"A bank error in your favor, collect $120 million in Bitcoin."

Yeah, I am a pretty honest guy and I love my currently life; but if I saw that much in show up in my account I would move it immediately and then seriously consider disappearing to another country and starting over.

Good luck getting that $9 million in untraceable money back.

Ummm.I am in the US I just paid $18.23, including tax, for peacock premium and it literally has live feeds of every event in real time. As well as replays of each event. I can also run multiple feeds simultaneously on different devices on same Wi-Fi network. No commercials. What you say used to be true, but hadn’t been the case since the last summer Olympics.

^^^^This!

It took me moving 2100+ miles away, for a completely different reason, before I could legally pay to stream my favorite sports teams. A full season cost of less than decent tickets to a game. Before I moved I watched pirated feeds. I’d pay, but they wouldn’t let me without having to also pay for 135+ other channels I had no interest in. Not going to do it. The local mlb team in my new city actually lets people stream the games for slightly less than the cost of two cheapest tickets a month.

No socialized medicine; unless you were a soldier, or got elected into office for long enough. So we are good there*
* Of course by "good there" I mean get we financially raped and often financially ruined when the bill comes due.

This thing needs reliable 40 mile range, so a 55-60 mile gross range, to be useful for anything other than a toy. Still looks fun though. But with a reliable 40 mile range, most people could commute in aircraft.

The features spec was finally worth the trade in an upgrade for me. I was previously using a 14 pro. This one has a way more capable camera. In addition to better color and more lens options, it is able to take 3D video I can watch with on our VR headset. Alas the 3D videos are only in 1080 p and not 4k 60 fps, but it’s still pretty impressive for camera which fits in your pocket. And the processor is definitely faster and the screen is better as well. Siri on the phone is pretty useful too for when have AirPods in and am jogging or hiking outside of cell service and want to change songs, or get the time without pulling out the phone.

When I lived in a different state I used to be a huge Comcast hater. And deservedly so. The customer service phone tree and chat help have been awful for decades. The straw that broke the camel's back was when they installed an unisullated cable outside of my house that was causing grief every time there was foul weather. I complained and they said it would be two weeks before the could fix it. I had my own cable left over from something else, so I just replaced the cable myself the same day and cancelled the service call. The never next day, someone from Comcast came over and cut my cable without installing anything to replace it. I called to complain and they said they insisted person wasn't suppose to cut my cable. That same day, google fiber went live in my neighborhood and I told Comcast where to stick it. I had to drive 5 miles to some suburban (I lived in the city) stripmall to return my gear in person.

A decade and half later I am married and now live in Comcast's hometown. They have the two tallest building in Philly. They are the only game in town for faster than gig service on our block, so reluctantly we signed up (in my wife's name incase they have notes on my bitter breakup with them). I have had the cable going to my house knocked out twice in the years I have been here due to falling branches. Both times they have fixed it free of charge in less than 24 hours. The second time burying it. We pay less here for the service than we did for google fiber in my home city. Though fiber was just as fast with upload speeds, where Comcast is not. I am not saying I now love Comcast. Just that perhaps if they had the same level of service and pricing nationwide the do in their home city, they probably would not be one of the most hated companies in the nation.

There is no such thing as a small home under $50k in a US city over 200k people. And certainly not in a metro areas of multiple million people. That is, unless that home is sold in an unlivable state or tax sale. There is too much demand. You could build 10K new homes a year for the next ten years and it wouldn't change that in most places as long as the city or metro remained a desirable place to live. The cheapest you are looking at anywhere anyone actually wants to live is probably at least $150k-$200k.

However, you can certainly find homes much less than that in places most people consider "the middle of nowhere" with few jobs and little infrastructure outside of roads, electricity, satellite internet, and maybe a water and sewer line.

And I am a family homeowner. I like the fact the place I bought is worth more than I paid for it.

A better headline, "The top ten smartphones accounts for only 19% of the global smartphone market. The Android platform continues dominate worldwide, accounting for over 80% of the total market." -iPhone owner, whose mind lives outside the reality distortion field.

I am American. But no you have me wrong. In fact I give the first powered flight mantel to Alberto Santos-Dumont from Brazil over the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers just did it first closer to a better world media market. Also, that "Thomas Edison" telephone? Also actually invented by Santos-Dumont. I have been to Santos-Dumont house in Petropolis, RJ, Brazil. Inside his house is the original version of that telephone and next to is a letter signed by Thomas Edison praising Dumont on his novel design.

I have no US centric, it must have been invented in the US world view. I also felt I gave Baird as much due as he is deserved. He transmitted images, no doubt. That is certainly a feat worth acknowledging. It just was not a very useful device, which for all practical purposes can barely be considered a TV. The father of actual television is, without a doubt, Farnsworth.

“in a matter of seconds.” Gee whiz, with those kind of requirement you can do anything. In just a matter of seconds I could fund socialized medicine, do nothing, stub my toes, or launch all our nukes. If the results don’t matter, what’s the difference? Why do anything at all? Because the only thing this is really about is making sure the rich can get richer the fastest as possible with as little interference from pesky laws and regulations they can manage.

“No, no, no! How dare you sir! I personally think our school buses need more frequent inspections, not less. Those poor, poor mangled children. Alas, I don’t write the rules. It was AI. Don’t blame me.

Electromechanical television systems are technically still TVs. I mean the word is even in its name.....

Yet they were only really such in the most generous definition of the word television. Everything has to start somewhere.

Philo T Farnsworth is the inventor of the television in a form that was actually functionally adequate for transmitting images that people could actually easily make out what the images were supposed to be. September 3, 1928 was the first public demonstration. And on August 25, 1934 a much more public demonstration was held at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Those dates, or the day in the garage, lab, or wherever it first actually worked should be the birthday.

This is akin to the wax drum, giving way to 78s, then eventually vinyl. The first version of the invention which was appealing to the masses. Farnsworth's invention was television's vinyl. But it did have to start somewhere. So hats off to John Logie Baird.

Sounds like I touched a nerve. You’ve aged me several decades. I did grow up when the analog world gave way to the digital one though and I have older siblings. My kids are not teens yet. So no not a grandpa, but hopefully in a two to three more decades. I, and my peers, didn’t build the American sprawl. I loathe the sprawl. But I do remember what it was like when a debate had to be settled with the knowledge present. And people had to return continue it at a later date after new information for proof could be presented. I do remember the world before not only ubiquitous home internet, but internet in your pocket.

But I digress.no I don’t live in a car dependent suburban hell. Where I live was first settled in 1647. I have a patch of paradise, but I can walk to a town center with ample amenities and two train lines to take me not only to the Big City, but all up and down the northeastern seaboard. I didn’t grow up here. I choose to be here.

The majority of US housing, mostly commissioned by the generations before me, built during my lifetime has been in mono residential car dependent neighborhoods flanked by strip malls. They have spread like a cancer. 55% of Americans live in the suburbs. Only 4% of those suburbs have train access. However, the much of the other 96% would not have been built if the majority of my generation and the subsequent one(s) didn't keep buying and renting in places like that. To each their own, but I lived in a small condo in a regional capitol city’s core until I could afford to buy in a place which met my wants and needs. I moved over 2000 miles away. Americans used to walk across the continent looking for a better life. Many modern Americans have gotten soft. People of the latest generation do seem coddled and confused. Many are too lazy to pedal their bikes and complain when being told to abide by the same rules as other motor bikes. Want to use a motor bike on public roads? There is nothing wrong with that. Register it and get a license. And stay off the bike trails if you zooming around at 20+ mph. If you feel so inclined, you can in fact stay off my lawn too.

I generally avoid most the car dependent suburban towns unless I have an explicit reason to be there. 55% of Americans live in the suburbs. Only 3% of those suburbs have train stations. I choose to live where walking and the train are viable ways to travel. My zip code has two train lines (express and trolley) with multiple stops. The town in the center of the zip code has tones of amenities and is pedestrian friendly. Yes, the train lines predate the rise of the automobile. The town was built for pedestrians, horse drawn carriages, and trains. Car dependent suburbia promote social isolation, higher per capital resources use, air pollution, and require the duplication of government There are even medium sized cities without any city train system in the USAlooking at you Kansas City. No for me.

On the other hand, my household still has two car, because we do live in America. There are many wild lands and small towns, mostly settled before the rise of the automobile or in the heart of natural wonder, worth visiting though.

People act like they have no options and are forced into things when the reality is that most people are lazy and would rather accept the status quo and complain than actually do anything to change. Don’t like living somewhere you need to jump into your car to go everywhere? Than don’t. There are alternatives. And enough people did something about it, less people would live in car dependent situations.

But back to the actual point, a motor bike is a motor bike regardless if the motor is electric, gas, propane, hydrogen, kerosene, vegetable oil, or diesel. It should be regulated as such.

Or heaven forbid it forces the kids pedal and earn the distance traveled. Yeah, yeah some can’t do it. Insure the bike then.