Imagine a world with Star Trek replicators. Bums would be like, "Wine. Ripple. In a brown paper bag." Do you really think you could get them to do anything?

Been creeping in for a bit. First in news, then in the stock ticker, tv, music, books, and now maps.

All passed off as helpful "suggestions."

The ones that really torque me off are "suggestions" in books, tv and music. I've disabled what I can but some of this can't be turned off.

Apple makes enough with hardware alone. They don't need to whoreify the whole "ecosystem."

I let 'em know what I think of it, but that all goes to the bitbucket. No one gives a rip. 2.5 billion is not even a dime's worth of pocket change, to them.

I won't move to Android, because that's Alphabet, ergo 100x worse. So here we are. I feel like Dark Helmet. Surrounded by assholes. Greedy assholes.

At least, for now, apple ads aren't *bam* in your face like others - but a "sponsored" result is an ad by another name.

I"m starting to understand the desire, of some, to move out to the woods, in a cabin, sans grid.

But bandwidth is free. Or so they tell me when they want me to load their tracking/advertising JavaScript.

Where do I send my power bill to get it paid?

Nothing that Superman can't do better.

Soon just half the population of the USA.

[ducking and running]

How do you think these "car rental offices and dispensaries" capture and transfer ID images? Pretty much the same way web sites take a picture of your ID. It's just using a specialized scanner. But otherwise an image upload.

Scarcity is what keeps humanity governable. If you have everything you need, who can then tell you what to do? Try telling a homeless bum to stop doing something. Give him a house, two car garage and chicken in the pot and he's at your beck and call.

How will breaking search and the browser off of ads help with giving the customer a better browsing experience? And by customer, I mean advertisers. They need the market-oriented search and browser tracking hooks to capture more consumers. And they need them all to work together seamlessly.

So, she's ancient and terrible too.

I'm a practitioner of "guerilla hi-fi" - you buy used, or build it yourself out of old schematics, rescue gear off the curb, etc.

o Speakers: 39 year old horns from Klipsch
o Receiver: 21 year old digital from panasonic
o Turntable : 49 years old Thorens
o Tape deck: 10 year old PC
o CD Player: Old beater Sony DVD
o Streaming: 20 year old Airport Express, hooked up with toslink, paired to my phone. AirPlay whatever I want from whatever "app" I want. Or from my own internal MP3 collection.

Not being beholden to a vendor like Sonos: Priceless

Sonos can go suck it. I can't even fathom its use case.

I get to stream whatever I want, and have studio-grade sound, all with kit nearly as old as I am.

So, like Gen Z. Order from DoorDash, work from home. And then there's that Gen Z stare.

Don't care. I'll buy my Mars service plan from Consumer Cellular.

Those simple flip phones with the oversized buttons are easier to operate in space suits.

True. Most of the problems with "throttling" a base load plant have more to do with the turbines and generators. Not the reactor itself. It takes a certain amount of steam to spin a turbine up to synchronous speed. Once the generator is connected to the grid but "idling" (putting out zero power), the system will actually be hunting between generating and motoring. That's not good for its windings, so operators try to keep a minimum amount of power going out.

We are, for all intents and purposes, a conductor for such small charges. As such, the potential needed to move those charges and equalize them is low. Lower than that needed to break chemical bonds in most materials.