No. This is inconsequential. Literally nothing at all.
I wonder how much the FAA will pass away "investigating".
Shirley the thoroughness of the investigation is inversely proportional to the amount Amazon "invests" in Trumps latest scam.
Not surprising at all. This was a concern that was raised over a decade ago, even in discussions here on
The fact is that road maintenance needs to be paid, and it was long thought that charging taxes on gasoline was a good way to fund roads because it was simple to implement, it scales with how far you drive, and it also scales with the size of your vehicle (larger vehicles do more damage to the roads). So it was relatively fair. It also didn't require invasive data collection, such as how far or where you drove your vehicle.
When it was first discussed here on
Of course now we voluntarily GPS track ourselves and send the data to our corporate overlords, so that all seems like a moot point.
Will this new law also apply to those crazy guys that power their diesel cars off used french fry grease they get from restaurants?
The free ride for EVs was going to end at some point. If your only reason to get an EV was to evade a small amount of taxation, well you're SOL and should probably re-evaluate your priorities.
In the UK, you have a yearly car inspection called an MOT that registers your mileage at the point of inspection. In that way it's easy to determine what the per mile tax would be. Personally I'd rather a blanket tax on all EVs as it would be easier to administer but I don't have an EV.
However I feel that we're about to discover the hard way the dangers and downsides of the extreme amount of computerisation in modern cars. They're already sending telemetry to the manufacturer, often without the knowledge of the owner, what is to stop the cars from sending similar telemetry to the government? Your car becomes the snitch, especially if people start to fiddle with the mileage before an MOT. There's no need for a new GPS spying system to be installed, it's already there.
BTW, when it comes to diesel, modern cars can't really run off of chip fat from the local chippy and converting it to biodiesel would be more expensive than buying diesel (especially as it won't scale)... however something similar has already been a thing in the UK for ages as we have "red" diesel... which is diesel sold tax free for non-road use (industrial, mining, agricultural, generators and the like, vehicles and applications that would never use the road) with a red dye added for easy identification. A few people used red diesel for road going vehicles but it's never been such a significant issue that anything beyond token enforcement has been necessary.
I believe that there is no limit to the incompetence of government committee.
We've formed a committee to limit the levels of incompetence in the previous committee.
That's too much future tech, but for now -- why not install a titanium plate? At least it won't cause rejection issues, and functionality wise is no worse than current transplants. And, instead of on-lookers getting revulsed, you'll get looks of awe. Severely disfigured wetware makes people say they offer compassion, but in reality they're severely disgusted and feel an urge to distance themselves from you -- because biologically, looking ill means something potentially transmissible, which our instincts try to protect us from. A visibly artificial face avoids all that.
Although this is a small first step, long overdue, it augers the beginning of the end of total immunity for social media conglomerates.
augurs. Verb. What an augur does (an ancient fortune teller).
augers. Plural. From auger (an ancient drilling tool used in agriculture).
There's no actual way to know if a game was made with AI or not.
Just look for the copied artwork. It's pretty simple, really.
Kind of. China has expanded its borders repeatedly over the centuries, at times bordering on the Persian Empire or down to Burma before shrinking back towards its traditional region of influence.
Unless the part of the penalty that doesn't compensate Indian consumers and businesses is the punitive damages to assure no repeats of the behavior.
Well, right in the summary it says ChatGPT gave the kid a "pep talk" encouraging him to actually carry out the suicide.
Deflation is not automatically bad, China is seeing deflation now, and that's actually the plan. To do it though you need competent leadership, which we in the west are sadly lacking.
https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...
Chinese deflation is a result of powerful supply-side forces that have the opposite effect: China’s economy continues to grow at solid rates, while rent-seeking profits are extinguished at the company level by high competition.
Hello, this is your slashdot comment. Just interact with it like you normally would.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
