https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's not a typo. "Frunk" is Tesla's term for the front trunk.

I'm very impressed with how Valve/Steam handles this situation. When you buy a game on Steam you buy it for all platforms. I used to run Windows and had some Steam games. Then I switched to Linux and any games I had that had a Linux port were available to play. No effort required, they were simply there in the Linux Steam client. A few months later another couple of games I had from the Windows days released Linux ports and they just appeared as available/purchased in my Steam client on their own.

We're fine with that as soon as gas cars start paying for health care costs related to pollution as well as middle eastern wars, fracking induced earthquakes and all their other externalities.

Scenario A: Google back when they initially developed Android ran into a design roadblock. They saw no way to solve the particular problem until one of the developers read a MS patent that solved their issue. MS is therefore paid royalties on their patent.

Scenario B: Google developed Android without ever having heard of any MS patents. Once Android became popular MS lawyers studied their patents trying to stretch them enough to find infringement. They bully the Android phone makers into paying billions. In this scenario Android would have been exactly the same product without the MS patents and MS is being paid billions for nothing.

Scenario A is what the patent system was supposed to be. Scenario B is reality most of the time today. Question is if the few cases of Scenario A justifies all the Scenario B's.

Same experience here. I've had TWC internet-only for 5 years. No outages, no data cap, no artificial slowdowns on "non-approved sites" (AFAIK). There's a local phone number on the bill. The times I've needed service I called it rather than the 800 number and each time I've talked to an on-shore call center that was able to fix the issue.

Now Comcast on the other hand... yuck.