E911 compliance does not require a GPS chip in the handset. See E911 Technology. My handset definitely does not have a GPS chip in it, as/because I am also on a GSM network.

Also you are projecting that I have a cell phone in the first place!

It would have been cheaper, but (as per TFA) it

So they had to up the hardware specs in order to support Systemd

* Although they may have been better off spending that extra money on a proof reader.

Or that you are trying to project your experiences on to other people.

I am quite capable of counting GPS enabled systems that I own, and the answer is 2: My current satnav device and my previous satnav device. So for you to try and deny my reality is an indication of your personal bias.

Lets see ..

1. I don't have or have ever owned a smart phone
2. My tablet is wifi only and doesn't have GPS
3. My car is 14 years old

You insensitive clod!

If Amazon drones can communicate with each other and hopefully perform collision avoidance, how will they do the same with drones from the random Drones'R'Us startup companies that will be popping up all over the place in the next X years?

The problem with this is that you need older workers to tell the younger workers that MMM even exists, or why a book written in the 70's is still relevant 30 years later (had to pull my copy out to verify the publishing date!).

Remember that when you become an older developer.

Snide aside, while your argument has some merit, there is a flaw in your assignment of blame. Development is not a static process, you need to continually update your skills in order top remain relevant. And one of the major impediments to updating skills is companies not providing an environment when such updating is valued.

You could counter with a "well they can do it on their own time", but the rebuttal to that is two fold:

1. Older workers have a life outside of work and have other things to do.
2. Anyone who is forced to update skills outside of work hours because their company won't support them in work hours is eventually going to say "Fuck it, why should this company benefit from my self improvement - I'm going elsewhere."

And there you are .. back to square one. But of course an older worker would have seen this from the outset, due to all the workplace experience that they have gathered.

Recently I saw an Airbnb horror story where by a guest ended up being savaged by the owner's dog, while on the property and had to spend 2 days in hospital (this occurred in Argentina, and apparently the dog had been OK with this guest for a couple of days prior). Until a journalist got involved, the Airbnb response was "Nah, not our problem". Then Airbnb came back with "Can we take a second look at those hospital bills?" and apparently they have now rolled out some sort of liability insurance - but on for the US.

It makes me wonder if any Airbnb operators ever consider what would happen to them if someone slipped and fell in the show and became paralyzed - because I know who the insurance companies would be targeting first.

That would require admitting that all is not right in paradise - something an ideologue could never do.

Keep up please, now days it is Nuke the unborn gay whales

Yeah .. but the microwave burst from that 50Hz power cycle in Australia is really nasty - its just like all the animals that either want to eat you or simply kill you.

You're a litte bit too late for that: Mars, PA

Says the person who can't help but dish out abuse to me.

Ahh.. rationalization of abuse, combined with more abuse!

Ahh .. online abuse. Almost more predictable than Godwin's observations.