any word on how it impacts a dual-boot box? does it render your lilo or grub setup useless?
Just how are those with screwed computer supposed to post? That's a joke, laugh.
Can you give me a good reason for a silly userland program to write to the boot sector? It's a bad practice that can cause trouble. The chances might be 1000 to 1 against me having problems, but I'm not taking them. I've been using Turbo Tax for years. Not this year.
It's worth $30 to me to save several hours of sifting through stacks of paper, re-checking my calculations and making sure I've copied the correct numbers from form A to form B.
I've used and loved Intuit's program, but I'm not using it this year. The only thing more painful than Federal Income Taxes is rebuilding a Windows Machine. I'd rather spend an hour getting the correct forms from the library and getting my wife to double check the calculations. It might be as easy to fix as sticking a Red Hat CD in and pointing to the correct partitions but I'm not taking the risk.
Microsoft is more painful than the Feds, no wonder they keep getting away with anti-trust violations and have displays in Post Offices!
If asthmatic, neurotic geeks improve their chances in the great slot machine of life, then future generations may be cursed with poorer health and social skills (which are essential to proper child-rearing), a state that will only be perpetuated and intensified in generations to come.
Don't be so hard on yourself. Your mother loved you, right? No? Oh, I am sorry.
Because when you think about it, solar panels generate electricity for 0 cents per kWh. You just have to purchase and finance them. So they form an attractive price stabilization measure / hedge even at higher finance prices.
That's silly, costs are costs. You can determine the cost of the electricity any source costs. You have the cost of land and equipment, maintenance, and fuel. Solar lacks the fuel cost, but makes up for it on the equipment cost. Money is money, show me the money!
Comparing the prices of renewable power to non-renewable power to judge environmental effects isn't appropriate unless you factor in the cost of depleting the (irreplaceable) fuel supply.
Nuclear is renewable. You can breed and reprocess fuel practically forever.
Not to mention that the cost of fossil and nuclear power almost certainly doesn't factor in the (non-trivial) costs of safeguarding their supply of fuels (i.e. how much will this year's Iraq invasion cost the US? How much does it cost to secure each nuclear plant against terrorists? How much does it cost to clean up after a nuclear plant when it is closed down or blown up?)
You can spend an infinite amount on "security" and "clean up" and such costs can be used to kill anything. Decomisioning costs are already included in your bill, indeed they are part of the 2.5 cent figure. So are the cost of all sorts of absurd spending, armored machine gun emplacements, double fences with razor wire, radar and microphones constantly monitored between those fences, "monkey cages" designed to slow progress outside and inside the plant, fixtures designed to injure parachutists, M16 armed security gaurds, games played with Special Forces, and even a new office that must evaluate terror potential of new modifications. Places like Yucka mountian demonstrate that ludites can add unreasonable costs to anything. You have paid 17.5 billion dollars for a two million dollar hole. Still, the costs have been livable. Reading "Fallen Angels", I loved seeing the word "appropriate" in your post. "Appropriate Technology" will ruin us. Listen to the engineers, they still believe in a better tomorrow.
Where are you getting electricity for 2.5 cents an hour? Mine is costing me about 8!... Also, it would be more fair, if we're to do an apples to apples comparison, so look at the environmental costs of coal, gas, hydro, nuke in making the judgement. Yes, I know those costs aren't reflected in your power bill...
That price does not accuratly reflect costs. The cost of generating electricity by nukes. It is about 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour. This includes decomissioning and disposal costs, which are higher than they would be if the federal government would keep it's end of Yucka mountian. Yucka mountian is added to your electric bill and so that's part of your 8 cents. Other things that go into that price are higher cost "peaking" power, distribution, taxes. Windmills and other stuff like that cost lots of money and can be thought of as a "feel good" or a research and development tax.
In short, disposal costs ARE a part of the cost I quoted. Power companies used to be gaurnteed a "reasonable" rate of return on investment. Obviously, covering all of your costs is part of reasonable.
"That sidesteps the issue as I see it!", you might cry. OK, I'll make it easier for you. Find yourself some solar cells that make electricity for less than the rate the power company will sell it to you. If you don't include disposal costs, you are screwing yourself. If you can find such cells, more power to you and let me know about it. I'll slap them on my roof. Remember, however, that economies of scale allways apply. When such cells are invented, it may still be cheaper to make a huge farm of them looked after by a few people than it would be for everybody to slap them on their buildings and hire people to look after them. Centralization and co operation have saved us money in the past and they can save us money in the future, regardless of the technology in question. Self reliance is something you might want to pay for anyway.
Anyway, it's not like MS are actually threatened by Apple, anybody who runs the numbers can see that. It's just a side show, an entertaining game to try and give the surface appearance that there's actually competition in the markets.
It looks like real work to me. You have to go to considerable effort to hide M$'s loss of PC share. You used to hear silly things like "only 5%" of the world does not use M$ at the same time you knew that 7% of users were on Macs. Now we hear M$ say that about 10% of users have Macs and that Linux is larger than Mac. Hmmmm, how to juglgle those numbers and make it look like one in five people are sailing along just fine without any help from Redmond? I suppose you just keep on lying. It must work the same way the RIAA uses the media to blame "internet piracy" for declining sales of music. Ha! Just keep on putting out the same old BS.
The problem comes when people realize you are full of shit. Then no amount of spending can save you.
Most commercially-available solar panels of the silicon variety are derived from purified sand.... How is this environmentally unfriendly?
What do you dope it with? How long do those cells last in direct sunlight? How long will the plastic sheeting encasing these particular cells last?
Can you make electricity which costs 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour yet? Don't forget to add disposal costs. When you can do that, your photovoltaics will be competitive with nuclear power and sometimes natural gas.
Are we being honest here? Anyone who covers their building with solar cells right now is doing it more to make a statement than to get power. If that statement is one of self sufficiancy, great and more power to them. If the statement is "environment friend" the speaker is ignorant or dishonest.
Hope this works better than the law which mandates the $500 fine per unsolicted fax. I get about 5 unsolicited faxes per day, more than I ever got from telemarketer calls.....
Do you use $500 bills for toilet paper? Just wondering.
My wife and I did that and the same people called right back the next day. Low budget callers simply give phone books to their $5/hour employees and tell them to call. Most other places just don't care.
So either it's an "unfunded madate" for the FTC, or they intend to collect money from the telemarketing community very quickly.
Oh no! If they can make money off it, it will never go away. That's why it's an opt-out instead of opt-in list. Look for any law to have enough loopholes to make no difference.
Mexico is revolution proof because they already had their revolution. Ha!
Many people have been living with IQ caps for a while now. For example, Fearan (the largest Slashdot troll in Quebec, Canada) limits his IQ to 60, which is 2/3 the amount considered nomral. An IQ of 60 is MORE than enough for anyone, even hardcore warez downloaders (30 is average!) If someone has to have an IQ of greater than 60 it's easy to schedule your thoughts. Even with 15 hours of sleep, someone would only do about 90. Stop putting your panties in such a fit for something other people have suffered through and accepted to live with already.
Did you hear the joke about toilet paper in the Soviet Union? No? that's because there was none. All anyone ever needed was 640k of RAM, I just don't understand this gigabyte talk. YOu should all be happy with 300 baud modema under Ma Bell. Get over it, yeah!
Sarcasim asside, there are many other legitimate uses of that kind of bandwith that have nothing to do with Warez, crap music and all that other jazz. A reasonably active free software package can easily suck up this kind of bandwith. No, that's not a business. You might also want to share uncompressed music with your friends. Hey, you might even want to share movies with your family. Oh, my goodness, "always on high speed internet" is looking like a lie.
The personal assumptions in your flame are all wrong.
Yet the implied message of your flame is that those who wish to hide their credit history have a bad one. Did you ever stop to think that the things you own are none of your employer's business? That makes you a hip, uhh, hypocrite.
If people would just save up for things instead of buying things on debt they wouldn't have nearly the credit problems.
So, you bought a house with cash? Most people consider that equity half of their retirement. Few wish to be at the mercy of a landlord their whole lives. You either don't mind, bought a house with cash, or you live with your mom.
Borrowing money and not paying it back is [silly bold tag]theft[unbold tag].
You are not a laywer are you home boy? People go to jail for theft. People are legaly protected from their creditors if they have the misfortune of bankruptsy. Banks are insured against such stuff because it's a normal part of business. Things don't always go well, Lord Rear Ender.
An attitude like yours only comes from a lack of experience. Strangely enough, such an attitude is self curing by encouraging others to dupe the needed experience on you.
You say, as an insult,
I never understood bad credit. Why would someone think he can spend more money he has and get away with it? If you can't afford something, don't buy it. Geeze.
Let me help you understand. When you move out of your mom's house you have to live somewhere and you have to be able to get from where you live to work. These are all long term obligations that might last longer than your current job. Rent that looked trivial with a normal pay check is hard to meet on unemployment. Housenotes plus utilities are worse. If you don't have decent public transportation where you live, you also bought a car. You will go "upside down" on the car as what you can sell it for won't cover the costs of the loan you made to buy it unless you got a really good deal on a used car. Obviously you don't have a wife or children.
Now for something that sucks. A company can look at your credit record and tell the difference between someone who's been honestly screwed as above and someone who blew loads of money on trivial bullshit like a home entertainment system, a sports car, and all the other joys of life worker bees like you and me are not supposed to enjoy. Most companies like for their employees to be good little self sacrificing suckers. Sailing, fishing, sking, that's for the boss. Sadly, companies are in a position to make these kinds of demands.
I'd comply, because I've been a good little self sacrificing fool and I've had family money to fall back on everytime I've been screwed. At age 36, with a 14 month old baby girl and wife to support, my decisions impact more than myself now and I can no longer stand entirely by my principles.
Still, I understand this man's pricipled stand and hope the best. He's right, it's none of the company's business and they can only use it pick out people they think they can abuse. We're not talking about possitions spying for the government where dishonesty is a given, we are talking about normal jobs at normal companies.
If you don't like it, either use IE (not me thanks) or not visit the website (that would be me).
Sounds painless but let's apply that logic to other M$ products. How about M$ web servers? Hey, it's their software, who says it has to work with other people's browsers? Hopefully, the collection of big_dumb_companies clueless enough to use that package will mind, when people like me can't read their website, buy their shit or apply for jobs with them because I refuse to pay the M$ tax. Think they would not do that? Well, like you, I would not have imagined they would break their own portal and thus show the world what a buch of incompetents or anti-competive jerks they are.
No one is forcing me to read your post either. Still, it irritates me. No one is suggesting legal measures web sites but you. Your FUD and defense of M$ are sickening.
It also irritates me that M$ would pull a stunt like this. It sends the message, "Only M$ IE works all the time," which would be true if IE worked. You don't imagine that they would also break hotmail and other sites they own, do you? Or how about putting a break into sites dumb enough to use M$ webservers? You know, like corporate and government sites intentionally sending out bogus code to non M$ browsers. A priciple, once identified, can be apllied anywhere.
No, but it's just an innocent mistake, right? Just like them shutting out alternate browsers a while back, or messing with Mac versions for hotmail users, or, you get the picture. Why do you write shit like this?
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The companies are among the first in the nation to collect sales taxes from online shoppers across the country, not just shoppers who live in the states where the companies maintain actual stores or distribution centers.
So, that's new and dumb and just what you were expecting. Think a little about it. Why should a mom and pop online retailer have to pay out of state sales taxes? It puts a huge burden on anyone who would do business on the web to keep track of ever other state's taxes. If you take the reasoning to it's conclusion, they would have to keep track of every county, parish and municiple tax as well. Yet they recieve no benifit or services from that tax! I've seen BS about paying for roads posted by ignoramouses that don't know that most roads are funded by gasoline taxes. Local sales taxes pay for things like police, fire and other normal government functions. I'm in Louisana, taxes paid to Texas are useless to me.
No, you are not going to make money off the data"service" either. Keeping track of all of that is something only a huge business that's everywhere already, such as Walmart, can do. Don't get your hopes up that local governments will get any friendlier to your business ambitions than they are to would be cable operators. That sharpie is likely to be mom and pop's competitors and they are not going to make it easy for anyone else to get in the game.
This is just another nail in the coffin of the comercial internet. We are quickly moving away from peer machines operating on peer networks to a big stupid McScrew you advert net where your services are not welcome. It's in direct contradiction of the State of the Union promise to spur small business. Make something interesting. Want to sell it? No way, that would hurt WalMart and other importers of crap from China! I'm going to be sick. So much for the equal footing between me and Walmart that the internet promissed.
Quote article: The companies are among the first in the nation to collect sales taxes from online shoppers across the country, not just shoppers who live in the states where the companies maintain actual stores or distribution centers.
So, that's new and dumb and just what you were expecting. Think a little about it. Why should a mom and pop online retailer have to pay out of state sales taxes? It puts a huge burden on anyone who would do business on the web to keep track of ever other state's taxes. If you take the reasoning to it's conclusion, they would have to keep track of every county, parish and municiple tax as well. Yet they recieve no benifit or services from that tax! I've seen BS about paying for roads posted by ignoramouses that don't know that most roads are funded by gasoline taxes. Local sales taxes pay for things like police, fire and other normal government functions. I'm in Louisana, taxes paid to Texas are useless to me.
No, you are not going to make money off the data"service" either. Keeping track of all of that is something only a huge business that's everywhere already, such as Walmart, can do. Don't get your hopes up that local governments will get any friendlier to your business ambitions than they are to would be cable operators. That sharpie is likely to be mom and pop's competitors and they are not going to make it easy for anyone else to get in the game.
This is just another nail in the coffin of the comercial internet. We are quickly moving away from peer machines operating on peer networks to a big stupid McScrew you advert net where your services are not welcome. It's in direct contradiction of the State of the Union promise to spur small business. Make something interesting. Want to sell it? No way, that would hurt WalMart and other importers of crap from China! I'm going to be sick.
What do they really have to force an audit? They have unilateral termination EULAs, that's what. If you don't agree to the search, I'm sure M$ would be happy to terminate your license, in which case you would then have unlicensed software. See there? that silly EULA thingy DOES MATTER.
The solution, of course, is to ditch all the BSA software. No software, no audit.
It would be really awesome to see this tried - although I dont know how much peroxide would be required to produce enough for distance travelling etc....
Put up a page with photo copies of the letter you get from a credit card company when you report credit card fraud.
Make sure that the account numbers are clearly legible, along with your name, address, social security number and anything else that might be useful. Otherwise we just don't believe you wil^H^H^H were ripped off.
Eight months of solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment. I've been unemployed for the last four months. The loss of contact with the people at work was crushing. I'm embarassed to go out durring the day and all interaction with strangers brings on a sense of guilt. My feeling of loss of contact are nothing next to being denied ALL contact with others. It's difficult to imagine a harsher punishment except for a longer confinement. As he was held without charges his period of confinement was unknown and that only makes it worse. He deserved to be punished but no one deserves that. Execution is kinder.
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when just one stolen credit card will buy more box cutters than you and all your friends can carry?
Just how are those with screwed computer supposed to post? That's a joke, laugh.
Can you give me a good reason for a silly userland program to write to the boot sector? It's a bad practice that can cause trouble. The chances might be 1000 to 1 against me having problems, but I'm not taking them. I've been using Turbo Tax for years. Not this year.
I've used and loved Intuit's program, but I'm not using it this year. The only thing more painful than Federal Income Taxes is rebuilding a Windows Machine. I'd rather spend an hour getting the correct forms from the library and getting my wife to double check the calculations. It might be as easy to fix as sticking a Red Hat CD in and pointing to the correct partitions but I'm not taking the risk.
Microsoft is more painful than the Feds, no wonder they keep getting away with anti-trust violations and have displays in Post Offices!
Don't be so hard on yourself. Your mother loved you, right? No? Oh, I am sorry.
Because when you think about it, solar panels generate electricity for 0 cents per kWh. You just have to purchase and finance them. So they form an attractive price stabilization measure / hedge even at higher finance prices.
That's silly, costs are costs. You can determine the cost of the electricity any source costs. You have the cost of land and equipment, maintenance, and fuel. Solar lacks the fuel cost, but makes up for it on the equipment cost. Money is money, show me the money!
Nuclear is renewable. You can breed and reprocess fuel practically forever.
Not to mention that the cost of fossil and nuclear power almost certainly doesn't factor in the (non-trivial) costs of safeguarding their supply of fuels (i.e. how much will this year's Iraq invasion cost the US? How much does it cost to secure each nuclear plant against terrorists? How much does it cost to clean up after a nuclear plant when it is closed down or blown up?)
You can spend an infinite amount on "security" and "clean up" and such costs can be used to kill anything. Decomisioning costs are already included in your bill, indeed they are part of the 2.5 cent figure. So are the cost of all sorts of absurd spending, armored machine gun emplacements, double fences with razor wire, radar and microphones constantly monitored between those fences, "monkey cages" designed to slow progress outside and inside the plant, fixtures designed to injure parachutists, M16 armed security gaurds, games played with Special Forces, and even a new office that must evaluate terror potential of new modifications. Places like Yucka mountian demonstrate that ludites can add unreasonable costs to anything. You have paid 17.5 billion dollars for a two million dollar hole. Still, the costs have been livable. Reading "Fallen Angels", I loved seeing the word "appropriate" in your post. "Appropriate Technology" will ruin us. Listen to the engineers, they still believe in a better tomorrow.
That price does not accuratly reflect costs. The cost of generating electricity by nukes. It is about 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour. This includes decomissioning and disposal costs, which are higher than they would be if the federal government would keep it's end of Yucka mountian. Yucka mountian is added to your electric bill and so that's part of your 8 cents. Other things that go into that price are higher cost "peaking" power, distribution, taxes. Windmills and other stuff like that cost lots of money and can be thought of as a "feel good" or a research and development tax.
In short, disposal costs ARE a part of the cost I quoted. Power companies used to be gaurnteed a "reasonable" rate of return on investment. Obviously, covering all of your costs is part of reasonable.
"That sidesteps the issue as I see it!", you might cry. OK, I'll make it easier for you. Find yourself some solar cells that make electricity for less than the rate the power company will sell it to you. If you don't include disposal costs, you are screwing yourself. If you can find such cells, more power to you and let me know about it. I'll slap them on my roof. Remember, however, that economies of scale allways apply. When such cells are invented, it may still be cheaper to make a huge farm of them looked after by a few people than it would be for everybody to slap them on their buildings and hire people to look after them. Centralization and co operation have saved us money in the past and they can save us money in the future, regardless of the technology in question. Self reliance is something you might want to pay for anyway.
It looks like real work to me. You have to go to considerable effort to hide M$'s loss of PC share. You used to hear silly things like "only 5%" of the world does not use M$ at the same time you knew that 7% of users were on Macs. Now we hear M$ say that about 10% of users have Macs and that Linux is larger than Mac. Hmmmm, how to juglgle those numbers and make it look like one in five people are sailing along just fine without any help from Redmond? I suppose you just keep on lying. It must work the same way the RIAA uses the media to blame "internet piracy" for declining sales of music. Ha! Just keep on putting out the same old BS.
The problem comes when people realize you are full of shit. Then no amount of spending can save you.
What do you dope it with? How long do those cells last in direct sunlight? How long will the plastic sheeting encasing these particular cells last?
Can you make electricity which costs 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour yet? Don't forget to add disposal costs. When you can do that, your photovoltaics will be competitive with nuclear power and sometimes natural gas.
Are we being honest here? Anyone who covers their building with solar cells right now is doing it more to make a statement than to get power. If that statement is one of self sufficiancy, great and more power to them. If the statement is "environment friend" the speaker is ignorant or dishonest.
In the mean time, he might smell a little yeasty.
Do you use $500 bills for toilet paper? Just wondering.
My wife and I did that and the same people called right back the next day. Low budget callers simply give phone books to their $5/hour employees and tell them to call. Most other places just don't care.
Mexico is revolution proof because they already had their revolution. Ha!
Did you hear the joke about toilet paper in the Soviet Union? No? that's because there was none. All anyone ever needed was 640k of RAM, I just don't understand this gigabyte talk. YOu should all be happy with 300 baud modema under Ma Bell. Get over it, yeah!
Sarcasim asside, there are many other legitimate uses of that kind of bandwith that have nothing to do with Warez, crap music and all that other jazz. A reasonably active free software package can easily suck up this kind of bandwith. No, that's not a business. You might also want to share uncompressed music with your friends. Hey, you might even want to share movies with your family. Oh, my goodness, "always on high speed internet" is looking like a lie.
Yet the implied message of your flame is that those who wish to hide their credit history have a bad one. Did you ever stop to think that the things you own are none of your employer's business? That makes you a hip, uhh, hypocrite.
If people would just save up for things instead of buying things on debt they wouldn't have nearly the credit problems.
So, you bought a house with cash? Most people consider that equity half of their retirement. Few wish to be at the mercy of a landlord their whole lives. You either don't mind, bought a house with cash, or you live with your mom.
Borrowing money and not paying it back is [silly bold tag]theft[unbold tag].
You are not a laywer are you home boy? People go to jail for theft. People are legaly protected from their creditors if they have the misfortune of bankruptsy. Banks are insured against such stuff because it's a normal part of business. Things don't always go well, Lord Rear Ender.
An attitude like yours only comes from a lack of experience. Strangely enough, such an attitude is self curing by encouraging others to dupe the needed experience on you.
I never understood bad credit. Why would someone think he can spend more money he has and get away with it? If you can't afford something, don't buy it. Geeze.
Let me help you understand. When you move out of your mom's house you have to live somewhere and you have to be able to get from where you live to work. These are all long term obligations that might last longer than your current job. Rent that looked trivial with a normal pay check is hard to meet on unemployment. Housenotes plus utilities are worse. If you don't have decent public transportation where you live, you also bought a car. You will go "upside down" on the car as what you can sell it for won't cover the costs of the loan you made to buy it unless you got a really good deal on a used car. Obviously you don't have a wife or children.
Now for something that sucks. A company can look at your credit record and tell the difference between someone who's been honestly screwed as above and someone who blew loads of money on trivial bullshit like a home entertainment system, a sports car, and all the other joys of life worker bees like you and me are not supposed to enjoy. Most companies like for their employees to be good little self sacrificing suckers. Sailing, fishing, sking, that's for the boss. Sadly, companies are in a position to make these kinds of demands.
I'd comply, because I've been a good little self sacrificing fool and I've had family money to fall back on everytime I've been screwed. At age 36, with a 14 month old baby girl and wife to support, my decisions impact more than myself now and I can no longer stand entirely by my principles.
Still, I understand this man's pricipled stand and hope the best. He's right, it's none of the company's business and they can only use it pick out people they think they can abuse. We're not talking about possitions spying for the government where dishonesty is a given, we are talking about normal jobs at normal companies.
Sounds painless but let's apply that logic to other M$ products. How about M$ web servers? Hey, it's their software, who says it has to work with other people's browsers? Hopefully, the collection of big_dumb_companies clueless enough to use that package will mind, when people like me can't read their website, buy their shit or apply for jobs with them because I refuse to pay the M$ tax. Think they would not do that? Well, like you, I would not have imagined they would break their own portal and thus show the world what a buch of incompetents or anti-competive jerks they are.
Way to go M$, drive trust to zero!
It also irritates me that M$ would pull a stunt like this. It sends the message, "Only M$ IE works all the time," which would be true if IE worked. You don't imagine that they would also break hotmail and other sites they own, do you? Or how about putting a break into sites dumb enough to use M$ webservers? You know, like corporate and government sites intentionally sending out bogus code to non M$ browsers. A priciple, once identified, can be apllied anywhere.
No, but it's just an innocent mistake, right? Just like them shutting out alternate browsers a while back, or messing with Mac versions for hotmail users, or, you get the picture. Why do you write shit like this?
So, that's new and dumb and just what you were expecting. Think a little about it. Why should a mom and pop online retailer have to pay out of state sales taxes? It puts a huge burden on anyone who would do business on the web to keep track of ever other state's taxes. If you take the reasoning to it's conclusion, they would have to keep track of every county, parish and municiple tax as well. Yet they recieve no benifit or services from that tax! I've seen BS about paying for roads posted by ignoramouses that don't know that most roads are funded by gasoline taxes. Local sales taxes pay for things like police, fire and other normal government functions. I'm in Louisana, taxes paid to Texas are useless to me.
No, you are not going to make money off the data"service" either. Keeping track of all of that is something only a huge business that's everywhere already, such as Walmart, can do. Don't get your hopes up that local governments will get any friendlier to your business ambitions than they are to would be cable operators. That sharpie is likely to be mom and pop's competitors and they are not going to make it easy for anyone else to get in the game.
This is just another nail in the coffin of the comercial internet. We are quickly moving away from peer machines operating on peer networks to a big stupid McScrew you advert net where your services are not welcome. It's in direct contradiction of the State of the Union promise to spur small business. Make something interesting. Want to sell it? No way, that would hurt WalMart and other importers of crap from China! I'm going to be sick. So much for the equal footing between me and Walmart that the internet promissed.
The companies are among the first in the nation to collect sales taxes from online shoppers across the country, not just shoppers who live in the states where the companies maintain actual stores or distribution centers.
So, that's new and dumb and just what you were expecting. Think a little about it. Why should a mom and pop online retailer have to pay out of state sales taxes? It puts a huge burden on anyone who would do business on the web to keep track of ever other state's taxes. If you take the reasoning to it's conclusion, they would have to keep track of every county, parish and municiple tax as well. Yet they recieve no benifit or services from that tax! I've seen BS about paying for roads posted by ignoramouses that don't know that most roads are funded by gasoline taxes. Local sales taxes pay for things like police, fire and other normal government functions. I'm in Louisana, taxes paid to Texas are useless to me.
No, you are not going to make money off the data"service" either. Keeping track of all of that is something only a huge business that's everywhere already, such as Walmart, can do. Don't get your hopes up that local governments will get any friendlier to your business ambitions than they are to would be cable operators. That sharpie is likely to be mom and pop's competitors and they are not going to make it easy for anyone else to get in the game.
This is just another nail in the coffin of the comercial internet. We are quickly moving away from peer machines operating on peer networks to a big stupid McScrew you advert net where your services are not welcome. It's in direct contradiction of the State of the Union promise to spur small business. Make something interesting. Want to sell it? No way, that would hurt WalMart and other importers of crap from China! I'm going to be sick.
The solution, of course, is to ditch all the BSA software. No software, no audit.
Ask the crew of the Kursk.
Make sure that the account numbers are clearly legible, along with your name, address, social security number and anything else that might be useful. Otherwise we just don't believe you wil^H^H^H were ripped off.
-Thanks in advance.
Eight months of solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment. I've been unemployed for the last four months. The loss of contact with the people at work was crushing. I'm embarassed to go out durring the day and all interaction with strangers brings on a sense of guilt. My feeling of loss of contact are nothing next to being denied ALL contact with others. It's difficult to imagine a harsher punishment except for a longer confinement. As he was held without charges his period of confinement was unknown and that only makes it worse. He deserved to be punished but no one deserves that. Execution is kinder.
cool.