They already are legally required to pay use taxes. It's on your state's tax form.
Absolutely, but at the moment there's no way for the state to know that a taxpayer made an out-of-state purchase (or didn't pay use taxes on one they made). The states will want a cross reference between purchasers and taxpayers if the sellers don't collect the taxes - and no one wants the states to have the purchase history of every consumer so the sellers will collect the tax and pass on the costs of it onto the consumers (the sales taxes, updating their systems, dealing with the squabbles, dealing with the sales tax audits from the states, etc).
Seems like Sen. Durbin didn't like the way Amazon treated his state. Now we'lll all get to pay tax on everything. Thanks a lot Amazon.
Not just taxes, but higher prices. Setting up these tax tables is not an easy task. Some states tax specific items (such as clothing) while others don't. Some counties - and even some cities - add a % to the 'local' sales tax. Some states tax delivery fees. I could go on and on...
These costs will be passed on to the consumers. And let's not forget that the sellers will be required to supply some sort of tax information to the consumers just in case the consumer needs to prove they paid the sales tax on their purchases (or didn't pay taxes because they are tax exempt in their own state). The states will need to perform long-distance sales tax audits on the sellers (and sales tax audits are a time consuming endeavor for the sellers).
The sales tax is collected by the state from the business, who has a choice of either charging the consumer that tax or taking it out of their profit margin.
If they collect it from the consumers then the business is not being taxed. If the business decides to pay it themselves then they are providing a discount to their consumers. The businesses are not being taxed, the consumers are based on each consumer's transaction.
It's pretty simple - you pay your state's sales tax (or in this case it's called 'use tax'). If your state doesn't have a sales or use tax then you don't pay anything extra.
That relates to "commerce", not "consumers". This would force consumers to pay sales tax (or in this case use tax) in their state for out-of-state purchases. The reason the feds like this is so the states get more 'local tax revenue' and the feds can give them fewer federal dollars;-)
Since the sales tax would have to be collected for, and paid to, the state you live in then it's your fault if you're not receiving representation in your state. Get out and vote next election (doesn't always mean you'll get what you want, but if you don't "speak up" on election day you don't have much standing to bitch and moan on every other day)..
All 4 end up on the coast, such a travesty. There was no need for NY to get one considering DC was guarenteed one.
They're probably on the coasts because that's where the tourist dollars go to. A majority of visitors to the US go to the large cities on the east & west coasts. The museums will draw a much bigger crowd (and probably charge extra) for the Shuttle exhibits.
all it takes is one website that requires a name and an email address to reset a password/change email address and/or an easily guessable password and then they're in.
That is, if the user uses the same password as indicated or has an easy to guess password, then there's the ticket to anything and everything.
One of my clients received a personalized TD Ameritrade email scam today. It was a very professional job, including a lot of content from the TD Ameritrade site. The only thing that was out of place were the actual href targets (they weren't TD Ameritrade). I'm filtering client email for companies exposed in the Epsilon breach.
I got more notifications from the gawker breach (2) than from the Epsilon leak though (0).
The Epsilon breach is still very young. When the lists get sold a few hundred (or thousand) times you'll see a lot more from it.
All that was stolen was names and email addresses. It's not like spammers and other online criminals don't have those anyway.
But what they do have now is fisrt & last names along with those email addresses and knowledge that a large group of individuals have accounts at a specific business. They can now target a very specific group with personalized attacks.
Mr. John Smith,
As you are aware StupidBank had some recent security issues. Please login to verify that your username and password have been updated to prevent someone from targeting you for online scams and phishing schemes.
I think of it as 'pseudo code', but you can call it 'P#' if you'd like. BTW, if your pee feels like it's sharp then your distributable package may have an infection.
Then how did applications for Apple II or Commodore 64 get written on a platform with a roughly 320x200 pixel screen?
Very different level of programmer. The OP stated:
Teaching everyone to program on an affordable platform like this is a very neat move, and undoes the damage done by companies that provide "Mothership System" based software development.
Any programmer of the early set of micro computers ilk is not the intended target of this 'product' nor the OP's comment.
Until it can print it can't be considered a true development environment with that tiny screen because debugging usually requires a view larger than a few lines of code. Add in any palettes/widgets/etc, an error console or error messages and you don't have much real estate left. And let's face it, editing code on any smartphone has got to be much worse than editing a txt, note or email.
Any ideas how it will be able to run the code through emulators to verify it works on older or newer Windows Phone versions? It may not have to now but it will soon enough.
For the independent artist, the potential these services unlock is simply too important to lose.
Well, I do believe that you've summed up the entire issue that 'old media' has with 'new media' - their total lack of control over it. They are not determining who "makes it" or who gets work (and of course, who amongst them gets their %).
OK, there's a new addition on my list of "Jobs I don't ever want to have": I don't want to be the guy who has to lift up a Zebra's tail to verify his check digit.
They're also using:
http://freeblogspot.org/journalism/2011/04/03/post/
http://tinyurl.com/42kdzgp (uses a data:text/html;base64 eventually redirect ending up at goatse.ru)
http://tinyurl.com/5szfvml (uses a data:text/html;base64 eventually redirect ending up at goatse.ru)
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The new measures will allow for users to be disconnected from the Internet for up to 6 months, based on infringement claims from copyright holders.
Just based on claims? Wow, that's guilty before proven innocent, no?
They already are legally required to pay use taxes. It's on your state's tax form.
Absolutely, but at the moment there's no way for the state to know that a taxpayer made an out-of-state purchase (or didn't pay use taxes on one they made). The states will want a cross reference between purchasers and taxpayers if the sellers don't collect the taxes - and no one wants the states to have the purchase history of every consumer so the sellers will collect the tax and pass on the costs of it onto the consumers (the sales taxes, updating their systems, dealing with the squabbles, dealing with the sales tax audits from the states, etc).
Seems like Sen. Durbin didn't like the way Amazon treated his state. Now we'lll all get to pay tax on everything. Thanks a lot Amazon.
Not just taxes, but higher prices. Setting up these tax tables is not an easy task. Some states tax specific items (such as clothing) while others don't. Some counties - and even some cities - add a % to the 'local' sales tax. Some states tax delivery fees. I could go on and on ...
These costs will be passed on to the consumers. And let's not forget that the sellers will be required to supply some sort of tax information to the consumers just in case the consumer needs to prove they paid the sales tax on their purchases (or didn't pay taxes because they are tax exempt in their own state). The states will need to perform long-distance sales tax audits on the sellers (and sales tax audits are a time consuming endeavor for the sellers).
The sales tax is collected by the state from the business, who has a choice of either charging the consumer that tax or taking it out of their profit margin.
If they collect it from the consumers then the business is not being taxed. If the business decides to pay it themselves then they are providing a discount to their consumers. The businesses are not being taxed, the consumers are based on each consumer's transaction.
There is a reason, in that applying sales tax rules is very hard. Sales taxes vary from place to place even within a state.
NY is a mess. It's different from county to county (and some cities even add a little bit for themselves).
It's pretty simple - you pay your state's sales tax (or in this case it's called 'use tax'). If your state doesn't have a sales or use tax then you don't pay anything extra.
That relates to "commerce", not "consumers". This would force consumers to pay sales tax (or in this case use tax) in their state for out-of-state purchases. The reason the feds like this is so the states get more 'local tax revenue' and the feds can give them fewer federal dollars ;-)
without representation
Since the sales tax would have to be collected for, and paid to, the state you live in then it's your fault if you're not receiving representation in your state. Get out and vote next election (doesn't always mean you'll get what you want, but if you don't "speak up" on election day you don't have much standing to bitch and moan on every other day)..
All 4 end up on the coast, such a travesty. There was no need for NY to get one considering DC was guarenteed one.
They're probably on the coasts because that's where the tourist dollars go to. A majority of visitors to the US go to the large cities on the east & west coasts. The museums will draw a much bigger crowd (and probably charge extra) for the Shuttle exhibits.
all it takes is one website that requires a name and an email address to reset a password/change email address and/or an easily guessable password and then they're in.
That is, if the user uses the same password as indicated or has an easy to guess password, then there's the ticket to anything and everything.
One of my clients received a personalized TD Ameritrade email scam today. It was a very professional job, including a lot of content from the TD Ameritrade site. The only thing that was out of place were the actual href targets (they weren't TD Ameritrade). I'm filtering client email for companies exposed in the Epsilon breach.
I got more notifications from the gawker breach (2) than from the Epsilon leak though (0).
The Epsilon breach is still very young. When the lists get sold a few hundred (or thousand) times you'll see a lot more from it.
All that was stolen was names and email addresses. It's not like spammers and other online criminals don't have those anyway.
But what they do have now is fisrt & last names along with those email addresses and knowledge that a large group of individuals have accounts at a specific business. They can now target a very specific group with personalized attacks.
Mr. John Smith,
As you are aware StupidBank had some recent security issues. Please login to verify that your username and password have been updated to prevent someone from targeting you for online scams and phishing schemes.
Yours Truly, StupidBank
the world's hottest chilli (1,463,700 SU), surpassing the current Naga Viper chilli, at 1,382,118 SU
But how much is that in Quetzlzacatenango peppers?
I think using a scale based on 'the worst nuclear disaster so far' isn't a great idea. Do we add #8 'Fukushima' to the scale if it gets any worse?
Ow, my eyes!!!
What language is that?
BASIC#?
I think of it as 'pseudo code', but you can call it 'P#' if you'd like. BTW, if your pee feels like it's sharp then your distributable package may have an infection.
Then how did applications for Apple II or Commodore 64 get written on a platform with a roughly 320x200 pixel screen?
Very different level of programmer. The OP stated:
Teaching everyone to program on an affordable platform like this is a very neat move, and undoes the damage done by companies that provide "Mothership System" based software development.
Any programmer of the early set of micro computers ilk is not the intended target of this 'product' nor the OP's comment.
So, it appears to be not true programming, but just script manipulation?
Looks like Apple Script for a phone, or for those of us with old memories it could even be HyperCard.
I never trust the "look at what we just did in only 100 lines or less" examples.
Really? How about this:
;-)
10 do while (iWantToWriteCode = true) {
20 self.goUseARealComputer = true ;
30 }
And I've got 97 lines to spare
Until it can print it can't be considered a true development environment with that tiny screen because debugging usually requires a view larger than a few lines of code. Add in any palettes/widgets/etc, an error console or error messages and you don't have much real estate left. And let's face it, editing code on any smartphone has got to be much worse than editing a txt, note or email.
Any ideas how it will be able to run the code through emulators to verify it works on older or newer Windows Phone versions? It may not have to now but it will soon enough.
For the independent artist, the potential these services unlock is simply too important to lose.
Well, I do believe that you've summed up the entire issue that 'old media' has with 'new media' - their total lack of control over it. They are not determining who "makes it" or who gets work (and of course, who amongst them gets their %).
OK, there's a new addition on my list of "Jobs I don't ever want to have": I don't want to be the guy who has to lift up a Zebra's tail to verify his check digit.
No. I'm so busy surfing /. that I don't have any spare CPU cycles to rent out.
These could be placed in the shoes of the secret service men who run along the President's car. Finally, a president who drives a hybrid!
They're also using:
http://freeblogspot.org/journalism/2011/04/03/post/
http://tinyurl.com/42kdzgp (uses a data:text/html;base64 eventually redirect ending up at goatse.ru)
http://tinyurl.com/5szfvml (uses a data:text/html;base64 eventually redirect ending up at goatse.ru)
The guy has added several new accounts so far today. He uses 'data' tags in tinyurl links and also that freeblogspot link.
The link is to a goatse wannabe!