You just called every company dumb. Either that or you just pointed out you have no idea how financial departments work. Massive excel spreadsheets are the mainstay of all large companies and even wall street. In many cases replacing a spreadsheet will require a myriad of interlinked tools, databases, calculation engines, scripts, all suddenly opaque to the end user who ultimately needs a data in a row that is able to be analysed. Most of the best data analytics tools are also designed around the ability to quickly ingest large spreadsheets and export them again.

You're just clueless as to how the world around you works.

No one is not accepting anything. The AI label is no different than "This product may contain Peanuts". What Sweeny wants to do is push AI rubbish while hiding it from people who actually care about it.

When you ask people to vote for change vs no change they will vote for the latter regardless of how good the former. The problem there is that you will perpetually maintain two systems.

People hate change. All change. Even if the new website was perfect people will vote for what they know.

Found the guy who doesn't own a mobile phone. No there's nothing fine about the BOM website. It flat out doesn't work on the device most people use to get weather information. Forget mobile site, it doesn't even format existing text to make it readable on a small screen.

The BOM website is truly a national embarrassment, especially in a country that is so often hit by floods, fires, and tropical storms.

One of the problems here is legacy. There's an insane volume of information on the BOM websites dumped in a very simple way. Many years of lack of an API has created all sorts of interesting ways people use and access the data.

Making a front end is easy. Making a front end that doesn't break someone's workflow is virtually impossible, even for sites much smaller.

Honestly their best bet would be a parallel system. Make and app, register the domain bom2.gov.au and set up shop there. Then monitor how the old site gets used to see what functionality is actually required.

That's precisely the thinking that can put you in the situation of massively overspending. You made an assumption without ever even looking at the requirements. Your project is doomed from the onset simply because of your approach or view of the situation.

Well the OP did correctly title his post...

You're another person who has fallen into the trap of thinking that taxes are somehow labelled and designated to a certain activity. They are not. Road taxes go to the treasury. Fuel taxes go to the treasury. Whether they get used for building new roads, maintaining existing roads, or making bombs to blow up roads, or to refurnish 10 Downing Street is completely irrelevant.

Before talking about cutting taxes maybe look at the budget deficit.

No, classic case of simply not understanding how taxes or governments are supposed to work. An EV isn't a "free rider". It's a choice made based on finances, those finances are partially dictated by one of the two ways government have to enact policy. Roadwork gets paid for by taxes. That's it. Not "fuel taxes". Just taxes. Your Amoco station doesn't send a letter to the tax department saying "here's my tax, but you're only allowed to spend this on roads."

Taxes are pooled, that pool is distributed. Whether one car or another pays a different tax depends on government policy.

E.g. Some countries around the world have taxes based just on fuel and flat vehicle taxes.
Some have taxes based on vehicle weight (different damage to the roads).
Some have taxes based on vehicle power (different cost to society when idiots get in a crash).
Some have taxes based on emissions (e.g. EV exemptions).

The only people arguing that taxes are for just roads are those who disagree with government policy not being aligned with their previous financial choice. May as well say I don't think we should be funding childcare centres because I don't have kids and that woman next door is just a free rider because she couldn't keep her legs closed.

I'm not sure what Slashdot you were visiting but there was far from a consensus on this topic and literally no one suggested GPS tracking as a viable solution beyond the far more obvious and non-privacy invasive option of reporting mileage during the car service that you mention.
Also there was plenty of contention on how governments get and distribute revenue. Also there was contention on how something should be considered "fair" when we are talking about implementing policy using monetary incentives.

The reality is the road tax argument is stupid. Road maintenance is paid for by taxes. Taxes are a cookie jar. It is irrelevant why money goes in or why money comes out. The government levers on policy are regulatory and financial. They either want to promote EVs or they don't. The roads can still be maintained even if no cars pay tax, the funding just comes by different means.

6GHz is a regulated band that is shared with existing users. The problem was actually technical, as far as I can tell there's been no recent policy changes to the 6GHz band. Devices operating in 6GHz have always needed to implement contention based protocols and a lower power limit than normal. In WiFi 6E that was Automatic Frequency Coordination. As far as I was aware AFC simply wasn't implemented for any hotspots and so they didn't use 6GHz.

Can anyone see any change to the 6GHz regulations this year? It seems like they haven't changed since they were opened up last year.

Jesus Christ you're dense.

Wrong. The restaurant has nothing to do with Disney+'s online TOS. Disney's park has a different ToS. The legal claim was widely laughed at when it was made and would have certainly been thrown out had there not been a settlement.

You don't even need to read the fucking article. You quoted text showing that the person in question made sure, and even double checked. Like seriously, how can you quote text at me to prove your point which disproves your own? Forget idiot of the day, you may have just made the dumbest post of the year.

Congrats.

The place a site is based has nothing to do with the content people post on it. People are under the jurisdiction of where they reside, the location of the platform is irrelevant. No one in the UK is being arrested because they are using a UK based service. They are being arrested because someone reported them locally and they were locally identified.

Brits aren't immune because Slashdot is a USA site. And you're not magically under UK law because you post a common on the dailymail.co.uk comments section

No seriously back to civics with you. You can look at applicability of law right after you learn what a democracy actually is.

If the 5 year old poses as an adult online with all the lack of age verification possibilities that come with it, it really wouldn't be their fault. Your analogy falls flat because OpenAI hasn't actually done anything illegal (unlike say selling guns to a minor).

It really does. They even pointed out the teen is dead, normally lawyers would just call them "the plaintiff". The humanity they are showing is already borderline no longer lawyer like.