Or trackers.

I once came home to our shared house (post student years) to find the hallway about six inches deep in feathers and a dead bird - I'm not sure the bird appreciated the gesture.

I seem to recall reading somewhere they think we're kittens and are trying to teach us - or more likely an automatic behaviour encoded into genes building brains by evolution led to increased survival of kittens and relative increase in prevalence of those genes.

I would call the cops.

Yes, the punctuation police.

These objections would still apply and still be irrelevant. If the servers are shut down, the money should magically appear back in the customers' accounts.

Surely driving like a dick ("Look I'm smart enough to make a donut shape with my poison-spewing penis substitute") is the largest contributor to airborne tyre particulate.

Breaking news: Frump to invade Norway to confiscate Teslas / Bring Democracy.

Yep, it's almost as if there should be a requirement for a 'fair usage policy' term in every contract or more generally that contracts which formalise an imbalance of power should become a thing of the past - if only morality could keep pace with the development of mobile phone tech.

Perhaps if there were some way to package morality with profit rather than the current situation where morality seems to be an inconvenient and optional impediment to profit.

Tru dat.

Sounds good to me. Someone will chime-in, as usual, that:
* Non-transferable third party licenses
* Reduction of possibility of future exclusive exploitation of their re-usable IP (game engine, assets, game mechanics etc) thus giving competitors a leg-up

Still, this is not core to the issue that customers expect persistent use from the exchange.

I'd secretly hoped for a combination of the Spanish Inquisition, Alien Invasion and The Robocalype. Still waiting...

Perhaps an umbrella/mini-projector attachment

I'm holding-out for the seven-hexagonal-panel smartphone.

So awesome, particularly when rent for a single-bed home is $100k/mo :P