Comment Re:Speedrunning Orwell (Score 1) 103
You do realise some US states are well ahead on the UK on this
You do realise some US states are well ahead on the UK on this
..and is unlikely to be, it's raised as the only way over and over, but then you find out they exclude gaming, drawing, video editing, and most other tasks that don't involve text input - in fact it's only for text input
and then people try it, and it's terrible at it, slow, inaccurate, and you spend huge amounts of time correcting it's mistakes
Or debug it, or get it to do more - he would have to start from scratch each and every time
Documentation - would be non-existent
It is likely as part of the negotiations that Trump will cave in and they will introduce a similar tax - but this will spun as a triumph for Trump
As always any government that thinks this is in any way enforceable is deluded
..and will be for years
In the rest of the world what is replacing manual cars are EV's not Automatics
The cost to individuals in Tax and direct payments of healthcare in the USA is more than twice as much as in most European countries
For this extra you get worse outcomes, or little to no actual healthcare at all
the average US citizen pays more for Medicare and Medicaid that a European citizen does for universal healthcare, and cannot use either
then pays nearly the same again for Health Insurance, co-payments, etc to get actual healthcare
In Quebec 95%+ speak French because if you don't you are excluded from society, business, everything
Because everything is conducted only in French
In Wales you are taught Welsh at School, everything defaults to Welsh, some Schools teach only in Welsh etc. but you can easily get by without speaking Welsh
Did they pay for the actors, and voiceover artist ?
ASIMO a fully autonomous robot could run
That's the AI you don't want or need - and it seems that you don't need to upgrade the hardware either
Most people don't care, and if they do in a year it will be with carefully selected adverts
It's a model still used in a few other countries
A universal tax to fund the public service broadcaster is more common now
The US system of not really having a public service broadcaster, and having PBS having to raise money is the strange system
BBC iPlayer
It should be a universal tax, like it is in most countries
If you didn't have to work so hard, you'd have more time to be depressed.