As we move into the era of smartwatch-driven communications, along with all of the pressure against anyone who steps behind the wheel of any vehicle to become "hands-free", I'm rather curious. Why do you not feel the art of typing is also a dying requirement in society?

I know we've all been talking about the death of the keyboard for quite some time now. I tend to finally see that on the horizon. At one point we all thought Dick Tracy was the only lucky guy to own a watch like that, and voice recognition solutions aren't getting weaker.

Quite true, especially in today's music climate where a tossed salad is served up hot and fresh with a side of truffle butter.

(Yeah, go ahead, take your own advice and enjoy Google on that one.)

Oh, won't it be great fun trolling the youngsters of tomorrow when I ask them to read something I wrote down.

I'll make sure to hand-write my inheritance checks and will in cursive too.

I didn't know a hung-over backhoe operator was considered in the same class as a major earthquake.

What exactly has caused your last three fiber outages? Chances are it was a human behind a stick or wheel, and not Mother Nature.

Just in the United States, someone becomes addicted to alcohol at the rate of one every three seconds.

http://www.substance.com/live-drug-stats-visualizing-drug-use-in-america/13180/

According to the CDC not long ago, alcohol was the 3rd leading cause of preventable death. Not sure what more we need to talk about. This problem isn't getting better or going away. We've just managed to waste billions making it acceptable to insurance companies for the last few decades by trying to reclassify it as a disease.

If you wish to speak of morals and ethics, perhaps you should review the existing structure and their pricing model first.

There's a reason we have a compelling argument for competition here, and it's not because they have cooler looking cars.

Might as well cull out arts and humanities too. Those have no place in the modern workforce because you know, Picasso painted with a real brush, and Shakespeare wrote on actual paper. No one expresses themselves with that shit anymore...

And why would we not assume this?

Think about it for a minute, you're an owner of a product with a 7-10 year useful lifespan. You're being approached by vendors that have a notorious reputation for going out of date with their products within months, sometimes sooner. Are you going to be willing to partner with any of them without being able to point the finger back at them when shit goes wrong?

And we see this shit happen all the time. It's gotten to the point where they should just call it the legal finger pointing loophole.

Don't have a clue why anyone would want one. Must be the shitty resolution or something...

Says you, the consumer of said hardware.

Tell me again why a manufacturer or reseller of said hardware would give a shit about their hardware becoming slightly out of date and lacking features in 2-3 years?

At the beginning of the day, they give a shit about one thing; revenue.

At the end of the day, they give a shit about one thing; revenue.

In other words, the vendors of the world already have a solution for you. It's engineered right into the product.

Alcoholism was officially defined as a disease over half a century ago, paving the way for treatment centers to open all across the country with full official support and backing from the medical and insurance community.

What was the direct impact on alcoholism today? By the time you finish reading this sentence, three more humans will become addicted to alcohol.

Treating addiction as a medical problem? Oh yeah. I can really tell how well that fucking tactic worked out...

Uh, proper usage? Of the word rigmarole?

You mean when we stopped calling it balderdash because it was too old-fashioned, or when we stopped calling it a clusterfuck due to the overly protective censors?

Bullshit words deserve their ongoing confusion, and belong in the Urban Dictionary and not much further.

Yes, let's figure out ways to continue to make the drugs that kills us without using the base products instead of oh, I dunno...figuring out how to not ensure demand stays at 100%.

After all, it's obvious the inherent problem to solve with cocaine addiction is the cocoa leaf.

I'm certain the cure for obesity is smaller forks too.

Let me see... You would prefer a solid "OS" on a nicely embedded device, along with the flexibility to upgrade easily over the 5-7 year expected lifetime of a TV product?

No problem. Hope you don't mind taking out a multi-year loan for that $15,000 television set.

The words very cheap have never rung so hard in your wallet. And today, when something doesn't work due to obsolescence, the answer is to throw it away and buy a new one, thus defining the problem as there isn't a problem here, according to the vendors.

The hardware you want doesn't exist unless you make it. And it it's not planned either. To guarantee revenue.

Nothing?

Because there are not millions of objects hurtling through our universe at any given moment, as we sit here and theorize what large object might have wiped out all life on this planet before?

The universe is nothing but one big pinball machine. Luck runs out eventually.