Thank god! I don't see the banking industry going away. Surely people can find more challenging and useful work than pushing pieces of paper around being a cage!
I guess Governer Bill Haslam must take down his Facebook page because I'd he highly frightened and offended should I come across it! What a fucking moron!
Excuse me but BULLSHIT. The difference is a contractor you pay simply to shut up do a job. A consultant on the other hand is somebody you pay to not only do the job but to guide you to doing the job correctly. If you want real dead weight - hire an employee!
In a word - Lastpass. My passwords are not 16 characters, upper, lower, numbers and special characters. I don't have to remember any of them and they are all different for each and every of my ~200 sites that I log into. Lastpass types them in for me and I only have to remember my Lastpass password.
Also, even a password of "g0D,,,,,,,,,,,,,," is 1) easy to remember and more uncrackable than "g3klj#8432jhsdl#%".
What can an spiritual naturalist say to someone when confronted with that? Religion has it easy, they just say the child is in a better place. I don't know what we have... and until we have something, religion wins.
What we have is the truth. What they have is a lie.
Kevorkian led a long life in service of a greater good. What do you propose we as empiricists, spiritual naturalists, rationalists (call us anything other than the unscientific word "atheist" that defines us in a religious context) say to honor the dead and comfort the living? I'm genuinely curious.
What do you say to somebody who parked his car on a cliff, forgot to engage the emergency brake, left the car and it rolled of the cliff? You say that was a shame or that that sucks. You don't "honor" the car and yet you still want to comfort the person about his loss. I'm not saying the car is the same as somebody's life - indeed it's more of a shame, bad thing or whatever when a life is lost. What I'm saying is a loss is a loss so think of it that way.
Exactly. If you buy something in California from out of state, the vendor doesn't charge you California sales tax, and you proceed to directly use that item, you are supposed to pay use tax. That's the law;
It's a stupid law. Why should I pay anybody any tax for the "privilege" of owning my own property?!?
if you're buying stuff from Amazon or wherever and not paying those use-taxes you are in violation. (And yes, this means a HUGE number of people are in violation, which is sort of the point.)
All this measure does is require that vendors like Amazon collect the tax instead. Since Amazon already does all sorts of order fulfillment in California and collects sales taxes when it does; this should be trivial for them to do at least.
Regardless if it's trivial for them to do or not - requiring them to do it amounts to slavery of a sorts and we supposedly outlawed that. This is nothing more than the government forcing companies to be a policing body by using its use of force to enslave companies to do what it can't, and shouldn't be doing
Speaking as a California resident, I welcome this because right now keeping track of use-tax is a royal pain. In fact if anything I will be strongly inclined to prefer vendors that collect the tax because it saves me so much trouble.
Trouble would be likewise avoided if the use tax was repealed.
As for counting on some sort of "only the feds can do this stuff" ruling so you can continue to break the law, this gets down to how what the lawyers call a jurisdictional nexus is defined. The bill appears to be tweaking that a little, but I doubt it's tweaking it enough for there to be constitutional issue. But IANAL, and even if I were, this is very deep stuff and you really need an expert's read on it.
No you don't have to prove that they are not carcinogenic - they should be assumed to not be carcinogenic until people making the claim that they are can prove that they are. It's called the null hypothesis. And it's highly suspect because if it did you would logically expect a huge increase in brain tumors and cancers. That is not happening - not even a little bit. So then why blame the cell phone for something that is not even happening. Madness! Get a clue!
Why are spammers so insistent on getting people who obviously are not interested in what they are selling to look at their wares? Are there people who then go "Oooohhh, shiny! I must buy, I must buy"?!? Isn't the point really to get sales? I guess there are people like that and as long as there is, there will be spammers.
"1/16th of Skype's *vital features"??? It does phone calls and video works for me. What are these other *vital* features you speak of? You mean like the girls from Ghana who keep popping up in Skype trying to scam me? No thanks!
Did you miss this part of the article: “We’re no different from other big chains of retailers,” Bezos said. “They don’t collect sales taxes in states where they don’t have [employees], either.”
I don't know why you think that Cygwin cannot deal with Windows type stuff like Exchange and Sharepoint. You're a little vague as to what you need to do with them. I use Cygwin while on Windows and find it can do just about all I want to do.
Yeah sure. I have never, to my knowledge, purchased *anything* through Playstation Network! In fact I'm pretty sure they don't even have my credit card number at all and thus I'm not worried about these breaches personally. When I want to use my Playstation to play a games it's because I went to GameStop and purchased the medium there. I don't buy movies on PSN either - I stream them from my Linux systems that I get over the net and from Playon. And I don't purchase stupid avatars and other "virtual stuff". So when you say "can you imagine Playstation Network if it was prepay, or paper billed only?" my answer is that from my perspective, that's what they've always been.
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You first need to teach Watson how to have that Indian/American accent otherwise it just won't be the same!
Thank god! I don't see the banking industry going away. Surely people can find more challenging and useful work than pushing pieces of paper around being a cage!
I think Betty White said it best when she said "It seems like a tremendous waste of time".
That's what Chromium is for!
Frivolous lawsuits are tossed out of courts by the tons. Now if we could just get people like you who spread this FUD to get tossed out...
I guess Governer Bill Haslam must take down his Facebook page because I'd he highly frightened and offended should I come across it! What a fucking moron!
Excuse me but BULLSHIT. The difference is a contractor you pay simply to shut up do a job. A consultant on the other hand is somebody you pay to not only do the job but to guide you to doing the job correctly. If you want real dead weight - hire an employee!
In a word - Lastpass. My passwords are not 16 characters, upper, lower, numbers and special characters. I don't have to remember any of them and they are all different for each and every of my ~200 sites that I log into. Lastpass types them in for me and I only have to remember my Lastpass password. Also, even a password of "g0D,,,,,,,,,,,,,," is 1) easy to remember and more uncrackable than "g3klj#8432jhsdl#%".
What can an spiritual naturalist say to someone when confronted with that? Religion has it easy, they just say the child is in a better place. I don't know what we have... and until we have something, religion wins.
What we have is the truth. What they have is a lie.
Kevorkian led a long life in service of a greater good. What do you propose we as empiricists, spiritual naturalists, rationalists (call us anything other than the unscientific word "atheist" that defines us in a religious context) say to honor the dead and comfort the living? I'm genuinely curious.
What do you say to somebody who parked his car on a cliff, forgot to engage the emergency brake, left the car and it rolled of the cliff? You say that was a shame or that that sucks. You don't "honor" the car and yet you still want to comfort the person about his loss. I'm not saying the car is the same as somebody's life - indeed it's more of a shame, bad thing or whatever when a life is lost. What I'm saying is a loss is a loss so think of it that way.
Can we stop attacking Sony? I wanna play my games... Geeze!
Exactly. If you buy something in California from out of state, the vendor doesn't charge you California sales tax, and you proceed to directly use that item, you are supposed to pay use tax. That's the law;
It's a stupid law. Why should I pay anybody any tax for the "privilege" of owning my own property?!?
if you're buying stuff from Amazon or wherever and not paying those use-taxes you are in violation. (And yes, this means a HUGE number of people are in violation, which is sort of the point.)
All this measure does is require that vendors like Amazon collect the tax instead. Since Amazon already does all sorts of order fulfillment in California and collects sales taxes when it does; this should be trivial for them to do at least.
Regardless if it's trivial for them to do or not - requiring them to do it amounts to slavery of a sorts and we supposedly outlawed that. This is nothing more than the government forcing companies to be a policing body by using its use of force to enslave companies to do what it can't, and shouldn't be doing
Speaking as a California resident, I welcome this because right now keeping track of use-tax is a royal pain. In fact if anything I will be strongly inclined to prefer vendors that collect the tax because it saves me so much trouble.
Trouble would be likewise avoided if the use tax was repealed.
As for counting on some sort of "only the feds can do this stuff" ruling so you can continue to break the law, this gets down to how what the lawyers call a jurisdictional nexus is defined. The bill appears to be tweaking that a little, but I doubt it's tweaking it enough for there to be constitutional issue. But IANAL, and even if I were, this is very deep stuff and you really need an expert's read on it.
Maybe, just maybe, countries don't need to "run" - they just need to "exist". Food for thought.
Damn I'm underpaid! ;-)
No you don't have to prove that they are not carcinogenic - they should be assumed to not be carcinogenic until people making the claim that they are can prove that they are. It's called the null hypothesis. And it's highly suspect because if it did you would logically expect a huge increase in brain tumors and cancers. That is not happening - not even a little bit. So then why blame the cell phone for something that is not even happening. Madness! Get a clue!
Why are spammers so insistent on getting people who obviously are not interested in what they are selling to look at their wares? Are there people who then go "Oooohhh, shiny! I must buy, I must buy"?!? Isn't the point really to get sales? I guess there are people like that and as long as there is, there will be spammers.
"1/16th of Skype's *vital features"??? It does phone calls and video works for me. What are these other *vital* features you speak of? You mean like the girls from Ghana who keep popping up in Skype trying to scam me? No thanks!
Did you miss this part of the article: “We’re no different from other big chains of retailers,” Bezos said. “They don’t collect sales taxes in states where they don’t have [employees], either.”
Doesn't work for me. Just hangs.
Better get it in before 5/21 or the world will end anyway (http://goo.gl/Ywd3G)
I don't know why you think that Cygwin cannot deal with Windows type stuff like Exchange and Sharepoint. You're a little vague as to what you need to do with them. I use Cygwin while on Windows and find it can do just about all I want to do.
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Yeah sure. I have never, to my knowledge, purchased *anything* through Playstation Network! In fact I'm pretty sure they don't even have my credit card number at all and thus I'm not worried about these breaches personally. When I want to use my Playstation to play a games it's because I went to GameStop and purchased the medium there. I don't buy movies on PSN either - I stream them from my Linux systems that I get over the net and from Playon. And I don't purchase stupid avatars and other "virtual stuff". So when you say "can you imagine Playstation Network if it was prepay, or paper billed only?" my answer is that from my perspective, that's what they've always been.
What no street view? No wonder he was so hard to find!
Who cares.
Actually no, in many cases the court will accept printed copies (cause they are dumb - so shhhhh don't give them any ideas).
It always amazes me that they often accept things like emails and chat logs as proof. Any script kiddie can forge those!