And if there aren't Five Eyes shills on here claiming exactly that, something's seriously wrong... (and I want my taxes back).

Just saying.

Were they tastier to the Maori than the Maori?

Incredibly stupid waste of fucking money; thought Zuck was far smarter than that. The "sunglasses technology" part of VR development is its least significant and most easily supplied requirement.

The best analogy I can pull out of my ass (at short notice) is paying a royalty to a buggywhip manufacturer so you can put their logo on your fuel pumps.

That stopped being correct when half the shit under the hood began to be replaced with plastic.

I wonder if anyone's ever determined the maximum intelligence one can possess and still think that this is a viable approach.

You're wasting your ability to form words that mean nothing. Why are you posting on here?? You clearly have a career in politics awaiting you.

You have no fucking idea what has or hasn't been attempted so far and neither do I; if we did, we wouldn't be typing here.

There's denial and then there's denial; twenty years of blatant, in-our-face geoengineering speaks for itself.

It's not the traditions that have paralyzed parts of Japanese society, stupid; it's the changes.

It's not the air bag that makes the pillar wide; it's the side mirror.

I've generally preferred to pay people a salary, when reasonable to do so.

I hire(d) people (I still employ some people directly) to do a job. So long as the job was done properly, I'm not a big stickler when it comes to spending time at work. If the job can be done in 4 days, so be it. My concern is that the work is done on time and properly. It's also not important to me how they did the work, so long as it was done right.

I'm all for a 4 hour work week, so long as their wages match what they'd make for a 40 hour work week. Yes, minimum wage is too low. Then again, I'd never consider paying someone the least amount I could pay them by law. That's just a kick in the proverbial nuts and pretty damned degrading. "I'd pay you less, but the law won't allow it."

My house was built before CAT6 came out. It should be easy to upgrade as everything runs through in-wall conduit. I figured I'd do that for future-proofing.

I've not really seen a need to upgrade. It works well enough and there are jacks in most rooms. I also don't have the bandwidth to make it matter much, though fiber will be here before too long. Upgrading then may matter. (Fiber wasn't going to come up my road, but I contacted the company and a couple of neighbors and I will pay for the fiber to be run.)

Cat5e should still be fine. I'm not going to bother paying for full GB service, as I don't need that much bandwidth. I'll be fine with half of that and CAT5e should be viable.

This is about the 'inadequate' comment you made.

I could see it being inadequate for some people. As for me, it's still holding up and still fit for purpose. I've lived in a bandwidth-impoverished area for going on two decades. So, my needs, perhaps better said expectations, are different. I don't even see a reason to go full boar on the GB speeds. As I am technically a business, they say I can request even higher speeds. I'm simply not interested in that.

Then again... We'll see how I feel after a few months. I may end up wanting to splurge and increase my speeds. It could happen.

You'd think so, but you won't feel a thing. You won't have to adjust your diet because you'll naturally lose weight. Then, well, you won't even suffer a headache, a toothache, a stubbed toe, or any of those other painful things.

Hmm... This needs a pithy statement that can be summed up enough to fit on a bumper sticker.

I dunno... I'm a doctor and if you're dead then you're in perfect health. You no longer have any ailments of any kind. You're not going to catch any diseases.

Just to be clear, I'm not a medical doctor. I don't even play a medical doctor on TV. But, I am a doctor - though I don't tend to use the honorary, for a variety of reasons.

As mentioned elsewhere, per 100,000 cars, ICE powered vehicles catch fire more often than EVs.