Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:55:03 -0800, Joerg
Archimedes' Lever wrote:
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Yes, you are probably right, John has described the procedure. Looks
like I have to mail-order a hard drive from Newegg or some other place.
Came back from a client yesterday and stopped at three stores. Two of
them had shut down (!). No dice.
You have no "Office Depot" stores?
I went there on Tuesday. It has become an empty parking lot :-(
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1296418/kb_toys_bankruptcy_drives_store_closings.html
near the bottom of the page.
Yep :-(
And that won't be the end of the saga. The lil' PC assembler across the
street from a client was the other place I stopped by Tuesday night.
Gone as well. There is some kind of furniture dealer in there now ...
Thieves can make money anywhere.
We have large stores going out of business left and right here. Yet
there are some really stupid developments going on, like a brand new
gigantic mall in Folsom, close to Intel. It just does not make any sense
to me at all.
In this area there are tons of empty strip malls while others are
still being built. People don't want to shop in dilapidated
buildings. They want nice, bright, clean (and large) surroundings
and are willing to pay for it.
Oh, and now the dems here try to skirt voter decisions again. Through
some shenanigans they try to dodge the 2/3 majority rule and want to
impose major tax hikes. Like a 3% source withholding from contractors
(like me). That is IMHO highly illegal because you can't tax gross
income if you don't know how much the guy spent on materials. I hope
that stuff suffocates in the courts. Else this will drive biz out of
California. Guess it's time to crack out the Places Rated book again.
VT was going to change from a property+income tax to a "gross
receipts" tax, which would do exactly what you say. Such things
certainly would help vertically integrated companies. Grocery
stores (1% margin) wouldn't like it much. The weenies didn't get
their way last time, but they never give up.
