Yup, because those people intentionally looking to mislead or defraud others through the use of AI fakes are certainly going to follow this law to the letter...

Im sorry, but a whole load of those justifications are bullshit.

Yes, but 6.9m of those 27.6m don't have a car in the first place, and pretty obviously,

And how many of those 27.6m will have multiple vehicles?

and pretty obviously, those are more likely to be the households without the ability to park a car off-street.

No, thats very far from "obvious" at all. Very very far. So far, that its a reach.

Did you even look at the Google Maps link I sent? I'd say that under the current approach, a good proportion of the city of Norwich would not be able to charge their vehicle at home because they have no chance of off road parking.

- that still leaves at least 70% of cars / households able to charge at home offstreet compared to 0% able to refuel at home offstreet, which is a massive win for tens of millions of people, and obviously reduces pressure on the public charging network

The reason this doesnt matter for ICE is because refuelling ICE vehicles is a 5 minute matter and the infrastructure has been around to do that for what, a hundred years now?

Meanwhile, the infrastructure for charging EV vehicles anywhere other than very very specific locations right now is non-existent, and will consist of a MASSIVE build out which hasnt even started yet.

- tons of solutions for on-street charging are rolling out, from lamp-post to bollards to gullies

The problem is not that solutions theoretically exist, its that they are yet to be implemented on the scale required in order to achieve the switch over from ICE to EV that governments want to see.

Where is the funding for the roll out of those solutions? Wheres the wide scale planning for implementing those solutions?

- there's tons of other places to charge, including workplace charging

Laughable if you consider that most people don't have a parking spot at work and have to park either on-street near their work place or in a commercial car park. So the same issues apply here as well.

In addition to that, if EV charging spots arent excessively available in numbers then you are going to have an issue where someone parks up, hooks up and sits there for 8 hours while they work.

Once again its an issue of available infrastructure - 10 EV charge points for a road of 50 houses simply isnt going to cut it. You are going to have to have 50 charge points otherwise the shit is going to hit the fan at some point. And we both know that no government, local or national, is going to provide enough charging points for those that dont have off-road parking of their own.

- cars only need to be charged once every 10 to 14 days in the UK, given how much the average car is driven per day

Sorry but I want the ability to drive whatever distance I like at the drop of a hat, which means that my car would be plugged in whenever Im not using it to achieve that. My wife is a doctor who is regularly on call, so she *has* to be able to drive whatever distance she wants at the drop of a hat.

My problem is not EVs, my problem is the lack of infrastructure to support EVs and the timeline that governments want to have the general populace to switch over to EVs wholesale - there are deadlines in place, but theres absolutely fuck all funding at the scale required in order to build the corresponding infrastructure out.

People are used to the availability of "drive to the other end of the country and back again" at the drop of a hat in terms of infrastructure which supports that - for EV that does not exist right now, and its not going to exist a decade from now which is 5 years after the ICE ban in the UK - theres no mass roll out even planned yet, its all handwaving about "solutions exist for that". Great, put the solutions in place then!

Right now, successive governments have basically said "after 2030 you cant buy ICE vehicles - good luck!".

We saw more movement and planning around cable TV back in the 1980s and 1990s - this is so much more fundamentally important, and yet we arent seeing roads being dug up, or even being planned to be dug up.

That article is very nuanced - the exact wording is "18 million (65%) of Britain’s 27.6 million households having – or with the potential to have – enough off-street parking to accommodate at least one car or van".

Note the "or with the potential to have" - thats going to be peoples front or back gardens, with corresponding changes to drop curbs etc. Which still means significant investment at a property level to allow for that - who is going to pay for that?

Look at the streets here and tell me how these properties are going to fit into that report...

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

Theres still a lot more to it than purchase price, unfortunately.

When I was living in the UK, more than half the place I lived in would have had zero ability to charge an EV - the parking options were either on-road (and if you were lucky, within 3 streets of your house), or if you won the council lottery then you rented a garage within the local area. And no, you couldnt add an EV charger to the garage.

Where I live now, I have off street parking and the ability to add an EV charger - I fully expect my next car to be an EV.

But if I wasnt living here, if I was still living in the UK, then the problem of on-street parking and charging would still be a major blocker that I dont see being solved, properly solved, any time soon.

One other thing we didnt have when the X Files (series or movie) came out was ... streaming.

The lack of a requirement to conform to a fixed schedule meant that your episodes can be as long as you want them to be - the last season of GoT ranges from 53 minutes to 81 minutes...

Series produced before the 1990s stayed fixed to a broadcast schedule - long episodes were two parters and few and far between. Which ultimately meant that writers wrote that way for a series - and now they are no longer constrained to a broadcast schedule, very rarely do two episodes in a headline series actually have the same runtime. They run as long as the writers and producers want them to run, as long as the budget holds out.

Sounds like you want to go back to the concept of "local time for local people", which existed before railways required common timekeeping for the entirety of a route... Noon was at different times of the day for east-west services...

There are reasons why "local time for local people" didnt work then for anything more than a single town or village, and those reasons are still valid now.

Go further.

Remove copyright protection for any US work.

Kosh or Ulkesh?

I suggest you read up on the actions of MENTOR 4, launched in 2009, and the satellite that it replaced, MENTOR 2, before claiming that Im "full of shit".

https://www.thespacereview.com...

At what point did actually being able to have a reasonable discussion about things end, and jumping to insults and vitriol become the norm? Why did you feel that you had to immediately be abusive in your response, rather than ask for more details and ... you know, actually have an adult conversation?

Why in the holy fuck is a judicial position at all an elected one?

These officials should be following the law, not following the whimsical needs of an electorate. There is no way anyone from the lowest police officer to the highest judge should be held to an electorates position on anything.

The electorate should be able to vote the people in to change the laws, they shouldnt be able to vote people in who enforce the laws. Enforcement of the law should be entirely blind - if the electorate want a law to not be enforced, they need the law changed.

Yes its a clickbait title.

The US also does this - check out the Orion/Mentor satellites, or the JUMPSEAT satellites. Public astronomers have tracked satellites launched by US launchers moving into position behind other countries communications satellites, where they can capture the overspill of the transmissions sent to those satellites - they have huge dishes for just that purpose.

But oh noes, Russia or China is doing it, must call them out on it!!

Why isnt it already being done is a good question...

NZ already has it in place for public transport in most major cities, and the emergency services are switching over from a legacy system to using the same priority system for emergency vehicles as is currently used for public transport.

https://www.scats.nsw.gov.au/h...

Yup, GCHQ doesnt have a massive budget for no reason. The NSA doesnt put its huge budget into a savings account for a rainy day. The CIA cant even operate on US soil...

If China is doing this and getting away with it, my issue is not with China but with my countries intelligence services not countering it properly.

People like you are the reason I was bored out of my fucking mind during Lit English at school - being forced to read certain books not because they were interesting but because they were "culturally important".

Ohms Law is important - Of Mice And Men is not.

One of the reasons my Lit English teacher hated me, despite the fact that I was devouring books at the rate of one a day in my teens - they just weren't the "right kind of books".

Now Im an adult I get to choose what I consider to be important culture, and it sounds like your idea of culture is very boring. I still read every single day, but what I read probably doesn't meet your approval as "culture".

This really depends on the printer. Older printers, sure, they just accept gcode or the custom format for resin printers, and deal with each layer as they get to it. Dont need anything complicated for that as the OS.

But newer printers.

My Creality K1s all run a full Linux server, for example - you can root it, replace it, SSH into it. And given the K1s are running on Marlin firmware, this isnt a unique setup. During printing they are adapting to temperatures, bed alignments etc on the fly as well.

My HeyGears resin printers also do a *lot* of stuff when printing as well, as they adapt to resin temperature (warmer resin needs lower exposure times for the same outcome), FEP tension etc, so theres a lot of recalculation going on during a print. They also run a full Linux server under the hood.

Newer printers do a lot more than they used to.