it's your internet connection you're streaming from
Is that really true? Or does the entire stream get proxied through Sling's servers because it's not trivial for something behind NAT to be a server?
people forget that the original pitch for cable-tv was that, because you paid a monthly fee, there would be no ads in the content
[Citation Needed] where does this meme come from?
The original pitch for cable TV in the 1950s was basically "we make the antenna work so you don't have to", especially for people who lived in an area where mountains obstructed the signal. Cable-only channels came much later, in the late '70s and early '80s when satellite TV happened. And they already had ads on them.
Or the self-driving car in back could, you know, STOP before hitting the car in front of it. As for the car in front, even if there was enough gap to get up on the sidewalk, and the car didn't bottom out trying to do so, and it could rev up the curb in time to make a difference, and there was no pedestrian on the sidewalk to get run over (better to get rear-ended than to kill a pedestrian due to panic), the human in a properly stopped car at a red light would not be vigilantly looking back at every intersection for the one in a million chance of some moron about to run into him without even slowing down.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss