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Comment Wll compression count as tax avoidance? (Score 1) 192

They present it as a tax on sending data, but of course it's a tax on receiving.
In the UK and most of Europe. the plans are to switch off over-the-air TV, so this will be a big tax on watching streaming TV.
And then there's computer maintenance (downloaded linux-firmware recently? That's over 1 GB...).
What about peer-to-peer transmission - will torrents be taxed, or outlawed as tax avoidance?

Comment 5 handfuls of veg (Score 1) 130

AFAIR the "five a day" was about fibre, not particularly about vitamins. And the definition of a portion was "a handful", as in a handful of spinach (was that before or after cooking), or a handful of apple. On a par with walking 100,000 steps a day or drinking 8 gallons of water a day. Easy to remember, harder to justify.

Comment It's not the third option (Score 1) 50

OK, it's only a niggle, but:
"They could wait for technology to advance, abandoning hope of reading the ancient texts in their own lifetime. Or they could try to open the scrolls themselves — and risk destroying them.
In recent years, researchers have settled on a third option. Using advanced imaging and artificial intelligence, they're deciphering the scrolls without needing to unroll them at all."

Nope, "advanced imaging and artificial intelligence" is the advanced technology for which they were waiting.

Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 347

Indeed. We've had heat-seeking missiles, proximity fuses, radar-controlled guns for ages. They all seek and destroy targets without human control. This is just a more advanced version of the same.
In fact, AI-controlled weapons could be more moral, if they were able to make some informed choice of say whether a target was advancing or retreating.

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