It's not that it has no value. It's that it has no value without a trained human to evaluate and guide its work. Then the unfortunate corollary is that it makes most people dumber just to use it.

In some universe, you typed that correctly. Only actually chiming in here to say I have problems with with words that end that way too, I think it's all of the single-stroke characters next to one another somehow.

I get paying, and I maybe get paying for the client once and for the service, but I don't get paying for the client and paying for the service and paying again for updates.

WoW has always amazed me because Blizzard was able to sell both the service and not just the client (which is common) but also updates. What the hell are you paying for with the service if not the updates? Because running the servers is not the hard part, the amount of data is small and the latency is not as critical as in many financial applications (to say nothing of the security) so it's relatively ho-hum. Highest grossing game of all time, possibly the most profitable as well.

Managing the steering wheel is the easy part, doing shifts well is much harder than steering. The ease of operating the shift lever is going to depend on which is your primary hand. As I'm right-handed, driving on the right side of the road and sitting on the left side of the car is optimal for me. But as you say, the manual transmission is unfortunately going away, and all we are left with in ICEVs are expensive DCTs and inferior and more expensive everything else. (Slush boxes/traditional automatics can be good, but usually aren't. CVTs are poop.)

Batteries degrade even if you don't use them. A battery which is rated for 10,000 full cycles might be able to do 100,000 partial cycles or more, depending on the charge and discharge rates. Why would you not want to get paid for owning a battery that always degrades?

Dispersed power can be more robust yes, but it's also potentially a greater threat, because your local fire department[s] can only respond to a limited number of incidents at once. In areas made up of a bunch of smaller towns with small volunteer fire departments, they might literally only be able to handle one major fire with the use of resources from most of those departments.

If the attack on those batteries is via internet, cellular network etc., then having them dispersed might in fact not make them any harder to interfere with. This tendency for everything to phone home all the time for updates is a security risk and then some. It solves one problem by creating another...

There's a real need for battery systems which report the history and health of the battery, that's an actual concern. But V2G won't necessarily do that, depending on how it's implemented. Do I trust GM to get it right no, but they might if they are cautious enough in fear of lawsuits and recalls. Some low-C use of your battery that changes its charge state by 20% or so will barely affect its lifespan.

Most of it.

And yet, there's a long way yet to go.

Only if you treat them like shit.

Effects.

Treating women like shit makes them not want to pump out babies. Now they have a choice, so they are doing a lot less of it. Literally all it would take to get a large portion (a majority IMO) of them to do it without support from a decent partner would be to gracefully and quietly fund the programs that ensure they will be able to feed and provide medical care for their children even if their circumstances change, but there seems to be a problem even meeting that bar.

But then your entire fucking point becomes pointless about 8 seconds later, literally before I could read it and roll my eyes about it.

Except it doesn't. It's shit all day. It makes people upset all day. This means it's costing productivity all day. See, in the real world with real humans, these user pain points have real impacts on those real people.

HTH, HAND!

Same for if it is made in America. If it's not FOSS, then it's not trustworthy, and even then it's limited to e.g. devices you can build your own firmware for.

Yes, at least that is at least on paper a solution. As long as you can't just buy your way out of it more cheaply because the legal system works, that is. I can't speak to their efficacy there, only here, where... Well, you know.

Yes, when it's necessary, not just when someone is scared.