This does not qualify as a joke more like a pathetic feeble attempt at one

April fools day jokes are fun if they are "slightly" more subtle

A pound of bricks is heavier.... Try dropping it on your toes :-P

Nope it does not!
At least not running a fully up to date Firefox on a real OS ;-)

There aren't that many De Loreans still available

I am no doctor, I just read the article, a rare occurrence on /. :-). I had pneumonia a couple of years ago and that also showed up on X-ray. I guess this refers to some specific problems with the lungs.

I know it sounds silly.... but RTFA

Patents have a reasonable justification. However 25 years? That is utterly silly, try 5 years. Then you are forced to use your invention right now to actually make money on it. That would kill patent trolling right away

I'll bite on this troll...

Renewable energy != perpetual energy
Solar power, wind power, hydro power, burning plant matter are all viable renewable energy sources today.
Incidentally all have been in use for the last... oohh 3000 years

Now my comment was that you could trim boot on a desktop.... I do not have a desktop in my car as a sound system, and I dare guess that neither do you ;-)

I agree fully with you but no one can work sustained 10-15 hour days. The reasoning from that company was a little strict, but they could not afford problems in production and they saw a trend and dealt with it.

I do that several times a day.... When I open the lid on the laptop it is up in 2 seconds

I worked for a company once that had a strict rule of 7.5 hours per day 5 days a week. If you needed to work extra to finish something you had to get clearance from the director of development.
Their reasoning was that after 7.5 hours per day you introduce much more errors and that will increase testing and bug fixing time and ultimately the company product.

With that reasoning in mind..... 10-11 hour days will likely f-ck up any programs developed pretty badly :-)

The important lesson from this is that if you were to strip out all the stuff that comes in most distros to handle all kinds of hardware and such you would get a faster boot on your desktop too. Now, having said that..... How much does boot time really matters??