Teams are great for doing parallel repetetive tasks such as testing thousands of compounds to pharmacological activity or building a bridge or whacking out 10K lines of boiler plate code. But if you want inspiration or genius or a completely take on a problem then you're looking at individuals (even if they've stood on shoulders of giants). Einstein didn't think up Relativity in a scrum with powerpoint presentations (ok they weren't around then but you get the point), nor did Turing come up his theories on conference calls.

This will sound arrogant but I don't care - teams are great for the slightly dim and/or lazy people in the world because it means they don't have to put so much effort in or think too much. Hence why management tend to be so fond of them.

So not believing is a faith? Thats a bit like saying not playing football is a sport. Have another go.

There are people who believe in pixies at the bottom of the garden. It doesn't make them real. The word "pixie" is real but nothing else about the concept is.

"raising alarm about its future viability"

To whom?

Since there is no such things as gods or deities its not possible to speak to them or hence fortell the future from any inspiration received from them. Ergo prophets cannot exist.

Is this too complex for you or do you need it explained in simple words with crayon drawings?

Muhammad existed, however he wasn't a prophet because there is demonstrably no such thing. If people decide to call him a prophet or even if he did himself it doesn't make it so.

Good points well made

Mothers exist - prophets don't. Show me a prophet and I'll show you a smooth talking charlatan surrounded by a load of suckers.

Beliefs are beliefs no matter where they arise from. Just because someone believes something written in a book of fairy tales 2000 years ago doesn't make it sacrosanct and above criticism.

What is it with religious types who think their beliefs are somehow special? I'd say it scientific beliefs that are based on things that can be proven - rather than just the witterings of peasents in the desert - have more of a claim to that.

Which part of the phrase "a more modern version" confused you?

I meant a new major version you halfwitted bell end!

No, didn't think so. I guess at some point Flash in firefox will just stop working because so many sites will require a more modern version. Funnily enough I don't think I'll care.

I've been running it for 20 years from laptops all the way up to servers. Ok, so to install stuff there's usually more manual intervention and you might - gasp! - have to use the tar command occasionally, but other than that its stable, it works, and best of all it doesn't come with the latest trendy rubbish such as systemd. Patrick tends to wait things out and see how they fly rather than including something because of the Oooo! Shiny!! mentality that other dists seem to follow.

You've falled for the common fallacy that any change is better than no change regardless or whether it improves things or not.

Thats odd, because my system which only has ALSA allows hot plugging of headsets no problem.