It's out of question that it will sometimes fuck up. It's desirable as long as it does not fuck up as much as humans do.

"In 2025, they'll be promoted to "transport managers."

So you do not trust the Internet as a transmission medium.

It's got a wireless link to Google Glass, you insensitive clod

Cheats are useful both for developers and testers. You're thinking easter-eggs

...and here we have a prime example of the very kind of people you bitch about. You should be taken off the streets.

Everyone who ever rode a motorcycle knows very well they those things already self-balance to an impressive degree. Even if you wanted, you couldn't make one simply fall over (short of giving the handlebar a huge jerk)

I think you misunderstand what kind of statements people tend to get flamed for. This is pretty spot on, windows does have the better GUI, after all, a huge amount of money has been thrown at it.
That being said, i'd still not use it because a nice GUI is useless when the rest is crap.

a lot

I bet somewhere is an *actual* hilariously rich nigerian princess sending legitimate emails out of the good of her heart. Sucks to be her.

"four giant nuclear plants?" Dammit, that's extremely useless a unit of measurement.
Literally everyone should know by now that the standard SI unit for power consumption is medium-sized town.
So, how many medium sized town do those cable boxes consume in total?

Dude, get off are lawn

But I use PS/2, you insensitive clod.

(Fair enough.)

And what makes the software interrupt "fire"?