When customers buy from Amazon, even if they are in NC, that is not considered to be a transaction that occurred in NC, so forbidding Amazon to do business in NC would only be a factor if Amazon decided to set up a retail establishment in NC. At that time, they would have to collect sales tax for NC customers anyway, and the whole argument would be moot.
We'll begin with closing off your kids' school and bus transportation and the bridge you're using to drive to work, so that you have to drive a 50 mile detour to drive your kids to a new school.
See how you like it.
Completely unnecessary. 30 years ago, in my state, the sales tax was 4% and the income tax rate was around 1%. Schools and roads were getting by just fine. Now, incomes have gone up, sales have gone up, AND the tax rates have gone up to where sales tax is now 8% and income tax is 2.6% and the schools and roads are barely able to squeak by.
Median income has raised by a multiple of 4 in 30 years, and the rate of taxation on that has more than doubled. Inflation numbers say that it should cost 2.5 times to run the state as what it did 30 years ago, assuming the SAME tax rate. So they should be having an excess because income has risen by a factor of four. But they are unable to fund the schools despite having more than DOUBLED the tax rate on FOUR TIMES the income. Property Tax rates have similarly gone up, while the median value of property in the state has risen at a rate much higher than inflation. Clearly, my state, like most others in the U.S., is very bad at simple percentage based math.
They are not taxing YOU, idiot, they want to tax your customers in NC territory which they are completely in the right to do...
That is correct, and I encourage them to do so, but they can't ask me to collect that tax for them because I am not subject to their laws. Now, if they were to allow me to keep part of that sales tax to compensate for my effort in keeping track of their laws, then that would be a matter. Something on the order of 500% would be appropriate, to deal with all of the taxing districts in their state.
...I don't think it is an answer to say that no internet sales tax should be charged because it puts brick and mortar stores at a disadvantage. Also, many states have their finances built in part around sales taxes.
Brick and mortars already have a disadvantage of having to maintain inventory and an expensive storefront. Lack of Internet sales tax would not be an issue to them if people would pay their use tax.It's not the internet creating the problem, it is the citizens.
It is not some company in Iowa's responsibility to make sure that I pay my Oklahoma Use Tax. That is Oklahoma's responsibility.
The big problem is that it would cost more money to make sure people paid their Use Tax then they would actually receive from Use Tax. That is why they haven't been rigorously enforcing it. But if they can get some other poor shmoe who has no representation in this state to collect it for them, then they are all for it.
I think it's fundamentally wrong for an online vendor to be forced to keep track of 50 states' tax laws.
As do I. I don't think people understand that it is not just 50 things to keep track of. There are state, county, and in some cases even city taxes. My state has a downloadable format for vendors to update their records. It contains over 100,000 taxing districts. Keeping track of 50 state's worth of taxing districts would cripple anybody except the really huge sites. If interstate internet traffic were to be forced to collect sales tax, it may actually create a whole new industry: providing tax information at Point of Sale time.
Do plants create landfills?
Yes they do, but not intentionally. We call them Peat Bogs, Oil Reserves, Coal Veins, and so forth. But trees mostly just leave their trash wherever the wind blows it. Do they bury radioactive material?
Yes, if they absorb it, then they bury it with them when they die. Do they crash tankers or blow up oil rigs, causing millions of gallons of oil to flow into the oceans over a very short period of time?
Well, a tree probably can't do that, but I would imagine that seaweed could if it was thick enough to foul the props.
But my point is, while we are wondering what harmful effect putting all this CO2 into the air may cause, do you suppose that the trees have the same concern regarding all of the CO2 that they pull OUT of the air, then end up burying the carbon underground when they die.
Um, so you think all of a sudden after millions (billions?) of years, the Arctic Ice Shelf is melting enough to travel across it just COINCIDENTALLY.
Not to take sides at all, but studies have shown that the last breakup of the ice shelf likely occurred in the mid-Holocene era. The Holocene is an era which started around 12,000 years ago. From a geological stance, we are still in this era.
We can't keep pumping shit into the atmosphere and water supplies thinking it won't have some major cumulative effect down the road.
I wonder if the plants and trees have this same argument about how for millions of years they have been sucking all of the CO2 out of the air and poisoning the ground with their waste.
It had better be faster on the same hardware or I am not interested. Windows Vista and 7 are both slower on the same hardware as Windows XP. I don't call that an improvement. Yes, they have added many, many new features, 99% of which I don't want or care about and all of those features slow down the system. Figure out how to make those features load on demand or something so that my system performs better under the new OS than it does now.
I had about a decade hiatus from programming but stepped back in about a year ago having picked up Java. After seeing me write quite a lot of code, some of my coworkers basically poo-pooed what I was doing saying that for anything that you want to do in Java, someone has already written it, and that ideally I shouldn't be writing any code at all. Well, I didn't want to argue with them, but to me, my time is worth more than that. I have started down the road of adding some libraries into my code that already did what I wanted, but i usually found that they did a heck of a lot more than what I wanted, and figuring out how to get them to do just what I wanted would take me longer than just writing my own classes and methods to do what I want. Of course, I am not about to go and redo imagio or anything like that, but I have to draw the line when downloading, reading the instructions and integrating someone elses library takes longer than just writing my own.
I find that most defects in the English that is produced is due to the use of words that are not in the vocabulary. A sufficiently intelligent compiler (listener) is able to successfully compile the code even though the programmer(speaker) did not write it correctly, which unfortunately only reinforces the bad habit of the programmer.
I saw this same behavior in Internet explorer a few days ago. Someone complained that "Firefox isn't working", because an ASP page had a malformed link in it. IE was "smart" enough to unmangle it and display it. Firefox chose not to try to outthink the programmer and reinterpret the mess that had been passed to it. The users assumption was that Firefox was broken. I would argue the opposite.
I doubt my state allows bond insurance. I didn't find anything on the web about it. I live in Oklahoma, and the last several insurance commissioners have been as corrupt as the day is long. When I moved here, my home insurance went from less than 1/10th of 1% of my home value annually to about 2% of my home value. My annual car insurance is in some cases over 50% of the cars value.
Insurance costs skyrocketed when insurance became mandatory. The insurance companies were free to charge whatever they wanted and people had to pay or not drive (which is an option for very few in the U.S.). What is frightening is that soon health insurance will also be mandatory and the cost of health insurance is already so high that people can't afford to buy it. When it becomes mandatory, the prices will skyrocket just like they did with auto insurance. A person with a middle class salary already gives about 25% of his paycheck for health insurance. After the government makes health insurance mandatory, this will jump to at least 50% and probably more like 75%.
When I was 16, my insurance was $240 a year. Now, at 40 (and married), it is $400 a month. Yes, the worth of my vehicles is a lot higher, but that is of no consequence to the insurance company since they have never paid out dime one in 24 years of driving.
Yeah, I agree. Looks like a bone stock Hummer H3 to me. Ho Hum. I liked it better when Jeep was Jeep and not trying to emulate other, less studly, vehicles.
I'm sure that would take a lot of space, but I can't imagine why I would want to do rip my DVDs onto my computer when they are already in a format that is easy to handle and compatible with my DVD player.
Now if the thief had mailed the actual laptop back, with $100 cash for pain and suffering and then killed himself to make sure he never did it again, that would be progress.
What would be really impressive is a hydro-powered desalinization plant. Like you put salt water in the top and out the bottom comes fresh water, and the extract goes into a bucket which you can sell to saltwater aquarium enthusiasts.
Obviously, these people are not getting enough time to spend with friends and family. I suggest that you give them another 8 hours a day to spend with their friends and family.
Also, how come the wolves, who presumably escaped from the zoo, and were very used to seeing people all the time and presumably well fed one day previously, were ravenous enough to attack a group of human beings?
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They shouldn't have been sent the ASINs either. There is no compulsion to do so. They are not under NC's jurisdiction.
When customers buy from Amazon, even if they are in NC, that is not considered to be a transaction that occurred in NC, so forbidding Amazon to do business in NC would only be a factor if Amazon decided to set up a retail establishment in NC. At that time, they would have to collect sales tax for NC customers anyway, and the whole argument would be moot.
We'll begin with closing off your kids' school and bus transportation and the bridge you're using to drive to work, so that you have to drive a 50 mile detour to drive your kids to a new school. See how you like it.
Completely unnecessary. 30 years ago, in my state, the sales tax was 4% and the income tax rate was around 1%. Schools and roads were getting by just fine. Now, incomes have gone up, sales have gone up, AND the tax rates have gone up to where sales tax is now 8% and income tax is 2.6% and the schools and roads are barely able to squeak by.
Median income has raised by a multiple of 4 in 30 years, and the rate of taxation on that has more than doubled. Inflation numbers say that it should cost 2.5 times to run the state as what it did 30 years ago, assuming the SAME tax rate. So they should be having an excess because income has risen by a factor of four. But they are unable to fund the schools despite having more than DOUBLED the tax rate on FOUR TIMES the income. Property Tax rates have similarly gone up, while the median value of property in the state has risen at a rate much higher than inflation. Clearly, my state, like most others in the U.S., is very bad at simple percentage based math.
They are not taxing YOU, idiot, they want to tax your customers in NC territory which they are completely in the right to do...
That is correct, and I encourage them to do so, but they can't ask me to collect that tax for them because I am not subject to their laws. Now, if they were to allow me to keep part of that sales tax to compensate for my effort in keeping track of their laws, then that would be a matter. Something on the order of 500% would be appropriate, to deal with all of the taxing districts in their state.
...I don't think it is an answer to say that no internet sales tax should be charged because it puts brick and mortar stores at a disadvantage. Also, many states have their finances built in part around sales taxes.
Brick and mortars already have a disadvantage of having to maintain inventory and an expensive storefront. Lack of Internet sales tax would not be an issue to them if people would pay their use tax.It's not the internet creating the problem, it is the citizens.
It is not some company in Iowa's responsibility to make sure that I pay my Oklahoma Use Tax. That is Oklahoma's responsibility.
The big problem is that it would cost more money to make sure people paid their Use Tax then they would actually receive from Use Tax. That is why they haven't been rigorously enforcing it. But if they can get some other poor shmoe who has no representation in this state to collect it for them, then they are all for it.
I think it's fundamentally wrong for an online vendor to be forced to keep track of 50 states' tax laws.
As do I. I don't think people understand that it is not just 50 things to keep track of. There are state, county, and in some cases even city taxes. My state has a downloadable format for vendors to update their records. It contains over 100,000 taxing districts. Keeping track of 50 state's worth of taxing districts would cripple anybody except the really huge sites. If interstate internet traffic were to be forced to collect sales tax, it may actually create a whole new industry: providing tax information at Point of Sale time.
Full price e-books that contain ads.
Do plants create landfills?
Yes they do, but not intentionally. We call them Peat Bogs, Oil Reserves, Coal Veins, and so forth. But trees mostly just leave their trash wherever the wind blows it.
Do they bury radioactive material?
Yes, if they absorb it, then they bury it with them when they die.
Do they crash tankers or blow up oil rigs, causing millions of gallons of oil to flow into the oceans over a very short period of time?
Well, a tree probably can't do that, but I would imagine that seaweed could if it was thick enough to foul the props.
But my point is, while we are wondering what harmful effect putting all this CO2 into the air may cause, do you suppose that the trees have the same concern regarding all of the CO2 that they pull OUT of the air, then end up burying the carbon underground when they die.
Um, so you think all of a sudden after millions (billions?) of years, the Arctic Ice Shelf is melting enough to travel across it just COINCIDENTALLY.
Not to take sides at all, but studies have shown that the last breakup of the ice shelf likely occurred in the mid-Holocene era. The Holocene is an era which started around 12,000 years ago. From a geological stance, we are still in this era.
Can you call yourself a scientist if you believe that you must follow certain traditions in order for your space flight to be successful?
We can't keep pumping shit into the atmosphere and water supplies thinking it won't have some major cumulative effect down the road.
I wonder if the plants and trees have this same argument about how for millions of years they have been sucking all of the CO2 out of the air and poisoning the ground with their waste.
Canadian girls ARE American girls.
It had better be faster on the same hardware or I am not interested. Windows Vista and 7 are both slower on the same hardware as Windows XP. I don't call that an improvement. Yes, they have added many, many new features, 99% of which I don't want or care about and all of those features slow down the system. Figure out how to make those features load on demand or something so that my system performs better under the new OS than it does now.
I had about a decade hiatus from programming but stepped back in about a year ago having picked up Java. After seeing me write quite a lot of code, some of my coworkers basically poo-pooed what I was doing saying that for anything that you want to do in Java, someone has already written it, and that ideally I shouldn't be writing any code at all. Well, I didn't want to argue with them, but to me, my time is worth more than that. I have started down the road of adding some libraries into my code that already did what I wanted, but i usually found that they did a heck of a lot more than what I wanted, and figuring out how to get them to do just what I wanted would take me longer than just writing my own classes and methods to do what I want. Of course, I am not about to go and redo imagio or anything like that, but I have to draw the line when downloading, reading the instructions and integrating someone elses library takes longer than just writing my own.
I find that most defects in the English that is produced is due to the use of words that are not in the vocabulary. A sufficiently intelligent compiler (listener) is able to successfully compile the code even though the programmer(speaker) did not write it correctly, which unfortunately only reinforces the bad habit of the programmer.
I saw this same behavior in Internet explorer a few days ago. Someone complained that "Firefox isn't working", because an ASP page had a malformed link in it. IE was "smart" enough to unmangle it and display it. Firefox chose not to try to outthink the programmer and reinterpret the mess that had been passed to it. The users assumption was that Firefox was broken. I would argue the opposite.
I doubt my state allows bond insurance. I didn't find anything on the web about it. I live in Oklahoma, and the last several insurance commissioners have been as corrupt as the day is long. When I moved here, my home insurance went from less than 1/10th of 1% of my home value annually to about 2% of my home value. My annual car insurance is in some cases over 50% of the cars value.
Insurance costs skyrocketed when insurance became mandatory. The insurance companies were free to charge whatever they wanted and people had to pay or not drive (which is an option for very few in the U.S.). What is frightening is that soon health insurance will also be mandatory and the cost of health insurance is already so high that people can't afford to buy it. When it becomes mandatory, the prices will skyrocket just like they did with auto insurance. A person with a middle class salary already gives about 25% of his paycheck for health insurance. After the government makes health insurance mandatory, this will jump to at least 50% and probably more like 75%.
When I was 16, my insurance was $240 a year. Now, at 40 (and married), it is $400 a month. Yes, the worth of my vehicles is a lot higher, but that is of no consequence to the insurance company since they have never paid out dime one in 24 years of driving.
Yeah, I agree. Looks like a bone stock Hummer H3 to me. Ho Hum. I liked it better when Jeep was Jeep and not trying to emulate other, less studly, vehicles.
I'm sure that would take a lot of space, but I can't imagine why I would want to do rip my DVDs onto my computer when they are already in a format that is easy to handle and compatible with my DVD player.
Now if the thief had mailed the actual laptop back, with $100 cash for pain and suffering and then killed himself to make sure he never did it again, that would be progress.
What would be really impressive is a hydro-powered desalinization plant. Like you put salt water in the top and out the bottom comes fresh water, and the extract goes into a bucket which you can sell to saltwater aquarium enthusiasts.
I once thought that as well, but I put a 320 GB secondary drive in my PC at home about 4 years ago, and it is still only about half full.
Obviously, these people are not getting enough time to spend with friends and family. I suggest that you give them another 8 hours a day to spend with their friends and family.
What about blanketing large tracts of land in solar-cells? Is that still okay?
Also, how come the wolves, who presumably escaped from the zoo, and were very used to seeing people all the time and presumably well fed one day previously, were ravenous enough to attack a group of human beings?