Not needed, thanks. I've had enough exposure to enough platforms to know that they all have areas in which they suck equally.

They're excellent for web dev, because they're the only machines that are capable of running every browser.

Which would be great if the code they're writing needed to run on anything other than the Windows versions of IE, Firefox, and Chrome in a very homogeneous enterprise/industrial environment.

I have never seen one which came from the factory with two different sizes of battery terminal bolt.

Me either - I was talking about the bolts that fasten the battery cable brackets to the frame and engine block. :-)

and even when there are standard parts (such as tires), they use so many different sizes that you will be lucky to own two cars with the same tire format.

Even more annoying than that are the myriad of fastener sizes in both metric and standard. Why do I need 2-3 different sockets just to remove the battery cable brackets? Is there *really* a solid reason that one bolt has to be 14mm and the other 1/2"?

Yes, not all requests are reasonable(you need a color-calibrated monitor that covers at least 99% of aRGB to write code, why?)

Funny that you mention that - the guy running the web side of the house recently talked the boss into MacBooks for all of the web staff, along with a bunch of extended gamut displays. We do no OS X or iOS development whatsoever, nothing that involves having to ensure what's on the display is the same as on the printed page, and everyone else (the vast majority of our staff) works exclusively with MS tools on MS infrastructure, and our IT guy has been fighting for years to get something better than the T1 back to the home office. I don't get it.

At least we're allowed to have as many displays as our desktops will allow.

Look no further than Samuel L. Jackson, who's a talented individual, but came off as stiff and wooden in the Star Wars movies.

"Hand me my lightsaber."
"Which one is it?"
"It's the one that says 'Bad Mother Fucker" on it."

At least he had a sense of humor about it. He was pretty damned funny in the Robot Chicken parody.

and insisted on directing (the one of the six he didn't direct was by far the the best film of the lot).

Lucas didn't direct "Return of the Jedi" either - that was Richard Marquand.

"What is it?"

"Your father's HOSTS file. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight admin. Not as clumsy or random as a DNS server; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."

And that was with already having a much better headstart on her career than most, having been descended from Hollywood royalty.

For sure. Air is ordinarily very benign and quite necessary to sustain human life, but not so much when it's injected into a vein.

It's only 76 miles, so not quite "all the way across the country", but Virginia Beach's pipeline to Lake Gaston has worked out pretty well. It provides 60 million gallons/day, and so far none of the issues that people were clamoring about have cropped up.

Monsanto has been selling Roundup Ready sweet corn since 2011 through their Seminis subsidiary.

Always encouraging to see management failing to understand the sunk-cost fallacy.

Furthermore most of the squabbling over systemd seems to be about the fact that some people do not like that systemd gives you more control and flexibility over the startup process.

You appear to have misinterpreted what "most of the squabbling" is actually about.

who if they wanted to could simply tailor Debian to use their own init system, so if they dont like systemd, why dont they just put in their own init program after they install debian?

...and after they remove all of the dependencies on systemd from all of the non-init-related packages that are using it.