As others have noted, zip code is woefully inadequate for determining sales tax rates. At best, that company can give a list (from one to a half dozen) of sales tax rates that might apply to those living in that zip code.
Personally, if this needs to be fixed at all, I think states should just set a fixed sales tax rate and mandate all online retailers collect to that level.
Yeah, based on the previews, Terra was the film I expected when I went into Avatar. However, while I've never seen Dances with Wolves I think it's plot has them both beat by more than a decade.
I didn't think of Avatar as anything story wise. It was utterly predictable. That said, the plot of Star Wars is predictable (now) because I've seen it multiple times. The plot of Watchmen is predictable (now) and I still asked for it for Christmas. I can enjoy a good movie even if I know how it will turn out. I just consider Avatar to be in that category on its first viewing.
Indeed. Government should be as efficient as possible. As a public servant, your responsibility is to the taxpayers. You should offer only those contributions which do not increase the burden on those taxpayers, or which directly benefit them.
It's that direct stipulation that leads to short-sightedness, and ends up costing taxpayers billions in the long run.
"Oh, well we don't need to shore up these levies in New Orleans. There's no immediate benefit when there hasn't been a major hurricane in years."
"Oh, bridges can last a little while longer than designed. We'll just send someone by periodically to do a cursory check. That's a lot cheaper than replacing all those 1930s projects."
"Who cares about preventative care. If you want that, get insurance and go to your doctor. Never mind that taxpayers will cover you when your problem gets worse and you go to the emergency room uninsured."
"Regulation is an inefficient burden on commerce. It's hard to show a direct benefit when you back during a boom and ignore any lessons more than three years old. Just let it all go, and the publicly-chartered companies will police themselves!"
I think we have very different opinions on "efficient". I believe that long-term and indirect benefits can be significantly more efficient than short-term nearsightedness, and the government if anyone should be able to look at the long term. In this case, for example, he should find a way to fund the projects he uses (such as buying support licenses), because in the long term it will keep the projects active and improving, and save significant cost versus a system redesign due to an EOL/abandoned software product.
Astronomers were further able to estimate the planet's makeup by calculating its size, based on the amount of light that GJ 1214b blocked when it passed in front of its star, as well as its mass (6.6 times Earth's mass), based on the wobble in the wavelength of starlight caused by GJ 1214b's gravitational pull on its star. That analysis revealed the new planet's density: about one-third of Earth's.
Of course the crushing atmospheric pressure would remain an issue...
A core made of materials with lower density than liquid iron and nickel could be larger but of overall less mass. The result would be a bigger planet with the same or lower gravity.
Trade secrets are only protected if they are held secret. In order to hold something secret when shared with a third party, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Thus, if they are trade secrets, he should be suing for contract violations. If they are copyrights, such as on source code or one a printed circuit board, he should be suing for copyright violations.
In neither case will a trademark suit help, and if he's released the source code as open source, and the vendor takes the time to respin the PCB to have a slightly different schematic and layout, and all the contracts were "verbal" with no documentation, he's left with nothing at all.
Our company has similar upper-level engineer titles: principal engineer, architect, chief architect, fellow. They are supposed to exist to allow the technical development track to be just as long as the managerial development track.
Of course this is probably because, of the two remaining (of three) people who founded the company, one is still CEO and the other has chosen to be a technical fellow. When a founder doesn't want to be in management, you come up with a process to keep them coding.
I wonder if this will eventually turn out like GM and its dealings with the unions over the years. Bear with me...
GM corp. and shareholders spent decades working out deals with the unions, trying to minimize labor costs. They made deal after deal that would do things like promise better pensions, all to keep current costs down.
Then, when it all came crashing down, the net result was that the labor union ends up as a major (the major, after the government) shareholder in the company. All that effort goes to naught when it resulted in the "little people" gaining complete control of the company.
So I'm reminded of it here because the CRIA and RIAA and their kind have spent years creating the webs of copyright law that they now use to sue their customers. It would be fitting and just if those same laws lead to the "little people" - the artists - taking control of the industry.
Were I an artist in this case, I'd readily accept a major stake in the company in lieu of the settlement, especially if it was likely that the settlement would force them into bankruptcy and I'd never see my money anyway. Enough suits like this, and we could stroll in and fire the board and all the executives, and turn it into something that serves the artists and consumers.
The odds are good that such privacy does not exist in the OP's country, since that country is probably the U.S. and his ISP probably sells data to the federal government.
I wonder if Apple has tried to get better streaming licenses and was rebuffed, given how the industry distrusts their domination of the online distribution market.
Lala might have been a relatively cheap way to acquire long-term streaming licenses, since the Lala contracts likely don't include clauses to cancel the licenses if the company is sold (since the company knew it was likely to sell itself to someone anyway).
If a vendor wants to base their product on FreeNAS 0.8, they are more than welcome to call their product NASPoint 1.0 or NASPoint 2010 or whatever the hell they want.
The developers of FreeNAS use a number less than 1.0 because they feel their product is not yet feature complete for a 1.0 release. Obviously, one of the issues is a reliance on an underlying operating system which they see as hampering them in some way, so they are going to switch operating systems before 1.0.
Our local Goodwill accepts all used electronics, and then pays people to sort out working ones to resell, and, through a partnership with Dell, recycles anything that's not sellable.
They advertise that they run electronics recycling and welcome our old junk. I finally cleared out the garage because they would take care of things.
The local Goodwill, at their computer store, also has (or had) a very impressive computer museum. Alas, at a local gaming convention a few years ago one of the machines was stolen from their display, and I think they keep it locked up now.
That's a pretty lame debunking. He repeats that the letter distribution is wrong, calls a few things "wobbly", points out that a non-botanist, non-Italian speaker translated a medieval Italian word into a plant that wasn't used there, and as an aside "doubts" that she cracked a line of text.
I have a pager as a workplace emergency responder. I too have the messages sent as text to my (private) cell phone, and I receive them as a work email.
In general my phone and the email arrive simultaneously, followed about a minute later by the pager.
That said, at least once the phone text message stopped working when my cell phone provider changed something. At our last ERT group meeting last week, when we did a test page, at least two members did not get the texts (including one who had the week prior during an actual emergency). He was on AT someone just next to him also on AT&T got the page.
Ultimately, we have a big team and could probably afford a few members missing the texts if we switched away from pagers entirely. However, after-hours emergencies are triggered by the security company rather than the building receptionists, and the third-party security company's system can only send numeric mass pages, not emails, so we can't switch.
Reading glasses - they are cheap ($5) and available (Walgreens).
Why everyone feels the need to solve easy problems with complex solutions, I will never know.
Yeah, why design or buy a tool that is convenient and pain-free to use when we could just make every human being strap a different tool onto their face.
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As others have noted, zip code is woefully inadequate for determining sales tax rates. At best, that company can give a list (from one to a half dozen) of sales tax rates that might apply to those living in that zip code.
Personally, if this needs to be fixed at all, I think states should just set a fixed sales tax rate and mandate all online retailers collect to that level.
Yeah, based on the previews, Terra was the film I expected when I went into Avatar. However, while I've never seen Dances with Wolves I think it's plot has them both beat by more than a decade.
I didn't think of Avatar as anything story wise. It was utterly predictable. That said, the plot of Star Wars is predictable (now) because I've seen it multiple times. The plot of Watchmen is predictable (now) and I still asked for it for Christmas. I can enjoy a good movie even if I know how it will turn out. I just consider Avatar to be in that category on its first viewing.
Indeed. Government should be as efficient as possible. As a public servant, your responsibility is to the taxpayers. You should offer only those contributions which do not increase the burden on those taxpayers, or which directly benefit them.
It's that direct stipulation that leads to short-sightedness, and ends up costing taxpayers billions in the long run.
"Oh, well we don't need to shore up these levies in New Orleans. There's no immediate benefit when there hasn't been a major hurricane in years."
"Oh, bridges can last a little while longer than designed. We'll just send someone by periodically to do a cursory check. That's a lot cheaper than replacing all those 1930s projects."
"Who cares about preventative care. If you want that, get insurance and go to your doctor. Never mind that taxpayers will cover you when your problem gets worse and you go to the emergency room uninsured."
"Regulation is an inefficient burden on commerce. It's hard to show a direct benefit when you back during a boom and ignore any lessons more than three years old. Just let it all go, and the publicly-chartered companies will police themselves!"
I think we have very different opinions on "efficient". I believe that long-term and indirect benefits can be significantly more efficient than short-term nearsightedness, and the government if anyone should be able to look at the long term. In this case, for example, he should find a way to fund the projects he uses (such as buying support licenses), because in the long term it will keep the projects active and improving, and save significant cost versus a system redesign due to an EOL/abandoned software product.
And it turns out I was right.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1947868,00.html
Astronomers were further able to estimate the planet's makeup by calculating its size, based on the amount of light that GJ 1214b blocked when it passed in front of its star, as well as its mass (6.6 times Earth's mass), based on the wobble in the wavelength of starlight caused by GJ 1214b's gravitational pull on its star. That analysis revealed the new planet's density: about one-third of Earth's.
Of course the crushing atmospheric pressure would remain an issue...
That depends on the density of the planet.
A core made of materials with lower density than liquid iron and nickel could be larger but of overall less mass. The result would be a bigger planet with the same or lower gravity.
What if the laywer and judge were LinkedIn "contacts"? Does that make it better?
Trade secrets are only protected if they are held secret. In order to hold something secret when shared with a third party, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Thus, if they are trade secrets, he should be suing for contract violations. If they are copyrights, such as on source code or one a printed circuit board, he should be suing for copyright violations.
In neither case will a trademark suit help, and if he's released the source code as open source, and the vendor takes the time to respin the PCB to have a slightly different schematic and layout, and all the contracts were "verbal" with no documentation, he's left with nothing at all.
Our company has similar upper-level engineer titles:
principal engineer, architect, chief architect, fellow. They are supposed to exist to allow the technical development track to be just as long as the managerial development track.
Of course this is probably because, of the two remaining (of three) people who founded the company, one is still CEO and the other has chosen to be a technical fellow. When a founder doesn't want to be in management, you come up with a process to keep them coding.
Remember that the TSA came into being in the 2000s with a massive influx of funds, not the 1990s....
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. ....they mark up LCD screens, not CRTs.
I wonder if this will eventually turn out like GM and its dealings with the unions over the years. Bear with me...
GM corp. and shareholders spent decades working out deals with the unions, trying to minimize labor costs. They made deal after deal that would do things like promise better pensions, all to keep current costs down.
Then, when it all came crashing down, the net result was that the labor union ends up as a major (the major, after the government) shareholder in the company. All that effort goes to naught when it resulted in the "little people" gaining complete control of the company.
So I'm reminded of it here because the CRIA and RIAA and their kind have spent years creating the webs of copyright law that they now use to sue their customers. It would be fitting and just if those same laws lead to the "little people" - the artists - taking control of the industry.
Were I an artist in this case, I'd readily accept a major stake in the company in lieu of the settlement, especially if it was likely that the settlement would force them into bankruptcy and I'd never see my money anyway. Enough suits like this, and we could stroll in and fire the board and all the executives, and turn it into something that serves the artists and consumers.
The odds are good that such privacy does not exist in the OP's country, since that country is probably the U.S. and his ISP probably sells data to the federal government.
http://anykeytech.com/
Of course not. They're defined by their hardware choices. . . at least if they're seen with a Zune.
I kid.
I wonder if Apple has tried to get better streaming licenses and was rebuffed, given how the industry distrusts their domination of the online distribution market.
Lala might have been a relatively cheap way to acquire long-term streaming licenses, since the Lala contracts likely don't include clauses to cancel the licenses if the company is sold (since the company knew it was likely to sell itself to someone anyway).
By mid next year that should be both AT&T and Verizon's networks crying...
Vendor != Developer
If a vendor wants to base their product on FreeNAS 0.8, they are more than welcome to call their product NASPoint 1.0 or NASPoint 2010 or whatever the hell they want.
The developers of FreeNAS use a number less than 1.0 because they feel their product is not yet feature complete for a 1.0 release. Obviously, one of the issues is a reliance on an underlying operating system which they see as hampering them in some way, so they are going to switch operating systems before 1.0.
Because it has 33% less fat than regular milk, but still tastes about the same?
Our local Goodwill accepts all used electronics, and then pays people to sort out working ones to resell, and, through a partnership with Dell, recycles anything that's not sellable.
They advertise that they run electronics recycling and welcome our old junk. I finally cleared out the garage because they would take care of things.
The local Goodwill, at their computer store, also has (or had) a very impressive computer museum. Alas, at a local gaming convention a few years ago one of the machines was stolen from their display, and I think they keep it locked up now.
yeah, don't worry. You can read it. It's total garbage. Not a crack at all. TFA was debunked back in February. (in case you miss the link above: http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/17/edith-sherwoods-anagram-cipher )
That's a pretty lame debunking. He repeats that the letter distribution is wrong, calls a few things "wobbly", points out that a non-botanist, non-Italian speaker translated a medieval Italian word into a plant that wasn't used there, and as an aside "doubts" that she cracked a line of text.
HDD array! Use the thing as a server.
Meh. I'm holding out for a Nook. More open, more features, same price.
My wife's is supposed to ship today. She placed her order within an hour of announcement and hopefully won't get hit by the 2010 bump.
I have a pager as a workplace emergency responder. I too have the messages sent as text to my (private) cell phone, and I receive them as a work email.
In general my phone and the email arrive simultaneously, followed about a minute later by the pager.
That said, at least once the phone text message stopped working when my cell phone provider changed something. At our last ERT group meeting last week, when we did a test page, at least two members did not get the texts (including one who had the week prior during an actual emergency). He was on AT someone just next to him also on AT&T got the page.
Ultimately, we have a big team and could probably afford a few members missing the texts if we switched away from pagers entirely. However, after-hours emergencies are triggered by the security company rather than the building receptionists, and the third-party security company's system can only send numeric mass pages, not emails, so we can't switch.
And that's why I liked last year's Moon .
Tell that to my HOA.
Reading glasses - they are cheap ($5) and available (Walgreens).
Why everyone feels the need to solve easy problems with complex solutions, I will never know.
Yeah, why design or buy a tool that is convenient and pain-free to use when we could just make every human being strap a different tool onto their face.
And why do these exist when Walgreens carries a simple solution for this problem, too?