adjust volume to compensate for engine noise
But this introduces an unnecessary step and an assumption. The system guesses how loud the road noise is by using the current engine RPM. Then the radio system gets loader based on that guess.
Instead, they could completely isolate the stereo from the rest of the vehicles systems, and use a microphone to MEASURE the ambient noise and raise the volume by the precise amount necessary. I had a car stereo that did this in 1989. There is no reason in this day and age to make a guess at engine noise from the car's data rather than directly measuring it.
So, for Amazon in Indiana, it sounds like they may have to track up to 3 tax rates (for the 3 distribution centers).
Well, that is great if it goes through one of those three distribution centers, but what if it ships from somewhere else and doesn't go through an Indiana distribution center? Do they just pick one? Or do they withhold taxes based on the tax rate at whatever distribution center they use? And then how do they pay Indiana when whatever location that distribution center is in is probably going to want their part?
No, the truth of the matter is that for internet or catalog sales, the POS is your house, and your state government is responsible for collecting that tax from you.
People who buy from Amazon are required to pay Use Tax in the same amount that they would have to pay Sales Tax at a Brick and Mortar. The only difference is that at a Brick and Mortar, the state government unfairly requires the business to collect the sales tax, whereas if the company has no presence in the state, then the government must collect the tax from the individual.
I love how Simon bitched over getting undercut by better pricing.. That is classy.. I believe that is why they call it free market.
Sales tax has nothing to do with it. The consumer is already required to pay Use Tax. So the only difference is that Amazon is somehow able to sell the same product including shipping for less than the retailer can. But Simon is making it about sales tax, trying to force Amazon to do the state's job for them.
I often wonder where people who deny pollution is having any effect on the earth think they are going to live if they are wrong.
If they don't think pollution is having any effect then why would they think about having to live somewhere else? Even people who think pollution IS having an effect don't think about where they are going to live if they are right.
What are the laws for sending something high up in the atmosphere and dropping it to the earth at high speed like a poor-man's ballistic missile?
I don't think they have made laws for that yet since it is pretty uncommon. But Federal Aviation Regulations Section 91.15 allow for dropping whatever, so long as if doesn't create a hazard to person or property.
Thank god for these inventions! The system wouldn't let me take a half day before.
You must be on salary. You can't take a half-day off if you are on salary. If you worked at all, it was not a day off.
I'm surprised to hear that you got through the Silmarillion but could not finish the Lord of the Rings. I have read the Lord of the Rings probably four or five times, the first when I was probably in 5th or 6th grade, but I have yet to get through more than about 3 chapters of the Silmarillion.
Keep in mind that the US Gas tax is used to pay for highways, that it's not indexed to inflation, and it was last raised early in Clinton's first term. Which means it doesn't actually cover the cost of maintaining highways.
Let me introduce you to the magic of the percentage. There is no need to index gas taxes to inflation, because the gas itself is somewhat tied to inflation (in fact far outpaces inflation), so the amount of taxes that are paid for gas purchases now is well over twice what it was in the Clinton era.
Your telling me that winter tires are not mandatory in wintery states in the US? Not only are they not mandatory, but in many states they are, in fact, illegal.
self-indulgent rich dicks want land barges that pollute *my* environment
Where I live, I see a lot more lower income people driving around Expeditions, Escalades and Navigators. The wealthier people tend to buy high dollar sedans or hybrids.
Really poor people have '90s era Sedans or SUVs that get just as bad gas mileage as a modern land barge.
All day long, you can drive up and down Ashland Ave and there will be one Suburban or Nissan Armada or Navigator or some other ridiculously huge vehice with a single person driving all by herself. Those drivers need to pay a higher gas tax to cover the externalities they are forcing the rest of us to pay.
Congratulations! Your wish has already come true. They already pay more taxes because they buy more gas. That is the magic of percentages.
Last interview I did they gave me a real-world problem to solve, put me in a room with a virtual machine and a proctor, and let me go to town. Deliverables included not just a working tool to solve the specified problem, but also documentation for same and the ability to explain what/why... and while the VM had unfettered Internet access, I had/have to assume that even when the proctor wasn't there in person they had a VNC client sharing what I was doing from the outer host or such.
I despise companies that want me to solve their problems for them before they hire me. I also despise companies that make me spend an hour formatting my education and experience to their particular web-based application process. I believe they ought to compensate you for the time if they are going to put you through so much trouble. Something like $100/hour ought to be reasonable. At least then we could make a decent living while being out of work.
Looking at code they have written is not a realistic expectation. Any code they have written professionally is almost certainly not something they are allowed to share with you. Any code that they have written personally, you probably don't care about it.
Contrary to what other management type people on here have said in their posts, your answer of "Because I need a paycheck" is the right one. No, that is not the answer that they want to hear. They want to hear how excited you are to work at their company and how you want to grow and make a career out of it, but the real truth is that they don't know what they want. They want someone who will say "Because I need a paycheck". This is because five years from now, they will still have you sitting there writing code for them at approximately the same salary. That IS why they are hiring you after all. They don't want to have you move up the ladder and then have to go hire another person to do your job. So, give them the answer they want to hear, if that helps get you the job.
Well that is about 5 responses in this thread about how Visual Studio is the best IDE out there. I use Eclipse and Visual Studio Express. I have to assume that VSE must be dumbed down tremendously from Visual Studio, because it doesn't have 1/10 of the features or ease of use of Eclipse. Maybe if my company bought the full version, it would be awesome but from what I have seen in VSE, I can't recommend that they buy the full version.
In that case, the judge was wrong. The million dollar judgement should have stood and the people who approved the illegal download and reverse engineering shoul d be sent to federal PMITA prison.
In Oklahoma, where I live, they give you some small percent, I think it is 3% of the taxes that you collect as an "accounting fee" for the trouble of you doing the state's job for them. But they have also recently started charging money for sales tax certificates, so if you don't do a great deal of sales tax related business, then you end up losing money for doing the state's job for them.
How about I agree to pay their $2 per month fee for online payment if they agree to only charge me $15 per month for my $15 per month extra line, instead of the approximately $50 the currently charge for their $15 extra line.
I one time had my electric service cut off to my business because my bill was overdue by 7 days. The bill was about $150, and I had a $900 deposit with the electric company. The only option they allowed to turn the service back on (which could take up to 24 hours) was to pay by phone. They charged something like $8.95 for pay by phone even though it was a direct charge to your bank account that costs them nothing. Further, they only allowed you to pay up to $80, so I had to pay the $8.95 charge twice. Unfortunately, the electric company is a government protected monopoly, so they can charge whatever they want and you just have to pay it. Their is a Citizens Utility Board that regulates how much they can charge for the actual electric rates, but that board does not oversee the non-fuel rates like the electricity delivery charge, the monthly "You have an account" charge, etc.
The gas company where I live charges you $30 monthly just to be hooked up to the gas line. Yes, if you use absolutely no gas, you are billed $30 per month.
There is no way in hell I would allow anyone to wantonly pull money from my account every month. They can have my account information if they want to and save it, but I'm going to by-God press a button to initiate the transfer.
Moved ESPN into their sports package then reduced basic by $3 (while ramping up sports by $7 - hmm, interesting balancing act there).
Well, see, that is just smart business. Sports programming is pretty inelastic. You can charge just about whatever you want to a sports fan and they will pay it.
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adjust volume to compensate for engine noise
But this introduces an unnecessary step and an assumption. The system guesses how loud the road noise is by using the current engine RPM. Then the radio system gets loader based on that guess.
Instead, they could completely isolate the stereo from the rest of the vehicles systems, and use a microphone to MEASURE the ambient noise and raise the volume by the precise amount necessary. I had a car stereo that did this in 1989. There is no reason in this day and age to make a guess at engine noise from the car's data rather than directly measuring it.
So, for Amazon in Indiana, it sounds like they may have to track up to 3 tax rates (for the 3 distribution centers).
Well, that is great if it goes through one of those three distribution centers, but what if it ships from somewhere else and doesn't go through an Indiana distribution center? Do they just pick one? Or do they withhold taxes based on the tax rate at whatever distribution center they use? And then how do they pay Indiana when whatever location that distribution center is in is probably going to want their part?
No, the truth of the matter is that for internet or catalog sales, the POS is your house, and your state government is responsible for collecting that tax from you.
EFTPS is only for federal payroll taxes. You cannot use it for sales tax, or even state withholding.
People who buy from Amazon are required to pay Use Tax in the same amount that they would have to pay Sales Tax at a Brick and Mortar. The only difference is that at a Brick and Mortar, the state government unfairly requires the business to collect the sales tax, whereas if the company has no presence in the state, then the government must collect the tax from the individual.
I love how Simon bitched over getting undercut by better pricing.. That is classy.. I believe that is why they call it free market.
Sales tax has nothing to do with it. The consumer is already required to pay Use Tax. So the only difference is that Amazon is somehow able to sell the same product including shipping for less than the retailer can. But Simon is making it about sales tax, trying to force Amazon to do the state's job for them.
I often wonder where people who deny pollution is having any effect on the earth think they are going to live if they are wrong.
If they don't think pollution is having any effect then why would they think about having to live somewhere else? Even people who think pollution IS having an effect don't think about where they are going to live if they are right.
Maybe the next version will include a self right mechanism, so it can turn itself screen up in much the manner that cat does using its tail.
What are the laws for sending something high up in the atmosphere and dropping it to the earth at high speed like a poor-man's ballistic missile?
I don't think they have made laws for that yet since it is pretty uncommon. But Federal Aviation Regulations Section 91.15 allow for dropping whatever, so long as if doesn't create a hazard to person or property.
Thank god for these inventions! The system wouldn't let me take a half day before.
You must be on salary. You can't take a half-day off if you are on salary. If you worked at all, it was not a day off.
I'm surprised to hear that you got through the Silmarillion but could not finish the Lord of the Rings. I have read the Lord of the Rings probably four or five times, the first when I was probably in 5th or 6th grade, but I have yet to get through more than about 3 chapters of the Silmarillion.
And the 90's weren't necessarily inherently bad.
No, but the cars made in the '90s no longer get the gas mileage they were once cpable of.
Keep in mind that the US Gas tax is used to pay for highways, that it's not indexed to inflation, and it was last raised early in Clinton's first term. Which means it doesn't actually cover the cost of maintaining highways.
Let me introduce you to the magic of the percentage. There is no need to index gas taxes to inflation, because the gas itself is somewhat tied to inflation (in fact far outpaces inflation), so the amount of taxes that are paid for gas purchases now is well over twice what it was in the Clinton era.
Your telling me that winter tires are not mandatory in wintery states in the US?
Not only are they not mandatory, but in many states they are, in fact, illegal.
self-indulgent rich dicks want land barges that pollute *my* environment
Where I live, I see a lot more lower income people driving around Expeditions, Escalades and Navigators. The wealthier people tend to buy high dollar sedans or hybrids.
Really poor people have '90s era Sedans or SUVs that get just as bad gas mileage as a modern land barge.
All day long, you can drive up and down Ashland Ave and there will be one Suburban or Nissan Armada or Navigator or some other ridiculously huge vehice with a single person driving all by herself. Those drivers need to pay a higher gas tax to cover the externalities they are forcing the rest of us to pay.
Congratulations! Your wish has already come true. They already pay more taxes because they buy more gas. That is the magic of percentages.
Last interview I did they gave me a real-world problem to solve, put me in a room with a virtual machine and a proctor, and let me go to town. Deliverables included not just a working tool to solve the specified problem, but also documentation for same and the ability to explain what/why... and while the VM had unfettered Internet access, I had/have to assume that even when the proctor wasn't there in person they had a VNC client sharing what I was doing from the outer host or such.
I despise companies that want me to solve their problems for them before they hire me. I also despise companies that make me spend an hour formatting my education and experience to their particular web-based application process. I believe they ought to compensate you for the time if they are going to put you through so much trouble. Something like $100/hour ought to be reasonable. At least then we could make a decent living while being out of work.
Looking at code they have written is not a realistic expectation. Any code they have written professionally is almost certainly not something they are allowed to share with you. Any code that they have written personally, you probably don't care about it.
Contrary to what other management type people on here have said in their posts, your answer of "Because I need a paycheck" is the right one. No, that is not the answer that they want to hear. They want to hear how excited you are to work at their company and how you want to grow and make a career out of it, but the real truth is that they don't know what they want. They want someone who will say "Because I need a paycheck". This is because five years from now, they will still have you sitting there writing code for them at approximately the same salary. That IS why they are hiring you after all. They don't want to have you move up the ladder and then have to go hire another person to do your job. So, give them the answer they want to hear, if that helps get you the job.
Well that is about 5 responses in this thread about how Visual Studio is the best IDE out there. I use Eclipse and Visual Studio Express. I have to assume that VSE must be dumbed down tremendously from Visual Studio, because it doesn't have 1/10 of the features or ease of use of Eclipse. Maybe if my company bought the full version, it would be awesome but from what I have seen in VSE, I can't recommend that they buy the full version.
In that case, the judge was wrong. The million dollar judgement should have stood and the people who approved the illegal download and reverse engineering shoul d be sent to federal PMITA prison.
In Oklahoma, where I live, they give you some small percent, I think it is 3% of the taxes that you collect as an "accounting fee" for the trouble of you doing the state's job for them. But they have also recently started charging money for sales tax certificates, so if you don't do a great deal of sales tax related business, then you end up losing money for doing the state's job for them.
How about I agree to pay their $2 per month fee for online payment if they agree to only charge me $15 per month for my $15 per month extra line, instead of the approximately $50 the currently charge for their $15 extra line.
I one time had my electric service cut off to my business because my bill was overdue by 7 days. The bill was about $150, and I had a $900 deposit with the electric company. The only option they allowed to turn the service back on (which could take up to 24 hours) was to pay by phone. They charged something like $8.95 for pay by phone even though it was a direct charge to your bank account that costs them nothing. Further, they only allowed you to pay up to $80, so I had to pay the $8.95 charge twice. Unfortunately, the electric company is a government protected monopoly, so they can charge whatever they want and you just have to pay it. Their is a Citizens Utility Board that regulates how much they can charge for the actual electric rates, but that board does not oversee the non-fuel rates like the electricity delivery charge, the monthly "You have an account" charge, etc.
The gas company where I live charges you $30 monthly just to be hooked up to the gas line. Yes, if you use absolutely no gas, you are billed $30 per month.
There is no way in hell I would allow anyone to wantonly pull money from my account every month. They can have my account information if they want to and save it, but I'm going to by-God press a button to initiate the transfer.
Moved ESPN into their sports package then reduced basic by $3 (while ramping up sports by $7 - hmm, interesting balancing act there).
Well, see, that is just smart business. Sports programming is pretty inelastic. You can charge just about whatever you want to a sports fan and they will pay it.