AFAIK, there's no even remotely plausible cosmological theory which contains an infinite number of stars.
That's what happens when you young universe people start believing crackpot theories like the universe only being 14 billion years old.
Well, jury duty IS a pain in the butt. If you're self employed it could destroy your business and ruin the rest of your life. If you're not self employed, and you are like most other people here, then after a hard day of jury duty, you have another 10 to 12 hours of work to do, because it is not like someone else is going to do your job in the mean time. If you are a paid-by-the-hour person, then I don't really know how it works, but I understand your job is supposed to still pay you something, but I don't know how they figure it.
I was called for jury duty, but never even made it out of the pool into a jury selection, just sat in a big room for two days, reading books and waiting to go home so I could spend all night working and then show back up for jury duty in the morning.
I'm only willing to point to what drove me away from pinball, and that was price.
For me it was just the opposite. I got fed up with all the new fancy video games that cost multiple quarters to play. It seemed like the more quarters it took to play the game, the more likely that you would die within 30 seconds of starting.
So I turned to pinball, where I discovered to my excitement, that if I read the directions, there were actual missions to accomplish and it wasn't just about hitting balls with flippers like I used to do. And the best part was that unlike most of the other games in the arcade, pinball was still a quarter.
And just why are you taking personal patient data around with you on a laptop in the first place?
Because it is required in order to perform my job duties. If I was assured of a way to get access to the data I need while abroad, then I wouldn't even need to take my laptop, just make sure they had a workstation for me wherever I happened to be going.
Data protected by HIPAA should not be crossing international borders on a laptop.
That's what I love about HIPAA. Since the rulings are all pretty generic, everybody makes up their own rules as they go along. When you work, as I do, with many, many healthcare providers, you wind up having to conform to countless rules regarding how to treat healthcare data, many of which are contradictory to each other.
Depending on which state you live in, a picture of a woman of legal age dressed up as a schoolgirl, or wearing pigtails is defined as child pornography. A picture of a nude 17 year old is considered child pornography in most if not all states. A drawing of a fictitious nude child is considered child pornography.
If you actually read the article, it states "alleged child pornography" as they have no way of telling how old the person in the photographs is, so they just assume that the person is underaged.
According to the article, they found a file containing two nude (not underaged) women, and that gave them the idea to search further. So a couple of border agents were trying to get off to somebody else's porn, and then decided to try to justify themselves by finding some models that were probably 19 or so and declaring it child porn.
You can't vote Bush out of office. He can only serve two terms. It doesn't matter who else you vote in anyway, the law is the law, and if you think another president is going to change customs law in the age of terrorism, you're deceiving yourself.
I am not allowed to show the files on my laptop to the customs agents due to HIPAA regulations. So I guess either I refuse, and go to jail, or allow them to look at it, and then go to jail once I set foot inside the U.S.
Seriously, a HOMELESS guy? If that's not proof of them ramrodding random people for cash I have no idea what is.
How much cash do homeless people have? Maybe I should be panhandling from them.
While it is deplorable that the RIAA seems to be so fixated on suing those with the least means to defend themselves, being poor doesn't make one above the law. Both sides of this issue pretty much top my list of people that the world can do without.
That's on such a small scale that is so hard to comprehend that it'd almost be easier to hand-wave it and just say "it's magic."
Yeah, I probably created 150 of these before breakfast, but I just don't have the equipment to observe it.
I personally would hire someone from an engineering background before someone with a liberal arts background. As far as a tech school goes, I would say that you're right, I would probably hire a liberal arts before a tech school background. But it depended on the position. If I just wanted someone who would hang around and code for 5 years or so, I would hire from a tech school. If I wanted someone who would be promoted up through the company eventually, then I would look at an engineering background first and then a liberal arts background.
I had plenty of social interaction in my engineering education. First of all, there are both liberal arts and engineering programs on most campuses, so it is not like you are isolated from the rest of humanity. Also, the first two years are well padded with humanities and electives. I was in Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society) as secretary and IEEE as president, so I had plenty of social interaction.
I think probably the best lesson we can learn is that the hiring manager is going to hire whatever he/she is personally biased towards which in many if not most cases will be whatever path they personally chose.
First, HR departments don't care where your degree is from.
That's right. They don't care if you have an Engineering CS degree or a Liberal Arts CS degree. Either way, they are going to skip you over for someone with an MIS and then be surprised when their managerial trained person doesn't seem to be very good at being a low level code monkey.
As a vendor, you are free to list the total price inclusive of sales tax, so long as you pay the sales tax. However, then your price will be 5-10% higher than everyone else even if it is equal. We always gripe about the add-ons, but the truth of the matter is that we prefer to see the lower price with a tacked-on line item than just a flat higher price. Why do you think the airlines sell you a $300 ticket with a $100 fuel surcharge instead of just charging you $400 for the ticket? It makes it look like the $100 surcharge is out of their control. Same thing with telephones and "FCC Mandated Fee". Same thing with Sales tax. It's our perception that counts, not the total cost.
I can name 1,000 projects that I wouldn't want my money spent on. That's why we have a government. Some things are important to fund but nobody wants to fund them. The war happens to be one of the more unpopular items on the budget right now, but the government seems to think it is a good idea. If you don't like it you can vote for someone else. This is America. If you really don't like it, get involved in politics. You tend to get a whole different view on why things are the way they are in politics once you actually get into politics.
The only real negative effect for internet businesses is that they've been evading sales tax for years, and now their customers will have to pay more.
Internet businesses have not been evading sales tax. They are not required to collect or pay sales tax. Rather it is the consumer in most states who has been evading paying the "USE TAX" aka Sales Tax on items bought out of state.
What the New York government is trying to do is get some of that money which New Yorkers owe the government, but instead of collecting it themselves, they want to use someone else's labor to do it.
I want to know, if I am going to expend all this effort to collect their taxes for them, what's my cut? Oklahoma gives me some negligible amount for my trouble. Something like 4 or 5 bucks for $7500 worth of retail. Considering the time spent organizing and filing the paperwork, that is less than minimum wage.
I think it should be higher. In my best Fat Tony impression. "We are your business partners. And as such, we are entitled to a percentage of your profits. Something in the area of - 100 percent?"
Wisconsin is similar. I got double taxed one year because I was out of work and earned $0.00 in Wisconsin, and I moved to Oklahoma almost exactly in the middle of the year and earned about $20k in Oklahoma. Well, according to Oklahoma tax law, I owe income tax on the income I earned in the state, and according to Wisconsin tax law, I owe income on 1/2 the income I earned in that year because I lived there for half the year. So I was out of work half the year AND had to pay more than my fair share of taxes.
New Yorkers are already required to pay Use Tax, though most people probably don't do it. Are they going to get rid of the Use Tax when they implement this Out of State Sales Tax? I doubt it. Do they have jurisdiction to require an Out-of-State vendor to collect Sale Tax on their behalf? I doubt it. Do they have jurisdiction to demand payment from said Vendor? I doubt it.
What they are trying to do is shift the burden of collecting tax from themselves to somebody else, the vendors. They have already successfully done this for in-state Vendors via sales tax collection, and also shifted the burden of collecting income tax, Social Security and Medicare to employers. All they really have to do anymore is sit back and get paid.
The problem with requiring Out-of-State vendors to collect sales tax, is that there are approximately a half million tax districts in the United States. As a vendor, I know that there are over 15,000 in my state alone. They change constantly. I get notices in the mail every two to three days of a tax district instituting, increasing, occasionally decreasing or abolishing a sales tax rate. A brick and mortar can just plug in the tax rate for their current community into the desk calculator and they are good to go. A mom and pop internet outfit would have to spend probably 24 man-hours a day updating sales tax rates, or spend extra money to pay an outside outfit to calculate their sales tax for them.
I am sure new York just wants money without having to pursue it themselves, but the assumed unintentional side effect is that they are going to hurt small business on the internet by and large without effect on the large businesses.
I agree with you. As a landlord, I have had several tenants that I would have taken, but they couldn't live in my house because it was too close to a school, library or park. Frankly, sex offenders can't hardly find a place to live within the metro area of Oklahoma City. And what was their crime? Having sex with the same person again after they turned 18 but the other didn't. Oooh, how dangerous. Let's keep that guy away from the first graders before he hurts them. After all, he had sex with a 17 year old, so naturally he would want to have sex with first graders too.
This is after all the state where students don't even have to know the age of the earth to pass earth science!
So what. I don't think we should give that much credit to a student who is able to recite the age of the Earth according to whichever theory their particular textbook happens to follow. What they should know is that there are many theories about the age of the Earth, and none of them is probably within 100 million years of being right.
Blind faith is blind faith regardless of whether it comes from a Pastor or a high school textbook.
It sounds like they just mean to use the "equivalent" of 8,464 square miles, not in one big place, but still your point is correct. Nobody seems to be thinking about the fact that the number one driver of our weather is the sun. If we start using a significant amount of that energy in a particular area instead of letting it be absorbed and released later, it WILL affect the weather. For good or ill, I can't say for sure.
I use Quickbooks. We don't have a cash register at our shop. We just use a PC and a spreadsheet. We only record total sales right now as individual sales numbers per item is not interesting enough to justify the expense of tracking. The Salon e-mails me the totals at the end of the day and I put them in Quickbooks.
When and if it becomes justifiable to me to track individual sales, we already have a plan in place. Put Quickbooks on the PC at the salon, buy a bar code scanner and use Quickbooks as POS software. It already has all of the functionality for inventory control and customer sales.
It's not as fancy as the intergrated POS hardware and software that you can also get from Intuit, but it allows me to scale up at my own speed and choose my level of detail.
I always figured Bigfoot was a lowlands Yeti, or vice versa.
Surprising no mention of Godzilla. Godzilla has more of an international following than most of the monsters on the list.
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AFAIK, there's no even remotely plausible cosmological theory which contains an infinite number of stars.
That's what happens when you young universe people start believing crackpot theories like the universe only being 14 billion years old.
Well, jury duty IS a pain in the butt. If you're self employed it could destroy your business and ruin the rest of your life. If you're not self employed, and you are like most other people here, then after a hard day of jury duty, you have another 10 to 12 hours of work to do, because it is not like someone else is going to do your job in the mean time. If you are a paid-by-the-hour person, then I don't really know how it works, but I understand your job is supposed to still pay you something, but I don't know how they figure it.
I was called for jury duty, but never even made it out of the pool into a jury selection, just sat in a big room for two days, reading books and waiting to go home so I could spend all night working and then show back up for jury duty in the morning.
I'm only willing to point to what drove me away from pinball, and that was price.
For me it was just the opposite. I got fed up with all the new fancy video games that cost multiple quarters to play. It seemed like the more quarters it took to play the game, the more likely that you would die within 30 seconds of starting.
So I turned to pinball, where I discovered to my excitement, that if I read the directions, there were actual missions to accomplish and it wasn't just about hitting balls with flippers like I used to do. And the best part was that unlike most of the other games in the arcade, pinball was still a quarter.
Could be Oklahoma is where they send all their crappy stuff.
Careful now. Oklahoma used to be where they were made.
And just why are you taking personal patient data around with you on a laptop in the first place?
Because it is required in order to perform my job duties. If I was assured of a way to get access to the data I need while abroad, then I wouldn't even need to take my laptop, just make sure they had a workstation for me wherever I happened to be going.
Data protected by HIPAA should not be crossing international borders on a laptop.
That's what I love about HIPAA. Since the rulings are all pretty generic, everybody makes up their own rules as they go along. When you work, as I do, with many, many healthcare providers, you wind up having to conform to countless rules regarding how to treat healthcare data, many of which are contradictory to each other.
Depending on which state you live in, a picture of a woman of legal age dressed up as a schoolgirl, or wearing pigtails is defined as child pornography. A picture of a nude 17 year old is considered child pornography in most if not all states. A drawing of a fictitious nude child is considered child pornography.
If you actually read the article, it states "alleged child pornography" as they have no way of telling how old the person in the photographs is, so they just assume that the person is underaged.
According to the article, they found a file containing two nude (not underaged) women, and that gave them the idea to search further. So a couple of border agents were trying to get off to somebody else's porn, and then decided to try to justify themselves by finding some models that were probably 19 or so and declaring it child porn.
You can't vote Bush out of office. He can only serve two terms. It doesn't matter who else you vote in anyway, the law is the law, and if you think another president is going to change customs law in the age of terrorism, you're deceiving yourself.
I am not allowed to show the files on my laptop to the customs agents due to HIPAA regulations. So I guess either I refuse, and go to jail, or allow them to look at it, and then go to jail once I set foot inside the U.S.
Seriously, a HOMELESS guy? If that's not proof of them ramrodding random people for cash I have no idea what is.
How much cash do homeless people have? Maybe I should be panhandling from them.
While it is deplorable that the RIAA seems to be so fixated on suing those with the least means to defend themselves, being poor doesn't make one above the law. Both sides of this issue pretty much top my list of people that the world can do without.
That's on such a small scale that is so hard to comprehend that it'd almost be easier to hand-wave it and just say "it's magic."
Yeah, I probably created 150 of these before breakfast, but I just don't have the equipment to observe it.
I personally would hire someone from an engineering background before someone with a liberal arts background. As far as a tech school goes, I would say that you're right, I would probably hire a liberal arts before a tech school background. But it depended on the position. If I just wanted someone who would hang around and code for 5 years or so, I would hire from a tech school. If I wanted someone who would be promoted up through the company eventually, then I would look at an engineering background first and then a liberal arts background.
I had plenty of social interaction in my engineering education. First of all, there are both liberal arts and engineering programs on most campuses, so it is not like you are isolated from the rest of humanity. Also, the first two years are well padded with humanities and electives. I was in Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society) as secretary and IEEE as president, so I had plenty of social interaction.
I think probably the best lesson we can learn is that the hiring manager is going to hire whatever he/she is personally biased towards which in many if not most cases will be whatever path they personally chose.
First, HR departments don't care where your degree is from.
That's right. They don't care if you have an Engineering CS degree or a Liberal Arts CS degree. Either way, they are going to skip you over for someone with an MIS and then be surprised when their managerial trained person doesn't seem to be very good at being a low level code monkey.
As a vendor, you are free to list the total price inclusive of sales tax, so long as you pay the sales tax. However, then your price will be 5-10% higher than everyone else even if it is equal. We always gripe about the add-ons, but the truth of the matter is that we prefer to see the lower price with a tacked-on line item than just a flat higher price. Why do you think the airlines sell you a $300 ticket with a $100 fuel surcharge instead of just charging you $400 for the ticket? It makes it look like the $100 surcharge is out of their control. Same thing with telephones and "FCC Mandated Fee". Same thing with Sales tax. It's our perception that counts, not the total cost.
I can name 1,000 projects that I wouldn't want my money spent on. That's why we have a government. Some things are important to fund but nobody wants to fund them. The war happens to be one of the more unpopular items on the budget right now, but the government seems to think it is a good idea. If you don't like it you can vote for someone else. This is America. If you really don't like it, get involved in politics. You tend to get a whole different view on why things are the way they are in politics once you actually get into politics.
State taxes aren't used to pay for wars.
The only real negative effect for internet businesses is that they've been evading sales tax for years, and now their customers will have to pay more.
Internet businesses have not been evading sales tax. They are not required to collect or pay sales tax. Rather it is the consumer in most states who has been evading paying the "USE TAX" aka Sales Tax on items bought out of state.
What the New York government is trying to do is get some of that money which New Yorkers owe the government, but instead of collecting it themselves, they want to use someone else's labor to do it.
I want to know, if I am going to expend all this effort to collect their taxes for them, what's my cut? Oklahoma gives me some negligible amount for my trouble. Something like 4 or 5 bucks for $7500 worth of retail. Considering the time spent organizing and filing the paperwork, that is less than minimum wage.
I think it should be higher. In my best Fat Tony impression. "We are your business partners. And as such, we are entitled to a percentage of your profits. Something in the area of - 100 percent?"
Wisconsin is similar. I got double taxed one year because I was out of work and earned $0.00 in Wisconsin, and I moved to Oklahoma almost exactly in the middle of the year and earned about $20k in Oklahoma. Well, according to Oklahoma tax law, I owe income tax on the income I earned in the state, and according to Wisconsin tax law, I owe income on 1/2 the income I earned in that year because I lived there for half the year. So I was out of work half the year AND had to pay more than my fair share of taxes.
New Yorkers are already required to pay Use Tax, though most people probably don't do it. Are they going to get rid of the Use Tax when they implement this Out of State Sales Tax? I doubt it. Do they have jurisdiction to require an Out-of-State vendor to collect Sale Tax on their behalf? I doubt it. Do they have jurisdiction to demand payment from said Vendor? I doubt it.
What they are trying to do is shift the burden of collecting tax from themselves to somebody else, the vendors. They have already successfully done this for in-state Vendors via sales tax collection, and also shifted the burden of collecting income tax, Social Security and Medicare to employers. All they really have to do anymore is sit back and get paid.
The problem with requiring Out-of-State vendors to collect sales tax, is that there are approximately a half million tax districts in the United States. As a vendor, I know that there are over 15,000 in my state alone. They change constantly. I get notices in the mail every two to three days of a tax district instituting, increasing, occasionally decreasing or abolishing a sales tax rate. A brick and mortar can just plug in the tax rate for their current community into the desk calculator and they are good to go. A mom and pop internet outfit would have to spend probably 24 man-hours a day updating sales tax rates, or spend extra money to pay an outside outfit to calculate their sales tax for them.
I am sure new York just wants money without having to pursue it themselves, but the assumed unintentional side effect is that they are going to hurt small business on the internet by and large without effect on the large businesses.
I agree with you. As a landlord, I have had several tenants that I would have taken, but they couldn't live in my house because it was too close to a school, library or park. Frankly, sex offenders can't hardly find a place to live within the metro area of Oklahoma City. And what was their crime? Having sex with the same person again after they turned 18 but the other didn't. Oooh, how dangerous. Let's keep that guy away from the first graders before he hurts them. After all, he had sex with a 17 year old, so naturally he would want to have sex with first graders too.
This is after all the state where students don't even have to know the age of the earth to pass earth science!
So what. I don't think we should give that much credit to a student who is able to recite the age of the Earth according to whichever theory their particular textbook happens to follow. What they should know is that there are many theories about the age of the Earth, and none of them is probably within 100 million years of being right.
Blind faith is blind faith regardless of whether it comes from a Pastor or a high school textbook.
It sounds like they just mean to use the "equivalent" of 8,464 square miles, not in one big place, but still your point is correct. Nobody seems to be thinking about the fact that the number one driver of our weather is the sun. If we start using a significant amount of that energy in a particular area instead of letting it be absorbed and released later, it WILL affect the weather. For good or ill, I can't say for sure.
I like when people use the written form to tell me "Your an idiot". It opens all kinds of doors for me to creatively respond.
I use Quickbooks. We don't have a cash register at our shop. We just use a PC and a spreadsheet. We only record total sales right now as individual sales numbers per item is not interesting enough to justify the expense of tracking. The Salon e-mails me the totals at the end of the day and I put them in Quickbooks.
When and if it becomes justifiable to me to track individual sales, we already have a plan in place. Put Quickbooks on the PC at the salon, buy a bar code scanner and use Quickbooks as POS software. It already has all of the functionality for inventory control and customer sales.
It's not as fancy as the intergrated POS hardware and software that you can also get from Intuit, but it allows me to scale up at my own speed and choose my level of detail.
I always figured Bigfoot was a lowlands Yeti, or vice versa.
Surprising no mention of Godzilla. Godzilla has more of an international following than most of the monsters on the list.