And if you are a phone manufacturer and you tell them, "Our plan is to ignore your country until the next election, when your government will probably go away anyway," what then? Or if the answer is, "We can either keep England or California, and we choose California," what then?

Something like what they are asking for has to be done in a way that protects privacy all around, including, potentially, privacy of the minor from excessive intrusion by the parents, so you would have to allow an option for the kid to send the content to parents for approval.

For live photographs, that permission would have to be requested by the kid, and the content stored on device, but sequestered in such a way that the kid can't access it without parental approval. Otherwise, if you don't allow the photo to be taken at all, you wouldn't be able to have your kid take photos of art in museums without unlocking their devices (which would defeat the protection purposes), and if the phone automatically sends it for approval (rather than manually), you'd run the risk of kids' selfie porn getting automatically sent to their parents, making their parents potentially legally liable (not to mention probably psychologically scarred).

And all of this has to be done in such a way that none of the data can leave the device for any reason, under any circumstances, without the explicit permission of the owner of the device. That also means zero automatic reporting to anyone that content was flagged at all, because of the risk of such flagging triggering physical, emotional, or sexual abuse of the young people by others with access to those reports (e.g. pervy local law enforcement having a report of who all the bad girls are, or worse, getting access to the photos).

More importantly, this ideally should be done such in a way that it would be technically infeasible to comply with any future law mandating automatic reporting. And this is the truly hard part, because I have no idea how you'd pull that off. Mitigating the risk of future government overreach is actually the hardest aspect of this sort of detection from a privacy perspective, and given how many government officials are frothing at the mouth, breathlessly demanding such privacy violations, it's easy to see why such protection is so important.

Doing this right is potentially challenging to get right, and there are a lot of sharp edges. Worse, those sharp edges could cause regulatory problems in other countries, and because cell phones don't stay in one place, that can be a nasty problem.

Give them a ten-year implementation deadline with an eight-year design deadline. To be blunt, if England wanted this in six months, they should have asked in 2016.

If it were sometime else I might

Perhaps when you learn to read, you'll be able to figure it out from all the explanations we've already given. You don't get to demand a repetition. Just learn to read.

Look, there's a dumbfuck now!

Your logic is childish if you're not demanding the wealthy make the changes first, because everything we can do is 1) trivial by comparison since businesses make most emissions and we don't own or control those and 2) dependent on their decisions, for the exact same reason. What we can reasonably change without making ourselves destitute is almost nothing in the grand scheme. They can make huge changes while still remaining wealthier than the rest of us. Childish is accepting their demand that YOU make changes when it's THEIR decisions destroying us all. Childish is not holding the actual offenders accountable. Childish is abdicating your thought process to the status quo.

If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, then our available actions would be more environmentally inoffensive, because the decisions of the wealthy control all of our lives.

It'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you're simping for billionaires because you admire them than to blame The People for living in the world those fucks have bought.

They're running out of prisoner conscripts, yes. They have not really tapped their main population. That's why there is still a reasonably high level of support for his war, although it surely must be waning with the recent successful attacks by Ukraine on infrastructure which must be affecting consumer prices by now. Otherwise I think your comment is accurate, but this does mean that they could throw more people at the conflict if they wanted to.

That you're asking that question is how we know WWIII hasn't started. If it had, it would already be a wider, full-fledged conflict.

That's not to say that it won't, but that this isn't a world war yet.

How many cubic meters of water does that 3.3-3.6mm represent? How much additional heat energy was stored in the ocean? Explain on what basis you imagine it's not significant.

Yes, because when you run them when it's cold you have to contend with all of the dumbfucks who think that if the globe is warming, it should mean they are never cold again.

This is a story about satellite-based jamming. It would help if you would try reading at least the summary.

I just woke up to this? Nobody said people shouldn't have to have insurance, bro. The statement was that nobody should be writing profit for private corporations into the law.

This is unknowable until we stop finding more complexity in the brain. That we keep doing that is how we how we can't make a brain replacement yet.

Most out-of-warranty service isn't done at dealers, because they tend to massively overcharge compared with independent garages. Most out-of-warranty repairs are done with parts salvaged from wrecked vehicles, i.e. they are factory parts.

Repair for $4k + labor or replace for $9k. Still not a write off.

Nissan Leaf batteries can be obtained for $4,000 to $14,500, depending on capacity. I assume that is plus installation, but not certain. That's considerably less than what the resale value would be after the repair, so not a write-off.