"I remember having to pay "long distance" to call the next county" I, too, remember the aughts. I remember getting stuck with a whopping $300 something phone bill back in 2002 because I didn't realize the number I was using for my dial-up provider was long distance even though it was the same area code and only required dialing 7 digits. 2003 was a great year when my home finally got DSL.

Why are we going back to CDs and Vinyl when we have a physical audio format that blows them all away? High Fidelity Pure Audio, occasionally abbreviated as HFPA or BD-A is an audio-only Blu-ray optical disc. It has been around since 2013. HFPA is encoded as 24-bit/96 kHz or 24-bit/192 kHz linear PCM ("high-resolution audio"), optionally losslessly compressed with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio. (Wikipedia). Chances are you already have the ability to play this as it works on any standard Blu-Ray player unlike DVD-Audio and SACD which preceded it.

I would argue that if you get married quickly after your spouse dies then it is a sign you had a very good marriage. I know people who've told me that once their spouse dies, they are never getting married again because they don't want to ever get trapped again.

This is like hitting a nail with the handle end of a hammer. The companies that need to be sued in order to put an end to this nonsense are the ones selling their movies on Amazon and iTunes and FandangoNow and all the rest. Ultimately, US law will need to be amended to keep Hollywood from ripping off consumers.

Plant meat is over 100 years old. Beyond and Impossible were trying to reinvent the wheel. I've been eating Morningstar Farms and other meat substitutes for 40 years. Choplets, which you can still buy, became popular during WW2 because of meat rationing but they were far from the earliest meat substitute. The same man for whom Kellogg's cereal is named also formed the Battle Creek Food Company which made meat substitutes - the best known being Protose which was made from wheat gluten, peanuts, and soy.

Movies Anywhere works only for movies and only for participating studios. Paramount along with numerous smaller studios do not participate in Movies Anywhere meaning said movies as well as all TV shows will be locked into Microsoft. My TV shows and non Movies Anywhere movies are locked into Apple because I can't foresee them ever shutting down.

My 10 year old car has front cameras which is how I can park close to the curb without my front end going over it and blocking pedestrians.

Nintendo had the advantage of having a lot of Switch 2s available for launch. It was over a year before I randomly saw PS5s for sale. I just bought a Switch 2 after seeing several for sale in a big box store.

These are very likely epigenetic adaptive changes that were preprogrammed into the bird's genome. Much like Darwin's finches these are not at all an example of evolution in action.

One example I can think of is games on the Commodore 64. They never looked remotely as good as the NES. However, now there is Super Mario Brothers and other games that look as good on the C64 as they did on the NES.

"I would like to see my favorite 70s and 80s shows get upscaled." Good news. Most shows from the 70s and 80s (and everything earlier) were shot on film which is better than HD quality so no AI upscaling is necessary. Hence, you already have many shows from that era and earlier in HD such as The Twilight Zone and MacGyver. It wasn't until the later 80s and 90s that SD Video started replacing film. Thankfully not all shows switched to video. Seinfeld was shot on film, for example.

Very shortsighted not to include volume and temperature control. You don't want distracted drivers trying to figure out how to adjust those.

You don't know if it will pass if you never try it. These Senators and Congressman probably have made some purchases or have family that have made some purchases and if they knew how tenuous those purchases were they might be motivated to protect consumers through legislation. Right now, Congress is not very friendly towards Hollywood so the time is ripe.

What is the point of asking, Wyden? Why not instead draft some legislation that makes it clear that consumers own their purchases in the same way they own a Blu-Ray disc and that companies cannot rescind their purchases?

It's not up for debate. You are 100% wrong. You are utilizing a colloquial version of "third world" that came about because of other ignorant individuals such as yourself. You can't change history. Indonesia - 100% Third World.