The Air Passenger Duty tax is significantly more expensive: https://www.gov.uk/government/...

If society doesnâ(TM)t want this, they should pay more taxes and hire more police and spend on other schemes to provide more opportunities and education, etc. Doing it through the back door and hiding the cost in the price of your groceries is piecemeal and less effective.

Well, it's not really AI in any sense of the honest term; it's not a self aware machine. AI has become a marketing term for servers running a bunch of fancy scripts that produce dialogue that can pass for human speech fairly well. BUT... AI is a game changer economically because those fancy scripts are already killing jobs, jobs that won't be replaced by something else. So in that sense, AI isn't "bullshit". It's an extinction level event for entire classes of formerly human work. And the economic and social and political crisis that it will create has clearly already began.

This presupposes that they don't get plenty of "real world" while they're homeschooling. As if they're in some hermetically sealed environment where bad things never touch them. When we homeschooled ours, one of my wife's single friends objected, asking us "what about socialization?". Well, what about it? There's still plenty of it with friends and family, church, and play. And when they're young adults, they're better able to deal with the scum of the world than a pre-teen or teenager thrown into the cage match that is modern public schools where you can't get to them. School is supposed to be about education, not be a Thunderdome where the weak are weeded out for the coming apocalypse. Whatever my sons missed in public schools, they're far better off not being in a concrete box where some hulking delinquent 3 to 4 years older than all his class peers is punching teachers or pulling a gun on students.

Getting your children to do things around the house and garden or taking them to a firing range has nothing to do with home schooling and can be done by any parent anyway. The fact that you mentioned "likeminded parents" sounds more like indoctrination.

It's the Christmas season. Everybody loves a two-for-one deal.

Theyâ(TM)re not really 24, 30 or 60. Theyâ(TM)re stupid fractional rates like 30000/1001. I wish NTSC fractional frame rates would die, along with interlacing.

Oregon isn't Nigeria. All of the worker creature comforts aren't being flown in at great expense because local infrastructure and services are shit. Houses and restaurants are being built. Stores are being built. That means employing the locals for the most part, raising their wages and improving their infrastructure.

There are downsides to big companies coming into small towns. I live in one, and the increased traffic and general hassle of more people annoys the fuck out of me. But our standard of living has most definitely gone up, not down.

This is heavily dependent upon what the major is. Huge numbers of college grads get degrees that do them absolutely no good in the workplace. There are legions of grads working in jobs that don't require college.

A chemical engineering major is going to make so much bank that he can pay off his loans in a very short time and have a high amount of disposable income. The Sociology grad working a telemarketer job, not so much. He's sitting at a table with co-workers that in many cases didn't even graduate high school.

LOL. Thanks for the witty reply; I wish /. would let me just react like every other modern app or site.

An actual game changer (literally) would be native Steam and GOG clients for Linux and BSD. Windows would still be, percentage-wise, the king of desktop gaming, but you'd see a mighty river of players move over to Unix systems if those two things came to fruition.

You can still get them, they just tend to be expensive because they're "commercial grade" by default if it's a Samsung. Sceptre still makes low end affordable non-smart TV's for a pretty good price. A 50' is under $250 at Wal Mart. We have a Sceptre 55' in our living room. All smart stuff is through HDMI Roku sticks. The sound on Sceptres tend to suck, but we picked up a nice Sony sound bar for under $99, and it's slim enough to fit under it. So, tax and all, you're still getting everything you want for under $400.

Iâ(TM)ve never had a vacuum that lasts for such a short period of time. My current one (a Dyson) has been going 14 years and no reason to believe it will die anyone soon. I got rid of the 12 year old Hoover I had before only because I moved country and it wouldnâ(TM)t work with 220V. What is your wife doing to break so many vacuums, or are they just cheap crap that fails frequently? Youâ(TM)ve spent way more on vacuums than I have.

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And that has what to do with his point? He's right. With very, very few exceptions.... guys like Bill Maher... the kind of people that mock Christians would never have the balls to do the same in the same manner to Muslims. That makes them cowards, hypocrites, or both.