Yep. For all its drawbacks the PC was an amazing platform for its day.

When it came out, nothing could beat the Amiga for versatility, though. It was even better at having all kinds of stuff on its bus at once than the PC was. The bus wasn't any faster than 16 bit ISA in the real world, but it was at least a dozen times more convenient.

Sure, but roads are the same in that regard — we pay for them, too. But they are a lot less efficient and they lead to a lot more pollution, and arguably just as importantly they just get clogged up with more cars in short order and then we've essentially spent that money to hasten our own destruction and make more people sit in traffic longer.

Eh? There will be no burning. The Powers That Be REALLY want this data. TPTB are the ones who do the burning. There is zero chance of any burning here. There is also zero chance that this will stop. It will just be buried and hidden but otherwise fully operational.

The fact that it can remotely disable the vehicle is a complete violation of a person's free will. Such a device should not be sold in a country that has Freedom as one of its founding principles.

That's a pretty decent amount of game to be able to run in 64kB.

I did have a memory expansion on the ISA bus of my IBM 5150. The additional 384kB brought it up to 448kB, which was enough to run most but not all DOS software that would run on an XT (which could be expanded to 640kB onboard.)

I probably should have piggybacked the system memory, I could have gotten it up to 512kB which really would have run almost everything. But instead I got a 286-6 with 1MB and ran Xenix on it.

You are correct; however, a little skepticism goes a long way. Asking questions like: Why does my car need a constant Internet connection? What data is being passed through that connection? Why are you collecting all of this "telemetry" data? What do you intend to do with that data?

Of course, none of the sales people would offer real answers, so at that point, cycnicism should have set in. Duh, of fucking COURSE they were going to sell all of that data. It was NEVER in question. They are doing even worse things with that data than changing your insurance rates, but yeah, go ahead and keep driving modern cars that send EVERYTHING to the manufacturer. (note that everything includes the contents of your phone if you connect it to the car)

More specifically, do not look up "fillers". Oh my god.

Why? Just go die like everyone else that is undesirable. Your usefulness to society has expired. Go away. Society does not need you or want you. Gone on, get now. Don't make this harder than it needs to be.

There's no reason it needs any more than a USB-C cable to carry power and compressed video. When I think "substantial" cable I think something like a VGA cable, where even the narrowest ones are quite a bit bigger than that (and also absolute smeg quality.) By the same token, there's no reason it needs to be driven by a computer any larger than a typical power bank, which will fit comfortably in pocket or purse. Your average decent phone has enough processing power to drive such a device, unless you have high expectations for graphics. What it doesn't have is enough battery power to last very long, but if you're eliminating the screen and making it thicker you can solve that problem easily enough.

All of the real problems relate to the hardware on your head. Making it smaller and lighter and at least equally importantly solving the focal depth problem are the real issues.

Everything else you said makes sense; however, this attack on the OP is unwarranted. They were talking about the purpose of the UN and you came up with a suitable response. Assuming he was talking about the purpose of the UN merely in order to prolong the murder of Muslims is a step WAY too far. OP has/had a valid point: The UN should not be visiting sovereign countries with force. Your point was also valid: The UN created this situation, they have a responsibility to fix it.

Personal attacks are NOT useful and will prevent useful conversation from occurring. Don't do that.

The monorail was placed off the strip for the benefit of the MGM Grand and Ballyâ(TM)s. It was designed to be worthless to everyone else, bypassing other properties. Then it was extended to go to the Flamingo and near Harrahâ(TM)s and Imperial Palace. From everywhere else it's a substantial distance away. By the time you've gotten to it, you could have walked most of the way to your destination, unless you're going from one end to the other. If they had put it over the strip, it would have really been something.

It's tax dollars at work to support not needing to build a wider highway, not just now but also in the future. Traffic on the route from LA to LV can literally double the time it takes to get there, while in the very best case it takes about 3 hours.

This is the same argument for the stalled California HSR project. It is a good and reasonable argument. We equate the ability to travel with freedom. Making travel more possible while also reducing transportation-related pollution is a good use of tax money. Unfortunately, we should have built a new rail corridor decades ago when it would have been more legally feasible, and a lot cheaper. It wouldn't have been HSR at the time, but it would have avoided a whole lot of senseless freeway expansion that only ever provided momentary relief.

That's 9.16% of the route. It's less than 1/10 high speed rail!

Well, no. The correct answer is never God. Even if God were real and were involved, he always works through someone else.

That entire region was populated for literally thousands of years before there even were Jews as we know them.

"many hundreds of years ago" is not a date, nor is it the first history of the region.

You would get to keep nothing you have without them, and the richness of this nation is based on military action and always has been. You don't even understand the argument.