The Hounds of Zeus  

Go Back   The Hounds of Zeus > General > Main Forum
Xbox Leaderboard FAQ Members List Calendar Today's Posts

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Old 03-24-2007, 11:22 AM   #1
Gambit
Forum wh0re
 
Gambit's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: DFW area, TX
Posts: 744
Send a message via ICQ to Gambit Send a message via AIM to Gambit Send a message via Yahoo to Gambit
Default Gryph's mail order hobby

... just got a little more expensive.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/...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
__________________
XMEN member
Card-carrying DTM
OKL Fish-napper


Though a program be but three lines long,
someday it will have to be maintained.
-The Tao of Programming
Gambit is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-24-2007, 07:07 PM   #2
Cerberus
One bad mofo'n Hound
 
Cerberus's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Your Mom's House
Age: 47
Posts: 1,319
Default

Thank God I got an Oregon Drivers License!
Cerberus is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-26-2007, 12:49 PM   #3
Ghryphen
THZ Founder
 
Ghryphen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: WA, USA
Age: 50
Posts: 3,927
Default

Sucks :/
Ghryphen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-26-2007, 01:22 PM   #4
Raiyven
Big Bad Thread Boogeyman
 
Raiyven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Burlington, ON.
Age: 42
Posts: 406
Send a message via ICQ to Raiyven Send a message via MSN to Raiyven
Default

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


"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."

- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)



Last edited by Raiyven; 03-26-2007 at 01:28 PM.
Raiyven is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-26-2007, 04:10 PM   #5
Stang
Team Captain
 
Stang's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Everett, WA, USA
Age: 50
Posts: 3,859
Send a message via ICQ to Stang Send a message via AIM to Stang
Default

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 .
__________________
Stang is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-26-2007, 08:48 PM   #6
Raiyven
Big Bad Thread Boogeyman
 
Raiyven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Burlington, ON.
Age: 42
Posts: 406
Send a message via ICQ to Raiyven Send a message via MSN to Raiyven
Default

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'
__________________


"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."

- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)


Raiyven is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-27-2007, 04:04 PM   #7
Stang
Team Captain
 
Stang's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Everett, WA, USA
Age: 50
Posts: 3,859
Send a message via ICQ to Stang Send a message via AIM to Stang
Default

__________________
Stang is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 07:35 AM   #8
Raiyven
Big Bad Thread Boogeyman
 
Raiyven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Burlington, ON.
Age: 42
Posts: 406
Send a message via ICQ to Raiyven Send a message via MSN to Raiyven
Default

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
__________________


"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."

- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)


Raiyven is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 08:02 AM   #9
LoS-NutzholzWolf
Forum Regular
 
LoS-NutzholzWolf's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Columbus, Oh
Age: 40
Posts: 123
Send a message via AIM to LoS-NutzholzWolf Send a message via MSN to LoS-NutzholzWolf
Default

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

"Republican Ideology advanced the concept of 'civic virtue' - the idea that democracy depended on the unselfish commitment of each citizen to the public good." from The Brief American Pageant 6st edition
LoS-NutzholzWolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 08:50 AM   #10
Raiyven
Big Bad Thread Boogeyman
 
Raiyven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Burlington, ON.
Age: 42
Posts: 406
Send a message via ICQ to Raiyven Send a message via MSN to Raiyven
Default

Curse you and your logic, Nutz!

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!!
__________________


"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."

- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)



Last edited by Raiyven; 03-28-2007 at 08:55 AM.
Raiyven is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 09:30 AM   #11
Ghryphen
THZ Founder
 
Ghryphen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: WA, USA
Age: 50
Posts: 3,927
Default

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
Ghryphen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 10:30 AM   #12
Raiyven
Big Bad Thread Boogeyman
 
Raiyven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Burlington, ON.
Age: 42
Posts: 406
Send a message via ICQ to Raiyven Send a message via MSN to Raiyven
Default

This whole thing is just making me catty:

__________________


"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."

- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)


Raiyven is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 12:58 PM   #13
Ghryphen
THZ Founder
 
Ghryphen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: WA, USA
Age: 50
Posts: 3,927
Default

Ghryphen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 04:20 PM   #14
Stang
Team Captain
 
Stang's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Everett, WA, USA
Age: 50
Posts: 3,859
Send a message via ICQ to Stang Send a message via AIM to Stang
Default

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.
__________________
Stang is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-28-2007, 07:47 PM   #15
Raiyven
Big Bad Thread Boogeyman
 
Raiyven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Burlington, ON.
Age: 42
Posts: 406
Send a message via ICQ to Raiyven Send a message via MSN to Raiyven
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stang View Post
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'
__________________


"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."

- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)


Raiyven is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
my longest lasting hobby yak Artists Niche 19 09-28-2004 06:04 AM
Decided to talk a bit about my *other* hobby XRogue Artists Niche 11 07-23-2002 05:42 AM
Gryph's Cam Ravok99 Main Forum 5 06-10-2002 04:18 PM
[THZ] You've Got Mail Ghryphen News 0 09-29-2000 10:23 AM
[THZ] THZ Mail Ghryphen News 0 09-28-2000 10:23 AM


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 11:58 AM.




Since
April 6, 1999
The Hounds of Zeus Logo and all original content Copyright © 1999 - Gryphon, LLC All rights reserved.
vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft
Have a nice day!