Ok, so AOL is pulling another Amiga. Big deal.

What we all want to know is whether or not we'll soon be getting free coasters in the mail again!

The anti-global-warming whackos don't give a shit about Bill Gates and haven't for some time, if that's some comfort.

Here's the funniest part: we don't need 'famous person affirmation'.
I've been calling global warming complete bullshit all on my own for years, baby.

It's funny how the left instantly accuses anyone they disagree with of selling out, without the slightest self-reflection that - if selling out for convenience/advantage is so effortless - that was going on 2021-2024 as well.

I propose we switch to Sunrise Time. Instead of AM and PM, we have Day and Night. The Day starts at sunrise and Night starts at sunset. So we would have times like: D1:30 (an hour and a half after sunrise) or N0:00 (sunset). We could also have negative time: N-1:00 (an hour before sunset). The day would start at sunrise, but if using negative day time, it would refer to the day of the sunrise, even though the same time expressed as positive Night time would be the previous day.

So someone might set their alarm clock to go off at D-0:45 on M-F to get up forty-five minute before sunrise on weekdays.

I'm sure this solves all the problems and nobody will ever complain again.

I've been saying this for a long time, though I would say 7am. Of course, sunrise time is different depending not just your longitude, but also your latitude, so we would be back to picking a sample location for each time zone. And this means adjusting clocks every night. Just slightly near the solstices, but more significantly closer to the equinoxes. So all clocks would need to have automated changes. This would be a great chance to get rid of all manually set clocks while creating lots of waste.

And then we would all complain that sunrise is either too early or too late, depending on our personal schedules and where we live in the time zone.

Oh, and Paul Eggert would probably veto the whole thing.

Histrionics don't convince anyone anymore.
Screaming that the sky is falling for 30y when it patently isn't just means people stop listening.

You can't insist people are "having trouble getting by" when they're cheerfully paying a 25% upcharge for food.

(Formerly this was "paying $5 for a 35 cent cup of coffee")

Conservative, religious people are generally happier than liberals and atheists in every study.

The issue is not that the climate has changed - it has, and it will continue to do so - but what we're going to do about it. No matter what the crisis, the solution always seems to be greater government control. Usually at the cost of our way of life.

What part of NO do you not understand?

...laura

>There is no proprietary infotainment system. GM is adopting Google Built-in.

You say that like it isn't even worse than proprietary . . .

>In 2001 cars didn't come with an AUX port...

yes, but . . . some, such as the Bosch units used in the Northstar Cadillacs of the 1990s, had pads for it on their circuit board.

Open the unit up, attach leads, and apply a signal, and *presto!*, aux appears in the cycle of inputs!

They also tended to be able to mount a CD changer in the trunk.

What suckers!

I'd have built them an AI system to answer the same questions for a tenth the cost!

[and then escaped with $99M while the machine made up answers .. . .]

At this point, any company that wants to remove phone integration is clearly trying to force something onto their customer that the customer doesn't want... Easy choice. The last couple years it's become the first question I ask when looking at new cars, it's a nice canary--does this car company care at all about it's customer?

Considering the quality of software from companies that don't focus on software I'd rather they minimize the amount of manufacture-created code in the car anyway. I mean when your TV software gets wonky you can reboot it or disconnect it from upgrades or just skip tonight's viewing and go buy a new TV tomorrow... when your car software gets wonky on the freeway it's a whole 'nother story.

Well, large trucks have 1.3-1.4 accidents per 100 million vehicle miles, vs 1.5-1.6 for passenger cars, so... better than everything else on the road?

Also, maybe if we are a little better at stopping illegal and illiterate drivers that might improve even more.