I have one, it is a great MF printer/scanner/copier, and can verify it works fine with Linux for printing.

I can't agree with this. I bought a Kyocera color laser for all the reasons you detailed, and recently abandoned it for a Epson WF-3520 multi-function inkjet for the following reasons:

1) My color laser was a one-trick pony. It printed really nice pages of one-sided paper. I will list the Epson's capabilities below.
2) When it became time to refill the color toner, it would have cost twice as much as my new inkjet. I was shocked by how expensive color toner is, even when just buying the power and refilling the cartridges myself.
3) I started getting smudges of toner on the paper. Cleaning toner sucks far more than cleaning ink.
4) Physically a color laser is fairly large and very loud.

The Epson does the following quite well:

1) Has both ethernet and wifi for easy connectivity.
2) Prints from Linux, Mac, and PC as well as iWhatevers and Android devices (Airprint for the former, Google Cloud Print for the latter, the connectivity for which is built into the printer itself). It also duplex prints.
3) Has both a flatbed and sheet-fed scanner, which means it also faxes and copies. It can put the image files on your computer, or email, or Evernote, or whatever. I usually just scan to email.
4) Has reasonably priced replacement cartridges. Plus it actually came with full cartridges, which is a rarity for both ink and laser printers.

It would be trivial to detect and bitbucket the massive amounts of bad data described, and spamming thresholds low enough to not trigger detection would probably be statistically irrelevant.

Most major highways and streets rely on hardware sensors embedded into the road anyway. Anything else is supplemental or for less important roads.

An extra $24B now, thanks to those incompetent assholes in Washington.

Not really. He even specifically mentions another extension that competes with his in the context of wrangling with FB. They mentioned it's donate-ware at the very end... briefly.

I bought a new Ford last week and as soon as I hooked it up was informed of an available upgrade. Looking at the version history it was less than three months between this one and the last one.

I don't know about the Protect, but their thermostat works just fine offline. You lose some features, like advanced programming and control with a mobile app, but it still functions as a thermostat.

It doesn't necessarily have to be more effective. If it's equally effective there are probably a number of people who will buy it just because it's interesting and saves them maybe one minute of time every day.

The way I see it is like this: if they run out of fuel the engines stop. If the engines stop they lose hydraulics. If the lose hydraulics, plane does what it pleases without regard for the pilot's wishes and/or heartfelt prayers.

Why sabotage? Planes are complicated and any number of things can go wrong. You're right that more detail would be helpful, but there's no more reason to suspect sabotage than there is to suspect a bird strike.

Presumably that's why there were four instead of two or three.

Nope. It was a safety mechanism that worked as intended, after three others did not. The bomb did not malfunction.

Sending back a corked bottle shouldn't embarrass anyone. It's fairly rare but does happen from time to time. The restaurant shouldn't even think twice about it.

That sounds like a great way to become exposed to massive unknown liability.

Yeah! Those 109,000 employees can just go fuck themselves.