That's nice, and for those of us who want to spend less than $1M per year per box there's VMWare which provides nearly the same uptime at a fraction of the cost, and we don't have to put up with IBM. Commoditization is a good thing for the customer.

Given the fact that they outsourced Power chip production you have to wonder how long that will be true. Then again HP outsourced their processor development to Intel over a decade ago and they still sell Itanium, so it might be a long time before they give up that gravy train.

How about look at TPC-H, where in the 10TB test the T5-4 gets beat in performance by the DL580 G8 and the x64 system is half the cost per transaction? The number of shops that need more than 120 threads and 3TB of ram is vanishingly small.

The CRA did NOT cause the financial crisis! This has been debunked many times. In fact in ~75% of communities CRA loans had lower default rates through late 2009 than traditional conforming loans (let alone crap like interest only, sub-prime, and liar loans) due to more stringent underwriting criteria. No, the cause was improperly rated securities comprised of crap that was sold in bundles to the big banks and through the back door to Fannie and Freddie.

Solar panels don't use/contain rare earths.

Bullshit!
First solar uses cadmium telluride cells, cadmium and telluride are two of the 17 rare earths. Don't be such a condescending ass when you are flat out wrong.

without blasting the top off of a single mountain or pouring contaminates into rivers

Well, there are all the rare earths needed to make 2,900 acres worth of panels, so it's not like it's for free. In fact on a per MWhr basis I'm willing to bet that nuclear fission is still more environmentally friendly (though heat pollution of the cooling water source can be an issue depending on where the plant is sited).

Google now in Lollipop will be in always listening mode (by default, once you confirm the privacy statement) if there is a dedicated hardware voice component (like those found on the Moto X, Galaxy S5, and Nexus 6).

Not legal in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act ensures that you may use third party replacement parts.

There are three truths in life:
Jewish people do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store.

Hmm, labor force participation rate is about where it was at the end of Regan's first term, but if you drill into the details you'd see that most of the hit is to 16-24 year olds, and it's largely been because the 55+ rate is higher than it's been in 40+ years, basically the boomers won't retire so there's little room at the bottom. The boomers refusing to retire wouldn't be a problem in an expanding economy, but in one that went through a hundred year recession followed by a rather flat recovery it's going to have some significant impacts.

Amazon with Prime is another serious competitor.

Correct, Windows only includes standard API's for a small handful of device classes.

The tile space is twice as large, can't be reduced, and the app section is not the folder based start menu that we've been using for 20 years, instead it's a shrunken version of the start screen from 8.1 which means things are organized alphabetically instead of into user controllable folders.

Too freaking bad if you don't believe in doctors, they are in fact real unlike your invisible sky wizard and they serve a public purpose. You don't get to have the next typhoid Mary because you want to, you either vaccinate your kids, find them another legal form of schooling, or get a note from a licensed medical professional stating that your child is incapable of receiving the immunization for some medical cause. Your right to freedom of expression ends where it meets my childs right to be free from communicable disease.

The RPI2 has 1GB of ram, and this isn't going to be running explorer, it's basically Windows CE 10.