Just for registering a burner phone I never take with me when I'm driving, I can get cheaper insurance?

Wake me up when they find whiskey.

no irregular verbs, we could call it, let's say ^'Esperanto.

"They could. Granted those, unlike the towers, typically have armed patrols and are quite difficult to get in to."

Not at all. As numerous environmental groups demonstrated, you just have to write a letter asking for a visit and ring the front door.

"The states are: Alaska, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and Virginia

Not sure why this couldn't be in the summary."

Why state the obvious?

"in VLC every Christmas time the cone gets a Santa hat - it's a nice touch that shows they're thinking about the end user."

unless he's muslim, hindu, baha'i, atheist, ... then they switch to a non-religious player.

"The unstated assumption is that you are still delivering a good product on time."

Unfortunately that never happened, ever!

"Why the funk not just send the damn data to the doctor immediately, and let him/her spend any downtime ("there's always patients cancelling") to review the data?"

Because then the doctor and the radiologist will make deals behind your back and bill your insurance senseless, because you are no longer in the middle to check if they don't overdo it.

"even though "america" doesn't mean what you think it means."

Inconceivable!

" if a patient has the means and the interest to look at the data from a doctor's medical scans, she can."

I'm from Luxembourg, Europe and here all the scans have been done on CDs and DVDs for over a decade now and handed out to us patients, not the doctors. As soon as CDs got cheaper than chemical they switched, I must say I was impressed at the time.

For a copy of the lab-tests I have to pay 1€ to have a copy of the results sent to my address.

As almost everywhere on the world, electronic patient files are slow to come so it's like always:

If you want something done properly, do it yourself!

...a system that would store the energy for a couple of hours and use that to walk me home when I'm drunk.

"...but for the most of us, why have a car at all? "

Exactly! If I need my laundry or whatever from the city, why call a car and let myself be driven there, a self-driving car will bring the stuff to my home.

"Trucks also follow well defined routes.."

Not to mention that self driving trucks will ruin the crystal meth business.

"With sensible urban planning, buses and subways can solve the same problem much better."

The bus doesn't pick up my laundry and groceries unless I'm in it.

My self-driving car does.

"I want to interact with my car by operating a steering wheel, 3 pedals and a shifter."

There will be a place to do that, you'll just have to pay an entrance fee.