Hopefully. Nothing livens up driving like that surge of adrenaline you get in front of a long line of cars when you've stalled your cranky old beater and aren't sure it's going to start again. Something to provide the smell of a burnt clutch would be great too.

I rememeber when I was a kid my father telling me about how they used to stick cards in their spokes so their bikes sounded like they had motors, but then they realized it was slowing them down and stopped.

Nostalgia sells. Even better, it sells best to the people with most of the money.

Of course they are. People who know that the team bus got in late last night, Joe stubbed his toe, whatever. Or just "insiders" who actually know something about the sport and aren't just betting on their favourite team to win the way they do every weekend.

Most betting on things that aren't completely random is going to have a strong element of fleecing the casuals. The actual insider betting (and trading) is a gradient with a somewhat arbitrary threshold too.

Ah, another smart investor! May I point out that 10,000% is much more than 50%?

Sure, there are lots of records for that too. You know that little white bit of thermal paper you get when you buy something? You probably threw it away but lots of people keep them, and the guy on the other side of the transaction definitely keeps them.

Not that that's relevant though. You refund illegal taxes to the entity that paid them and those are all very much documented.

I should have said PC and server CPUs. ARM dominates mobile and embedded of course. It's not a market Intel has ever been a significant player in though.

The reason Intel stayed flat (market cap) even as they pounded AMD in the bulldozer era is that they were also becoming a niche part of the CPU market.

Yeah, this is the impression you'd get, reading Slashdot at least. There's a good chance you typed out your message on a "niche part of the CPU market," and you definitely used several to send it.

Someone realized that Intel still makes half of the CPUs on Earth.

Oh good. It sounds like you're a smart investor. I'd like to tell you about my company. It grew by 10,000% last year. If you invest just one thousand dollars our market cap is guaranteed to grow by another 10,000% this year! Guaranteed! It's the investment of a lifetime!

We need to distract the public from the Soviet bomb sniffing balloons we're flying... er, embarassing sex files we're hiding! What should we do?

UFO stories?

How did you manage to spell UAP wrong when writing it out correctly immediately after?

What letter in UFO do you think stands for "aliens?"

Yeah, but you also send some of it. That's negative data (the opposite of receiving) so it cancels out.

P2P to distribute updates, which can dramatically reduce the amount of data sent over the wire.

Google's wire, sure. Your wire, no.

You are (nominally) a democracy. The voters are responsible. That's what it means.

Voting is important. Maybe stop treating it like a football game. You bet, a first good step would be getting rid of the paid sponsorships in the stadium.

Damn, that's half of all the sick leave taken in just a quarter of the week!