I should have said, "Stop speaking like a misogynist"

Stop being a misogynist.

Yea, it's too bad someone hasn't invented a device or method for storing and retrieving data... :P
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Each state could be help responsible for creating a table of taxes based on location (GPS, zipcode, street address, etc).
The table would be in a standard format, and could be made available from the state's website.

Each entity that wishes to do business in that state could access that table. If a particular state doesn't make that tax data available, then - the business has no responsibility to collect tax for that state.

Just a few seconds too late...

Dane-geld
(A.D. 980-1016)

IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
        To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
        Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
        And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
        And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
        To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
        We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
        But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
        You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
        For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
        You will find it better policy to says:—

“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
        No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
        And the nation that plays it is lost!”

a Cone of Silence

I'd mod you up if I could

Okay, so it was right after Christmas 2009. My girlfriend was in Germany visiting her family, and I was stuck here in the states. It was too expensive to call her directly, so I bought a calling card and we'd use that to talk.

Anyway, it was right after the underwear bomber thing, and she was telling me about how much crap she had to go through at the airport because she took too much shampoo.

I said, "The whole liquid thing is stupid because there's an easy, way to get around it, all you have to do is ..."

Right then, I heard a woman with a thick accent firmly exclaim, "Nein!" - and the phone went click and we were disconnected.

I kinda freaked, but I called her right back and told her what happened, which totally freaked her out. She hadn't heard the woman say "Nein!" and was worried that I was going to be getting a visit. I wanted to test fate and try telling her again, but I figured not to push my luck.

No one showed up at my house, and I've flown all over the place since then without any problems.

Anyway ... so now I assume that people (or machines) are ALWAYS listening

If there's a timestamp on the submission, and the NYT's ISP has records of IP's connecting - then it starts getting easier to track back. Maybe something like TOR could help obfuscate the submitter, but I don't know enough about that stuff to say if there's even "right" way to do it...

Would the NYT keep the submitter anonymous at all costs, and if not wouldn't this just become a honeypot for the US (or any) government?

http://www.voicedoctor.net/surgery/fem_lar.html

http://www.voicedoctor.net/media/cases/pitch/FemLarTH_75/FemLarTH_75.html

I don't think it's even the Y chromosome, it's the the SRY gene (which is _usually_ located on the Y Chromosome) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRY

but - there are XX males. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

context baby, context

- apparently some people understand what that is, but apparently you don't

The data doesn't need to be massaged to show that