But Google Glass wasn't AR. AR with a UV overlay would be great, but Glass was a tiny display, out of the main visual path, not like VR goggles, which block 100% and when used for AR, re-send the environment, along with the augmentation.
First reading of "FDA Approves First Contact Lenses That Turn Dark Into Bright Sunlight" was incorrect.
But I want contact lenses that compress the EM spectrum from UV to microwaves into visual spectrum. So you can see IR, and the world at night is usually illuminated with UV. So outside dark would be UV illuminated, and indoor dark would be IR illuminated. Night vision in contact lenses. When do I get that?
They don't buy it on a personal card. They have a home based business, marketing their real business, and all expenses for their home are entertainment expenses, charged to the marketing company, and they rent a bedroom in their house from the marketing company, and don't even own their home.
The truly rich don't pick up their own TVs from Best Buy. That's just the wannabe-rich.
Every person who works for a corporation pays 100% of their taxes with corporate funds, so the burden must be borne somewhere, and that's the corporation, paying employees and the like.
"incidence" is a political argument for who to tax, not an economic one.
Rich people don't get a special rich person discount at the car dealership.
Then why do 99.9% of rich people have their personal corporation lease the car, and deduct the depreciation, and taxes and the like? I've literally seen a doctor buy a Honda Civic from a junk yard, and tow it to his house, so he could claim that as his "personal car" so he could then buy a Ford Excretion (or whatever) to use as his business car, and had the papers on the Civic to prove he didn't use the Excretion for personal use. If you have only one car, you are required by law to keep records. If you have two cars, you don't need to keep records. You can claim one as 100% personal, and the other as 100% business.
Maybe you'll give the "I'm an accountant, and I'd never let them do that" answer. Are you going to swear that it's improbable nobody has ever done it?
Have you never looked at the finances of the rich? People like Paris Hilton throw a $1M party, and deduct it all as a business expense. For a party. That means, even the sales tax is deducted. Her image is her job, so it's a "legitimate" business expense.
It's called tax incidence and it's demonstrably correct.
It's called "passing the buck" and it's a lie. It's used to justify not taxing the entity using a service. If a cost has to be passed on, to a company or person, it doesn't matter. All taxes are paid by people, and all taxes are paid by corporations, so to pick only one to excuse is a political argument, not an economic one.
That's a document for sellers inside Texas. Not for sellers outside Texas. Also, you only need to know the tax rate for "local tax where the order was received" for anything delivered to a Texas address. And we are back to knowing the tax rate for every precinct (which isn't based on ZIP code). So Bob in Dallas county, but not Dallas City will pay one rate, and his neighbor who is in Dallas County and Dallas city will pay a differnt rate, and the guy across the street in Dallas city, but not Dallas county has yet another different rate, and his neighbor is not in Dallas County or City, and has a 4th unique tax rate. All next to each other. On the same street, Some in, and some not in the same ZIP code. (there are other examples I know where not even the ZIP code changes, based on a precinct split and DART funding zones, but it's all so much of a mess that even the examples are messy).
The local delivery guy has a chance to figure it out. They throw in a number, and pay it to the state. So long as they collect at least the state rate, and look to be close for the city rate, nobody gives them grief
But what doe Amazon do if they don't have a location in Texas? The sheet you pointed to says they must collect "local tax where the order was received". What's that number?
Sales Taxes are calculated based on the SELLER's address/location, not the buyer's location, in most cases.
So where does Wal-Mart with more than one store in Texas calculate as the sales location, when it's shipped from Arkansas?
Where does AliExpress with no stores in Texas, or the US, calculate taxes from?
The greedy cities have blocked every attempt to unify taxes at the state rate for any shipment that doesn't originate from a company with a location there. So the result is there is no tax collected for intrastate shipment. If you don't collect down to the penny for the location shipped to, the politicians block it, then complain the shippers aren't paying.
What state do you live in that sales tax is lower on something more expensive?
All of them (in practice). If you are rich, you don't pay sales taxes. You get tax credits and deductions for them. You are too poor to understand, or you'd already know that.
Taxes at other levels such as corporate taxes are passed on to the customers
That's the stupidest argument ever. Yes, you aren't the first I've heard say that. If people, not corporations pay taxes, then my employer, a corporation, pays all my taxes, not any people. You just arbitrarily stop at the point you want, without logic or reason. You know, asserting false facts to support your opinion. You should be in politics. Yes, that's an insult.
Reporting isn't the issue. Collection and distribution is. If the online companies were allowed to "report" the shipping location of an item for sales tax reasons, and that appease the state, then the problem would have been solved years ago. The states want the retailer to collect taxes without providing the retailer with a map. it's simply impossible. So, as was settled in the 1800s, mail order companies don't collect sales tax. Period. Whether your mail delivery is from a mail order (the old days, you mailed a check, or ordered C.O.D with a physical letter), or Internet order doesn't change the hundreds of years of practice.
I've lived in Dallas. There are towns were a street can have 4 different tax rates. All in the same zip code, on the same street. Only with a full tax-map could a retailer hope to keep up. And almost none do. Those required to collect often (illegally) collect only the state rate. Theoretically, and often legally, they are required to collect the separate rates for every residence (Texas kept it as a simple list, a tax rate for every address), but the states don't like sharing that. Those that have it would be mocked for having it in a simple text file, and with no actual intelligence behind it, other than someone manually typed in a tax code for every address. The others often don't know, themselves, so how could they tell anyone else?
The rules were written around a physical store. They figure out their tax code once, and it never changes.
The online retailers are objecting so much because there are literally millions of tax locations in the US, and they'd need to know them all all the time. Someone changes a mass transit tax, or collects a special local tax for a new school or sports stadium, and every online retailer on the planet must update their system.
More rational is to notify the State of the delivery address and pre-tax value. Then the sate will have a better path to enforcement of the "use tax" that already applies. That's the real complaint. It's too hard for the state to enforce their own laws, so they want the online retailers to bear the expense and trouble.
Poker in your own home with friends, playing with real money is 100% legal. Betting on a foot race (that you are participating in, and betting onlly on yourself) is legal. A business selling gambling services is different than whether the gambling itself is legal.
Sales of gambling and gambling services are regulated, and differently than betting on a game of skill you are participating in.
I read your words. You targeted "corporate" money. Then changed your statement when challenged, while implying it was my error you misspoke. I bet you enjoy never being wrong.
The simple fact is, if you pay money for a random result, that is gambling. Gambling is highly regulated and usually illegal. Poker is allowed because it is considered a game of skill, which is why loot boxes paid for with in-game currency (which can be earned by play that could be considered skill-related) are legal, but paying cash for a random result is gambling (and all that implies). Replacing "random" with non-random content would make them 100% legal. But they don't want people to pay $0.10 to get the skin they want, they want people to spend $100 to try to get the one $0.10 item they want.
Going from soccer to skiing, my legs were fine. But I couldn't lift my arms. The muscles to hold on are similar to doing a pull up for hours, but at an odd angle.
But holding a pencil isn't proof of a lack of "fine motor skills". It's proof of lack of "holding a pencil" skills. The person with trouble holding pencils may be better at building Lego. But a complete condemnation of a generation for not using pencils, when pencils are falling out of use seems to be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
I don't think my S3 ever got an update. Never again Samsung. My Oppo gets regular updates, and an official channel for unofficial updates.
Apple lost me when the 3G was unsupported about 9 months after the last new ones were sold in stores. Yes, that includes security updates. Screw you Apple.
Sadly, not buying again after being screwed means I can generally buy from a company only once (especially for phones).
For my example, the trip out was scheduled with flight schedules. I have no knowledge of their return. For all I know, they flew back the next day and partied all night as a corporate "entertainment" expense. But for a short trip like that between big cities, I expect they had flights every 30 min to an hour, so never too long to wait.
The property taxes and sales taxes that pay for mass transit apply to corporates as well as everyone else (in fact, most corporation have a higher property tax rate, because they can't get a homestead exemption).
Contact (the book, not the movie) had aliens send directions for a machine to contact them. That could also have been a doomsday device or other
The movie set up the "contact" explicitly such that it may not have happened, and dropped hints there were no aliens, completely undermining and reversing the book. The reason the movie couldn't be made until after Sagan was dead was because the movie was pro-faith, and rejected the aliens, something the book and Sagan was strongly against.
Nope. For many load levels, cars are more efficient than buses. Also, because of the bus paths, similar efficiency per mile still greatly favors the more direct cars. Buses aren't good for the environment. They are big, heavy, stop often, and often empty.
Nobody takes public transport when the "solution" is to drive for 30 minutes to a park and ride to take a 1 hour bus/train. The total trip by car is almost always faster than the mixed mode transport.
The "mass transit" solutions require a density greater than the suburbs. So it will always fail in the US.
I left from the office in Dallas for a meeting in Houston. I drove myself to Houston. The others took a cab to the airport, then a cab to the office from the airport on the other side. I got there first, but not by much. That's about the limit where driving is faster than flying, but it's common for shorter flights.
When the plan is "fuck you, you have to walk everywhere" then breaking the plan isn't a bad thing. Most "sustainable solutions" are not sustainable or solutions.
"Previous generations understood this and were willing to play along for the sake of everyone.
Maybe in Europe. In the US, the car makers used their monopoly power to buy up light rail services and demolish them to increase dependence on cars. That's the world our previous generations left us with.
Outside the US, your bank account is effectively public. Without checks, having an account will let you deposit, but not withdrawal. In the US, if you find someone's bank account, you can presume it has checks, and you can forge a check with those numbers, and have a 90% chance of making a payment (though it could be stopped later). The rest of the world does something e-check-like at the point of sale that doesn't use account numbers. You give out your account numbers freely, and people do "wire transfers" for free. Daily.
Even the "I don't use checks" generation uses checks. If you don't set up direct debit with your utility, you almost have to pay by check. They save money by not taking CC. I even went to a utility once with an ATM in the lobby. If you don't have cash, use the ATM, because they don't take CC. Oh, and if you don't want to wait in line for 3 hours between 10 and noon, you have to pay by check in the drop box.
The rest of the world uses free wire transfers like Americans use(d) checks.
The US is still 20 years behind. Deliberately, because it locks money into banks, where you can't use it.
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But Google Glass wasn't AR. AR with a UV overlay would be great, but Glass was a tiny display, out of the main visual path, not like VR goggles, which block 100% and when used for AR, re-send the environment, along with the augmentation.
First reading of "FDA Approves First Contact Lenses That Turn Dark Into Bright Sunlight" was incorrect.
But I want contact lenses that compress the EM spectrum from UV to microwaves into visual spectrum. So you can see IR, and the world at night is usually illuminated with UV. So outside dark would be UV illuminated, and indoor dark would be IR illuminated. Night vision in contact lenses. When do I get that?
They don't buy it on a personal card. They have a home based business, marketing their real business, and all expenses for their home are entertainment expenses, charged to the marketing company, and they rent a bedroom in their house from the marketing company, and don't even own their home.
The truly rich don't pick up their own TVs from Best Buy. That's just the wannabe-rich.
Every person who works for a corporation pays 100% of their taxes with corporate funds, so the burden must be borne somewhere, and that's the corporation, paying employees and the like.
"incidence" is a political argument for who to tax, not an economic one.
Rich people don't get a special rich person discount at the car dealership.
Then why do 99.9% of rich people have their personal corporation lease the car, and deduct the depreciation, and taxes and the like? I've literally seen a doctor buy a Honda Civic from a junk yard, and tow it to his house, so he could claim that as his "personal car" so he could then buy a Ford Excretion (or whatever) to use as his business car, and had the papers on the Civic to prove he didn't use the Excretion for personal use. If you have only one car, you are required by law to keep records. If you have two cars, you don't need to keep records. You can claim one as 100% personal, and the other as 100% business.
Maybe you'll give the "I'm an accountant, and I'd never let them do that" answer. Are you going to swear that it's improbable nobody has ever done it?
Have you never looked at the finances of the rich? People like Paris Hilton throw a $1M party, and deduct it all as a business expense. For a party. That means, even the sales tax is deducted. Her image is her job, so it's a "legitimate" business expense.
It's called tax incidence and it's demonstrably correct.
It's called "passing the buck" and it's a lie. It's used to justify not taxing the entity using a service. If a cost has to be passed on, to a company or person, it doesn't matter. All taxes are paid by people, and all taxes are paid by corporations, so to pick only one to excuse is a political argument, not an economic one.
That's a document for sellers inside Texas. Not for sellers outside Texas. Also, you only need to know the tax rate for "local tax where the order was received" for anything delivered to a Texas address. And we are back to knowing the tax rate for every precinct (which isn't based on ZIP code). So Bob in Dallas county, but not Dallas City will pay one rate, and his neighbor who is in Dallas County and Dallas city will pay a differnt rate, and the guy across the street in Dallas city, but not Dallas county has yet another different rate, and his neighbor is not in Dallas County or City, and has a 4th unique tax rate. All next to each other. On the same street, Some in, and some not in the same ZIP code. (there are other examples I know where not even the ZIP code changes, based on a precinct split and DART funding zones, but it's all so much of a mess that even the examples are messy).
The local delivery guy has a chance to figure it out. They throw in a number, and pay it to the state. So long as they collect at least the state rate, and look to be close for the city rate, nobody gives them grief
But what doe Amazon do if they don't have a location in Texas? The sheet you pointed to says they must collect "local tax where the order was received". What's that number?
Sales Taxes are calculated based on the SELLER's address/location, not the buyer's location, in most cases.
So where does Wal-Mart with more than one store in Texas calculate as the sales location, when it's shipped from Arkansas?
Where does AliExpress with no stores in Texas, or the US, calculate taxes from?
The greedy cities have blocked every attempt to unify taxes at the state rate for any shipment that doesn't originate from a company with a location there. So the result is there is no tax collected for intrastate shipment. If you don't collect down to the penny for the location shipped to, the politicians block it, then complain the shippers aren't paying.
What state do you live in that sales tax is lower on something more expensive?
All of them (in practice). If you are rich, you don't pay sales taxes. You get tax credits and deductions for them. You are too poor to understand, or you'd already know that.
Taxes at other levels such as corporate taxes are passed on to the customers
That's the stupidest argument ever. Yes, you aren't the first I've heard say that. If people, not corporations pay taxes, then my employer, a corporation, pays all my taxes, not any people. You just arbitrarily stop at the point you want, without logic or reason. You know, asserting false facts to support your opinion. You should be in politics. Yes, that's an insult.
Reporting isn't the issue. Collection and distribution is. If the online companies were allowed to "report" the shipping location of an item for sales tax reasons, and that appease the state, then the problem would have been solved years ago. The states want the retailer to collect taxes without providing the retailer with a map. it's simply impossible. So, as was settled in the 1800s, mail order companies don't collect sales tax. Period. Whether your mail delivery is from a mail order (the old days, you mailed a check, or ordered C.O.D with a physical letter), or Internet order doesn't change the hundreds of years of practice.
I've lived in Dallas. There are towns were a street can have 4 different tax rates. All in the same zip code, on the same street. Only with a full tax-map could a retailer hope to keep up. And almost none do. Those required to collect often (illegally) collect only the state rate. Theoretically, and often legally, they are required to collect the separate rates for every residence (Texas kept it as a simple list, a tax rate for every address), but the states don't like sharing that. Those that have it would be mocked for having it in a simple text file, and with no actual intelligence behind it, other than someone manually typed in a tax code for every address. The others often don't know, themselves, so how could they tell anyone else?
The rules were written around a physical store. They figure out their tax code once, and it never changes.
The online retailers are objecting so much because there are literally millions of tax locations in the US, and they'd need to know them all all the time. Someone changes a mass transit tax, or collects a special local tax for a new school or sports stadium, and every online retailer on the planet must update their system.
More rational is to notify the State of the delivery address and pre-tax value. Then the sate will have a better path to enforcement of the "use tax" that already applies. That's the real complaint. It's too hard for the state to enforce their own laws, so they want the online retailers to bear the expense and trouble.
If by "at least half" you mean "zero".
Poker in your own home with friends, playing with real money is 100% legal. Betting on a foot race (that you are participating in, and betting onlly on yourself) is legal. A business selling gambling services is different than whether the gambling itself is legal.
Sales of gambling and gambling services are regulated, and differently than betting on a game of skill you are participating in.
I read your words. You targeted "corporate" money. Then changed your statement when challenged, while implying it was my error you misspoke. I bet you enjoy never being wrong.
The simple fact is, if you pay money for a random result, that is gambling. Gambling is highly regulated and usually illegal. Poker is allowed because it is considered a game of skill, which is why loot boxes paid for with in-game currency (which can be earned by play that could be considered skill-related) are legal, but paying cash for a random result is gambling (and all that implies). Replacing "random" with non-random content would make them 100% legal. But they don't want people to pay $0.10 to get the skin they want, they want people to spend $100 to try to get the one $0.10 item they want.
Going from soccer to skiing, my legs were fine. But I couldn't lift my arms. The muscles to hold on are similar to doing a pull up for hours, but at an odd angle.
But holding a pencil isn't proof of a lack of "fine motor skills". It's proof of lack of "holding a pencil" skills. The person with trouble holding pencils may be better at building Lego. But a complete condemnation of a generation for not using pencils, when pencils are falling out of use seems to be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
I don't think my S3 ever got an update. Never again Samsung. My Oppo gets regular updates, and an official channel for unofficial updates.
Apple lost me when the 3G was unsupported about 9 months after the last new ones were sold in stores. Yes, that includes security updates. Screw you Apple.
Sadly, not buying again after being screwed means I can generally buy from a company only once (especially for phones).
For my example, the trip out was scheduled with flight schedules. I have no knowledge of their return. For all I know, they flew back the next day and partied all night as a corporate "entertainment" expense. But for a short trip like that between big cities, I expect they had flights every 30 min to an hour, so never too long to wait.
The property taxes and sales taxes that pay for mass transit apply to corporates as well as everyone else (in fact, most corporation have a higher property tax rate, because they can't get a homestead exemption).
Contact (the book, not the movie) had aliens send directions for a machine to contact them. That could also have been a doomsday device or other
The movie set up the "contact" explicitly such that it may not have happened, and dropped hints there were no aliens, completely undermining and reversing the book. The reason the movie couldn't be made until after Sagan was dead was because the movie was pro-faith, and rejected the aliens, something the book and Sagan was strongly against.
Drive around DC. Seems like 80% of the traffic is people circling the block, looking for a spot to park.
Nope. For many load levels, cars are more efficient than buses. Also, because of the bus paths, similar efficiency per mile still greatly favors the more direct cars. Buses aren't good for the environment. They are big, heavy, stop often, and often empty.
Happy to. For some reason the areas that really scare a racist aren't so scary to someone who isn't afraid of every brown person.
Nobody takes public transport when the "solution" is to drive for 30 minutes to a park and ride to take a 1 hour bus/train. The total trip by car is almost always faster than the mixed mode transport.
The "mass transit" solutions require a density greater than the suburbs. So it will always fail in the US.
I left from the office in Dallas for a meeting in Houston. I drove myself to Houston. The others took a cab to the airport, then a cab to the office from the airport on the other side. I got there first, but not by much. That's about the limit where driving is faster than flying, but it's common for shorter flights.
"Previous generations understood this and were willing to play along for the sake of everyone.
Maybe in Europe. In the US, the car makers used their monopoly power to buy up light rail services and demolish them to increase dependence on cars. That's the world our previous generations left us with.
Outside the US, your bank account is effectively public. Without checks, having an account will let you deposit, but not withdrawal. In the US, if you find someone's bank account, you can presume it has checks, and you can forge a check with those numbers, and have a 90% chance of making a payment (though it could be stopped later). The rest of the world does something e-check-like at the point of sale that doesn't use account numbers. You give out your account numbers freely, and people do "wire transfers" for free. Daily.
Even the "I don't use checks" generation uses checks. If you don't set up direct debit with your utility, you almost have to pay by check. They save money by not taking CC. I even went to a utility once with an ATM in the lobby. If you don't have cash, use the ATM, because they don't take CC. Oh, and if you don't want to wait in line for 3 hours between 10 and noon, you have to pay by check in the drop box.
The rest of the world uses free wire transfers like Americans use(d) checks.
The US is still 20 years behind. Deliberately, because it locks money into banks, where you can't use it.