You will find everything you need in surplus... from flasks to surplus army gear, electrical, materials and much much much more.... at American Science and Surplus.
This company used to be called Jerrico - and I've ordered from them for years. Additionally, their catalogs are FANTASTIC reading - very accurate descriptions on all items and most of the writeups are quite humorous as well.
Also, if you happen to visit the Chicago area, they are located just outside of north chicago - the store is chalk full of amazing things - a true surplus shoppers dream.
There seems to be a brewing mystery centered around the geology of Mars, in that it has water-formed minerals like hematite, but also has water-reactive minerals like olivine. This seems to indicate that flowing water can't be there, particularly if olivine remains.
I live on an active volcano which, in some erruptions, produces large quantities of olivine (peridot) crystals. We can see the crystals not only on dry land, walking on various older (tens to hundreds of years) flows... but more interesting is Green Sand Beach in South Point - Green Sand is an old cone that sits at sealevel, partially within the water. The sands are a stunning and sparkling olive green and one can find crystals from pin-head sized up to small stones (every now and then someone finds larger gem-quality pieces).
Since it's well known that olivine can appear within certain types of volcano flows - i'm confused to the water reactive portion - we certainly find olivine in/near/around water (I do consider the pacific ocean to be water). Furthermore, portions of this island receive upwards to 200 inches of rain a year - and there's plenty of olivine.
Can someone explain to me why the presence of olivine somehow precludes water? It certainly doesn't here in Hawaii (though perhaps on a much larger time scale, it does?)
Obviously you can't use the butt plug since your ass is already occupied with your head.
What the world REALLY needs less of is people like you.
Go fuck yourself (the message the giver was intending most likely)... oh wait, your already constipated.
And let me guess where you store your jackboots....
Heh... sorry. It's not like that. I'm one of the owners of the company in Indiana... I just happen to live in Hawaii. Sorry.
But truely, if your interested in working in Hawaii and your scientific... here on the Big Island - the astronomy domes on Mauna Kea are expanding and always bringing in people.
I live in hawaii but monitor servers in Indiana and elsewhere. I use a PALM Tungsten W which gives me Mobile Internet and also has a slot where I plug in WiFi for my local home network.
I also use Kuuaki which is a program for the Tungsten W that lets you monitor your servers CPU, processes (web cgi dns etc) get a short TOP display, etc.
Works quite well as a solution and the PALM also lets me telnet in. The keyboard is useable and the W is very durable and web browsing works pretty well.
We are an independent game developer (see here) and we hear constantly about addiction in our game, from our players.
Case in point... just 2 weeks ago a player wrote the following EMail to us (which is also posted on the sites home page)...
So my girlfriend's online, looking for interesting games to download, when she mysteriously comes across your site. She downloads the game, but doesn't think much of it, I have a look.
It's pretty good. Sort of fun. Okay, I guess. Ten dollars to play the game for real, huh?
When I found myself wanting to pay, I thought, what the hell is going on? This game isn't that great -- or is it?
It was then that I realized I'd been playing the game nonstop for hours. I paid my ten bucks, and I've not regretted it. Yesterday, I laughed out loud at the geometrical shapes floating around. Needless to say, that hasn't happened before. And I find myself at work thinking... "Just another couple of hours of this drudgery and I can go home and play Tranquility."
You'll note the similarities to addiction here... first, addiction doesn't hit everyone the same way. The girlfriend tried it, but it wasn't her cup of tea. Where-as the EMail author tried it and not only lost track of time, but now apparently finds himself thinking about it at inappropriate moments.
Since the games are created and served via the Internet we also can watch to see how people play the game. Some people use us once a day - often at the end of the day for stress relief. Some people use us weekly or monthly. Others use us randomly. But we have a select group of users who use us RELIGIOUSLY... that play day and night, all the time. Since the game servers never duplicates a game or a musical track, some of our users have played the entire series (441 total games) over and over again. One user has played the entire series of games over 45 times - unbelievable (that's 19,845 games... to ONE person).
Yes, SOME players get addicted... very addicted. I believe that, at least for our game, it's a combination of the patterns the game produces in junction with the sound. Almost hypnotic, and that draws SOME people deeply into the game structure.
But that makes sense... who can resist staring at the beams of an oncoming car at night. We lust for patterns, lights, flashing. It captures our attentions and captivates our minds. This is why music is so important to us - and also why raves, dance floors, etc... combine music with flashing lights - it does something hypnotic to us. GOOD plots can also do the same thing - make us feel a part of the plot - as if we're living a different life. Is this also not true of the Internet itself, for some people? Of course it is.
To a degree, ANYTHING can be abused and become adictive... even slashdot;)) It's not about the substance - but how an individual REACTS to that substance.
On the other hand there's somewhere a barefoot palestinian refugee child for whom not so much as a piece of paperwork was generated since he was born.
While I certainly agree with your post (except for the bell curve part) - I should like to point out that I was born a barefooted palestinian refugee - though these days I utilize many gigabits a day. While your correct in the fact that many people around the world do not access technology - nor have electronic (or even paper) records on them (I, for example, have no birth certificate) I suspect that number is shrinking at an alarming rate.
Or we could take a page from the palestineans and throw rocks at the sun!!!
Apparently you don't know about our little training camp out jupiter way... we manufaturer asteroids. A big rock with a little shove (or a little rock with a big shove, think david and golith) can do much damage.
Living on the Big Island of Hawaii the nearest Apple Store is probably on the island of Oahu, a $85 and 45 minute one way flight. Needless to say I wasn't about to fork out an additional $170 to get Panther on release day.
I preordered Panther and was super happy when yesterday, 4:00 PM, Fed Ex pulls up in my driveway with a box from Apple.
Beat the crowd scene totally... and I didn't have to take off my rubbah slippahs at the airport, or surrender my box cutters.
It's up and running nicely... everything is brushed metal. Lots of windows popping up and then disapearing - I'll love Expose'.
Tranquility runs like a dream - improved frame rate.
But why? There's no real market in domain names any more. Verisign tried to make one. GreatDomains used to have thousands of listings, and you'd see things like "Asked: $25,000. Bid: $20." Now Verisign only has "premium domains" on GreatDomains, ones like "record.com". There are only 66 domains for sale, and few sales.
I dunno... two months ago I sold instantcoffee.com for $4000. It certainly isn't like it used to be, but a good name can still fetch a price.
I can't work as a contractor for my own company either, as there are laws in place to 'protect' me from my employer trying to demote me to contractor to save on paying benefits.
That would lead me to two conclusions... first, that your company finds you valuable and thus would work with you on a possible solution. Second... that if you QUIT your job to start your own company... that is entirely different matter. So quit your job with an official resignation. Setup your own corporation (Subchapter S probably) and then sub-contract yourself back to the business.
I just picked up a Tungsten W after learning that AT&T wireless now offers GPRS here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Up until now only verison had wireless internet, but it wasn't GPRS.
The AT&T service is fine - though not all the transmitters here have GPRS. AT&T let me keep my non-GPRS cell phone as well (you have to maintain a voice plan along with the data plan). The nice thing is... I've now got 2 cell numbers (one for the non-gprs phone and one for the tunsten w). The non-gprs phone works pretty much everywhere on the island (except places where all cell service is blacked out due to mountains) and the tunsten works many, but not all places (e.g., it doesn't work up on the active volcano - whereas my cell phone has excellant reception there).
AT&T plans start around $20 and go up to around $79 or so... at the $70ish range they do offer an unlimited bandwidth plan.
I've worked with very large organizations, such as NASA as well as medium to small shops. Additionally, for the past 12 years I've been CEO of a software corporation... that said...
In general - someone who has a BS in CS (for example, myself) and leaves it at that and enters the work arena (well, this applied not since 2001 since there is no work arena currently) is, in my view (and apparently the view of many companies I've been with) better qualified as PROGRAMMERS than someone who has spent most of their time pursuing higher education.
Indeed, I've experienced people who didn't go to college but were computer savy, and who entered the work force and have gone to the top of the list in their companies - and in some cases gone on to head their own corporations.
In general, and in most conversations I've entered in on concerning this topic - the feeling is that a GOOD programmer (and I stress the word GOOD) who begins the work force early has much much more practical experience.
In the 25 years (I'm 45) that I've been professionally programming, I've written literally hundreds of compete applications - some with teams but most on my own or with a single partner (PC games, image processing systems, paint systems, medical software etc). In many cases, not only written the applications but supported them and marketed them myself (or with the team).
In some occassions, teams I've put together have included Masters and Phd's... and while very bright they often tend to lack the ability to see "the entire picture". Now, there are two types of programmers out there... first, there are the ones that code routines and are merely told input and output expectations and they deliver. The second set of programmers work with entire application concepts, and have the ability to understand what is required in a full application and how to go about designing it, as well as coding it. In my experience, most (not all of course) masters and phd's fit better into the first category as PROGRAMMERS.
Indeed... a Phd shouldn't be used as a programmer, more over they should be used as a visionary. Keep 'em away from the code layer because they have LITTLE practical experience designing REAL-WORLD applications. They often don't understand time-frames - since they havn't experienced real-world programming conditions and requirements (e.g., shitty management decisions;). On the other hand, they have MUCH experience in pushing boundries and concepts. So as a VISIONARY - that is where they are better off in my opinion.
So it comes down to what you want to do... do you LOVE programming for the joy of programming? If so, get out of college and get to work! On the other hand, do you enjoy thinking about possible concepts and pushing the boundries of understanding? If so... than a masters or phd might be perfect for you.
One last thing... small companies rarely have use for a Phd or Masters. They cost too much and don't provide the small organization enough bang for the buck (unless they're going after venture capital and want a pretty-face). It's your larger corporations that have more of a need for the Phd level visionary - and can afford it. Think IBM FELLOW for example.
Yesterday we received a call from our COLO who said he was monitoring unusual activity on our SUN servers. He said we were getting constant port scans solid for the last 12 hours.
I asked if he could determine where the scans were coming from and he said that this was unusual and he was looking into it. He pointed out that there was no damage being done, but was curious as to who would be doing 12 hours of constant port scanning.
After an hour he called back and said that the scans were coming from just about everywhere, and that they were scanning only the port used by the Worm. His conclusion (and mine as well) was that a fault in the random number generation method used by the worm caused it to pick our Class C address block more than other ones, and thus we were getting the scans.
No damage is being done... so I guess we merely wait until (hahahahah) all these lusers patch their systems - but really, can the script kiddies out there PLEASE learn how to write GOOD code before releasing their worms? (or did this come straight out of microsoft labs itself - seems their typical crap coding style).
Perhaps they should have used the SGI LAVA RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR.
I'll make an assumption about your problem here that may not be true. But here goes... assuming that by *signature* you mean 'a verified way of determining who went to the store'... and that perhaps other things than the signature could be used.
One possibility would be to issue each vendor and each employee that requires tracking a unique bar-code ID. Then a simple scan tool, one carried by the employee and one at the vendor could be used. The vendor could scan the employees ID and the employee could scan both the vendor and his own ID and that info could then be easily uploaded and visualized in a large number of ways. That would give you verification in both directions, as well as a timestamp of exactly when the employee visited.
... this is not really a new idea or application. In one of the expo's the pepsi (I think it was pepsi) pavillion was a geodesic dome. They lined the entire dome with stainless steel tubes with very small holes drilled in it (it took them quite awhile to determine he exact size). The idea being that forcing very clean water through the tubes and very small holes would produce fog.
The entire structure, thus, was totally covered in fog - and they used both lasers and video projectors to color and animate the surface.
And anyway... what, nobody ever thought of shineing a video or slide projector (or laser) at fog before. Geezesus.
Granted, this is Hawaii so there is much nature to see, but nature is everywhere, just get out of your office for awhile.
Favorites...
Hiking to the lip of 1500 ft waterfalls and looking back over at the tiny little tourists way on the other side... then skinny dipping in the secret pools behind the fall lip.
Treking out into the Kau desert to find pit craters and volcanic cones.
Going down to South Point (the southern most point in the US) and swiming at the green sands beach. The sands are green because of an abundance of the semi-precious gemstone peridot.
Putting on scuba or snorkle gear and going to view the beautiful fish that live around here.
Simply relaxing in the volcanically heated hot ponds.
Hiking to the fresh lava flow to watch the lava enter the ocean - with huge billowing steam clouds... or cooking chicken in the fresh lava.
Hiking to the summits of Mauna Kea (where the astronomy domes are) or to the summit of Mauna Loa (which has a crater 12 miles in diameter) - both of which are at 13,800 ft above sea level - meaning little air but plenty fun.
Just going down to the ocean and sitting and watching the waves, looking for whales, viewing the giant sea turtles and thinking about my day/work/life.
As an Indie game producer (tranquility) we obviously need to examine this. Our games are purchased, currently, by download only - and we have a fairly decent following in europe.
Does anyone out there (current level 5 posters havn't had this info) have a SITE we can go to, to learn the specifics of this?
Since we're a very very small company we won't be putting up any "headquarters" in europe.
Who do we pay? How frequently do we pay? What laws do we need to follow in terms of documentation? How long do we need to hold onto records? Where to we go to find out if tax rates have been changed, or even what they are?
It's one thing to demand a VAT... it's another thing entirely to make sure we get the proper information in order to implement it correctly.
Indeed... and I've found eggs simply everywhere. Especially in wall fixtures I'm replacing. Usually I take 'em and carefully transplant them to somewhere safe. It took me 3 years to convince my cat that pulling their tails off was cruel and unusual (though evidently loads of fun).
BTW, what island you on? Big Island, hilo side here. Always nice to know there are local/.ers:)
Living in hawaii we have plenty house geckos brah. We love our house geckos because they keep our homes insect and spider free. They stay out of the way, up in the ceilings and windows and are very cute and loveable. However, some caveats are in order when dealing with geckos:
Don't confuse gecko eggs for the tasty mouth freshener TicTacs... they look identical (though gecko eggs are just slightly larger) (as an aside note, don't confuse cockroach eggs for unground coffee beans).
Don't "lemon pledge" your fine wood interior walls... I did this and the geckos CAN NOT STICK TO THE WALLS for about 6 months. I unfortunatly killed my entire house gecko population a few years ago due to trying to lemon oil my walls to keep them in good shape. Gecko's couldn't stick. They'd jump up to the wall and slide down. Most of 'em died cause they couldn't get to food. Took about a year to get the population back.
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This company used to be called Jerrico - and I've ordered from them for years. Additionally, their catalogs are FANTASTIC reading - very accurate descriptions on all items and most of the writeups are quite humorous as well.
Also, if you happen to visit the Chicago area, they are located just outside of north chicago - the store is chalk full of amazing things - a true surplus shoppers dream.
Aloha
I live on an active volcano which, in some erruptions, produces large quantities of olivine (peridot) crystals. We can see the crystals not only on dry land, walking on various older (tens to hundreds of years) flows... but more interesting is Green Sand Beach in South Point - Green Sand is an old cone that sits at sealevel, partially within the water. The sands are a stunning and sparkling olive green and one can find crystals from pin-head sized up to small stones (every now and then someone finds larger gem-quality pieces).
Since it's well known that olivine can appear within certain types of volcano flows - i'm confused to the water reactive portion - we certainly find olivine in/near/around water (I do consider the pacific ocean to be water). Furthermore, portions of this island receive upwards to 200 inches of rain a year - and there's plenty of olivine.
Can someone explain to me why the presence of olivine somehow precludes water? It certainly doesn't here in Hawaii (though perhaps on a much larger time scale, it does?)
Obviously you can't use the butt plug since your ass is already occupied with your head. What the world REALLY needs less of is people like you. Go fuck yourself (the message the giver was intending most likely)... oh wait, your already constipated. And let me guess where you store your jackboots....
But truely, if your interested in working in Hawaii and your scientific... here on the Big Island - the astronomy domes on Mauna Kea are expanding and always bringing in people.
I also use Kuuaki which is a program for the Tungsten W that lets you monitor your servers CPU, processes (web cgi dns etc) get a short TOP display, etc.
Works quite well as a solution and the PALM also lets me telnet in. The keyboard is useable and the W is very durable and web browsing works pretty well.
Case in point... just 2 weeks ago a player wrote the following EMail to us (which is also posted on the sites home page)...
It's pretty good. Sort of fun. Okay, I guess. Ten dollars to play the game for real, huh?
When I found myself wanting to pay, I thought, what the hell is going on? This game isn't that great -- or is it?
It was then that I realized I'd been playing the game nonstop for hours. I paid my ten bucks, and I've not regretted it. Yesterday, I laughed out loud at the geometrical shapes floating around. Needless to say, that hasn't happened before. And I find myself at work thinking... "Just another couple of hours of this drudgery and I can go home and play Tranquility."
You'll note the similarities to addiction here... first, addiction doesn't hit everyone the same way. The girlfriend tried it, but it wasn't her cup of tea. Where-as the EMail author tried it and not only lost track of time, but now apparently finds himself thinking about it at inappropriate moments.
Since the games are created and served via the Internet we also can watch to see how people play the game. Some people use us once a day - often at the end of the day for stress relief. Some people use us weekly or monthly. Others use us randomly. But we have a select group of users who use us RELIGIOUSLY... that play day and night, all the time. Since the game servers never duplicates a game or a musical track, some of our users have played the entire series (441 total games) over and over again. One user has played the entire series of games over 45 times - unbelievable (that's 19,845 games... to ONE person).
Yes, SOME players get addicted... very addicted. I believe that, at least for our game, it's a combination of the patterns the game produces in junction with the sound. Almost hypnotic, and that draws SOME people deeply into the game structure.
But that makes sense... who can resist staring at the beams of an oncoming car at night. We lust for patterns, lights, flashing. It captures our attentions and captivates our minds. This is why music is so important to us - and also why raves, dance floors, etc... combine music with flashing lights - it does something hypnotic to us. GOOD plots can also do the same thing - make us feel a part of the plot - as if we're living a different life. Is this also not true of the Internet itself, for some people? Of course it is.
To a degree, ANYTHING can be abused and become adictive... even slashdot ;)) It's not about the substance - but how an individual REACTS to that substance.
I for one welcome our new addicted tomacco worm overlords
While I certainly agree with your post (except for the bell curve part) - I should like to point out that I was born a barefooted palestinian refugee - though these days I utilize many gigabits a day. While your correct in the fact that many people around the world do not access technology - nor have electronic (or even paper) records on them (I, for example, have no birth certificate) I suspect that number is shrinking at an alarming rate.
Apparently you don't know about our little training camp out jupiter way... we manufaturer asteroids. A big rock with a little shove (or a little rock with a big shove, think david and golith) can do much damage.
Aloha from this palestinian
Not too tough... we got internet :)
I preordered Panther and was super happy when yesterday, 4:00 PM, Fed Ex pulls up in my driveway with a box from Apple.
Beat the crowd scene totally... and I didn't have to take off my rubbah slippahs at the airport, or surrender my box cutters.
It's up and running nicely... everything is brushed metal. Lots of windows popping up and then disapearing - I'll love Expose'.
Tranquility runs like a dream - improved frame rate.
Go Apple - Too bad it wasn't free.
I dunno... two months ago I sold instantcoffee.com for $4000. It certainly isn't like it used to be, but a good name can still fetch a price.
That would lead me to two conclusions... first, that your company finds you valuable and thus would work with you on a possible solution. Second... that if you QUIT your job to start your own company... that is entirely different matter. So quit your job with an official resignation. Setup your own corporation (Subchapter S probably) and then sub-contract yourself back to the business.
The AT&T service is fine - though not all the transmitters here have GPRS. AT&T let me keep my non-GPRS cell phone as well (you have to maintain a voice plan along with the data plan). The nice thing is... I've now got 2 cell numbers (one for the non-gprs phone and one for the tunsten w). The non-gprs phone works pretty much everywhere on the island (except places where all cell service is blacked out due to mountains) and the tunsten works many, but not all places (e.g., it doesn't work up on the active volcano - whereas my cell phone has excellant reception there).
AT&T plans start around $20 and go up to around $79 or so... at the $70ish range they do offer an unlimited bandwidth plan.
It's better to be a jack of all trades than a master of one... or as Timothy Leary once put it... "Specialty is for insects".
How long will it be until we see players with 'special glasses' who will also be able to see the cards :))
In general - someone who has a BS in CS (for example, myself) and leaves it at that and enters the work arena (well, this applied not since 2001 since there is no work arena currently) is, in my view (and apparently the view of many companies I've been with) better qualified as PROGRAMMERS than someone who has spent most of their time pursuing higher education.
Indeed, I've experienced people who didn't go to college but were computer savy, and who entered the work force and have gone to the top of the list in their companies - and in some cases gone on to head their own corporations.
In general, and in most conversations I've entered in on concerning this topic - the feeling is that a GOOD programmer (and I stress the word GOOD) who begins the work force early has much much more practical experience.
In the 25 years (I'm 45) that I've been professionally programming, I've written literally hundreds of compete applications - some with teams but most on my own or with a single partner (PC games, image processing systems, paint systems, medical software etc). In many cases, not only written the applications but supported them and marketed them myself (or with the team).
In some occassions, teams I've put together have included Masters and Phd's... and while very bright they often tend to lack the ability to see "the entire picture". Now, there are two types of programmers out there... first, there are the ones that code routines and are merely told input and output expectations and they deliver. The second set of programmers work with entire application concepts, and have the ability to understand what is required in a full application and how to go about designing it, as well as coding it. In my experience, most (not all of course) masters and phd's fit better into the first category as PROGRAMMERS.
Indeed... a Phd shouldn't be used as a programmer, more over they should be used as a visionary. Keep 'em away from the code layer because they have LITTLE practical experience designing REAL-WORLD applications. They often don't understand time-frames - since they havn't experienced real-world programming conditions and requirements (e.g., shitty management decisions ;). On the other hand, they have MUCH experience in pushing boundries and concepts. So as a VISIONARY - that is where they are better off in my opinion.
So it comes down to what you want to do... do you LOVE programming for the joy of programming? If so, get out of college and get to work! On the other hand, do you enjoy thinking about possible concepts and pushing the boundries of understanding? If so... than a masters or phd might be perfect for you.
One last thing... small companies rarely have use for a Phd or Masters. They cost too much and don't provide the small organization enough bang for the buck (unless they're going after venture capital and want a pretty-face). It's your larger corporations that have more of a need for the Phd level visionary - and can afford it. Think IBM FELLOW for example.
Aloha... over and out
I asked if he could determine where the scans were coming from and he said that this was unusual and he was looking into it. He pointed out that there was no damage being done, but was curious as to who would be doing 12 hours of constant port scanning.
After an hour he called back and said that the scans were coming from just about everywhere, and that they were scanning only the port used by the Worm. His conclusion (and mine as well) was that a fault in the random number generation method used by the worm caused it to pick our Class C address block more than other ones, and thus we were getting the scans.
No damage is being done... so I guess we merely wait until (hahahahah) all these lusers patch their systems - but really, can the script kiddies out there PLEASE learn how to write GOOD code before releasing their worms? (or did this come straight out of microsoft labs itself - seems their typical crap coding style).
Perhaps they should have used the SGI LAVA RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR.
One possibility would be to issue each vendor and each employee that requires tracking a unique bar-code ID. Then a simple scan tool, one carried by the employee and one at the vendor could be used. The vendor could scan the employees ID and the employee could scan both the vendor and his own ID and that info could then be easily uploaded and visualized in a large number of ways. That would give you verification in both directions, as well as a timestamp of exactly when the employee visited.
The entire structure, thus, was totally covered in fog - and they used both lasers and video projectors to color and animate the surface.
And anyway... what, nobody ever thought of shineing a video or slide projector (or laser) at fog before. Geezesus.
Granted, this is Hawaii so there is much nature to see, but nature is everywhere, just get out of your office for awhile.
Favorites...
Hiking to the lip of 1500 ft waterfalls and looking back over at the tiny little tourists way on the other side... then skinny dipping in the secret pools behind the fall lip.
Treking out into the Kau desert to find pit craters and volcanic cones.
Going down to South Point (the southern most point in the US) and swiming at the green sands beach. The sands are green because of an abundance of the semi-precious gemstone peridot.
Putting on scuba or snorkle gear and going to view the beautiful fish that live around here.
Simply relaxing in the volcanically heated hot ponds.
Hiking to the fresh lava flow to watch the lava enter the ocean - with huge billowing steam clouds... or cooking chicken in the fresh lava.
Hiking to the summits of Mauna Kea (where the astronomy domes are) or to the summit of Mauna Loa (which has a crater 12 miles in diameter) - both of which are at 13,800 ft above sea level - meaning little air but plenty fun.
Just going down to the ocean and sitting and watching the waves, looking for whales, viewing the giant sea turtles and thinking about my day/work/life.
Does anyone out there (current level 5 posters havn't had this info) have a SITE we can go to, to learn the specifics of this?
Since we're a very very small company we won't be putting up any "headquarters" in europe.
Who do we pay? How frequently do we pay? What laws do we need to follow in terms of documentation? How long do we need to hold onto records? Where to we go to find out if tax rates have been changed, or even what they are?
It's one thing to demand a VAT... it's another thing entirely to make sure we get the proper information in order to implement it correctly.
BTW, what island you on? Big Island, hilo side here. Always nice to know there are local /.ers :)
I forgot to add point (3) and (4) to my original post too...
(3) Always check your toaster for geckos before making toast
(4) Always check your door jambs before closing doors.