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Computer controls adjust things to keep emissions in 'Spec'. My 2001 Nissan just passed a full smog (treadmill) with 120K miles. Basically change Air filter and Spark plugs, which lasted 80K miles (I was lucky to get 10K out of my older cars without GAP adjustment). The Numbers were not as good as a test 5 years ago, but still within margin. |
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Prop 65 is a whole ocean of stupid all its own. (All natural peanut butter, literally nothing in it but peanuts, requires a warning. Most retailers just have a sign on the front door that says "this building contains stuff that might cause cancer.") |
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02-19-2013, 05:38 PM | #21 |
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I'd forgotten they added "causes birth defects" to the requirements. The actual wording, to be found at any public entrance to nearly any public builsing in California, is "WARNING This Facility Contains Chemicals Known To The State Of California To Cause Cancer And Birth Defects Or Other Reproductive Harm."
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The state of California does not care if you over charge the customer sales tax as long as you send all the tax to the state.
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02-19-2013, 11:58 PM | #23 | |
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Note that this most likely applies to (at least) all of the Pearson Technology Group publishers (I can make that 'definite' for Adobe Press and Peachpit Press):
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The 'DRM free, multiformat' $9.99 deals of the week are such that I'm not going to stop purchasing direct (even when it means requesting refunds) but I wish they would get it together. Of course they also sell print books (formerly known as 'real' books) and those are taxed in CA. But anybody collecting sales tax here should know non physical sales are not taxable. I've been meaning to take it up with Apple for the same thing. They charge sales tax on developer subscriptions for CA residents. Again, this is 'digital goods' so it seems it should not be taxed (or the sales tax rules are more complicated than what is published by CA board of equalization). These are big companies, they should know better and care more. |
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As an example, if they made $0.10 per book collecting illegal sales tax on 10,000,000 books that is $1,000,000.00 a day. And before you say they do not sell 1,000,000 books a day to California residents, who is to say California is the only state they are doing this in. This is just an example but, they could be making a lot of money doing this. And the majority of people will never notice. Apache |
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I've bought boxes of eggs here in the UK which had "warning - allergy information: contains eggs" printed on the inside of the lid though I haven't seen it for quite a while now so maybe someone somewhere realised that this was maybe just a tad over-zealous. Last edited by Yolina; 02-20-2013 at 07:14 AM. |
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In RI, we don't even get all the information about medication! While in Europe we get a huge sheet of paper with very, very, very fine print (read: all the information that comes with the medication), in RI they give you a business sized piece of photocopied paper with the one or two paragraphs the State requires them to inform you about. It's disgusting. |
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Tell me: have you ever changed your mind about buying something because of those labels? Same for medications. Would you refuse to take a needed medication because of those low-probability side effect warnings? I'm not saying they should be removed, I just question their value over trusting the prescribing physician. One specialist told me outright when he prescribed a med and I asked about the side effects: "If I told you all the possible side effects, you'd never take it. In twenty years of prescribing it, I've never seen ANY of the side effects. Please take it." ApK Last edited by ApK; 02-20-2013 at 09:55 AM. |
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