Just to be clear, when that airbag fills explosively, nobody's arms are going to do squat to stop it from filling, not even Sylvester Stallone's. But you're right, if they are anywhere near the bag they are going to flail like hell and almost certainly hit stuff with devastating impact. From ten-and-two you have a pretty decent chance of smashing your eyeglasses into your eyes with your flying hands/arms.

It's 9 and 3 if you have an airbag, according to the NHTSA.

Well, they're close, anyway. In the real world, around 8 and 4, or even 7:30 and 4:30 is a better choice when you're using two hands. It's been a LONG time since power steering obviated the need to ever use both hands to apply torque. Any but the most violent left turn can be easily accomplished solely with the right hand starting at 4 or 4:30, and any but the most violent right turn can easily be accomplished solely with the left hand starting at 7:30 or 8. With the hands starting low, there is much more available motion before you have to do hand-over-hand, and additionally it is safer in case the airbag goes off and tries to do you violent injury.

The unused hand only comes into play for extremely violent maneuvering; huge hand-over-hand steering inputs.

Most of the time on the highway, one hand at 12 or 1 is perfectly capable of making any required maneuvers. You can't apply huge inputs at highway speed without spinning out anyway.

For anybody who uses the seatbelt, the airbag is his worst enemy anyway. You don't want your arms anywhere near that damn thing when it goes off. Most definitely not above the center of the wheel, but better nowhere near it. Drivers who crash cars for a living always cross their arms over their chest just before impact so flailing arms won't shatter bones and gouge wounds if when they hit objects.

An airbag is not some kind of balloon that blows up fast, like in the cartoons. It has a goddam pyrotechnic inflator. That means explosive. Quicker than the blink of an eye. An airbag is a devastating weapon. If it saves the life of an imbecile who can't trouble to buckle up it MAY be worthwhile, but for anyone of normal intelligence it is a liability.

No, the OS is perfectly fine thanks. And don't tell me you don't know about XFCE or LXDE.

Of course they are being paid. OSS maintainers work for IBM, HP, Red Hat, Canonical, Debian, Oracle, Novel... and a few even work for Microsoft.

No, they would still need IT people to purchase the several hundred different types of ink ribbons and fix all the broken and stuck daisy wheels. The good old days weren't.

You are forgetting something. They will save money by NOT buying new computers. In a bureaucracy the size of a city, there are tens of thousands of users that can use thin clients, tens of thousands more that can use thick clients and only a few thousand that need real desktops or laptops.

Worst is, they even believe that they were the first with everything.

Exactly. My wife is an accountant. She has Fedora with KDE on her laptop. It basically just works. She also has a smartphone and a tablet that both run Android. I never need to help her with anything. Her mother is a farmer. She now runs a tablet with Android. Nuff sed.

Yup. Plus the fact that Linux requires much less support.

Language support. MS is American and only do English well. Any other language is a total clusterfsck on Windows.

MS only supports English properly. Europe has dozens of different languages that are all supported very well by Linux. This is a major item for most people.

So, why do you waste money on the phone? Ask your phone company to change it to 'dry DSL'. A line with no dial tone. They will balk, but if you insist, then they will do it.

So, I guess the melt downs in 1959, 1960, 1966, and 1979 were on purpose?

You're getting really closed to being ignored by me because you are not paying attention; not reading for comprehension. I specifically said zero UNCONTAINED meltdowns for nuclear electric power generation. Two of those incidents were test or research reactors, so they have nothing to do with the point. The others released no significant uncontained radiation.

Repeating falsehoods does not make them true. ZFS does not mysteriously "require" ECC RAM, end of goddam story. Plenty of people are using ZFS without ECC RAM.

Well, it sure as hell is crazy unsafe when they *are* lazy bastards, and it sure is a hell of a lot safer when they are painstaking. Look at the US Navy nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Perfect nuclear safety record with respect to the nuclear power plants. Hell, look at the US Nuclear electricity industry, even though I wouldn't put it close to being good enough. Zero uncontained meltdowns. Zero hydrogen explosions.