Not selling phones in one country (and.. not refusing to sell phones, just not being allowed to) for the reason of protecting your customers' security when every other phone company had already caved?

Yeah, I'm sure that wouldn't have helped their sales anywhere else.

We had those in my state as well. They were awful.

First, they had a "master lever" so that people wouldn't have to think about their votes (except for the non-partisan races that people using the master lever often neglected...)

Even more egregious was that the commit action was tied to the curtain release lever, so people who needed help with something would sometimes (maybe as much as half the time...) pull that to open the curtains, ending their vote, and it was not reversible.

The final tallys had to be read from a paper tape, and I don't envy anyone trying to do a recount on miles of calculator ribbon.

Finally, they were gigantic and heavy, so we only had a few per precinct, leading to long lines everywhere.

I do not miss those machines.

It's not winter yet. Although winter is coming.

There are plenty of self-driving trains, the surprising thing is how many aren't yet. Planes are essentially self-driving now, at least runway-to-runway. I don't see any technical reason why they couldn't be gate-to-gate. An airport is a controlled environment, so it should be easier to keep track of the ground traffic.

But a car that's on his property is more immediately available than one that's sitting in the depot in the larger town 30 minutes away.

Because the cost of a taxi is mostly the cost of the driver. Cut that out and taxis become an economically viable replacement for more people.

No one can deny that there are a number of circumstances where taxis are more convenient that having to deal with your own car. Cost and other factors get in the way.

Which is nice if you don't do it that often. But.. why not just put an accelerometer in the monitor and have it report its orientation to the OS? If we can fit one in an mp3 player, we can fit one in a monitor.

If you fill it with pure nitrogen, the majority component of air, it should be possible to get some buoyancy out of it and still have a tenuous justification for calling it air. The balloons would have to be pretty enormous, though.

Ok, but I'm not sure that it's an insult then. If his shows became garbage, that implies they had a period during which they were not garbage preceding the garbage period. In other words, a period existed, however briefly, when they were not garbage. Frankly, that is a pretty good record for anyone in the television business.

Pre-orders? Orders without listening first? Maybe Apple's charts aren't 100% based on apple's own sales data?

Your math doesn't include the remaining delta-v budget of those 10N thrusters...

Isn't that every show that isn't still on the air?

By dipping into the cocoa reserves, built up from years when it was the opposite.

The real question is this:

Just how deep are the cocoa reserves?

So, you don't think that finding common characteristics that are good predictors of behavior provides information that can be used in researching the root cause?

With the gun club and United States references, surely he was referring to well-known Bad SF.