What do you mean by "both sides"? Really? What funding source were you thinking of that has a financial interest comparable to the trillion dollar profits of the fossil-fuel companies?
Al Gore's carbon credits company. The US government "lets raise taxes on fossile fuel". The ethanol "who cares that it's not ecologically viable" groups. The "lets kill off US made light bulbs for Chinese made ones". "Lets ban back yard barbecue"...
It all adds up.
That's the party line of the climate-change deniers: "Oh, it doesn't matter that the so-called skeptics are all funded by fossil-fuel companies, because both sides are funded by dirty money."
But, oddly, when there is even a rumor that a climate scientist has received as much as a lunch paid for by a source that is not absolutely spotlessly apolitical, isn't it amazing how the blogosphere lights up with accusations of how climate change is "bought and paid for." (Even when the rumor turns out to be unrelated to actual fact.)
And the Global Warming (amen) warshippers immediately circle the wagons when anything comes up that shows that a lot if their crap is nonsense. Then they have to wrangle the mess, like they do with Obama's messes, until they think it works for them. After Katrina, they predicted more and stronger hurricanes every year, so where are they? Then when a single anti- gets outed, they claim it as proof of Global Warming (amen) is caused by man.
They go "it doesn't matter about science, well just flag anything that happens as caused by global warming (amen)". Japans earthquake was blaimed on global warming (amen), for craps sake.
You finally admit it? But, isn't that movie about Global Warming his? Isn't he one of the most vocal speaker about Global Warming? Doesn't ONE of his houese burn more than 50X energy than a normal persons house?
Did you know that the company handling Carbon Credits is owned by... Al Gore? And, who is trying to force laws requiring people to buy carbon credits?
It's "do as I say, not as I do, and give me your money!"
Why, there's loads of evidence. We had less snow than average last year, and this year we have mor than average. See, proof! We accurately predicted that the North Pole would be completely melted by Sep 2008! More proof!
We also got together all the important people in this area: cosmotoligists, phrenologists, nutritionalists, nuclear physysts, and trial lawyers. We explained that they woulod receive additional grants if they took our side, then we voted on it, and they voted for it!
Go ahead, and write one for California. Just remember that there are 57 other states to worry about (according to the president), as well as territories, protectorates, etc. and that the tax laws are constantly being changed by whatever political party happens to be in office.
Walmart doesn't have as big a problem as Amazon would, because they only have to worry about the spot there store is planted on. Once they determine what is taxable at what rates, it's not too bad. However, Amazon is required to charge taxes based on where the customer is located.
Make sure you determine what items are taxed at differeing rates based on their UPC, if it happens to have a UPC, or description if it doesn't. You will need to know such things like are tomatoes considered fruits or vegetables, because a minimum wage clerk won't. A data entry for tax status for each product won't work, because the clerk won't know how to fill it out correctly most of the time, and Amazon orders don't use clerks.
Enjoy determining what tax entity the customer is located in, because it isn't baed on zip codes. Someone on the west side of a street might be in one tax authority, while the other side of the street will be in another. If you make any mistakes in your determinations, you will be charged with numerous tax offenses and sent to prison.
Come back to us within an hour with your simple program that handles all that correctly, since it's such an easy problem.
I don't know where you'd get the tax area data, but I'm betting the government either already has it or could make it fairly quickly.
You might be able to get such information, but in my experience, it will probably cost thousands of dollars every time you want to update the information. Most likely you will have to dedicate yourself to reading all the laws passed by the state, city, district, county, etc., and they won't be sorted in any useful way, and you cannot skip over bills like a county "celebrate flowers with a smile day", because there are often attachments unrelated to the main bill that could affect taxes. Most states don't give away this highly secret information, such as what tax rates are, for free.
Also, you need to know what products are non-taxable. Some places don't put a tax on certain types of food. Then there are those that add tax to "unhealthy" foods, which could mean anything from candy to MDonalds.
Just try to get a list of 5-digit zipcodes/city names from the post office so you can do some simple validations on data entry. I believe that list starts at around $3000, must be updated quarterly, and you cannot resell it as part of your software.
If a state wants to set up these taxes, they should be required to supply the software, for free, that will calulate the tax rate for a given shipping address. Any mistakes that the program makes are NOT the users responsibility. And it must NOT be limited to Windows only.
Let's try a laser experiment. Have someone chuck a baseball at you head as hard as they can. Now, point a flashlight beam at it to deflect it. Once your head quits ringing, consider that space rocks travel a lot faster than baseballs, and a laser would have to be very powerful and very accurate to deflect it while it is within its range.
Take the most powerful laser pointer you can get, and try to move a small ball bearing with its light. Use several pointers if necessary. How many watts would it take to deflect a meterite of significant mass, based on that experiment?
Targeting would be lots of fun. You've got a radar signal, now use that to accurately lock a laser beam onto the targets center of mass, while it's travelling at some insane speed relative to yours. Heck, just design something to shoot a pistol at another bullet aimed roughly in your direction. It's a tough problem.
If you manage to blow it up into little bits, then you now have a lot of little bits travelling in the same relative direction and speed as the original one. Instead of one big hole, now you have several little holes. Which case is more likely to hit something important?
If you watch any car chases on TV, they frequently talk about the "near miss" of people on the sidewalk. I've heard it when the car was on an inner lane and the pedestrians were on the outer limit of the sidewalk.
It depends on how much excitement the reporter wants to achieve in his audience, I guess.
If we could ever get ready ahead of time it would be cool to throw up a net to entangle this thing with a bunch of instruments. It looks to be just rocky enough to hold together and carry a signification package of radios and particle collection panels etc.
Maybe we could brake it enough to put it in orbit.
Lawyers ears perk up all over the world...
Ever see an instrument after it comes into contact with a rock traveling at many times the speed of sound? If there was an atmosphere to carry the sound, "thwack!" would be an understatement.
It's not non-damaging for most sites. For retail sits it causes a loss of sales. For information sites it causes a loss of propaganda. Whatever reason the site was created, this nonsense causes that reason to be blocked. It also can cause severe problems to anyone else who resides on that piece of network. Tying up bandwidth doesn't limit itself to a single site, everyone on the network wires between the attacker and the target get hit to some extent.
In the real world, it is like nailing the doors to a business shut, while screaming 4 letter words on a megaphone. It causes the business financial loss. If you park a car intending to block access to a business, then yes, you should go to jail, and be required to pay restitution for loss of business. Especially if you stole the car, like stealing computer time from others to do the blocking.
At the least, his punishment should ban him from internet access for a serious length of time. Even if he is found not guilty because of insanity. If he cannot behave because of mental problems, others should not be punished because of his continued uncontrollable actions..
I think he means, he just wants a regular car, like a Pinto or a Yugo, but he wants to pay $75K for it. He's obviously a Democrat, who doesn't think things are expensive enough yet. Get rid of those cheap reliable American made incandescent lights, and replace them with crappy Chinese flouresents.
till they outlaw gasoline, which I don't envision in my lifetime.
You gas powered vehicle is safe, just like your light bulbs are safe. The government would never force you, by law, to use some Chinese made replacement.
Think of flipping through all the commercials. Baby diapers, Viagra and clones, coffee, Dr. Scholls, bathroom cleaners, feminine hygiene products, pet deodorants,...
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What do you mean by "both sides"? Really? What funding source were you thinking of that has a financial interest comparable to the trillion dollar profits of the fossil-fuel companies?
Al Gore's carbon credits company. The US government "lets raise taxes on fossile fuel". The ethanol "who cares that it's not ecologically viable" groups. The "lets kill off US made light bulbs for Chinese made ones". "Lets ban back yard barbecue"...
It all adds up.
That's the party line of the climate-change deniers: "Oh, it doesn't matter that the so-called skeptics are all funded by fossil-fuel companies, because both sides are funded by dirty money."
But, oddly, when there is even a rumor that a climate scientist has received as much as a lunch paid for by a source that is not absolutely spotlessly apolitical, isn't it amazing how the blogosphere lights up with accusations of how climate change is "bought and paid for." (Even when the rumor turns out to be unrelated to actual fact.)
And the Global Warming (amen) warshippers immediately circle the wagons when anything comes up that shows that a lot if their crap is nonsense. Then they have to wrangle the mess, like they do with Obama's messes, until they think it works for them. After Katrina, they predicted more and stronger hurricanes every year, so where are they? Then when a single anti- gets outed, they claim it as proof of Global Warming (amen) is caused by man.
They go "it doesn't matter about science, well just flag anything that happens as caused by global warming (amen)". Japans earthquake was blaimed on global warming (amen), for craps sake.
Al Gore isn't a climate scientist.
You finally admit it? But, isn't that movie about Global Warming his? Isn't he one of the most vocal speaker about Global Warming? Doesn't ONE of his houese burn more than 50X energy than a normal persons house?
Did you know that the company handling Carbon Credits is owned by ... Al Gore? And, who is trying to force laws requiring people to buy carbon credits?
It's "do as I say, not as I do, and give me your money!"
Why, there's loads of evidence. We had less snow than average last year, and this year we have mor than average. See, proof! We accurately predicted that the North Pole would be completely melted by Sep 2008! More proof!
We also got together all the important people in this area: cosmotoligists, phrenologists, nutritionalists, nuclear physysts, and trial lawyers. We explained that they woulod receive additional grants if they took our side, then we voted on it, and they voted for it!
So we gots lots of facts!
Why do they insist on such crappy names? Instead of calling it a "Wee You", why not call it a "Poop Me"?
Because liberals realize with small things like state-financed universities, companies like Amazon would never exist in the first place.
FTFY
Go ahead, and write one for California. Just remember that there are 57 other states to worry about (according to the president), as well as territories, protectorates, etc. and that the tax laws are constantly being changed by whatever political party happens to be in office.
Walmart doesn't have as big a problem as Amazon would, because they only have to worry about the spot there store is planted on. Once they determine what is taxable at what rates, it's not too bad. However, Amazon is required to charge taxes based on where the customer is located.
Make sure you determine what items are taxed at differeing rates based on their UPC, if it happens to have a UPC, or description if it doesn't. You will need to know such things like are tomatoes considered fruits or vegetables, because a minimum wage clerk won't. A data entry for tax status for each product won't work, because the clerk won't know how to fill it out correctly most of the time, and Amazon orders don't use clerks.
Enjoy determining what tax entity the customer is located in, because it isn't baed on zip codes. Someone on the west side of a street might be in one tax authority, while the other side of the street will be in another. If you make any mistakes in your determinations, you will be charged with numerous tax offenses and sent to prison.
Come back to us within an hour with your simple program that handles all that correctly, since it's such an easy problem.
I don't know where you'd get the tax area data, but I'm betting the government either already has it or could make it fairly quickly.
You might be able to get such information, but in my experience, it will probably cost thousands of dollars every time you want to update the information. Most likely you will have to dedicate yourself to reading all the laws passed by the state, city, district, county, etc., and they won't be sorted in any useful way, and you cannot skip over bills like a county "celebrate flowers with a smile day", because there are often attachments unrelated to the main bill that could affect taxes. Most states don't give away this highly secret information, such as what tax rates are, for free.
Also, you need to know what products are non-taxable. Some places don't put a tax on certain types of food. Then there are those that add tax to "unhealthy" foods, which could mean anything from candy to MDonalds.
Just try to get a list of 5-digit zipcodes/city names from the post office so you can do some simple validations on data entry. I believe that list starts at around $3000, must be updated quarterly, and you cannot resell it as part of your software.
If a state wants to set up these taxes, they should be required to supply the software, for free, that will calulate the tax rate for a given shipping address. Any mistakes that the program makes are NOT the users responsibility. And it must NOT be limited to Windows only.
Let's try a laser experiment. Have someone chuck a baseball at you head as hard as they can. Now, point a flashlight beam at it to deflect it. Once your head quits ringing, consider that space rocks travel a lot faster than baseballs, and a laser would have to be very powerful and very accurate to deflect it while it is within its range.
Take the most powerful laser pointer you can get, and try to move a small ball bearing with its light. Use several pointers if necessary. How many watts would it take to deflect a meterite of significant mass, based on that experiment?
Targeting would be lots of fun. You've got a radar signal, now use that to accurately lock a laser beam onto the targets center of mass, while it's travelling at some insane speed relative to yours. Heck, just design something to shoot a pistol at another bullet aimed roughly in your direction. It's a tough problem.
If you manage to blow it up into little bits, then you now have a lot of little bits travelling in the same relative direction and speed as the original one. Instead of one big hole, now you have several little holes. Which case is more likely to hit something important?
If you watch any car chases on TV, they frequently talk about the "near miss" of people on the sidewalk. I've heard it when the car was on an inner lane and the pedestrians were on the outer limit of the sidewalk.
It depends on how much excitement the reporter wants to achieve in his audience, I guess.
Is he like the Menendez Brothers? You have to feel sorry for him/them because they are orphens?
Why would you use meat in a battery?
Oops, misread metal... but a meat battery still sounds like something good for a zombie movie.
As a Christian, I firmly believe that the Aztec gods knew more than mine about Armageddon. Thus the moat around my apartment filled with laser sharks.
If we could ever get ready ahead of time it would be cool to throw up a net to entangle this thing with a bunch of instruments.
It looks to be just rocky enough to hold together and carry a signification package of radios and particle collection panels etc.
Maybe we could brake it enough to put it in orbit.
Lawyers ears perk up all over the world...
Ever see an instrument after it comes into contact with a rock traveling at many times the speed of sound? If there was an atmosphere to carry the sound, "thwack!" would be an understatement.
OK, someone has to say it.
1. Collect underpants.
2. ???
3. Profit.
More than making them take their underpants off and get felt up by strangers would?
When you consider the number of terrorists that have been caught by the TSA, then you might reconsider their underwear searches. Or maybe not.
It's not non-damaging for most sites. For retail sits it causes a loss of sales. For information sites it causes a loss of propaganda. Whatever reason the site was created, this nonsense causes that reason to be blocked. It also can cause severe problems to anyone else who resides on that piece of network. Tying up bandwidth doesn't limit itself to a single site, everyone on the network wires between the attacker and the target get hit to some extent.
In the real world, it is like nailing the doors to a business shut, while screaming 4 letter words on a megaphone. It causes the business financial loss. If you park a car intending to block access to a business, then yes, you should go to jail, and be required to pay restitution for loss of business. Especially if you stole the car, like stealing computer time from others to do the blocking.
At the least, his punishment should ban him from internet access for a serious length of time. Even if he is found not guilty because of insanity. If he cannot behave because of mental problems, others should not be punished because of his continued uncontrollable actions..
Were they really fired? That should be the first question asked. No need for conspiracy theories if nothing actually happened.
You don't need anything so complicated. Just hack his teleprompters, and you own him.
You realize that there is probably a story behind each of the warning labels. And an expensive lawsuit.
How long would it last in a river like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River
Drop your pool in the water, then try to filter out the components after your pool disolves?
And yes, I have decades of pool experience.
As an experienced pool boy, do you have to bring your own music soundtracks with you or do they come with the pool?
Ok, maybe I could believe in this if they could produce a picture of a subluxation. X-Ray, MRI, even a photograph. They can't do it.
I think he means, he just wants a regular car, like a Pinto or a Yugo, but he wants to pay $75K for it. He's obviously a Democrat, who doesn't think things are expensive enough yet. Get rid of those cheap reliable American made incandescent lights, and replace them with crappy Chinese flouresents.
till they outlaw gasoline, which I don't envision in my lifetime.
You gas powered vehicle is safe, just like your light bulbs are safe. The government would never force you, by law, to use some Chinese made replacement.
Think of flipping through all the commercials. Baby diapers, Viagra and clones, coffee, Dr. Scholls, bathroom cleaners, feminine hygiene products, pet deodorants, ...
It would be like living in a college dorm again!