Bravo! You defined Trump for what he is. A shallow opportunist who really cannot relate to the man who works at a job and needs his wife's salary to make ends meet.
I don't think the Republicans were the ones responsible for suspending an account that pointed out the two faced nature of the Democratic candidate. I also don't think it was the commie Bernie. Maybe you need to look a little closer to home, either the Which herself or #WarlockBubba.
Sanders is not a commie. You don't have him suggesting overthrow of your corrupted government. A government where $ buys the congress, and where it's fuck the people.
Is your job or your neighbours still in the USA or has it left for parts unknown? Your future lies in India, Malaysia, Burma, China, Philippines, Mexico, Latin America..... When Universities become "For profit" institutions, quality education suffers. Americans cannot compete with universities that provide quality Education as a priority. Want a good education, go to Europe, Canada, or almost any country outside of the USA. I bet your total cost for your degree will be lower than your cost to do the same degree within Continental USA. In that total cost, I include university, housing and food, medical insurance, and cost of living.
Just because he's an asshole doesn't mean he's not telling the truth.It could just mean that he's finally free to say what he should have been saying when he was director.
Do we really need to go to Mars, now that we know how to go to the moon. What minerals have been returned, or hotels constructed for long term stay. And then the question is: "Can we use the moon as a garbage dump?"
The only benefit of moon flights is the development of technology.
That's odd, because my laptop's SSD is four years old and still has plenty of usable life left - and it's from a middle-line vendor, from the early SATA3 days, so it's not even a particularly good SSD. The hard drive in the same laptop (dual-bay) is actually reporting as closer to failure. Maybe that's because it's a laptop, so it suffers more vibration and temperature variation, which is harder on hard drives than solid-state.
And the rest of your bitching seems to be based more on shoddy cloud hosts than SSDs, or on badly-configured servers. "SSDs are too fast, they bring down the entire system by filling up RAM"... wouldn't that be true of hard drives as well, IF they could transfer data that quickly?
In winter, if I left the laptop in the car overnight, the SSD works immediately on power-on and at -20C. The hard disk won't spin at that same temperature.
The world will probably keep using spinning rust until purchase price (not TCO) on SSDs is lower. I wouldn't be surprised if makers went back to 5.25 x half height, and low spindle speeds. It would still permit large throughput with high density, but seeks would be slower. Not a big deal with enough caching in front of them, and/or with enough disks in an array. As SSDs approach HDD price, they will take up more of the workloads that actually have to be fast anyway.
SSDs for manufacturers are now below 1.8 times the price of hard-disks. And SSDs allow for thinner lighter laptops, desktops and even some tablets. There are some newer technologies coming for SSDs, to make it even cheaper than HDs. (mass production, no motors, no read/write heads, etc.)
Yes it is a calamity. There are certainly flocks of birds, caught in that gas, and killed, and there are seniors who, if they could relocate far enough away from the leak, were ok, but others who had whiffs of that gas were less fortunate. Ask the hospitals close to the leaking site.
Do you suppose the hearing loss is due to wax buildup and to dryness? I am a senior. I noted that seniors are more prone to be limiting their water intake. They cut water consumption to the minimum so as to not pee at night or have a "pee urge" that does not give them enough time to reach a toilet to void before.... Body dryness may contribute to hearing loss and possibly some eye problems.
They are custom-fitted, high precision medical devices that as such are also subjected to intense regulatory and lawsuit considerations. If you want to stick a cone of paper in your ear and save a few bucks go ahead, but you'll look like a moron. There is also a lot of testing that is involved with selecting an appropriate hearing assist device.
The fact is, that hearing aids are simple audio amplifiers with a filter after the microphone. The filter is designed to allow the audio frequencies that the user finds weak. Typically there is a boost of the midrange and treble. In newer earphones, this boost or cut is programmable. Better hearing aids use silver oxide or lithium batteries for long life. Some earphones are in-ear, while others are at the earlobe with a fine sound tube to transfer the sound to the eardrum. From what I have seen, three types, in-ear, external ear-fit and behind-the-ear with fine lead to an ear insert.
No reason to pay $5,000 for the last one indicated. We need that just as we can purchase frames and lenses from a few internet based companies that are 3x less expensive than the optician shop.
The wealthy person with the big toy airplane and the bullying insulting demeanor will be on his knees asking the IRS for time to steal the money from the investors to pay off the IRS debt, so that this wealthy person can keep his gravy train. Which wealthy person am I describing.
One argument in favor of unlocking phones was given by a government agent. He stated that the government could go into your safety deposit box as part of an investigation. They can drill the lock, or use a bank passkey, along with the second key that the clerk uses.
However, the safety box has limited exposure. The government opening one box does not reduce the privacy of the adjacent box.
If Apple can unlock their model phone or provide a backdoor to the encryption algorithm, then so can all criminals. Apple will be out of business.
My conjecture is that AES encryption is easily hackable, given Intel integrated AES instructions into the CPU hardware, and that is why it was chosen over the blowfish or twofish algorithms. With Intel's AES cpu integrated instructions, encryption/decryption is more than 20 times faster than it would be otherwise, and substantially faster and easier for the government to discover the key than if the data was encrypted with blowfish.
I have a Triplex home. My son and his wife live on the third floor, my wife and I on the second, and on the main floor, my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. We share in all the expenses.
Because we do many consolidated small grocery purchases, we find it convenient to use cash. We also frequent some smaller stores where its cash only. These small shops have a propitiatory ATM at the door. These machines limit withdraws to $20.00 and charges can run up to 20%. We buy for cash at that bakery and at a local fruit and vegetable outlet. The bank's head office has asked us why we are using cash. They want to know if it is black money, or undeclared tips or whatever. We explained that its from three families and not always the exact same money on the same days. (Different paydays for different folks).
Bank fees are high for cheque cashing. That and another reason why we use cash and do not use pre-authorized payments. If we are a day late, with a direct withdraw bill payment, there is a $40.00 NSF processing fee. For example, our electric bill is infrequently paid just after the due date. Cash payment saves that $40.00 ding as a NSF fee. (We do have separate chequing and savings accounts, where chequing is kept low to prevent potential fraud).
We are probably the exception to be living as three families in one building and concentrating on Cash transactions.
I can't see why they'd want to chase away customers, so I'll guess it's the FCC that's still lying.
That's an incorrect presumption. It's not that they want to chase away customers, it's that to hit that checkmark to be able to sell hardware, they need to lock down the radio. Easiest cheapest way for them to do so? Lock the entire item down, or source a more expensive separate radio controller. I guess we know which way they went.
If you had a facility to have your modification of dd-wrt or successor certified with an appropriate digital signature, then you should be allowed to install that software on your own device. Perhaps you would like that kind of device without a bios chip or operating system. Where there is a legal affordable way to solve a problem, there is no obstruction.
McAfee is clearly off his rocker. The only person or persons who he could expect to socially engineer his way through are dead.
He is not. In fact, initially he does not need the terrorist's phone. He just purchases one or two similar models, that have the same electronics, and figures out what he needs to have done using those devices. Once his solution works with the substitutes, he just has to tackle the actual device.
100% agree, This statement appears to be based on the assumption that criminals are too stupid to implement their own one-time pad encryption system. 100% secure encryption has been possible for hundreds of years... criminals only use commercially available solutions because they are easily available, cheap, and easy. I also get a "methinks the maiden doth protest too much" feeling regarding all the whining about Apple not unlocking a phone for the FBI. If the NSA already had a way of unlocking iPhones, wouldn't they being doing everything in their power to convince criminals it was 100% secure? Lure them into a false sense of security then monitor all their data via a remote hack would be the fed's wet dream.
I two hundred percent disagree. There are many devices that can encrypt voice in realtime before it hits the cellphone. Just use the phone or device to make connection, use the encrypted message (Latin American patents use aes with one-time-keys) to encrypt the voice before it leaves an unencrypted link to a receiving phone. Listen as you wish, but with bidirectional conversation taking place using AES and with one-time-keys, this method is as secure as having an encrypted phone. One could say that the terrorists could have used encryption a;pmg with a pair of disposable phones that you can pick up for $40.00 almost anywhere.
In the future, let NSA provide the encryption module as a compatibile binary module to the cellphone or other communication product vendors. There algorithm is unknown, the responsibility to protect financial institutions, governments, police would rely on their own with the consequences if the method of breaking the encryption was discovered.
If the cellphone was built like a tpm, then opening the cover would also destroy the contents when power is next applied.
LOL, oh yeah... who built them? What's that you say, Capitalists who didn't give a damn about anything but their bottom line?
Companies make 'em and sell 'em, chances are the average consumer isn't even aware of the issue... and your "market" doesn't give a damn, because it's built on the idea of short term benefit.
Sorry, but I refuse to believe corporations would do this without some external impetus. Assuming rational consumers making good choices based on perfect information? Yeah, the unicorns really work there.
I think this is a BS problem. Cellphones need 5volts. To have 5v, and have isolation, you need a step-down transformer and a switching dc converter power chip or a potentially more dangerous direct connect switching power source alone. If you opt for the dollar store power charger, these use a switching dc supply converter, often, one side (wire) of these devices is directly connected to the power line, These latter devices are very efficient, matching on-time to cell phone battery demand. To be safe, the direct wire is supposed to be the ground lead. But be sure your source is properly wired.
Want to improve efficiency? Charge your cellphone with a solar device. Are you a hobbiest? You could make one from three garden night-lights.
In Montreal, winter arrived two weeks later than the year to year arrivals of 50 years ago. Same lateness as last year. We used to get two to 3 weeks of -20C (0F-5F) from the beginning starting end December until around around Feb 20. No more. Ski hills are closed, This past January has been the warmest ever. My home heating bill is half the cost for the same period last year and lower than it was 8 years ago.
As somebody who is very heavily opposed to communism and socialism, I'm interested in seeing the results of UBI (which is neither communism nor socialism, rather just a form of welfare) however I wouldn't want it anywhere I plan to live anytime soon, because it's one of those things where once you have it, it's practically impossible to take away, no matter what kinds of problems it creates or doesn't actually solve.
You offer no advantages to starving and restricting health/legal access to the poor. Your method increases the crime rate, as people who have nothing, will do anything to survive.
A person on the production line doesn't have a well endowed 491K. You know what it's like, food, medicine, rent money has to be juggled.
I too am opposed to communism, where the state owns it all. Democratic socialism is what makes a world class country.
An interesting experiment, to be sure, and I'm glad that someone has the money to try it out.
It's hard to know until you're actually in the situation, of course, but I think that if I had a minimum income in addition to what I make now, I'd drop down to working part time and spend the balance volunteering and pursuing music again.
What separates the men from the boys, is the cost of their toys. Provide a way, with a fixed income, to have some discretionary money for a toy. (cellphone,used car...)
1 sq. inch (sectional area) of cheap steel can support 36,000 lbs in tension without yielding.
A 1 inch cube of steel weighs 0.29 lbs and can support 36,000 lbs, so that's 124,000 times!
This raises a red flag that whoever wrote this doesn't really get mechanics.
Interesting topic.
Canada would vote Sanders in with a landslide majority. Republicans want Donald Duckish. Managing a TV show is not like managing a country. You can't delegate away responsibility.
Hand tools put some people out of business. Domesticated farm animals put people out of business. Steam powered machinery, calculating machines. Literally every tool ever invented has cut out menial jobs and increased worker productivity. And we are better for it.
The social workers and the like that have analysed the impact of AI all agree. The standard work-week is most likely to drop from 37.5 hrs to 25 hrs, roughly 3 days of 8.5hrs max. With the leisure time, new leisure time industries will develop in Education, entertainment, and sports. There is also likely to be an increased birth-rate. One area where AI or other automation will show benefit is in the medical field. Doctors will find their work weeks to centre around 25 hrs work or two shifts of 13.00 hrs. There was no thoughts given to wars, land disputes and other kinds of conflicts. Noone could say how the religious groups will tolerate each other.
Now we get to see what the Republican-controlled House does. Surely they hate taxes too...
So lets see now. Before, your in-store purchases provided tax revenue that the state used for roads and infrastructure. Other parts of that tax would cover public housing and some essential services. Now, the senators have said, No internet taxes. Does that mean that the state has to raise sales tax, or impose sales taxes on items previously untaxed, such as food? Look to your electric and gas bills to have taxes incremented. I believe that the internet tax should be for the destination address of an item. If the item is destined to non-USA site, no taxes are applicable. What we may also see is a jack-up of the selling price to allow the seller to cover taxes assessed by states.
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Bravo! You defined Trump for what he is. A shallow opportunist who really cannot relate to the man who works at a job and needs his wife's salary to make ends meet.
Finger prints and criminal records are shared, as well as the dna. So what else is missing? "Bad breath?"
I don't think the Republicans were the ones responsible for suspending an account that pointed out the two faced nature of the Democratic candidate. I also don't think it was the commie Bernie. Maybe you need to look a little closer to home, either the Which herself or #WarlockBubba.
Sanders is not a commie. You don't have him suggesting overthrow of your corrupted government. A government where $ buys the congress, and where it's fuck the people.
Is your job or your neighbours still in the USA or has it left for parts unknown? Your future lies in India, Malaysia, Burma, China, Philippines, Mexico, Latin America.....
When Universities become "For profit" institutions, quality education suffers. Americans cannot compete with universities that provide quality Education as a priority. Want a good education, go to Europe, Canada, or almost any country outside of the USA. I bet your total cost for your degree will be lower than your cost to do the same degree within Continental USA. In that total cost, I include university, housing and food, medical insurance, and cost of living.
Just because he's an asshole doesn't mean he's not telling the truth.It could just mean that he's finally free to say what he should have been saying when he was director.
Do we really need to go to Mars, now that we know how to go to the moon. What minerals have been returned, or hotels constructed for long term stay.
And then the question is: "Can we use the moon as a garbage dump?"
The only benefit of moon flights is the development of technology.
That's odd, because my laptop's SSD is four years old and still has plenty of usable life left - and it's from a middle-line vendor, from the early SATA3 days, so it's not even a particularly good SSD. The hard drive in the same laptop (dual-bay) is actually reporting as closer to failure. Maybe that's because it's a laptop, so it suffers more vibration and temperature variation, which is harder on hard drives than solid-state.
And the rest of your bitching seems to be based more on shoddy cloud hosts than SSDs, or on badly-configured servers. "SSDs are too fast, they bring down the entire system by filling up RAM"... wouldn't that be true of hard drives as well, IF they could transfer data that quickly?
In winter, if I left the laptop in the car overnight, the SSD works immediately on power-on and at -20C. The hard disk won't spin at that same temperature.
The world will probably keep using spinning rust until purchase price (not TCO) on SSDs is lower. I wouldn't be surprised if makers went back to 5.25 x half height, and low spindle speeds. It would still permit large throughput with high density, but seeks would be slower. Not a big deal with enough caching in front of them, and/or with enough disks in an array. As SSDs approach HDD price, they will take up more of the workloads that actually have to be fast anyway.
SSDs for manufacturers are now below 1.8 times the price of hard-disks. And SSDs allow for thinner lighter laptops, desktops and even some tablets. There are some newer technologies coming for SSDs, to make it even cheaper than HDs. (mass production, no motors, no read/write heads, etc.)
Yes it is a calamity. There are certainly flocks of birds, caught in that gas, and killed, and there are seniors who, if they could relocate far enough away from the leak, were ok, but others who had whiffs of that gas were less fortunate. Ask the hospitals close to the leaking site.
Do you suppose the hearing loss is due to wax buildup and to dryness? I am a senior. I noted that seniors are more prone to be limiting their water intake. They cut water consumption to the minimum so as to not pee at night or have a "pee urge" that does not give them enough time to reach a toilet to void before ....
Body dryness may contribute to hearing loss and possibly some eye problems.
They are custom-fitted, high precision medical devices that as such are also subjected to intense regulatory and lawsuit considerations. If you want to stick a cone of paper in your ear and save a few bucks go ahead, but you'll look like a moron. There is also a lot of testing that is involved with selecting an appropriate hearing assist device.
The fact is, that hearing aids are simple audio amplifiers with a filter after the microphone. The filter is designed to allow the audio frequencies that the user finds weak. Typically there is a boost of the midrange and treble. In newer earphones, this boost or cut is programmable.
Better hearing aids use silver oxide or lithium batteries for long life. Some earphones are in-ear, while others are at the earlobe with a fine sound tube to transfer the sound to the eardrum. From what I have seen, three types, in-ear, external ear-fit and behind-the-ear with fine lead to an ear insert.
No reason to pay $5,000 for the last one indicated. We need that just as we can purchase frames and lenses from a few internet based companies that are 3x less expensive than the optician shop.
The wealthy person with the big toy airplane and the bullying insulting demeanor will be on his knees asking the IRS for time to steal the money from the investors to pay off the IRS debt, so that this wealthy person can keep his gravy train.
Which wealthy person am I describing.
One argument in favor of unlocking phones was given by a government agent. He stated that the government could go into your safety deposit box as part of an investigation. They can drill the lock, or use a bank passkey, along with the second key that the clerk uses.
However, the safety box has limited exposure. The government opening one box does not reduce the privacy of the adjacent box.
If Apple can unlock their model phone or provide a backdoor to the encryption algorithm, then so can all criminals. Apple will be out of business.
My conjecture is that AES encryption is easily hackable, given Intel integrated AES instructions into the CPU hardware, and that is why it was chosen over the blowfish or twofish algorithms. With Intel's AES cpu integrated instructions, encryption/decryption is more than 20 times faster than it would be otherwise, and substantially faster and easier for the government to discover the key than if the data was encrypted with blowfish.
I have a Triplex home. My son and his wife live on the third floor, my wife and I on the second, and on the main floor, my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. We share in all the expenses.
Because we do many consolidated small grocery purchases, we find it convenient to use cash. We also frequent some smaller stores where its cash only. These small shops have a propitiatory ATM at the door. These machines limit withdraws to $20.00 and charges can run up to 20%. We buy for cash at that bakery and at a local fruit and vegetable outlet. The bank's head office has asked us why we are using cash. They want to know if it is black money, or undeclared tips or whatever. We explained that its from three families and not always the exact same money on the same days. (Different paydays for different folks).
Bank fees are high for cheque cashing. That and another reason why we use cash and do not use pre-authorized payments. If we are a day late, with a direct withdraw bill payment, there is a $40.00 NSF processing fee. For example, our electric bill is infrequently paid just after the due date. Cash payment saves that $40.00 ding as a NSF fee. (We do have separate chequing and savings accounts, where chequing is kept low to prevent potential fraud).
We are probably the exception to be living as three families in one building and concentrating on Cash transactions.
Can anyone state a reason why Yahoo still exists? Do they do anything at all that isn't done better by someone else?
They should have gone bust back around 2003. They're certainly on the road to bankruptcy; it's just taking a painfully long time.
I like their email product. I have used other web services, but I like the KISS approach, and it works for me.
I can't see why they'd want to chase away customers, so I'll guess it's the FCC that's still lying.
That's an incorrect presumption. It's not that they want to chase away customers, it's that to hit that checkmark to be able to sell hardware, they need to lock down the radio. Easiest cheapest way for them to do so? Lock the entire item down, or source a more expensive separate radio controller. I guess we know which way they went.
If you had a facility to have your modification of dd-wrt or successor certified with an appropriate digital signature, then you should be allowed to install that software on your own device. Perhaps you would like that kind of device without a bios chip or operating system. Where there is a legal affordable way to solve a problem, there is no obstruction.
McAfee is clearly off his rocker. The only person or persons who he could expect to socially engineer his way through are dead.
He is not. In fact, initially he does not need the terrorist's phone. He just purchases one or two similar models, that have the same electronics, and figures out what he needs to have done using those devices. Once his solution works with the substitutes, he just has to tackle the actual device.
100% agree, This statement appears to be based on the assumption that criminals are too stupid to implement their own one-time pad encryption system. 100% secure encryption has been possible for hundreds of years... criminals only use commercially available solutions because they are easily available, cheap, and easy. I also get a "methinks the maiden doth protest too much" feeling regarding all the whining about Apple not unlocking a phone for the FBI. If the NSA already had a way of unlocking iPhones, wouldn't they being doing everything in their power to convince criminals it was 100% secure? Lure them into a false sense of security then monitor all their data via a remote hack would be the fed's wet dream.
I two hundred percent disagree. There are many devices that can encrypt voice in realtime before it hits the cellphone. Just use the phone or device to make connection, use the encrypted message (Latin American patents use aes with one-time-keys) to encrypt the voice before it leaves an unencrypted link to a receiving phone. Listen as you wish, but with bidirectional conversation taking place using AES and with one-time-keys, this method is as secure as having an encrypted phone. One could say that the terrorists could have used encryption a;pmg with a pair of disposable phones that you can pick up for $40.00 almost anywhere.
In the future, let NSA provide the encryption module as a compatibile binary module to the cellphone or other communication product vendors.
There algorithm is unknown, the responsibility to protect financial institutions, governments, police would rely on their own with the consequences if the method of breaking the encryption was discovered.
If the cellphone was built like a tpm, then opening the cover would also destroy the contents when power is next applied.
A revolution? Fuck, a revolution is what got them into that shit, you really think you can motivate them to try again?
I thought it was the USA that interfered in the overthrow and the putting of the Shah on the throne, later to be overthrown.
LOL, oh yeah ... who built them? What's that you say, Capitalists who didn't give a damn about anything but their bottom line?
Companies make 'em and sell 'em, chances are the average consumer isn't even aware of the issue ... and your "market" doesn't give a damn, because it's built on the idea of short term benefit.
Sorry, but I refuse to believe corporations would do this without some external impetus. Assuming rational consumers making good choices based on perfect information? Yeah, the unicorns really work there.
I think this is a BS problem. Cellphones need 5volts. To have 5v, and have isolation, you need a step-down transformer and a switching dc converter power chip or a potentially more dangerous direct connect switching power source alone.
If you opt for the dollar store power charger, these use a switching dc supply converter, often, one side (wire) of these devices is directly connected to the power line, These latter devices are very efficient, matching on-time to cell phone battery demand. To be safe, the direct wire is supposed to be the ground lead. But be sure your source is properly wired.
Want to improve efficiency? Charge your cellphone with a solar device.
Are you a hobbiest? You could make one from three garden night-lights.
Here in Michigan- it's been a fine spring so far!
In Montreal, winter arrived two weeks later than the year to year arrivals of 50 years ago. Same lateness as last year. We used to get two to 3 weeks of -20C (0F-5F) from the beginning starting end December until around around Feb 20. No more. Ski hills are closed, This past January has been the warmest ever. My home heating bill is half the cost for the same period last year and lower than it was 8 years ago.
Yes, its getting warmer every year.
As somebody who is very heavily opposed to communism and socialism, I'm interested in seeing the results of UBI (which is neither communism nor socialism, rather just a form of welfare) however I wouldn't want it anywhere I plan to live anytime soon, because it's one of those things where once you have it, it's practically impossible to take away, no matter what kinds of problems it creates or doesn't actually solve.
You offer no advantages to starving and restricting health/legal access to the poor. Your method increases the crime rate, as people who have nothing, will do anything to survive.
A person on the production line doesn't have a well endowed 491K. You know what it's like, food, medicine, rent money has to be juggled.
I too am opposed to communism, where the state owns it all. Democratic socialism is what makes a world class country.
An interesting experiment, to be sure, and I'm glad that someone has the money to try it out.
It's hard to know until you're actually in the situation, of course, but I think that if I had a minimum income in addition to what I make now, I'd drop down to working part time and spend the balance volunteering and pursuing music again.
What separates the men from the boys, is the cost of their toys. Provide a way, with a fixed income, to have some discretionary money for a toy. (cellphone,used car...)
What the fuck does that mean?
1 sq. inch (sectional area) of cheap steel can support 36,000 lbs in tension without yielding.
A 1 inch cube of steel weighs 0.29 lbs and can support 36,000 lbs, so that's 124,000 times!
This raises a red flag that whoever wrote this doesn't really get mechanics.
Interesting topic.
Canada would vote Sanders in with a landslide majority. Republicans want Donald Duckish. Managing a TV show is not like managing a country. You can't delegate away responsibility.
Hand tools put some people out of business. Domesticated farm animals put people out of business. Steam powered machinery, calculating machines. Literally every tool ever invented has cut out menial jobs and increased worker productivity. And we are better for it.
The social workers and the like that have analysed the impact of AI all agree. The standard work-week is most likely to drop from 37.5 hrs to 25 hrs, roughly 3 days of 8.5hrs max.
With the leisure time, new leisure time industries will develop in Education, entertainment, and sports. There is also likely to be an increased birth-rate.
One area where AI or other automation will show benefit is in the medical field. Doctors will find their work weeks to centre around 25 hrs work or two shifts of 13.00 hrs.
There was no thoughts given to wars, land disputes and other kinds of conflicts. Noone could say how the religious groups will tolerate each other.
Now we get to see what the Republican-controlled House does. Surely they hate taxes too...
So lets see now. Before, your in-store purchases provided tax revenue that the state used for roads and infrastructure. Other parts of that tax would cover public housing and some essential services.
Now, the senators have said, No internet taxes. Does that mean that the state has to raise sales tax, or impose sales taxes on items previously untaxed, such as food? Look to your electric and gas bills to have taxes incremented.
I believe that the internet tax should be for the destination address of an item. If the item is destined to non-USA site, no taxes are applicable.
What we may also see is a jack-up of the selling price to allow the seller to cover taxes assessed by states.