In the USA my understanding was PCI requirements were going to make all companies switch to non-imprintable cards? All of my cards issued in the past year are completely flat.
It is based on whether the seller has nexus in the buyer's location. If it has nexus it is the seller's responsibility to collect sales tax and remit it, if it doesn't then it is the buyer's responsibility to remit use tax to their taxing jurisdictions. The problem Amazon is having is jurisdictions trying to expand the concept of nexus.
One thing states have been doing is saying if someone in for example North Dakota posts a link to a product on their blog, that constitutes nexus in North Dakota for Amazon even if they have no other operations there. I don't agree with that one.
The other problem they are having is Amazon does not own their distribution centers. They set up a separate company to own and operate these locations that their parent contracts with. They want to use this corporate structure to avoid nexus in places like Texas and other states. This I think is a sketchy dodge, but on the other hand it is a slippery slope to say it is nexus when in fact they are separate companies.
If I followed the thread right, parent posts didn't reference flat tax. We currently have a progressive taxation scheme with so many loopholes and deductions that in actuality it is regressive. So if the choice is to not change the status quo, or to make our current tax law less regressive, I'll pick the latter.
But if the option were to tear up the entire system and institute a flat tax with almost no deductions (except maybe one standard deduction per person) and then provide direct subsidies to the poor, then I agree that is most preferable and arguably the most efficient.
There are a couple companies in the US that attempt to do this (determine the correct tax by sales location and nexus then distribute your payment to them from your company's ERP system). They're expensive and still make mistakes though. It requires active participation from the companies contracting them. It isn't a problem you can just hand off to them with a wad of cash and walk away from.
It just doesn't work this way. First tax jurisdictions aren't divided by zipcode as you allude to. You remit taxes to the state, county, city, and special taxing jurisdiction. As I recall there are 40,000 different "jurisdictions" in the US that can collect tax, but hundreds of thousands of different combinations of those overlapping jurisdictions. Some states will distribute the funds for you as long as you submit a report of what amounts should go where, other states the individual jurisdictions collect their own tax. In addition each of these jurisdictions have hundreds or thousands of tax laws or private letter decisions on how their code should be interpreted.
Now if you are saying our tax code should be set up the way you suggest, then I agree. But right now it is not set up in any manner where you can do that.
That depends completely on the state. My wife has told me how many do this vs. remit to the jurisdiction and I don't remember the ratio right now. For example in Louisiana you remit it to the parish tax collector, and in many cases you can't make the check out to "x parish tax collector" but to the tax collector's name personally.
I know it's crazy. My wife is a sales tax accountant (dealing a lot with Canada right now) and when she talks about things like this it just makes me mad. She's no fan of one of the provinces in Canada, and Denver Colorado, because they have especially strange tax rules. I looked it up and in the US I believe there are 40,000 different taxing entities and each one can have hundreds or thousands of rules in law and special considerations in private letter rulings.
Not only different tax rates for different products, but different tax rates for the same product depending on how it is prepared or packaged. For example a coke out of a fountain intended for onsite consumption can be taxed differently than a coke in a can meant to be carried out, or coke in a 12 pack meant to be taken home.
Bin Laden was a lot smarter than you give him credit for. That is what he said to encite hatred in American people's hearts and allow our politicians to manipulate us. He really wanted America to get our nose out of middle eastern politics. He planned to do this by bleeding us slowly of wealth and influence by causing enough low level mayhem that we remained fearful to overspend on wars and security and reactionary to where we violated our own claimed values. It says a masterfully successful operation.
Upvote since I don't have mod points. I use and love it. Though it may have increased battery draw, I haven't fully diagnosed it yet. The other version I found in Play store was ugly, not well translated, and not 100 pct reliable.
Bill Clinton turned off selective availability that degraded the civilian signal accuracy. There's another GPS military band that provides encoded and potentially better location data, but consumer devices, and especially tiny low power GPS receivers in cell phones can't even decode that signal.
As opposed to those hipsters in Portland? It's like watching 2 hens fight for a coc. But don't feel too bad, Austin is so wealthy douche now they couldn't be hipster if Andy Warhol came back from the dead and slapped them.
Signal in copper travels about 98 pct of the speed of light in air and light in fiber travels about 66 pct. Copper is faster not taking into account any latency in amplifiers.
I don't think movie distributor licensing allows per car pricing anymore. The drive-in you are thinking of is Galaxy in Ennis $6 for 2 movies, and they don't allow outside food or beverages because they say they make no money off your ticket, only on their concessions. But their concessions are cheap and reasonable quality. I love the place.
Now they are a quaint throwback. I don't really like going to an expensive movie theater with dirty seats, sticky trashy floors, and stench of fake butter. Going to the drive-in is fun because you can be out in the nice weather (come October) in a lawn chair, and enjoy 2 first run movies for $6 and some cheap decent quality concessions.
I don't mind cluster boxes as we've already had them 30 years in my area. I also don't mind reduced days of service esp. to residences. But eliminating Saturday service negatively affects the USPS largest customer Netflix and all their disc customers. I'd prefer to see an end to Wednesday and or Thursday residential delivery.
So Alaska pilots went from attempting a takeoff with the plane misconfigured, to needing a part that they couldn't get? At what point did the mechanic come into the picture?
Also regarding Boeing, they operate very much like an outsourced JIT systems integrator. They don't make many of the parts that go on their aircraft, they don't stock many of those parts except what will be needed on the assembly line in the next few days, and if you call their AOG parts desk (aircraft on ground - their emergent need desk) don't be surprised to get a 60-180 day lead time quote, and they'll laugh at you if you suggest they rob their production parts. The best source is frequently an inter-airline loan if you don't stock the part.
optical drives could eventually be abandoned by PC makers altogether.
And won't be missed.
That means prices will go down, right?
At first as the market searches for a new equilibrium. Later, at least one or 2 big name makers will exit the market. As the size of the market contracts, you'll see the price of HDDs per GB creep up a little, or at least stop going down ignoring the effect of the Taiwanese floods. But HDDs aren't going away. They'll be the cheapest highest density quickly accessible storage for many years into the future.
If the events you describe are correct, that is only misdemeanor tresspass for entering the closet. MIT provides anyone on campus access to their networ, and JSTOR. As well as Aaron having authorized access to JSTOR through his Harvard position.
Just because proper behavior would be to not do something, does not mean it should be illegal. And the ability to recover losses in a civil court does not mean that same activity should be punishable by criminal charges.
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In the USA my understanding was PCI requirements were going to make all companies switch to non-imprintable cards? All of my cards issued in the past year are completely flat.
It is based on whether the seller has nexus in the buyer's location. If it has nexus it is the seller's responsibility to collect sales tax and remit it, if it doesn't then it is the buyer's responsibility to remit use tax to their taxing jurisdictions. The problem Amazon is having is jurisdictions trying to expand the concept of nexus.
One thing states have been doing is saying if someone in for example North Dakota posts a link to a product on their blog, that constitutes nexus in North Dakota for Amazon even if they have no other operations there. I don't agree with that one.
The other problem they are having is Amazon does not own their distribution centers. They set up a separate company to own and operate these locations that their parent contracts with. They want to use this corporate structure to avoid nexus in places like Texas and other states. This I think is a sketchy dodge, but on the other hand it is a slippery slope to say it is nexus when in fact they are separate companies.
If I followed the thread right, parent posts didn't reference flat tax. We currently have a progressive taxation scheme with so many loopholes and deductions that in actuality it is regressive. So if the choice is to not change the status quo, or to make our current tax law less regressive, I'll pick the latter.
But if the option were to tear up the entire system and institute a flat tax with almost no deductions (except maybe one standard deduction per person) and then provide direct subsidies to the poor, then I agree that is most preferable and arguably the most efficient.
There are a couple companies in the US that attempt to do this (determine the correct tax by sales location and nexus then distribute your payment to them from your company's ERP system). They're expensive and still make mistakes though. It requires active participation from the companies contracting them. It isn't a problem you can just hand off to them with a wad of cash and walk away from.
It just doesn't work this way. First tax jurisdictions aren't divided by zipcode as you allude to. You remit taxes to the state, county, city, and special taxing jurisdiction. As I recall there are 40,000 different "jurisdictions" in the US that can collect tax, but hundreds of thousands of different combinations of those overlapping jurisdictions. Some states will distribute the funds for you as long as you submit a report of what amounts should go where, other states the individual jurisdictions collect their own tax. In addition each of these jurisdictions have hundreds or thousands of tax laws or private letter decisions on how their code should be interpreted.
Now if you are saying our tax code should be set up the way you suggest, then I agree. But right now it is not set up in any manner where you can do that.
That depends completely on the state. My wife has told me how many do this vs. remit to the jurisdiction and I don't remember the ratio right now. For example in Louisiana you remit it to the parish tax collector, and in many cases you can't make the check out to "x parish tax collector" but to the tax collector's name personally.
I know it's crazy. My wife is a sales tax accountant (dealing a lot with Canada right now) and when she talks about things like this it just makes me mad. She's no fan of one of the provinces in Canada, and Denver Colorado, because they have especially strange tax rules. I looked it up and in the US I believe there are 40,000 different taxing entities and each one can have hundreds or thousands of rules in law and special considerations in private letter rulings.
Not only different tax rates for different products, but different tax rates for the same product depending on how it is prepared or packaged. For example a coke out of a fountain intended for onsite consumption can be taxed differently than a coke in a can meant to be carried out, or coke in a 12 pack meant to be taken home.
Bin Laden was a lot smarter than you give him credit for. That is what he said to encite hatred in American people's hearts and allow our politicians to manipulate us. He really wanted America to get our nose out of middle eastern politics. He planned to do this by bleeding us slowly of wealth and influence by causing enough low level mayhem that we remained fearful to overspend on wars and security and reactionary to where we violated our own claimed values. It says a masterfully successful operation.
Upvote since I don't have mod points. I use and love it. Though it may have increased battery draw, I haven't fully diagnosed it yet. The other version I found in Play store was ugly, not well translated, and not 100 pct reliable.
Bill Clinton turned off selective availability that degraded the civilian signal accuracy. There's another GPS military band that provides encoded and potentially better location data, but consumer devices, and especially tiny low power GPS receivers in cell phones can't even decode that signal.
As opposed to those hipsters in Portland? It's like watching 2 hens fight for a coc. But don't feel too bad, Austin is so wealthy douche now they couldn't be hipster if Andy Warhol came back from the dead and slapped them.
Visa fraud prevention department made me do that in Mexico. I couldn't believe they didn't have a better way.
Signal in copper travels about 98 pct of the speed of light in air and light in fiber travels about 66 pct. Copper is faster not taking into account any latency in amplifiers.
In Dallas we have Lakewood Theater, Studio Movie Grill, and Alamo Drafthouse, all doing exactly that.
I-45 in Ennis http://www.galaxydriveintheatre.com/
Stockyards in Fort Worth http://www.coyotedrive-in.com/
I don't think movie distributor licensing allows per car pricing anymore. The drive-in you are thinking of is Galaxy in Ennis $6 for 2 movies, and they don't allow outside food or beverages because they say they make no money off your ticket, only on their concessions. But their concessions are cheap and reasonable quality. I love the place.
Now they are a quaint throwback. I don't really like going to an expensive movie theater with dirty seats, sticky trashy floors, and stench of fake butter. Going to the drive-in is fun because you can be out in the nice weather (come October) in a lawn chair, and enjoy 2 first run movies for $6 and some cheap decent quality concessions.
I don't mind cluster boxes as we've already had them 30 years in my area. I also don't mind reduced days of service esp. to residences. But eliminating Saturday service negatively affects the USPS largest customer Netflix and all their disc customers. I'd prefer to see an end to Wednesday and or Thursday residential delivery.
So Alaska pilots went from attempting a takeoff with the plane misconfigured, to needing a part that they couldn't get? At what point did the mechanic come into the picture?
Also regarding Boeing, they operate very much like an outsourced JIT systems integrator. They don't make many of the parts that go on their aircraft, they don't stock many of those parts except what will be needed on the assembly line in the next few days, and if you call their AOG parts desk (aircraft on ground - their emergent need desk) don't be surprised to get a 60-180 day lead time quote, and they'll laugh at you if you suggest they rob their production parts. The best source is frequently an inter-airline loan if you don't stock the part.
No no, it is Tobago
Couldn't remember, I knew it was a T country, and that was the first google result.
And won't be missed.
At first as the market searches for a new equilibrium. Later, at least one or 2 big name makers will exit the market. As the size of the market contracts, you'll see the price of HDDs per GB creep up a little, or at least stop going down ignoring the effect of the Taiwanese floods. But HDDs aren't going away. They'll be the cheapest highest density quickly accessible storage for many years into the future.
If the events you describe are correct, that is only misdemeanor tresspass for entering the closet. MIT provides anyone on campus access to their networ, and JSTOR. As well as Aaron having authorized access to JSTOR through his Harvard position.
Just because proper behavior would be to not do something, does not mean it should be illegal. And the ability to recover losses in a civil court does not mean that same activity should be punishable by criminal charges.