10,000% sales tax, equally outrageous registration fees, tolls at roads entering the state, etc.

And that is the inherent goal here. Republicans hate California because its success undermines the validity of their politics.

⦠when they are not in power, and then when they are in power, they raise them.

Or attempting to control them?

Given that Apple is apparently :roll_eyes: spending $500,000,000,000 to build a single plant in the US, your max signed integer is going to reduce their cost to $1,783,793,896, a savings of 99.64%! However I doubt Apple will be happy with this number either.

It came to my address.

Thank you! I will now dust off my AmEx and use that for anything remotely risky. Having bought something shipped from China that came as an empty package, I first tried PayPal (boy was that stupid of me!) and then Discover Card. Both said that since there was a tracking number, my claim was denied. I pushed harder on the latter (their card says that I have been a cardholder since 1989), and they ended up crediting me the charge as an act of "loyalty", meaning the fraudster in China still got away with it.

Of course that wouldn't explain the one-third going against the grain.

Please note the complete lack of contrition.

"Dumbfucks"

I agree that you are a snob (it's ok, I am too). But would you force people to watch content they aren't interested in?

And if it was just included in normal taxation schemes (income/sales/etc), it would save the government substantial money in collection and enforcement.

Just having read this.

I am convinced that my cat comes and stands guard when I am peeing, because I am in a vulnerable state.

Why do so many neo-Luddites read (make that "post") on Slashdot, a site built around new technologies and innovations? Are they paid shills?