California to ban selling new gas-powered cars by 2035

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by JSH

The future plan is that every driver will pay a flat fee per mile they drive on Oregon roads.

That will be quite regressive. I'll pay nothing since my commute is zero. Wealthy people can afford to be closer to work.

Everybody benefits equally from infrastructure regardless if they use it directly or not.

Maybe I should pay nothing for police and fire services since I've never called them.

[oil pan 4]

Sounds like a way to punish motorists.

[freebeard]

Beatings will continue until yer morals improve.

[redpoint5]

My friend's dad had 100% of his brokerage customer's data on a DOS box that was 15 years old when it stopped booting. I had old hardware from a scrap heap at work that happened to take the hard drive without issue.

He gave me $100 for recovering his whole careers worth of customer data. Not complaining because I expected nothing. Plus I'd cost him a lot I'm sure during my youth.

[freebeard]

Imagine the dopamine hit you get from talking somebody through editing their Registry over the phone, and they achieve success. One of my co-workers script included "help me to help you."

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

My friend's dad had 100% of his brokerage customer's data on a DOS box that was 15 years old when it stopped booting. I had old hardware from a scrap heap at work that happened to take the hard drive without issue.

Sometimes it's quite shocking to notice most of the hardware which used to be mainstream became obsolete beyond any chance of remaining viable, not even resorting to some minimalist Linux distro.

He gave me $100 for recovering his whole careers worth of customer data.

Better than a friend of my father, who expected me to load a moving van for him at no cost, while I was so sick I couldn't carry a 14" CRT TV

[JSH]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Sounds like a way to punish motorists.

How is a fee per mile tax any more "punishing" than a fuel tax?

[freebeard]

"All tax is theft"? Not my position, the first rebuttal that comes to mind.

Since we are denied that other thread, here's a Greta Thunberg story:

decider.com: Greta Thunberg Sobs in Heartbreaking ‘I Am Greta’ Scene: “It’s Such A Responsibility”

Trapped by her fame like a fly in amber in the La Brea tar pit, apparently.

[redpoint5]

I'll give it a watch. Probably time I revisit Inconvenient Truth while I'm at it to see how that has held up over the years.

My question is, in 12 years will we have just 12 years left before catastrophe? A better strategy would be every time a deadline is reached, extend it by half of the previous deadline length to give an ever increasing sense of urgency, with an asymptote of zero time left, meaning there will always be time left. It continually allows moral divisions to be created, which is useful.

[freebeard]

My better strategy would be to not mock the poor unfortunate spokewomanperson for her generation. Dylan had enough sense to reject that label.

In any case, the pole flip/micronova moots all the squabbling.