• (cs)

    Da dah, da dah da da. I am your singing telegram--

    BLAM!

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to TheCPUWizard
    TheCPUWizard:
    Two problems with that thought...
    1. The site is registered to a company in PA, not TX [I know this is not conclusive]
    The "contact us" page shows headquarters in the "Dallas area" (Plano is near Dallas), and "Austin".
    2) In many states the laws have been updated from "physical presence" to "business presence". The act of targeting advertising, holding specials, etc for a specific state may trigger the requirement to COLLECT. [note: in nearly every state, the purchaser is still required to DIRECTLY pay sales tax if the vendor does not collect it!!!]
    But this is for a gift-card redemption for either a subscription service, or for virtual items in the game. Would sales tax apply?
  • pallen (unregistered)

    s/Whoa/Holy Error'd/

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Induce Me
    Induce Me:
    Zach:
    Tables with over 100,000,000 records <> WTF.

    Hand-selecting 100k rows in a GUI does.

    If the GUI has a mechanism that makes selection of large recordsets easy (e.g. some region where you click to select everything in the table, etc.), then I still fail to see the WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Marc B
    Marc B:
    I dearly remember the great font shortage of '98. It got so bad that one day, the only font I had was Times New Roman. And no bold or italic - certainly no bold italic.

    It was a rough three weeks.

    Ahh, yes, back in the good ol' days when time ran slower.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Isn't the catch phrase "Holy <insert whatever situational comment you'd like> Batman!"? Today is the first time I'd ever heard of "Whoa, Batman!".

    Obviously you've never ridden a horse named Batman.

  • JJ (unregistered) in reply to Marc B
    Marc B:
    It's simple, really - you're supposed to enter your phone numbers using roman numerals, as in:

    876-5309 = DCCCLXXVI-MMMMMCCCIX

    I bet you were pretty upset when you called that wrong number and didn't get Jenny....
  • Jellineck (unregistered) in reply to JJ
    JJ:
    Marc B:
    It's simple, really - you're supposed to enter your phone numbers using roman numerals, as in:

    876-5309 = DCCCLXXVI-MMMMMCCCIX

    I bet you were pretty upset when you called that wrong number and didn't get Jenny....

    I think he was expecting Iennia.

  • (cs)

    My grandfather always used to say you should never ask a man where he's from. If he's from Texas, he'll tell you even if you don't ask. And if he's not from Texas, you don't want to embarrass him.

  • Marc B (unregistered) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    Marc B:
    I dearly remember the great font shortage of '98. It got so bad that one day, the only font I had was Times New Roman. And no bold or italic - certainly no bold italic.

    It was a rough three weeks.

    Ahh, yes, back in the good ol' days when time ran slower.

    It was just that one day was really bad. The remaining 20 days I also had Comic Sans MS and Georgia. And sometimes italics worked.

  • Marc B (unregistered) in reply to JJ
    JJ:
    Marc B:
    It's simple, really - you're supposed to enter your phone numbers using roman numerals, as in:

    876-5309 = DCCCLXXVI-MMMMMCCCIX

    I bet you were pretty upset when you called that wrong number and didn't get Jenny....
    Do you know how difficult it is to dial a number in Roman Numerals? I kept dialing DCCLXXVI-MMMMCCCIX and getting the wrong number.
  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Batman
    Batman:
    […] In fact the sales tax rate here is 8.25% but 1% of that only applies if the purchaser is in the same county as the business (and Texas has hundreds of counties), otherwise it's only 7.25%.
    Hmm? 99% of 8.25% is 8.1675%…
  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Quirkafleeg
    Quirkafleeg:
    Batman:
    […] In fact the sales tax rate here is 8.25% but 1% of that only applies if the purchaser is in the same county as the business (and Texas has hundreds of counties), otherwise it's only 7.25%.
    Hmm? 99% of 8.25% is 8.1675%…

    Are you being obtuse? His phrasing was wrong, but his meaning was clear: the county tax is 1% of the purchase price, not 1% of the sales tax. A 0.0825% tax is a ridiculous notion.

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to Izhido

    "Have you stopped to think, for a while, how many technologic AND cultural breakthroughs had to occur in history..."

    Yes, mostly when I'm thinking about the technological breakthrough that hasn't happened: all this shit is still hokey and broken as all hell.

    All I want is what people take for granted on sci-fi, technology that just works without a huge amount of hassle.

  • Riker (unregistered) in reply to Ben
    Ben:
    All I want is what people take for granted on sci-fi, technology that just works without a huge amount of hassle.
    Yeah, but they've been to Starfleet Academy. You think you can just walk on to the Enterprise with no training whatsoever, start clicking everything in sight, and nothing's gonna blow up?
  • validus (unregistered) in reply to Mark

    lern2humour

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to Riker
    You think you can just walk on to the Enterprise with no training whatsoever, start clicking everything in sight, and nothing's gonna blow up?

    Granted stuff could blow up, but then the bridge of a starship in the future seems to have an awful lot of heavy duty power conduits for a room that ought to be nothing more than an armored box with a bunch of workstations.

    But I'm thinking of the smaller stuff. Like doors (armored bulkheads, really) that open smoothly and quickly, every time. Or communicators that can patch into an orbiting starship by pressing a button. Or a voice-controlled computer that can read your email (none of which is spam) while you get coffee in the morning.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Isn't the catch phrase "Holy <insert whatever situational comment you'd like> Batman!"? Today is the first time I'd ever heard of "Whoa, Batman!".

    That's a Keanu Reeves line from the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Batventure", after Bill & Ted get a look at the bat-doobie Batman rolls (and then proceeds to bogart... or whatever you kids call it these days).

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    My grandfather always used to say you should never ask a man where he's from. If he's from Texas, he'll tell you even if you don't ask. And if he's not from Texas, you don't want to embarrass him.
    But he was from Texas and knew no better.
  • (cs)

    Steers, and "Other".

  • (cs)

    "The page count is kind of depressing,"

    Why? When you type in Hebrew you should know it types backwards.

  • Arenlor (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.

    I'd have to assume that since they sold it to you, yes.

  • VictorSierraGolf (unregistered)

    TRWTF is "Deutsche Agentur für Arbeit". right?

  • Cliff notes anyone (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.

    I agree with one thing. People in Texzas definitely do have a mind of their own; Created by God about 2000 years ago.

  • Clev (unregistered)
    Ben:
    Or a voice-controlled computer that can read your email (none of which is spam) while you get coffee in the morning.

    There's no spam because they blacklisted all of the mail servers located in the Ferengi territories.

  • Some Guy (unregistered) in reply to Batman
    Batman:
    California has more people than any other state, has 10.25% sales tax as well as a state income tax (Texas does not) and they're still going broke. It's got to be (in part) from all the Internet sales they're not seeing anything from.
    No, that's because they can increase spending if it's a sunny day or a politician wants to buy some votes, but can only legally increase taxes every alternate leap ice age.
  • marke (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.

    and why? because they are located in texas and have different tax rules (being in the state)

  • (cs)

    Actually Kinko's is affected by font shortages -- specifically the shortage of fonts included with customers' files. When I worked there we had constant issues with the art students at the college down the road -- their professors told them "Kinko's can print Quark files" but neglected to tell them "Don't forget to take your fonts with you or embed them". We had a lot of tearful students with final projects due in 20 minutes every semester.

    I hear these days they're moving to a "PDF or forget it" production model -- which still has occasional embedding issues, since some fonts are marked "do not embed" and Adobe's products respect that.

  • (cs)

    Why redact the city if you're going to leave the zip code visible?

  • (cs)
    "Now, being a native Texan, this is how 'I' feel," Brian writes, "Apparently, some web developers agree."

    Does "Brian" always use scare quotes when he talks about himself?

  • anon2 (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.

    It would appear to be related to taxes. I note that the company involved has offices in Plano, Texas and Austin, Texas - which means they are probably responsible for paying sales taxes in those 2 cities, and also for the state sales taxes in Texas.

    Or, maybe they just don't recognize the value of the other states? Never can tell... ;-)

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Bumble Bee Tuna
    Bumble Bee Tuna:
    "Now, being a native Texan, this is how 'I' feel," Brian writes, "Apparently, some web developers agree."

    Does "Brian" always use scare quotes when he talks about himself?

    WTF is a "scare" quote? Did you just make that up? Was that a scare quote because I put "scare" in quotes? WTF are you talking about?

  • Amos (unregistered) in reply to Induce Me
    Induce Me:
    Zach:
    Tables with over 100,000,000 records <> WTF.

    Hand-selecting 100k rows in a GUI does.

    Even hand selecting in the GUI, while somewhat inefficient, isn't the WTF. Attempting to delete 100,000,000 rows with the gui, on the other hand, is. I hope he has lots of log space for that commit. I'm not sure if he is trying to delete specific rows or everything. If the later, a truncate would be a better choice.

    I have tables with over 3 biiilllllion (holds pinky to lip) rows, so color me unimpressed with a measly 100 mil.

  • foxyshadis (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Bumble Bee Tuna:
    "Now, being a native Texan, this is how 'I' feel," Brian writes, "Apparently, some web developers agree."

    Does "Brian" always use scare quotes when he talks about himself?

    WTF is a "scare" quote? Did you just make that up? Was that a scare quote because I put "scare" in quotes? WTF are you talking about?
    How about show a little initiative? Or how about just looking the term up on Google.

    fu akismet, not every post with a link is spam. This is ridiculous. Oh well, stripping the link. Thanks, Alex.

  • gif (unregistered) in reply to Induce Me

    So... How do you know the gui didn't allow for a filter? Or a selection of "all rows"?

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.

    To be fair, there are times when this is relevant. Certain taxes on purchases only apply if you also reside in the state of the business, and so forth. I don't know the exact context here, but it looks like proper implementation to me.

  • Zetor (unregistered) in reply to Amos

    That's a display bug in pgadmin. Open any table, select two rows, hit delete -> it'll display a ridiculous number of rows. It'll still only delete the ones you actually selected, though.

  • doggitydogs (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that the city is blacked out but not the ZIP code. From the ZIP code 98001, we can conclude that the city is Auburn, WA.

  • Stephen (unregistered) in reply to alegr
    alegr:
    Median property tax in CA is 0.5%. In TX is about 2%.
    True, but the same house will cost you less than a quarter as much in Texas as in California, we have a much lower sales tax, and we have no state income tax, so we come out way ahead.
    alegr:
    On the other hand, like 30% of TX budget comes from federal funds.
    Texas gets less federal funds than its residents pay in federal taxes, unlike most red states. Also, most functions that other states handle directly, Texas pushes down to local entities with their own taxes, so your statistic is misleading.
  • Stephen (unregistered) in reply to Batman
    Batman:
    And I've owned a business in Texas that did e-Commerce. Indeed the deal is that if the person doing the purchasing is in Texas then you have to collect sales tax, otherwise you don't. In fact the sales tax rate here is 8.25% but 1% of that only applies if the purchaser is in the same county as the business (and Texas has hundreds of counties), otherwise it's only 7.25%.
    If that's how you calculated it, you were committing tax fraud.

    Texas state sales tax is 6.25%. Municipalities can add up to 2%, and transit authorities can add up to 1%, to a maximum of 8.25%. For mail-order businesses, the applicable tax rate is that at the receiver's location, not the shipper's--and figuring out the correct value can be a nightmare even if you know the street address. For instance, I grew up in an area with a Houston postal address; we didn't actually live in the City of Houston, but we did live within Houston Metro Transit's boundaries--and folks a few blocks down the street didn't.

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