TomTom is even better at this since it actually displays your average speed throughout the zone. I have no idea why none of the others offer this.

The number of not-so-subtle GamerGaters in this thread is both hilarious and depressing. "Women? In my game? THAT'S NOT REALISTIC! This is an awful slippery slope and EA is paying for it, mark my words!" Claiming that aiming for diversity in a game is a terrible thing that single-handedly knocked its sales figures is completely absurd. There are so many bigger factors here, franchise burnout not least among them. I'm not offended by the diversity-slamming comments here, just completely bewildered why so many male gamers feel utterly threatened and insulted by seeing someone in a game that isn't them, when they've had that option for decades now and nobody is taking it away from them.

Somewhat of a generalisation there. The Romans absolutely conquered, killed and enslaved, but they just as frequently realised that the key to maintaining an empire was to convince the foreign citizens it was worthwhile. As such, they offered many benefits such as roads, aqueducts, commerce links and so on (I'm sure we're all familiar with the Life of Brian scene).

They also dangled the carrot of potentially earning citizenship which brought with it benefits such as legal protection and the opportunity for social and economic self advancement.

So, to draw this back to the Afghanistan parallel, what are the US offering the people of Afghanistan? A government the US is happy with? The odd food parcel? Freedom from violence (hardly)? What am I missing here?

While this guy has phrased it in the typically pompous terms of a well paid and greedy exec, ultimately free web content is absolutely a myth. Someone always has to pay, be that the advertiser, someone donating part of their wages to running a server, or even a user donation model. I realise that's fairly obvious, but seem people seem to enjoy denying that regardless. As someone who struggled for years to get regular advertising for a website I founded and sweat blood over for seven years, it kind of annoys me when people expect everything on the internet to be free. And more importantly, there's only so much advertising to go round, particularly for smaller sites covering niche interests. Ultimately, someone has to be making money in order to advertise in the first place, which is why this whole "free is the new business model" seems like such a hilarious red herring to me.