The state sales tax is paid by state residents, and used for their benefit. Amazon is merely being asked to be responsible for collecting it. It's a matter of efficiency and effectiveness. How many CA residents report purchases which weren't taxed, and pay those taxes when filing?
Retailers engaged in business in this state... collect the tax from the purchaser and give the purchaser a receipt therefor.
- CA Article 17. Payment and Collection of Use Tax
Regulation 1684
In general, if you purchase equipment or merchandise from an out-of-state retailer without paying California tax and use the property for a purpose other than for resale, the purchase is subject to use tax and must be reported
You're referring to the identically named time zone. The historical GMT is what is now called UT0, which differs from UTC (they can differ by almost a second). What the Brits now refer to as GMT is really a UTC based timezone, not a time scale.
It's called TAI. Redefining UTC is just plain stupid - it was created to track sol. If someone doesn't like the fact that doing so requires occasional adjustments, then they chose to use the wrong time scale. Those who use UTC as intended shouldn't have to live with the problems which will result if it is unlocked from solar time, just to keep those who made a poor choice happy.
(GMT hasn't been in use for a long time, although most people use the term interchangeably with UTC).
It consists of a 4 x 13 orthogonal matrix of 2d symbolic tokens. With these, one can play an almost limitless variety of games - even 3D ones! People are free to develop their own games. No batteries or source of electricity needed, it runs off of mechanical energy provided by the player(s). It can be produced for less than $1, with very low tech (no chip fab needed).
Sweden has 3% of the population of the US, and a very hetrogenous population. You'll have to do better that that to claim any difference in crime and poverty is due to social programs.
"Social programs are the cheapest and best way to make a long term positive effect on society."
In Soviet Union, society has positive effect on socialism.
Er, what? You're seriously claiming that the strongly socialist states of USSR, China and Cuba have had a greater positive effect on society than the capitalist states of the USA, Britain and Japan? By what criteria are you measuring "positive effect on society?" And as for "cheapest," the USSR basically went bankrupt, China is successful now because of their very significant move toward free enterprise, and Cuba, well, they're lucky they have cigars to sell.
"I don't think you fully understand the definition of a monopoly. It's not simply the market share."
No, he doesn't. Not only is it not just market share, but it's not just the smartphone market. Apple has a dominant position in digital music distribution. More importantly, it's not a matter of monopoly, but antitrust behavior. Illegal antitrust behavior does not require a monopoly position - merely restraint of trade or an "attempt to monopolize." Refusing a competitor access to a sole market sure seems to be that.
Didn't Microsoft lose an anti-trust suit (2002) for using undocumented Windows APIs to their own advantage against independent developers? Why should Apple be different?
Consent " the message must be sent with your consent
Identify " the message must contain accurate information about the person or organisation that authorised the sending of the message
Unsubscribe " the message must contain a functional 'unsubscribe' facility to allow you to opt out of receiving messages from that source."
"The GP is wrong on two out of three counts... An email that is not intended for the recipient does not give implied consent."
He's wrong on none. Sending an email does imply consent - the sender is initiating communications, providing their return address, and for virtually all MTUs, a REPLY-TO: header. The "unsubscribe" requirement is obviously directed toward automated mailing lists. The functional unsubscribe is fulfilled by simply not emailing further - you don't want email from the OP, stop sending email to him (he said nothing about placing people on any such automated list).
Regardless of whether you agree or not, there's no ethical problem, and you're deluded if you think any authority would take any sort of legal action in such a situation.
No, you're wrong. Sending someone an unprompted email is a solicitation for a response. That they speak of one thing, and you respond with another is immaterial.
Never mind that what the article references is a digitally captured image, and not an image on a silver-based emulsion on film, not what most people would call a 'photo'.
Additionally, if you look at the EXIF info for the image, it is in fact processed by "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"!
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- CA Article 17. Payment and Collection of Use Tax Regulation 1684
-http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqreturn.htm
You're referring to the identically named time zone. The historical GMT is what is now called UT0, which differs from UTC (they can differ by almost a second). What the Brits now refer to as GMT is really a UTC based timezone, not a time scale.
Why don't you just work, say, 8-4 instead of 9-5? It's not like DST really saves time, you know.
" I am tired of having to write software that let's user adjust for the variable amount of leap seconds"
You're doing it wrong.
It's called TAI. Redefining UTC is just plain stupid - it was created to track sol. If someone doesn't like the fact that doing so requires occasional adjustments, then they chose to use the wrong time scale. Those who use UTC as intended shouldn't have to live with the problems which will result if it is unlocked from solar time, just to keep those who made a poor choice happy.
(GMT hasn't been in use for a long time, although most people use the term interchangeably with UTC).
It consists of a 4 x 13 orthogonal matrix of 2d symbolic tokens. With these, one can play an almost limitless variety of games - even 3D ones! People are free to develop their own games. No batteries or source of electricity needed, it runs off of mechanical energy provided by the player(s). It can be produced for less than $1, with very low tech (no chip fab needed).
I call it "cards."
"the appeal of writing code that will run on a variety of different devices"
That's just it. Apple wants to limit your ability to do that.
edit: I of course meant to say that the US has a very hetrogenous population. Sweden is a monoculture in comparison.
Sweden has 3% of the population of the US, and a very hetrogenous population. You'll have to do better that that to claim any difference in crime and poverty is due to social programs.
I find it hard to believe that something being announced to the press is "super confidential." One more subtraction from Nokia's credibility score.
"Social programs are the cheapest and best way to make a long term positive effect on society."
In Soviet Union, society has positive effect on socialism.
Er, what? You're seriously claiming that the strongly socialist states of USSR, China and Cuba have had a greater positive effect on society than the capitalist states of the USA, Britain and Japan? By what criteria are you measuring "positive effect on society?" And as for "cheapest," the USSR basically went bankrupt, China is successful now because of their very significant move toward free enterprise, and Cuba, well, they're lucky they have cigars to sell.
"just about everything is 12V already"
No. The three laptops I have easy access to (Dell, HP/Compaq, and Lenovo) all use 19-20 VDC power supplies.
Well, this is simply soylent brown.
It was probably held by some domain squatter.
" they're in the VoIP market. How is that related to Apple's iCloud?"
They're Internet services. Duh.
"I don't think you fully understand the definition of a monopoly. It's not simply the market share."
No, he doesn't. Not only is it not just market share, but it's not just the smartphone market. Apple has a dominant position in digital music distribution. More importantly, it's not a matter of monopoly, but antitrust behavior. Illegal antitrust behavior does not require a monopoly position - merely restraint of trade or an "attempt to monopolize." Refusing a competitor access to a sole market sure seems to be that.
Didn't Microsoft lose an anti-trust suit (2002) for using undocumented Windows APIs to their own advantage against independent developers? Why should Apple be different?
SLAPP.
"The GP is wrong on two out of three counts... An email that is not intended for the recipient does not give implied consent."
He's wrong on none. Sending an email does imply consent - the sender is initiating communications, providing their return address, and for virtually all MTUs, a REPLY-TO: header. The "unsubscribe" requirement is obviously directed toward automated mailing lists. The functional unsubscribe is fulfilled by simply not emailing further - you don't want email from the OP, stop sending email to him (he said nothing about placing people on any such automated list).
Regardless of whether you agree or not, there's no ethical problem, and you're deluded if you think any authority would take any sort of legal action in such a situation.
"It is unsolicited commercial email"
No, you're wrong. Sending someone an unprompted email is a solicitation for a response. That they speak of one thing, and you respond with another is immaterial.
Never mind that what the article references is a digitally captured image, and not an image on a silver-based emulsion on film, not what most people would call a 'photo'.
Additionally, if you look at the EXIF info for the image, it is in fact processed by "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"!
announced != released
Do you often read for 48+ hours straight?
From the summary, where a convenient link to more information is provided for your use: "Apple even asked to see some of Samsung's future devices."
You don't understand what "future" means, do you?
The Bush Justice Dept also produced a 20 plus page paper detailing why torture wasn't torture.