Quite a few years back a group of states got together to battle the e-commerce behemoth. They passed laws that allow for the taxing of something based on where it is delivered/accepted. So if you went to a grocery-store, this is where you paid the tax for that location; but if you bought something from Amazon to be shipped to your house, then they were responsible for charging you the tax for the address where it is shipped.
The kicker now, many states assigned a threshold to how much revenue you had based on sales to a given state before you would get charged. So smaller home/hobby businesses like ETSY didn't trip that.
This is changing, and with this suit coming back into place; the potential for a state(like here in WA) to require all sales tax to be charged/collected is a reality.//Sales Tax Program Employee
Each state is responsible for supporting and maintaining a list of logical locations. On a fixed schedule we refresh this data to reflect new/changes in rates as well as municipal annexations to expand a city and shift addresses from the unincorporated areas of the county/parish to the city.
This data is provided to the businesses to use to determine what the appropriate tax is based on the type of transaction.
The use a zipcode boundaries doesn't work (first, there is no such thing as a true zipcode boundary), as these areas usually don't match the incorporated and unincorporated areas they serve. So no City/County/State could tax a person based on this since they would be a high likely hood of people being incorrectly and unfairly taxed; in our past this lead to a revolution.
Those are just a few blurbs I can spew off the top of my head; but as I work and support the Sales Tax system for my state; I am well versed and depended on to ensure that properly flows.
Back in 2002-2004 they were a great distribution; based on Red Hat, but using the optimizations for the 586/686 chipsets they made for a solid platform for LAMP powered systems running on last generation hardware. The support was top-notch for subscribers and when I started pushing out BEOWULF type systems for our computational systems they were right there making it flow.
This really isn't a new event; just as always with ESRI you will see them partner with business to define a need and then extend those functions to be new tools in their product only to see a short time later a ESRI specific toolset that is given away for free that does what the partner did but locking you into there platform. But in this they drive business away from said partner.
Having been on this side its hard on a small business to not see them for the predatory company they can be. So many of the "NEW" things I have seen from them in the last 6-7 years are not new but they can spin it to make the followers of the great Redlands Prophets just write blank checks...
Interesting point, I don't think a plastic shell in a plastic gun would fire well without bad back-blast, but a stone shell? Hmmm while structurally you might be correct I wonder about the feasibility of a usable product.
I won't discount it, but wonder about the true potential...
This is the kind of stupidity I see coming from Democrats across the country and its just sickening. Just as the DOD and DOJ are pushing to block the ability to share the plans for these printed guns they seem to forget the fact that these printers are available world-wide; and the US does not have a monopoly on people with engineering experience let alone knowledge in creating firearms.
So by trying to ban this, all they are doing is drawing more attention to it. As if countries like Iran, North Korea or Syria don't have people who know how to acquire a lathe and make a gun of better quality themselves. So this is made out of plastic and not detectable by a radar/magnetometer, you know what; the bullet/shell will be.
The ability to create a plastic/resin based shell casing that can properly detonate and propel a shell as required isn't possible.
It is fascinatning to watch and hear these debates. When all this will accomplish is boiler plate FISA requests being prepared and carried around. All they have to do is request the wiretap and they can begin, they don't need to have the approval which can take minutes or weeks.
So yes the Phone companies won't be able to say 'We were threatened with losing our huge federal subsidies so we consented.' Now they can be sued by the 'Americans Communist Liberties Union' so they can suck up more of our tax dollars with federal lawsuits instead of helping with the core issue. That being people that want to take American Civil Liberties, like the right to Life, and cut your head off with a serated knife on video.
Don't fool yourself into thinking this is just about Bush versus Pelosi/Fienstien; this is about the protecting the American way of life versus those imposed on us by someone wtih a bomb-vest like happened in Israel last week.
It is ok to worry about someone listening to your phone call.. but you have to ask yourself.. What do I have to hide? If they can listen to 10 million phone calls (really??) and stop 1 more Oklahoma City, or 1 more Bali Hotel and it is not hurting me in the least. What do I have to worry about?
No, if you want to call up people in Irag/Iran/Afgahnistan/Pakistan and discuss the 'the bomb' and you are not talking about the latest J-Lo album being 'the bom' then you might have to be worried.
Because good old President Clinton signed legislation blocking overt sharring of data. There is the precident that the US Foriegn service will not operate on American Soil, but when a executive order is signed saying that one agency can't/won't share data with others then you hands are tied.
It is called in the normal avaiation field, Lawn-Darts!!
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That kind of reasoning does not fit this issue.
When you are provided a powerful tool for no cost under the condition that you don't fund the creation of a competing tool based on that technology you are not at the whim of someone's goodwill. When they approached OSDL and said you have a employee doing this (reverse engineering our technology), please have them stop and OSDL says it's not our problem.
Its not like they all of the sudden started says hey OSDL/Linus you now need to start paying for this since you like it. They said we are giving you free access to our tool but you have staff that are now striking at our revenue line, which happens to be how we fund this tool you like. Please have them stop and we will continue to provide this tool.
When you still thumb your nose at the company who has employees to support and revenue to generate you are only putting them under the gun.
So based on this evidence you can see this isn't a RS versus Linus issue versus a OSDL taking responsibility issue. If OSDL came back to the table and said Ok, mea culpa, we will make this right then the problem wouldn't be there.
Just another prime example of someone who doesn't know or bother to check the facts. They see Dan Rathersky or Petrovich Jennings on the news and assume that they know it all.
check the facts before you open your arrogant hole!
But you have to consider ET to be the crowning achievement, it had a good plot, and a good story and led Drew Barrymore to a future marriage with Tom Green. Well, two out of three isn't bad.
What do you expect, you call it a stacked deck when they want people who have security clearances to verify there system. As a government contractor who has built secure systems I wouldn't want just anyone poking through my boxes to see what makes them tick. That is only a prudent measure. By having clearances they have an absolute measure of who that person is. It's not some big black helicopters in the sky conspiracy! Deal with it!
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Quite a few years back a group of states got together to battle the e-commerce behemoth. They passed laws that allow for the taxing of something based on where it is delivered/accepted. So if you went to a grocery-store, this is where you paid the tax for that location; but if you bought something from Amazon to be shipped to your house, then they were responsible for charging you the tax for the address where it is shipped.
The kicker now, many states assigned a threshold to how much revenue you had based on sales to a given state before you would get charged. So smaller home/hobby businesses like ETSY didn't trip that.
This is changing, and with this suit coming back into place; the potential for a state(like here in WA) to require all sales tax to be charged/collected is a reality. //Sales Tax Program Employee
Department of Revenue Employee
Each state is responsible for supporting and maintaining a list of logical locations. On a fixed schedule we refresh this data to reflect new/changes in rates as well as municipal annexations to expand a city and shift addresses from the unincorporated areas of the county/parish to the city.
This data is provided to the businesses to use to determine what the appropriate tax is based on the type of transaction.
The use a zipcode boundaries doesn't work (first, there is no such thing as a true zipcode boundary), as these areas usually don't match the incorporated and unincorporated areas they serve. So no City/County/State could tax a person based on this since they would be a high likely hood of people being incorrectly and unfairly taxed; in our past this lead to a revolution.
Those are just a few blurbs I can spew off the top of my head; but as I work and support the Sales Tax system for my state; I am well versed and depended on to ensure that properly flows.
You misspelled Windows ME
Back in 2002-2004 they were a great distribution; based on Red Hat, but using the optimizations for the 586/686 chipsets they made for a solid platform for LAMP powered systems running on last generation hardware. The support was top-notch for subscribers and when I started pushing out BEOWULF type systems for our computational systems they were right there making it flow.
Farewell Mandrake/Mandriva...
This really isn't a new event; just as always with ESRI you will see them partner with business to define a need and then extend those functions to be new tools in their product only to see a short time later a ESRI specific toolset that is given away for free that does what the partner did but locking you into there platform. But in this they drive business away from said partner.
Having been on this side its hard on a small business to not see them for the predatory company they can be. So many of the "NEW" things I have seen from them in the last 6-7 years are not new but they can spin it to make the followers of the great Redlands Prophets just write blank checks...
Interesting point, I don't think a plastic shell in a plastic gun would fire well without bad back-blast, but a stone shell? Hmmm while structurally you might be correct I wonder about the feasibility of a usable product.
I won't discount it, but wonder about the true potential...
This is the kind of stupidity I see coming from Democrats across the country and its just sickening. Just as the DOD and DOJ are pushing to block the ability to share the plans for these printed guns they seem to forget the fact that these printers are available world-wide; and the US does not have a monopoly on people with engineering experience let alone knowledge in creating firearms.
So by trying to ban this, all they are doing is drawing more attention to it. As if countries like Iran, North Korea or Syria don't have people who know how to acquire a lathe and make a gun of better quality themselves. So this is made out of plastic and not detectable by a radar/magnetometer, you know what; the bullet/shell will be.
The ability to create a plastic/resin based shell casing that can properly detonate and propel a shell as required isn't possible.
It is fascinatning to watch and hear these debates. When all this will accomplish is boiler plate FISA requests being prepared and carried around. All they have to do is request the wiretap and they can begin, they don't need to have the approval which can take minutes or weeks.
So yes the Phone companies won't be able to say 'We were threatened with losing our huge federal subsidies so we consented.' Now they can be sued by the 'Americans Communist Liberties Union' so they can suck up more of our tax dollars with federal lawsuits instead of helping with the core issue. That being people that want to take American Civil Liberties, like the right to Life, and cut your head off with a serated knife on video.
Don't fool yourself into thinking this is just about Bush versus Pelosi/Fienstien; this is about the protecting the American way of life versus those imposed on us by someone wtih a bomb-vest like happened in Israel last week.
It is ok to worry about someone listening to your phone call.. but you have to ask yourself.. What do I have to hide? If they can listen to 10 million phone calls (really??) and stop 1 more Oklahoma City, or 1 more Bali Hotel and it is not hurting me in the least. What do I have to worry about?
No, if you want to call up people in Irag/Iran/Afgahnistan/Pakistan and discuss the 'the bomb' and you are not talking about the latest J-Lo album being 'the bom' then you might have to be worried.
Actually the nutcases are in Michigan (Hence the Michigan Militia).
But you point is very well taken!
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Obviously you have never studied contemporary history. Socialists build Police states with the intent of taking out the opposition.
I have not heard about Cindy Sheehan mysteriously being killed while being questioned but the FBI, so I think your comment is a little lost.
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Because good old President Clinton signed legislation blocking overt sharring of data. There is the precident that the US Foriegn service will not operate on American Soil, but when a executive order is signed saying that one agency can't/won't share data with others then you hands are tied.
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Well, if you consider Enlightenment to be alfa, what do you call the highly polished software that is WindowsXP??
What does come before alfa???
D @ Premier
They do have a new group of folks maintaining e16, infact it was earlier this year I believe then released a new version with a slew of bug fixes.
D @ Premier
It is called in the normal avaiation field, Lawn-Darts!!
That kind of reasoning does not fit this issue.
When you are provided a powerful tool for no cost under the condition that you don't fund the creation of a competing tool based on that technology you are not at the whim of someone's goodwill. When they approached OSDL and said you have a employee doing this (reverse engineering our technology), please have them stop and OSDL says it's not our problem.
Its not like they all of the sudden started says hey OSDL/Linus you now need to start paying for this since you like it. They said we are giving you free access to our tool but you have staff that are now striking at our revenue line, which happens to be how we fund this tool you like. Please have them stop and we will continue to provide this tool.
When you still thumb your nose at the company who has employees to support and revenue to generate you are only putting them under the gun.
So based on this evidence you can see this isn't a RS versus Linus issue versus a OSDL taking responsibility issue. If OSDL came back to the table and said Ok, mea culpa, we will make this right then the problem wouldn't be there.
Make Sense?
Those who were hired to replace those who sacked the fired the sacked person have now been sacked and replaced by a flock of technocolor llama's!!!
Just another prime example of someone who doesn't know or bother to check the facts. They see Dan Rathersky or Petrovich Jennings on the news and assume that they know it all.
check the facts before you open your arrogant hole!
But you have to consider ET to be the crowning achievement, it had a good plot, and a good story and led Drew Barrymore to a future marriage with Tom Green. Well, two out of three isn't bad.
It wasn't even a nuke, it was a F/A-18 caring a AMRAAM missle that detonated in the energy plume.
I have to admit I am big General Motors buyer, but this has to be one of the most original ways to make a statement about a motor company.
What do you expect, you call it a stacked deck when they want people who have security clearances to verify there system. As a government contractor who has built secure systems I wouldn't want just anyone poking through my boxes to see what makes them tick. That is only a prudent measure. By having clearances they have an absolute measure of who that person is. It's not some big black helicopters in the sky conspiracy! Deal with it!