Hardware can be physically inspected, software once installed cannot. All you can do is test it.

Yeah, good luck with that absurd idea. A lot of people who work in factories have no higher skills , banging widgets is what they do and grunt work or not, it gives them a sense of purpose.

Yeah, great idea. Do a remote OTA update on a plane about to carry 200 passengers to 40K feet without bothering to test it first. What could possibly go wrong.

Do you understand the difference in safety requirements between a car and an airliner?

From the directive:

"This condition, if not corrected, could lead in the worst-case scenario to an uncommanded elevator
movement that may result in exceeding the aircraftâ(TM)s structural capability."

Thats a bit worrying. Surely the fuselage should be able to cope with any possible elevator input or am I being naive?

" Radiation levels on Mars are on average 0.64mSv per day. Radiation levels in Ramsar, Iran are 0.71mSv per day"

Oh really?

https://marspedia.org/Radiatio...

"The average natural radiation level on Mars is 24-30 rads or 240-300 mSv per year[1][2]. This is about 40-50 times the average on Earth. "

https://www.esa.int/Science_Ex...

"An astronaut on a mission to Mars could receive radiation doses up to 700 times higher than on our planet "

Best check your facts next time instead of relying on chatgpt or whatever AI slop you got yours from.

That was the incident that triggered it apparently. Tbh a 100 foot drop in altitude in 7 seconds is hardly divebombing territory.

... then see how well your economy performs when you have mass civil unrest. And all the tech bros who BS about paying people to do nothing using AI profits - yeah, people on benefits always find constructive things to do with their time, they never get depressed due to lack of purpose and end up on drinks, drugs or in prison.

Holdern asks Leon the time...
Leon looks at his Casio and tells him.
Roll end credits.

Hmm.....

Thinking yes, sentience no.

Given a lot of businesses financial departments use integers to represent money to specifically avoid floating point rounding errors I very much doubt they give a flying fsck about 42 digit precision.

> Under the proposed changes, I'll pay per mile. 50 miles per gallon means I'm driving about 42.5 miles a day. So 42.5 miles * $.027 = $1.1475 tax a day. $1.1475 * 365 = $418.8375 a year. So for bothering to drive a hybrid (how dare I!!!) I'll go from $189.873 up to $418.837. $419 / 190 = 221% increase in gas tax.

Meanwhile you're not paying for roughly $2400/yr in gasoline. If you were driving a gasoline vehicle at a typical 30mpg, your 42.5 miles per day would burn about 1.42 gallons which, at a statewide average cost of $4.569/gal, is $6.47 per day, or $2362.55 per year.

Your annual fuel cost savings decreases from $2172.68 to $1943.71.

So did your have a point or are you just bitter your free ride might be slowing down a tiny bit?

> The asshole in the 20mpg tank won't notice a difference

The asshole getting 20mpg is already paying almost ten times what you would be under the proposed tax at $0.228/mi at current state average gas prices, and I disagree that they won't notice that jump ~12%.

> YAY I'm so happy to be green

I should hope so with an extra 2 grand in your pocket every year over the alternative. Also FYI those higher registration fees are there to make up for the gasoline prices you're already not paying, which is nearly double the tax you'd be paying at the pump otherwise.

"They dropped the cover charge and made admittance to the bar free! How DARE they charge more for drinks!"
=Smidge=
/AND you probably claimed a tax credit buying that vehicle...

> why vehicle weight doesn't get mentioned in their idea

It's because the difference between 3000 and 4000 lbs is practically negligible. Yeah it's a 4th power relationship, but 3000 to 4000 lbs is about 3x the wear rate and 3 multiplied by practically nothing is still practically nothing.

Not to say I'm against including weight as part of the tax calculation, because it would incentivize people using smaller vehicles which helps in a lot of other ways.
=Smidge=

Multiculturalism is having people of different cultures living in the same area. Its not fucking restaurant food. Go get yourself a clue.

"There are many who perceive countries that welcome immigrants to be gullible idiots that they can take advantage of"

And they'd be correct.

"Japan is starting to notice diversity is not a strength"

Japan never fell for that multi culti BS propaganda in the first place. Its a very racially homogenous country and all the better for it.