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At the risk of making a one-way trip to Rikers Island ("I must take the Fifth about my wine purchases, senator"), I spent a couple of weeks this summer surfing the Web for vino.
The NYT front reports on an unpredicted consequence of the Asian economic crisis: the Asian arms race is cooling off because most of the region's nations are suddenly unable to go through with planned weapons purchases.
This covers a broad range of data from purchases, subsidies, and other transactions to data on fixed assets, inventories, and receivables.
There are essentially three options: Ban sales taxes on Internet purchases, leave the status quo (in which case it only matters where the Internet company is located), or give states the ability to go after sales taxes from out-of-state Internet companies.
This strangely satisfying form of literary eavesdropping, achieved by a simple re-sorting of customers' e-mail domain names, shipping addresses, and purchases, is not limited to the continental United States.