This isn't necessarily true. I worked at a place where the CEO came across some archived mailing-list posts that contained sensitive company information (apparently the previous sysadmin didn't have much regard for keeping sensitive company information secret when he had questions). An email or two asking them nicely to remove the content and it was gone. Granted, if it had been propagated to many other archive sites, this could have been a major pain in the ass.

Ask and ye shall receive: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll629.xml

Typically in the coastal plains (where a river would meet with saltwater), a river will widen up and it's current slows to a crawl (due to the lack of a "downhill" presence).

This association of dealers even has a name: the National Automotives Dealer Association (NADA); they are a cartel.

Although not quite as accessible as having the error/exception thrown right into your face, you do realize that a lot of these types of errors do get logged to the system logger? (example: Event Viewer for Windows, syslog for Linux, etc). I'd imagine looking through this would be a tad easier than watching tcpdump output in real-time while you try to reproduce the problem in question (to use your example).

Shit..I too probably have fallen victim yet again to parody.

Writing code such that it does what you need it to and is easy to maintain can be a fun problem to solve...at least for me.

Doesn't Best Buy price-match their competitors (including Amazon)?

Yup...this happened to me. I bought a shoddily made media card reader that completely fried and destroyed my internal USB chipset, rendering all of the on-board USB ports useless....live & learn.

Lots of installers for enterprise-level software and hardware drivers will check to ensure it's being installed on RHEL and will fail to install otherwise. Checking that this file exists is an easy way for them to do that. Whether or not they *should* check it that way (or even at all), is debatable.

To be fair, '/etc/redhat-release' is there for compatibility with software that uses that to ensure it's being installed on a RHEL-based system. CentOS has it as well for the same reason.

...and because vaccination and resultant herd immunity effectively wiped many of the most dangerous diseases out of our everyday lives.

One of the most retarded "reasons" I've ever heard from a mother for not having her children immunized is was something along the lines of "I don't want to teach my children that they have to do things because the 'herd' does" ::facepalm::

Horse shit...Java is nothing but pointers (aka "references"). It just hides dereferencing and memory management for you.

Yeah..and how many of these "developers" are still going to be writing code in 5 years?

You do realize that "the Wayland folks" and the X11 folks are the same folks, right? Perhaps you should give this a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44