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[Frumple]

No, my friend, no. We're talking tech, here. You either use wax or lasers. No third option. Not even if the razor automatically oscillates in a suggestive fashion.

_{and yes, I'm aware that using wax on areas of your body where the skin is not the toughest is a quite terrible idea folks at home, don't do that without consultation and supervision of a trained medical professional}

[Max™]

Nah, I was kidding, I only trim for the uh... missus, though I do want to see if I could write a paper in which I could justify using the title "Shaving Hairy Balls" now.

[Antioch]

https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/09/28/0552231/nissan-debuts-propilot-self-driving-chair
Uhh, Nissan has made a robot chair that you can lounge in while waiting in queues, the thing automatically moves up the queue - as long as the person in front of you is also in a robot chair. Very useful stuff.

Personally I would just let people draw a ticket and put down some benches

[Reelya]

What if the chair was also a vending machine for soda and snacks?

[Frumple]

Question there is the margin on integrated snack machines and how long it'd take for em to pay for themselves. If these things can pull a profit in a timely manner you're going to start seeing them.

[Parsely]

PTWs

[feelotraveller]

What if the chair was also a vending machine for soda and snacks?

Pay to Move rather than Pay to Play?

[ZebAbirul]

PTW

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

So, ICANN.

[Max™]

More like ICAN'TEVEN mirite?

[Aklyon]

So, ICANN.

What about em?

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

It's no longer overseen by the US Department of Commerce.

[Aklyon]

It's no longer overseen by the US Department of Commerce.

Why was something internet-related overseen by the Commerce dept? I know about the why its not anymore already.

[Frumple]

Because said thing was created and hosted in the US, mostly. Non-profit corp's still a corp and under that sort of review.

[Starver]

To somewhat simplify the history of the Internet: once it was no longer a primarily military research project, it was a mix of academic and commercial, with the latter putting much of the major investment into it.

By the time the web existed, it was definitely big business.

(Yeah, @Frumple, it was very US-centric in the beginning, but by the time of ICANN (1998) both the Internet and the Web were publicly accessed widely across the world...)

((edit: IANA was pre-web, and US military contracted...))