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<blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3761339" data-attributes="member: 16574"><p>I'd say it's more like buying a car that doesn't have an onboard GPS navigation system that you can ignore but can't turn off and that you have to pay a recurring monthly service fee for, and then having everyone who either never drove a car without such a system or has been driving with one for so long that they've become totally accustomed to having it (plus a smattering of people who work developing and/or selling GPS systems) constantly telling you 1) that the fact that old cars didn't have on-board navigation systems shows that people in those days never knew where they were going and just drove around at random hoping to eventually stumble upon their destination and that while such joyrides might be fun for awhile, now that we're adults with places to get to we obviously need GPS systems to get us there, and/or 2) that the existence of paper maps proves that even in those primitive days everybody (or at least almost everybody, certainly everybody we knew -- perhaps you and the people you knew were all just joyriders who never needed to get anyplace) had to spend hours in advance studying the map and charting their route and then had to drive around with giant unwieldy paper maps spread out across their dashboards trying to track their progress and either stopping every few feet to get their bearings on the map or constantly getting into wrecks because they're too distracted by the map and not watching the road. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="T. Foster, post: 3761339, member: 16574"] I'd say it's more like buying a car that doesn't have an onboard GPS navigation system that you can ignore but can't turn off and that you have to pay a recurring monthly service fee for, and then having everyone who either never drove a car without such a system or has been driving with one for so long that they've become totally accustomed to having it (plus a smattering of people who work developing and/or selling GPS systems) constantly telling you 1) that the fact that old cars didn't have on-board navigation systems shows that people in those days never knew where they were going and just drove around at random hoping to eventually stumble upon their destination and that while such joyrides might be fun for awhile, now that we're adults with places to get to we obviously need GPS systems to get us there, and/or 2) that the existence of paper maps proves that even in those primitive days everybody (or at least almost everybody, certainly everybody we knew -- perhaps you and the people you knew were all just joyriders who never needed to get anyplace) had to spend hours in advance studying the map and charting their route and then had to drive around with giant unwieldy paper maps spread out across their dashboards trying to track their progress and either stopping every few feet to get their bearings on the map or constantly getting into wrecks because they're too distracted by the map and not watching the road. :) [/QUOTE]

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