JohnEdwa

As if having a visa or even being a citizen would somehow guarantee they won't kidnap and send you to El Salvador anyway.

Here are the permissions used by a calculator app Android tells me has "No permissions granted".

You can't deny any of those.

Should companies using computers in general pay a tax for it, a computer used to mean a human that calculated - computed - things by hand, after all?
But alarm clocks replaced knockeruppers, light bulbs replaced lamplighters, cars replaced coachmen, industrial robots replaced blacksmiths, we have no elevator operators, phone switch boards, traffic conductors, pin boys, link boys, ice cutters, scribes - the list of jobs made obsolete by technology during human history is massive.

Generative AI, while widespread and disruptive, is just one more to the long list.

They did have a shoddy ceasefire agreement from 2015 onwards where the "little green men" totally not anything to do with Russia fought in Donbas, until Russia invaded properly again in 2022. So technically 11 years 9 months, but seriously only for around four.

Do you mean the "fuel charge" tax on gas, at 17.6 CAD cents (0.11€) per litre?

Because that's a rather adorable try.

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In Finland, car sales tax and yearly tax are based on the Co2 output, and it worked quite well to keep most cars small, light and efficient. Until hybrid and electric cars arrived on the market, that is...

Would be interesting to know which is actually worse for spread of misinformation, AI summaries, or "news" being shared on Facebook.

Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.

Exactly. Back when it happened, their reports on it were directly "Russian drone explodes on Chornobyl nuclear plant protective shell – video" and "Russian drone strike caused tens of millions worth of damage to Chornobyl".

But russia has since denied it was theirs, and nobody else has proven otherwise, which means anyone following journalistic guidelines can't claim that anymore - the best they can choose from are basically "Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia" and "Drone attack Russia denies was theirs".

With your personal vehicle access device, aka, the car key. Immobilizers with transponders in the key have been a thing (and in some places a legal requirement) for like three decades.
They've just gotten more aggressive now with "keyless" entry and being able to use your phone as your key, so some validate that info in real time - no network, no access. (Up to a point. They won't immediately strand you just because you ran out of cell coverage obviously, but apparently Porsche did enforce some part of their system to that point)

Because it was the anti theft system and immobilizer.
It would be pretty useless if it could be defeated by putting some foil on the antenna so that it loses network connection and defaulted to allowing you to drive.

It was split with the artists of said wallpapers, and was also kind of a gallery app thing IIRC.
But hey, as a Finnish saying goes, "It isn't the one who asks who is stupid, but the one who pays."