Don't buy a Windows key. If Windows was installed initially it should remember your hardware and activate. If it doesn't, there's numerous ways to pirate Windows.

Debian. The basic install is very bare bones.

Yes, they are also as painful as possible for every other browser. That's the point.

We're in agreement that night trains are a good thing, but you should push for them whether or not your trains are driverless.

You misunderstand my use of economic. Everything has a cost and a benefit which can theoretically be calculated, with infrastructure like transit that benefit extends beyond fares. Typically governments will do this calculation when deciding whether to pursue a new project, they include all the planning, construction, running costs, and externalities e.g. climate impact, and all the benefits from fares, economic activity, new opportunities for industries and development, ect. This produces a cost benefit ratio. In my research with transport, the best value projects are local safety improvements like cycleways, sometimes the ratio is as good as 10. Large public transport projects are maybe 1-2, and large motorways are usually less than 1. My point was a train driver is a small cost that isn't going to significant affect this. Of course, this analysis often gets ignored and the overpriced motorway gets built anyway.

One train transports 100s of people, the driver is a fairly low proportion of the cost. And there's other members of staff that are required even in a fully automated system. (network monitoring, security). Removing the driver is a nice step, but it doesn't fundamentally change the economics of rail transport. If a route is uneconomic, that's going to be the case without a driver too.

Disagree on noise. Electric cars are quieter when going slowly and the main noise is engine, but louder when going fast and the main noise is tires.

I don't think US politicians can get much older without being dead. This is a systemic problem, not a demographic problem, since other countries with similar demographics don't have the age problem.

If they don't care about privacy and security, they aren't wrong

Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises in Australia and New Zealand. https://www.anzca.edu.au/education-training/cme-courses-and-resources/emac-course

Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?

Broadband is broadband, the only relevant thing to discuss is customer service.

Vodafone support didn't know what port forwarding is, then told me they didn't support it. It's a basic function of the internet, so they definitely do. 0/x, they focus more on dumb rebranding than actually providing internet services.

No, it's very honest.

When you increase the number of passengers on a train(e.g. rush hour), the volume doesn't increase. The size of the train stays fixed up until it hits capacity.

When you increase the number of passengers on a road, they tend to still have around 1 car/person. Encouraging people to carpool just doesn't really happen. So an "at capacity" road still has most cars with just the driver. This is one of the main reasons cars are so inefficient, people are lugging around capacity for 5 people and tons of cargo, but it never gets used even when the roads are "at capacity".