And you're a troll, as evidenced by your offtopic, inflammitory comment. As to your "myth", see here and here (Articles written by me). Also, I believe you're the one lacking in mental facilities, as you make such an unwarranted judgement based on absolutely no facts whatever. Believing that anyone who believes in God is an idiot is in fact idiotic. The wiki link, BTW, is a list of scientists, many esteemed enough to have their own article in wikipedia, who are in fact Christians.
You are, in fact, completely ignorant. Willful ignorance is idiocy. No perhaps we can get back on topic?
Perhaps you should read your own post, you're the one that brought things off-topic and started down the inflamitory path. The fact that an otherwise good scientist still believes in god only shows that they are willing to suspend rational thinking when it suits their own agenda. It doesn't validate your mythology.
I don't. If they have to pay sales tax, so should mail and phone orders.
And the courts have already established they don't, because it would be an undue burden.
News flash: we have computers and databases that can hold LOTS of data and are easy to search. There's no way this could be an "undue hardship" to anybody with a business.
News flash: Its impractical for a company to maintain their own list when they don't even have a presense in another state. Its also not necessary. Even with computers, someone still needs to monitor the amount collected, figure out when to pay it, fill out the appropriate paperwork, etc. In other words, ITS A BURDEN. The fact that you believe otherwise only demonstrates you've never had to take care of paying sales tax for a company.
For what it's worth, I'm completely against sales, use, and vat taxes as they are extremely regressive. But Amazon's arguments are specious. If they were to say they were against sales taxes because they were regressive I'd agree with them, but their arguments are entirely self serving and bogus.
Just because their arguments are self serving does not mean they are wrong. You can only argue for something if it doesn't benefit you? Please, enough of your foolishness. Its a burden, and will hurt smaller businesses much more than it hurts Amazon.
Do you like all the wonderful things your government provides you and the rest of the citizens?
No, and I don't really care about the other citizens... just an FYI.
police
Have you ever needed them? Useless. I'd be better of protecting myself.
fire departments, roads
These are fine, and really do benefit everyone, either directly or indirectly.
medicaid
This can go. As long as the #1 problem in the US is obesity, I will refuse to suppose helping with other's medical bills.
schools
HS in my area is producing graduates that can't even figure out the amount of sales tax. Useless. I also don't have any kids, so I don't see why I should have to pay.
school lunch programs
Wonderful, more useless people not contributing but taking quite a bit. Fuck them.
Where do you think the money comes from that pay for all those wonderful services everyone demands?
I wish most of the "services" would go away.
If you don't like that the government takes a portion of your paycheck to pay for the services the public demands, I suggest you take it up with your fellow citizens.
Ya, because if the public demands something, I should be forced to pay for it even though it doesn't benefit me. of course the drooling retards DEMAND free health care (for them at least, at my expense), but that doesn't make it right.
That would be illegal. The Commerce clause forbids states from charging any kind of tarrif on goods imported from another state. No sales tax + a use tax would be just that. Orignally, use taxes where higher, but the courts ruled that they violated the Commerce clause.
Amazon isn't using state provided infrastructure, and they already payd for national defense via NATIONAL income taxes. FedEx or USPS is using said infrastructure, and THEY are paying for it in the states which packages are delivered to.
And government has been wasting tax dollars for a long time now, so I really don't care that they are crying poor.
Except precident has already been set that its not an out-of-state's responsiblity to ensure a use tax is paid. The burden is on the purchaser to pay the tax.
So do you imdemnify customers if they collect the wrong amount of tax? I don't see any pricing on your site, so I'm going to go with "it's fucking expensive." Or, an undue burden.
You're an idiot, as evidenced by your belief in a mythical being.
First, the whole sales tax / use tax thing has been decided. Mail order / phone orders don't need to collect, so why do you think amazon should be singled out?
Second, is not just looking at a piece of paper. Ever try collecting sales tax in CA? There's a state, county, and in some cases local sales tax. We have 40 seperate rates for CA ALONE. It sucks time away every month as the rates can also change that quickly. All for a state where WE HAVE NO PHYSICAL PRESENSE. It should be the customers paying use tax, not us collecting sales tax.
When you believe a movie is showing how the future is going to unfold, you're undoubtly stupid. Ignorant people just don't know; stupid people make panicy decisions on something they don't know and don't investigate.
If people are really seriously considering suicide after seeing 2012, I agree that we should jsut let them. Anyone with that little thinking capacity shouldn't be around.
If there are some features exclusely in one, that means Mono is NOT a superset of.Net. As far as Windows apps go, does Mono support Wpf and Wcf, or Wf? Asp.Net MVVM? Linq? Extension methods?
You only pay to use the really good version of their tools. VS Express can be downloaded for free, and its pretty good... but there's a ton of other useful features in the paid for versions. Other than that though, no, you don't need to pay for anything, and even there you don't HAVE to pay..Net has some nice language features I found missing in Java; explicit interfaces, for one. Defaulting to non-virtual is another.
.Net is a competitor to Java. Anywhere you'd use Java,.Net could be used as well. So no, its not just a back end thing, you can (and do) write client desktop applications with it as well.
You point to anecdote to show that SOME people may still have some reservations. I don't think that's the mainstream thinking though.
As far as price harry goes, no, I never even knew that happened. Of course the link seems to suggest it was only reported in trash tabloid "news," and there seems to be no good reason for him to be dressed in full nazi combat fatiges (it looks like a costume party, but it doesn't seem to match the theme).
I don't recall that being news anywhere in the US, at least.
Its not criminal in the US, and no one is claiming the US endoreces Nazism. Germany could simply say "we think we've undone the damage to our children, and have beated Facist ideas."
Maybe they'd have the resources if they stopped arresting people for putting certain chemicals in their bodies, or sitting on the road trying to catch speeders.
first off, its not that hard to send a package. They ask for your name and address... which they do everytime anyway. Then you're a "legitimate" sender if you have a package to send and the cash. how do they know I even gave them my real address? They don't.
How very arrogent of you, to think that people are so stupid as to be influced as much as you claim. Oh, but I'm sure you don't think media influcences YOU right? After all, you're too smart.
How about we do this instead; let people think for themselves.
Of course the whole point of using a black box is that you're not supposed to know how it works in order to use it. And if you're spending time debugging someone ELSES code, you're probably not doing your job (at least until you can show it is in fact the other code).
Of course I've been.Net for a while, and haven't really had such problems, except the documentation not being detailed enough.
I see you've never maintained anything for a few years. I've looked at code not sure why something was done, and it makes it harder to maintain. Of course the answer is usually "business requirements," but knowing the exact one is helpful, especially if its no longer a concern.
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Why should amazon be forced to collect taxes for a state in which it has no presense? Why should any company?
I see no obligation on Amazon's part to collect sales tax for a state its only shipping to.
And you're a troll, as evidenced by your offtopic, inflammitory comment. As to your "myth", see here and here (Articles written by me). Also, I believe you're the one lacking in mental facilities, as you make such an unwarranted judgement based on absolutely no facts whatever. Believing that anyone who believes in God is an idiot is in fact idiotic. The wiki link, BTW, is a list of scientists, many esteemed enough to have their own article in wikipedia, who are in fact Christians.
You are, in fact, completely ignorant. Willful ignorance is idiocy. No perhaps we can get back on topic?
Perhaps you should read your own post, you're the one that brought things off-topic and started down the inflamitory path. The fact that an otherwise good scientist still believes in god only shows that they are willing to suspend rational thinking when it suits their own agenda. It doesn't validate your mythology.
I don't. If they have to pay sales tax, so should mail and phone orders.
And the courts have already established they don't, because it would be an undue burden.
News flash: we have computers and databases that can hold LOTS of data and are easy to search. There's no way this could be an "undue hardship" to anybody with a business.
News flash: Its impractical for a company to maintain their own list when they don't even have a presense in another state. Its also not necessary. Even with computers, someone still needs to monitor the amount collected, figure out when to pay it, fill out the appropriate paperwork, etc. In other words, ITS A BURDEN. The fact that you believe otherwise only demonstrates you've never had to take care of paying sales tax for a company.
For what it's worth, I'm completely against sales, use, and vat taxes as they are extremely regressive. But Amazon's arguments are specious. If they were to say they were against sales taxes because they were regressive I'd agree with them, but their arguments are entirely self serving and bogus.
Just because their arguments are self serving does not mean they are wrong. You can only argue for something if it doesn't benefit you? Please, enough of your foolishness. Its a burden, and will hurt smaller businesses much more than it hurts Amazon.
Do you like all the wonderful things your government provides you and the rest of the citizens?
No, and I don't really care about the other citizens... just an FYI.
police
Have you ever needed them? Useless. I'd be better of protecting myself.
fire departments, roads
These are fine, and really do benefit everyone, either directly or indirectly.
medicaid
This can go. As long as the #1 problem in the US is obesity, I will refuse to suppose helping with other's medical bills.
schools
HS in my area is producing graduates that can't even figure out the amount of sales tax. Useless. I also don't have any kids, so I don't see why I should have to pay.
school lunch programs
Wonderful, more useless people not contributing but taking quite a bit. Fuck them.
Where do you think the money comes from that pay for all those wonderful services everyone demands?
I wish most of the "services" would go away.
If you don't like that the government takes a portion of your paycheck to pay for the services the public demands, I suggest you take it up with your fellow citizens.
Ya, because if the public demands something, I should be forced to pay for it even though it doesn't benefit me. of course the drooling retards DEMAND free health care (for them at least, at my expense), but that doesn't make it right.
No, I'm willing to eliminate 80% of government to make up the difference.
That would be illegal. The Commerce clause forbids states from charging any kind of tarrif on goods imported from another state. No sales tax + a use tax would be just that. Orignally, use taxes where higher, but the courts ruled that they violated the Commerce clause.
Amazon isn't using state provided infrastructure, and they already payd for national defense via NATIONAL income taxes. FedEx or USPS is using said infrastructure, and THEY are paying for it in the states which packages are delivered to.
And government has been wasting tax dollars for a long time now, so I really don't care that they are crying poor.
Except precident has already been set that its not an out-of-state's responsiblity to ensure a use tax is paid. The burden is on the purchaser to pay the tax.
So do you imdemnify customers if they collect the wrong amount of tax? I don't see any pricing on your site, so I'm going to go with "it's fucking expensive." Or, an undue burden.
You're an idiot, as evidenced by your belief in a mythical being.
First, the whole sales tax / use tax thing has been decided. Mail order / phone orders don't need to collect, so why do you think amazon should be singled out?
Second, is not just looking at a piece of paper. Ever try collecting sales tax in CA? There's a state, county, and in some cases local sales tax. We have 40 seperate rates for CA ALONE. It sucks time away every month as the rates can also change that quickly. All for a state where WE HAVE NO PHYSICAL PRESENSE. It should be the customers paying use tax, not us collecting sales tax.
When you believe a movie is showing how the future is going to unfold, you're undoubtly stupid. Ignorant people just don't know; stupid people make panicy decisions on something they don't know and don't investigate.
If people are really seriously considering suicide after seeing 2012, I agree that we should jsut let them. Anyone with that little thinking capacity shouldn't be around.
That's because by the 80s we had unwarranted fear over nuclear and stopped building plants and have been shutting down existing ones.
If there are some features exclusely in one, that means Mono is NOT a superset of .Net. As far as Windows apps go, does Mono support Wpf and Wcf, or Wf? Asp.Net MVVM? Linq? Extension methods?
You only pay to use the really good version of their tools. VS Express can be downloaded for free, and its pretty good... but there's a ton of other useful features in the paid for versions. Other than that though, no, you don't need to pay for anything, and even there you don't HAVE to pay. .Net has some nice language features I found missing in Java; explicit interfaces, for one. Defaulting to non-virtual is another.
.Net is a competitor to Java. Anywhere you'd use Java, .Net could be used as well. So no, its not just a back end thing, you can (and do) write client desktop applications with it as well.
You point to anecdote to show that SOME people may still have some reservations. I don't think that's the mainstream thinking though.
As far as price harry goes, no, I never even knew that happened. Of course the link seems to suggest it was only reported in trash tabloid "news," and there seems to be no good reason for him to be dressed in full nazi combat fatiges (it looks like a costume party, but it doesn't seem to match the theme).
I don't recall that being news anywhere in the US, at least.
Its not criminal in the US, and no one is claiming the US endoreces Nazism. Germany could simply say "we think we've undone the damage to our children, and have beated Facist ideas."
Maybe they'd have the resources if they stopped arresting people for putting certain chemicals in their bodies, or sitting on the road trying to catch speeders.
first off, its not that hard to send a package. They ask for your name and address... which they do everytime anyway. Then you're a "legitimate" sender if you have a package to send and the cash. how do they know I even gave them my real address? They don't.
How very arrogent of you, to think that people are so stupid as to be influced as much as you claim. Oh, but I'm sure you don't think media influcences YOU right? After all, you're too smart.
How about we do this instead; let people think for themselves.
And since Germany is again soverign, I imagine they could change the law if they wanted to.
I wouldn't care, and would still buy the game.
Its just a fucking game.
Why are you dealing with this nonsense? Your dev. environment can't reformat the code for you automatically?
Of course the whole point of using a black box is that you're not supposed to know how it works in order to use it. And if you're spending time debugging someone ELSES code, you're probably not doing your job (at least until you can show it is in fact the other code).
Of course I've been .Net for a while, and haven't really had such problems, except the documentation not being detailed enough.
I see you've never maintained anything for a few years. I've looked at code not sure why something was done, and it makes it harder to maintain. Of course the answer is usually "business requirements," but knowing the exact one is helpful, especially if its no longer a concern.
Well using a decent tool eliminates this problem. VS2008 has a smart rename that alerts you to that problem.