It's also distinctly human that we label everything to do with monetising a free service "horrendous".

How is that any different from what we are experiencing in the computer world?

The point of much of social media is not to share links but to replicate content and isolate it from it's original context. You're sharing content not necessarily hyperlinks.

Just look at Facebook this week. Yesterday a video was released by DC Shoes about a daredevil who rode a wave on his motorbike. and hyperlink

You won't get that link anywhere else. I had to google it. That's the original content. Yet my local news had a link to the video on youtube, naturally embedded in the news page. Facebook today has the video itself shared multiple times on their platform without any link to the outside world what so ever each share also removing context of the previous share. The video on my friend's page has 3 comments on it, the video on Motorcross Australia's page has 400 comments on it. Each of these are now detached despite being the same content from a single originator who is never linked to.

You were buying a home. Many people don't. Many people buy investment properties and will absorb those tweets like the weekly junk mail advertising the latest low price gadgets at the local electronics store.

Real time traffic comes from location tracking. They are quite open about this and it's one of the reasons I don't disable the function.

And they're getting some exercise & fresh air.

In the event that an actual certified & credentialled pediophiddlerist runs out from behind the nearest tree and tries to abduct them they might be sufficiently fleet to evade capture.

Or as we used to say back in the 80's[1], lunch is for wimps. Still made me giggle.

Flavor is an impediment to Productivity(tm). Concern for presentation is an impediment to Agility(tm).

There's the basis of a rap in there somewhere.

1] 1980s, before any fixiejockeys chime in.

Just because so many people are retarded and the people making dictionaries want to appease them or themselves, doesn't mean the result is correct.
Do you say jigaton?
jigabyte?
jigabit?
jigaflops?
You may be an American. Almost everybody else in the world speaking English will pronounce it properly.

I'll see your Merriam-Webster and raise you the Oxford dictionary, the Cambridge dictionary and dictionary.reference.com:
http://www.oxforddictionaries....
http://www.oxforddictionaries....
http://dictionary.cambridge.or...
http://dictionary.reference.co...

The military have been using MREs and similar things for over half a century, which all taste awful but not as bad as your allies' ones. Similar items exist for disaster relief agencies & hikers.

This isn't a solution looking for a problem, it's a solution looking for a problem that's already been solved.

Oh, sure, if you don't value your time at all, that's the best strategy. Just keep trying cheap cables until one seems to work, and return the rest. Personally (and professionally), I have better things to do with my time than screw about with sketchy cables, but to each his own.

So why don't they call it pussyfishing?

Screw Back to the Future, man.

Due to that movie my pronunciation of gigawatts is permanently incorrect (even though 'gigabytes' is not a problem at all). It is a matter of time before I fuck up some important conversation by sounding infinitely stupid:
- "The power output of the proposed plant is 2 jigawatts."
= "Did you just say.. 2.. Jigawatts?"
- "Yeah, amazing isn't it??"
= "We're leaving."

Besides, the last time Apple made something that you could take the battery out of was a decade ago.....

Wow. I know Apple fans are serious, but sucking on your iPhone is taking this a bit too far, don't you think?