Besides email and, well, browsing, there's nothing I do on a web browser. I like having local applications.

Couple years back I had a friend with a cellphone from Sprint, I think it was. Anyway, though he had a data plan, apparently they wanted him to pay extra for GPS. Let that one sink in.

I'm in favor of this. Anyone working any service industry job is under constant surveillance while on the clock, so it's not as if the idea is inherently abhorrent.

If the police aren't doing anything wrong, they shouldn't have anything to hide. Right?

They'll help me reclaim the hours I spend every day in traffic. Safety and speed will be nice, but those won't be significant until most of the cars on the road are autonomous. Until then, I'll be more than happy with the extra time to sleep, read, write, watch TV, play games, and so on.

Is this one of the attacks?

https://xkcd.com/538

No, I mean each individual needs to be all of those things, because "rugged individualism" doesn't work in harsh environments like space. For every two or three men we sent up in a tin can in the early days of space flight, there were scores of people supporting them on the ground.

But please, go on insulting me for no reason. You're making a good case for yourself and people like you to be shipped off-world.

1. If Armstrong found gold on the moon, and the same amount of gold was brought back as the lunar samples that were retrieved, (382 kilos), at today's gold cost, it would be worth $13,297,026.54. Against the total cost of the Apollo program, adjusted for inflation, that would leave them (in today's dollars) around $136b in the hole.

2. I sure hope each of those "rugged individualist libertarians" are simultaneously physicists, engineers, pilots, botanists and doctors, because otherwise they're not getting far in space all on their own.

Because those are two wildly different problems?

People keep bringing up this argument, but why would the AI be piloting the car at breakneck speed toward a crowd of people in the first place?

When you're poor. When you don't have $400. Not like you have $400 in savings that you shouldn't touch, when you literally do not and can not get together $400. You just soldier on and try to survive without health care because you literally can not afford it. You postpone it because there is no other option.

What about police and fire fighters?

Let me guess. You've never been poor.

Couldn't they just lower the bandwidth, rather than choking customers?

Yike, Europe, doesn't it just suck when a bunch of people from far away suddenly show up unannounced and move in? /sarcasm