" a privacy-respecting nation such as Netherlands"

Ouch... You don't live in The Netherlands, do you? We have, like most western countries, our share of privacy attacks from the government. Mostly to satisfy the tax service, like storing all license plates of cars who drive on the highways or park in a private parking garage (to catch drivers of a leasecar who claim they use it only for business and don't pay the extra income tax). And there is discussion about forcing people to give up their encryption keys if the police wants them, ignoring laws that you have the right to remain silent (except when...).

I don't want a phone that "just works". I want a phone I can play with and tweak to my preferences. Windows phony and iOS are too locked down and the former has no sepcialist apps anyway. I prefer Android, rooted of course with my privecy protected by XPosed and XPrivacy. If I need a phone that "just works" I buy a $11 Samsung burner phone. Much cheaper.

"Why on parity?"

Yeah, I'd say execute him twice. :-)

"Then again, somebody has to go first."

No, why? What's so bad about FM that it needs replacing? And even if you replace it, why would you do it with a dead standard that has failed to become popular when it might have mattered, and is now outdated already? If you want digital, use 3G/4G; if you just want radio, analoge FM is the best there is.

"seatbelt not buckled"

That warning not functioning would be an actual advantage. :-)

Good luck with most modern European cars. There aren't any unless you buy a second hand 10 years old one.

I need that lighter socket to charge my phone, especially when the navigator is on. Do these units come with extra USB sockets? Otherwise I need a one to many socket multiplier first but those are bulky.

This is, but since all those followers don't want to use this technique but instead prefer Javascripts and cookies on the sites you visit they make it quite easy for you: use plugins like Ghostery to block them.

And free the population of the religious oppression. Hey,that worked well in the middle east as well, didn't it? Now it's time for the ISA to be bombed.

"I need Linux for work."

Run it in a virtual machine.

" The second, another driver decided to use the right lane as a passing lane in a 4 lane road, driving 55 while everyone else is going 35, denying anyone in the left lanes the ability to change lanes and make a right turn. Let me repeat, that was just today."

You call that risky behaviour? Go drive in Paris, Rome, Manilla or Shanghai and then we'll talk again.

"If a child and a dog run out into the street at the same time from opposite sides, do you trust the car to make the right decision as to which it will run over?"

I like dogs and cats even more, I want that setting to be user-configurable. Bad luck for the child that has broken loose of its necklace.

Not to mention in the US: if the car has no choice hiting one of 2 persons, one black and one white, which choice will it make? I want that to be a user setting too.

And start accepting sane copyright laws. Increased production will also more than compensate for the sanctions the US will impose, as long as they can avoid a US invasion to "liberate" the country.

I think MS is affraid that windows 10 will be just as much a disaster in sales as windows 8 and they are pushing to prevent it. I think I pass, my illegal copy of windows 7 is doing just fine.

Because they bent for the music industry and actively went against downloaders, the infrastructure (massive use of VPN's in another country) to circumvent censorship is already in place.