This is somewhat of a circular argument, at best. But I'd say it's close to ilogical.

What distro are you on?
There have been 2 periods some 2 years ago on ubuntu where flash kept crashing but aside those I never had any issues with flash. Except for the youtube "blue people" issue :)
I know, for one who sais he has no flash issues I can list quite a few, but you have to admit flash is fading away. And come on, flash homebanking? I give it 6 months. There's 70-80% chances that they are working on a replacement as we speak.
I'm in web development and we did a lot of flash replacement sites in the past couple of years.

I only aquired mild sysadmin skills while using linux at home and at work for the last 7 years or so and I admit I don't know even 10% of that in the Windows environment and I'm tempted to say that linux can either cover that OR we're already discussing server environments (I'm pretty sure DHCP and Group Policy are not about the desktop issue) but I'll wait for a more knowledgable guy to answer that if anyone wants.

Well, that sounds like a goal that can never be accomplished by any OS that is not win32 compatible and that also makes Mac OS X not ready for the desktop, wouldn't you agree?

The I guess what I'm saying is that Linux IS ready for the small (and maybe medium) busnisess, especially those in or related to IT&C (which right now is a considerable portion of the economy, we're not in the 80's.)
I'm also saying that it COULD be a solution for home users, if those users are able to make an informed and educated decision about their OS.
I'm not in the US and I've never bought a brand PC or a PC with an installed OS. I have always installed my own OS's. So if more people coould do that they wouldn't be in the position to discover that soem .exe file doesn't run on their PC's.

If people would be more literrate regarding PC's they woudl discover linux is ready for the desktop. The web and the browser has a lot to do with this. I'm speculating that people over 40 would successfully use it, since they don't need games or other fancy software, the browser would be enough. Even developers would need to take that into account and provide linux versions (like Skype or others do).

I guess my conclusion is that linux IS ready and all the factors that make it seem not to be are external.

What the FUCK is "desktop" anyway?

I keep hearing people like you saying linux isn't prepared for the desktop and here I am using it for years.
* I do web development at work and I have everyhting I need on Ubuntu. I've used it on desktop and laptops without issues.
* My wife and my kids use it at home (my kids are 6 and don't even know what Windows and Linux is, or care, they just use the browser for flash games). My wife uses it for browsing and for document editing (at a level where google docs would suffice).
* I use it at home for web development, browsing, soemetimes even RAW image editing (for which I admit I boot to a 3 years old XP install I only need for Lightroom/Photoshop)

What does "the desktop" mean ???
Audio editing, CAD, 3d modelling (blender?), video editing?

Aren't those too "niche"? Not beeing able to run Avid or Maya to build the next Avatar movie disqualifies it as usable for the desktop?
In MY opinion that's not "the desktop", sorry. That's a niche you need specified hardware and software anyway.

Note:
I do run into issues sometimes, but SO DO I ON Windows XP!

Otherwise I'm perfectly able to:
plug my DSLR and download images off it,
i can play dvd's,
I can create dvd's,
I can capture DV video of a handycam,
I can quickly edit images in GIMP (crop, resize, a bit of contrast, etc, light stuff),
i can write documents, I have a choice of great music players/managers and had them when windows had ... Winamp 3.x or something,
I can connect to ftp servers
I can use .torrent links/sites
I can write code, debug code, install and use a web server

and most of all I can do ALL these AND OTHERS from the first second I installed Ubuntu. Try all of the above right after installing Windows XP or 7 .

What the fuck is wrong with linux on the desktop?

I can't play games, but then again, I never was a gamer. Is that reason to dismiss it? Are gamers like 80% of the desktop market? If yes, then we're screwed!

Yes, and therein lies the problem, the OS remained designed for ancient mobiles and continued to "demand" ancient level mobiles when the iPhone was at v3.

Why can't something be interesting and considered a breakthrough in any field of science and research still be conducted without it having to solve any type of crisis?
Especially when the connection to that crisis is made artificially in a summary, just to throw some glitter on a piece of scientific news?

You are simplisticly overreacting. No matter what you think about the ios environment it does exist and It is a phenomenon both in market share (a market they arguably created) and fan base. The article is not about technical supremacy but about what will happen to the market amazon had before Apple (presumably) decided to enter into. Discuss.

Huh, it didn't seem that laggy plus it's pre-alpha and we have no hints on the hardware specs, so don't be hatin' !

This is not funny, although it's been modded as such.
What you describe is a system that places no value on skills or merits. This is not the case with TFA. No one was talking about skills not being important. We were discussing whether power is something that needs to be exercised by a few (elected or self-imposed) or by everyone.
Doctors would still have their place and would still be needed, but kings may not, that's all.
Or is this something related to doctors' god-complex? :)

Yes, the idea that we could all take turns to hold various public jobs or position is a great one, however, somewhat sadly, impossible today. In today's capitalistic market and work environment no one wants to take x months off their current high paying job to go sit a public office. Nor does today's level of specialization (even in public jobs) allow for that.
But I guess a system where I'm taken and used somewhere according to my skills and to my current salary could be investigated.
Another way we could achieve similar results would be to actually vote for every local public function (judges, trade offices staff, customs officers etc) even if that contradicts my original opinion of not voting for every little thing :)

I happen to know a few things about anarchy as an ideology. I admit my phrasing was not the most fortunate, but yes, I tend to equate anarchy with chaos in the end because I don't believe in it as a real solution that actually works.
In the real world anarchy will degrade to chaos. Funny you should mention Iceland. That didn't turn out so well in the end. Power struggles between individuals ended that.
Plus I'm sure we can find countries that have been NOT anarchies for more than 200 years, right?
And come on, are really discussing the 12th century?