Gryph's mail order hobby

[Gambit]

... just got a little more expensive.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/03/23/ap3546068.html


Sorry, dude. Could be worse, though... Asha's probably up for ID theft any time now:
http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_081194211.html

[Cerberus]

Thank God I got an Oregon Drivers License!

[Ghryphen]

Sucks :/

[Raiyven]

Wait, how does Stang feel about having you get married to... oh. Oh wait, that's an O. I need glasses. :D

[Stang]

Ya that bill is a bunch of crap.

That makes me want to move down to Oregon :).

What? Married? Who? Must be missing something. Must be having a blonde moment ;).

[Raiyven]

Heh I was bleary-eyed (without my pot o coffee) and the first time I read it, I thought it said 'Gryph's mail order hubby'

[Stang]

:lol

[Raiyven]

I don't know anything about programming, but it seems to me that implementing something to track purchases and tax them accordingly would be an almost pyrrhic task... honestly! It'd have more holes than my socks. If someone's IP is misread they could be taxed incorrectly, leading to blahblahblah. *sigh* :(

They're trying to clog up the tubes of the internets

[LoS-NutzholzWolf]

All they had to do was look at where the credit card bill is sent too or the mailing address.

[Raiyven]

Curse you and your logic, Nutz! :D

I dunno, I still have issues with it. I can see how it could want to be implemented insofar as its a transaction taking place between me in Ontario and, say, Billy Bob in Alabama, and as such the transaction would be subject to taxation seeing as how the seller and purchaser are in regions with their own tax laws. But at the same time, in my mind, the parties are regionalized but the transaction itself is taking place in the politically null space of the internet, unless the server or whatnot through which the transaction takes place (say, wherever the paypal server is. Lets say its in South Park, Colorado) is a politically-recognized entity because of its location and as such whatever transaction takes place on that server is subject to the tax laws of wherever that server is.

My brain hurts!!

[Ghryphen]

Yeah, they tax you on where your CC billing address is usually. Will have to have my bills sent to my dad and he can forward them up to me :D

[Raiyven]

This whole thing is just making me catty:

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/1161154607937.jpg

[Ghryphen]

:lol

[Stang]

Doesnt our state also tax you on gambling online? Just a bunch of greedy politicians in this state or stupid ones.

They were trying to get a law passed here, don't know whatever happened with it, to make it so if your married and you don't have a kid within 2 years of being married then your marriage is dissolved. Wth?! Forcing people to have kids? Ya thats a great way to bring kids into this world.

[Gambit]

There's a lot of stupid laws on the books.

Surprisingly, there's even *more* stupid bills that didn't quite make it.

[Raiyven]

They were trying to get a law passed here, don't know whatever happened with it, to make it so if your married and you don't have a kid within 2 years of being married then your marriage is dissolved.

Something like that sounds like a forceful, desperate stop-gap measure to prevent an aging state and gap in the workforce by the time the majority of its inhabitants are of retirement age.

Reminds me more of the natalist policies of Germany under the NSDAP, '33 and onward. While this was to replace those who had died in WWI and also to fill out Europe under the idea of Lebensraum, the parallels are... unparalleled?

What they *dont* count on is the ease of couples saying, 'gently caress you, Mr State, I'm moving to Disneyland' ;)

[Ghryphen]

Doesnt our state also tax you on gambling online? Just a bunch of greedy politicians in this state or stupid ones.

No, they made online gambling illegal :ugh

[Stang]

Ahh thats right I knew I wasnt right but couldnt remember what it was about gambling.

[Aluscia]

http://www.dropline.net/cats/images/Breadcat.jpg

Just to sum up the awesomeness of legislation, http://www.dropline.net/cats/images/fail.jpg

[Ghryphen]

Hehe Aluscia :lol


*The images didn't like hot linking, need to copy paste them

[Raiyven]

Just to sum up the awesomeness of legislation

I was more thinking:

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/chomp_plech.jpg