You can't put your house on public land or in the middle of a road.

Cars get in the way of anybody else using a location, *including other cars!!!!*. Yet for some reason any attempt to move them out of the way causes insane illogical reactions such as yours. Very sad and maybe the underlying cause of the obesity epidemic. The fear of having to walk is unbelievable and is warping people's minds.

It does seem very likely that the amount of CO2 you produce for the rest of your life is greater than the amount produced if you dropped dead right now and decomposed. And if you always include the decomposition after death, living longer obviously generates more CO2.

I'm unsure about the rate, especially if nothing is done to slow the decomposition. Possibly you will produce CO2 and methane much quicker for a few days.

Serious note: CO2 from living sources that get all their energy from plants or animals who eat plants are not a problem, as this is a short-term closed cycle. But then you don't get to make funny jokes.

Having a large metal machine occupying space that could be used for other purposes is restricting people's freedom to use that space. But somehow "freedom" only applies to those large metal machines.

Can Smurfs even get a visa these days?

It's obviously lack of walking. People in America were eating piles of (possibly worse) junk food in the 50's and 60's, and everybody watched TV for hours a day, and way fewer went to the gym. But people walked to work or the train station or the park, and kids walked to school or at least the bus stop. Today just looking the population of places people walk (NYC) should make it obvious. You think NYC does not have lots and lots of junk food?

Unfortunately people are so in love with their cars they refuse to see it. The reaction to even the most mild attempt to restrict the ability to drive your personal car as close as possible to any location is pretty telling.

Actually your decomposition produces more carbon dioxide and methane.

Is it possible to use the patients own stem cells? Would that solve the immunosuppressment problems?

" could seep upward into the Alsace aquifer," implies that the aquifer is *above* the depth of the mine. So the question becomes, what is this magical mine where gravity works backwards?

Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.

If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?

Where on the planet is not near groundwater?

And yet, the discovery of an anti-gravity mine where contaminants flow UP to the aquifer, should be worth billions.

The idea that a shared taxi fleet would be more profitable than private cars seems very dubious. I would guess there would only be about 1/10 as many taxis as there needs to be private cars so they would have to somehow cost 10x as much as a private car.

The average person will be able to rent a self-driving pickup when/if they need it. This completely removes their pathetic excuse to buy monstrosities that are only used to commute to work.

The gardener will most likely own their vehicle as they use it 100% of the time (even when sitting there holding their equipment, it is being used). There may have to be special licenses so that the private vehicle can be operated on public roads, and it will be self-driving as well.

It should not be hard to set up luxury status-symbol self-driving taxi service. People will be in awe as you arrive in the self-driving Rolls which costs ten times what the Teslas that all the plebes ride in.

As you point out, they are already using minivans when there are few passengers.

However the enormous expense of the human driver is removed if it is self-driving, that is the big difference, even compared to a minivan.