Miles dont matter it's time. I have a 45 mile commute daily, co workers have a 5 mile commute. I arrive at work before them because I travel at 70mph for 90% of the commute time while they sit there in traffic for 99% of the time never exceeding 8 mph.

I'll gladly take my 45 mile commute of cruising the highway than sitting in traffic. And before any of you chime in about "ride the bike or bus" the united states hats public transportation, all of it here is garbage. and with temperatures that are typically at 5 Deg F to 12 deg F daily with ice and snow on the roads, only a nut would be riding his bike.

Then you have the fact that American drivers actively try to kill bicyclists and motorcyclists.

"go back to tactile controls and I'll consider a car like that."

Why do you want to feel the gauges instead of looking at them?

I do, Tesla can easily make a leaf that decimates the Nissan range. If tesla made an affordable electric 2 seater subcompact they could own the electric market. Give me 300 mile range in one at a honda civic price and I am all over it.

but you have to be in "hangouts" for it to work. I get no messages if I have not opened the app. on the iphone it's always running. Why did they make it an app and not native to the OS?

A studio enforcing their copyright against personal-use downloads might be a somewhat crappy and ill-advised practice, but it's not "trolling". To me if you were going to call something "copyright trolling" it would be more like using copyright letters to silence people, aka SLAPP, not using copyright the way it was intended, to prevent people other than the owner from making copies of the entire media as a substitute to buying it from the media holder.

I'm seeing far more liberals (on the internet, generally pretty wealthy) that are pro-guns, so not that hard for me to picture. But I will grant you the average conservative probably wouldn't get it.

Ignoring the general stupidity of many TSA practices, and that this is an artificial market created by government inefficiency, what's so fundamentally wrong with paying more to get through faster?

If your money is worth more than your time, you'll wait, if your time is worth more than your money, you'll pay. That's a fundamental decision every time you say something like "I'll pay someone to change my oil because I don't want to spend 20 minutes and get dirty doing it myself", or "I'll eat out so I don't have to cook". Time/money/value decisions are something you make dozens of every day.

I was once at an airport, I think it was LAS... people were all piled up in a clusterfuck right after of the entrance to TSA where they check IDs, even though there was about a mile of Disneyland spiral queue that was not being used. A helpful TSA agent started to open up the spiral queue, and was actually rebuked by a superior because "that's not the way they do things", and everyone that went in the queue had to rejoin the mosh pit of people.

And then they closed two of the four open screening lanes because "it wasn't busy enough to justify having that many open". We had to literally jog across the airport to catch our flight after being stuck in that mess for 50+ minutes.

I'm not sure it would take new technology to fix the TSA, just some people running the show that don't have their head up their ass.

I do the exact same thing free with what is built into the iphone. imessage is 100% free except for the data charge. Mind blowing that android has not done the same thing.

Very simple answer.

Pure Greed. AT&T, Comcast,Etc... they care more about profit margins than quality of service. If you will swallow paying $60 a month for paltry speeds then that is what they deliver. Plus they work hard to keep competition out so they dont have to lower prices or increase speeds.

It's greed, The companies hate you for even wanting more.

"To get above 100m we will need to import water from another planet."

Did you not read the text of the HR4021 that congress is looking to pass? It's the Sol System Free water trade agreement.

" Coax for tv came with cable." You may have been around, but you did not pay attention.
Coax has been around for a very long time, 60+ years in fact. If you did not live in a suburbia then you never saw the single 60 foot tower with the antennas that were then fed to many of the homes. My dad used to sell and install these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

For a nice example for you old timer.

Actually the grass IS greener here in the USA. The USA has huge sections of untouched land that is some of the greenest grass around.

Sadly you cant afford to own any of it, because the rich have intentionally suppressed wages way down so that tech employees could never hope to afford to own land.

I have issues with them, too; but I'd rather a non-corporate entity build out and even own our infrastructure than profitmongers!

I have news for you: local governments are incorporated, too.

And don't think for a second that the people involved in local government aren't interested in making decisions that personally profit themselves and their friends.

Ungodly Churn, almost nobody uses WhatsApp.