You forgot commercial air travel. When you look at the big picture commercial air travel has made a cumulative loss and only exists because of government subsidy.

Dude... that is not my view. That is an illustration of the problem. My comment was an appeal to people to be smarter.

Gates was also the one that almost missed the internet boat. They caught up but only via their existign dominance.

I am the head of a US TV network and you are in your first meeting with me. You want to offer ala cart TV content to just anyone? Are you mad? I already have agreements about exclusivity with regional TV stations. And there is just no fucking way I am going to let you allow that shit out of the US... do you have any *fucking* idea about the agreements we have with overseas networks? Your fucking dreaming! Get the fuck out of my office and come back when you are prepared to be more reasonable like netflix, apple and google!

To be fair netflix are a new competitor for them. I think the head of netflix said something along the lines of : netflix needs to figure out how to be HBO before HBO figures out how to be netflix.

My missus does the same thing and it works for her. I tried it after being impressed by it and I coudln't see any improvement for me... memory is a funny thing. My missus remembers phone numbers by remembering the pattern of pushing the buttons on a phone... she will even mime typing the number to recall it. That doesn;t work for me at all... I remember phone numbers by breaking them into sub groups and remembering those.

That is if you believe them http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsofts-own-numbers-show-windows-8-sales-falling-rapidly-218050

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. -- Homer J Simpson.

The emergency override function could be a whole lot better than what we have now. It could notify the surrounding cars that there is an emergency situation and have them clear the road... it could notify the police and hospital of the situation and have them prepare.

I would assume that an override situation woudl entail the car notifying the authorities and recordign what is going on. So if you SO is havign a heart attack and you rush them to hospital then you can sort that out with the polie after the fact.

How do yuo knwo he isnt american? And you seem to be supporting my point so you confuse me AC.

So you are not American? That was the question I was asking. As to applied socialisms there are many different type of varying degrees applied in many different countries.

> You keep using the word "socialist." I do not think it means what you think it means. "Socialism," like I stated earlier, > is an economic regime under which the means of production are owned by the government. This totally retard and limited definition of the term socialism coudl onyl come from an American. Please tell me Im wrong as I like Americans.

And that will be a great day. Humans shoudl not be driving cars as they suck at it. The US alone has 11 millino accidents a year and about 30,000 people are killed in these.

My TV/Internet package comes with a phone. I can;t get rid of it. I use it for maybe ordering pizza once and a while.... but now I do that online. I don;t use it at all now but can;t get rid of it.