And why would we not assume this?

Think about it for a minute, you're an owner of a product with a 7-10 year useful lifespan. You're being approached by vendors that have a notorious reputation for going out of date with their products within months, sometimes sooner. Are you going to be willing to partner with any of them without being able to point the finger back at them when shit goes wrong?

And we see this shit happen all the time. It's gotten to the point where they should just call it the legal finger pointing loophole.

Don't have a clue why anyone would want one. Must be the shitty resolution or something...

Says you, the consumer of said hardware.

Tell me again why a manufacturer or reseller of said hardware would give a shit about their hardware becoming slightly out of date and lacking features in 2-3 years?

At the beginning of the day, they give a shit about one thing; revenue.

At the end of the day, they give a shit about one thing; revenue.

In other words, the vendors of the world already have a solution for you. It's engineered right into the product.

Alcoholism was officially defined as a disease over half a century ago, paving the way for treatment centers to open all across the country with full official support and backing from the medical and insurance community.

What was the direct impact on alcoholism today? By the time you finish reading this sentence, three more humans will become addicted to alcohol.

Treating addiction as a medical problem? Oh yeah. I can really tell how well that fucking tactic worked out...

Uh, proper usage? Of the word rigmarole?

You mean when we stopped calling it balderdash because it was too old-fashioned, or when we stopped calling it a clusterfuck due to the overly protective censors?

Bullshit words deserve their ongoing confusion, and belong in the Urban Dictionary and not much further.

Yes, let's figure out ways to continue to make the drugs that kills us without using the base products instead of oh, I dunno...figuring out how to not ensure demand stays at 100%.

After all, it's obvious the inherent problem to solve with cocaine addiction is the cocoa leaf.

I'm certain the cure for obesity is smaller forks too.

Let me see... You would prefer a solid "OS" on a nicely embedded device, along with the flexibility to upgrade easily over the 5-7 year expected lifetime of a TV product?

No problem. Hope you don't mind taking out a multi-year loan for that $15,000 television set.

The words very cheap have never rung so hard in your wallet. And today, when something doesn't work due to obsolescence, the answer is to throw it away and buy a new one, thus defining the problem as there isn't a problem here, according to the vendors.

The hardware you want doesn't exist unless you make it. And it it's not planned either. To guarantee revenue.

Nothing?

Because there are not millions of objects hurtling through our universe at any given moment, as we sit here and theorize what large object might have wiped out all life on this planet before?

The universe is nothing but one big pinball machine. Luck runs out eventually.

And if someone does not drive while tired, distracted or especially intoxicated, I'd say it's quite a bit to ask of a human to step into a robot-controlled car that has statistically been accepted as barely better than the "average" drunk on the road texting.

Sure there are many factors that are truly out of our control on the road. But there are also a shitload that we DO control that insurance companies use all the time to determine who is a safe driver and who is not.

You let me know how good you feel after $10,000 is spent on lawyers fees and you "win" your case against the Gestapo here.

Oh don't worry, You're right. The problem is it's going to cost YOU several thousand dollars to simply defend yourself and PROVE you're right.

...when we are not ready to mitigate every single scenario in which a human driver would need to take over and drive in an emergency?

I mean seriously, we're not even close to answering that. Therefore, humans will still need things like windows and mirrors.

Yes, because there has been no one living within 100 miles of the Ebola river since 1976. A clear case of cause and effect.

Wow. We should expect Chick-Fil-A to shut their doors minute now, along with a lot of farms. After all, how the hell can anyone expect to eat poultry after hearing the words "chicken pox". Oh the horror, look at the humans run away!

Oh wait, my mistake. Those humans were merely waddling out of the KFC restaurant. Clearly humanity is paranoid as they serve up another helping.

What's that? You mean they actually called it "swine flu" and yet bacon sales and cholesterol levels never changed?!? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you...

Perhaps you should reconsider this train of thought. It doesn't seem to follow reality. At all.

Quite true.

Me personally though? I couldn't stop laughing over the low center of gravity comment, as if we're gonna measure the damn thing on a skidpad.

Guess that depends...how much faith do you have in guessing what our economy is going to do in the next decade?

A global economic meltdown and subsequent bank bailouts were the highlights of the last decade, so feel free to sit around and pull theories clean out of your ass as to the value of the [insert new global monetary standard here] in 2028.

You are correct. I assumed they actually give a flying fuck about being wrong.

Or immoral. Or unethical. Or even illegal.

They don't, because we don't actually enforce laws anymore.