Are these Russian political operatives in the room with us right now?
Nope, they're in the room with Nigel Farage. Same as they've always been (except for the times they were meeting with Aaron Banks).
What is it with you guys, believing that economic and financial might make right. Ever heard of moral values? Society is built on them.
It's the same flawed thinking that a company can "just pull out" of somewhere. Somewhere where they'll have money invested, property, obligations to meet not to mention staff (as we all know staff are replaceable parasites in the Libertardinan world).
Also it's been conclusively demonstrated that "pulling out" doesn't work... As a method of contraception or means to effect a political change.
Are things different in the USA than across the Atlantic?
Over here you can fill like 2 shopping bags with fresh fruits, vegetables, pasta, rice, beans/lentils and all sorts of stuff easily for less than £15 (~$20) that will last 2 weeks or more. It's dirt cheap to buy that stuff in the UK and most of mainland Europe.
I genuinely wanna know?
I believe it is.
Although the cost of meat is getting up there these days in the UK.
The bigger issue is that most people don't have the first clue what to do with fresh food besides putting it in a pot and boiling it until its mush (then servicing it with sausages and gravy). This is a problem on both sides of the pond although I suspect it's worse over there. I grew up a poor lad in Oz, the notion that some Americans eat out for every meal was preposterous to me as there's no way it seemed remotely affordable but apparently it happened.
Another issue is that cooking takes time some people don't have. Especially as work is trying to take up more and more time these days. So they end up getting pies, chicken, et al. that they can just put in the oven (or ready meals).
As much as I see and agree with what the city of SF is trying to do, it's rather pointless if we can't also address the two points above.
Would be in awe of this. No more having to try to slow down trucks while a guy shoots harpoons into the passenger seat and then jump into the cab to tranquilize the driver and steal the entire truck and trailer!
Yep, does the criminal in question look similar to Vin Diesel?
I believe hacking into things was the plot arc of a few of the later F&F movies.
The UK don't even have a sun. "The Sun" doesn't count because it can't get any dimmer.
Nonsense, even John o' Groats gets its regulation 5 minutes of sunshine per day.
BTW, I love the Scottish summer, it's my favourite day of the year.
No. This is inconsequential. Literally nothing at all.
I wonder how much the FAA will pass away "investigating".
Shirley the thoroughness of the investigation is inversely proportional to the amount Amazon "invests" in Trumps latest scam.
Not surprising at all. This was a concern that was raised over a decade ago, even in discussions here on
The fact is that road maintenance needs to be paid, and it was long thought that charging taxes on gasoline was a good way to fund roads because it was simple to implement, it scales with how far you drive, and it also scales with the size of your vehicle (larger vehicles do more damage to the roads). So it was relatively fair. It also didn't require invasive data collection, such as how far or where you drove your vehicle.
When it was first discussed here on
Of course now we voluntarily GPS track ourselves and send the data to our corporate overlords, so that all seems like a moot point.
Will this new law also apply to those crazy guys that power their diesel cars off used french fry grease they get from restaurants?
The free ride for EVs was going to end at some point. If your only reason to get an EV was to evade a small amount of taxation, well you're SOL and should probably re-evaluate your priorities.
In the UK, you have a yearly car inspection called an MOT that registers your mileage at the point of inspection. In that way it's easy to determine what the per mile tax would be. Personally I'd rather a blanket tax on all EVs as it would be easier to administer but I don't have an EV.
However I feel that we're about to discover the hard way the dangers and downsides of the extreme amount of computerisation in modern cars. They're already sending telemetry to the manufacturer, often without the knowledge of the owner, what is to stop the cars from sending similar telemetry to the government? Your car becomes the snitch, especially if people start to fiddle with the mileage before an MOT. There's no need for a new GPS spying system to be installed, it's already there.
BTW, when it comes to diesel, modern cars can't really run off of chip fat from the local chippy and converting it to biodiesel would be more expensive than buying diesel (especially as it won't scale)... however something similar has already been a thing in the UK for ages as we have "red" diesel... which is diesel sold tax free for non-road use (industrial, mining, agricultural, generators and the like, vehicles and applications that would never use the road) with a red dye added for easy identification. A few people used red diesel for road going vehicles but it's never been such a significant issue that anything beyond token enforcement has been necessary.
I believe that there is no limit to the incompetence of government committee.
We've formed a committee to limit the levels of incompetence in the previous committee.
The difference between the AI slop machine and Amazon or Uber is that even when those were losing money, it was none the less clear that if they scaled up then scaling efficiencies would yield a lower cost/unit and they'd become profitable. The pathway to making money instead of setting it on fire clearly existed. It also existed because it was clear even before they super-scaled that Amazon and Uber were doing something useful for which where existed a demand.
So far all we are seeing with the generative AI delusion is an exponentially exploding waste of resources in order to pollute my Youtube feed with slop. Every enterprise is trying "AI" and essentially all of them are finding it does not do what the people selling the tin claim it can.
There were no Amazon, or Uber or Internet evangelists trying to convince everyone that those things were useful or invent uses for them because there was no need: the value was obvious and real.
Isn't Uber still losing money?
Amazon had a plan for profitability, so much so they took on more debt in the early days to scale up. A gamble that paid off because they had a solid plan to begin with, not a "hope the magic beans drop into our laps before we run out of money" type of plan that AI companies have. Uber's business plan was "lets keep doing illegal shit that our competitors cant and just hope we become big enough not to fail".
Shove Ts&Cs down users' throats and blame the victim while trying to deflect the responsibility.
Erm... that's the whole point of a T&C/EULA/et al. To limit legal liability and as a defence against being sued. Which is one of the reasons most countries do not treat them as binding contracts.
The 1990s called, they want their meme back.
Mad cow disease, seriously? That hasn't been a thing for 30 years.
There is inevitably someone with absolutely no sense of humour.
Also clearly not British, we tend to enjoy that kind of self deprivation.
Use something better like notepad++, if you are still using notepad maybe change your workflow. I realize that this can be difficult if you are doing tech support on someone elses machine.
The thing with Notepad isn't that it's good... rather that it's everywhere.
Notepad is for when you're working but not on your machine. Not everyone's work flow is going to be 100% local and you probably won't have permission to install something on someone elses server.
No matter what the version, what the patch level, what the fuck is wrong with it, notepad is there and notepad works.
Sounds like MS are working on the last part unfortunately.
Two thumbs up and good luck!
It'll be three thumbs up shortly at the rate they're going.
Completely agree with your post BTW.
This is not going to open up any markets for your produce in countries with much stricter food safety regulations. But those countries will probably be happy to ship even more of their safer food to you.
Buy British Beef, Mad Cow disease is still safer than what's in the local stuff.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
