Although I'd argue with the Net Zero goals, if a sensible route is considered to gather mileage, to use it to help EV adoption and charge the fee on the worst polluters (i.e. diesel, then petrol).

You don't want to punish the behaviour you want people to do.

Every government seems to moot some way of charging per mile, but never goes the step further and thinking about what it'll take to identify how many miles have been travelled.

About the only way is to monitor after MOT.

We pay council tax just like ICE drivers do. We just make less pollution.

(We also pay VED too, thanks to the last Government, that started this year. Although VED doesn't pay for road maintenance, it just goes into the central tax pot)

One could ask why Windows is case insensitive but case preserving, which is even more strange and has caused a number of security vulnerabilities.

For a use case: multi-language internationalisation. For example, Turkish; where I is not the capital of i, but of ı (the capital of i is İ).

Best wishes and take care of thasen.

I like the concept. It's a perfect format for my general bitiness. Just a pity you can't do it justice in an audiobook format.

That is a good idea and I salute the aims. But, that would've required me to have obtained a set of keys from a random person, and if I were to do that it would surely have been easier to ask for a quid / trolley token instead

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Yeah, but I didn't want to risk breaking or damaging my house key, so this was deemed to be the sacrificial key.

My mates have been asking me to get a hearing test for about 20 years as I can never hear conversations in the pub. I did, turns out I have perfect hearing and they're just boring.

I brought down a retail company's payment processing just by setting an IP address on my laptop for less than a minute.

I used to write everything non-retro in C. But about 10 years I moved across to Python because of the supporting libraries.

*Not* JavaScript though, because I'm not a masochist.

I moved to Thunderbird 5 years ago and it's been rock solid. Outlook can't even do searches well on an unmanaged mailbox

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You use the accelerator to go faster and slow down for normal driving. You can still use the brake if you want to brake harder, but that's only rarely used.

For some one coming across from a manual car (the most common in Europe) it's like the clutch crossed with the accelerator.

We swapped our ICE vehicles for EVs in 2021. Not going back. The ability to be able to charge at home and it's a tenth of the cost per mile. Let alone the performance and that one pedal driving is the only way to drive now.

Doesn't work if your feet are slightly different sizes. Also fails if you have larger than size 11 feet (as the majority of socks are from 9-11, with a premium cost for 12+, which are slightly too large).

Don't ask me how many right socks I go through ...

And there's a wikipedia page on "data furnace" from 2011, which defines it as a furnace powered by the waste heat from computers. That's a lot of computers in use if every house has one ...

Searching, there is a product called an information furnace defined in a 2002 which is basically a home automation and media controller:

www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/20...

I mean it's not a millions miles out; other than they failed to predict that mobile phones would replace landlines. (And LCD replacing CRTs.)

I'm still not certain what a "Data furnace" is. NASes existed in '97, so they could've used that instead of inventing a whole new term.