But what if comcast don't want to install and run a higher bandwidth streaming server on my Lan? Even if they do, who will pay for the electricity?

Maybe, just maybe, they are part of the 99% of employees who worked unpaid overtime, came in at the weekend, cancelled vacation time that they had booked months in advance, bought tools and supplies out of their own pocket to get the job done and still never got a raise or a promotion and had to train the new guy who was employed as their superior on twice their pay but had no idea about the company's products or the production process?
Doing that repeatedly for a decade or two will make you jaded.

So, you don't need to know where on the filesystem an mp3 is because every single file is correctly ID3 tagged and you can remember the artist and/or title of every track?

Isn't that like how you don't need a menu system to look for a rarely-used application whose name you have forgotten because you can just type the name of it into the search bar?

So the question "Why can't I run macOS on an iPad with external peripherals for input and the screen used only for display with the touchcreen aspect disabled?" is answered with "Ah, well, you see, it would mean rewriting all the macOS and apps so that they work with a touchscreen!".

Is it just my reading comprehension which is failing? Am I taking crazy pills?

Sounds lovely. What will it be like after a few years of the streaming provider gradually reducing bandwidth to increase profits?

I agree. This would be great, but I don't think it is proven.

Imagine if, when the helicopter first flew, everyone went crazy about how this new antigravity technology would soon allow the colonization of distant galaxies. That is how I see the hype about the current crop of 'AI'.

The road that was built to take commuters home to a town of 50,000 people in 1930 was not widened when the town expanded to 100,000 people in 1960 and was not widened when the town expanded to 500,000 people today.
Induced demand is probably real, but is dwarfed by pent-up demand.

If she is "working hard" by telling subordinates to work hard, then the subordinates only need to spend all their time telling each other to work hard and they will be as productive as her.

I was hoping they would invent the automobile, but alas, that has been abandoned.

It's less about 'do I need to protect my customers?' But more about 'how do I better protect my employees and protect the families of employees?

Yep, that is definitely the first thing that a CEO would think. Bless them all.

Ditto. Fuck Sony. Fuck them up their stupid asses.

What an exotic name, is that part of what attracted you to her?

You seem to know your stuff, so what price were they before? Have they dropped $450 from an initial price of $500
  or dropped from $197,000 to $196,550 ?

Every few years I think about making a big UPS and I haven't noticed cells getting much cheaper. I am in the UK, though, so everything is a rip-off.

Of course battery technology has become cheaper over the last ten years, idiot! How else do you think it is possible for you to be driving around in your $15,000 electric SUV? How else do you think a $100 consumer UPS can keep your gaming rig powered for 12 hours? Open your eyes, dumbass!

Even in the 80's , the career ladder was no longer a thing.
Start an 'entry level' job for minimum wage. Stay there for a few years without any pay increase or promotion, get made redundant, repeat.