Even better...
All the Office 2000 apps *except* for Word 2000 allow you to turn off the bastard SDI interface with a simple option setting.
Too bad MS Office doesn't do SDI the way analogous to the way Delphi does it, with a floating Office toolbar and windows for each document opened...
...it's either that, or buy some of the new software for doing essentially this from Lotus, Documentum, Microsoft, etc. Granted, the IM in those suites? clusters? of applications allow much more than just little text message xfers, they also cost a lot more per seat.
No, there is not much, really, one can do if your money market fund manager skips town except complain. Maybe there is a case, and a state investigator can investigate. If the money is gone, and the manager has no other assets or is out of the country, you're SOL. The SEC, NASD, et al do not maintain an "insurance" fund like the banks and credit unions do to cover deposits.
Just like with the stock exchange. Enron's executives are millionaires, and everyone else who held Enron stock is SOL, too. Stock holders are typically last in line when it comes to getting money from the bankruptcy court.
Welp, that's awfully mean of you
Sometimes we all need to be bitch-slapped out of complacency.
...except when the beach is part of a military base...
The beaches on North Island that are part of the North Island NAS and Coronado NAB, and the beaches that are part of Camp Pendleton, are not publicly accessible...
states already calculate all sorts of doom-and-gloom scenarios for why they need to raise taxes. Do they ever cut their pet district spending budgets (IIRC, in Illinois it is several hundred million dollars that the state legislature gets to throw around with little to no oversight or accountability), even with the budget running at a new deficit?
At least in the state of Illinois, it has hard to see how this "internet tax" would generate enough money to take care of a $1 billion deficit this year...
THAT is why this law is silly. Everything involved in an internet transaction has already been taxed. Maybe those taxes need to be adjusted upwards, then?
I still haven't seen a good reason why we should favor etailers vs retailers, other then many Slashdot earn their salary from the some sort of ebusiness....then why defend sales taxes at all?
...what social infrastructure are you talking about? The "e-tailer" pays local taxes wherever its business is located and on what the business locally consumes. The service providers all pay taxes based on their impacts. The people who order the stuff already pay a shitload of taxes already, on their paychecks, on any property they own, etc.
The transaction is already being taxed from a variety of places.
How come noone is arguing about how absurd sales taxes are?
wahwahwah. I can also drive to Walmart or Best Buy to see what I'm getting before I buy it. And maybe pick up a few extra things I also need that aren't carried by Amazon.com. Like, if I run out of milk and forgot to order it from Peapod.com, what do I do? Uh, I think I'll run to the nearest grocery store and buy a couple of gallons. Beats listening to two little kids who understand at a basic level that orange juice on frootloops is not a satisfactory solution.
And how exactly does the profitability of Walmart and Best BUy compare to Amazon.com? Disadvantage? Moral, at best.
It does not matter that most Americans are taxed in toto 40-50%.
I don't mind paying taxes. But where I live, I pay sales taxes on stuff with money that has already been taxed at a federal level approx. 35%. Some *cities* have an income tax, for crissakes, in addition to state sales and/or income taxes.
I know I don't make enough to move my jar of pennies into an overseas money market account that I debit from with a Visa card, start money-losing businesses to offset capital gains made in other ventures (and thus have net 0 tax), etc.
US citizens well-armed? Armed with what? How come 1000 police in riot gear can deal [brutally] with 10000 civilians? Granted, a lot of the street-level storefronts and cars will take a beating, but...
...what is the real impact of an "e-tailer" compared to a B&M store? Well, mostly they're electronic or paid by the shipping company or US Postal, but those impacts are already taxed.
Your B&M store, however, requires fire and police protection. Your store generates road and pedestrian traffic, so those streets, sidewalks and liability insurance on those things needs to be paid for. Your store also probably generates a certain amount of...waste...that has to go somewhere. So you get to pay garbage and sewage taxes. Etc. etc.etc.
You chose a high-overhead operation. If someone can provide the same tangible service to their customers that you can with far lower overhead, more power to them, not you.
There are plenty of former Wal-marts around that were replaced by newer buildings just outside of city limits or just down the road because they save enough in lowered taxes to justify the move. Sucks even more now for your community, but...it's Walmart's store, not yours.
...as are the companies that have already developed the systems and software to deal with this (Wal-Mart, Target), so it would be a competitive advantage to do this compared to a company (amazon.com) that probably does not have this.
Everything I do with a computer is already taxed (the telephone line is already taxed, the electricity is taxed, all for the impact of those facilities on the State. If they were smart, they would quietly increase those taxes, instead of trying to make a big noise about "internet taxes".
Mandarin oranges? Most of the cans of Mandarin oranges I see are imported from outside the US.
You mean the fresh ones? Well, fresh fruit like this would generally come across the pond by ship. Give that a week. Then give the stuff another 3 or 4 days to process through the intermodal network, a day or 3 to go from fruit wholesaler to grocery store buyer and grocery store warehouses, and...wait. they're mostly gray lumps of stinky mold now. Hmm...
No, the US orange growers want you to buy Navel and Valencia hybrid oranges...they rot slightly slower, or can be picked even greener, etc.
The odd thing about the Florida sugar subsidies is that it is mostly aimed at trying to give the middle finger to Cuba. The US sugar industry is pretty small.
So one consequence of the sugar subsidies is that you have some major candy producers shutting down candy factories in the US and moving them to Canada...
The "VIC" of VIC-20 was the VIC chip. These custom chips were the cool parts of the VIC-20 and C-64, much like the DSP56000 in the NeXT boxes was, and the current video hardware arms race.
How about forbidding American corporations from trading censorware goods or services to these "repressive governments," wouldn't that be a good start?
Well, there is the practical matter of ''if our companies can't do it, there are plenty of other european and asian companies that would'', or subsidiaries of US-based companies that could.
If a country like China decided that its market to buy this stuff disappeared by legislative fiat by the US Govment, I can see them drooling all the way to the WTO and claim the US Goverment was imposing barriers to free trade, much like Canada did when the US proposed banning the use of MTBE as a pollution-minimizing gasoline additive (most of the MTBE used in the US comes from Canada).
Hezbollah funds medical clinics in the occupied territories and Lebanon, and the various drug cartels in Columbia have done the same also. Does that make them any more or less evil than they are? I guess it all depends on where you side on the arguments...
The bicameral system merely represents the structure of the government, i.e., the legislative branch shall consist of two houses, yada yada yada.
The fact that the US is mostly a two political party country probably has more to do with the early social makeup of the US, which continues today, and while both the GOP and Democratic parties in the US share the historical names of the parties, both groups do not much resemble much what they originally were. Both have, at different times, been taken over by more vocal minorities...
Both seem to exist more to raise money for the next round of elections and shape policy to enhance this, than anything else.
While miles after miles of Nevada might be open space, the fact that a large amount of that land can be and probably is also leased out by the BLM for open range cattle grazing would classify it as being "under human influence".
It could be that their strategy is to come up with the most over the top implementation, gauge market acceptance (either by thought balloon or lame 1.0 implementations), and then deliver the real implementation that is a notch or few back from the first plan.
Their marketing strategies in the past certainly go that way. Market "swiss army knife" software (or 'experience'), deliver common cutlery (only plastic spork and knife). Meanwhile, everyone else has frozen trying to catch up to the initial swiss army knife, they fail, and the new cutlery catches on.
He's a grad student! If he was a pro, you think he'd at least be a Post-doc... If he was merely an undergrad, that would make him a slashdot poster-equivalent...
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Even better... All the Office 2000 apps *except* for Word 2000 allow you to turn off the bastard SDI interface with a simple option setting. Too bad MS Office doesn't do SDI the way analogous to the way Delphi does it, with a floating Office toolbar and windows for each document opened...
...it's either that, or buy some of the new software for doing essentially this from Lotus, Documentum, Microsoft, etc. Granted, the IM in those suites? clusters? of applications allow much more than just little text message xfers, they also cost a lot more per seat.
No, there is not much, really, one can do if your money market fund manager skips town except complain. Maybe there is a case, and a state investigator can investigate. If the money is gone, and the manager has no other assets or is out of the country, you're SOL. The SEC, NASD, et al do not maintain an "insurance" fund like the banks and credit unions do to cover deposits. Just like with the stock exchange. Enron's executives are millionaires, and everyone else who held Enron stock is SOL, too. Stock holders are typically last in line when it comes to getting money from the bankruptcy court. Welp, that's awfully mean of you Sometimes we all need to be bitch-slapped out of complacency.
...except when the beach is part of a military base...
The beaches on North Island that are part of the North Island NAS and Coronado NAB, and the beaches that are part of Camp Pendleton, are not publicly accessible...
Those are the ones I want to see. J2EE vs .Net on Unix.
Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, et al., the initial brains of quantum mechanics, were all theoretical physicists...
...but those wires are already taxed for their alleged impact on the government! Look at your phone bill some time!
...no, they are called politicians. They all have pet projects that need to be funded or horse-traded. Decreased funding makes life tough for them.
states already calculate all sorts of doom-and-gloom scenarios for why they need to raise taxes. Do they ever cut their pet district spending budgets (IIRC, in Illinois it is several hundred million dollars that the state legislature gets to throw around with little to no oversight or accountability), even with the budget running at a new deficit? At least in the state of Illinois, it has hard to see how this "internet tax" would generate enough money to take care of a $1 billion deficit this year... THAT is why this law is silly. Everything involved in an internet transaction has already been taxed. Maybe those taxes need to be adjusted upwards, then?
I still haven't seen a good reason why we should favor etailers vs retailers, other then many Slashdot earn their salary from the some sort of ebusiness. ...then why defend sales taxes at all?
...what social infrastructure are you talking about? The "e-tailer" pays local taxes wherever its business is located and on what the business locally consumes. The service providers all pay taxes based on their impacts. The people who order the stuff already pay a shitload of taxes already, on their paychecks, on any property they own, etc.
The transaction is already being taxed from a variety of places.
How come noone is arguing about how absurd sales taxes are?
wahwahwah. I can also drive to Walmart or Best Buy to see what I'm getting before I buy it. And maybe pick up a few extra things I also need that aren't carried by Amazon.com. Like, if I run out of milk and forgot to order it from Peapod.com, what do I do? Uh, I think I'll run to the nearest grocery store and buy a couple of gallons. Beats listening to two little kids who understand at a basic level that orange juice on frootloops is not a satisfactory solution.
And how exactly does the profitability of Walmart and Best BUy compare to Amazon.com? Disadvantage? Moral, at best.
It does not matter that most Americans are taxed in toto 40-50%.
I don't mind paying taxes. But where I live, I pay sales taxes on stuff with money that has already been taxed at a federal level approx. 35%. Some *cities* have an income tax, for crissakes, in addition to state sales and/or income taxes.
I know I don't make enough to move my jar of pennies into an overseas money market account that I debit from with a Visa card, start money-losing businesses to offset capital gains made in other ventures (and thus have net 0 tax), etc.
Death by 1000 paper cuts from tax forms.
US citizens well-armed? Armed with what? How come 1000 police in riot gear can deal [brutally] with 10000 civilians? Granted, a lot of the street-level storefronts and cars will take a beating, but...
...but you don't pay income tax in WA like you do in CA.
...what is the real impact of an "e-tailer" compared to a B&M store? Well, mostly they're electronic or paid by the shipping company or US Postal, but those impacts are already taxed.
Your B&M store, however, requires fire and police protection. Your store generates road and pedestrian traffic, so those streets, sidewalks and liability insurance on those things needs to be paid for. Your store also probably generates a certain amount of...waste...that has to go somewhere. So you get to pay garbage and sewage taxes. Etc. etc.etc.
You chose a high-overhead operation. If someone can provide the same tangible service to their customers that you can with far lower overhead, more power to them, not you.
There are plenty of former Wal-marts around that were replaced by newer buildings just outside of city limits or just down the road because they save enough in lowered taxes to justify the move.
Sucks even more now for your community, but...it's Walmart's store, not yours.
...as are the companies that have already developed the systems and software to deal with this (Wal-Mart, Target), so it would be a competitive advantage to do this compared to a company (amazon.com) that probably does not have this.
Everything I do with a computer is already taxed (the telephone line is already taxed, the electricity is taxed, all for the impact of those facilities on the State. If they were smart, they would quietly increase those taxes, instead of trying to make a big noise about "internet taxes".
Mandarin oranges? Most of the cans of Mandarin oranges I see are imported from outside the US. You mean the fresh ones? Well, fresh fruit like this would generally come across the pond by ship. Give that a week. Then give the stuff another 3 or 4 days to process through the intermodal network, a day or 3 to go from fruit wholesaler to grocery store buyer and grocery store warehouses, and...wait. they're mostly gray lumps of stinky mold now. Hmm... No, the US orange growers want you to buy Navel and Valencia hybrid oranges...they rot slightly slower, or can be picked even greener, etc. The odd thing about the Florida sugar subsidies is that it is mostly aimed at trying to give the middle finger to Cuba. The US sugar industry is pretty small. So one consequence of the sugar subsidies is that you have some major candy producers shutting down candy factories in the US and moving them to Canada...
come on, think of the bright side. This guy just made everyone else's SX64's marginally more valuable in the long run.
The "VIC" of VIC-20 was the VIC chip. These custom chips were the cool parts of the VIC-20 and C-64, much like the DSP56000 in the NeXT boxes was, and the current video hardware arms race.
How about forbidding American corporations from trading censorware goods or services to these "repressive governments," wouldn't that be a good start?
Well, there is the practical matter of ''if our companies can't do it, there are plenty of other european and asian companies that would'', or subsidiaries of US-based companies that could.
If a country like China decided that its market to buy this stuff disappeared by legislative fiat by the US Govment, I can see them drooling all the way to the WTO and claim the US Goverment was imposing barriers to free trade, much like Canada did when the US proposed banning the use of MTBE as a pollution-minimizing gasoline additive (most of the MTBE used in the US comes from Canada).
Hezbollah funds medical clinics in the occupied territories and Lebanon, and the various drug cartels in Columbia have done the same also. Does that make them any more or less evil than they are? I guess it all depends on where you side on the arguments...
The bicameral system merely represents the structure of the government, i.e., the legislative branch shall consist of two houses, yada yada yada.
The fact that the US is mostly a two political party country probably has more to do with the early social makeup of the US, which continues today, and while both the GOP and Democratic parties in the US share the historical names of the parties, both groups do not much resemble much what they originally were. Both have, at different times, been taken over by more vocal minorities...
Both seem to exist more to raise money for the next round of elections and shape policy to enhance this, than anything else.
While miles after miles of Nevada might be open space, the fact that a large amount of that land can be and probably is also leased out by the BLM for open range cattle grazing would classify it as being "under human influence".
It could be that their strategy is to come up with the most over the top implementation, gauge market acceptance (either by thought balloon or lame 1.0 implementations), and then deliver the real implementation that is a notch or few back from the first plan.
Their marketing strategies in the past certainly go that way. Market "swiss army knife" software (or 'experience'), deliver common cutlery (only plastic spork and knife). Meanwhile, everyone else has frozen trying to catch up to the initial swiss army knife, they fail, and the new cutlery catches on.
He's a grad student! If he was a pro, you think he'd at least be a Post-doc... If he was merely an undergrad, that would make him a slashdot poster-equivalent...