Speaking as a lawyer . . .

"in court" is the catch.

*which* court?

There isn't a court in the country with jurisdiction to prosecute "he sped somewhere in some jurisdiction." A court needs to convict for a specified violation within it's own jurisdiction. An acknowledgment that means a crime was committed *somewhere* that *might* have been in that jurisdiction isn't sufficient to convict.

hawk, esq.

>Collecting sales tax on behalf of the states has
>been proposed, but some states don't collect sales
>tax and again, it probably would be struck down as
>unconstitutional based on state's rights to collect
>the tax.

Speaking as a lawyer . . .

you're just plain wrong on this.

The Supreme Court has made it clear that while states cannot force out of state entities to collect sales tax for them, it is for Congress to find a solution. It is not that states *cannot* tax the purchases, but that they cannot tax *out of state* entities. Congress indisputably has the power to handle the issue.

hawk, esq.

The solution has been obvious for more than a decade.

Each zipcode gets a tax rate. If it crosses jurisdictional lines, either the jurisdictions resolve the split between themselves, or it stays in trust until a court resolves the split.

This is a *very* small array for an electronic report.

The company writes a single check, with a monthly electronic report breaking it down by zip code.

Well, Fluffy *had* caught a record-setting number of mice about the plant recently . . .

hawk

Nah, it's well established.

I regularly get sent things that only need me to provide my card number, social security number, and date of birth to confirm my information.

The exiled Chief's widow has friends in Russia that are helping get my money back . . .

hawk

three-tier laws in most states were not to protect the distributors, but to protect against out of state manufacturers controlling the industry.

Still a protection of local interests, but not quite the one it looks like . . .

doc hawk

More commonly, the shift key moved the bank of keys to change which would hit, rather than moving the platen.

That combination was already used by EMACS . . .

hawk

It's also worth noting that MS was *NOT* the originator of MS-DOS; they bought it after selling it to IBM.

Also worth noting that ctrl-alt-del was a hardware feature, not an ms-dos feature. Built in by IBM.

MS-DOS simply ignored it and didn't prevent the restart.

>The Apple 2 series had a very similar button
>sequence (open-apple, control, reset), which actually
>did soft reboot the machine without confirmation.

Those were the later ones.

Initially there was a reset button that dropped you to the monitor. There was a well-known mod to require another key.

Eventually, the control key was required; I forget when that started (the //e? I don't think it was the plus, but it's, ahh, been a while)

You could get back into BASIC with esc-b or some such.

Compucolor had a "CPU reset" button on the keyboard. I knew someone whose cat walked up his arm, curled around his neck to snooze for half an hour, and walked down the other arm, stepping on the key . . . he didn't know that there was a similar sequence, and lost something like an hour's work.

For that matter, until the IBM PC, almost everything had *something* you could just push to restart; IBM got a lot of flack over this.

When they cut off a finger to see how long it works, let me know . . .

hawk

>OS on SSD f

Or ZFS on BSD . . .

[*duck*]

hawk

That's what I did with MOO2--played it for a day or two, and went back to (and still play) MOO . . .(never even stuck MOO3 into the drive).

hawk

During my exile in Pennsylvania, I had to deal with their summer road construction method: shut down all of the lanes that you hope to work on over the summer at the very beginning, then work on them sparingly.

Anyway, they had signs with what was supposed to look like a child's handwriting saying, "Please slow down. My Daddy works here."

I wanted to load the van with signs to put next to these in the empty construction zones saying, "Please work. My Daddy drives here."

hawk, who didn't at the time think of the Mommy variant [the state had both], I supposed I'd need a "Please hold a sign. My daddy drives here."

California used to have Illegal Alien Crossing signs; I don't know if they still do.

hawk