Google Checkout was widely used, until it was transitioned to the wallet branding and then killed. As a former google checkout user for digital goods I wasn't even aware that I could've been using wallet still.

That's great, if we want a world with a few million happy hunter-gatherers in the rainforests and everybody else dead.

The leverage with which powerful people can control others on Mars would be undeniably much greater than on Earth. On Earth, you can flee on foot. You can hide in the amazon and become a hunter-gathered if you want. On Mars, if you're at odds with your colony leadership, you have to acquire spacesuits air food water building materials etc. Everyone will know where you are on a Mars base, and all they have to do to eliminate dissent is "accidentally" depressurize the compartment. Mars requires living together and depending on each other a great deal, and that lends itself to strong rules and strong leadership.

The premise seems to be that we're supposed to vocally engage and shame internet commenters who harass others. But most people will not do so. This doesn't mean we think it's ok, it means we've learned that online harassers cannot be shamed and will simply harass us in turn if we don't ignore them. Ignoring them is the only option.

Many are born into their religion and feel cultural or family obligation to remain in it.

Take your sample ballot to the voting booth, no point in using a phone.

Nobody has time to evaluate all 50 judges and school board reps and such, and some positions you may simply not care about. Nothing wrong with that. It's much worse to pick someone based on their listed occupation or because you like their name just to fill out the full ballot.

Check a map.

More likely he was testing his flying car at ground level to con investors into thinking it'd work by pretending the FAA was the problem.

Lots of us ask for self-driving cars. The rest perhaps not.

There's less difference between sponsoring and owning when Red Hat employees do a lot of the Fedora work.

Also, the US later admitted the Iranian gun boat attack took place in Iranian territorial waters -- not international waters.

Using plasma alone is dysfunctional. Using it as part of KDE has been fine for years.

Well, I still miss being able to place launchers/applets wherever I want them on a panel or desktop without being forced into a grid or having to use spacers that never quite work right.

Suborbital rocket planes aren't developing significant relevant tech though. Progress will come from more efficient orbital rockets lowering in price, not from developing the plane-assisted suborbital rockets dead end that has no prospect of going orbital.