And usually, the only way to make sure a significant part of your excessive income goes to improving the local communities is if you donate it to some respectable charity (or directly).
If you voluntarily make do with a lesser wage, most employers will simply pocket the difference.
AMP pages load faster and they only contain approved ads by Google.
If true, this is an invitation for huge fines for anti-competitive behaviour. Remember the forced bundling of Google apps with the app store? Five billion fine in the EU.
There is also the possible angle of anti-competitive behavior.
This article https://newsdashboard.com/en/how-do-amp-articles-perform-in-the-mobile-serp-for-google-news-oneboxes/ suggests that non-AMP pages are strongly de-emphasized in search rankings (despite Google claiming otherwise, addition mine). Now Google was in trouble with the EU before for forcing Android mobile phone producers to pre-install Google Search and browser apps as conditions for licensing its app store. I don't see yet for what exact reason Google would get fined this time, as in theory everybody can make AMP sites. Perhaps the owners of competing search engines could complain to the EU.
Publications usually cost fees for the researcher. In OA it is obvious why, those fees pay for running the OA publication system. But publishers charge authors for non-open access too. http://cofactorscience.com/blog/author-charges has some examples, although that list is 6 years old by now. In that case, the publishers collect money from author AND subscriber. We might as well put the money into financing OA and make the results free to access.
Of course, traditional publishers will lose out that way. Sucks to be them, they got too greedy and here comes the backlash...
There is now a "spiritual successor" in the works, it is called Em8er (https://em8er.com/). Financing is through crowdfunding and presumably later on sale of the game. Now I guess it depends on how much you trust Mark Kern to use that money effectively. He is the game designer (again),
I expect things to go like they went with Windows XP. Windows 7 gets a few years of support extension (security only), then is finally de-supported. Some diehards stay on Win7 anyway.
BTW, XP still has 5.2% market share in the netmarketshare.com statistics.
Personally, I like games with some degree of difficulty.
-Against "simple" MMOs where you and the enemy just beat on each other until the health bar is empty, I am pretty immune addiction wise.
-With a more modern MMO that rewards some skill at tactics and maneuvering, I can spend a lot more time.
-When things get more simulation-like, with weapons that have actual ballistics and taking cover is meaningful, you may get me seriously hooked. Imagine a cross of Counterstrike and MMO.
For a few years, there was a game named Firefall that was actually reasonably good at the last category. I loved to play that one.
There's nothing wrong with making an alternate reality action game where the ladies are physically as strong as the men and fighting on the front lines. Just don't claim it is historically accurate.
Perhaps EA should have been a bit more straightforward with that and called it a "WW2 inspired alternative reality game".
Yes, sometimes it needs a little push to quit. Although (some of) it can come from the game itself, if the publisher gets overly greedy.
Until a few weeks ago, I was spending a lot of time in Skyforge. But the developers made it increasingly difficult not only to proceed in the game, but to keep up with the ever-increasing levels for the same content. Yes, they recycled the invasions, only buffing the enemies more and more. On top of that, they racked up the need to buy from the cash shop, if you wanted to play endgame content, in other ways. What was once a case of "you can take your time to get there" became a case of grinding and Pay2win.
On top of that, I have a new job now and much less time now.
So I finally said goodbye to my pretty char. It has been a while now since I logged in.
Yes, but the "erroneous understanding of the law" was already my more generous interpretation. The government may have (best case!) honestly believed that it was legal and appropriate to stop publication, but if the Supreme Court says otherwise, they were in error about the legality.
Worst case, they were intentionally breaking the constitution through illegal censorship.
Microsoft appears to gradually moving away from one time licenses, not only with office 365.
Most versions of Windows 10 do automatically update without asking the user for permission, at best the user can delay that for three months or so (in the Pro version). The one exception is Windows 10 LTSB, which is only available for companies and as some sort of volume license.
That may be the first step towards a rental model, where such auto-upgrades are entirely mandatory.
Right now, Windows 10 Pro costs around 120 Euros in Germany (System Builder which is legal to unbundle here, no dubious ESD key). That's around $140.
I am neither a student nor employed in a company that has something like a HUP going, so for me it would be the full price of the SB edition. It seems that Microsoft think they have piracy mostly under control and Linux is not a threat.
For now, they might even be right about the latter. Linux is running on a lot servers, embedded and mobile devices (low level basis of Android), but on the desktop the market share remains small. The desktop and part of the server market happens to be where Microsoft earns most of its money.
Prices are controlled in many cases by the whims of the copyright owners. If Microsoft says you have to pay them $200 (hypothetically) for a (legal) copy of Windows or Office, that is so. But if the difference to alternatives gets too large, people might accept the effort to switch to something else. A case of price elastic demand, quite well known in traditional economy.
Some anecdotal evidence about myself: I have switched to Libre office myself for private use, partly for financial reasons, partly for political ones (I really don't want to feed Microsoft money). Also planning to use Linux when support for Win7 runs out. But if Microsoft were to drop the price of Windows to $20, laziness might win out and keep me on Windows. On Libre Office they have lost me permanently, as I already have put in that effort to get familiar with the new tool. Wasn't much effort either, only inserting images into documents is still a bit cumbersome and annoying.
Where Bill Gates is right are those cases where a satisfactory free alternative already exists and people can adopt it effortlessly. In those cases, the opportunity to make money from the main product is gone. Perhaps you can still earn money from add-ons to the free product.
I think it plays a big role if the fake fight against the zombies looked like that Sean attacked people for real. Part of the test would if the weapon looked real: A sword made of foam rubber is a lot less imtimidating than a real one. Here we have a objective criterion. Another criterion would be if he happened to run directly at people, or if he took care to "attack" only in empty parts of the hall. A third one would be if The Walking Dead was a common pastime at school. If yes, it would be reasonable to assume other students would know what is really going on.
That makes three criteria right away the court can use to decide case.
The Supreme Court decided that in this case that the First Amendment trumped the classification. So at best, the government operated under an erroneous understanding of the law. At worst, they were intentionally abusing it to, well, shut down inconvenient news. Also, in the USA works of the government are generally in the public domain. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government So the document was not stolen, as it already was supposed to be legal to copy unless classified (discussed above). Perhaps the paper on which it was printed was stolen. That would be more akin to shoplifting, but not treason.
About the democracy as usual in Germany: Yes, and that case had a lot in common with the case of the pentagon papers. Accusations of treason for inconvenient news. Also, the courts eventually ruled that the arrests of the Spiegel journalists was illegal. So the German government at the time was about as law-abiding (not very) as the Nixon administration.
There is a worrisome trend lately where governments try to force social media (and others) to self-censor by threatening huge fines for not keeping their forums "clean". An overview of the situation in some countries: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fake-news-law.html I think that is just as dangerous as social media suppressing comments they don't like. Not that traditional media are immune to either, even if their countries claim to be free, democratic nations.
Here in Germany, we have some newspapers with clear political bias but also attempts by the government to shut them up if they make the politicians look bad. Such as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal Today though, the Spiegel is behaving like a propaganda rag at times, always ready to condemn the Russians long before the underlying facts are proven. Perhaps not quite "false news" but getting close.
Starting with the Greek bailout: The Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism of 2012 was signed by all EU members, states could have refused. GB signed, so it was voluntary on your part. If you don't like it, you should have grown a spine then and refused.
This said, I think that my own country (Germany) should have done so and let Greece go bankrupt. The Greek had swindled themselves into the EU several years before by falsifying their economic data, with the aid of Goldman Sachs. In every other context it is NOT customary to help the failed fraudster by lending him more money.
And in the negotiations so far, it looks like GB wants a lot of concessions that would let it keep free access to the EU market without paying its part of the budget. Now trying to re-negotiate a deal is legitimate, but I don't think you have a moral right to get it your way. And not a legal right at all.
Fully agree. And the employers I've interviewed with have usually given me similar courtesy. There was one exception in the early 2000s (not for me personally): I worked at a small software company in Munich, and one day a guy showed up for a job interview. Guess who was not there? The manager who was supposed to hold the interview. It was the one time in my life I saw the company representative be a no-show.
With recruiters, I'm not quite as impressed. They are usually polite enough and most of them do remember to tell you when another candidate got the job. But there is a significant percentage where you never get feedback.
Well that problem will soon be solved. Great Britain has decided to leave, and good bye from the rest of us (German here). Now you won't have to pay your tax money to the EU anymore.
If you want to (and can) come to a new agreement with the EU, fine. But don't think we owe you anything at this point. In principle, negotiations start over like for a new member now. And from what I get in the news, they have not progressed that much either.
Most consumers want those new features. Many, if not most, throw away or sell/trade their old devices for pennies on the dollar to get those new features - even when the old devices are in "perfect" working condition. This is because they aren't in perfect working condition. They are broke because they don't have the new features. There may be a scratch or two or some minor annoyances like the battery doesn't have quite the umph it used to. But if they look at the cost of fixing those versus getting a new device without those flaws AND with the new features, most will talk themselves into a pricier trade-in deal instead of a cheaper repair. Why? Because they feel they are wasting their money on the cheaper repair that leaves them missing out on new capabilities.
There are also a lot of people (like me) who want to use their stuff longer than, for instance, two years (which seems a common life cycle in electronics). That does not mean the manufacturer has to give away the new features for free, just make it possible for the customer to get a reasonably cheap repair. I'll use two examples from the smart phone world to illustrate this:
1) Glued-in batteries (hello Apple, you did it first). Batteries are one of those components that tend to break down over time even when you handle your phone carefully. Now if you just could open a hatch and swap out the battery... Admittedly, it would cost a few cent more per phone and perhaps the phone could not be quite as thin. The new battery can come from a third party manufacturer, no burden on the original manufacturer there to keep the model in stock.
2) Phones with a locked boot loader so you cannot load a different operating system. May not be a problem with a new phone (although some people would like to switch to CyanogenMod right away). But the problem comes at the point when the manufacturer does not provide security upgrades any more. The hardware is in perfect working condition. For many models, there is even alternative software available, at no cost to the manufacturer. Such as the CyanogenMod mentioned above. Mandating an unlock option seems fair to me here.
The question is, how do we serve those interests without slowing development, reducing the manufacturers' profit, or increasing product life cycle costs to those consumers that would like to have the new best thing every year?
If development is slowed down a bit, so what? It is a legitimate interest of society to reduce trash and exhaustion of natural resources. There are much more severe restrictions in other sectors by the way. Ever worked in medical technology?
The manufacturer will incur additional costs both in manufacturing for repairability and in supporting older devices. It is unfair for the initial consumer to have to pay those costs unless they do keep the device long term.
Correct for the repairability. But I dispute that the extra cost would be unreasonable. Supporting older devices may not be a burden for the manufacturer at all, depending on how the legislation is designed. Besides, and coming back to society's interest in protecting the environment, the initial consumer can damn well shoulder a bit of the burden here.
When everyone used to copy cassette tapes and swap them at school, it was time-consuming to make those copies and they didn't spread very fast
Actually I wonder why this is not more common in the day of the external hard disk. You could copy your terabyte large collection onto a single disk and lend it to a friend. I would totally do this if I had more people among my acquaintances who like a mix of metal and classical music.
There are REPEATED stories of how Win 10 updates break this system for users, many of whom are providing the gateways between radio and the network. Some of them are unattended, distant sites that can become critical communications resources in a disaster or emergency, and yet it's ok if they crash and burn because Microsoft issued a patch that changes how the sound system works (just one example of failure).
For those unattended sites, I think it is already grossly negligent to run them on some OS that does automatic updates without consent of the user. For future installations, that leaves only Windows 10 LTSB as reasonable choice in the Windows world.
If that is unavailable due to licensing restrictions, any sane organization that runs critical infrastructure has to move to something else. And even Linux is only the easy way out: I had job interviews where the interview partner said "we have this specially certified OS for that purpose, you would have to work with it". Note that knowing said exotic system was not a prerequisite for the job. There were few enough people familiar with it that the employer would have been willing to pay for the training.
The Toyota Prius, plug in version, reaches your 60MPG or comes at least close to it, depending on which number (all electric, hybrid mode) you use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid Even if it does not quite meet your standards, Toyota made a good effort here and I'd have no moral worries about driving one of them. Unless you have some mass transit nearby for your daily commuting, then that might be easier in the environment.
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And usually, the only way to make sure a significant part of your excessive income goes to improving the local communities is if you donate it to some respectable charity (or directly).
If you voluntarily make do with a lesser wage, most employers will simply pocket the difference.
AMP pages load faster and they only contain approved ads by Google.
If true, this is an invitation for huge fines for anti-competitive behaviour. Remember the forced bundling of Google apps with the app store? Five billion fine in the EU.
There is also the possible angle of anti-competitive behavior.
This article https://newsdashboard.com/en/how-do-amp-articles-perform-in-the-mobile-serp-for-google-news-oneboxes/ suggests that non-AMP pages are strongly de-emphasized in search rankings (despite Google claiming otherwise, addition mine).
Now Google was in trouble with the EU before for forcing Android mobile phone producers to pre-install Google Search and browser apps as conditions for licensing its app store.
I don't see yet for what exact reason Google would get fined this time, as in theory everybody can make AMP sites. Perhaps the owners of competing search engines could complain to the EU.
Publications usually cost fees for the researcher. In OA it is obvious why, those fees pay for running the OA publication system.
But publishers charge authors for non-open access too. http://cofactorscience.com/blog/author-charges has some examples, although that list is 6 years old by now.
In that case, the publishers collect money from author AND subscriber. We might as well put the money into financing OA and make the results free to access.
Of course, traditional publishers will lose out that way. Sucks to be them, they got too greedy and here comes the backlash...
There is now a "spiritual successor" in the works, it is called Em8er (https://em8er.com/).
Financing is through crowdfunding and presumably later on sale of the game.
Now I guess it depends on how much you trust Mark Kern to use that money effectively. He is the game designer (again),
I expect things to go like they went with Windows XP. Windows 7 gets a few years of support extension (security only), then is finally de-supported. Some diehards stay on Win7 anyway.
BTW, XP still has 5.2% market share in the netmarketshare.com statistics.
Personally, I like games with some degree of difficulty.
-Against "simple" MMOs where you and the enemy just beat on each other until the health bar is empty, I am pretty immune addiction wise.
-With a more modern MMO that rewards some skill at tactics and maneuvering, I can spend a lot more time.
-When things get more simulation-like, with weapons that have actual ballistics and taking cover is meaningful, you may get me seriously hooked. Imagine a cross of Counterstrike and MMO.
For a few years, there was a game named Firefall that was actually reasonably good at the last category. I loved to play that one.
There's nothing wrong with making an alternate reality action game where the ladies are physically as strong as the men and fighting on the front lines. Just don't claim it is historically accurate.
Perhaps EA should have been a bit more straightforward with that and called it a "WW2 inspired alternative reality game".
Yes, sometimes it needs a little push to quit. Although (some of) it can come from the game itself, if the publisher gets overly greedy.
Until a few weeks ago, I was spending a lot of time in Skyforge. But the developers made it increasingly difficult not only to proceed in the game, but to keep up with the ever-increasing levels for the same content. Yes, they recycled the invasions, only buffing the enemies more and more. On top of that, they racked up the need to buy from the cash shop, if you wanted to play endgame content, in other ways. What was once a case of "you can take your time to get there" became a case of grinding and Pay2win.
On top of that, I have a new job now and much less time now.
So I finally said goodbye to my pretty char. It has been a while now since I logged in.
It depends on "why they did it", don't you think?
Yes, but the "erroneous understanding of the law" was already my more generous interpretation. The government may have (best case!) honestly believed that it was legal and appropriate to stop publication, but if the Supreme Court says otherwise, they were in error about the legality.
Worst case, they were intentionally breaking the constitution through illegal censorship.
Microsoft appears to gradually moving away from one time licenses, not only with office 365.
Most versions of Windows 10 do automatically update without asking the user for permission, at best the user can delay that for three months or so (in the Pro version). The one exception is Windows 10 LTSB, which is only available for companies and as some sort of volume license.
That may be the first step towards a rental model, where such auto-upgrades are entirely mandatory.
Right now, Windows 10 Pro costs around 120 Euros in Germany (System Builder which is legal to unbundle here, no dubious ESD key). That's around $140.
I am neither a student nor employed in a company that has something like a HUP going, so for me it would be the full price of the SB edition. It seems that Microsoft think they have piracy mostly under control and Linux is not a threat.
For now, they might even be right about the latter. Linux is running on a lot servers, embedded and mobile devices (low level basis of Android), but on the desktop the market share remains small. The desktop and part of the server market happens to be where Microsoft earns most of its money.
Prices are controlled in many cases by the whims of the copyright owners. If Microsoft says you have to pay them $200 (hypothetically) for a (legal) copy of Windows or Office, that is so. But if the difference to alternatives gets too large, people might accept the effort to switch to something else. A case of price elastic demand, quite well known in traditional economy.
Some anecdotal evidence about myself:
I have switched to Libre office myself for private use, partly for financial reasons, partly for political ones (I really don't want to feed Microsoft money). Also planning to use Linux when support for Win7 runs out.
But if Microsoft were to drop the price of Windows to $20, laziness might win out and keep me on Windows. On Libre Office they have lost me permanently, as I already have put in that effort to get familiar with the new tool. Wasn't much effort either, only inserting images into documents is still a bit cumbersome and annoying.
Where Bill Gates is right are those cases where a satisfactory free alternative already exists and people can adopt it effortlessly. In those cases, the opportunity to make money from the main product is gone. Perhaps you can still earn money from add-ons to the free product.
Looked at some footage now. It appears The Walking Dead in not even played with fake weapons. Oops.
I think it plays a big role if the fake fight against the zombies looked like that Sean attacked people for real. Part of the test would if the weapon looked real:
A sword made of foam rubber is a lot less imtimidating than a real one. Here we have a objective criterion.
Another criterion would be if he happened to run directly at people, or if he took care to "attack" only in empty parts of the hall.
A third one would be if The Walking Dead was a common pastime at school. If yes, it would be reasonable to assume other students would know what is really going on.
That makes three criteria right away the court can use to decide case.
The Supreme Court decided that in this case that the First Amendment trumped the classification. So at best, the government operated under an erroneous understanding of the law. At worst, they were intentionally abusing it to, well, shut down inconvenient news.
Also, in the USA works of the government are generally in the public domain. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government
So the document was not stolen, as it already was supposed to be legal to copy unless classified (discussed above). Perhaps the paper on which it was printed was stolen. That would be more akin to shoplifting, but not treason.
About the democracy as usual in Germany:
Yes, and that case had a lot in common with the case of the pentagon papers. Accusations of treason for inconvenient news. Also, the courts eventually ruled that the arrests of the Spiegel journalists was illegal. So the German government at the time was about as law-abiding (not very) as the Nixon administration.
There is a worrisome trend lately where governments try to force social media (and others) to self-censor by threatening huge fines for not keeping their forums "clean". An overview of the situation in some countries:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fake-news-law.html
I think that is just as dangerous as social media suppressing comments they don't like. Not that traditional media are immune to either, even if their countries claim to be free, democratic nations.
In the USA, you have things like the Nixon administration trying to shut down inconvenient news as treason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States
Here in Germany, we have some newspapers with clear political bias but also attempts by the government to shut them up if they make the politicians look bad. Such as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal
Today though, the Spiegel is behaving like a propaganda rag at times, always ready to condemn the Russians long before the underlying facts are proven. Perhaps not quite "false news" but getting close.
Starting with the Greek bailout:
The Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism of 2012 was signed by all EU members, states could have refused. GB signed, so it was voluntary on your part. If you don't like it, you should have grown a spine then and refused.
This said, I think that my own country (Germany) should have done so and let Greece go bankrupt.
The Greek had swindled themselves into the EU several years before by falsifying their economic data, with the aid of Goldman Sachs. In every other context it is NOT customary to help the failed fraudster by lending him more money.
And in the negotiations so far, it looks like GB wants a lot of concessions that would let it keep free access to the EU market without paying its part of the budget. Now trying to re-negotiate a deal is legitimate, but I don't think you have a moral right to get it your way. And not a legal right at all.
Fully agree. And the employers I've interviewed with have usually given me similar courtesy. There was one exception in the early 2000s (not for me personally):
I worked at a small software company in Munich, and one day a guy showed up for a job interview. Guess who was not there? The manager who was supposed to hold the interview. It was the one time in my life I saw the company representative be a no-show.
With recruiters, I'm not quite as impressed. They are usually polite enough and most of them do remember to tell you when another candidate got the job. But there is a significant percentage where you never get feedback.
Well that problem will soon be solved. Great Britain has decided to leave, and good bye from the rest of us (German here). Now you won't have to pay your tax money to the EU anymore.
If you want to (and can) come to a new agreement with the EU, fine. But don't think we owe you anything at this point. In principle, negotiations start over like for a new member now. And from what I get in the news, they have not progressed that much either.
Most consumers want those new features. Many, if not most, throw away or sell/trade their old devices for pennies on the dollar to get those new features - even when the old devices are in "perfect" working condition. This is because they aren't in perfect working condition. They are broke because they don't have the new features. There may be a scratch or two or some minor annoyances like the battery doesn't have quite the umph it used to. But if they look at the cost of fixing those versus getting a new device without those flaws AND with the new features, most will talk themselves into a pricier trade-in deal instead of a cheaper repair. Why? Because they feel they are wasting their money on the cheaper repair that leaves them missing out on new capabilities.
There are also a lot of people (like me) who want to use their stuff longer than, for instance, two years (which seems a common life cycle in electronics). That does not mean the manufacturer has to give away the new features for free, just make it possible for the customer to get a reasonably cheap repair. I'll use two examples from the smart phone world to illustrate this:
1) Glued-in batteries (hello Apple, you did it first). Batteries are one of those components that tend to break down over time even when you handle your phone carefully. Now if you just could open a hatch and swap out the battery... Admittedly, it would cost a few cent more per phone and perhaps the phone could not be quite as thin. The new battery can come from a third party manufacturer, no burden on the original manufacturer there to keep the model in stock.
2) Phones with a locked boot loader so you cannot load a different operating system. May not be a problem with a new phone (although some people would like to switch to CyanogenMod right away). But the problem comes at the point when the manufacturer does not provide security upgrades any more. The hardware is in perfect working condition. For many models, there is even alternative software available, at no cost to the manufacturer. Such as the CyanogenMod mentioned above. Mandating an unlock option seems fair to me here.
The question is, how do we serve those interests without slowing development, reducing the manufacturers' profit, or increasing product life cycle costs to those consumers that would like to have the new best thing every year?
If development is slowed down a bit, so what? It is a legitimate interest of society to reduce trash and exhaustion of natural resources. There are much more severe restrictions in other sectors by the way. Ever worked in medical technology?
The manufacturer will incur additional costs both in manufacturing for repairability and in supporting older devices. It is unfair for the initial consumer to have to pay those costs unless they do keep the device long term.
Correct for the repairability. But I dispute that the extra cost would be unreasonable. Supporting older devices may not be a burden for the manufacturer at all, depending on how the legislation is designed.
Besides, and coming back to society's interest in protecting the environment, the initial consumer can damn well shoulder a bit of the burden here.
When everyone used to copy cassette tapes and swap them at school, it was time-consuming to make those copies and they didn't spread very fast
Actually I wonder why this is not more common in the day of the external hard disk. You could copy your terabyte large collection onto a single disk and lend it to a friend.
I would totally do this if I had more people among my acquaintances who like a mix of metal and classical music.
Agile does also not mean that you drop your changes on the customer whether he wants it or not.
Microsoft seems to think different, though.
There are REPEATED stories of how Win 10 updates break this system for users, many of whom are providing the gateways between radio and the network. Some of them are unattended, distant sites that can become critical communications resources in a disaster or emergency, and yet it's ok if they crash and burn because Microsoft issued a patch that changes how the sound system works (just one example of failure).
For those unattended sites, I think it is already grossly negligent to run them on some OS that does automatic updates without consent of the user. For future installations, that leaves only Windows 10 LTSB as reasonable choice in the Windows world.
If that is unavailable due to licensing restrictions, any sane organization that runs critical infrastructure has to move to something else. And even Linux is only the easy way out:
I had job interviews where the interview partner said "we have this specially certified OS for that purpose, you would have to work with it". Note that knowing said exotic system was not a prerequisite for the job. There were few enough people familiar with it that the employer would have been willing to pay for the training.
The Toyota Prius, plug in version, reaches your 60MPG or comes at least close to it, depending on which number (all electric, hybrid mode) you use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid
Even if it does not quite meet your standards, Toyota made a good effort here and I'd have no moral worries about driving one of them. Unless you have some mass transit nearby for your daily commuting, then that might be easier in the environment.