Originally designed for NASA aircraft seats to help minimize the impact experienced by astronauts during landings, temper foam, or memory foam, is commonly used in a variety of products including mattresses, pillows, furniture and safety equipment. Under the rejected plan, that was proposed by Democrats, millions of green cards would have been provided for several groups of immigrants including young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children (typically called “Dreamers”); those under temporary potected status (refugees of natural disasters or armed conflict); essential workers and farm workers. For those new to the NSPIRES web interface for submitting proposals, there are some walk throughs on the NSPIRES hints page and we now have web pages devoted to Dual-Anonymous Peer Review (DAPR) and the programs in planetary science with No Due Date (NoDD). The panicked myth of an e-mail tax has been around almost as long as the Web. From a logical standpoint, it seems more than a little strange to divert revenue from e-mail taxes to the USPS. And some people say this one should be changed so that governments can finally tap into e-mail transfers for revenue.

There are some people who’d like to find out the answers to those questions. All of the details about 602P are fictional. In a 2000 senate race, a television news reporter named Marcia Kramer asked both Hilary Clinton and Rick Lazio about the bill’s details. See the GISTEMP News page for a list of NASA releases and other articles and features related to the GISTEMP analysis. Not many, probably. But many people still see the Internet as a free, wild place where information is shared and proliferated at a wonderfully low cost to the end user. Wozniak also said that such a tax would be a deterrent to e-mail spammers, who rely on the cheap ubiquity of e-mail to annoy and scam people all across the globe. So steel yourselves. A tax on e-mail may be inevitable and coming sooner rather than later. And with new forms of online communication constantly in development, by the time any such taxes do become a reality, you may not care. In the U.S., the Postal Service has been losing money at a head-spinning rate for a very long time.

Whether you send one e-mail or 100,000 e-mails, the rate would be the same. For every 100 e-mails per day, there would be a tax of just one cent. Logistically, it would be pretty challenging to tax people on the number of e-mails they sent. The concept basically taxed people on the amount of information they send and receive via the Internet. In 1997, Arthur Cordell, a former information technology adviser for the Canadian government, proposed the idea of a bit tax. Its job is to take the physical vibrations caused by the sound wave and translate them into electrical information the brain can recognize as distinct sound. So if you’re alarmed by headlines about e-mail taxes, you can ratchet down from red alert. That includes, of course, those fictional bit taxes and e-mail taxes, as well as bandwidth taxes. In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits governments at every level from applying Internet-only taxes upon consumers. That’s certainly doable. But thanks to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, it’s also currently illegal.

What if lawmakers suddenly decided to repeal the Internet Tax Freedom Act? Lawmakers would be fighting against their own constituencies just to make such a tax legal, and by the time made any headway, they’d most likely be run out of office. But let’s assume that lawmakers decided to try and impose this new tax. Bradford, Harry. “Berkeley Councilman Proposes E-mail Tax to Save Post Office.” Huffington Post. Geigner, Timothy. “Wrong Legislative Thought of the Day: An E-mail Tax to Save the Post Office.” Techdirt. Would an e-mail tax suddenly be inevitable? Never mind that the USPS has absolutely nothing to do with e-mail. That money, of course, would be funneled to the USPS. Surely, if there’s an organization worth saving through taxation, it must be the USPS. Early on, some argued it was inappropriate to use the name Cabinet Office because “it is an organization that divides and manages administrative affairs and not the cabinet itself”. For example, if no wind is blowing, they’ll use both runways. Mars’ atmosphere has clouds and wind just like Earth.