That's the idea, yes. The people who buy the products wind up paying the tax.

You can, and the reason why you can is exactly the same reason that people use to say it can't be done: The people who buy the goods wind up paying the costs. For example, if you suggest taxing shipping by truck more because of the road damage done by heavy trucks, everyone complains that this will raise the price of shipping goods, and this will make the goods more expensive in turn. And the answer is, yeah. That's right. That's the whole damn point, the goods that get shipped the furthest get taxed the most and we learn to stop pushing those externalities off onto others at their expense.

In exactly the same way, we can tax the carbon release at the source, where it's being removed from "natural" sequestration which will likely never happen again due to fungus evolving to eat lignin, and with the express purpose of allowing it to be combusted (etc. etc.)

I don't trust caller ID, so I don't trust anything about a fax any more than anything else. And if a document isn't legible, I can't use it, so I prefer almost anything to a fax. Your average cellular phone is capable of taking end to end legible photographs of typical black-on-white printed documents in a variety of lighting conditions, and that's an order of magnitude more valuable to me than a crappy fax.

Yep. You are right.

The performance hit was bad enough that Apple fans were complaining about it.

I've certainly had some Android phones go bad, in total about $800 worth... for three devices. I didn't pay full price for the relatively expensive one (a Nexus 4/LG E960) and even so I swore it would be the last LG device I bought.

I now have a $250 (with insurance) Moto G Power (2021) and it does all of the usual phone things gracefully except that it doesn't have wireless charging, but I wouldn't be using that anyway because I have my phone in a big goofy hard case because I like to mistreat devices. Despite its age, it will still get 4-5 days of light use per charge with WiFi, BT, and LTE all enabled and no thought of conservation, depending on network coverage. Somehow Lenovo has so far resisted the urge to ruin the brand. I did have a Motorola (pre-buyout) phone fail one time, but it was a free phone from a carrier.

news.google.com came right up for me, and even includes my truly local news outlets like Lost Coast Outpost.

I don't get the charge that lizards are lying about global warming anyway. Wouldn't they actually want it? They would be saying "global warming is great, and could you push that rock over here so I can do push-ups on it?"

The news will always be bad for the rest of your life because even in the best case it would take that long just to slow things down.

It didn't happen spontaneously, it was anthropogenic. You got to see part of it happen and somehow you still won't believe.

He talked about why commercial use is unrealistic and you had to move the goalposts to military before you felt like you had something of value to contribute.

You didn't.

My point is that the GP is deep in iFanboy denial and accusing others of being liars, but that event occurred so he is either ignorant or himself a liar, much like Apple is either hostile or incompetent. The whole thread is right there and this should be obvious from the context.

Apple famously stated that they had to throttle phones with old batteries to keep them working because the older batteries couldn't provide enough current to avoid voltage drops.

This means either they chose to design the phones such that they would get into that condition during the usable life of the phone and battery, or that they are incompetent. Given that Apple users believe the myth of Apple competence despite the repeated and glaring evidence that they are no more competent than average, the only explanation that they MIGHT accept is that the phone was designed with planned obsolescence.

Unfortunately there are few things I can say that trigger slashdot moderators as much as saying Elno isn't perfect

Nah TPTB only cares about trans-whatever groomers, priests and corporations are OK

Now that is interesting news to follow.

Definitely massive use of dark patterns there. The cancel process is definitely made to just outright frustrate you, and whenever you order something from Amazon you need to take extra care not to accidentally sign up to Prime.

And good that they're going after the execs. It's time the corporate shield comes down a bit.

When I block advertisers on Twitter (which the site makes reasonably convenient) I get a popup asking me to pay for premium to block all the ads, and I can either upgrade now or "maybe later". But no, there is in fact no chance that I will subscribe later. Also, I am doing them a favor since seeing their ads on Twitter at this time creates a negative association in my mind. Not that there was any chance I would do business with them anyway, since the vast majority of them are for some kind of cryptocurrency service or web tracking.

I had Moto triplets phones too... V300 V500 V600, RAZR V3 V3i. My current phone is a Moto G Power 2021 (2nd) which they advertised as having a 3 day battery, but I have gone 5 without getting into the single digits several times. My lady has an even cheaper Tracfone made by Moto which has less dots but otherwise accomplishes all the same stuff, she almost never uses her phone except to read on.