The point is, its possible to drive on roads in NZ that are not maintained by the government, so the tax ostensibly being paid per mile in fuel tax isn't going to maintain the road you are necessarily on...
And when driving from the UK to France, the ICE drivers are using UK road-taxed fuel, so the counter-point is the same
It doesn't even have to be linked to the car tax.
NZ uses "Road User Charges" for diesel - it does not have the tax built in at the pump (petrol does), so all diesel cars have to buy blocks of kilometres as tax. The government get updated when your annual vehicle inspection is done, but between those inspections its up to you to make sure you have enough spare kilometres left for your trips. If you get stopped by police and they check, being too far out is considered to be tax evasion and a criminal offence.
Who are already required to record mileage on UK roads for other reasons, so thats a solved problem.
And in New Zealand you can easily drive miles and miles on private roads, which are not maintained by the government...
We know what will happen in a world where there is no need for human labour. The 'elite' will build Terminators to eliminate most of the humans.
I doubt it. The elites have capital to invest in the means of production. Absent this they have no real power or purpose.
When you no longer need to pay countless thousands of people to perform a task this is a double edged sword. It not only means you can make do with less it means anyone else can step in and accomplish the same tasks without you.
"Blaming internet or some chatbot" makes perfect sense when the chatbot was programmed to manipulate people and it manipulated a 16 year old to commit suicide.
Chatbots are trained not programmed. If you have evidence OpenAI's chatbot was explicitly trained to manipulate people then FFS please don't keep it to yourself.
Every conversation with ChatGPT happens on OpenAI servers.
Every byte transmitted over the Internet goes over a telecommunications provider therefore telecommunications providers are responsible for everything.
They have complete control.
They have no such thing.
If Walmart sells a gun to a five year old, they cannot say, "Well, the five year old broke the law. Not our fault."
Selling guns to a five year old is itself illegal under the gun control act. Walmart would be breaking the law.
I don't think UK qualifies as a Western Democracy anymore.
It's historically a representative democracy, but the representation has been corrupted by outside influence, including political parties,
and has thus fallen to despotism.
I mean a country is by definition sovereign, so the idea of 'legal precedent' is meaningless. You probably mean that it's not in keeping with the 'rules based global trading order' which is true, but that was/is simply a post-war construct that is getting pretty shaky these days. You're not supposed to be able to slap tariffs on whoever you feel like to strong arm them into doing your bidding either, but here we are.
Ultimately the government of India can fine Apple, or whoever they want, whatever they feel like if their voters don't kick up a fuss. I imagine that Apple has tried to appeal to the government and hasn't made any progress, so they're going for a constitutional ruling since this has authority over the legislature.
But I think Apple still has a lot of leverage here. They probably can't pull out of the country, though I imagine they could threaten it and see if the government calls their bluff. But they have large factory investments there (through Foxconn), people like their products, and I imagine lots of Indians work on products tied to the Apple ecosystem. Closing all of that out would not be good for the Indian economy. There is also wider leverage from the US government. I'm sure Tim Apple can find an even bigger piece of gold to gift to the administration.
In other news, the catholic church is suing OpenAI because they had the idea to simply make suicide illegal a thousand years ago and have been using it ever since.
Not sure if it's a trade secret or a copyright case, the news often don't mention the fine details.
That's a good point. Here on
”Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.”
Jerry Nixon, Microsoft developer evangelist speaking at the company’s Ignite conference this week.
Why Microsoft is calling Windows 10 ‘the last version of Windows’ May 7th, 2015
Why Microsoft Announced Windows 10 Is 'The Last Version Of Windows' May 8, 2015
Windows 10 will be 'the last version of Windows' from May 11, 2015
Like I've said before, this is just yet another financial system being created to have a minority of people manage the majority of the wealth, to their own advantage. This is just a new competing system with less regulation created by the crypto bros to wrestle the current system away from the Wall St. bros.
I think this view gives the crypto bros too much credit. They might now be thinking about taking advantage of the opportunity to wrestle the system away from the Wall Street bros, but there was no such plan.
I have no idea, but its an interesting theory I read recently.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014JCos...2412229B/abstract
Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.
