Amazon has lashed out against my home state of Connecticut, cutting all their affiliates in the state, because Connecticut told Amazon to play fair. While local merchants are required to collect and pay state taxes, Amazon was happily undercutting them online, using its affiliates as mules to deliver some of those sales. The state recently — Continue reading »
Handling Illegal Workers Problem
📆 May 30, 2011
This is a perfect example (link at bottom) of how the illegal immigration problem should be handled. Charge the businesses that hire them. These businesses not only hurt the nation but also abuse the illegal workers themselves. What's there to be gained by arresting and detaining a bunch of illegals? These people don't have much — Continue reading »
Amazon.com and Pedophilia
📆 November 12, 2010
First amazon.com accepts a book that apparently promotes, or at least condones, pedophilia (I haven't read the book, nor do I plan to). Then basks in the publicity as complaints begin to pour in and the media covers the story ad-nauseum. Then it stokes the flames more by hiding behind the first amendment, realizing that — Continue reading »
Oracle Collects on Sun
📆 August 13, 2010
Back when Oracle acquired Sun, you really didn't think that it was going to continue with the free open source model, did you? Of course not. This is Oracle, and Oracle is all about business. It has expensive products and even more expensive support and maintenance terms. And if someone like SAP starts to offer — Continue reading »
Sympathy for BP
📆 June 17, 2010
Is it just me or does the BP boss, Tony Hayward, has one of those faces you feel sorry for? I know, no compassion for BP, but watching the man squirm before the congressional hearing today, I almost felt bad for him. Ok, enough sympathy. Now let's get that Gulf gusher plugged, shall we? — Continue reading »
Class Action Beneficiaries
📆 March 30, 2010
I received the notice below informing me that I'm a part of the AT&T DSL class action lawsuit. Lucky me. by choosing to stay in the class action, I could receive a whopping $2 in 6 months after filling out and mailing a form to AT&T. This is so beyond stupidity, it's not even laughable. — Continue reading »
Amazon Vs. Internet Sales Tax
📆 June 30, 2009
As an Amazon Associate (you can see the banners even on this page), I have been following the spat between Amazon and the cash-strapped states that are legislating Internet sales taxes. The states argue that Amazon Associates in their jurisdictions are tantamount to company branches constituting presence and therefore any sales made to their residents — Continue reading »
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