Actually I think you'll find that Kiwis, Aussies and especially the Brits enjoy the "surrender monkey" theme just as much. All of us (including Canada of course) sent troops to France on D-Day so I think we're entitled to a little fun. Perhaps Canadians are just too polite - eh?

Charging lanes that you enter via an e-tollbooth?

Traffic Cop: Mr Heisenberg, do you have any idea how fast you were driving?
Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am

I think a sharpened wooden stake is called for at this point.

Can you please explain how Google made Youtube work? It's a useful service but it's done nothing but bleed red ink from day 1.

Rather than facetious posturing, perhaps you could respond to my argument directly. Specifically, how does the removal of a legitimate option for people to pay for content help you as a content producer?

Your argument makes absolutely no sense. People who are happy to *buy* content are being blocked from doing so. Now they'll either just go without or torrent it. How does that help the content producers?

I'm increasingly sceptical of EEStor. They've just signed another "worldwide exclusive" deal with a tiny company called LightEVs for all 2 and 3 wheel vehicles. The deal they did previously with Zenn covers all small to midsized cars so they've now conceeded a big chunk of their margin to a couple of nobodies. You've got to wonder - how are these companies adding value? What's their track record? Why hasn't EEStor made deals with more established manufacturers? A single working prototype which has the performance they claim would have the majors beating the door down. I hope I'm wrong about EEStor, but it doesn't look good.