Corporations don't do any of the above; people who form said corporations do all those things. Those people, as individuals, already have a say about the society withing they function. There's no reason why they should have another say via the corporation.

And you said he sounded silly. Individual corporations typically don't have the power to veto legislation, but industry groups (formed colluding corporations) do. Rather than veto laws, the industry groups typically write the laws and get Congress to ratify them.

When a politician's means of becoming elected (money) is provided by a sole source, and is stable over a long enough period (their career), provided that the politician does what the provider wants, then what incentive does the politician have to listen to anyone else?

Who cares? All he needs is competition that points out how non-representative that relationship is, and enough voters who agree. The one-track-mind politician goes away. The person who just lost the Senate race in Massachusetts was on the receiving end of tons of focused campaign cash, and emergency panic landing by Air Force One in her race, and the all-out attempts by her party's political machine to give her the seat that her party's have-it-for-life predecessor had for decades. A guy with much less cash but with a better message and some hustle pointed out the substantial differences between them, and she lost. That's the incentive.

E85 is 85% alcohol.

A quick search gives me:

http://scilnet.fortlewis.edu/tech/NT-Server/architecture.htm

Though I'm not sure of the validity of that today considering it's last modification date was: Tuesday, March 24, 1998

But it maybe points to the level at which he wants to build from? (really, I'm just pulling stuff from thin air on this because I never really got around to reading up on Posix compliance. I just kind of knew Windows had minimal support already.)

Look, I can guarantee you that ReactOS will never make it. It really has no meaningful audience, and when we get Samba 4, whatever audience it does have will walk away. Wine, as questionable as it is, does fulfill a role, but ReactOS's dream of replacing Windows was pretty nonsensical a seven or eight years ago, and considering the OS it's trying to replicate is now itself a decade old, it seems extremely pointless.

I'd much rather the effort be put into improving apps like OpenOffice and Samba which provide meaningful alternatives to the proprietary software the fuels the Windows ecosystem.

#ifdef POSIX
      blah;
#elif REACTOS
      foo;
#endif

Not too hard.

No. Truth actually matters a lot for scientists...

Assuming a 10G constant acceleration, the resulting barrel length is ~185 miles.

You can assume a lot more than that. Like whales (which collapse internally if beached) the human body can handle a lot more gravity when immersed in water and neutrally buoyant.

Nowhere near what surface-mounted electronics can take, of course. Bodies have air-filled regions and other variations in density. But (as Heinlein pointed out long before the Apollo Project) a "water cushion" makes a great supporter.

Maybe not even immersed. Think: "form-fitting, very shallow, waterbed". Or thin water-filled cushions under the entire body with no, or minimal, gaps between them.

More likely they will die alone and forgotten, because only that "trusted" 3rd party method will allow for monetization.

and you are 100% certain?

I don't know if you've heard or not, but two of those "embedded, server, desktop." Linux is not just mainstream, but dominates.

If I want to run a UNIX app, I can do it on Cygwin, MSYS, or any of the UNIX or UNIX-clone operating systems you mentioned. But what do I do if I want to run a UNIX driver? The point of ReactOS is that it runs not only NT 5 apps but also NT 5 drivers.

Especially when you consider that Windows NT is based on concepts that Dave Cutler brought with him from VMS.

It's not that difficult:
It's like living in Nevada and having an 80 mph speed limit on I-80 if you're going to California and a 40 mph limit if you're headed to Utah because California payed to have the speed limits changed to benefit themselves.

The iPhone doesn't do secure email because not enough people want that feature, not because Apple can't do it, or because Apple thinks they know better than you or I (which is the expected response to this post).