I certainly won’t be considering a BMW now, since all their models will have Alexa integrated. I wasn’t really considering one anyway because I value reliability, but I get that you were doing the childish lash-out thing:”U R dum and poor, lolz” Sure... nice burn.

Knobs and buttons also work. The solution for awkward technology is not to augment it with intrusive, unnecessary technology.

Theft of intellectual property is morally and legally wrong. This isn’t stealing bread to feed your family, it’s feeling entitled to entrainment without paying for it.

You understand that this article is about the technology being pre-installed on vehicles, right? I’m not going to buy an Amazon spy microphone for my house, but the tech is being integrated into other devices and may not be avoidable forever.

Theft is theft, and saying “I want it, but don’t want to pay for it” is not an excuse. I’m sorry you have a defective sense of ethics and can rationalize theft.

Yes, since I’m capable of using light switches, etc., I gain nothing from Alexa and it makes sense for me not to have the technology. Which gets more and more difficult when it is increasingly being integrated into devices that don’t need it, like cars.

And if they need a TV to play the games on they should just steal it, right? They DESERVE that TV, even if they can’t afford it, right?

A gigantic company would never allow such a scandal, I’m sure. Like a major car manufacturer would not dare to cheat on diesel emissions. A credit-rating agency would never allow the sensitive information of millions to be compromised.

Sure, trust Amazon not to obsessively collect every bit of data possible on you. Good luck with that.

If people refuse to make the right choice, they shouldn’t have the choice. The answer isn’t to make it easier for them to be selfish asshole, it’s to disable all non-emergency phone use in motion.

“it’s not like you’re just not going to answer the phone because Bluetooth doesn’t work.”

Something scraped off the bottom of a shoe is as good an actor as DiCaprio.

The driver does need to be held accountable. Dick Stupid also needs to be held accountable for the dangerous, illegal shit he was doing on his bike while pretending to be a cop.

That was not lane splitting. He weaved dangerously between lanes, passed cars on the right in their lane, and ran 2 red lights. He was driving like a maniac and could have caused a lot more damage doing so.

Yes, those are the results of the driver’s actions. He will have to face the consequences of those actions, which may include his employer terminating him. If he didn’t want to face those consequences, maybe he should have listened to the signs telling him not to enter the tunnel.

You and your dad were willing participants. The hundreds of passengers onboard this commercial flight were not. I’d argue that letting an untrained pilot land a plane should have gotten your dad in trouble with the FAA, but this is a whole magnitude worse. Did you miss the part about a whole flight full of people…

So the problem isn’t that the idiot truck driver smashed all these lights, it’s that someone noticed? No offense, but that’s incredibly stupid.

Exactly—my 23 pound tabby isn’t so much fat as he is magnificent. It’s just more fuzzy belly to rub!

OK, so the Fox News crowd can never talk about the “death to America!” cries from extremists, right? They’re just being hyperbolic!

He says “shitty things” regularly, yet you can’t come up with a single example? Sounds legit.