Everyone who ever rode a motorcycle knows very well they those things already self-balance to an impressive degree. Even if you wanted, you couldn't make one simply fall over (short of giving the handlebar a huge jerk)

I think you misunderstand what kind of statements people tend to get flamed for. This is pretty spot on, windows does have the better GUI, after all, a huge amount of money has been thrown at it.
That being said, i'd still not use it because a nice GUI is useless when the rest is crap.

a lot

I bet somewhere is an *actual* hilariously rich nigerian princess sending legitimate emails out of the good of her heart. Sucks to be her.

"four giant nuclear plants?" Dammit, that's extremely useless a unit of measurement.
Literally everyone should know by now that the standard SI unit for power consumption is medium-sized town.
So, how many medium sized town do those cable boxes consume in total?

Dude, get off are lawn

But I use PS/2, you insensitive clod.

(Fair enough.)

And what makes the software interrupt "fire"?

So what is gonna reset the Program Counter back to refer to the boot ROM, when everything is nonvolatile, including the PC? The physical reset button they'll re-introduce? Keep dreaming.

What makes you believe you couldn't run a wireless network inside a faraday cage?

That's probably because you're an idiot.
You don't get to execute that memset when the machine is in a bad state. If you could, you arguably had it under control.

That practice is virtually nonexistant in free software

Might that town by any chance be Bonn, Germany? Sounds familiar. OTOH I suppose quite a couple of places do that

Eh, that's the default etc directory for programs which use the GNU Build System (autoconf and friends), i.e. nearly all. It's your package management which chooses the /-prefix instead of the default /usr/local