systemd is not simple to use, it is a bloated sprawling nightmare of complexity.

there are better looking alternatives for parallel startup and monitoring/restart (when desirable), too bad developer mindshare couldn't have gone toward sane alternatives that have simple modular building blocks which is the Unix way

The biggest problem with most public schools is lack of focus on the basics of speaking, writing, math, history and science. None of those even require a computer or internet connectivity. Children can get their office droid skills later, and even IT skills later if they choose that career path.

You are so busy being a pontificating numbnut you missed the sentence in the wikipedia article about relativistic mass

I think all guns can be assualt guns, if used to assault someone. For example, if I bean someone on the head with my black powder 1858 New Army, it becomes a Black Powder Assault Revolver. As opposed to shooting some SOB dead with it, then it's just a weapon.

You make me laugh. Black powder revolvers are way too much of a PITA for criminals to want or use. Show me links to black powder pistol homicides after 2004...

Systems architectects are a real profession and are not software developers. Also, there is a kind of software development that IS engineering, such as the type Linux kernel or BSD or Apache server project team does. That includes design, source control, testing, and QA processes. It is much more than just development.

You're confused, user input/accounts/logins/uploads on web sites existed in the mid 1990s. Hell at time I wrote web based interface to my employer's document management, groupware and CADD system, all as Perl cgi.

Didn't you get the memo, subsidized phone service for the poor started under Reagon, was expanded under Clinton, and under George W. Bush came to include cell/wireless. google "lifeline" program

Web 2.0 is just a meaningless marketing phrase, that "bubble" never existed

I wouldn't hold out Apple as example of leader to follow for stable init or daemon system; my work macbook pro is still screwy booting after yosemite upgrade. We won't even talk about the plist files for daemons for mac osx server, or how they sometimes get ignored

it's not diamond nor did the original paper claim it was: http://www.nature.com/nmat/jou...

Lets say you have a laptop that is on one network and goes to sleep when you close it and arrives in a hotel room on another network? How would you do this with init without some serious hacks?

You don't, you open your laptop in the hotel room and select the new network. Was that so hard? why in the hell do you think the init system should be involved? You do show what's wrong with the systemd design philosophy, that's for sure. I'm glad one of the crappers of needless complexity has resigned. One down and a few more to go, and maybe Debian will be a good distro again....

I think FreeBSD is great for a desktop BSD, but for servers the simplicity of OpenBSD is even better

They usually use xenon gas, assuming room temp in spacecraft by whatever means that's about 250 m/s.

and here in chicago sometimes the moon is brown or orange because of pollution. I'd wonder how well the glass does in rain passing through fumes of oil, unburned gasoline ,coal ash, industrial solvents, etc.

wonder if I have the lungs of a smoker from all that shit, though I've never taken one puff....