So it's like today?

You have NO idea how hard it is to refrain from pulling a Godwin right now...

Mostly cause you have to feed and shelter slaves. It's simply cheaper to pay people to work for you. If you need proof, try to feed&shelter your family on a slave-level job today.

Religion, Ideology... a rose by a different name...

Reading Genesis (the book, not the band) alone is sufficient proof thereof.

the real capitalists are global. They benefit from us competing with cheaper labor. Marx predicted this but all anyone can remember about him is that a few dictators used his books for rhetoric.

As for Adam Smith, he actually as against this sort of naked capitalism. He wrote at a time of small merchant artisans. He didn't see the industrial revolution coming and if he had probably wouldn't have written the books he did. These days he's like Marx: all anybody remembers about him is what fits in with what they want.

Slaves were very expensive compared to immigrants. With immigrants you could treat them just as bad and when they got weak move on to the next batch. With slaves you had money sunk in. The south also had huge amounts of capital sunk into slaves. If you're selling someone's buying, and that costs money. It's one of the reasons they were so far behind the curve on the industrial revolution...

Why? Justify that statement without using any reference to the UNIX way or it being the way things have always been designed.

IMHO a coordinated set of functions that are used in a common way should be combined. Why is it that to parse a log file I need to run grep, and sed, and all these other utilities in a continuous pipe? For that matter why should the tail command be able to open a file, is that against the unix way because everything should be grepped into it?

I'm getting sick of using 1000 different utilities to do one task or manage one system. Hate me, down mod me, argue with me, but I for one am a big fan of big software with multiple functions approach. If that one program does it well why wouldn't you let it manage multiple coherent tasks like getting a computer from nothing to at least a login prompt?

I appreciate calling out the "journalists" on their inability to explain a summary, but there's almost a systemd article on here every week, it's one of the biggest hot topics in the Linux world at the moment, and frankly I'm amazed that there's anyone who reads Slashdot doesn't already know absolutely everything about it.

But PID1 is not the lowest level. And restarting everything except SystemD is not really any different than doing a cold boot.

Why not implement a watchdog in the kernel that can restart the system if it crashes. You're arguing that this important job should be done by some high order process instead of some higher order process, why not the bottom?

The last time I saw a system where X died and didn't melt down everything with it was back in the early 2000s. My current experience is that with a lot of desktop Linux distributions is if X dies your system likely:
a) has already panic'd
b) is about to panic
c) has hard locked and makes you pray for a SysRq key.
d) is so broken that an attempt to restart X results in you wishing you'd just hit the reset button to begin with.

I haven't seen X gracefully die in a long time now. That said I don't see it die often but that's not really the heart of the debate.

The 90% figure is for the Zaire strain of Ebola,

The current strain is new but believed related to the Uganda strain that has a 50% fatality rate.

However this is still bad, diseases that we consider bad like Yellow Fever have a 20% mortality rate that reduces to 3% if treated early. If you travel to a South America, you need proof of a Yellow Fever vaccine to get back into Australia without issue.

You might as well have written "I dont know anything about cars". It would have been quicker and faster.

A set of racing spec brake pads and rotors (Project Mu) for my 14 yr old Nissan S15 cost A$1000, that's racing spec (800 degrees C) for sustained track use. A set of povo spec rotors and pads from Supercheap Auto will cost in the vicinity of $300 and this is Australia, one of the most expensive countries in the world.

Also you dont have to replace the rotors with the pads (whoever fed you that line was probably making a mint from you). A set of rotors should last several sets of pads unless you're doing a lot of track days on stock rotors and heating them up until they crack.

Even a replacement gearbox should only cost $2000 ish for most cars.

Now for average cars like a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla, these are dirt cheap to keep running and repair, not that they often need repairs. There is an abundance of aftermarket parts for them (and BMW's) so even if you blow a radiator, it's going to be $400-500 to replace, hoses and all and most of that would be labour. People try to kill Honda Civic's and fail.

Beyond this, an engine swap isn't going to cost $45K unless you're a complete idiot and are trying to fit an Aston Martin V10 (Aston V10's can be had for $30K).

A B series swap into a Civic will cost $10K at Australian rates if you get someone else to do the work. Less than this if you're swapping in the same model of engine.

And neither does an internal combustion engine, either. Your point?

A ICE can be expected to outlast the car if it's from a decent manufacturer such as Toyota or Honda. You have 30-40 year old engines still running that have been repurposed into newer bodies (some from crappy manufacturers where engines failed like a GM or Ford, others into stock car frames and oversized go-karts). A battery is not expected to live for the lifetime of the car regardless. With a Honda Civic, the engine is going to outlast the rest of the car.

You're expected to need a battery replacement some time in the future, long before the things like engines, CV joints, drive trains, steering racks, door handles, electric mirrors, seat motors and so on fail. We know that Li-ion batteries degrade over time, your laptop battery in 3 years will not last as long as it does today so It's not unreasonable to want to know this cost in advance. With a prius or other hybrid, you can use that as a conventional fuel burning car after the battery fails, but not with a full EV.