AI has been running at a big loss to get the users hooked. It was inevitable that prices would start climbing. That process is nowhere near done, running AI is expensive as hell.

Once the market starts reflecting the actual costs, you can bet the cost/benefit will not be nearly as rosy as it looks now. But some customers will already have gotten themselves between a rock and a hard place and will be sucked dry, then discarded. Those "expensive" people that are getting dumped will start looking like a bargain, but they will have already been snapped up by smarter companies by the time management that can't see past their own toes figures that out.

All of this makes me remember a short story reading assignment in the 5th grade. It was about kids growing up in a society where machines did all of the intellectual work. To them, writing was 'squiggles'. They managed to disable a filter on their "bard" (a story teller for children) and had it tell them a tale of machines ruling over Man.

Nobody expects prophesy from a 5th grade reading assignment.

If you set it to "85th percentile of observed traffic" you are selecting 15% to be targets of fines. Why 15 and not 20, or 10?

States with "reasonable and prudent" rather than "explicit speed limits" do a more logically consistent job here. Reasonable and prudent is what we're really looking for - everyone choose a speed that is safe for the conditions of the road, the vehicle, and the surrounding traffic.

The problem is that it's difficult to fine people for that, because it is partly subjective and different for every driver and weather conditions. It's much easier to set an explicit speed limit and then measure speeds. Explicit speed limits exist for the convenience of the courts, with safety of the road users as a distant secondary objective.

If you want to improve safety, then look into "traffic calming" measures. In particular those that cause drivers to perceive higher risk (and research into conditions where drivers falsely perceive lower risk). Even just drawing the lines narrower on a wide street can have an effect. If you design the road right, drivers will naturally choose the right speed for the environment without any need for a road nanny.

As I recall, Ohio toll highways did this years ago; if your time stamp at the booth was less than a certain number of minutes since the previous, you got a ticket for speeding.
Infallible, and took away the point really.

Sure, I guess you could speed and then pull over waiting before you cross the next gate but... Why bother?

Yes.
Have you heard the quality of her court discussions?
A Supreme Court justice that argues against the minutiae of 'legalese' seriously?

And why shouldn't they be "resistant"?

They go out and spend the money to increase capacity and this whole AI fad falls in a heap long before they recoup the investment, the techbros aren't going to pick up the tab. Hell, they were planning to screw them on price from the very beginning.

and the tubes are full of cats.

Hmm....over the years, I've had several girlfriends report loss of appetite after trying to watch a lot of Monty Python with me......

It is something to do with 2 X chromosomes...?

Exactly. That's why DEI and other "assistance" just hurts the people that are supposedly "helped". Competence is the only legitimate goal, but now you have smeared everyone. It's part of the social justice trap.

Hard to keep it in sync while orbiting the Earth.

Location tracking shows that they did not upgrade to Outlook Interplanetary, terminates service.

Well it's in France where France has consumer protection laws and truth in advertising laws so they can't just pull the "it's a license not a purchase Nyer Nyer" in a French court and expect to walk out like King Dick. Even though you're purchasing a license it's still a purchase and you still have the expectation that it's not time limited, especially if a time limitation was not specified and clearly advertised before purchase.

I think a better question would be how long ago was it withdrawn from sale? If they were still selling it up until the moment of the shutdown that is a serious problem.

I honestly don't think most people give a crap about patches and support, especially home users. Microsoft is only doing it because they've been pretty much forced by the EU.

I'm also looking at a switch to Linux and I've found that the big problem is still Windows. If you're setting up a fresh install on a new machine you'll have a pretty easy time even if you're dual booting however trying to use your existing steam install in Windows is a right PITA. Hence I'm wating until I get a new gaming boxen to try going over full time.

The MAGA true believers are just like that drunk guy in the strop club that believes the stripper really loves him.

Wow, just realized it has been YEARS since I last went out, cut loose and had fun at one of the local "strop" clubs here in New Orleans....