At some point, having a server (like Linode) becomes well worth it. As long as you have a network connection, you can connect to your one development box.

Are you lying, or just an idiot? Have you ever tried it? You still have the File/Edit/View menus when you delete ie.exe in older versions of windows. I haven't tried on the newest, but older ones would actually load IE in File Explorer (all the menus across the top, the E logo, and all, no idea about bookmarks, didn't think that would be such an issue years later for some jackass on the Internet), when IE.EXE was deleted and you browsed in File Explorer to a web site.

I said "the user interface of the presentation of [...]" but you ignored that for your incorrect rant about what a browser is.

You are wrong. A program that renders is a browser. For Windows, that's the OS.

The proof you are wrong? You mentioned bookmarks, but what about cache? If the OS puts things in IE cache with IE deleted, wouldn't that indicate that the application function of caching is still active? Or is bookmarks a application function, but cache isn't. If bookmarks are required to differentiate a browser from rendering? Then Lynx is a rendering engine, but not a browser, because the last time I used it, it didn't have bookmarks. Oh, and my Android phone will save bookmarks, even if you delete all the browsers off it. So your arbitrary metric isn't consistent or useful. But it wasn't chosen for being a useful metric, but just to try to prove someone else wrong to distract from the fact that you are the only one that's wrong.

The user interface of the presentation of the rendering is the application. That application survives if you delete IE. Deleting the TCP stack doesn't kill the rendering engine, you can still render C:\example.html without TCP or IP.

You've over-thought it to the point you are 100% wrong, and your only point is that you don't know what a browser is.

Also, because the rendering engine was embedded and separate, you could render an external web page in the OS, as IE would, with IE deleted. That isn't "deleted" to most people. That's, at best, hidden. Like my kids playing hide and seek, with their feet showing and their head hidden.

If he's landing on your head, crabbing is irrelevant to your safety. Or would you think that a crabbing aircraft wouldn't hurt if it rammed into you?

They also didn't provide The Internet (initially). They were a portal service that provided a white-list of services, most of which had to pay to get on the list.

I thought that's exactly what AOL did in the early days.

What about the rats of NIMH?

How could you distinguish your omnipotent AI from God?

Yup, we are unique. God's special creation. Nothing but us can have souls. Well, you'd have to define soul first before proving we can't have one. And there doesn't seem to be a good definition of soul.

So, you are complaining because they didn't make it worse?

It was never claimed to be. The process to determine *whether* to act is supposedly open. The results of the decision are supposedly open. The actual decision making process, and intermediate work product was *never* open. Who claimed that all FCC meetings and processes are open?

You are correct for "meant" and not correct for "mean".

First world: best of the best.
Third world: unsafe shithole with warlords and no drinkable water.
Second world: everything in between.

Those rules have never been in place. That cherry picking has been going on for decades. Where have you been?

They stayed out of it until it was no longer The Internet, and Verizon et al were operating AOL-like perversions of The Internet, and defrauding people by claiming it was The Internet.