But if the app doesn't know your location, how would it possibly know where to provide the light?

It's "right off". It's a mafia term.

A person who speaks two languages is called bilangual. What do you call a person who only speaks one language? American!

That was only in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, he is caring, loving and forgiving. What happened in between? He got laid!

I'm really not sure what you are getting at here. Have you never heard of anyone using cocaine or heroin without doing stupid things? I have. In fact, only a very small percentage of usage leads to people doing stupid things. Conversely, surely you have heard of someone doing outrageously stupid things after drinking alcohol? There are in fact TV shows dedicated to this very phenomenon!

As for your discussion about the level of addictiveness, alcohol is more addictive than many drugs.

You are assuming that people who see colour see anything other than random dots. I can understand why you would believe that, but in this case it is wrong. It IS just random dots. The colouration just adds to the confusion.

So who exactly are those people whose business were hurt? You are right that a number of crybabies (with amazingly influential lobbyists backing them up, sadly) did go to the government and demand retribution, but that's simply pathetic. I don't think that process should take 6 min. I think it should take 0 min.

I can see how some people are upset that they sold Apple shares for $0.01. But really, if they are that monumentally stupid, I can't see why it's the government's business to stop morons (here used in the clinical sense, and not (only) in the derogatory sense) from doing stupid trades. I can see the downside, but I completely fail to see any upside to it. Please explain the upside if you disagree.

Not only are you welcome to do so. As a retail investor, that is actually a great idea. In the auctions, liquidity is concentrated and an optimum amount of volume is traded at the same price for both buyers and sellers (obviously). If you trade infrequently there is no reason to ever trade outside of the auctions. And if you trade frequently, you probably haven't understood how the market works and as such deserve to be ripped off by people who do understand.

If trading at a speed faster than some arbitrary limit you just made up is such a bad thing, why don't you start an exchange that operates under these conditions? Seems like a definite win to me. "Individual investors" would apparently find your market model more lucrative and flock to your solution. More money for you, more money for "individual investors" and less money to HFTs. Seems like a huge win for society.

So why don't you start such an exchange? This question isn't rethorical. There are literally hundreds of exchanges/trading facilities being started every year all over the world. Have you stopped to consider for even one second why almost none of them were operated along your ideas, and why every single one of those that were failed miserably? Could it, just possibly, be that you don't quite understand how HFT works and exactly who they are extracting money from?

You could argue that "the free market gave a dumb corporation a 400 million dollar bitch slap in less than a hour" is funny, but actually it,s insightful. It's the perfect example of how companies could and should be punished for doing stupid things.

And here's an even better example: the flash crash of three years ago. In a few minutes some algorithms went haywire and stock prices dropped dramatically, in some cases down to 1 cent. Clearly that was wrong. The free market fixed this issue in six minutes. That's pretty fast, if you ask me. The government is still, three years later, thinking about what to do about it. Really!?

It is factually incorrect to say that taxes in Sweden are 30%. They are way over 50% for everyone, and the marginal rate is way over 70%. This is partially hidden in "employer fees", so you can't see them on your pay slip. However, they are obviously paid for by the employee in the end, in exactly the same way that VAT is ultimately paid by the consumer, not the retailer, even though the retailer is the one transferring the money to the state.

We do pay more for services in Sweden, but it is true that when tuitions and health insurance are included the difference shrinks.

That's such a wonderful idea. I bet it would work in other places as well. In fact, I bet it works in most places. It clearly deserves a name. I will henceforth refer to this concept as a "tekram". But I may have it backwards.

After about 300 years. No, not a joke, unfortunately.