Why make your reply as an anonymous coward? Yeah, I thought so.

I'm with the other guy. There's nothing wrong with being intolerant of the intolerant, hippie.

I've always wanted to start a religion for precisely that purpose.

"What will happen in the mid term elections?" By my reckoning, there will be fewer Republicans voting. I'm okay with that.

"Second, that was an act of protest against taxation..." Actually, no. It was an act of protest against taxation *without* representation. And now your next statement: "people who really did identify as "left" were behind, namely prohibition and eugenics (they literally called themselves "progressives", by the way)"...it doesn't matter what they called themselves. What matters is what they stood for. The "progressives" of the time of which you speak do not equate to what "progressivism" stands for today...just like old-school Republicans are *nothing* like the Republicans of today (and many other examples). You place far too much value in a word and take things too literally.

...you'll give a couple of extra bucks for something your own dumbass "engineers" should have sorted in the first place.

So, buddy, tell me all the wondrous, various uses for which this kind of plastic would be useful...because you failed to mention those in your highly intelligent and detailed response.

Sounds nice, but I suspect uses for this would be pretty limited. Oxygen and sunlight are everywhere. There's plastic on cars, in laptops, etc.

What does that matter? What significance does this information, in any way, hold? Also, it's "fewer," not less.

Clearly I wasn't referring to *everything* in the past. Are you really this pedantic? Or just an ass?

Agreed. I'm in my forties and while nostalgia is a strong force for anyone above a certain age...I think there's a benefit to older technology. An automatic transmission is nice, but there are more things to break. A "smartTV" may be more integrated/convenient, but it's less likely to be updated and there are more things to break. A gee-whizzy washing machine might be nice...but we still have to manually load the fucking thing. So, as you said, why the fuck does it need Internet access? After all, we can't click a button and have it collect stuff from the hamper.

I thought all of the "cryptocoins" qualifier for that moniker.

"...someone will win their State Lottery, not that that's a sane way to plan one's retirement." How dare you sir? Some of us relish our RRP (Redneck Retirement Plan).

Sadly, this is one of those things that butts-up heavily against convenience. If only one or two places do this, it *might* be easy enough to go elsewhere. But, eventually, enough places will be doing this to the point where there is no practicable choice. On top of that...most people don't bother reading/understanding large print, let alone the fine print.

Indeed, which even further proves the point.