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Let's not kid ourselves, finding a torrent for a movie or looking up which service it streams on are both the same level of easy.[] The issue is you have to subscribe to all those different services, which is what most people are probably not willing to do.

Now if a show or movie doesn't stream in your region or isn't otherwise easily online accessible, that's a different story. In that case it's on the industry to do better. When content is readily available on a streaming service, I don't think it's fair to point at the entertainment industry and say they have a problem to solve. In that case 'the problem' might actually be people wanting to watch movies and not pay for it.

[]https://www.justwatch.com

QC35 doesn’t have a left button, that’s the QC35-2. Which sucks because i now need the app multiple times a day.

They have some actual features in there like find my buds, music sharing and noise cancellation controls. Also there’s some settings adjustments like standby times, connections and voice prompts. It’s actual pretty useful.

Help me out, I genuinely can't think of a music streaming service that came before Spotify.

I vividly remember being blown away by their product when it came to market. I remember because I had never seen anything like it and literally didn't believe it could be done at that time. I was waiting for a train and could just search for any song and play it right away from my phone, no downloading, no waiting, just instant music. I was very sceptical beforehand but was instantly sold.

Did I miss another service that did something even remotely similar before Spotify did it?

>such as being run over.

Ahhh here's the thing though, in such a case you don't really need their location right that second. There's nothing you can do. They will be taken to a hospital and will be taken care of. Of course you would love to be there for you children the second they are in pain, just like when they fell on their face when they just started walking, but you don't need to. As a parent you have to accept that from when your kids get into their teenage years they will start to become independent, they will have experiences (good or bad) without you and they will be just fine. Or they won't be fine. But you certainly couldn't have prevented them getting run over, getting robbed, abducted or raped by having constant access to their location.

>you start worrying about things you never worried about before.

And you always will worry, trust me. Even when your kids turn 30, you still worry. You have to try to look at this objectively instead of with your feelings, people start being independent and there's nothing you can do about it. You will have to learn to let them go. What's next, do you want body function trackers installed so you can check their heart rate to see if they're still alive or their glucose level to see if they have already had their lunch yet?

I think we as parents sometimes should take a step back from our feelings and I think this is a prime example. Just because you feel a certain way (and pay for their phone) doesn't make it alright to push such an invading service onto your children. You feeling uneasy when your teenage child is out and about is your problem, not theirs, so you deal with it.

In January of this year the FAA announced that 300k drones have been registered in the first 30 days since the drone registration requirement went public. I can't find any newer numbers on that though.

I believe about 1 million consumer drones were sold during last year's holiday season. So I would call that moderately popular and 2,500 doesn't seem a lot of units in that regard.

//Trial with autonomous public transport busses starts in Appelscha, the Netherlands//

A trial with fully autonomous public transport busses has started this afternoon in Appelscha, the Netherlands.

For the next six weeks two futuristic looking busses without a steering wheel, accelerator or even a brake pedal will take passengers back and forth the Forestry Commision’s outpost and Appelscha city center.

According to the municipality this is the first driverless vehicle with passengers on the Dutch public roads. The French made shuttles will drive a 2.5km route on a public bike path.

The municipality and the other northern provinces of the Netherlands want to become a testing ground for autonomous public transport. According to the initiators, with the ageing population of these provinces and the limited access to public transportation these autonomous vehicles could prove to be a solution to keep these rural areas accessible.

You sure feel a lot, but do you actually know something? Have you read the article? JustEat approached this very methodical and have gotten some great results from it.

The picture of the City Palace (Stadtschloss) is interesting. It looks like they accidentally swapped the old and the new picture. The building is complete in 1939 and far from finished in 2015. Upon further research (Ok, I wiki'd it) I found out the original building had been knocked down to make way for parking in 2008 and only 5 years later in 2013 they decided to start rebuilding it.