It's no joke, this business strategy has been been used by a number of internet companies during the first dotcom boom and the model has been extremely profitable to executives and early investors. Webvan and Pets.com both come to mind as early adopters of this strategy, but they are far from the only ones.

How many people in areas that don't have frequent and ubiquitous transit use transit exclusively and don't use a car?

In NYC many people rely on transit and never drive. How many people in Los Angeles or Atlanta do?

I live in an area that's fairly well served by transit (by USA standards), I used to take the train to work, now I work closer so I bike to work. Yet I could still never give up my car completely without giving up a lot of mobility since there are still many places I'd like to go that are underserved or completely unserved by transit.

Well sure, you might lose a little money on each one, but you can make it up in VOLUME!

Unless public transit is frequent and ubiquitous, it can't replace a car regardless of price

When I moved to San Francisco, an unlimited Muni pass was so cheap ($35) that it may as well been free, but I still had a car because weekend service is infrequent, and didn't go everywhere I wanted to go. I thought about giving up my car, until I tried an out of town trip on BART one weekend, it would have been an hour (or less) round trip by car, but since it involved a train transfer plus a long wait for a bus (that never came so I ended up walking the 2 miles), the transit part of the trip ended up being being over 3 hours.

Even now an unlimited Muni pass is cheap ($70), much cheaper than owning and parking a car in the city so it's not the cost of transit that makes people hold on to their cars.

On the other hand, when I spent some time in Tokyo, a $170 monthly Metro pass was much better than having a car, few of my friends who lived there full time owned a car.

Sure, but if they flood the market and the horns become more popular and more available (even if they are fake), it's not going to drop the price to zero, it will just increase overall demand. I suspect that even if the price dropped precipitously from $65K/kg to $1K/kg, there would still be people willing to kill rhinos for the real thing.

Maybe they'd be better off tranquilizing the real rhinos, removing their horns, and replacing them with 3d printed fakes (that are a different color or have some other characteristic that identifies them as fake). At least then it removes the incentive to kill the rhino to steal a fake horn that looks fake.

It happens to me all the time, I have a relatively common Gmail address using my first initial and last name. I frequently get misdirected email from a variety of vendors where someone gave them my email address by mistake. I used to try to contact the merchant and tell them, but they rarely respond intelligently (usually they tell me to log on to my account and change the address... duh, I don't have an account!). So now I usually just flag them as spam and ignore them.

Comcast has been sending me monthly bill notifications for someone else's account for over a year, I emailed them, but they told me to call and I didn't feel like calling, so I've been ignoring it.

Some guy keeps sending me his flight reservations, I could screw with him and cancel his flights online or maybe keep changing his seat to put him next to the bathroom.

One guy said he was going to sue me for stealing his email address when I told him that he's using the wrong address, he swore that he'd been using that address for 5 years and that I stole it from him.

If an outage costs you $100K/hour, you better not be running it on a single server.

That's not an answer, that's a question -- what would you do with this thing if you could wear it? It's relatively big and bulky compared to some other purpose made wearables, so what would you really want to do with it if it were wearable?

What would you use it for as a wearable? The LED matrix is too spread out to be very readable, so what would you do with it clipped to your shirt that you couldn't also do with it in your pocket?

I picked up this one on Woot for $300:

http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Liv...

It works reasonably well. It's got a hand crank and cranking it up and down is so tedious that I generally just leave it in the standing position, which is probably a good thing since that encourages me to stand more (though could be a bad thing if I left it in the down position). It's more stable than the $1000 electric desk I have at work, typing doesn't make the monitor move around at all like it does at work.

It's better than the typical corporate non-apology "We're sorry that this may have offended some people".

They transfer ownership to the ISP, so they are not owned by Netflix:

https://openconnect.netflix.co...

Exactly, this is just a tragic industrial accident, there are already procedures in place to prevent this type of thing that apply to industrial equipment of all types - hydraulic presses, large walk-in ovens, cutoff saws, etc. Being an industrial robot doesn't make this a special case, it's not as if the robot was stalking him throughout the facility, it had a known safety area, and almost certainly had a proper lockout procedure to keep it from being activated when anyone was within the safety cage.

Probably the same number of people that want to save on mobile data usage with Wifi Sense?

Did you read the box?

Save on mobile data usage with Wifi Sense. Join in and get connected to WiFi. By using WiFi Sense, you agree that it can use your location.

Who doesn't want to save on mobile data usage!? How many people will opt-out? Where does it say that by opting in that they are sharing their Wifi passphrase with everyone they share to? It may be obvious to you, but not to 99% of the people that will run Windows 10.