I have to ask, have you actually ever lived in an EU country? Sure, there is the bureaucracy to get around, depending on the country. But there is not a single EU country where (despite what the populists will have you believe) one could effectively say "fukkit, I'm going to get provided by the government". If there were, there'd be not such a large Roma population begging in the streets during the summer, or they'd be rather stupid for not getting all that TLC from the government. As it is (this coming from a perspective of a Finn), the Roma remain a fringe. If it would be so easy for them to apply for social security, one would assume they'd do just that. Yet, they continue to beg (and to do various other crime, but I digress). Funny that, given that the EU should provide them no matter where they come from.

s/employer/employee

Might be that things are different now, but when I lived in Germany at the turn of the millennium, an EU citizen could be a "prospective employer" (that is, unemployed and looking for work) in another EU country for three months, after which one has to follow some local rules. At the time in Germany that meant getting a health insurance. Which, actually, was not that cheap. (Which also incidentally was the reason I got married - suddenly my health insurance, as I was working, covered my girlfriend as well, and my taxes dropped like 10%. Why not? So I guess you can say I got married for money. Once we left Germany the incentive to remain married didn't exist anymore.)

Actually, with "responsive design" being all the rage nowadays (Google has started to downrank sites in mobile search that aren't responsive, AFAIK Bing does/will do the same), that is getting less true every day. Now, that doesn't mean responsive design is a magical answer to everything; too often tablet size and/or landscape mode is neglected, and no matter how careful one is, there might be breakage with a combination of browser X and resolution Y. But we're getting there.

And right now trying to sell off HERE, if you haven't been keeping up with the news. At the moment it seems a consortium of German auto manufacturers is the likeliest buyer.

Admittedly I don't follow the stock market so closely, or at all - but at what point did Goldman Sachs become a German and/or French company? You know, the ones that helped the Greek government become a part of EMU/Euro, which they never should have been a part of?

You are saying this as if these were somehow imposed upon the Greek. There were other players, sure, but it takes two to tango.

There's at least one semi-external enclosure, that replaces the HDD cover with a slightly taller version that one can fit a 3.5" drive in. But according to reviews, it seems to perform worse than the stock drive (at least with a 3TB drive), so I'm not sure that's advisable - games probably assume that the HDD works at least as fast as the stock one.

...or Javascript (/Ecmascript) objects, rather.

<pedant>JSON objects, replace [ ] with { }</pedant>

O RLY? As a Finn you see them frequently in the commenting section of any popular newspaper website. If the article is about Russia, the shills will be there. Very amusing to see the exact same comment, word to word, posted at the same time by two different "people".

Voice, rather.

If that is your criteria, then perhaps Arch shouldn't count either - sure, it is not a source-based distro (the only package I compile frequently is Firefox, and that is due to it being the KDE-friendly fork, kudos to OpenSUSE for that), but still very much bleeding edge. Remarkably stable at that, but comparable to to Debian Unstable.

Oh, I'm not saying Arch Wiki is infallible (although, it is correct pretty much the whole time). I was just looking for rationalization to discard or not to discard. As a personal anecdote, this Zenbook has been running discard since day 1 (24GB SSD and 500GB HDD, discard on the first drive only of course) - the OS partition (the 24GB drive, ext4) is still spanking fast. Although, it has never been close to running out of space (/var is on the HDD).

4.0.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 7 06:47:54 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Arch, at least.