I live in New Zealand - until 2019 things used to work this way for us too. A law was introduced to require overseas sellers selling more than $60,000 NZD/year into New Zealand to collect pay our Goods and Services Tax.
Now Amazon/Temu/AliExpress others all collect 15% NZ GST at the checkout. It's pretty seamless as a buyer, just that GST is not usually shown until checkout unlike domestic sites.
https://www.ird.govt.nz/gst/gst-for-overseas-businesses/gst-...
This is distinct from import taxes. I used to work for a retailer that sold to the US. We collected sales tax (which is not GST/VAT, semantically different, and you have to pay a US company to calculate it for you), but still had to put a limit of $800 per package in order to not get hit by import duties.
I believe Temu/Shein/etc collect US sales tax based on the destination address, but that is insufficient.
> you have to pay a US company to calculate it for you
You don't have to pay a company to calculate it for you, but it is difficult to calculate. I think all the states with sales tax assert that the correct sales tax for a delivered item is based on the location of delivery, and determining the tax jurisdictions from the location of delivery is complex. Using the city field of the address is often wrong, because that's really just the name of the post office that serves the delivery location, not an indiciation of what city (if any) the delivery location is in.
Once you've determined the jurisdictions, you also need to confirm the rates for the shipped items and collect and remit the taxes.
It's a lot harder than schemes where there's a single rate for a country or at most one rate per top level subdivision of a country, where delivery addresses almost always have the subdivision clearly marked.
In the general case, sales tax changes at the building level. While you are not legally required to pay a company to calculate it, US sales tax is prohibitively complex to the point that paying a company to calculate it is practically required.
Before it was a settlement it was a military base. It did have walls protecting until 1940, where under WW2 Japanese occupation they were demolished. The name stuck even after.
The south gate of the wall remains as part of Kowloon Walled City Park
The Chinese Hawthorn is used in a few snacks. I really like the fruit leather you can buy in Asian supermarkets. My math teacher from High School got me interested in both math and Chinese snacks, and it was really nice to see him get excited about sharing both with us.
It'd probably work with American haw berries too - but the pitting would be a lot of extra work as they are smaller.
Try not to handle any freshly fallen meteorites with your bare hands! Oils and microbes from your skin will slowly degrade the surface of a meteorite, dulling the fusion crust, contaminating the meteorite, and promoting rust. The contamination aspect is especially important for carbonaceous meteorites and other uncommon types.
The flight path on the way out is much much longer going cross wind in figure 8s.
On the pull back in it's a direct path back in, and it looks the kite shifts to point back at the base station more so there's a ton less resistance than on the way out.
I have fond memories of Dick Smith. My dad bought my first soldering iron, along with some soldering projects (I remember the FM Wireless Microphone from here https://ia801002.us.archive.org/3/items/dicksmithsfunwayinto... ). You could tell the people creating the kits were really keen to share their love of electronics.
You could buy loose components out of trays, and it seemed like they had a bunch more unusual adapters and gadgets that wouldn't interest a typical consumer. But they gradually became just a retailer for big brand items.
HIAKAI in New Zealand has done really well taking indigenous (traditionally foraged) Māori ingredients and turning them into a fine dining experience. I'd love to see what a similar take could look like with Native Indian cuisine. https://www.hiakai.co.nz/food
Can confirm. Went on a trip NZ->UK and was fascinated. They're so twitchy, fast and inquisitive, and so furry. They are legitimately as interesting to watch to me as almost any zoo animal.
You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of brightness info?
It allows to see. I just tested on chrome dev tools. What it does not to is set the filling as it worked on the original app. Anyways, really nice memories. I was a child (6 yo) when I first touched those. Thanks for the hint to play with CSS. :-)
Oh absolutely. So many dead links scattered around the net. It's gotten so bad an independent group Archive Team are brute forcing URL shortners so these links aren't lost to time. Just look at how long the list of dead shorteners is https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam#Dead_or_Broke...
72,287,136,510 links scanned, 14,632,045,317 shortened URLs archived. If you are interested it's easy to run their docker image to help with this and other archival projects.
