No doubt, but the grownups aren't talking about replacing the fuel bill with a per mil charge, we're talking about replacing the fuel tax>/em>. California has the highest gas tax in the US, at 61.2 cents per gallon. I drive about 10,000 miles a year. The gas tax comes out to a bit less than $250/year at 25 mpg. 3 cents per mile would be $300/year, or higher (though not a lot higher).

In the rest of the country - by definition, our gas tax being the highest - the difference will be more.

Note that the gas tax in California (like most states) does not go to CalTrans, responsible for maintaining highways, it goes into the general fund, for whatever graft and corruption on the the menu this week. The same would be true of any per mile tax on EVs.

As for replacing the fuel bill, last time I calculated it, the cost of electricity here to charge a typical EV would also cost more than the gasoline, and electricity has gone up since then (quite a bit this year), where gas goes up and down, but has hovered between $4-5/gallon for years.

And you've just accused me.

China is committed to controlling the world. All of it. They believe themselves so inherently superior to the lesser races that it is their destiny and obligation to run everyone.

They've been playing similar games in Africa for years. They're just confident enough now to move on to bigger prey.

Regardless of why it's done, such a prohibition is a good and necessary thing. China has already proven that they will use control over exports to make economic war on those it wishes to conquer and enslave (which is everyone).

Or probably would have hallucinated an elaborate conspiracy theory to back up the claim.

It won't play well with the jury, either, whose opinion actually matters.

For people, the internet is one source of information. For AI training, it is the only source.

If you don't get why that difference matters, go ask Mummy for cookie and some milk, it's past your bedtime and you have school tomorrow.

Yes. In a society with a rule of law, it cannot be any other way. The only alternative is to people can tell whatever lies they want without fear of consequences, even if it literally gets people killed. We see too much of that already.

When you're a narcissist, and stupid, it's pretty obvious, to you, that you're inherently superior to all other human beings, therefore, it is literally impossible for anyone to honestly give you less than the best possible rating.

Yes, these "people" really do believe that.

In many other countries, as well, but don't let that stop you from masturbating furiously over how much you hate the US.

People aren't confused by marketing BS. They're confused by their own stupidity.

And yet, he is correct. AI is based on scraping the internet. Even if it were capable of actual intelligence, anything based on the internet is based mostly on lies, misunderstanding and willful ignorance.

Then riddle me this, Batman: Why are they preloading it? What are they preloading? Since it's running all the time, they're clearly not preloading it. Ergo, they're doing something else that will impact system resources, and need some kind of explanation.

XP didn't spend as much time going through all your documents and data files and sending its "telemetry" off to Microsoft for AI training (and sale to advertisers for "targeted ads").

And now, file explorer will be running all the time, so make certain they don't miss anything.

An everybody else who provides a similar service for free does the same thing, only with worse spam filters (say what you want, Gmail has the best spam filters in the business - they don't want the competition).