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Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by Chupachupski »

w1ntermute wrote: post #30
chimeracoder wrote: post #23

> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog. The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover). The only other business I've seen do this w…

It's quite common in Japan for ATMs to only operate during business hours. The Japanese are world-class experts at implementing technology in ways that completely negate its core value.

I am aware that this was true in the past (a countryside ATM booth tried to lock me in at 6:00PM 11 years ago) but can you list any recent examples of this (bank names, ATM locations)?

I was there in January this year and did not encounter this at all. The worst was an "after hours" fee of a few hundred yen at a Mitsubishi UFJ foyer ATM (after 10:00 PM IIRC).

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by jliptzin »

incision wrote: post #49

>"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars!" Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure.

I wasn't aware this was a tax dodge. My attorney just told me Delaware is a good place to form an LLC because of favorable laws to Internet businesses. Considering I've been paying close to 45%+ in federal+state+city taxes I'd say this is a pretty poor dodge.

Also, I am criticizing the $200 million spent on healthcare.gov, not Obamacare itself, or Obama.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by happyscrappy »

jliptzin wrote: post #59
happyscrappy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entitled have trouble with reading comprehension. The site was explicitly closed during certain hours, sadly probably because the data is verified by hand. He is whining that he doesn't like the hours.

No, that was just a side effect of digging into an issue with the site that was preventing me from paying a tax. I didn't even know about that odd schedule.

If you weren't outside the operating hours you might want to edit your blog post.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by brudgers »

incision wrote: post #49

>"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars!" Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure.

You forgot to mention that Obama runs the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, that the Legislative Branch creates tax laws and passed the enabling legislation for ObamaCare and that Delaware is a state and the author's payment has nothing to do with the Federal Government at all.

What should one expect from a person so out of touch with the impact of health care access on the lives of ordinary Americans that they would carry on about how improved access is a social ill? The best I can say about the article is that rather than two piles. a great deal of ignorance and foolishness has been gathered in one place.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by corresation »

jliptzin wrote: post #3
sheetjs wrote: post #2

The IRS EIN Application also has "hours": http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... > Our new hours of operation [for the application] are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Is there a good reason to do this? I'm actually curious

Aligning operating hours with when you have active staff monitoring and responding would be a reasonable assumption.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by batoure »

incision wrote: post #49

>"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars!" Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure.

>"Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure."

Delawares taxes are competitive but not actually the lowest. The following is a succinct explanation from a 3 second Google search on the issue.

"There are two major reasons for Delaware's dominance of the corporate incorporation business. One reason is the bi-partisan political consensus in Delaware to keep the Delaware corporation statute modern and up-to-date, and to rely on Delaware's corporate law specialists for advice in how to do this. As a result, law students at every law school in the United States study the Delaware corporation statute and the decisions of Delaware courts interpreting that law."

"The other major reason corporations choose to incorporate in Delaware is the quality of Delaware courts and judges. Delaware has a special court, the Court of Chancery, to rule on corporate law disputes without juries. Corporate cases do not get stuck on dockets behind the multitude of non-corporate cases. Instead, Delaware corporations can expect their legal disputes to be addressed promptly and expertly by judges who specialize in corporate law."

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/brandywine-to-broad...

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by sergiotapia »

As a web developer I'm kind of impressed how broken it is. It takes significantly more effort to break something to this magnitude.

I mean, you have to go out of your way to break things this badly. If you just play normally, your website cannot and WILL NOT crash and burn like this.

I attribute it to malice, I just don't see it happening this badly without intent.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by batoure »

batoure wrote: post #66
incision wrote: post #49

>"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars!" Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure.

>"Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure." Delawares taxes are competitive but not actually the lowest. The following is a succinct explanation from a 3 second Google search on the issue. "There are two major reasons for Delaware's dominance of the corporate incorporation business. One reason is the b…

What is interesting is though the state has an incredibly fast evolving legal ecosystem, it has obviously not maintained the same technological policies.
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