A fool and his money are soon parted..

[Torvald Von Mansee]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2...d_base_connect

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2...d_base_connect

Sounds like any political party in the US. Money always goes down the rat hole first. Picking the correct rat hole is the game.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

Sounds like any political party in the US. Money always goes down the rat hole first. Picking the correct rat hole is the game.

My preferred rat hole is Amazon.com, at least that way I get something back besides rat droppings.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

My preferred rat hole is Amazon.com, at least that way I get something back besides rat droppings.

Amazon will soon be a rat hole also.

In response to recent legislation in Colorado (HB 10-1193), Amazon.com has sent a letter to its affiliates in Colorado informing them that the on-line sales giant will no longer be advertising through businesses in the state that that make money by referring buyers.

The final bill, which was signed into law in February, instead required large online retailors to start collecting sales taxes or provide a summary of people's web purchases in the state.

[ETR3(SS)]

Got a source for that quote?

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

Got a source for that quote?

This isn't my original source but it will give you the general idea. If you google Colorado (HB 10-1193), you can read much more.

http://www.blogher.com/amazon-associ...93-youre-fired

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

Sounds like any political party in the US. Money always goes down the rat hole first. Picking the correct rat hole is the game.

You need to understand something: When MY party does it it's for the benefit of mankind. When THEIR party does it it's dirty, underhanded and deserving of ridicule. There are a lot of one-sided folks around here.

Shoot first, think later. Of course the latter usually never happens, but there it is.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

Amazon will soon be a rat hole also.

In response to recent legislation in Colorado (HB 10-1193), Amazon.com has sent a letter to its affiliates in Colorado informing them that the on-line sales giant will no longer be advertising through businesses in the state that that make money by referring buyers.

The final bill, which was signed into law in February, instead required large online retailors to start collecting sales taxes or provide a summary of people's web purchases in the state.

Eh, so what? Even if I had to start paying sales tax on stuff at Amazon, I will probably still find things cheaper there AND without spending hours of wasted time and energy plus extra gasoline driving all over the place trying to buy something that isn't available from a local retailer no matter how much tax I'd be paying on it here.

I've actually paid slightly more for some things purchased through Amazon than I might have paid at a local Wal-mart, sales tax included, simply because it was worth it to avoid trekking all over creation trying to find the one store that had that specific item in stock.

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Eh, so what? Even if I had to start paying sales tax on stuff at Amazon, I will probably still find things cheaper there AND without spending hours of wasted time and energy plus extra gasoline driving all over the place trying to buy something that isn't available from a local retailer no matter how much tax I'd be paying on it here.

I've actually paid slightly more for some things purchased through Amazon than I might have paid at a local Wal-mart, sales tax included, simply because it was worth it to avoid trekking all over creation trying to find the one store that had that specific item in stock.

Well put. I spend thousands a year there without a hitch.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Well put. I spend thousands a year there without a hitch.

I have the same complaint about Amazon that I have about my local guitar store: Too much stuff I want, and not enough monies!

[UnderseaLcpl]

And fraud is funny to you, TvM? Why?

And fraud is funny to you, TvM? Why?

If it was fraud it would be against the law.

[SteamWake]

Wow PAC's get their money through donations, shocking. At least the money was 'given' and not 'taken'.

Other stimulus expenditures listed are $554,000 to replace windows in a closed National Park Service visitor center that has no plans to be re-opened; $1.9 million to study exotic ants; $298,543 to study weather conditions on other planets; $199,862 to help Siberians lobby Russian policymakers; $71,623 to study how monkeys react to cocaine; and $712,883 for researchers at Northwestern University to develop a joke machine.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/po...-99940564.html

A joke machine

[ETR3(SS)]

Hey, don't under estimate the power of a joke!

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

If it was fraud it would be against the law.

That would only be true if fraud was against the law. It depends upon how you define fraud, and nowhere is that more true than in the justice system.