I didn't have such problems in the late 1990s, I don't think even once; but I admit I often wrote at the lowest speed regardless of what the CD-R was rated for.

"Celebrity Deathmatch" with Bill Gates at ~ 11:00.

A typo, so, not AI!

Funny, but in our cold office I actually employ undergarments and sometimes a sweatshirt. These also work when away from said heater and are removable, too.

I see it as "leap-frogging technology". Developing countries can take advantage of others' previous experiences. Since they didn't have to deal with checks, they could skip that entire infrastructure and jump to the latest, workable system. It takes time to phase out old systems (as it should). For example, I don't own a cell phone; would I be left out or will they provide a computer method?

Speaking of cell phones, I understand this is precisely what happened regarding land-line phones in developing countries. They skipped building that infrastructure and went straight to cellular towers/phones, saving a step.

Or heaven for the passengers who were good...

Oh, for full disclosure, I think we might have added those also killed by the distractions of the in-dash screens.

That's interesting because in the BBS days of the 1980s, nobody used his real name. I took that "lesson" over to the public Internet when it came around, and was surprised that people were using their real names on it.

I chatted with a bot once to run some numbers: We concluded that an order of magnitude more people die from the extra required energy pollution impacts of backup camera systems (manufacture and operation) than do from those getting backed-over.

If you want to get one, especially for an SUV, great. But it shouldn't be mandated.

Do I hear a Betteridge?

What you ask might be impossible to do with the US' current (myopic, in my opinion) pollution laws.

I'd be honored if you'd put this thread's URL in among your soon-to-be-thousands of tabs so you can stumble across it much later.

Meh, I started using ad blockers centuries ago when they were actually delivering viruses; do you remember those days?

I think I would otherwise continue to use them because they aren't just scroll-past-able banner ads anymore; do you remember those days? Now it's nutty the hoops one has to jump through to glance at something where it turns out you're not really interested in it.

Further, do you think they would stop adding ads per page once their coffer$ were full? Hahaha, that's a good one. They're going to push whatever they can get away with; like many companies do, like many people do.

I'd prefer they charge pennies per page view; maybe the content would improve, saving everybody's time.

It wasn't originally...back when I PAID for it (if you paid them money, they removed the ad banner at the top of your browser installation).

I'm not being critical, but how do you manage that/use those?