the most effective way to do this would be to crowdsource it. :)

The thing is proposed to be built on pylons 20 to 100 feet tall. All those dips and valleys and hills and streams just went away.

Except for the 4000-foot mountain range that surrounds Los Angeles.

But denser areas require less road spending per person, because people have to travel less on average. So adding density saves each taxpayer money.

but I'm surprised how low the level of discussion has been here.

Amazon, Google, etc are private companies. They are not the government. They can remove whatever they want and it's not a free speech issue.

Or have these companies reached a level of market dominance where they are like "common carriers", and if they stop selling something for political reasons, it basically means that you can't buy it anywhere and it becomes a sort of free speech issue?

That's the only potentially interesting discussion here - and nobody's having it.

Good, useful reviews don't appear every day. If a review is 2 years old and hundreds of people have said that it's useful, that's probably because it IS useful.

This change seems designed to turn the review section into a discussion forum where you have to reload every few minutes to participate in the latest discussion. I suppose this is good for Amazon's advertising revenue, but it's bad for customers who want to know what to buy or not to buy.

Talk about pirating :)

And how exactly do you get to those links from the homepage?

I've seen sites where reading is free but you have to pay to comment.
The downside was that so few people paid that there wasn't a vibrant discussion.

at this pace, within a couple years I'll like Microsoft more than I like Mozilla.

There's something to be said for being spied upon by a country that's NOT the one you live in.

(Assuming you'll be spied upon by some country, and by only one country)

If it works, then why isn't Cuba using it?
Therefore, I choose A.

FTFY

we can work on a cure for politicians' "brown-nose syndrome"...

KDE and GNOME have had vector graphic icons for years now. You're telling me Microsoft doesn't have the resources to do the same thing?

Self-driving trains exist. Vancouver's subway is self-driving. But installing the self-driving signalling system on existing rail lines is expensive. And unions oppose anything that will decrease the number of railway workers. Since a single union has a monopoly on transit work in each city, they have immense power and get essentially anything that they want.