You misunderstood. He didn't propose constantly broadcasting telemetry and status information to LEO. He proposed constantly broadcasting telemetry and status information to any son of a bitch who cares to listen, including LEO. As much as I would like to enumerate the various problems with this proposal (and they span the ethical, legal, political, and philosophical domains) I am so horrified at the suggestion that all I can muster right now is FUCK MYSIDIA WITH A BARB WIRE USING TABASCO SAUCE AS A LUBRICANT.

After Early Installment Weirdness it was settled that he is called "The Doctor" and "Doctor Who" is just a title based on a running gag when he introduces himself, people ask "Doctor... who?" and he ignores them.

Get you geeky facts right, man! This is Slashdot!

I know nothing about "foldable", but you can get an inflatable one. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fte...

An adult is a person who can assess pros and cons and select something best tailored for their needs. Wide array of options is something GOOD, because it's easier to find something that fits your specific, unique situation. Trying to push everyone towards uniformity and limit available choices is childish.

Personally I drive pretty much everywhere, but I applaud people who walk, bike, skateboard, scoot, fly, swim, ski, hamsterball, pogostrick, rollerblade, whatever-the-next-fad-will-be, because they leave more space on the road for me, so we're all better off.

You don't know if the person whose privacy you are going to violate supports any banned group or not until you violate their privacy. By design you'll violate privacy of millions of people who do not support any banned group. Allow me to take your statement all the way down the slippery slope:

Using the right to be not subjected to unreasonable searches to smuggle drugs or bombs is not a human right, so everyone should be stripped naked, scanned, sniffed by dogs, and get rectal examination.

It may be. I have several e-mail accounts, only one is in any way tied to my meatspace identity and I take precautions to keep it that way (privacy extensions, logging from a virtual machine, etc). If I give them one of those, such a tie is created, hence - my privacy has been violated.

Another problem: I don't have twitter account. If I get denied access to USA because of it, wouldn't it violate my right of association? I made a decision to not be associated with Twitter and the government punished me for it - IANAL, but it sounds like a textbook definition of violation.

You mean "technological accomplishments of the communist Soviet Union" made by nazi scientists who weren't snatched by USA in "Operation Paperclip", "technological accomplishments of the communist Soviet Union" copied/stolen/bought from USA, "technological accomplishments of the communist Soviet Union" that never existed and were just empty propaganda, or Tetris?

Well, to be fair everybody were running around with swords and spears back in the day, the the Arabs did have what qualified as "modern weapons" of that era. What The Grim Reefer had in mind was a situation where Western powers had artillery and machine guns, while the most popular weapon among Middle-East tribes was a flintlock rifle.

Sparta.

So, I have to leave my computer switched on for the entire night for Microsoft's convenience? Also, I might not want to install that particular update, what now?

My computer exists only to serve me and obey only me. End of story.

So, I've heard there is a guy building a home made rocket to go to space. Since flatearthers pay the bills he promises to prove Earth is flat.

So, how about we chip in, so he would knock this shit down while he's at it?

Yes, I never understood what people have against education.

More to the point, everything is better with heavy metal! \m/ \m/

Let's see:

1. With public transport you have to plan your schedule around timetables. The car is always there when you need it, it never leaves without you and you never have to wait for it.

2. With public transport you are limited to you bag/backpack/purse/pockets. With car you can easily haul around a lot of stuff. That includes both your immediate needs (like bringing your groceries from shop to home, taking your training equipment from home to place of training, taking whole collection of board games for board game night to your friend's house, etc.) and just-in-case stuff you may want to carry around (I have in my trunk first aid kit, much bigger and more robust than the one required by law, change of clothes, set of basic tools, toothbrush and a couple of other things).

3. With public transport you can have no expectation of privacy or personal space, it's hard to hold a conversation and very often you have someone's smelly elbow in your face. In a car you have a guaranteed seat and you only ride with friends.

4. For many people main advantage of public transport is entertainment - you can read a book, play with you smartphone, listen to music. As someone who get motion sickness easily I'm limited only to music and that actually is much superior with decent car stereo compared to crappy earbuds in a crowded bus or train.

5. In public transport it's often too hot or too cold for my tastes. Obviously, other people are fine or have opposite opinion. That's because it's hard to set temperature to something that would please several dozen people. No such issue with a car - it's much easier to find compromise between 5 people, and in case that's too hard, the driver decides.

Now, I am not making a case here for abolishing public transport in favour of cars. Not everyone can or want to have one. In my opinion having various options to choose from is the best scenario. But you asked for "single reason why mass transit isn't equally good to get you to the general place" and I gave you five to choose from.