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Oh, upgrading is still free. But you need to have a license to install it on a new machine. With Apple, they make their own hardware which they proceed to grossly overcharge for (traditionally, at least; I keep hearing that certain new Macs are among the best deals on computers you can get...

They also don't give Home Edition away for free. That's a $100 license that you'd better believe was included in the price of the machine.

I mean we're already talking about taking grown adults with full-time jobs and forcing them to spend seven hours a day for the next decade and change in a school for children. But no, it was a perfectly reasonable serious proposition and definitely not a joke that I was simply yes-and-ing.

Why? That's how the entire rest of the tech industry works. Make your free product worse and worse in the hopes that people will give in and upgrade to the paid version.

Oh, so this is one of those situations where he's not even quitting to run for another office because his term is already going to be up that same year. But if he botches this badly enough, we could see his seat in the Senate, the governorship, and Barry Moore's seat in the House getting taken...

I remember reading somewhere that LCD panels can actually be made huge and then sliced up into whatever smaller sizes the factory has a demand for that day, provided all the smaller panels they need are the same dot pitch. I'm guessing one issue making OLED so much more expensive is that you...

I don't suppose this would also make him ineligible to serve in his current role as a senator, as well, would it? Because I'm sure he'll gladly just hold onto that job as long as he can as a consolation prize.

There was a negative response from "the whole world" toward Iran for blockading the Strait? I would have expected almost every country to direct their ire towards the US since the whole thing was our fault. Well, ire from the countries whose own imports were jeopardized by the blockade, and just...

So will this effectively be a tax on the US's own oil imports, or does it only apply to other countries?

How 'bout also stripping them of the right to vote until they re-graduate.

Ideally the shortage of heating oil caused by Russian sanctions should have been a wake-up call to replace their oil-burning furnaces with heat pumps, which would have doubled as central air conditioning. Unfortunately most European homes are a gazillion years old and use radiators instead of...

As I recall, the last English civil war differentiated the two sides by their haircuts. I'm now picturing an entire rebel faction distinguishing themselves by wearing upturned trashcans on their heads.

Now watch him get replaced with someone even worse. That's how it generally goes with red states and districts.

I give it a week before someone discovers the fuel is full of lead or something.

What, like, perfectly straight ahead? Never checking your blind spots or the backup camera, just dead center all the time like a nervous drunk driver? Sounds like a great way to make accidents even more common.

Alternatively, somebody with actual progressive policies could just run as an independent and become the Bernie Sanders of England.

And meanwhile whoever sits next to him in the chamber is allowed to vote on his behalf. Caligula had a horse; Trump has a corpse.

Can I point out that "ID4" is a dumb way to abbreviate it? Whose idea was that? "You never saw ID4?" "I haven't even seen the first three yet!"

It is kind of strange, now that you bring it up, that in order to travel you need permission not from the country you're going to but the country you're coming from. As if the default approach for every country is to treat their own citizens like prisoners and prevent them from escaping. (In...

You'll probably never hear me say these words again but I respect the hustle.