Excluding some countries, listed as "markets excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK" but possibly Canada, too?

I'm in Norway and I would was hoping to get to play with dots.

I guess Norway and 30+ other countries are excluded.

Why is it so ridiculous that the state can provide police where and when they're needed, and it's only when you have a sufficiently robust metropolitan area that can afford their own police force that you then have "local" cops?

Or are we all about locally-sourced, artisanal law enforcement now?

Who said it’s ridiculous? If that’s how you want your locality to obtain law enforcement, go for it.

Are you suggesting that your way is The Way everyone else should go? That is what I’m arguing against. Let locals decide.

An irrelevant curmudgeon says what?

On a repellent platform as well

To be fair, it does fit his new brand.

The iPhone launch was met with a lot of derision and eye-rolling despite that being the result of a half decade "effort to make themselves distinct from the competition".

Those events are rare, the opportunities to really shake things up are fleeting, as everyone is driving forward with relentless, incremental progress that quickly closes up all but the biggest gaps.

What could they possibly do that wouldn't be slammed as derivative?

"At the end of the day, a top tier chef just makes food like everyone else."

"2.8TB model, fast shipping!"

The irony here that HTTP headers are descended directly from RFC822 email headers.

"Open Web" as in "Free Speech", where it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean.