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« on: March 08, 2019, 04:09:56 PM »
One of those 'robo-callers'... are ubiquitous when the caller ID comes up as "COPY MACHINES S".
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« on: March 06, 2019, 03:03:21 PM »
 Um afraid US state sales tax automation may depend upon whether or not you've actually enabled eBay to collect local state sales tax itself from your in-state bidders when you've set up your seller account. If you had hurray, they should break it down and give you evidence somewhere you just need a bit of help from ebay to find. If you don't see the tax money leaving it simply may not be paid invisibly from out of your other fees. For example, I say this because I intentionally didn't enable that ebay option when I set up my sellers account, I pay Connecticut directly. Also separately had to pay ebay it's own various fees for strictly it's own benefit. Why would ebay do that??? Well ebay anticipates that fictionalebayseller01 user who hawks ribbons online may also operate an actual hair salon on the side for a day job and not want to pay taxes again separately for the same time period so at least when I sold on ebay, ebay allowed you not to enable the tax-collection function and to instead worry about city and state taxes yourself as a seller not to mention on your federal too. As I also did some yardsales for instance, easier for me to only pay once the sales taxes directly than pay ebay to pay CT all over again. You see it makes even more sense than 'free shipping' that taxes are inevitable for seller at least when you consider that officially eBay has no power to make rules of state taxation so payments ebay made on behalf of your business to your state should be traceable as in they owe yourself proof of. Enforcement is historically lax however. In-state sales taxes plus any local or cross town sales tax used to be as complicated as it could get for virtual business but it gets moreso lately. Aside from the in-state tax sales tax collection responsibilities the business world had until last year gotten used to... there was a ruling last June by the Supreme Court of the United States against online retail giant Wayfair that has made chaos even for the professionals concerning taxes online from get this OTHER states... just a heads up the tax laws are really changing so that as of last June even if your presence is all virtual it's suddenly very up in the air about what the impact will be upon for example some online activity with over 200 transactions (I really want to know if that includes intangible downloaded products because that's make or break ) per this or that state? https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2018/10/18/the-wayfair-ruling-evolving-sales-tax-laws-and-sleeper-states/ I know groan... I think most small business don't like tax surprises though they can be worse than the taxes themselves... unfortunately it's apparently uncharted waters for now. I wouldn't trust eBay is ever as invested in the welfare of my business as I am so. I got frustrated with frequent ebay-driven changes on ebay and have chose not to sell on last year, so can't tell people here if the taxes some are complaining are what strange?/new? are due to Wayfair vs SD or due to something else entirely but from what I'm reading not sure anyone is caught up to Wayfair vs SD as individual states have a lot of power to negotiate their own tax and licensing requirements which historically is slow and mutable. It may be like jaywalking for instance and maybe Colorado requires a license https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/NewsRelease_Taxation_OutOfStateRetailers_9.11.18.pdf to sell 201 digital downloads of a pattern to people in Denver that they may or may not ever enforce... for new things... its like time will tell y'know to whom such vague-worded instruction will in practice apply. So luck to all us involved in our self employment adventures.  Ok well, Colorado at least thankfully does not require for intangibles, still, wonder may be more trouble than it's worth if you are selling postcards?That's self-employment for you once you you still have some more to . I so do not want to read tutorial programs from all fifty states... so I'm hoping it becomes easier in time.
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« on: February 20, 2019, 06:47:46 PM »
Oh no! I know what you mean.
The babies are hardest for me to resist.
Yes and for every family it seems it's twins plus some new random baby with accessory... in my head I try to explain away this... critters have litters...
Critters have litters!!
...even the elephants I guess!
Precisely, whatever you are you will have more, unless you are a 'Lil Woodzeez, then you have just two children (not twins) plus whatever kid next hatches out of the neighborhood acorns...
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« on: February 19, 2019, 08:16:40 PM »
Oh no! I know what you mean.
The babies are hardest for me to resist.
Yes and for every family it seems it's twins plus some new random baby with accessory... in my head I try to explain away this... critters have litters...
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« on: February 18, 2019, 10:45:47 PM »
I guess you could always pretend he is now some kinda feel-better care bear with a mission to help kids with head-colds if you can't fix the rusty tarnish nose? Anyway, wish ya luck.
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« on: February 18, 2019, 10:04:36 PM »
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« on: February 18, 2019, 09:55:36 PM »
 The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins... before that it was The Marsh Builders by Sharon Levy... you have to be seriously fascinated by the nutrient cycle I guess to read any two books about sewage back to back for interest like I would, I know. But what can I say, in modern times nature still seems to take better care of our business than we do, meanwhile we make a bigger mess with our mess, it's like we are all a bunch of kids or something in that way... even after we grow up. 
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« on: February 09, 2019, 07:48:49 PM »
Grail acquired!
Brand new baby "99 TT" dino finally came home. 
I'm super happy with her, though she does have a slight brown stain on the side of her mouth that wasn't mentioned or in the seller's pictures.
Overall, not too noticeable! I have a list of names ready for her, but I just can't decide yet. I could go the "P" route again to match Pearla, or I could just go with something else.
I've got one more fakie dino baby on the way. Not from the same line, but still very sweet!
Now we know dinosaurs eat chocolate, take that Smithsonian! 
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« on: January 29, 2019, 09:50:27 AM »
 I think you guys are really out of your depth and unaware of your context on that part of the conversation ever since one of you had brought up the concept of species segregation and then started through some of them. But we are not allowed to talk about non-trivial things out of WYP so I can't explain why I fear this concept is problematic here. I've read that concept before in a context for FIM I don't think you are getting (first thought maybe you were trying to be helpful and had read all that but were like really counterproductive not getting), nor are you understanding how transforming humans in the core 5 probably made that criticism seem even more valid and may have made the show worse. Good luck but I'm getting out of this draining discussion that I can't even have with you. Exhausting and stressful enough for me when I wouldn't have to introduce the context to folk who've not heard much about. Hope you'll all have nice days.
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« on: January 28, 2019, 07:47:22 AM »
The Raccoons was on Disney Channel--at least that was where I watched it.
Recess never got a proper release as far as I'm aware. They had The Recess Movie, Recess: All Growed Down, Recess: Takes the 5th, and Recess: Miracle at 3rd Street School. Each "movie" had a couple of bonus episodes on the disc but other than the actual Recess Movie, the others were made up of three cartoons with some filler material in between.
Near positive I remember it as the Disney Channel too we only got to afford the Disney channel once in a while so wasn't just another button on the remote. Strange shows like that would come and go... never got to figure out why some of the creatures noses were drawn bent, but it looked more like a trunk to me, and I was waiting to see if they ever used like one. The Wuzzles were after all two creatures in one. Anyway... this youtube user seems to agree that it was Disney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72TEjLMm81U
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« on: January 28, 2019, 07:29:30 AM »
Loreofyore - Honestly I'm kinda confused by most of your post (I thought my/Taff's posts was pretty straightforward) but Megan did get a cameo in one of the recent EQG things (dunno which):
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(screenshot borrowed from this thread)
Whoa! There she is!
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« on: January 28, 2019, 07:21:15 AM »
"I know what you did fakie" is amazing, I love her!
I just listed "I love unicorns more than life itself" on eBay, lol.
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Remember the old 'evil fakie' joke? (nervous laugh) I think you might have found one...
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« on: January 28, 2019, 07:15:32 AM »
It would really save electricity to make a photo album of my toys... get lazy and just browse at stuff I am too tired to put away again. But having shelves where you can see them also makes it easier to check that no body got forgot after exploring your place. My ponies get restless tend to go roaming pretending to graze on carpet... sometimes they stay out all night and in the morning I need to corral them again!
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« on: January 27, 2019, 06:19:16 PM »
One with a kickstand on it so it can heat up / cool down without looking around frantic for a safe surface when the phone rings, but not with a very strong spring in the hinge the better to have the hair released with ease, dislike the ones that snap back with with a kick if you are a bit shaky that day. Me... I like my really long one... because easier not to get any hair caught around the hinge when the surface is longer than the mane. Makes it all less stressful should anyone distract you  and your mane slides down a tad, you'll still be fine if you look around. 
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« on: January 27, 2019, 05:08:22 PM »
Personally I think it only counts as a new generation... if it completely and totally replaces the previous gen. Saying EQG should be G4.5 is silly since they were a companion to the main G4 line; it'd be like saying G3 Ponyvilles should be considered their own gen, or G1 Sweetheart Sisters should be G1.5, etc etc. At least in my opinion, heh.
I agree with this. The thing is that EQG has to be considered part of G4 because it begins in Equestria with Twilight Sparkle in the G4 realm, and goes back to that theme even as recently as the rebooted episodes with Sunset Shimmer going back through the mirror. Since the core of G4 is not the toy style/line but the animation, then the world is essentially the same one and thus they're the same. It would be exactly as Carrehz said, just segregating them on species is a bit strange. We don't call Cutesaurus etc G1.5 because they're not pony but part of the pony line. And timeline wise EQG fit in with G4, just as the pony friends do, and Megan, and Molly, and ultimately different shapes like SHS, but also mermaids, sea ponies, and so on.
A new generation is a whole new world to me as well. There can be some overlap names or characters but the key for me is that it's mostly new - different toys, characters, designs, world, concept, and also logos and artwork styles. All those things make a new generation.
The leaked material wasn't leaked from Hasbro I don't believe, it was a secondary company involved in the animation, or am I wrong about that? So that table is not Hasbro but a linked organisation.
Hasbro referring now to older G terms on their website is interesting but I think it's still a post-G4 symptom, in that they now care about what their adult audiences think more than they did when they marketed those old lines. It's all part of building the brand now in a different way from how it was before. Although there have been closer links in the US with the community and Hasbro through the old Pony Fair so who knows.
As for the old idea of gaps between generations, such things are determined and always have been on the dates and systems used in the US because MLP is a US toy originally. Annoying as that can be to work with, at the time it was put forward it made some form of sense. There were 5 years between G1 and G2 in the US and then a similar gap of time between G2 and G3 I think? It only started getting messy when Ponyville stuff happened.
I'm keeping in reserve the G4.5 label, honestly, because for me if the reboot (if there is one) is recycling G4, it's 4.5 and not 5. Even if Hasbro were to sell it as G5, I won't recognise it as Generation 5 unless it meets the criteria Carrehz mentioned. And I think that's also the issue that existed with 3.5. It wasn't new enough to be a new generation, but it was different enough not to be the previous one.
All the leaked material so far suggests this future "g5" fits that precedent.
I'm afraid I don't understand the pony design logic you are using. I only ever remember G1 dolls being humans... in the supposedly real world G1 Megan is fetched from, ponies can't talk so humans... (like every last one of us in the real world) is logically one species of primate. It's only a toy design change in the species that repeat so if humans are equines that is new and something different than bovine centaurs of G1... I think unless Megan repeats in EQG or there is a G1 story or comic I didn't read. Did they bring Megan into EQG? Puzzled now... Honestly, I think that logic creates worse chance of confusion than before especially if we count transformation within different episodes of the same series, such as when a gargoyle-like Scorpan becomes a prince. Okay... Just reread and am still confused though... what if they do revamp for fans of EQG but bring back all gen versions of Spike as room-mates and alternates of himself? With a cartoon so much blending is possible but when we have a toy we only have to figure out gens again when new releases leave the factories... we don't seem to widely consider retro ponies a new gen so it doesn't go quite chronologically... but it'd be hard in that case to figure out if G3 spike is now G7 spike someday...  Actually that would have to be G1 spike unless they give us a retro G3 spike toy... I am really starting to get confused!
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I got too many of those flocked critters of various brands... considering you can fit a small town's worth in a handbag very easy to get more families than you can honestly keep up with. I had to make up strange surnames like 'the Goldings' (golden-lab/dingo) & 'the Squirrelmunks' to eventually cut back... so good luck. 
