The great pacific garbage patch has a density of 4 small pieces of plastic per cubic meter. You wouldn't even notice it if you were sailing through it.

And if they were actually free, you'd probably hate being the one sold as a slave.

There are no "islands". Just a higher density of tiny bits of plastic.

Canada doesn't have enough barrels/day.

The purpose of religion isn't to get a better world view. It's a way to get power over masses of people. In that fashion, it's not past its sell-by date. And it's irrelevant whether it's fantasy or not. People will gladly give their life for fantasy, if you've conditioned them properly.

Not if they're wrong.

All you need to take over Europe are enough wombs.

For starters, in the summer I wear shorts and short sleeved t-shirts. In the winter I wear long jeans and an extra sweatshirt.

How exactly would technology help to determine how much milk or eggs are left ? Put an RFID chip on each egg and have a level sensor built into each milk jug/carton ?

Why not make 3-15 modularly written sets of source files, and compile them into a single binary ? It's hardly more complex than 3-15 separate programs, and it makes communication of structured information a lot easier.

Compared to the rest of the system, the RAM used by systemd/init is pretty small, especially considering that quite a bit of it is only executed at boot time. You should be more worried about the kernel, the buffer cache and the shared libs.

A philosophy doesn't remain true either, just because it's old.

Well, if the source code is not available, it doesn't pay to learn COBOL.

How would you resume an open TCP connection after restarting the network driver ?

And when it's all done, it will be more complex than Linux.