"Haven't seen you since the lube job"
The title of the last entry is from an episode of a show I only recently started to watch again. Actually the show The Family Guy only started in re-runs fairly recently so it wasn't really my fault. This line was from the character, Peter Griffin, he was drunk or something and telling jokes. At least I think that's what it was. Can't remember. The Family Guy is actually quite a wonderful show and very under rated. You can now find it Monday night through Thursday night at 11:30pm on cartoon network. And that line is very funny. Not to mention accurate :-).
And in the breaking news section...
Two hits! I received two hits in 24 hours! Wuhoo! One of them was from the "General Electric Company" domain at 5 in the morning. Now why would someone at General Electric Company be looking at my blog at 5am? Why would anyone be reading any blog at all never mind at 5 in the morning? Who reads blogs at 5am in the first place? Am I the only one wondering this sort of thing?
Tonight I watched an episode of Whose Line is it Anyway? with Richard Simmons as a guest star. I don't think I have ever seen a studio audience or Drew Carey laugh quite as hard as in this episode. I've never seen anyone act quite that gay on that show either. There's a lot of mock-homosexuality on that show ya see. But usually it's the cast members merely acting trying to get a laugh or whatever. Only Simmons was a little more convincing. Because he is gay obviously. The way he acted though it was extremely funny. Lets just say he was a little enthused.
So to update on my computer situation I think I have it either mostly or completely solved the problem with the high temperatures. First I should mention there's a new link at the left labed "my puter" that will link to a list of images I took of, you know, my 'puter. As you may have noticed the fan is in the wrong spot. Well I haven't changed that part actually but I did turn it around to it was blow into the case. And look the idle temperature has dropped by 6 degrees to between 47 and 50 Celsius. I suppose I should have guessed that that's the way it should have faced. I bet I didn't even need the new heat sync. But if I ever move the fan to the right position directly over the cpu I’m sure the cpu will be cool enough I can over-clock it. And isn't that what we all want? No? I guess the processor is only $100 these days, online that is. At CompUSA for example it's only about $170 at the time of this writing. Add sales tax to this and I'm still wondering why anyone would be go into a CompUSA and buy that processor. I guess if wanted a professional to install it than it would make sense. But if you're buying a processor by itself wouldn't you know how to install it? Well you should. So even if the stupid legislature bastards actually try to pass a sales tax (no, this isn't constitutional, and yes, I'm sure) on Internet sales it will still be cheaper to buy off the Internet. I'm not exactly sure why there is such a discrepancy in prices. Internet sales tax, something to rant about!
Now you may be saying something like "how can an Internet sales tax be unconstitutional, there was no Internet 1776" or even "why shouldn't the Internet be taxed? After all it's only fair to quote level-the-playing-field unquote so why shouldn't there be an Internet sales tax?". Well I have answers to both these statements or questions.
First of all an "Internet sale" isn't really any different than any other sale if you really look at it. All you're doing is typing in your credit card number into a computer and sending this information over phone lines to another computer which then clears it with your account or whatever it is and the company on the other mails the product to you. If you were to say, oh I don't know, order something from a catalog or off home shopping channel you would pick up the phone, use the phone lines to communicate your credit card number over the phone lines to a person on the other end who then enters this into a computer, is cleared with your account and the product is shipped to you. Or...you go to say a computer store and pick out some software, you go to the register and take out your credit card, swipe it, sign off on the purchase and wait for it to go through. By transmitting over phone lines. To your bank to clear it with your account. Sound familiar? But transactions via catalog or home shopping network don't have sales tax if you're buying an item out of your state (so far as I know). So why pass an Internet sales tax?
Second, on the "leveling the playing field" front, this is not a valid a contradiction as it's I think merely a euphemism for socialism. Maybe it isn't fair CompUSA has to compete with sales tax while all those Internet sites don't have to. But then CompUSA (and I'm only using this national chain as an example) has lots of advantages over the Internet sellers not to mention the options of doing both by either creating their own online brand or partnering with an already established online retailer they can have both worlds. Besides which "leveling" any playing field would only work to stifle competition which is the whole advantage these days.
Lastly this is unconstitutional because in the constitution there is a specific clause about regulating the trade between states, as in congress shall not do it. And as demonstrated above if your trying to charge sales tax on a transaction across state lines you are in fact breaking the law. Of course constitutions haven't seemed to slow politicians down lately, nor have much of any laws for that matter. I can't link to the exact place in the constitution at the moment as it is 1 in the morning and I'm a little tired. A simple google search will however yield you the results of what I am looking for.
