Re: Slashdot | Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:54 AM 08/26/2003 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: I don't get it -- exactly what do they think they would be taxing? 9% of what? The bits and bytes that flow thru? The owners already paid a sales tax on the hardware, or is this like a yearly property tax? Bizarre! The standard joke about

Re: Slashdot | Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs (fwd)

2003-08-26 Thread Jim Dixon
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: I don't get it -- exactly what do they think they would be taxing? 9% of what? The bits and bytes that flow thru? The owners already paid a sales tax on the hardware, or is this like a yearly property tax? Bizarre! A bit tax has been proposed in

Re: Slashdot | Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs (fwd)

2003-08-26 Thread Harmon Seaver
I don't get it -- exactly what do they think they would be taxing? 9% of what? The bits and bytes that flow thru? The owners already paid a sales tax on the hardware, or is this like a yearly property tax? Bizarre! On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:35:47PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:

Re: Slashdot | Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs (fwd)

2003-08-26 Thread Sunder
Yes, they'll tax 9% of the packets. This means that out of 100 packets, only 91 of them will go to other hosts, the other 9 packets must be routed to the FL tax board in the form of ICMP ECHO requests. However, be advised that if you have ever lived or thought about living in Florida, this tax

Re: Slashdot | Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs (fwd)

2003-08-26 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:16:32PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: I don't get it -- exactly what do they think they would be taxing? 9% of what? The bits and bytes that flow thru? The owners already paid a sales tax on the hardware, or is this like a