As with anything, moderation is key. Too much will harm you, too little will harm you. All of life is a balance.

I'd argue it's both. Too much of anything is bad, even if the thing is good quality.

I agree. However, people who think it's a good idea to use BNPL to buy a pizza, probably are making other foolish financial choices too, making their already difficult situation worse than it has to be.

On the other hand, if you are so financially clueless that you think it's a good idea to use BNPL for a pizza, you're probably making a lot of other dumb financial decisions too, leading to your being in a position where you can't afford a pizza with cash.

Between Bill Gates and Elon Musk.

I'd guess that Denver and Colorado Springs, two cities on the Front Range, are plenty big enough markets to make this attractive to Amazon.

The pain of $47 million is about as severe to Verizon as a pin prick. Kind of the cost of doing business.

Ha! Time to go check my Flock account!

So you still can't bring yourself to address the topic at hand, and revert to insults. Definitely no substance there. If you had some substance, you'd offer it.

By calling the practice "parallel construction" you are implying that a police stakeout is somehow illegal or unconstitutional. It is not. This practice has long been reaffirmed as legal and appropriate tactics by police. A stakeout is just as much an "invasion of privacy" as license plate readers. Which is to say, it's *not* an invasion of privacy.

I never said you were a corporation. What I said was that an OEM is a company that builds computers. If you also build computers as an individual, you might be doing so as a corporation or as a sole proprietorship, or for yourself. What difference does that make, in relation to the subject at hand? A corporation (OEM) can build a system, and an individual can build a system. What made you feel it important to bring in the legal entity classification into this discussion?

I used to tell my kids I'm alien, but nowadays it's more fun to tell them I'm an AI. So you got me there! But you completely ignored my response and attacked me instead. That tells me you don't have an actual logical point to make.

Warrants work just fine "against" private companies.

A warrant doesn't prevent someone, including police, from getting information. It prevents them from using it in court as evidence against you.

Police can stake out a house where they believe suspicious activity is happening, without a warrant. They can't go inside and seize property in that suspicious house, without one. This is the non-digital version of Flock cameras. Flock cameras are the stakeout part of the operation, not the entering and seizing part of the operation.

I've got news for you. OEMs are companies that...build systems.

You missed the point entirely.

Windows is an operating system. It supports the operating system needs of today's users. In 1998, Windows 98 supported the needs of 1998 users. It's ridiculous to suggest that because Windows 11 supports IPv6, and Windows 98 didn't, Windows 11 should cost more because it has "more features."