Simple solution for small and medium size retailers on the Internet is to simply change their process a little bit so that when you pick CA as the state you get a message that says "Sorry, we don't sell to California" and redirects you to Amazon.
Even simpler: Don't change their process at all. Continue to sell to California residents without collecting sales tax, based on the established Supreme Court precedent.
Are you a lawyer? Can you cite the case law to backup your claim? If not, I wouldn't be so confident. Apple may well be looking to set a precedent, and if it goes to the supreme court which is currently tilted heavily in favor of "corporate rights" they would likely win quite easily.
Ty Inc. v. Ruth Perryman 306 F.3d 509 (7th Cir., October 4, 2002)
But why cant programmers earn as much as producers and managers?
Because that one's salary is greater than the salary of those you manage is a hierarchical invariant in most organizations, and managers are higher in the hierarchy than programmers.
Except for the Jock part. Most jocks end up as High School janitors, while the nerds who got strait A's end up with College degrees and high-paying jobs. There are the exceptions of course, being professional athletes, but that's a very small fraction.
Sorry, McFly, but most of the jocks end up with a business degree and become the bosses of the straight-A nerds. Some of the rest become politicians and become the bosses of everyone. The high school janitors are mostly drawn from the stoners (the ones who don't become investment bankers, anyway).
I soooo wish we could put the AGW deniers on the record so that *when* this shit hits the fan we can summarily take their $$$ to pay for it.
Step one would be to make some concrete, testable predictions.
Seriously, if deniers are wrong we're screwed. If environmentalists and the vast majority of scientists are wrong, we're, what? oh yeah, we're better off....
Experience does. Build something, or contribute to an Open Source project.
Yeah, but where am I going to find an employer who cares about writing an interpreter for a dead language just so I can play the original version of an ancient computer game?
We've been trying to fill two Jr. engineer positions; this is a position we feel is perfect for a recent college grad. Every applicant, without exception, has a Masters degree in Comp Sci.
Are you asking for Masters graduates specifically? If so, why? Is it just an attempt to winnow down the torrent of resumes you get? Is it to screen out a certain sort of person who is much more likely to stop at a bachelor's degree? Is it just playing follow the leader in that other companies (alas including my own) are asking for Masters degrees? Because it might be that in selecting for the Master's candidate, you're selecting for those who couldn't get a job with just a Bacherors.
But yeah, a degree is no guarantee of non-idiocy. A degree and a few years in the field aren't either. Sad, really.
Watch a spectrum analyzer when there's a microwave running. Entire channels just annihilated by the noise from it.
What I've seen is a high but narrow spike wandering back and forth across the spectrum. That's with a conventional magnetron. It probably just overwhelms the front end of the receiver rendering all the fancy spread-spectrum stuff moot.
I'd expect an "inverter" microwave to be more like you've described, but I've never seen one.
One of the funniest things about this type of discussion is that nobody talks about phasing out personal vehicles (i.e. cars) and going for mass mass transportation ("mass" repeated intentionally). That is the most likely scenario, as far as I am concerned.
A lot of people talk about it, only True Believers think it's desirable.
Yeah, and before that it was Chernobyl and before that Three Mile Island. It will only be surpassed by the next disastrous event, I'm sure.
Chernobyl was a worst-case result. The cause of it was entirely human error of various sorts. Fukushima was not nearly as bad as Chernobyl, and the cause was a natural disaster outside the design parameters. Three Mile Island was not a worst-case scenario by any measure; there was some equipment failure, some human error, and the result was fairly minor as industrial accidents go.
You're right that if we continue to use nuclear power indefinitely, we're likely to have more disastrous nuclear events. What's your perfectly safe alternative?
Perhaps because I am not a propellerhead with a bad case of aspergers. Somehow, there is this misconception that if you build to spec and something goes wrong, it is not your fault.
That's not aspergers, that's plain justice. If someone builds a bridge given the specification that it handle a 10 ton load, and it collapses given a 15-ton load, that's not the builder's fault.
How important can the lessons in there be to the current and future generations if people could press a "like button" to indicate whether it satisfactorily stimulated there pleasure center.
That sounds more like the other well-known dystopian novel, _Brave New World_.
Apparently you logic is.....lost....... I cannot drink milk, as well as most of adults. and 99% of the babies. And pleeeeeease, pleeeeease, don't ever ever give your baby a cow milk. I beg you, PLEASE.
Other way around. Most babies can digest cow's milk just fine, most adults (worldwide) can't. Lactose tolerance is an example of neoteny, where adults retain juvenile characteristics
Dmitry Sklyarov was not a U.S. citizen, yet he had the misfortune of travelling to the U.S., where he was immediately arrested, despite not breaking any crimes while in the U.S.
Which was of course an injustice. But give the US some credit; he was released, and the company he worked for was acquitted of any wrongdoing.
There's a reason Mapreduce is said to operate on "embarrassingly parallel" problems. There are a lot of them. But there are also a lot of problems which are not embarrassingly parallel; for instance, they have nonlocal data dependencies.
Then the International Whaling Commission should not have abandoned its charter by banning whaling, thus prompting these ridiculous but face-saving (all around) claims about "scientific research".
There is more to the reasons gold is money than you think.
If you can't put it into words, your video isn't going to help.
Gold was 350/ounce, cotton was 50/pound. Now gold is 1500/ounce, cotton is over 200/pound. The ratio holds, the USD denominated price goes up.
If they'd actually moved in lockstep between those two points, you might have something. Though I don't see how it would be any better at proving gold was money than that cotton was money.
Gold is money especially given that it's not good for anything much beyond that and some limited industrial/jewelry use, and yet based on all of its properties, people see it as money.
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Even simpler: Don't change their process at all. Continue to sell to California residents without collecting sales tax, based on the established Supreme Court precedent.
Ty Inc. v. Ruth Perryman 306 F.3d 509 (7th Cir., October 4, 2002)
Because that one's salary is greater than the salary of those you manage is a hierarchical invariant in most organizations, and managers are higher in the hierarchy than programmers.
They were yakking on them too loudly in public.
Sorry, McFly, but most of the jocks end up with a business degree and become the bosses of the straight-A nerds. Some of the rest become politicians and become the bosses of everyone. The high school janitors are mostly drawn from the stoners (the ones who don't become investment bankers, anyway).
The Mac Developer program is now $99/year.
Step one would be to make some concrete, testable predictions.
Pascal's wager isn't science.
Yeah, but where am I going to find an employer who cares about writing an interpreter for a dead language just so I can play the original version of an ancient computer game?
Leave, put up with it, revolt, die, or be killed. There really aren't a lot of good choices.
What's Chinese for "You didn't ask." And "The Premier likes surprises."?
Are you asking for Masters graduates specifically? If so, why? Is it just an attempt to winnow down the torrent of resumes you get? Is it to screen out a certain sort of person who is much more likely to stop at a bachelor's degree? Is it just playing follow the leader in that other companies (alas including my own) are asking for Masters degrees? Because it might be that in selecting for the Master's candidate, you're selecting for those who couldn't get a job with just a Bacherors.
But yeah, a degree is no guarantee of non-idiocy. A degree and a few years in the field aren't either. Sad, really.
What I've seen is a high but narrow spike wandering back and forth across the spectrum. That's with a conventional magnetron. It probably just overwhelms the front end of the receiver rendering all the fancy spread-spectrum stuff moot.
I'd expect an "inverter" microwave to be more like you've described, but I've never seen one.
A lot of people talk about it, only True Believers think it's desirable.
Chernobyl was a worst-case result. The cause of it was entirely human error of various sorts. Fukushima was not nearly as bad as Chernobyl, and the cause was a natural disaster outside the design parameters. Three Mile Island was not a worst-case scenario by any measure; there was some equipment failure, some human error, and the result was fairly minor as industrial accidents go.
You're right that if we continue to use nuclear power indefinitely, we're likely to have more disastrous nuclear events. What's your perfectly safe alternative?
That's not aspergers, that's plain justice. If someone builds a bridge given the specification that it handle a 10 ton load, and it collapses given a 15-ton load, that's not the builder's fault.
Germany has shitloads of lignite. If they want power and are willing to tell the environmentalists to suck it, they can burn that.
Seriously? People have been taking care of other people without a college degree for millennia.
That sounds more like the other well-known dystopian novel, _Brave New World_.
Other way around. Most babies can digest cow's milk just fine, most adults (worldwide) can't. Lactose tolerance is an example of neoteny, where adults retain juvenile characteristics
Which was of course an injustice. But give the US some credit; he was released, and the company he worked for was acquitted of any wrongdoing.
Should we expect an OpenSSM to correct this regression?
There's a reason Mapreduce is said to operate on "embarrassingly parallel" problems. There are a lot of them. But there are also a lot of problems which are not embarrassingly parallel; for instance, they have nonlocal data dependencies.
Then the International Whaling Commission should not have abandoned its charter by banning whaling, thus prompting these ridiculous but face-saving (all around) claims about "scientific research".
Corporations were aware of the internet for decades before this problems arose.
If you can't put it into words, your video isn't going to help.
If they'd actually moved in lockstep between those two points, you might have something. Though I don't see how it would be any better at proving gold was money than that cotton was money.
People see Federal Reserve Notes as money too.