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Amazon eliminates affiliate program in North Carolina over tax dispute
Amazon, Newegg, and Overstock were having none of it, and Amazon even filed a lawsuit. It lost.
Now North Carolina is preparing to adopt a state budget that would similarly require retailers like Amazon to collect taxes if they have affiliate relationships with individuals living in North Carolina. And this time Amazon took a different approach. It canceled its affiliate relationships with North Carolina residents.
Search Engine Watch points out that North Carolina lawmakers have instituted tax breaks for a handful of other major companies including Apple and Google in an effort to convince the companies to build data centers in the state. The result could be that these companies will play by different rules than the ones that would have applied to Amazon had the retailer not severed its affiliate relationships in North Carolina.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
