A9 cores are old and slow.
Why not upgrade to A15 or A17?

AC has it's advantages.
Mechanical switches for AC can run higher voltages and currents. Breaking the connection doesn't have to break a potential arc, since the voltages always goes down to zero. High voltage DC is dangerous and more difficult to switch.
Circuit breakers can too.
High power appliances need high voltages, the higher the voltage, the lower the current. High current means larger cables or more losses.
It's really easy to step up or down an AC voltage with a transformer.
You yanks already suffer boiling water with your 110V 1600W kettles. It's much quicker in 240V countries where 2400W appliances are common. The house wiring is only rated and fused for 16A for an entire circuit, since each outlet only supplies 10A.

Perhaps he is not an idiot.

He got to run over some people on purpose and gets to claim it was an accident.

Maybe he didn't like those two people very much.

Like it did in 1982 as well.

"Environmentalists voice concern over iguanas"
Cool, environmentalists voice concern over the environment making a species extinct.
We should put a stop to the environment!

Why would law enforcement want to do this?
They can just get your location from your cell carrier.

On Android you need to grant the permission and an icon is shown at the top of the screen when the high-accuracy (GPS) location service is active.

I don't believe there is a notification when low accuracy location is active (the one that uses cell towers and wifi signals) but the permission still needs to be granted

He was riding on the back of a regular horse.
You must be confused by his chest hair.

To be fair, Adblock Plus didn't pick it up either.

Technically the original definition of the term is was trademark for the Psion netBook from 1999.

I'm not sure where you imagined "A Windows 8 device with 16 GB or ram, quad-core i7, and big SSD" though.

The current Asus Eee Book's feature Intel Atom or AMD E-350 CPU's.
Samsung, Acer and HP make some Atom based netbooks as well.

My bad, they ran Linux. Windows netbooks came a few months later

The first netbooks ran Windows XP
They came around before Chrome OS and Android existed.
All there really was was a "full OS"

Windows 8 on a 10" or smaller screen with a folding keyboard is a netbook, even if it has a 64 bit Intel processor. It's a form-factor.

Copying half the pages of a book is still copyright infringement.

So if I get charged with identity theft or credit card fraud, my ISP should offer me a free lawyer because it is alleged I used their service to commit a crime?

Traditionally, netbooks are x86 based. They're a small notebook with a screen 10" or less.
They were spat out by the truckload when Intel released the Atom.

Perhaps you're confused with tablets.