Aloha- Eric's comments on GET are great, although a little different from my own pov.
Regarding GET out-of-state exemptions, "True, true." I've benefited from them and I see at least one reason for them- to 'incentivize' bringing mainland money here. But I'd still argue for a full consultant GET exemption to make local-local dealing bloom- for example language consultants providing translation services to hotels would have more left to spend on local IT providers who offer websites, who'd have more money to spend on local Linux consultants who help setup services (of which a few are on this list). But I'm also no economist, so let me stick what I know. Thanks for noting that language services are also a clean industry- we help people communicate, much like network consultants do. After attending today's HALT/TESOL (Hawaii Language Teachers) conference- I'd like to note that we are very tech oriented, for both distance education and local media lab stuff. (Perhaps Warren's work at Mid-Pac has been used by language teachers?) Just $0.02. Shameless plug: http://www.asialanguage.com/ocelot Best wishes- Rod G ______________________________________________________________ Roderick A. Gammon, Ph.D. - Specializing in Chinese Languages and Language Technology