I suppose rolling with the joke was too hard for you.

try turning it off and on again?

Are you a neurologist, or are you just regurgitating nonsense from someone else who is also not a doctor?

Well Seattle and the states of California and Alaska disagree with you. Uber controls what they can charge, can discipline them, and exerts significant control over a driver's daily activity -- all aspects that apply to workers, not independent contractors.

Except...that's bullshit. Of course they're workers. Don't be dense.

How dare they require businesses to properly compensate their workers. How DARE they!

Has never been to a supermarket with one human cashier and 20 self-serve checkouts. But sure dude, tell us more...

There simply is no better.

Multi-billion dollar industry whines it's not making enough. Film at 11.

You can buy crappy phones like this in the US too. ZTE makes a ton of them and you can easily find them online or at Target, Walmart, and anyplace else that sells cheap prepaid phones. If it cost less than $100 you'll wind up with pretty much the same thing -- crap.

I bought a $40 AT&T GoPhone that was a ZTE, just to use as a hotspot. And really, that's all it was good for. Crappy screen, slower than sh*t chipset, and not enough storage to upgrade the preinstalled apps, forget installing anything else. Exactly as the author described.

Doesn't matter. Accidents happen all the time. People in regular cars are distracted all the time. The fact is that she walked out into the middle of the street and got hit. Don't want to get hit? Try using a crosswalk.

But yeah, blame Uber. Because all non-Uber drivers and vehicles never hit jaywalkers. Ever.

How about we blame the woman who jay-walked out into the middle of a dimly-lit street at 10 PM? Noooo, let's not blame that stupid behavior, we should focus only on the driver and the the car. If she had walked, or rode, the extra bit to get to a crosswalk she'd likely be alive.

If this hadn't been an Uber car it never would have made headlines. People are distracted by all sorts of things while driving, and no system is going to be able to prevent all accidents, especially when people dart out into the middle of a dark road at night.

And when will this apply to robocallers, spammers, and debt collectors who use pre-recorded messages that try to trick people into thinking a human is calling them? Y'know, shit that they've been doing for over a decade and without anyone even raising an eyebrow.

If Google is going to be required to disclose it's an AI call, then all robocallers should have to as well.

Well yeah, that's what I meant about unsightly. But still, you can push them down back thru the holes and then just cover the holes. No need to go thru the effort to remove all the cabling. And if at some point you decide you want jacks, the cables will already be there and you can install jacks instead of making new holes. As others have said, it might be prudent if you decide to sell the house at some point.

Unless they are unsightly why bother? Just leave them be. You never know when they might be of use again at some point in the future.