaeda was born of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. They drew lessons from that and thought they were applicable to other situations. The leadership of Al Qaeda has many mistaken views.
The first is that the mujaheddin, the "faithful" who opposed the soviet invasion actually drove the soviets out. In reality the Soviets had them beat until Americans started funneling advanced weapons in which neutralized the Soviets weapons.
The second is that the expense of fighting the mujaheddin was so costly it resulted in the collapse of the Soviet economy and the unwinding of the entire Soviet state and a withdrawal from "Muslim lands". Of course the reality is that Afghanistan was a side adventure for the Soviets, it was the collapse in oil prices (the only way the Soviets could earn hard currency) in the 80's along with trying to keep up with the American defense spending of the 80's that did the Soviet government in. This double wammy exhausted the currency and gold reserves of the soviet state and resulted in collapse.
The third is that Americans were not willing to sacrifice blood and would retreat in the face of actual combat.
The first two misconceptions have driven the entire strategy of Al Qaeda since the start. They truly believed that by drawing America into a war in the middle east that not only would America be beaten handily but that the economy would collapse and America would be forced to abandon the middle east (their goal). After the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq they thought they had triggered the end of the American empire when the crash of 2008 happened.
The subsequent recovery has put a lie to their predictions so the natural path is to assume something prevented it. Like any good religion they've decided the reason the American economy didn't collapse was because of the wealthy Americans, not because their original assumptions were stupid and wrong. This an organization that wants to bring back slavery and the laws of 700AD Islam and that anything that goes against (capitalism and democracy) that is a perversion that's doomed to failure. The existence and success of America and western states makes this belief a lie. They will continue to come up with "reasons" why their predictions haven't come true and undoubtedly urge the killing of all kinds of people in an effort to make it happen.
They simply don't understand America or the West and what makes us collectively strong.
The TSA has to give them permission and sets the standards. Several major airports made the request after the last big Fuckup by the TSA and the TSA refused to allow them. This is the loophole congress gave the TSA the ability to stop the airports from dropping out of the program.
Fact is we are outnumbered. There are plenty of Americans that want the TSA to exist and to harass people. There is huge public backlash at any mention of reforming the TSA. And that's the scary thing.
So what? Again a non-fucking story. He can run that trending thing however the fucking company wants under current law.
The GOP wants to reinstate the fairness doctrine in broadcast mediums if they want this fixed. Course that's a double edge sword that results in people getting both sides of every story and THAT would mean the end of the GOP. The entire party and it's doctrine relies on people being misinformed by an echo chamber constantly reinforcing the same idea over and over until the consumers believe it.
Ah but see Conservatives are being persecuted, that means we need BIG GOVERNMENT to come in and make sure no conservatives are being persecuted by private citizens and corporations.
See BIG GOVERNMENT is only bad when it does things I don't like, when it does things I do like, including violating the speech rights of people it's perfectly reasonable. This is a prime tenet of the anti-BIG GOVERNMENT movement in the republican party.
Yea, but blood alcohol limits had a LOT of science behind them before they became law. There is very good evidence showing reaction times are impaired a minimum of 50% at what are now legal blood limits even in the most tolerant drunk.
The first person with the money to fight one of these blood THC levels is going to win because the limit is entirely arbitrary and there is in fact no evidence whatsoever that THC impairs reaction time. They'd have as much luck trying to convict someone for having whipped cream in the blood. You can thank that DEA level 1 classification for that as no one has been able to do any real research on cannabis. In time we will find out but the only reason the courts allowed blood alcohol to be used against you was because there was a TON of research and good hard science documenting the connection between blood alcohol and reaction time.
The legislature can't make something legal to consume being in your blood illegal to drive unless they can demonstrate that it impairs your ability to drive. People have forgotten all the effort it took to get the courts to let blood alcohol content be actionable. Blood alcohol took almost a decade of court wrangling before it was eventually allowed as evidence of impairment. Hell maybe the supreme court will allow it because the most of the court loves jacked booted thugery but IMO the government should have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance impairs your driving ability to make it illegal to be on it while driving.
Cars will move very fast once affordable (to your average consumer) electric vehicles get here. Hell an upper middle class priced Model 3 has as many orders as the top selling sedan in the US (talk about scaring the daylights out of Toyota, there was news the other day that Toyota is going to cancel the Mirari and go electric because of the Model 3). In fact it's going to be hard for the power companies to keep up honestly. They are building the power generation side, the consumption side is going to get there too, all this cheap electrical power is going to drive a lot of industries off hydrocarbons.
The biggest hurdle to dropping fossil fuel consumption is going to be sea based shipping and airplanes. Collectively they make up about 20% of energy use. Those are the ones I'm worried about.
Wind and PV subsidies are set to taper out and end by ~2020-2024. Both subsidies drop every year until they end. Installed price only needs to fall a little more and they will still be cheaper than the cheapest oldest dirtiest coal power plant.
Nothing else can even come close to the price they are selling 20 year purchase agreements at. In fact wind is probably cheaper at this point without subsidy as generator prices fell nearly 20% last year. Everyone who pay any intention to investing news has known this since before 2010, about 2009 is when the investment market blew up. Solar companies are turning down contracts and investment money because they can't train people fast enough to install panels and the same is happening on the wind side where the people that install the turbines are in such hot demand it's actually delaying construction of wind farms.
Doesn't matter when it was discovered, it matters when it was done and when police bring it to trial. That's the time frame and from the timeframe you list it's going to be tough for the police to get him charged and before a judge before the statute of limitation is up. You might at best be able to extend the statute timeframe based on a last payment date but that would be a tough sell under most laws.
Good luck with that. You should have went to the Police the MINUTE you discovered the funds were misappropriated. Do you know why? He's strung you along for nearly 5 years and I would be willing to bet the statue of limitations on a criminal prosecution is well past. Most statues of limitation expire after 3 years in cases like this.
He likely knew this and that's why he strung you along making some payments. You will never recover the funds and the police won't prosecute him.
The problem of extrapolating a single data point (this star system) into many should be obvious to anyone that understand math and statistics at all.
Planets are abundant, we've finally confirmed this even in binary systems. Even Kepler (designed to hunt planets) has a hell of a time spotting earth size planets, though it can spot rocky worlds almost all of them are 2-3 times the size of earth and often on the close edge of the habital zone where they are easier to detect. We've never directly imaged one and we've never gotten even a single wave length of identifiable light from one so we have no idea of the chemical composition.
We are in the absolute infancy of looking for planets. Any extrapolation from data at this point is frankly guessing and not even good guessing because it's based on very limited data.
NPR receives public funding but is not "public". It is above all a non-commercial news source that receives a diverse set of funding that allows it to host programs like science friday that wouldn't last 10 seconds on commercial radio.
My biggest fear isn't his unknown position, that's my second fear. My first fear is he's a narcissistic, sociopath, chickenhawk that would have us in a war in a heartbeat if anyone insulted him. His inability to take criticism from ANYONE is his biggest problem.
Then why'd he talk about it? If it isn't a solution why even mention it? "Look at the problem, and I can't solve it by doing this". It's not logical and it's beyond stupid. The media reacted to this because that's what people heard him say then he walked it back, just like he's done hundreds of times already. He's a flip flopper that will tell you anything you want to hear. And YOU give him a pass for it.
There wouldn't be any backlash because no one would have known they did it. There "like" system is a black box of editors and policy with no public view of what or how it happens.
We have only the word of these people to go on and personally I don't trust people that do this because based on past experience they are highly exaggerating thing for media attention. The number of people that do this as a sort of whistleblowing is low single digits percentage, almost all the rest are out for various things, attention, media or money. In time we will know what it is with this group.
Stop referring to Privacy as a secret. People are entitled to privacy. We need to recognize that public record shouldn't mean searchable by typing in google in every case. There are some things that absolutely should be and others, like someones divorce decree (easily the most hostile court filing often with false and defamatory information) that has no public value in 99.999999% of cases.
I'm ok with where the court system determines some public court record being on the internet violates personal privacy and requiring that anyone that wants a copy of the record to pay money (nominal amount say $5 to prevent mass copying) and get a printed copy. This will still allow the records to be public and make it to the internet in the 0.000001% of cases where it's actually relevant while keeping it from affecting someones job search who isn't a public person.
Installed it with a design flaw? Your understanding of what happened is badly flawed. The utility had some major equipment failures at the plant (iirc correctly it was the cooling pumps). The permit they operate under allows them to replace or upgrade equipment as needed. BUT if the equipment is not the same (within limits, minor modifications can be made) they must re-safety validate the entire operation. The equipment that failed was replaced with brand new, completely different equipment. Then the utility LIED and said it was the same when they replaced it with a completely different model (actually required rerouting the entire pumping system at the plant). When they were caught, that's when they decided it was going to be too expensive to fix and the state allowed them to pass it on to the rate payers.
Lets be clear about this, the utility LIED (and knew they lied), the lie meant the plant HAD to be shut down until the new equipment was safety validated so the state let them throw the whole plant on to the rate payers. Mind you this was a privately owned plant. It's called privatized profit, public bears the cost of the risks.
Frankly I think the residents of California got bent over and taken by the utilities and the people charged with preventing it not only allowed it but let em do it dry.
Yogurt bacteria, lactobacillus and other strains are common in all mammalian stomachs. We would not be able to suckle on our mothers without it as it allows us to digest milk.
Actually, the bacteria in yogurt were originally cultured from people putting milk in animal stomachs used as bladders to hold liquids. They are directly from mammalian stomachs. This is also where cheese comes from and probably almost every single dairy product other than plain milk.
Depends on the priobiotic. But just because there are common strains of bacteria as that in the gut doesn't mean they would be pulled from the market. There is nothing wrong with consuming bacteria, we do it all the time. The problem is with specific species in specific quantities. Now the FDA isn't going to allow a probiotic on the market that contains salmonella, but lactobacillus they wouldn't care about nor should they, it's common in your gut and common in food you eat. There are several varieties of probiotics that contain up to 20 different strains that are common in the gut. The problem is, as others have already said, the colony in your gut is probably more than a 100 separate species of bacteria that all work in concert. A slight mismatch in the quantities of the various strains can cause it not to function or to function completely differently.
There is a lot of interesting research been done recently that says people that are overweight and can't loose weight have problems with their bacterial colonies, key bacteria are missing and there are others in much higher quantities that you don't' find in a health persons gut. There is actually research being done on this right now to find out if poop transplants can make people healthier.
It's entirely possible that these gut microbiomes affect far more than we realize.
The feds could pass a national internet sales tax harmonization bill. There's been one sitting in committee for about 12 years. It basically says collect the rate where the warehouse is or a minimum of 6% and remit that to the state of the purchaser. But it's never going to be passed by congress. It goes against Republican no-tax pledges and violates the idea that the internet should be tax free. It dies in committee every year because of this. And this is exactly why the supreme court precedent still applies because of federal inaction.
The state compact is interesting, but like you say all they need is one state to sit it out and the whole thing is a bust.
For any business without sufficient revenue and sales to handle the massive tax attorney bills filing such paperwork would incur would essentially be bared from interstate commerce and that is exactly why the supreme court set this precedent in the first place.
Personally, I don't think even a Jupiter size planet that close to a nova would survive. Nova's are immense releases of energy and the solar pressure is enough to blow planets to dust. I don't know how common planets are around white dwarfs but I have no doubt that unless the star captured the planets after nova'ing then the planets are very far away and even then probably took massive damage.
Now in this case it's a brown dwarf, not a white dwarf so the situation doesn't apply here but I'm confident that the only way a planet could be within a dozen AU of the white dwarf would be if the star captured the planet after the nova.
There is no grenade because to actually force out of state retailers to collect the tax they would have to sue them and the supreme court precedent is they can't win those suits. The SD legislature can't override the supreme court. The state would sue, the case would be tossed on a summary judgement motion and the court would invalidate the law and enjoin future enforcement.
Sucks for the first one they sue because they'll be on the hook for several thousand in legal fees but the law will be invalidated unless the federal congress passes a law requiring this because they are the only legislature that can override supreme court precedent.
It is, in any case, a considerably easier problem than calculating shipping costs and noone seems to have a problem with that.
No it isn't, you fail to realize the scale of the problem. Louisiana has over 1000 separate sales tax districts and every single one has exceptions that exempt certain items from part of the taxes while the state has it's own list that exempts certain purchases. (the total rate has two components, one state, one local) This type of sales tax situation is not unique to a certain state. And the kicker is that these rates and exemptions are tinkered with every single year with different implementation dates in every single state and taxing district.
Do not underestimate the costs of tracking and auditing all this data, it is a significant costs even if software makes it easier.
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No they don't. That's the entire point. Because of it's classified nature there are very few copies of this report. The copy that was destroyed was the Senate's "copy" (they didn't really have a copy because the entire document was classified to protect the torturers). You may hate Feinman, and I do because she's happy to go along with Jack Booted Thugery, but when she stood on the Senate floor and claimed the CIA was subverting government she was telling the truth. The CIA was hiding and deleting documents the Senate committee had already seen. The CIA was deliberately obstructing the Senate and all "civilian" oversight.
But you know what? No one even cared. I've believed for a long time that the only way to fix the FBI and CIA and the abuses they commit is to destroy them and create new agencies from the ground up to take over their responsibilities. Both agencies have been unelected, corrupt, unchecked little boys clubs that wield influence and power over our democracy.
Disband them both and reassign their responsibilities, because when they reach the point they have the only solution is to burn them down and rebuild them from the ground up.
Al Qaeda was born of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. They drew lessons from that and thought they were applicable to other situations. The leadership of Al Qaeda has many mistaken views.
The first is that the mujaheddin, the "faithful" who opposed the soviet invasion actually drove the soviets out. In reality the Soviets had them beat until Americans started funneling advanced weapons in which neutralized the Soviets weapons.
The second is that the expense of fighting the mujaheddin was so costly it resulted in the collapse of the Soviet economy and the unwinding of the entire Soviet state and a withdrawal from "Muslim lands". Of course the reality is that Afghanistan was a side adventure for the Soviets, it was the collapse in oil prices (the only way the Soviets could earn hard currency) in the 80's along with trying to keep up with the American defense spending of the 80's that did the Soviet government in. This double wammy exhausted the currency and gold reserves of the soviet state and resulted in collapse.
The third is that Americans were not willing to sacrifice blood and would retreat in the face of actual combat.
The first two misconceptions have driven the entire strategy of Al Qaeda since the start. They truly believed that by drawing America into a war in the middle east that not only would America be beaten handily but that the economy would collapse and America would be forced to abandon the middle east (their goal). After the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq they thought they had triggered the end of the American empire when the crash of 2008 happened.
The subsequent recovery has put a lie to their predictions so the natural path is to assume something prevented it. Like any good religion they've decided the reason the American economy didn't collapse was because of the wealthy Americans, not because their original assumptions were stupid and wrong. This an organization that wants to bring back slavery and the laws of 700AD Islam and that anything that goes against (capitalism and democracy) that is a perversion that's doomed to failure. The existence and success of America and western states makes this belief a lie. They will continue to come up with "reasons" why their predictions haven't come true and undoubtedly urge the killing of all kinds of people in an effort to make it happen.
They simply don't understand America or the West and what makes us collectively strong.
The TSA has to give them permission and sets the standards. Several major airports made the request after the last big Fuckup by the TSA and the TSA refused to allow them. This is the loophole congress gave the TSA the ability to stop the airports from dropping out of the program.
Fact is we are outnumbered. There are plenty of Americans that want the TSA to exist and to harass people. There is huge public backlash at any mention of reforming the TSA. And that's the scary thing.
So what? Again a non-fucking story. He can run that trending thing however the fucking company wants under current law.
The GOP wants to reinstate the fairness doctrine in broadcast mediums if they want this fixed. Course that's a double edge sword that results in people getting both sides of every story and THAT would mean the end of the GOP. The entire party and it's doctrine relies on people being misinformed by an echo chamber constantly reinforcing the same idea over and over until the consumers believe it.
Ah but see Conservatives are being persecuted, that means we need BIG GOVERNMENT to come in and make sure no conservatives are being persecuted by private citizens and corporations.
See BIG GOVERNMENT is only bad when it does things I don't like, when it does things I do like, including violating the speech rights of people it's perfectly reasonable. This is a prime tenet of the anti-BIG GOVERNMENT movement in the republican party.
Yea, but blood alcohol limits had a LOT of science behind them before they became law. There is very good evidence showing reaction times are impaired a minimum of 50% at what are now legal blood limits even in the most tolerant drunk.
The first person with the money to fight one of these blood THC levels is going to win because the limit is entirely arbitrary and there is in fact no evidence whatsoever that THC impairs reaction time. They'd have as much luck trying to convict someone for having whipped cream in the blood. You can thank that DEA level 1 classification for that as no one has been able to do any real research on cannabis. In time we will find out but the only reason the courts allowed blood alcohol to be used against you was because there was a TON of research and good hard science documenting the connection between blood alcohol and reaction time.
The legislature can't make something legal to consume being in your blood illegal to drive unless they can demonstrate that it impairs your ability to drive. People have forgotten all the effort it took to get the courts to let blood alcohol content be actionable. Blood alcohol took almost a decade of court wrangling before it was eventually allowed as evidence of impairment. Hell maybe the supreme court will allow it because the most of the court loves jacked booted thugery but IMO the government should have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance impairs your driving ability to make it illegal to be on it while driving.
Cars will move very fast once affordable (to your average consumer) electric vehicles get here. Hell an upper middle class priced Model 3 has as many orders as the top selling sedan in the US (talk about scaring the daylights out of Toyota, there was news the other day that Toyota is going to cancel the Mirari and go electric because of the Model 3). In fact it's going to be hard for the power companies to keep up honestly. They are building the power generation side, the consumption side is going to get there too, all this cheap electrical power is going to drive a lot of industries off hydrocarbons.
The biggest hurdle to dropping fossil fuel consumption is going to be sea based shipping and airplanes. Collectively they make up about 20% of energy use. Those are the ones I'm worried about.
Wind and PV subsidies are set to taper out and end by ~2020-2024. Both subsidies drop every year until they end. Installed price only needs to fall a little more and they will still be cheaper than the cheapest oldest dirtiest coal power plant.
Nothing else can even come close to the price they are selling 20 year purchase agreements at. In fact wind is probably cheaper at this point without subsidy as generator prices fell nearly 20% last year. Everyone who pay any intention to investing news has known this since before 2010, about 2009 is when the investment market blew up. Solar companies are turning down contracts and investment money because they can't train people fast enough to install panels and the same is happening on the wind side where the people that install the turbines are in such hot demand it's actually delaying construction of wind farms.
Doesn't matter when it was discovered, it matters when it was done and when police bring it to trial. That's the time frame and from the timeframe you list it's going to be tough for the police to get him charged and before a judge before the statute of limitation is up. You might at best be able to extend the statute timeframe based on a last payment date but that would be a tough sell under most laws.
Good luck with that. You should have went to the Police the MINUTE you discovered the funds were misappropriated. Do you know why? He's strung you along for nearly 5 years and I would be willing to bet the statue of limitations on a criminal prosecution is well past. Most statues of limitation expire after 3 years in cases like this.
He likely knew this and that's why he strung you along making some payments. You will never recover the funds and the police won't prosecute him.
The problem of extrapolating a single data point (this star system) into many should be obvious to anyone that understand math and statistics at all.
Planets are abundant, we've finally confirmed this even in binary systems. Even Kepler (designed to hunt planets) has a hell of a time spotting earth size planets, though it can spot rocky worlds almost all of them are 2-3 times the size of earth and often on the close edge of the habital zone where they are easier to detect. We've never directly imaged one and we've never gotten even a single wave length of identifiable light from one so we have no idea of the chemical composition.
We are in the absolute infancy of looking for planets. Any extrapolation from data at this point is frankly guessing and not even good guessing because it's based on very limited data.
NPR receives public funding but is not "public". It is above all a non-commercial news source that receives a diverse set of funding that allows it to host programs like science friday that wouldn't last 10 seconds on commercial radio.
My biggest fear isn't his unknown position, that's my second fear. My first fear is he's a narcissistic, sociopath, chickenhawk that would have us in a war in a heartbeat if anyone insulted him. His inability to take criticism from ANYONE is his biggest problem.
Then why'd he talk about it? If it isn't a solution why even mention it? "Look at the problem, and I can't solve it by doing this". It's not logical and it's beyond stupid. The media reacted to this because that's what people heard him say then he walked it back, just like he's done hundreds of times already. He's a flip flopper that will tell you anything you want to hear. And YOU give him a pass for it.
There wouldn't be any backlash because no one would have known they did it. There "like" system is a black box of editors and policy with no public view of what or how it happens.
We have only the word of these people to go on and personally I don't trust people that do this because based on past experience they are highly exaggerating thing for media attention. The number of people that do this as a sort of whistleblowing is low single digits percentage, almost all the rest are out for various things, attention, media or money. In time we will know what it is with this group.
Stop referring to Privacy as a secret. People are entitled to privacy. We need to recognize that public record shouldn't mean searchable by typing in google in every case. There are some things that absolutely should be and others, like someones divorce decree (easily the most hostile court filing often with false and defamatory information) that has no public value in 99.999999% of cases.
I'm ok with where the court system determines some public court record being on the internet violates personal privacy and requiring that anyone that wants a copy of the record to pay money (nominal amount say $5 to prevent mass copying) and get a printed copy. This will still allow the records to be public and make it to the internet in the 0.000001% of cases where it's actually relevant while keeping it from affecting someones job search who isn't a public person.
Installed it with a design flaw? Your understanding of what happened is badly flawed. The utility had some major equipment failures at the plant (iirc correctly it was the cooling pumps). The permit they operate under allows them to replace or upgrade equipment as needed. BUT if the equipment is not the same (within limits, minor modifications can be made) they must re-safety validate the entire operation. The equipment that failed was replaced with brand new, completely different equipment. Then the utility LIED and said it was the same when they replaced it with a completely different model (actually required rerouting the entire pumping system at the plant). When they were caught, that's when they decided it was going to be too expensive to fix and the state allowed them to pass it on to the rate payers.
Lets be clear about this, the utility LIED (and knew they lied), the lie meant the plant HAD to be shut down until the new equipment was safety validated so the state let them throw the whole plant on to the rate payers. Mind you this was a privately owned plant. It's called privatized profit, public bears the cost of the risks.
Frankly I think the residents of California got bent over and taken by the utilities and the people charged with preventing it not only allowed it but let em do it dry.
Yogurt bacteria, lactobacillus and other strains are common in all mammalian stomachs. We would not be able to suckle on our mothers without it as it allows us to digest milk.
Actually, the bacteria in yogurt were originally cultured from people putting milk in animal stomachs used as bladders to hold liquids. They are directly from mammalian stomachs. This is also where cheese comes from and probably almost every single dairy product other than plain milk.
Depends on the priobiotic. But just because there are common strains of bacteria as that in the gut doesn't mean they would be pulled from the market. There is nothing wrong with consuming bacteria, we do it all the time. The problem is with specific species in specific quantities. Now the FDA isn't going to allow a probiotic on the market that contains salmonella, but lactobacillus they wouldn't care about nor should they, it's common in your gut and common in food you eat. There are several varieties of probiotics that contain up to 20 different strains that are common in the gut. The problem is, as others have already said, the colony in your gut is probably more than a 100 separate species of bacteria that all work in concert. A slight mismatch in the quantities of the various strains can cause it not to function or to function completely differently.
There is a lot of interesting research been done recently that says people that are overweight and can't loose weight have problems with their bacterial colonies, key bacteria are missing and there are others in much higher quantities that you don't' find in a health persons gut. There is actually research being done on this right now to find out if poop transplants can make people healthier.
It's entirely possible that these gut microbiomes affect far more than we realize.
The feds could pass a national internet sales tax harmonization bill. There's been one sitting in committee for about 12 years. It basically says collect the rate where the warehouse is or a minimum of 6% and remit that to the state of the purchaser. But it's never going to be passed by congress. It goes against Republican no-tax pledges and violates the idea that the internet should be tax free. It dies in committee every year because of this. And this is exactly why the supreme court precedent still applies because of federal inaction.
The state compact is interesting, but like you say all they need is one state to sit it out and the whole thing is a bust.
For any business without sufficient revenue and sales to handle the massive tax attorney bills filing such paperwork would incur would essentially be bared from interstate commerce and that is exactly why the supreme court set this precedent in the first place.
Personally, I don't think even a Jupiter size planet that close to a nova would survive. Nova's are immense releases of energy and the solar pressure is enough to blow planets to dust. I don't know how common planets are around white dwarfs but I have no doubt that unless the star captured the planets after nova'ing then the planets are very far away and even then probably took massive damage.
Now in this case it's a brown dwarf, not a white dwarf so the situation doesn't apply here but I'm confident that the only way a planet could be within a dozen AU of the white dwarf would be if the star captured the planet after the nova.
There is no grenade because to actually force out of state retailers to collect the tax they would have to sue them and the supreme court precedent is they can't win those suits. The SD legislature can't override the supreme court. The state would sue, the case would be tossed on a summary judgement motion and the court would invalidate the law and enjoin future enforcement.
Sucks for the first one they sue because they'll be on the hook for several thousand in legal fees but the law will be invalidated unless the federal congress passes a law requiring this because they are the only legislature that can override supreme court precedent.
No it isn't, you fail to realize the scale of the problem. Louisiana has over 1000 separate sales tax districts and every single one has exceptions that exempt certain items from part of the taxes while the state has it's own list that exempts certain purchases. (the total rate has two components, one state, one local) This type of sales tax situation is not unique to a certain state. And the kicker is that these rates and exemptions are tinkered with every single year with different implementation dates in every single state and taxing district.
Do not underestimate the costs of tracking and auditing all this data, it is a significant costs even if software makes it easier.