Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.

You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.

Why does the cars need to move?

Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.

Example

Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.

No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.

Ofcourse I am, that is my point, norms are subjective regarding your example it is a technicallity but you could absolutely argue that a guy slipping and falling is deviating from the norms of standing.

That is absolutely deviating from the norms, to the point of insanity

Cool quote, but incorrect.

What is considered a deviation from the norm is HIGHLY subjective, a society where the norm is to embrace new ideas would be the opposite of this quote.

Even a society with norms that are more conservative, progress is being made, though quite slow.

There are also times when norms have been challenged, and ended with disaster, just look at OceanGate’s Titan, Stockton Rush deviated from the norms of deep water submersibles, and no progress was made, meanwhile other subs built on existing norms have made a lot of progress

PR?

Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.

Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.

I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.

Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

Here is a suggestion:

Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.

The best jokes have to be told twice, the first time, and then HR wants to hear it as well…

This is what they will look like for me:

Can’t get smart fridge ads if I don’t get a smart fridge. taps forehead

They ended up like Ericson here in Sweden, dropped their handset business to focus on the network side, both Ericson and Nokia are quite successful on that side, especially since the hubub about alleged backdoors in Huawei mobile network equipment a few years back.

I don’t believe they do like the current regime, why would they?

The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.

Creating a more dangerous social climate, causing less people to have enough money to buy their products while increasing cost of material.

You can call it bribes, I call it paying tribute to the king.

The guys know what is going on, they know that their companies futures are in the hands of a vindictive extreme narcissistic idiot of a king. They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.

Is it a bribe or a protection racket? Yes, it is.

There have been several workarounds in Windows 11 posted in this thread.

Everytime M$ pulls the ratchet tighter more people will escape, just let it happen naturaly.

Advice about the alternatives, but don’t lie about either side.

There are things that Windows does better than the competition, the vice versa, be honest and argue in good faith.

Here is one of my strongest held opinions:

You should not lie to get people on your side.

If your arguments are not good enough, then perhaps it is better to let people do what they are used to.

No workaround?

That is incorrect.

There are plenty of workarounds, here are a two:

• Use an older installer, create a local account and update.
• Install Windows 10 with a local account and upgrade.

I am all for bashing Windows, but please argue facts, not imaginations.

Has Microsoft started locking local user accounts?

I mean, actually locking them, not just preventing them from being created.

I suggest waiting for delivery before further action.

It was F7U12 that got me on reddit back in 2011…

Damn it, can’t get to my verification cans!