Hate to break it to you, they sold 31k cars last year.

I don't think smog checks are as ubiquitous or effective as you think they are. Yes, California has a very strict and effective system, but in my state, failing a smog check only means I have to spend $150 for a diagnostic and I get a waiver until then next check. People living in incorporated county areas aren't even required to submit to emissions testing.

Are you really asking for all the posts that people don't make on social media?

You do realize that 3 states have already gone entirely vote by mail. So, proctored environments clearly aren't that big of an issue.

My state has no polling places anymore. It's all vote by mail. I struggle to see how internet voting is more convenient than that.

Fortunately, it's still up to the FBI to prove they're not lying. Now, what an American jury is willing to accept as proof is anyone's guess.

The "right to be forgotten" has nothing to do with data Google collects while you use their services. Try to keep up.

And we could call these public places set aside for voting "polling places"!

It seems that the Mozilla Foundation has found a safe and reasonable implementation.

You're right. By subscribing to Netflix I am legitimizing their use of DRM. Personally, I feel that $8/month for unlimited movie watching, with the restriction that I must be online to do so, is completely acceptable.

There are uses of DRM that I find unacceptable (I won't "buy" a movie from Google Play or iTunes) but Netflix isn't one of them.

It's called the ocean. Coastal cities often place the out fall from their waste treatment plants in the ocean or a convenient bay. As there is no one downstream of them they either have to add the treated water directly to their potable water system, or pump it back uphill into tower aquifers.

Let's see...

Public transit data? I have a pdf of the schedule saved locally.

Maps? Google Maps caches mapping data locally, and there are mapping apps that store all map data locally.

Mission critical documents? Synced to the cloud, so a local copy still exists.

Mobile games? Not all mobile games require a data connection.

Contact lists? Your example is not how Android works, does iOS really do that?

Used properly they're very useful, even without a data connection.

I'll just leave this here.

No, it's a captive market. I had one math teacher in high school get irate when I brought a TI-85 into class where the syllabus suggested we use a TI-83. She actually suggested (rather forcefully) that I go out and buy an 83 or she wouldn't be able to help me with any of the graphing calculator assignments.

Texas Instruments has gotten cozy with textbook publishers and that is why you can find the TI-x line of calculators at places like Target, not because of any technical superiority.

This, unfortunately, is not a rare occurrence.

However, the fact that they voted 94% for statehood in 1954 suggests that Hawaii's current state of affairs is quite nuanced.