The key difference between the state tax and Internet tax is where the money goes. In the case of state taxes, an individual company pays that tax in order for the local municipality to maintain roads, bridges, sewer drains, water supply and the rest of local infrastructure that is necessary to keep a brick and mortar business running.
Local sales tax also is used to attract and maintain businesses in the area keeping the customer base happy and business owners happy.
This system has served this country very very well in the brick and mortar days, so why not carry it over into the.com days?
Use the local Internet sales tax to build, improve, and maintain the infrastructure that feeds my.com. Use the local Internet sales tax to pull fiber in the community, make net access more affordable for potential customers, and make the local Internet attractive to new businesses seeking to relocate. Use the local Internet sales tax to make your towns NAP (network access point) larger, more secure, and more reliable. this kind of competition between local communities will lead to happier businesses happier customers and a better Internet for everybody.
It all comes down to R & B.
In the old days businesses needed roads and bridges in the.com days businesses need routers and bandwidth. _________________________
I find these remarks regarding this matter extremly offending.
I personaly know some engineers effected by the Toshibaa decistion to seel 5-axis machining centers to Russia. I also know how Toshiba was forced to give up it's hard earned position as the number #1 spot as PIM (Plastic Injection Molding) machine tool seller in the US market as a result of the 5-axis decision.
The amazing part of it all, is when Toshiba was kicked out of the US market, it was another japaneese mfg that swooped in to capture that market.
What I find most offending about your comments is that the information needed to ban Toshiba from the US market has absolutly nothing to do with spying, CIA, spooks, intell, NSA, or clandestine operations of any kind. The entire deal was done in the open, with complete honesty and integrity. It was wrong. Toshiba payed the price. heavily. _________________________
. and I'm appauled that things like this are being done on our own shores. The company I work for imports machine tools, that are made and assembled in japan, into the united states. Our little company employs appx. 150 people, 125 of whom are american.
The quote that scares me the most is: "Some of our old friends and allies are in this business as well, not only by putting microphones in the head rests of their airliners which cross the Atlantic, in first class seats, but in other ways as well... There are European countries where.. if you leave your briefcase when you go to dinner, if you're a businessman and there's anything sensitive in it, you should have your head examined".
I've taken that kind of flight (JAL airlines LAX to Tokyo) many many times. The thought that my own government would be spying on my activities under the guise of "protecting american interests" is apauling! _________________________
Lets stop for a moment and consider what "Self replicating" really means. Using the movie "Terminator" as an example, what does it mean for robots to be self replicating?
Consider a screw. A tiny little screw. In order to make enough stainless 1/4-20 socket head cap screws to maintain self replication (independant from humans). It would require a Brown and Sharpe screw machine to keep up with the volume required. Now you would need an additional team of self replicating robots to operate and maintain that equipment. These machines need bar stock to feed them. Steel stock doesn't just grow on trees, so now you need another team of robots working down at the foundry to make the stock, to feed the screw machines, to make the screws, to make the robots. Now you need raw material to keep the foundry humming. Another team of robots working at the mine to make the rock that feeds the fountry, that makes the stock, to feed the screw machines that makes the screws to make the robots. All this for one tiny screw.
The point behind this little thought exercise is to get you to think about tools and materials and where they come from. Humans have spent all of our existance (from rocks to rockets) perfecting their use, and I doubt my Lego mindstorm can pull it off. _________________________
While I agree that Amazons use of 'one click' is nothing more than an obvious implimentation of an existing standard, I would ask, why is it that patent life software in one particular segment of industry be so differant from any other industry?
The start up capitol (seed money/finacing) required to, for example, make a copy of a Boeing 777 is much greater, and the need for protecting IP much less. The automobile industry is another example of of the high resistance to entry (you need to buy factory space, fill it with machine tools and assemply equipment). Why should software (which has an microscopic barier to entry [Netscape 1.0 was done in 8 months with a dozen programers]) be singled out?
If you're going to propose a shortening of the patent life, I would suggest taking a broader view out side the world of software 6 to 9 months would be laughed out of Detroit. _________________________
The problem with hearing stories like this is I just don't care anymore. I just wish Bill, Al Tipper and Billary should go back to selling used cars or slither back under their rock. What they put this country through is inexcusable, and they still don't get it. The Clintongore trainwreck will soon be over and I, for one, won't be rushing out to read their book.
I will, however, smile from ear to ear while I vote Republican. _________________________
First, allow me to address the voice quality of Sprints "crystal clear" digital phone service. I'm a heavy phone user (1000+mins a month). I have the thing in my ear all day and Sprint is beyond poor when it comes to service droping...digital static (which sounds like I'm a pilot on crack using and airplane PA system) and poor service.
If you're looking for a way to comunicate with clients, family and friends while on the go, I think you'll have better "crystal clear digital clarity" if you put your message on a wadded up spit ball and did a 'drive-by straw-spit' on their house.
On a lighter side, I really had to laugh at the headline and it's use of the word "Leak": Sprint Web Phones Leak Users' Phone Numbers
As if to imply: "those pesky little phone numbers wouldn't leak out onto every server log on the net if it wasn't for that hole on the bottom of the router." Perhaps if we tried asking the little dutch boy to come along and put his finger in the leak, we could prevent this leaking travesty from befauling inosent Sprint and it's happy users.
It's a molicious attempt to make money from the tracking data on a conection that the user pays for at the expense of privacy, and it's wrong. _________________________
I would agree that is is just an only extention to an already dificult problem. I would also agree that users have the ability to "live off the grid" if they truley value their privacy. What I would take exception with is the degree graularity offered by triagulating your traveling habits with a hard ID on who you are.
As interconnectivity slips it's way into more and more devices surounding everyones daily lives in this country, it's important that it's implemented with the users libertys in mind.
Is it wrong for my store, on it's own, to know what I buy and when? No, as long as they seek my informed consent and compensate me for the release of this valuable information. Is it wrong for my cell phone company to triagulate my position as I use my phone? No, as long as they ask my informed consent, and compensate me for this valuable information. It *is* wrong (as doubleclick is finding out) to passivly log byte crossing a network and selll this valuable information to anyone willing to pay.
The problem in this great nation at the moment is that there are no laws on the books from preventing this kind of profiling. It's wrong, and the laws of this great land need to be adjusted to give the user to "live on the grid" and have control over his own profile.
Imagine, if you will, you're driving down the street, and quitely, in the background, without your knowledge, your cell phone company runs a triagulation server that can find the location of every user on that tower within.2 seconds. Imagine, if you will, as you drive past a grocery store, you recieve an instant e-coupon for $1.25 off a 6 pack of bud. Upon recieving this little blipvert, you go into the store to pickup your 6 pack. Happy that you've saved 1.25 on the price, you open a can as you drive and phone a friend to tell him about this wonderfull deal. Ericsson and any other company considering this, should think twice. The problem with this technology, is that if the advertizement in the above example came from DoubleClick, they would have a complete track of who-what-where-when-and why
1) WHO I am from the cell phone billing information (linked together with older buying habbits). 2) WHAT I buy from the grocery store records. 3) WHERE I am at all times thanks to triagulating the cell phone signal. 4) WHEN I was driving to the store from the time/date stamp on the location log. 5) WHY I bought the beer from the "Eshilon style" key-word based logging of my conversation in order to give the advertiser feedback.
The problem with this is that it closes the "last mile" of the trust model. I've got news for Ericson and anyone else considering squeezing a blipvert onto my pee-green-screen-underpowered static box you call a cell phone.
Kyle's mom's a bitch She's mom is a big fat bitch She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch She's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday she's a bitch On Tuesday she's a bitch On Wednsday through Saturday she's a bitch Then on Sunday, just to be different, she's a superkinkamayamayabeeatch
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom? She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world She's a mean 'ol bitch and she has stupid hair She's a big big big big big gig bitch Big big big big big big big bitch, she's a stupid bitch Kyles mom, she's a big fat fucking biiiiiiitch
Big old fucking bitch ass mooooom Yeah Chaaaa
I really don't have a point, but I couldn't pass up the chance to use the word bitch a dozen times and not be offtopic!) _________________________
1) Site design matches the product (black boxes). 2) An animated opening splash screen. 3) Informative product information. 4) Animated menu navigation bar. 5) Product ordering means a complete e-comerce solution. 6) Not one line of script. 7) {blink} tags added for your nestalgic pleasure. 8) Only 4.73k (27 bytes to spare!) here it is _________________________
I just wanted to take a moment and thank Dave for all his hard work and for what he contributed to on-line gaming. His work is truly fantastic, and I've played the hell out of his maps, and wish him well in the future.
Quake CTF . . it's not just a game, it's a lifestyle. _________________________
. . . when we all hunted and gathered (and sometimes starved and died) together!
When we spent hours at the travel agent waiting for the glorious privilage of being charged an extra 15% ..
When we waited in long lines at the supermarket reading such informative and educational tabloid news such as "Leonardo has alien baby!" ..
When the broadcast media had so much power, one american president (LBJ) was heard to say: "If I've lost [the political suport of] Walter Croncrite, I've lost middle america."..
When technology news came exclusivly from Redmond in such ZD 'puter rags. ..
When you needed new software, it ment a trip to the When "on-line" ment choosing between Compuserve, Prodigy or your local BBS.
When getting new software for your new 80286 peecee ment listening to the pimply faced kid at the software store extole the virtues of "kewlCAD" and and "reallykewlCAD".
I, for one, welcome these liberating technologies and the positive influance they've had on society. _________________________
From the article: Forrest said electronics manufacturers could use the new technique within six months in certain applications such as car stereo displays. Eventually the technique could lead to the ubiquitous use of OLEDs in products such as palm pilots, cell phones and laptop computers.
sounds to me like this is ready for prime time. _________________________
I couldn't agree with you more. I agree with that last question and would like to see more details from all the candidates.
I, for one, was impressed when 'Dubya released a detailed list of all his individual contributors to his compain (complete with dollar amounts). This kind of honest and full disclosure is refreshing, and more candidates should follow his lead. _________________________
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone have to tools to convert these GIFfy PDF files to HTML?
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Local sales tax also is used to attract and maintain businesses in the area keeping the customer base happy and business owners happy.
This system has served this country very very well in the brick and mortar days, so why not carry it over into the .com days?
Use the local Internet sales tax to build, improve, and maintain the infrastructure that feeds my .com. Use the local Internet sales tax to pull fiber in the community, make net access more affordable for potential customers, and make the local Internet attractive to new businesses seeking to relocate. Use the local Internet sales tax to make your towns NAP (network access point) larger, more secure, and more reliable. this kind of competition between local communities will lead to happier businesses happier customers and a better Internet for everybody.
It all comes down to R & B.
In the old days businesses needed roads and bridges in the.com days businesses need routers and bandwidth.
_________________________
I personaly know some engineers effected by the Toshibaa decistion to seel 5-axis machining centers to Russia. I also know how Toshiba was forced to give up it's hard earned position as the number #1 spot as PIM (Plastic Injection Molding) machine tool seller in the US market as a result of the 5-axis decision.
The amazing part of it all, is when Toshiba was kicked out of the US market, it was another japaneese mfg that swooped in to capture that market.
What I find most offending about your comments is that the information needed to ban Toshiba from the US market has absolutly nothing to do with spying, CIA, spooks, intell, NSA, or clandestine operations of any kind. The entire deal was done in the open, with complete honesty and integrity. It was wrong. Toshiba payed the price. heavily.
_________________________
The quote that scares me the most is: "Some of our old friends and allies are in this business as well, not only by putting microphones in the head rests of their airliners which cross the Atlantic, in first class seats, but in other ways as well ... There are European countries where .. if you leave your briefcase when you go to dinner, if you're a businessman and there's anything sensitive in it, you should have your head examined".
I've taken that kind of flight (JAL airlines LAX to Tokyo) many many times. The thought that my own government would be spying on my activities under the guise of "protecting american interests" is apauling!
_________________________
Consider a screw. A tiny little screw. In order to make enough stainless 1/4-20 socket head cap screws to maintain self replication (independant from humans). It would require a Brown and Sharpe screw machine to keep up with the volume required. Now you would need an additional team of self replicating robots to operate and maintain that equipment. These machines need bar stock to feed them. Steel stock doesn't just grow on trees, so now you need another team of robots working down at the foundry to make the stock, to feed the screw machines, to make the screws, to make the robots. Now you need raw material to keep the foundry humming. Another team of robots working at the mine to make the rock that feeds the fountry, that makes the stock, to feed the screw machines that makes the screws to make the robots. All this for one tiny screw.
The point behind this little thought exercise is to get you to think about tools and materials and where they come from. Humans have spent all of our existance (from rocks to rockets) perfecting their use, and I doubt my Lego mindstorm can pull it off.
_________________________
The start up capitol (seed money/finacing) required to, for example, make a copy of a Boeing 777 is much greater, and the need for protecting IP much less. The automobile industry is another example of of the high resistance to entry (you need to buy factory space, fill it with machine tools and assemply equipment). Why should software (which has an microscopic barier to entry [Netscape 1.0 was done in 8 months with a dozen programers]) be singled out?
If you're going to propose a shortening of the patent life, I would suggest taking a broader view out side the world of software 6 to 9 months would be laughed out of Detroit.
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. . and I expect elected offiacials to obey them like the rest of us. This is something ClintonGore has yet to fully grasp.
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Doing so would require a person of substance, something Algore clearly is not.
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I will, however, smile from ear to ear while I vote Republican.
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If you're looking for a way to comunicate with clients, family and friends while on the go, I think you'll have better "crystal clear digital clarity" if you put your message on a wadded up spit ball and did a 'drive-by straw-spit' on their house.
On a lighter side, I really had to laugh at the headline and it's use of the word "Leak": Sprint Web Phones Leak Users' Phone Numbers
As if to imply: "those pesky little phone numbers wouldn't leak out onto every server log on the net if it wasn't for that hole on the bottom of the router." Perhaps if we tried asking the little dutch boy to come along and put his finger in the leak, we could prevent this leaking travesty from befauling inosent Sprint and it's happy users.
It's a molicious attempt to make money from the tracking data on a conection that the user pays for at the expense of privacy, and it's wrong.
_________________________
As interconnectivity slips it's way into more and more devices surounding everyones daily lives in this country, it's important that it's implemented with the users libertys in mind.
Is it wrong for my store, on it's own, to know what I buy and when? No, as long as they seek my informed consent and compensate me for the release of this valuable information. Is it wrong for my cell phone company to triagulate my position as I use my phone? No, as long as they ask my informed consent, and compensate me for this valuable information. It *is* wrong (as doubleclick is finding out) to passivly log byte crossing a network and selll this valuable information to anyone willing to pay.
The problem in this great nation at the moment is that there are no laws on the books from preventing this kind of profiling. It's wrong, and the laws of this great land need to be adjusted to give the user to "live on the grid" and have control over his own profile.
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Great Minds Think Alike
:)
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Imagine, if you will, as you drive past a grocery store, you recieve an instant e-coupon for $1.25 off a 6 pack of bud.
Upon recieving this little blipvert, you go into the store to pickup your 6 pack. Happy that you've saved 1.25 on the price, you open a can as you drive and phone a friend to tell him about this wonderfull deal.
Ericsson and any other company considering this, should think twice.
The problem with this technology, is that if the advertizement in the above example came from DoubleClick, they would have a complete track of who-what-where-when-and why
1) WHO I am from the cell phone billing information (linked together with older buying habbits).
2) WHAT I buy from the grocery store records.
3) WHERE I am at all times thanks to triagulating the cell phone signal.
4) WHEN I was driving to the store from the time/date stamp on the location log.
5) WHY I bought the beer from the "Eshilon style" key-word based logging of my conversation in order to give the advertiser feedback.
The problem with this is that it closes the "last mile" of the trust model.
I've got news for Ericson and anyone else considering squeezing a blipvert onto my pee-green-screen-underpowered static box you call a cell phone.
NO!
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She's mom is a big fat bitch
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch
She's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday she's a bitch
On Tuesday she's a bitch
On Wednsday through Saturday she's a bitch
Then on Sunday, just to be different, she's a superkinkamayamayabeeatch
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom?
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a mean 'ol bitch and she has stupid hair
She's a big big big big big gig bitch
Big big big big big big big bitch, she's a stupid bitch
Kyles mom, she's a big fat fucking biiiiiiitch
Big old fucking bitch ass mooooom
Yeah
Chaaaa
I really don't have a point, but I couldn't pass up the chance to use the word bitch a dozen times and not be offtopic!)
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1) Site design matches the product (black boxes).
2) An animated opening splash screen.
3) Informative product information.
4) Animated menu navigation bar.
5) Product ordering means a complete e-comerce solution.
6) Not one line of script.
7) {blink} tags added for your nestalgic pleasure.
8) Only 4.73k (27 bytes to spare!)
here it is
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Quake CTF . . it's not just a game, it's a lifestyle.
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When we spent hours at the travel agent waiting for the glorious privilage of being charged an extra 15% . .
When we waited in long lines at the supermarket reading such informative and educational tabloid news such as "Leonardo has alien baby!" . .
When the broadcast media had so much power, one american president (LBJ) was heard to say: "If I've lost [the political suport of] Walter Croncrite, I've lost middle america.". .
When technology news came exclusivly from Redmond in such ZD 'puter rags. . .
When you needed new software, it ment a trip to the When "on-line" ment choosing between Compuserve, Prodigy or your local BBS.
When getting new software for your new 80286 peecee ment listening to the pimply faced kid at the software store extole the virtues of "kewlCAD" and and "reallykewlCAD".
I, for one, welcome these liberating technologies and the positive influance they've had on society.
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sounds to me like this is ready for prime time.
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I've noticed that images.slashdot.org has been down all day today. I wanted to ask the other /.ers if they've seen this too?
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I, for one, was impressed when 'Dubya released a detailed list of all his individual contributors to his compain (complete with dollar amounts). This kind of honest and full disclosure is refreshing, and more candidates should follow his lead.
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In the interest of equal time, perhaps we could get an interview with the web master at AlBore200.com?
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He really is as stiff as a coat hanger.
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