I don't know if I'd want to know that, unless I asked. Is it just there, or do you have to request it?
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 21, 2006 10:43:18 am PDT #1523 of 10001
What is even happening?
Kristen - Oct 21, 2006 10:48:47 am PDT #1524 of 10001
It's just there. It appears after you've hit apply. "28% share your education. 9% share your experience."
What does that even mean?
JenP - Oct 21, 2006 1:55:52 pm PDT #1525 of 10001
The Guiding Light news makes me laugh and laugh. I don't follow GL. I may have to tape a few just to see. Har.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 21, 2006 5:50:48 pm PDT #1526 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If you ask me, most soaps would be improved by the occasional appearance of murderous Doombots.
Jesse - Oct 21, 2006 6:28:17 pm PDT #1527 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, that GL news is hilarious.
Is this the Project Greenlight thread? Because I just saw an ad for Feast on DVD.
libkitty - Oct 21, 2006 7:22:24 pm PDT #1528 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I was unaware that there was such a thing as tobacco smuggling but it intrigues me.
Tobacco smuggling is pretty big in Alaska, at least in some areas. We have pretty high tobacco taxes I hear, although I don't pay that much attention to the rate because I don't smoke.
BartlebyFink - Oct 22, 2006 6:31:15 am PDT #1529 of 10001
One Hot Burrito!
I used to post here.
But, yeah, tobacco smuggling. When I was a kid in North Carolina, my dad used to own a small grocery. (My dad was a grocer.) And since we lived relatively close to I-95, people who were traveling from New York would always stop in an load up on cartons and cartons of cigarettes.
Don't really know if they were "smuggling." But they were at least taking advantage of packs of cigarettes for less than three dollars.
Beverly - Oct 22, 2006 6:37:13 am PDT #1530 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
One of the fun things the NC state police got to do was pull over semi trailers loaded stem to stern with cartons of NC-priced, NC-made cigarettes, bound for the Nawth and bootleg prices. It was a booming business for a very long time, as long as you didn't get caught. The demand is less these days because of the decrease in smoking, and the increase in taxes that bring NC prices in line with the rest of the country make the profit margin much smaller, so smuggling isn't the big thing it used to be.
Unless somebody can get hold of a truckful of untaxed cartons, of course.
Betsy HP - Oct 22, 2006 5:07:27 pm PDT #1531 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
People used to smuggle cigarettes down from Canada all the time -- very big business. Just like smuggling hooch in from Canada during Prohibition.
Typo Boy - Oct 22, 2006 5:36:11 pm PDT #1532 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I once heard economics professors arguing over what point sales taxes generated massive evasion. One claimed that anything over 10% tended to generation major smuggling ; the other said that the break point was more like 50%. I wonder if there have been any empirical studies. I suspect it would not be as simple as a percentage. Legal sources that are less highly taxed such as reservations or N.Carolina probably make a difference - since you can buy them legally, you just are not supposed to sell them.
If Firefly were still an operating universe, I'd be tempted to write an essay on what the fact that it paid to smuggle horses via spaceship showed about the economics of it.