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Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by zroger »

deathanatos wrote: post #11

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of : With the CSS of: height: 3000px width: 3000px position: absolute top: 0px z-index: 50000 I do love arbitrary constants. Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these: Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [ob…

Looks like the forceDOMredraw is defined in their offical "Common Look and Feel Version 3.0" docs. http://gic.delaware.gov/CLF30Glossary.pdf

From the PDF:

: A div that forces the browser to redraw the content if it is displayed incorrectly.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by rayiner »

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…

To add to that, the law favors corporations, officers, and directors over shareholders.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by tzs »

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…

A third major reason is fashion. People want to incorporate, and they look and see a bunch of major corporations are incorporated in Delaware even though they don't have any serious business connection with Delaware other than being incorporated there, and so they think it is a good idea for them to incorporate their small local business in far off Delaware just like the giant public companies do. (Or rather, usually do...Microsoft reincorporated back to Washington after a few years in Delaware).

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by oliverdavenport »

mbesto wrote: post #25
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…

Government sites in the UK have been known to do this as well.

The website to book practical driving tests in the UK is one of them.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by RaphiePS »

Easy to fix on Chrome. Just click on the little shield at the top-right of the omnibar and click "load unsafe script."

Yes, it's broken and they should have caught it, but it's so hyperbolic to call it an "utterly dysfunctional site." This isn't a screwup like healthcare.gov, which had major architecture problems.

This is literally just the omission of the "s" in https.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by LeonidasXIV »

peterjmag wrote: post #71
deathanatos wrote: post #11

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of : With the CSS of: height: 3000px width: 3000px position: absolute top: 0px z-index: 50000 I do love arbitrary constants. Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these: Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [ob…

He's been building web apps professionally for over 10 years, and he didn't think to right click somewhere (anywhere) and "Inspect Element"? That's the first thing I did on that page. EDIT: That came off a bit more snarky (snarkier?) than I meant. To the OP: If you inspect the element, you can then delete it with the backspace/delete key to get to the link that you need, which ultimately leads to a separate subdomain…

> He's been building web apps professionally for over 10 years, and he didn't think to right click somewhere (anywhere) and "Inspect Element"? That's the first thing I did on that page.

That's odd too, it was basically my first thought to inspect the element which used this pointless div and then tried deleting it. Total time spent: 15 seconds, less than reading this rant.

(This is actually a habit I formed by getting rid of huge overlay ads that cover the page or try to force me to log in. No sir, I'll just have this node removed, thank you very much)

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by mcv »

LeonidasXIV wrote: post #86
peterjmag wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's been building web apps professionally for over 10 years, and he didn't think to right click somewhere (anywhere) and "Inspect Element"? That's the first thing I did on that page. EDIT: That came off a bit more snarky (snarkier?) than I meant. To the OP: If you inspect the element, you can then delete it with the backspace/delete key to get to the link that you need, which ultimately leads to a separate subdomain…

> He's been building web apps professionally for over 10 years, and he didn't think to right click somewhere (anywhere) and "Inspect Element"? That's the first thing I did on that page. That's odd too, it was basically my first thought to inspect the element which used this pointless div and then tried deleting it. Total time spent: 15 seconds, less than reading this rant. (This is actually a habit I formed by gettin…

I do the same thing. I wouldn't mind a plugin that automatically recognized crippling overlays and deletes them for me.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by tptacek »

tzs wrote: post #83
batoure wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>"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…

A third major reason is fashion. People want to incorporate, and they look and see a bunch of major corporations are incorporated in Delaware even though they don't have any serious business connection with Delaware other than being incorporated there, and so they think it is a good idea for them to incorporate their small local business in far off Delaware just like the giant public companies do. (Or rather, usually…

A fourth reason is that incorporation in your home state can be complicated; for instance, in NY, it (IIRC) involves running newspaper ads. If you're not going to incorporate in your home state, Delaware is a sane default choice.

A fifth reason is that it's extremely easy to incorporate in Delaware; it's the Internet's default choice, too.

Re: WTF Delaware?

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Post by jliptzin »

happyscrappy wrote: post #63
jliptzin wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They display that notice at all times, that's why I was able to see it.
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