I thought I'd correct some facts about this topic. The majority of systems in Mississippi use MS office and server products, not Linux (unfortunately). In my opinion the MIS directors and Systems administors are not the best informed (or experienced for that matter), causing the problems we're seeing now. MS government is NOT migrating to open source, quite the contrary.
Mississippi is a dry State. Only counties which have elected to be 'wet' sell liquor. It's a real pain if you live in a wet county and there are plenty of them here. Of course, beer isn't affected by this debacle as there are private distributors for anything with an alcohol content 6% or less.
Alcohol purchase in Alabama is a hell of a lot more expensive than in Mississippi. That's why they come over here to get their bottles.
It's not true that our liquor stores get great prices on liquor. Every liquor store in MS pays 7% State tax and an additional 7% excise tax on every case AND it's paid in advance. You also have to pay the city content tax to boot. And most of that tax money is spent by the MS Division of Medicaid. Certainly the most liberal and program rich of nearly every State in the US.
It is true. The majority of liquor business are mom and pop operations. You don't like hearing from a State official that you 'need to purchase at least three weeks of liquor because we're going to be down for a MINIMUM of three weeks and maybe six.' If you've been to some of the liquor stores around here, you know they don't have that kind of cash to outlay. Just for a couple weeks worth of stock we're talking up to $10,000 or more for a small store.
Yes folks, I'm one of those pissed off people.
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I thought I'd correct some facts about this topic. The majority of systems in Mississippi use MS office and server products, not Linux (unfortunately). In my opinion the MIS directors and Systems administors are not the best informed (or experienced for that matter), causing the problems we're seeing now. MS government is NOT migrating to open source, quite the contrary. Mississippi is a dry State. Only counties which have elected to be 'wet' sell liquor. It's a real pain if you live in a wet county and there are plenty of them here. Of course, beer isn't affected by this debacle as there are private distributors for anything with an alcohol content 6% or less. Alcohol purchase in Alabama is a hell of a lot more expensive than in Mississippi. That's why they come over here to get their bottles. It's not true that our liquor stores get great prices on liquor. Every liquor store in MS pays 7% State tax and an additional 7% excise tax on every case AND it's paid in advance. You also have to pay the city content tax to boot. And most of that tax money is spent by the MS Division of Medicaid. Certainly the most liberal and program rich of nearly every State in the US. It is true. The majority of liquor business are mom and pop operations. You don't like hearing from a State official that you 'need to purchase at least three weeks of liquor because we're going to be down for a MINIMUM of three weeks and maybe six.' If you've been to some of the liquor stores around here, you know they don't have that kind of cash to outlay. Just for a couple weeks worth of stock we're talking up to $10,000 or more for a small store. Yes folks, I'm one of those pissed off people.