Comment Re:[meta] Yes, thank you (Score 1) 160
It's also easier to reread something ambiguous or poorly worded to get the meaning as opposed to seeking back a few seconds.
It's also easier to reread something ambiguous or poorly worded to get the meaning as opposed to seeking back a few seconds.
this good post comrade. deny, derail, and diminish.
we will spill the ketchup onto the french frys and salt the plates to make those capitalist pigs our bacon for breakfast!
is akin to "you have no evidence that homeopathy works, despite searching for it, but it could still totally be true". Sure, it might be true, but that's a ridiculously banal position to take in an argument: "I win because I don't need to assert anything".
Ummm.... No. The validity of homeopathy is testable and verifiable by scientific rigor. The question about God is purely philosophical and personal. It cannot be tested, verified, or even acknowledged by science. That question is a non-sequitur in science because it doesn't change the laws of nature that we have observed.
Seriously, if Odin, Zeus, or Jesus came from the sky and said; "Yep it was me all along, here is proof of me. See ya next millennium! BTW, be excellent to each other." Would that change the data observed from the LHC? Or would it change the theory of the Higgs Boson? (it might change what it is [It's really just the love touch of his noodley appendage which gives matter mass])
It is all speculation and speculation has no place in science. Agnosticism recognizes that anything outside of reality is unknown and water is wet! However, instead of defaulting to the disbelief (atheism which is scientifically aligned) or belief (theism) they err on "outside of our reality anything is possible however unlikely therefore I don't know without evidence."
As this story has been submitted several times in the past several days, by various submitter and is going around various other tech forums( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... , https://soylentnews.org/articl... , https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
they succeed in "falling on their ass"
I am an expert at sitting on my ass you insensitive clod!
Why should I run and jump when there is a perfect capable (and awesome) robot that can do it for me?
Robots will take our jobs and our exercise routines!
issue with the kernel, sysvinit and/or php
So, what you are saying is that I can blame systemd? Or did I miss it and systemd is our savior?
I am confused and unsure how to be outraged by this. I am going to go eat ice cream.
Yes, because aliens on the moon told us to. We know this because when Neil Armstrong saw the aliens on the moon
It's aliens all the way down.
But.. But... It has "theory" in the name that means that you are just not smart enough to understand and I am a super genius! If I use my patented off hand metaphor to describe it, I could get my own TV show! However, describing dork-ions seems self defeating.
Register the tire like you do any other thing. Proof of tire tax please.
The real problem I see with this approach is that it adds to the economic benefit of using worn out tires for as long as possible, which is definitely not in the public's best interest.
Yeah. I agree. You do not want people driving on unsafe tires and any tax on tires would incentive people driving on them for as long as possible. On the flip side, you could also try to incentivize proper tire use by giving tax credits for proper maintenance and use (tire rotations, keeping air pressure at optimal levels, etc).
Maybe just one more thing the police look for when they pull people over? Inadequate tire tread is the new broken tail light.
Do you have any research to back up your "dirt roads that wear on tires more" comment?
Nope. Pure speculation. IANATORE (I am not a tire or road expert)
Assuming safety is maintained on the retread. A new market that recycles a resource? Sure, why not sounds great! It doesn't have to be a black market.
I like this idea, but on a 100k mile tire at $0.015/mile (the rate proposed in Oregon) that would be $1500 for a new set of tires (or $375 per tire if you have four tires and each tire gets charged at a fourth the rate). Given that a cheap new tire costs around $50, that would be a significant (perceived) price hike for new tires.
Agreed. It is an idea that has problems and I haven't given much thought into solving them.
But I think you would have to handle the taxes as a separate transaction from the tire. Consider something like a loan from the state. You pay back the taxes owed over an established time (no interest). Once paid, you are done.
You could try to incentive proper tire use by having little tire tax deductions to try and offset the large cost. e.g. Rotate your tires every 10k miles, gain $100 credit that goes toward the total taxed amount. Or ensuring that every month your tires are properly inflated you gain $10 (tire pressure can effect mpg too!), or some amount worth the effort (that doesn't make the system ineffective).
As far as the black markets, tax dodging, etc. Maybe something like car registration, proof you are paying/have paid. One more paper to drive with. Did you pay your taxes to drive on this road?
I am not sure. If someone has some ideas I would like to hear.
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