Congratulations, you (and possibly your whole team) are incompetent.

It's what the ideas of modules and interfaces are for.

There are no "code monkeys" for the same reason why there are no human calculators and tape operators -- tools reached the point where it makes no sense to dedicate people to implementation because communication of "architects" with those people causes more effort and greater possibility of mistakes than just having the same developer doing design and implementation. Anyone who pretends that this distinction still exists, is a charlatan.

Metric system is in the best interest of blacks?

Yes, you do unless you want to record the floor.

Those cameras are easily visible, and if they weren't there would be just as much backlash against them.

And using those is considered just as bad than any other kind of recording.

No you can't, phones are designed to make cameras absolutely blatantly obvious. If they weren't, there would be a lot of places where they would be banned.

The only possible way for you to see worse X11 performance than everything else you mentioned, is by using Windows everywhere.

Yeah right. You have VM disk image with FreeBSD. Or had. Somewhere. Maybe.

If that was true, you would not post this crap, or anything at all, in this thread. If you are not a Microsoft fanboy, you are their shill.

And KDE is crap, too, right? And XFCE. Gnome2 was also some unusable crap that you could never use. And everything else, except glorious Windows...
Oh please, be honest, tell us how you feel about everything that is not your comfortable, intuitive Microsoft desktop.

VNC only performs better than X when used over high-latency lines, or if you have only seen X running on a live CD, with crippled drivers. Or, of course, if your "X" is actually some half-assedly done Windows-based X server.

Cost? Cost?????? Are you fucking insane?

If water is indeed contaminated, the amount of energy alone required for such a process' will exceed the amount of the energy produced. The only way any "cost" will be involved, is if one entity enriches itself by selling gas, while another, likely the public, will have to do the cleanup.

One can argue that on average the cost of keeping the probability of contamination low, and cost of cleanup multiplied by a probability of contamination would be still below the energy cost, even considering the possibility of the contamination, however what you said is pure nonsense, and it reveals complete ignorance of anything that determines "cost" of anything. Hint: it's not the amount of whining you have to perform for daddy to pay for a new car, or whatever the fuck you feel entitled to.

Then you are among those who will always complain about things that did not come from Microsoft.

...and shared memory.

Really, it's done already, and better than anything current "architects" can ever do.

Evidence?

That's because you used it as if it's PCAnywhere -- to run a single application, over a long, high-latency line. What is not what X11 is for (but X11-based NX is).

Why such obsession with the government? As bad as US government is, I have more trust in the worst of the government than the best of private businesses. Government at least has to be corrupt or controlled by nutty ideologues to be irresponsible (granted, this is often the case). But businesses have just as much power and none of the responsibility to begin with. Whatever responsibility they may have, is imposed by the government.

So no, as uncomfortable it may make me feel, I would rather trust a cop standing on a street corner with a camera pointing at me, than Google with storing recording of absolutely everything everywhere. And I like plenty of things that Google does.

You have to visibly hold a camera in front of you, to record.
I am sure, people would be just as much against a line of handbags or lapel pins with built-in cameras.

Especially considering that Pi would be a perfect example of a device that benefits from X11-style remote applications -- being based on a video decoder SoC, it has somewhat nice GPU but tiny CPU.