Isn't there a way to lift taxes when it hits the EU borders I sell downloadable software. This law specifically singles out digital delivery. Even if I offer a "download now and get it on CD too" option, this law still says I have to collect the taxes (again, I think it's a trust issue...they don't trust their citizens not to download the software and then not show up to take delivery of the CD and pay the VAT).
Keep in mind that this is the EU, not the US. We are not that paranoid and not that hostile to one another. The only reason for putting you in jail would be electing morons who crave world domination and free shipments of crude oil.
Hey, I didn't even vote for the first Bush. I certainly didn't vote for the 2nd one.
A simple note on your site stating that prices do not include sales tax would be sufficient.
The problem is that (from what I've been told) people there are accustomed to seeing VAT in the price, and when they don't they get a bit upset about it.
To put this tax into perspective: it is a tax lifted on luxury goods, and this helps to keep our social security system running.
If the EU wants to tax their own citizens, that's perfectly fine to me, I don't have a problem with it. So what they need to do is require people to pay the VAT themselves on anything they buy from a non EU vendor. Don't get me involved in the process. What it boils down to is that they can't trust their own citizens to pay the tax, so they throw the responsibility of collecting on me.
Imagine what it will look like once Canada, Australia, Russia, Korea, China, Mexico,... all add their own tax rates.
The other option is to have 1 price and eat the cost, but that doesn't feel right either.
It's also been pointed out to me several times that the US fought quite hard a few centuries ago to break away from foreign taxation, and this new VAT tax tries to put us back under taxation again. Sure, you may say its not the US vendor being taxed, but does the EU care where the money comes from (whether I eat the cost or pass it on to the customer)? No...they just want the money from me. In addition, as I said, it costs fees to process and send them the VAT I "collected for them". That certainly feels like I'm being taxed.
This is good news. Now if only we can get them to do something about the ridiculous VAT which Europe has imposed on the rest of the world. As a US software developer selling from my own web site, I am required* to collect VAT on all sales to EU customers. Not only am I required* to collect it, I have to send it to them at my expense. On top of all that, the new internet VAT law is quite confusing, and even the people responsible for making and enforcing it can't seem to agree on exactly what it covers (ex: does it apply to companies whose EU sales fall below a minimum threshold? Some say yes, some say no, some say they'll get back with you).
What makes it even worse is that EU customers are accustomed to having VAT shown in the price, whereas in the US everyone is used to seeing prices without TAX (actually, it goes beyond that...I've been told in the EU it is illegal to display prices without VAT) This means on my web site, if I want to sell a $20 item, I have to display it as $20 to US customers, but as $23.50 to EU customers. Of course, identifying the origin of a website visitor isn't quite an exact science, so it makes it quite difficult to automate this.
If congress could do something about this it would make things so much easier. Maybe pass a law making it illegal to collect taxes for a foreign government. They could start a whole "collecting money for foreign governments funds terrorism" campaign.
* No, I'm not required by US law to collect EU VAT, but should I ever choose to visit the EU on business or vacation, I suppose I could find myself in a bit of trouble for not doing so.
Going once...going twice...sold to the small man with the runny nose for 2.3 million. ... Ok, the next highest bid was I believe yours, sir, with 2.1 million. ... Yes, well. Were there any serious bids on this item?
Well, if they want to foot the bill for the long distance call, I'd be glad to sit on the phone with them for 10 minutes learning about their incredible credit card offer and the free gift I'll get for signing up (I won't sign up, but I'll listen).
Please don't have kids. The truth is great and all, but the world needs fewer emotionally disturbed children. Children raise in the manner you describe almost always form a negative opinion of themself (how could they not), develop a low self-esteem, and become failures in life as part of some sick, self-fulfilling prophecy. So if that's the way you really think kids should be raised, I beg of you to do this world a favor and not have kids.
If a kid can write the word out on a card to show it to the damn (sorry, d*mn) doll, it ain't gonna hurt them if they hear it sounded out.
But rather than reinforce the word to the child, the doll lets them know that it's a bad word. The same way just about any responsible parent would if their kid said the word in front of them.
Besides, sometimes kids don't actually know what the word is. Older brothers often like to torture their younger siblings, and I definitely remember a few times where my older brother got a kick out of tricking me into saying a bad word to my parents. If someone teaches a kid how to write a swear word, I think it's a good idea for this doll to let them know it's not actually a good word.
That article talks mostly about Chimeras, and pre-birth blood sharing. The only other mention it has is of blood that persists from a transfusion. As I said, DNA is sometimes transfused with the blood, and it may linger around for a while, but it will all eventually die out and be replaced by new cells produced by your own marrow.
I trust it more than I trust someone called Lord Kronos
You want to poke at my name, yet you posted as an Anonymous Coward? Whatever. Don't trust me if you want, but I happen to have been the recipient of a aortic valve transplant. This was a very real concern for my mother, and she asked the doctor about it, and the above is the answer he gave us.
However the same would apply to someone who received a blood transfusion. Nope. For starters, most blood transfusions involve no transfer of DNA, only packed red blood cells. In the cases where DNA transfer does take place, you would temporarily have mixed DNA. However, all blood cells die off eventually (about every 4 months, as I recall) and get replaced, so eventually your blood DNA would purify itself. The only think that would change your blood DNA permanently would be a bone marrow transplant.
That's not going to work. All you are going to do would be to needlessly DOS www.geocities.com without any particular spammers site being identified. Geocities would have no way to identify which site is the spammer's, and their hourly bandwidth would never get used up, and thus would still be available for those who click on the links.
Also, consider that spammers could move the identifier to the other end of the url. Just have *.spammer.com or www.*.spammer.com resolve to the same site, and start putting the identifiers in the domain. They could even use random dictionary words as the identifiers to make it more difficult to pick out. The only way to combat that would be to have a system that compares the URLs from several spams and figures out which parts of the URLs changed per user.
Placed ads? I don't know. Quite often they bring in a freebie with no mention of who it was donated by and no company name on it that I can see. I remember several times I was thinking that the donaters were probably disappointed because the builders probably told them that they'd get some publicity on the show if they gave free parts, only to have the freebie brought in with no mention on the show of who it's from.
Yeah, granted the base vehicle is a gimme, not included in $3000, but beyond that (with the exception of the hot air ballon) I don't think they really get any official help from the show. I get the impression it's all deals the guys on the show cut, calling in favors, haggling, begging, etc. Perhaps the show does arrange all the Freebies, but at least I don't get that impression.
But I think that is aside from my point. The pontoon bus is much closer to "for the masses" than $850K
You want a floating bus for the masses? Screw $850K. Monster Garage did it for under $3K: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/monstergar age/ep isode/episode_08.html
Theres some pics of it in the water here: http://origprod.com/MG08.html
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a site with good "in the water" pics.
No it doesn't. Does he need to post the question a THIRD time? The core of his question was "how would/did InterTrust find out about it". Talking about what patents do and don't cover doesn't answer that. He's curious, did they get ahold of the source somehow? Did a former employee break an NDA and blab? Is this going to turn out the be something as shady as the SCO situation? I think that's what he was asking.
Read it again..."COD", as in "Cash On Delivery". Meaning you pay the delivery person in cash when it's delivered (or in his example, when you pick it up at the UPS office). Assuming you can do a UPS COD pickup without showing ID (i've never tried), the only think you have to fear is the security video tape at the UPS office.
Did you read the article? A group of 7 people filed a suit against them claiming extortion. The judge ruled in favor of DirecTV and awarded DirecTV $100,000 in lawyers fees. Not only did these people get screwed out of $3500 each, they got screwed out of another $14000 each trying to fight the company.
Is it any wonder that...heart disease and lung cancer now claim 3 times the number of deaths than they did 2 hundred years ago.
Two hundred years ago, the US population was approximately 5 million. Now we have over 280 million people. We have about 55 times as many people, but only 3 times as many people die from cancer? That's an amazing accomplishment if your numbers are correct (which I doubt, but don't have the time to look up now).
Where'd that "$1 per share" stuff come from? All the reports I've seen today speculate about an increase from 8 to 26 cents per share, max.
From the article: "Shareholders could receive the dividend in one payment or spread out over three or four quarters". So, maybe the 26 cent figure you saw was based on paying out roughly $1 per share spread over 4 quarters.
6.Common words and phrases that would not be found in the setting of the game (e.g. Television, Cellphone, Pickuptruck, Dude). This includes references to drug substances or drug related paraphernalia. (e.g. Ecstacy, Cannibis)
So, they are advanced enough that they have invented space travel, can travel between galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, and R2-D2 has this really cool holographic projector, but they haven't yet invented the television or the cell phone?
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Isn't there a way to lift taxes when it hits the EU borders
I sell downloadable software. This law specifically singles out digital delivery. Even if I offer a "download now and get it on CD too" option, this law still says I have to collect the taxes (again, I think it's a trust issue...they don't trust their citizens not to download the software and then not show up to take delivery of the CD and pay the VAT).
Keep in mind that this is the EU, not the US. We are not that paranoid and not that hostile to one another. The only reason for putting you in jail would be electing morons who crave world domination and free shipments of crude oil.
Hey, I didn't even vote for the first Bush. I certainly didn't vote for the 2nd one.
A simple note on your site stating that prices do not include sales tax would be sufficient.
The problem is that (from what I've been told) people there are accustomed to seeing VAT in the price, and when they don't they get a bit upset about it.
To put this tax into perspective: it is a tax lifted on luxury goods, and this helps to keep our social security system running.
If the EU wants to tax their own citizens, that's perfectly fine to me, I don't have a problem with it. So what they need to do is require people to pay the VAT themselves on anything they buy from a non EU vendor. Don't get me involved in the process. What it boils down to is that they can't trust their own citizens to pay the tax, so they throw the responsibility of collecting on me.
Imagine what it will look like once Canada, Australia, Russia, Korea, China, Mexico, ... all add their own tax rates.
The other option is to have 1 price and eat the cost, but that doesn't feel right either.
It's also been pointed out to me several times that the US fought quite hard a few centuries ago to break away from foreign taxation, and this new VAT tax tries to put us back under taxation again. Sure, you may say its not the US vendor being taxed, but does the EU care where the money comes from (whether I eat the cost or pass it on to the customer)? No...they just want the money from me. In addition, as I said, it costs fees to process and send them the VAT I "collected for them". That certainly feels like I'm being taxed.
This is good news. Now if only we can get them to do something about the ridiculous VAT which Europe has imposed on the rest of the world. As a US software developer selling from my own web site, I am required* to collect VAT on all sales to EU customers. Not only am I required* to collect it, I have to send it to them at my expense. On top of all that, the new internet VAT law is quite confusing, and even the people responsible for making and enforcing it can't seem to agree on exactly what it covers (ex: does it apply to companies whose EU sales fall below a minimum threshold? Some say yes, some say no, some say they'll get back with you).
What makes it even worse is that EU customers are accustomed to having VAT shown in the price, whereas in the US everyone is used to seeing prices without TAX (actually, it goes beyond that...I've been told in the EU it is illegal to display prices without VAT) This means on my web site, if I want to sell a $20 item, I have to display it as $20 to US customers, but as $23.50 to EU customers. Of course, identifying the origin of a website visitor isn't quite an exact science, so it makes it quite difficult to automate this.
If congress could do something about this it would make things so much easier. Maybe pass a law making it illegal to collect taxes for a foreign government. They could start a whole "collecting money for foreign governments funds terrorism" campaign.
* No, I'm not required by US law to collect EU VAT, but should I ever choose to visit the EU on business or vacation, I suppose I could find myself in a bit of trouble for not doing so.
More on this story at eleven.
Not if Taco dupes it at 10:30
Going once...going twice...sold to the small man with the runny nose for 2.3 million.
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Ok, the next highest bid was I believe yours, sir, with 2.1 million.
Yes, well. Were there any serious bids on this item?
Well, if they want to foot the bill for the long distance call, I'd be glad to sit on the phone with them for 10 minutes learning about their incredible credit card offer and the free gift I'll get for signing up (I won't sign up, but I'll listen).
Please don't have kids. The truth is great and all, but the world needs fewer emotionally disturbed children. Children raise in the manner you describe almost always form a negative opinion of themself (how could they not), develop a low self-esteem, and become failures in life as part of some sick, self-fulfilling prophecy. So if that's the way you really think kids should be raised, I beg of you to do this world a favor and not have kids.
If a kid can write the word out on a card to show it to the damn (sorry, d*mn) doll, it ain't gonna hurt them if they hear it sounded out.
But rather than reinforce the word to the child, the doll lets them know that it's a bad word. The same way just about any responsible parent would if their kid said the word in front of them.
Besides, sometimes kids don't actually know what the word is. Older brothers often like to torture their younger siblings, and I definitely remember a few times where my older brother got a kick out of tricking me into saying a bad word to my parents. If someone teaches a kid how to write a swear word, I think it's a good idea for this doll to let them know it's not actually a good word.
Ooops...I meant man, not woman. And it looks like this was more than just a one time freak occurrence:
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92942,00.ht
A 79 year old man plows through another farmer's market just 10 days later. Looks like farmer's markets really are a bad place to be.
I don't get it?
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...kills 9, injures 54.
Neither did I, but a google search for "old people farmer's market" brought up this:
http://us.cnn.com/2003/US/West/07/16/farmers.ma
86 year old woman plows through a farmers market
That article talks mostly about Chimeras, and pre-birth blood sharing. The only other mention it has is of blood that persists from a transfusion. As I said, DNA is sometimes transfused with the blood, and it may linger around for a while, but it will all eventually die out and be replaced by new cells produced by your own marrow.
I trust it more than I trust someone called Lord Kronos
You want to poke at my name, yet you posted as an Anonymous Coward? Whatever. Don't trust me if you want, but I happen to have been the recipient of a aortic valve transplant. This was a very real concern for my mother, and she asked the doctor about it, and the above is the answer he gave us.
However the same would apply to someone who received a blood transfusion. Nope. For starters, most blood transfusions involve no transfer of DNA, only packed red blood cells. In the cases where DNA transfer does take place, you would temporarily have mixed DNA. However, all blood cells die off eventually (about every 4 months, as I recall) and get replaced, so eventually your blood DNA would purify itself. The only think that would change your blood DNA permanently would be a bone marrow transplant.
That's not going to work. All you are going to do would be to needlessly DOS www.geocities.com without any particular spammers site being identified. Geocities would have no way to identify which site is the spammer's, and their hourly bandwidth would never get used up, and thus would still be available for those who click on the links.
Also, consider that spammers could move the identifier to the other end of the url. Just have *.spammer.com or www.*.spammer.com resolve to the same site, and start putting the identifiers in the domain. They could even use random dictionary words as the identifiers to make it more difficult to pick out. The only way to combat that would be to have a system that compares the URLs from several spams and figures out which parts of the URLs changed per user.
Wish I had mod points.
Placed ads? I don't know. Quite often they bring in a freebie with no mention of who it was donated by and no company name on it that I can see. I remember several times I was thinking that the donaters were probably disappointed because the builders probably told them that they'd get some publicity on the show if they gave free parts, only to have the freebie brought in with no mention on the show of who it's from.
Yeah, granted the base vehicle is a gimme, not included in $3000, but beyond that (with the exception of the hot air ballon) I don't think they really get any official help from the show. I get the impression it's all deals the guys on the show cut, calling in favors, haggling, begging, etc. Perhaps the show does arrange all the Freebies, but at least I don't get that impression.
But I think that is aside from my point. The pontoon bus is much closer to "for the masses" than $850K
You want a floating bus for the masses? Screw $850K. Monster Garage did it for under $3K:r age/ep isode/episode_08.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/monsterga
Theres some pics of it in the water here:
http://origprod.com/MG08.html
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a site with good "in the water" pics.
Does this sufficiently answer Question 2?
No it doesn't. Does he need to post the question a THIRD time? The core of his question was "how would/did InterTrust find out about it". Talking about what patents do and don't cover doesn't answer that. He's curious, did they get ahold of the source somehow? Did a former employee break an NDA and blab? Is this going to turn out the be something as shady as the SCO situation? I think that's what he was asking.
directing an intense coherent beam of invisible light...of visual interest to a cat
That's alright, I'm safe. My cat tends to prefer visible light.
Read it again..."COD", as in "Cash On Delivery". Meaning you pay the delivery person in cash when it's delivered (or in his example, when you pick it up at the UPS office). Assuming you can do a UPS COD pickup without showing ID (i've never tried), the only think you have to fear is the security video tape at the UPS office.
Did you read the article? A group of 7 people filed a suit against them claiming extortion. The judge ruled in favor of DirecTV and awarded DirecTV $100,000 in lawyers fees. Not only did these people get screwed out of $3500 each, they got screwed out of another $14000 each trying to fight the company.
Is it any wonder that...heart disease and lung cancer now claim 3 times the number of deaths than they did 2 hundred years ago.
Two hundred years ago, the US population was approximately 5 million. Now we have over 280 million people. We have about 55 times as many people, but only 3 times as many people die from cancer? That's an amazing accomplishment if your numbers are correct (which I doubt, but don't have the time to look up now).
Where'd that "$1 per share" stuff come from? All the reports I've seen today speculate about an increase from 8 to 26 cents per share, max.
From the article: "Shareholders could receive the dividend in one payment or spread out over three or four quarters".
So, maybe the 26 cent figure you saw was based on paying out roughly $1 per share spread over 4 quarters.
6.Common words and phrases that would not be found in the setting of the game (e.g. Television, Cellphone, Pickuptruck, Dude). This includes references to drug substances or drug related paraphernalia. (e.g. Ecstacy, Cannibis)
So, they are advanced enough that they have invented space travel, can travel between galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, and R2-D2 has this really cool holographic projector, but they haven't yet invented the television or the cell phone?