located close enough to a rail line to cost effectively build a spur is negligible.
There is some tax rate at which it would become cost effective to do so.
Granted, they might instead choose to instead spend a smaller amount of money lobbying in advance for a tax break, and politicians would likely be persuaded by their constituents who don't like paying $100 US for a gallon of milk or $150 for a dozen of eggs.
So while they may do it in order to avoid taxes the downside is the odometer will show lower mileage at sale time than the car actually has.
A few things come to mind immediately:
Then, upon successive annual inspection, if there is a failure to undergo the annual inspection Or multiple seals are missing.... there will be a $1000 fine. If seals are missing, and odometers are in disagreement, then potential jail time also.
Maybe we should just nix the idea that road infrastructure needs to be paid for with gas or vehicle taxes
Pretty soon we're supposed to have flying cars, AND robots that can help maintain the roads by taking over road construction work, so the idea of needing to maintain road infrastructure ought to get a lot less expensive than it is today, in fairly short order.
. My local grocery store does not have a rail spur serving it....
The economics of whether or not it would make sense for your local grocery to build such a rail spur are dependent on the costs of trucking VS hauling by rail!
If they had to pay appropriate tax on rail use instead of externalizing hauling costs onto taxpaying motorists maintaining the roads, then they might build the rail spur.
A fully loaded 18-wheeler causes 10000 times as much damage as a typical car
If the 18-wheeler is loaded up so that it weighs 10000 times as much as a typical car, then their tax should be 10000 as much per mile driven, while the car's per-mile tax should be 1/10000 of the 18 wheeler's tax.
This means that in addition to a GPS, there needs to be weight-measurement equipment, and vehicles capable of carrying more weight than a certain threshold need to be required to visit at least 1 public weight station after fully loaded and sealed after any use of public roads, before any unloading is permitted.
Why not just tolls? That's a per-mileage solution that doesn't penalize hybrid and electric owners.
Yes, they still do... we are still subsidizing heavy vehicles that do more damage to roads.
The fee should be a WEIGHT-MILE fee instead of a Per Mile Travelled fee.
If you're riding a bicycle, motorcycle, or one of those lightweight one person "Smart Car"s, the cost per mile in tax should be negligible. If you're driving a Semi Truck fully loaded down the street, the cost per mile should be huge.
Minimum wage coupled with rent control might be workable if food and transportation costs are kept marginal.
I would prefer a "free market" solution. Require landlords to offer tenants an annual agreement valid for a minimum of 5 years that promises at least that number of years of lease extension at substantially the same terms and specifies the maximum rate increase over the next 5 years out and extendable every year.
The level of the rate increase is completely up to the landlord, their choice. HOWEVER, any rate increase specified by the agreement over the next 5 years will be presumed to be guaranteed income, which tax must be prepaid for, and only 80% of the tax amount will be eligible to be refunded under any circumstances whatsoever, including deductible expenses or if the tenant cancels their lease before that income is realized, and failing at the end of the year to add another year indicating intent to cancel the lease, will be valid, but a $1000 administrative fee must be paid to the government in order to do so, to help cover social programs, unless the tenant themself declared an intent to cancel the lease using a specific notarized form.
Besides if we let the government collect all autonomous vehicle data, we are in for some serious trouble.
I believe vehicle owners will willingly contribute the data; especially if they know it will be used to help enforce the law against miscreants who disrupted their smooth travel.
If they use that power to enforce something as frivolous as traffic violations then we have really f***ed ourselves over.
Traffic violations are not frivolous, they are a safety issue. All available sources for collecting data should be used to help enforce safety.
Traffic authorities? As autonomous vehicles increase, traffic cops will decrease.
You mean fines will increase to support law enforcement. The most minor violation from a human driver will to have to carry a heftier fine than before, and more rigorous enforcement will be possible thanks to contributions from autonomous vehicle owners.
You seem to think that DNS names being exposed in TLS negotiation was an accident.
The purpose of DNS names being exposed by the SNI extension is to facilitate name-based virtual hosting. It is not to expose additional information to 3rd parties sniffing the line; that part was clearly an accident. It can be fixed, and I see no reason why it won't be.
There are legitimate reasons for some people being able to selectively block web traffic
If someone's abusing SNI information for censorship purposes, then that's yet another reason this needs to be fixed. No a 3rd party sniffing to identify names and tampering with or "blocking" SSL traffic is not legitimate, for any reason.
being exchanged to become opaque those who want/need to block will do so using other means like IP blocks/reverse DNS lookups
One protocol at a time. There are other undergoing projects within the industry to privacy-secure DNS, so 3rd parties won't be able to intercept your DNS requests or figure out what DNS names you are looking up.
As for IP blocks, there are always methods available of proxying traffic, including ToR... these could even get built into standard web browsers as a "fallback" connection method, if for some reason, a direct connection was failing, or in due course using default proxying, for additional source IP privacy shielding.
New proxies are becoming available every day, so the major browsers just need to incorporate all available anti-censorship techniques, to ensure that network-based traffic tampering/interception won't work out of the box.
But somebody needs deal with the inevitable delays and malfunctioning signals at winter and look out the window to check people do not get stuck in the door, etc.
Translation: Get rid of drivers and replace them with safety patrol officers and maintenance workers who are trained to ensure safety and handle emergencies.
I'll relish in those years where I can drive like a mad man and all those self driving cars will part like the red sea.
And those self-driving cars who will at the same time catch you on video and upload the footage to your insurance company and local traffic authorities.....
The next stage is for users to download the ads, but don't show them on the screen.
Big data analysis will show when the number of legitimate clicks drops below expected levels for a
When it drops below acceptable tolerance; we'll replace content with a Captcha submission form that requires looking at an image or text shown in the Advert frame in order to successfully answer the Captcha.
If the Ad is not shown, then the user won't be able to complete the Captcha.
as the DNS names the certificates protect are passed in the clear during TLS negotiation.
A privacy issue.... Hopefully, in the future, we'll add negotiation using DH of a shared secret between client and server, then exchange a Hash of the DNS name encrypted with a shared secret during TLS negotiation, instead of the actual name.
That way, a third party cannot passively snoop on the TLS negotiation and work out the proper certificate name being expected by the client, without causing the SSL session to fail.
I noticed there are a lot of incidents of "people providing carriage" these days looking for any possible revenue streams they can get, legitimate or not. Mafia-Like. The big near-Monopoly residential broadband providers in the world want to change their role from common carrier to Mafioso Middlemen.
Without Title II / Network neutrality regulation by the FCC.... the time has fast been approaching in the US, where if you want to go to http://www.amazon.com/ in your web browser, you would not be able to, unless Amazon made a deal with your ISP that includes a cut of every sale.
It's similar to the idea of the electric company wanting to charge a percentage of the sales of every new device, before you are allowed to plug it into the wall (Your new iPhone charger must be hardwired by a POCO-approved installer, and the install fee is $50 plus 10% of the price of the new equipment shown on the sales reciept).
The next stage is for Google to provide an Apache plugin and some custom Javascript to detect if a client has been downloading certain pages without displaying the ads; if your IP address gets in the "Ad Blocker" blacklist, then all the content provider websites can just query the blacklist and refuse to serve content until you unblock the ads.
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