My city of 150K has a dozen sales tax districts and four zip codes. Now multiply that by every city and town in the US. Think it is going to be that easy to figure out?

The states with more burdensome tax code do have a problem with getting retailers to open up new stores.

Look fucktard, the planet is slowing dieing, and people like you are hurrying about the process. We have rice crops failing in Asia, fish stocks are dwindling, coral is bleaching out, and in general the oceans are becoming polluted acid mess. This is no exaggeration.

It was pain to pull my iPhone3 out of my pocket, size has nothing to do with it. Now that I am entering my 40's and on the verge of needing bifocals, a larger screen is almost a necessity. Being able to glance at my wrist when a notification comes in is nice.

Frosted glass windows in the office barely let me know if it is sunny out. Today it is 47 degrees, last week it was 70. Knowing if I need to grab a jacket when I head out to lunch is nice.

how can you make meaningful changes if you do not measure what you are changing? Fitbits and the like are great at measuring exercise, then one can have a useful set of data when one makes changes to their habits. For me doing little things like parking further away and using the Bathroom on the far side of the building instead of the one that is 20 feet away has made a difference.

It is also nice to get notifications on my wrist instead of being that annoying guy whose phone chimes all the time.

Most debit cards are backed by Visa/Mastercard, so you still have the protections. Go with a good bank, or more likely credit union, and get the same redeemable points.

Unless it is government, then they charge the individual the fee.

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Some dogs never get over the death of a beloved owner.

Actually reports I have read, say they believe one of the shooters is an employee who had left earlier in the day due to an argument. that surely sounds like a disgruntled employee to me.

Mandrake, the company, made some bad business decisions. They brought in some American MBA's and started branching into some stupid directions like E-learning.

The new nooks are just Samsung tablets with some Nook software. So whatever you could do with the base Samsung table you can still do.

The reason to buy the nook tablet, is a) cheaper or b) for the non-tech savy: lifetime support.

Unless you bought a Nexus device, most of the issues you mention are the fault of the Vendors and the carriers, not Google.

It depends on the school. When I lived in the Midwest and Northeast, were the typical institutional meals- burgers and chicken nuggets, and pizza made from cardboard. In Louisiana, they had real southern cooking in schools. There can be good meals in public schools, but most places do not do it.

There is also the issue that some people have a gene, that if expressed, makes broccoli taste bad. For me, eating broccoli is like eating moldy food. I am just not going to eat broccoli no matter how hungry I am.

As far as Okra, try it fried or with stewed tomatoes.

Yeah, what of all the Carrier and Vendor pre-installed crap. It all sits right there next to the Google apps. No one uses them because they are crap.

I remember an old phone (Infuse I think) where there was an AT&T map application that required some monthly fee to use. Who would use that when there was Google Maps sitting right next to it. I ended up using Waze instead.

Look at what the industry was like 10 years ago. You paid out the nose for a custom ring tone. Remember those locked in app stores? Google's insistence on forcing the vendors to install their stuff is why there is an open market today.

CorelDraw (and the companion app) were really nice programs. There was even a version proted to Linux back in the day. Problem was, they were not Photoshop. Does not matter how good the program is, it does not have the UI of Photoshop so people complain.

You want a Vendor supplied knowledge base? You mean like http://rhn.redhat.com/ ? Satellite, Puppet, or Chef can all automate and remote administrate machines. I am not aware of remote scanning for Linux, but not really needed if you enable SElinux.

None of this is available for cheap home use. If you want cheap, go do a web search for a solution to your problem.