In message <200505302101.j4UL1PBl025252@...>, at 16:04:38 on Mon, 30 May 2005, "James S. Huggins (cyberia)" <Cyberia@...> writes ... ...
Roland Perry
roland@...
Jun 1, 2005 11:53 am
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Hi Folks: A question popped into my mind the other day. First, the proposition. The LEC fiber to premises and cable company hfc plants both have a problem that...
Richard Berkley
richardberkley@...
Jun 1, 2005 3:29 pm
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From the "Selling It" column in the July 2005 Consumer Reports. Spend Some Scratch, Buy an Itch "I used Google to find out what the medical term 'pruritic'...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
Jun 3, 2005 9:08 pm
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Is phishing illegal? Is phishing illegal when done by a large corporation? http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050602/16145.html The WPF investigation identified 96...
Sean Donelan
sean@...
Jun 4, 2005 5:18 am
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... Scary stuff. The cited article is scary enough. But what is even scarier to me is actual phishing - fraudulent sites whose sole purpose is to get your...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
Jun 4, 2005 8:07 am
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... For those of you who haven't read the article yet, it involves all the scams going on right now that revolve around the FTC's requirement that the credit...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
Jun 4, 2005 5:49 pm
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Porn sites to get their own Internet domain By Andy SullivanThu Jun 2, 7:38 PM ET Sex sites will soon be able to sign up for Web addresses in the .xxx Internet...
Randall
rvh40@...
Jun 6, 2005 9:21 pm
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Can anybody (Chris?) give me a quick explanation of what's happening with the FCC rule whose name I've forgotten that requires ILECs to sell to competitors? ...
Randall
rvh40@...
Jun 7, 2005 9:24 pm
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This afternoon I received a takedown notice for a website. The notice was pertaining to a website I don't run, don't control, and have no affiliation with at...
Robert A. Hayden
rhayden@...
Jun 7, 2005 10:21 pm
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Randall, The rules have changed a great deal. "Line sharing" still exists in the form of one competing phone company purchasing the right to use an entire...
Chris Savage
chris.savage@...
Jun 8, 2005 11:04 am
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... From Cybertelecom: If someone sends a notice to the provider, knowing that the notice is a material misrepresentation, resulting in the wrongful removed of...
Robert Cannon
rcannon101@...
Jun 8, 2005 7:59 pm
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CHINA REQUIRES REGISTRATION FOR BLOGGERS BEIJING, CHINA -- The Chinese government has instructed all bloggers to register their sites and list the individuals...
Randall
rvh40@...
Jun 10, 2005 10:51 pm
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Microsoft joins hands with Yahoo!, Google to censor China's web Mon Jun 13, 3:57 AM ET Users of Microsoft's new China-based Internet portal have been blocked ...
Randall
rvh40@...
Jun 13, 2005 6:34 pm
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... There has to be a way around this - say some sort or anonymous relay or proxy system. If not already, shouldn't be all that hard to develop. -- ... The...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061401490_pf.html Calif. Court Rules Borders Owed Sales Taxes on Online Purchases By Mike...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
Jun 15, 2005 9:10 pm
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FCC investigates phone, Net subsidy fund By Marguerite Reardon http://news.com.com/FCC+investigates+phone%2C+Net+subsidy+fund/2100-1037_3-5748428.html Story...
Randall
rvh40@...
Jun 15, 2005 10:36 pm
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... The answer then is to run an online sales company out of a state that has an extremely low sales tax. Or, maybe even get a setup where they can skip sales...
Bruce Hayden
bhayden@...
Jun 16, 2005 12:25 am
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... Or zero sales tax rate... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@... & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301)...
David Lesher
wb8foz@...
Jun 16, 2005 3:54 am
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... The answer IS NOT to run the company out of the state with the lowest sales tax. The answer is to run the company out of the state with the lowest...
JFN
jfnbl@...
Jun 16, 2005 6:52 am
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... This may partially explain something - When Fruit of the Loom's 23,000 jobs got NAFTAed away from a little place halfway up in the hills of rural...
Randall
rvh40@...
Jun 16, 2005 1:41 pm
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... What I don't understand is that Amazon.com and every other big e-tailer I've dealt with, never seem to charge sales tax to anyone, even people in those...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
Jun 16, 2005 2:36 pm
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Guess I was wrong. Amazon does charge sales tax on purchases shipped to Kansas, North Dakota and Washington. And here's an interesting tidbit: "For sales tax...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
Jun 16, 2005 2:42 pm
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Data regarding FDIC employees was lost or stolen over a year ago and some employees have had fraudulent loans taken out in their name. The FDIC is just now...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
Jun 16, 2005 4:01 pm
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... Maybe if I wasn't so cynical I'd suspect it something other than the same reason those jobs got NAFTA'd. They didn't need uppity white folks used to things...
JFN
jfnbl@...
Jun 16, 2005 4:27 pm
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For anyone with any experience advising freelancers: I'm curious about the best methods to deal with, guard against, maverick clients making changes to the...
Reese
reeza@...
Jun 16, 2005 5:45 pm
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John Noble asks below, "Can somebody offer a good argument for why there should be a sales tax when you buy the new Harry Potter title from Bob's Books on Main...
Tom W. Bell
tbell@...
Jun 16, 2005 8:14 pm
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... Does that mean that internet retailers simply require fewer government services as a whole, or that they are receiving more services from the Federal...
Stephen T. Middlebrook
Stephen.Middlebrook@...
Jun 16, 2005 8:43 pm
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The question is not really the amount of government services consumed by *retailers*. Recall that consumers (in theory) pay sales and use taxes for the...
Tom W. Bell
tbell@...
Jun 16, 2005 10:06 pm
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Okay, but I don't think it gets you very far after you apportion the sales tax revenue between the cost imposed by Alan's trip to the mall, and the common...