States cannot force companies to collect taxes for them unless the company has a physical presence in the state.
So yes to amazon customers, however since the company has no presence in the state the state has no way of forcing amazon to collect or to provide the information. This case is special since it is done using a federal law forcing the companies to provide the information.
Yes.
The US does not have a federal sales tax, and with each state being its own entity they can tax as they like.
Most of the use taxes allow you deduct the the taxes from the other state so generally you only have to pay any additional taxes. It would be like going to Germany 16%VAT from France 19% and then France collecting the additional 3% as you come in. Other have aggrements with bordering states where people do not have to pay thoses taxes but only the one of thier residence, provided you fill out the paperwork.
For most individuals they will not see this much unless they purchase a car in another states, just because it is too much a hassle for the states. But you will get states like New York(high sales taxes) which will place police cars at borders with states with lower sales taxes during the Holidays and stop thoses with state plates and check for them bringing in item and then tax them.
reading the original article on this, they are quoting a microsoft employee on what was said, also there were multiple people in the room.
To consider this blackmail then you would also have to consider that a your employer coming up to you and saying "Stop reading/. during work or you are fired." as blackmail. Both are legally performed action on all sides.
SOE posted some round about numbers for EQ1. They said it was costing around $30 million a year for all costs(servers, new dev, people,etc). And they were bringing in close to $45 million(subscription, expansion packs, marketing of license,etc).
Some smaller MMORPG said they needed around 70,000 subscribers to make a profit and stick around. So it really depends on what how profitable they are.
As for box costs, you can figure that only around $15 of the $50 box(expansion pack they get less) goes to the development company(the reseller, manufacturer and distributer get the rest) so profit wise it is as if they released a new game every 3-4 months.
However sales of MMORPGs suck, during the same time the WoW has sold less then 1 million world wide, warcraft III had sold close to 8 million.
It is neither.
It is definatly not blackmail, since there is no criminal act or discreditable information.
It is not extortion because the act of close the office and firing the people would not be illegal. Also it was not made in private.
It is definatly arm twisting or making a threating comment. Not sure how illegal that would be.
The law would not make class action law suits illegal.
It would require that they be heard in federal court in the event that the people in the class are from multiple states.
Since any class action in this case would just be local personnal it would be stay in local or state courts.
In 2048, Social Security is scheduled to be in deficit - paying out more than it's taking in, but still able to pay almost 80% of scheduled benefits without additional funding. Those 80% of benefits are higher, in real terms, than Social Security is paying today.
If you hadn't noticed, the general federal budget is in deficit now. Is the US "bankrupt"?
Wow that is really stretching to tie thoses two together.
With the deficit in the event the US does not pay the money when it is due and in the full amount that is due then yes it would be forced to under bankruptcy. What do you call when a person cannot pay the full amount owed and in the time required?
BTW 2018 is the year SSN starts paying out more then it takes in. So based on your thinking you just told a lie. What it done to deliberatly mislead, probably not. But then I am not a hate filled person who considers every corrected mistake a lie.
My passbook saving account does better then SSN and you want them to only pay 80% of what should be paid me. Please, please, please give we more then 2% where I can invest it in better sources.
Just grabbed two of thier "lies" they had highlighted.
The first was that he lied about saying that by 2048 SSN would be bankrupht if not changed. They then go on and explain how alternate system exist then what he proposed. That does not make the statement that it would be bankrupht a lie, just a difference of opitions.
Then they use statments from before the current continuation on the Iraq war about them have WMD, the common think with about everyone. Unless you think Bush has some mystic power where we can brainwash almost the entire world into think that was the case while he knew it was not that is also not a like. A mistake based on intelligence but not a lie.
Then thier were some other quotes they made, but doing a quick google search should they they had quickly retracted them and corrected what they were saying.
Definition lie: A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
But most advocates of the current Social Security program acknowledge the system faces a long-term financing problem.
"There is obviously a problem," said Greenstein. "There is a long-term shortfall. There is a need to take action on it." --from above links
Problem is they consider long term 15-20 years, based on comments about fix made a long time ago, the mid-late 80.
However that does not indicate that he lied. It is totally a discussion on what the solution will be. Considering that my passbook saving account is doing as good and most time better then my pay going into SSN, I am willing for anything that allows me to remove any amount(even the 2% under President Bush's plan) and put that in a higher interest account.
"Recalling that its resolution 678 authorized Member States to use all necessary means to uphold and implement its resolution 660 of 2 August 1990 and all relevant resolutions subsequent to resolution 660 and to restore international peace and security in the area,
"Further recalling that its resolution 687 imposed obligations on Iraq as a necessary step for achievement of its stated objective of restoring international peace and security in the area,
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Over 50 nations,lead by the US, decided that they would enforce thier words, and end the weekly attack on thier various forces. Better to do that then go with what has happening and turn it into a new North Korea.
Do have to question why people think President Bush is such a war monger, under him the US has initialed war on 1 country(afganistan), Iraq just being the continuation of the war he inheriated; and in both of theses he spent week to months tring to get thoses countries to follow agreements they had signed, or to turn over people for a trail. However under President Clinton the US initiated attacks on some 6+ countries, also ignoring Iraq since he also inherited that war.
"We really took down Saddam Hussein because he tried to kill Daddy Bush. The message must be sent: Don't fuck with an Ex-Pres."
Go read some of the stuff from saddam to his sons. He knew that President Bush was upset at them for that(I guess you don't love you parents), and if given an excuse he would do something about them, and end the continue conflict there.
Saddam did not follow through with his obilgations and what he would say he would do, so Bush went and use the authority given by the US and fullified the US obligations that were dictated by the UN.
Give some specifics.
On 9-11 read the report on it thier were ties between Iraq and bin Laden, not with this attack but on others. Based on different things said and the times they were not immediatly corrected, they also had additional intelligence that indicated what they were saying was correct.
He continued the war with Iraq based on bad intellegence but it was not a lie.
I presume you are meaning that it will go bankrupht in a few years. If something cannot pay it full financial obiligations in the time period it is suppose to, what do you call it?
It was carried over from standard postal mail. The government can see the TO/FROM on an envelope but it requires a court order to get the contents, not sure about postcards.
Even to get the TO/FROM requires a current investigation on the person they are requesting that info from, so no asking for everything from everyone just for a fishing purpose.
That is not to say it is not broken; one only needs to look at 90s and the White House requesting FBI information on thier enemies list.
Do you have a link to that info on Yahoo? I would have figured with that many requests yahoo would of automated it.
What can/cannot be done is spelled out in the US PATRIOT act.
Police are allowed to look at the TO/FROM(think an envelope) provided they have a reason, ie a current investigation.
To look at the content requires a court order, or permission of the TO/FROM.
It is really hard to come up with an analogy how this case will affect the ISP. The closest I can think of is if the FBI setup a major router and as messages were passing through they did not check each packet(no current investigation) put just recorded where thier router opened too and from and recored the count. Then based on the to they determine that some ISP is sending alot of mail to an suspecion site/country.(this is the dog sniffing during an otherwise lawfull stop) Using that information they then open an investigation against everyone on the ISP and start getting indivdual messages and then using that get court permission to look at content. And frankly that analogy sucks.
As you say the author of this article is hack.
Correct.
But you original post was a deliberate attempt to say that back in the 1600 the current United States of America was responsible with the killing of the natives of that time.
By flooding the market for certain items, or controling drops on certain monsters , a small group of Farmers like these can effectively deny the rest of the online world's population of something that they need ( for they character's job) or simply monopolise the market on some items ( after all, they can organise shifts easely so they can camp for 24 hours at a time).
Alot of that is just poor design/technology of the game. Current design prevents this by bunch of changes including:
1) Random locations of the mobs that drop the item. Hard to monopolise something if you cannot camp a single stop.
2) Instancing of areas.
3) Mob does not drop anything except the item needed for the quest, and players are limited on the times they can get such item.
"Eventually over time you get to the point that MONEY BECOMES WORTHLESS in the online game...... The Final Fantasy XI Online economy was showing the signs of this about 5-6 months ago, and now, since then there has been about a 100% inflation on all costs in-game ( for player-sold items). "
Personnal point, but that is not inflation.
Inflation would be around if in game(NPC supplied items) actually varied in cost depending on the amount of money that all players had. So if total amount of gold in the game was 1000 then some item cost 1 gold, but if the total amount of money that all players had was 10000 and the NPC purchased item now cost 10gold, that would be inflation. What you have with the base costs of everything being constant but the price of PC sold items increasing, is just plain greed and supply and demand.
The best term I have seen for this is mudflation.
I would not be to sure of it. While it will take a very,very long time for the mass public to allow a plane to be totally computer control or guilded by pilot on the ground controlling a large amount of them. The technical need for them is going away.
Look at subway drivers. In the modern systems about all they do is act as a computer "dead man" switch. The computer directs the speed, based on location. The only active thing they drives do is press the button to stay "time to goto next station".
The modern Airbus models already have computer that prevent the pilot from performing actions that the computer considers incorrect. But on the other hand you have the thinking of Boeing that consider that wrong and that the pilot should be able to guild all actions.
The better comparision would be DEC's Altavista fight againt Google.
People forget that back in the mid to late 90s that Altavista was the google of the time.
If ms can do something in the search arena then google people will drift over.
No they cannot, anything of content requires that they get a court order.
You are mixing that up with URLs and email address that under the US patriot act treated as phone numbers. So provided the content is not looked at they can be recorded without a courts approval but they do have to be under active investigation; ie just like a phone number.
They can be ordered by the court to stay quiet for certain period of time (IIRC less then 30 days) that can be extended by the court if the investigation is still in progress.
Are you upset that companies were not able to alert child molesters that they are being investigated? That was allowed before the US Patriot Act, which extented that portion to use the same action "against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."
The US Patriot does not change any requirements to work with forgein governments, thoses would be covered under treaties which have a higher presidence then just a normal law.
The main thing that would be affecting this, is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)(could also be the "Buckley admentment" but probably not) and what the US Patriot act allows new under that is that a court can now require the informtion "for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.". A long,list of other items already existed which allowed a court to authorize the action and most of them are far easier to prove and get court approval then that the person they need information on is working for a international terriorism group.
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States cannot force companies to collect taxes for them unless the company has a physical presence in the state.
So yes to amazon customers, however since the company has no presence in the state the state has no way of forcing amazon to collect or to provide the information. This case is special since it is done using a federal law forcing the companies to provide the information.
Yes.
The US does not have a federal sales tax, and with each state being its own entity they can tax as they like.
Most of the use taxes allow you deduct the the taxes from the other state so generally you only have to pay any additional taxes. It would be like going to Germany 16%VAT from France 19% and then France collecting the additional 3% as you come in. Other have aggrements with bordering states where people do not have to pay thoses taxes but only the one of thier residence, provided you fill out the paperwork.
For most individuals they will not see this much unless they purchase a car in another states, just because it is too much a hassle for the states. But you will get states like New York(high sales taxes) which will place police cars at borders with states with lower sales taxes during the Holidays and stop thoses with state plates and check for them bringing in item and then tax them.
reading the original article on this, they are quoting a microsoft employee on what was said, also there were multiple people in the room. /. during work or you are fired." as blackmail. Both are legally performed action on all sides.
To consider this blackmail then you would also have to consider that a your employer coming up to you and saying "Stop reading
SOE posted some round about numbers for EQ1. They said it was costing around $30 million a year for all costs(servers, new dev, people,etc). And they were bringing in close to $45 million(subscription, expansion packs, marketing of license,etc).
Some smaller MMORPG said they needed around 70,000 subscribers to make a profit and stick around. So it really depends on what how profitable they are.
As for box costs, you can figure that only around $15 of the $50 box(expansion pack they get less) goes to the development company(the reseller, manufacturer and distributer get the rest) so profit wise it is as if they released a new game every 3-4 months.
However sales of MMORPGs suck, during the same time the WoW has sold less then 1 million world wide, warcraft III had sold close to 8 million.
It is neither.
It is definatly not blackmail, since there is no criminal act or discreditable information.
It is not extortion because the act of close the office and firing the people would not be illegal. Also it was not made in private.
It is definatly arm twisting or making a threating comment. Not sure how illegal that would be.
The law would not make class action law suits illegal.
It would require that they be heard in federal court in the event that the people in the class are from multiple states.
Since any class action in this case would just be local personnal it would be stay in local or state courts.
In 2048, Social Security is scheduled to be in deficit - paying out more than it's taking in, but still able to pay almost 80% of scheduled benefits without additional funding. Those 80% of benefits are higher, in real terms, than Social Security is paying today. If you hadn't noticed, the general federal budget is in deficit now. Is the US "bankrupt"?
Wow that is really stretching to tie thoses two together.
With the deficit in the event the US does not pay the money when it is due and in the full amount that is due then yes it would be forced to under bankruptcy. What do you call when a person cannot pay the full amount owed and in the time required?
BTW 2018 is the year SSN starts paying out more then it takes in. So based on your thinking you just told a lie. What it done to deliberatly mislead, probably not. But then I am not a hate filled person who considers every corrected mistake a lie.
My passbook saving account does better then SSN and you want them to only pay 80% of what should be paid me. Please, please, please give we more then 2% where I can invest it in better sources.
Just grabbed two of thier "lies" they had highlighted.
The first was that he lied about saying that by 2048 SSN would be bankrupht if not changed. They then go on and explain how alternate system exist then what he proposed. That does not make the statement that it would be bankrupht a lie, just a difference of opitions.
Then they use statments from before the current continuation on the Iraq war about them have WMD, the common think with about everyone. Unless you think Bush has some mystic power where we can brainwash almost the entire world into think that was the case while he knew it was not that is also not a like. A mistake based on intelligence but not a lie.
Then thier were some other quotes they made, but doing a quick google search should they they had quickly retracted them and corrected what they were saying.
Definition lie: A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
But most advocates of the current Social Security program acknowledge the system faces a long-term financing problem.
"There is obviously a problem," said Greenstein. "There is a long-term shortfall. There is a need to take action on it." --from above links
Problem is they consider long term 15-20 years, based on comments about fix made a long time ago, the mid-late 80.
However that does not indicate that he lied. It is totally a discussion on what the solution will be. Considering that my passbook saving account is doing as good and most time better then my pay going into SSN, I am willing for anything that allows me to remove any amount(even the 2% under President Bush's plan) and put that in a higher interest account.
Security Council Resolution 1441,1382 and 678
"Recalling that its resolution 678 authorized Member States to use all necessary means to uphold and implement its resolution 660 of 2 August 1990 and all relevant resolutions subsequent to resolution 660 and to restore international peace and security in the area,
"Further recalling that its resolution 687 imposed obligations on Iraq as a necessary step for achievement of its stated objective of restoring international peace and security in the area,
---
Over 50 nations,lead by the US, decided that they would enforce thier words, and end the weekly attack on thier various forces. Better to do that then go with what has happening and turn it into a new North Korea.
Do have to question why people think President Bush is such a war monger, under him the US has initialed war on 1 country(afganistan), Iraq just being the continuation of the war he inheriated; and in both of theses he spent week to months tring to get thoses countries to follow agreements they had signed, or to turn over people for a trail. However under President Clinton the US initiated attacks on some 6+ countries, also ignoring Iraq since he also inherited that war.
"We really took down Saddam Hussein because he tried to kill Daddy Bush. The message must be sent: Don't fuck with an Ex-Pres."
Go read some of the stuff from saddam to his sons. He knew that President Bush was upset at them for that(I guess you don't love you parents), and if given an excuse he would do something about them, and end the continue conflict there.
Saddam did not follow through with his obilgations and what he would say he would do, so Bush went and use the authority given by the US and fullified the US obligations that were dictated by the UN.
Give some specifics.
On 9-11 read the report on it thier were ties between Iraq and bin Laden, not with this attack but on others. Based on different things said and the times they were not immediatly corrected, they also had additional intelligence that indicated what they were saying was correct.
He continued the war with Iraq based on bad intellegence but it was not a lie.
I presume you are meaning that it will go bankrupht in a few years. If something cannot pay it full financial obiligations in the time period it is suppose to, what do you call it?
I usally recive absolutly no answer, but will ask again.
What did President Bush lie about?
Lets ask again, maybe this time I will get an answer.
What has Bush been lying about?
It was carried over from standard postal mail. The government can see the TO/FROM on an envelope but it requires a court order to get the contents, not sure about postcards.
Even to get the TO/FROM requires a current investigation on the person they are requesting that info from, so no asking for everything from everyone just for a fishing purpose.
That is not to say it is not broken; one only needs to look at 90s and the White House requesting FBI information on thier enemies list.
Do you have a link to that info on Yahoo? I would have figured with that many requests yahoo would of automated it.
What can/cannot be done is spelled out in the US PATRIOT act.
Police are allowed to look at the TO/FROM(think an envelope) provided they have a reason, ie a current investigation.
To look at the content requires a court order, or permission of the TO/FROM.
It is really hard to come up with an analogy how this case will affect the ISP. The closest I can think of is if the FBI setup a major router and as messages were passing through they did not check each packet(no current investigation) put just recorded where thier router opened too and from and recored the count. Then based on the to they determine that some ISP is sending alot of mail to an suspecion site/country.(this is the dog sniffing during an otherwise lawfull stop) Using that information they then open an investigation against everyone on the ISP and start getting indivdual messages and then using that get court permission to look at content. And frankly that analogy sucks.
As you say the author of this article is hack.
Correct.
But you original post was a deliberate attempt to say that back in the 1600 the current United States of America was responsible with the killing of the natives of that time.
In 1684 there were well over 235 people in America.
And here I was thinking that the United States of America did not come into being until the 1700s.
By flooding the market for certain items, or controling drops on certain monsters , a small group of Farmers like these can effectively deny the rest of the online world's population of something that they need ( for they character's job) or simply monopolise the market on some items ( after all, they can organise shifts easely so they can camp for 24 hours at a time).
..... The Final Fantasy XI Online economy was showing the signs of this about 5-6 months ago, and now, since then there has been about a 100% inflation on all costs in-game ( for player-sold items). "
Alot of that is just poor design/technology of the game. Current design prevents this by bunch of changes including:
1) Random locations of the mobs that drop the item. Hard to monopolise something if you cannot camp a single stop.
2) Instancing of areas.
3) Mob does not drop anything except the item needed for the quest, and players are limited on the times they can get such item.
"Eventually over time you get to the point that MONEY BECOMES WORTHLESS in the online game.
Personnal point, but that is not inflation.
Inflation would be around if in game(NPC supplied items) actually varied in cost depending on the amount of money that all players had.
So if total amount of gold in the game was 1000 then some item cost 1 gold, but if the total amount of money that all players had was 10000 and the NPC purchased item now cost 10gold, that would be inflation. What you have with the base costs of everything being constant but the price of PC sold items increasing, is just plain greed and supply and demand.
The best term I have seen for this is mudflation.
I would not be to sure of it. While it will take a very,very long time for the mass public to allow a plane to be totally computer control or guilded by pilot on the ground controlling a large amount of them. The technical need for them is going away.
Look at subway drivers. In the modern systems about all they do is act as a computer "dead man" switch. The computer directs the speed, based on location. The only active thing they drives do is press the button to stay "time to goto next station".
The modern Airbus models already have computer that prevent the pilot from performing actions that the computer considers incorrect. But on the other hand you have the thinking of Boeing that consider that wrong and that the pilot should be able to guild all actions.
The better comparision would be DEC's Altavista fight againt Google.
People forget that back in the mid to late 90s that Altavista was the google of the time.
If ms can do something in the search arena then google people will drift over.
No they cannot, anything of content requires that they get a court order.
You are mixing that up with URLs and email address that under the US patriot act treated as phone numbers. So provided the content is not looked at they can be recorded without a courts approval but they do have to be under active investigation; ie just like a phone number.
They can be ordered by the court to stay quiet for certain period of time (IIRC less then 30 days) that can be extended by the court if the investigation is still in progress.
Are you upset that companies were not able to alert child molesters that they are being investigated? That was allowed before the US Patriot Act, which extented that portion to use the same action "against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."
The US Patriot does not change any requirements to work with forgein governments, thoses would be covered under treaties which have a higher presidence then just a normal law.
The main thing that would be affecting this, is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)(could also be the "Buckley admentment" but probably not) and what the US Patriot act allows new under that is that a court can now require the informtion "for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.". A long,list of other items already existed which allowed a court to authorize the action and most of them are far easier to prove and get court approval then that the person they need information on is working for a international terriorism group.
So how does could of happened before the US Patriot act differ from could of after after the passage of the US Patriot act?