I didn't know this would actually work. Now /. has given me the idea I'll try it out and see if someone is really stupid enough to buy an ebook instead of downloading it from usenet / bittorrent / mobilism / ...

"It means a lot that the Earth is warming and that human activity is the cause."

So what? Better warming than a new ice age.

Only if you consider yourself a Borg. In which case, there is no "you" but only "we".

Some old phones that lie dorment in a drawer, an external GPS receiver from the time my phone could run navigation software but had no built-in GPS chip.

"It does not take a few years to cause noticeable change in Global Warming. It takes centuries. Maybe your great-great-great-grandkids will intent a timemachine and shoot you for your own stupidity,"

Those idiots, if they just would have continued pumping up the CO2 levels we wouldn't have this ice age now.

I have the option to switch to Lolipop for my phone, but unless its numerous bugs and annoyances are solved AND Xposed runs reliably on it I won't switch.

And since almost all Android apps run on versions >= 4.0 there is not really a problem there either. With iOS running not the last version gives serious problems on this area.

"If you also have to emulate the CPU, things get really, really slow."

Depends. My C-64 emulator runs faster than the original in 1983. :-)

Sometimes they can be nice. I run a TI-89 emulator on my Android phone. Much more practical than buying a bulky calculator.

" by providing Windows 10 free (if you upgrade in first year) they will be the largest single OS provider in the world"

Assuming people even WANT to "up"grade. From whiceat I've seen from windows 10 I will stick with 7 for now. As a non-company I don't care about price anyway, I'll just pirate a version I like. When people not even want to pirate their software MS has a problem.

The far more software that is being developed are desktop applications. Noone cares about windows phone apps, and being able to run them on the desktop doesn't change that.

" a privacy-respecting nation such as Netherlands"

Ouch... You don't live in The Netherlands, do you? We have, like most western countries, our share of privacy attacks from the government. Mostly to satisfy the tax service, like storing all license plates of cars who drive on the highways or park in a private parking garage (to catch drivers of a leasecar who claim they use it only for business and don't pay the extra income tax). And there is discussion about forcing people to give up their encryption keys if the police wants them, ignoring laws that you have the right to remain silent (except when...).

I don't want a phone that "just works". I want a phone I can play with and tweak to my preferences. Windows phony and iOS are too locked down and the former has no sepcialist apps anyway. I prefer Android, rooted of course with my privecy protected by XPosed and XPrivacy. If I need a phone that "just works" I buy a $11 Samsung burner phone. Much cheaper.

"Why on parity?"

Yeah, I'd say execute him twice. :-)

"Then again, somebody has to go first."

No, why? What's so bad about FM that it needs replacing? And even if you replace it, why would you do it with a dead standard that has failed to become popular when it might have mattered, and is now outdated already? If you want digital, use 3G/4G; if you just want radio, analoge FM is the best there is.

"seatbelt not buckled"

That warning not functioning would be an actual advantage. :-)