Lots of people have visions of things that aren't here. They're called "hallucinations," and it's the one human ability that AI has mastered fully.

Perhaps that joke about Zuck being a robot isn't entirely a joke after all.

Privacy concerns aside (and they're very real), every time we've looked at any kind of cloud vs locally owned equipment, it has not only cost more, but a lot more, like twice as much, over the life of the equipment.

It's simply a bad deal.

Anybody who is a poor enough credit risk that the banks won't give them a credit card at 10% shouldn't have credit cards at all, because they are a poor credit risk living beyond their means.

When a place has a record high temperature, it's because of climate change. When a place has a record low temperature, it's just weather. Every. Time.

This is why so many people don't take the issue seriously.

I wonder if that includes people turning it off. That is an interaction, after all. And since there are monthly updates that tend to turn it back on, you have to turn it off monthly.

Does that count?

What makes you believe you'll have any choice?

Sadly, "they" are the mullahs, lunatics, rabid dog clerics, and schutzstaffel.

You realize, don't you, that just changes who is spying on you, not that you're being spied on.

Don't you?

More important, will it run Doom?

So now you're claiming that size and mass are unrelated? Yes. You're stupid.

Ask Mummy for a cookie and some milk. It's beddy-bye time, and the grown ups are having a conversation.

Or you can just buy a computer with Pro pre-installed. It's cheaper than a stand alone installer, and they're not at all hard to find.

100% of the peer reviewed science* on the subject says you're a fucking idiot. Are you claiming (and do you actually believe) that larger vehicles do not, or cannot, have crumple zones and structural strength equal to or better than smaller vehicles? Is there something about a larger vehicle that makes it inherent that the driver will somehow be at the front, where in a smaller vehicle they would not, despite there being a lot more room behind "in the front" in a larger vehicle? There's nothing about a larger vehicle that prevents such safety features from performing at least as well as in smaller vehicles.

None of this is new or arcane research. It's been well studied for decades, and well publicized.

Were you born this stupid, or did you take lessons?

*" In car crashes, other vehicle parameters with statistical significance had a second order effect compared to mass. In light truck-to-car crashes, “vehicle type-striking vehicle is light truck” was the most important parameter after mass, followed by vehicle height and bumper height, with second order effect"

(Note that big SUVs are also taller that shoeboxes, another way they're safer in a crash.)

*"As in Phase 1, mass was the most important vehicle parameter, contributing approximately 20–30% to the variation in fatality odds in car crashes."

Knowing how it works is why I uninstall it. It does nothing that I want done, that isn't better done with other tools that don't, and can', hijack the file system.

It's also safer in an accident. The more mass your vehicle has, the more the impact is absorbed as you run down the tiny little shoebox that pulled out in front of you.

The people who live in popular tourist destinations would agree with that.