Set the per mile tax rate based on vehicle weight, going up with the fourth power of vehicle weight (which is one figure given for the damage done to roads by heavier vehicles). Then, tax the odometer based on that rate.
Fuel taxation doesn't cover alternative-fueled vehicles very well.
Of course, you could have an additional non-renewable fuel tax, to compensate for the cost of using up a non-renewable resource, and any health issues caused by the emissions.
The bottom ends ARE very beefy, but they can't handle a slug of oil going into a cylinder very well, nothing can.
A stuck-shut wastegate could cause a massive overboost condition that could cause various failures of the turbo - turbine overspeed causing the bearings to wear out, excessive stress causing the shaft to snap, a combination of worn out bearings and excessive stress causing the turbine and/or compressor to rub against the housing, etc., etc.
Either of the first two would cause oil to pour into the intake.
The interesting thing about diesel particulates is that they're not the problem.
Diesels don't emit much in the way of microfine particulates, ESPECIALLY ones that are spewing clouds of soot - they emit big huge (easily visible to the eye) particulates that fall out of the air relatively quickly, and don't go nearly as deep in the lungs as the microfines from gasoline engines.
In other words, what you can see is relatively harmless, what you can't see is the really dangerous stuff.
Well, doesn't sound like a problem if you don't care about the (presumably stock) turbo blowing, dumping a ton of oil into the intake, causing a runaway, possibly bent rods, and possibly shot bearings.
Open means it's slow as molasses, but at least the turbo isn't gonna blow.
They're probably the last bastion of American computer assembly - I believe you can actually get an option code that certifies that an IBM POWER machine is made in the US of US components, even, intended for national security applications.
#1, doesn't mean the textbook publisher has to release an update for free #2, means that the textbook publisher can change the textbook on you without warning
Another approach if you're gonna do that would be a hard drive loop - a community-owned hard drive stuffed with warez. If you get it, you can copy everything off of it, but you have to add warez to it.
Ship it in a loop. Once it reaches the end of the loop twice (so that everyone can get everything that was added), the drive is traded with another group for their drive o' warez, and the cycle restarts.
Through the system, which means buying the politicians and laws to fix it. Against the system, which means LITERALLY TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. Abandoning the system, which is impractical in this day and age (all landmasses are claimed, so getting one falls into "against the system", and even seasteading means you're sharing a planet with the corrupt nation, and given that the US's actions have global impact, that doesn't work).
Given those three options, going through the system is probably the best one.
Well, here's the checks and balances that we, the people, have:
Voting the politicians that are doing it out of power - requires a majority of people who actually care, so it's rather unlikely "Second amendment remedies" - immoral, incredibly dangerous, potentially way overkill (don't need to kill the politicians, just need to stop them from passing laws like this), and illegal, although potentially highly effective Boycotting the businesses sponsoring the bill - ineffective except against smaller businesses Interfering with the businesses sponsoring the bill - potentially highly effective if done right, but illegal, and can be difficult, and potentially falls under the "second amendment remedies" category but with innocents getting caught up in the fire, too
Also, when the OLPC project started, they actually had to go full custom to do what they wanted, IIRC - the closest to what they were doing was either more expensive or SIGNIFICANTLY slower.
The idea is to keep things cheap for legitimate e-mail senders (e-mail providers could even soak up that cost), but it becomes a noticeable cost once you're sending tens of thousands of e-mails.
Actually, an answer to that would be, tack on a domestic recycling surcharge to the price - basically, pay for the wages of the domestic recycling workers when you buy the lights.
What that would do is nearly guarantee that the lights are recycled properly and domestically, while also reducing unnecessary purchase of lights.
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This is disgusting, because it's supporting child abuse and using children as political pawns, but...
Maybe it's time to donate to NAMBLA?
If NAMBLA was powerful, it'd at least destroy the "but child pornography!" argument for bad bills...
(I'm not being entirely serious here, just for the record.)
Vote for a third-party candidate?
In which case you also need a line item congressional vote.
Or, you know, just don't do omnibus bills - each individual change is its own bill.
Fine, then implement it as a toll, with toll booths at every driveway.
Better to pay a weight and odometer tax.
Set the per mile tax rate based on vehicle weight, going up with the fourth power of vehicle weight (which is one figure given for the damage done to roads by heavier vehicles). Then, tax the odometer based on that rate.
Fuel taxation doesn't cover alternative-fueled vehicles very well.
Of course, you could have an additional non-renewable fuel tax, to compensate for the cost of using up a non-renewable resource, and any health issues caused by the emissions.
Actually, the City of London is pretty much a sovereign city-state operated as a for-profit corporation.
(It's only a central square mile in the rest of London, though.)
Convenience.
International credit card processing can be a bit of a pain, international PayPal payments are easier.
Also, the target audience is children, who can often get a PayPal account more easily than a credit or debit card.
The bottom ends ARE very beefy, but they can't handle a slug of oil going into a cylinder very well, nothing can.
A stuck-shut wastegate could cause a massive overboost condition that could cause various failures of the turbo - turbine overspeed causing the bearings to wear out, excessive stress causing the shaft to snap, a combination of worn out bearings and excessive stress causing the turbine and/or compressor to rub against the housing, etc., etc.
Either of the first two would cause oil to pour into the intake.
The interesting thing about diesel particulates is that they're not the problem.
Diesels don't emit much in the way of microfine particulates, ESPECIALLY ones that are spewing clouds of soot - they emit big huge (easily visible to the eye) particulates that fall out of the air relatively quickly, and don't go nearly as deep in the lungs as the microfines from gasoline engines.
In other words, what you can see is relatively harmless, what you can't see is the really dangerous stuff.
Well, doesn't sound like a problem if you don't care about the (presumably stock) turbo blowing, dumping a ton of oil into the intake, causing a runaway, possibly bent rods, and possibly shot bearings.
Open means it's slow as molasses, but at least the turbo isn't gonna blow.
We're talking about public school administration staff.
You're lucky if there's a quarter of a brain there.
Get records of that, bring it up at major district meetings so that everyone knows about it, and if they still don't fix it...
Anonymously tip the BSA off to trigger a raid.
They're probably the last bastion of American computer assembly - I believe you can actually get an option code that certifies that an IBM POWER machine is made in the US of US components, even, intended for national security applications.
Although, way back in the N64 days, Nintendo actually sold RAM upgrades.
(Not to mention, the tricks that were done by putting coprocessors in cartridges before then.)
Two problems with that.
#1, doesn't mean the textbook publisher has to release an update for free
#2, means that the textbook publisher can change the textbook on you without warning
...that you can resell a physical textbook, sometimes, and that cuts into textbook publisher profits.
Another approach if you're gonna do that would be a hard drive loop - a community-owned hard drive stuffed with warez. If you get it, you can copy everything off of it, but you have to add warez to it.
Ship it in a loop. Once it reaches the end of the loop twice (so that everyone can get everything that was added), the drive is traded with another group for their drive o' warez, and the cycle restarts.
Three ways to fix it, though.
Through the system, which means buying the politicians and laws to fix it.
Against the system, which means LITERALLY TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
Abandoning the system, which is impractical in this day and age (all landmasses are claimed, so getting one falls into "against the system", and even seasteading means you're sharing a planet with the corrupt nation, and given that the US's actions have global impact, that doesn't work).
Given those three options, going through the system is probably the best one.
Well, here's the checks and balances that we, the people, have:
Voting the politicians that are doing it out of power - requires a majority of people who actually care, so it's rather unlikely
"Second amendment remedies" - immoral, incredibly dangerous, potentially way overkill (don't need to kill the politicians, just need to stop them from passing laws like this), and illegal, although potentially highly effective
Boycotting the businesses sponsoring the bill - ineffective except against smaller businesses
Interfering with the businesses sponsoring the bill - potentially highly effective if done right, but illegal, and can be difficult, and potentially falls under the "second amendment remedies" category but with innocents getting caught up in the fire, too
There actually is a way - the same way that iOS avoids malware installation.
The problem is, it's whitelisting.
Also, when the OLPC project started, they actually had to go full custom to do what they wanted, IIRC - the closest to what they were doing was either more expensive or SIGNIFICANTLY slower.
OLPC is ruggedized, though, the Chinese tablets aren't.
Yes, I did, I'm not using Verizon math.
The idea is to keep things cheap for legitimate e-mail senders (e-mail providers could even soak up that cost), but it becomes a noticeable cost once you're sending tens of thousands of e-mails.
Actually, an answer to that would be, tack on a domestic recycling surcharge to the price - basically, pay for the wages of the domestic recycling workers when you buy the lights.
What that would do is nearly guarantee that the lights are recycled properly and domestically, while also reducing unnecessary purchase of lights.
Here's an idea - recipient's SMTP server refuses e-mails unless they get 0.01 cents with it.