You do not have to buy a silly smartphone.

You can just get a strong decent old phone, like the famous Nokia 3310, replace the battery by a new shiny one in top condition, and you can have many years of good calls.

You automatically rank in the highest tax category as a freelancer. Of every buck you make, 60 cents go to the state.

You have to keep your own pension in mind, and let us face it, most programmers are not that good at selling themselves. While exceptions are there, once you start as a freelancer, you might start to appreciate those pesky sales droids a lot more.

But this had nothing to do with fuel consumption. It had to do with CO2 emission.

The Sphynx has a room underneath its front paws, dicovered by means or echolocation.
However, no archeologist has been allowed in, yet.
Must be because the superweapon is there!

That seems a bigger question.

My sentiments exactly. Create a whirlpool in the tank, and get that shit off the ground.

I think it is worth spending many trillions on. But the world should gain global political stability first. Abominations such as North Korea should first be resolved. Not because of the starving kids, but because of the hindrances it would cause to a global space program.

"West of Ireland there is only sea, and then the end of the world. Everybody to travel there is an idiot"

We will travel beyond Mars... but all in due time.

Using your phone as a tracking device could be useful. It did not know it could do that. Using that, you might get all kinds of information from it then. Such as route data that you could overlay on a map, combined with what speed you are making where...

Seconded. I also want to know.

This! I have never understood people who bring their telephone along while running.
Really, do you want to be able to receive calls while training, or is one so addicted to whatsapp and similar stuff that it has to be used even while running?
Maybe useful to call in an emergency when I get into an accident... But that it a risk I take. In four years or running, I never needed to make a call while training.

If you need electronics during running, you should plans your routes through more interesting places, where there is more to see.
As a runner myself, the only electronics I bring along are two lights.
You really want to keep an ear open for traffic.

The Dutch are all very much against this. However, the Dutch goverment is orgasming in ecstacy that it may be wagging it's tail and sitting on the US's lap even closer. So we are doomed.

That is just in unemplyment benefits, rent subsidies, free this, free that...

So, fair enough, Let them starve. Problem will be solved in less than 20 days.