Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.
North Dakota that requiring a seller without some physical nexus to a state (say a local store or warehouse) to collect that state's taxes puts an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce.
Under current law, a state collect sales tax from companies that have a physical presence in the state, which hits brick-and-mortar retailers but not Internet retailers that ship to customers with the state.
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So, the sales tax collection standard that has held since 1992 is that a state may only make a seller collect sales tax if the seller has a physical presence in the state.
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The Supreme Court, in their Quill Corp decision, wrote that the state government could not impose a use tax on an entity that did not have a physical presence in the state.
North Dakota, a U.S. Supreme Court decision which stated that companies do not have to act as tax collectors for a state unless they have a substantial physical presence-or a "nexus"-in the state.
Moreover, since Amazon has a robotics facility in Cambridge, it now has a physical presence in the State.
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Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state.
But Amazon has had some success hiding behind a 1992 Supreme Court decision that prohibits states from taxing retailers without a physical presence in that state.
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Sales transacted on the Internet would be treated the same as catalog or phone sales: Unless a seller has a physical presence in the state of the buyer, no sales tax can be collected.
You see whether you are a resident of a state is not determined simply by physical presence.
The event does not explicitly surface in the novel, but it adds a grave sadness to Mr Grossman's searching account of the psychological and physical costs of a seemingly endless state of war.
Under a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, only merchants who have a physical presence, such as stores, in a state have to collect sales taxes.
In each of the examples above, we witness the compelling effect of data transformed from an abstract state to a physical representation on a map, instantly bringing it to life.
Previously, stores were only required to collect sales tax on goods shipped to states where they have a physical presence, however now state governments would obtain the ability to collect an Internet sales tax from businesses headquartered outside of their respective state borders.
Players from Pop Warner on are in a state of denial about their physical condition and long-term health.
Quill, which was decided in those long ago days of yore (1992), before the internet had become pervasive, held that a state could not force a vendor to collect sales tax if there was no physical presence in the state.
In his dissent, Judge Robert Smith wrote that mere advertising by an out-of-state retailer through in-state media does not constitute a physical presence or sufficient nexus, concluding links from the New York websites to big online retailers are simply that.
North Dakota, which found that a state can't impose a sales tax on mail-order transactions when the seller has no physical presence in that state.
Activity was also elevated in the insula, a region that monitors one's emotional and physical state (it's also involved in disgust, shame and other strong negative emotions).
But the idea of "causal entropy" goes further, suggesting that a given physical system not only maximises the entropy within its current conditions, but that it reaches a state that will allow it more entropy - in a real sense, more options - in the future.
Currently if a mail-order company has no physical presence in your state, it doesn't have to hit you with your state's sales tax when it sells you something.
Its prime ministerial aspirant, Atal Behari Vajpayee, never misses a chance to state that his party will guarantee the physical security of minorities in general and Muslims in particular.
With this nifty trick of redefining what constitutes a physical presence, the tax superficially satisfies the Quill requirements and allows the state to impose sales tax collection obligations on retailers outside the state.
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Until then, HP can play a big role in shaping our physical world, but probably not in its current state.
This new legislation is considered a way to level the playing field, since physical shop fronts are required to collect state sales tax for the state where they are located.
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Some Web postings indicate it takes as much as 4 hours to charge the new iPad from a 31 percent to a 65 percent state of charge, which may reflect the impact of this fundamental physical limitation on recharge speed, despite how unhappy it makes users.
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As a result, the state of the economy can affect us physically, leading to mental and physical health issues.
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But, more than a month since his abduction, there was concern about Mr Johnston's mental health and physical state, she said.
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All eyes will be on Benedict's physical state as he is welcomed by Pope Francis at his new retirement home, a converted monastery tucked behind St.
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