I think extortion is extortion.

As a landlord, there are other considerations too, depending if your tenants have the option to not pay for your "lack-of-service", or reduce the rent by the amount alternatives cost them, how it is described to them, and the laws of the individual state, it might even negate their legal requirement to pay full rent.

Landlords aren't often permitted to prevent tenants from obtaining services. Courts don't tend to favor entities trying to obstruct students' abilities to obtain learning resources.

In the lifestyle sense, my father had tools and fixed things instead of blowing his hard earned savings on paying others to do what anyone could.

In the computer sense, magazines provided basic programs you could manually type in.

In the practical sense, I had a need, I wanted to read late at night but mom would catch me with a flashlight. I used a 12-volt toy train transformer, a 12-volt taillight bulb from a car, wires running to two thumbtacks in the doorframe of my bedroom door to act as a switch, so when mom opened the door the light went off and all I had to do was close to hide the book and pretend to be asleep--was successful for years.

When I becme older, there were free PD programs. Nowadays that there are no magazines, and kids grow up with tablets and expensive apps, I have no clue. (Heck, people were getting in car accidents from heavy key-chains turning off their ignitions instead of simply doing rolling restarts.)

I loved it, felt like manual rack and pinion at high speed, felt similar to hydraulic power steering at low speed but far smoother. Humans are dynamic/adaptive creatures, and it doesn't feel any different at different speeds--if you didn't know it was an adaptive electronic system, you'd have no clue. Congrats Ford on catching up to what Honda was doing a decade and half ago.

And my 2001 Honda had it.

Who can I upset enough to buy my properties for a hundred and sixty times more than I paid?

Hear, hear, as a consumer, eye candy is wasted on me, artificial behaviors are the "life" of the game. There are a couple games I experience regularly, one has really old tech (like 1990s era) with fabulous AI that keep me on the edge of my seat, the other undergoes regular development, receives compliments on it's visuals, but feels lifeless.

News from the future, rhinos find success adapting to suburban environments with discarded carpet camouflage, people slow to adapt.

Making it's way? Historically was used in bicycles, I have pics from a bicycle museum along the Rhine River with bamboo framed bikes. Looking at a pic now, even the rim was wood (or at least matching color).

Those cheap jet skis you see for sale along the road have shot hoses from ethanol use.

In the car, I hate the higher cost from worse mileage. It's awesome traveling to a different state (southern) and getting a full tank of gasoline and all the miles that entails.

Funny you mention Toyota and Honda, a decade and half ago Honda made the most efficient hybrid, getting over 60 mpg, which only had two seats, they sold far fewer than Toyota's horrible Prius, which had a rear seat and got lower mpg than more efficient gas and diesel vehicles.

Honda was smart, not taking nearly as big a hit as Toyota did, with a loss on every vehicle sold.

That reminds me of a college student back in the 80s or early 90s who studied the amount of bacteria on jeans and learned single wear washings of them was pointless.

That might not be in the article, but neither is Connecticut.

Hear, hear...integrity. A willingness to stick to his principles no matter the cost, so admirable.

I've heard the song many a time but never read the story behind it, thank you.

On another topic, they talk about adoption rates in the article, as the US vehicle fleet apparently takes about 20 years to turn over. I imagine there'll be significant insurance benefits in vehicle to vehicle systems that will encourage adoption in existing cars. Even more so if enabled cars are permitted a higher legal speed limit, or left/commuter lane only permissions.

I would really like a minimap showing me nearby vehicles à la video games. As it stands now, at night the headlights of another will reveal its existence around a bend, data sorely lacking in daytime. The liability however will be the same as currently, the most likely damage in my area (densely populated suburban) is deer.

Huh? I couldn't get past the, "people clicking an inbound link don't know"...who clicks a link without first glancing to see what the displayed URL it is? That would be like opening your front door to whomever knocks and saying come in without looking who is there, or leaving your car's keys sitting in the door with a note scrawled in the dust on the door, "drive me".

URL shorteners have specific abilities to expose the destination link before taking you there, since people started avoiding them back when Twitter was a thing.

I suppose it could be a drinking game, don't look at what the URLs are of the links you are clicking, and drink every time you get served malware?

Hehe...