{"id":2528,"date":"2008-04-22T03:21:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2008\/04\/22\/random-things-i-want\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T03:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:21:46","slug":"random-things-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2008\/04\/22\/random-things-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Random things I want"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><\/p>\n<li>Fully electronic tax returns.  Not just the filing part with the IRS\/State part of things, I think there should be a legal requirement to provide tax forms (1099, W2, etc) as electronic forms.  It should have to be provided not just as a PDF or HTML page, they legally should have to be provided in a standardized XML format so you can just upload it into your tax program.  Think of the environmental benefit not to mention the cost and time savings.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Energy consumption labeling.  I want to be able to make an informed decision as to how much energy is used in producing a product and how much is used in transporting it.  I know how much Vitamin C is in my Orange Juice, but what about knowing how much petroleum went into making it and getting it to me?  This ideally should be split out into two parts pre-retailer delivery energy use, and post retailer delivery use.  Two reasons for this split:\n<ol>\n<li>Operationally the manufacturing and delivery functions tend to be different operations under different groups.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Many retailers pickup their the products they sell at the manufacture&#8217;s warehouse, but not all do.  So ultimately this would necessitate some coding on the store&#8217;s label to let you know if they picked up the product at the manufacturer&#8217;s facility or not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ultimately this whole damn thing is getting down to labeling for efficiency.  That tropicana or florida natural orange juice you like, yeah it isn&#8217;t as efficient as Minute Maid. (or maybe it is, but I don&#8217;t know because it isn&#8217;t labeled..)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A grocery store that I feel okay shopping at that is within walking distance from my apartment, so I don&#8217;t have to feel guilty for adding to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/29662\">VMTs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Someone to do my laundry, seriously this just gets annoying.  Mom, Dad, I never brought my laundry home from college&#8230; What do you say about some catchup?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seatrans.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/cost-of-driving.html\">Pay as you drive automobile insurance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully electronic tax returns. Not just the filing part with the IRS\/State part of things, I think there should be a legal requirement to provide tax forms (1099, W2, etc) as electronic forms. It should have to be provided not just as a PDF or HTML page, they legally should have to be provided in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}