... uhmmm... personal recreation. I'm not sure whether prohibiting something like that is remotely legally enforceable.

Talk to the Catholics.

Now that we have computers with fast processors and amounts of memory sometimes in excess of 128MB, automatically stitching together a canvas from several smaller ones is completely automatic and fast.

I suspect the problem is that you also associate e-mail addresses with your iMessages. If someone sends to your e-mail address instead of your phone number, it can't fall back to SMS. I don't know why it would say "Delivered"--and I suspect it doesn't. But the problem in this case would be the sender not using the phone number to try to send the message.

That's how it used to be.

And it's how it still is, except the memory manager handles it all transparently for you in the background, so you can simply mmap() in a file, which can even exceed your total physical RAM many times over, and the system takes care of reading / writing & mapping the pages to / from disk as necessary. All that's changed is transparent support for it in hardware and the amount of memory involved.

Actual nicotine is also used as a pesticide - in "organic" agriculture. I wouldn't be surprised if it has exactly the same effect if used at large scale.

Base rate fallacy.

I have Morton's toe, which occurs in about 10% of the population

Now I know what to call that thing that I've got that you also have.

If you want to know why it's not really called the 'emergency brake', try using it at speed. Attempting to use the handbrake (parking brake, etc. etc.) to stop from speed will almost certainly make your situation a lot worse.

As for traction control, if you can't drive a vehicle safely WITHOUT it, you shouldn't be driving.

As soon as the engine is off and not producing torque, you won't be needing it anyway. Turning the engine off is kinda the ultimate traction control.

Normal people say "put your foot on the [clutch|brakes|gas|accelerator]" etc. with the expectation that the listener isn't so obtuse as to not thing we're talking about pedals.

I'm picking you actually both know what each other is talking about are just being disingenuous (yay nerds!). For the benefit of others:
Cars with manual transmissions have one clutch, which is actuated by the driver.
Traditional automatic transmissions use multiple clutches, but these are instead actuated automatically by the transmissions control system.
Anything that allows the engine to be disconnected/reconnected to the drive train in some way is by definition a clutch.

Power brakes would still work with the engine off and car in gear,

With a manual transmission, yes.

The conventional piston-and-crankshaft engine forces the variation of cylinder volume over time to follow a specific sinusoidal curve. This is not the most efficient way to convert the energy of a hot expanding gas to motion. Look at the third picture in the slideshow to see the power-over-time graph of the free piston engine to get an idea of how differently this engine runs.

This fundamental difference in thermodynamic cycle performance makes the biggest improvement to the efficiency of this engine. It more than makes up for the inherent inefficiencies in converting the mechanical motion to electricity and back. Using electricity lets you use capacitors and batteries to smooth that spiky but efficient power production to a a smooth supply for the electric motors.

Take a look at this graph: Nuclear Electricity Production. It's quite easy to spot 1986 on this graph (Chernobyl). That's where the trend of acceleration in nuclear power growth has reversed into deceleration. No such reversal has occured in demand for electric power, of course. The shortfall has been largely picked up by coal.

The number of people that have been killed by air pollution from coal as an indirect result of the nuclear stagnation after the Chernobyl accident is well into the millions.

A serial communications link would fit 'binary context' in my opinion. However, on a serial comms link, a megabit is 1,000,000 bits. An 8 bit data bus clocked at 1 MHz can shift 1,000,000 bytes of data per second. Again, this is very much in 'binary context'.