'2. All of Infocom's text adventures.'

Text adventures are still being produced. The Interactive Fiction Archive has many old and new games. Many are very good.

Why aren't heavy trucks and other commercial vehicles included?

'The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries...'

Name them.

True, but this seems to apply to all large scale power generation, whether it's land for hydro or windmills (and screw the people living there who have to put up with it or move) or cash for nuclear. To say nothing of externalizing the environmental costs.

It's called subsidizing (if you disagree with it) or incentivising (if you do).

"Difficult tasks are potential bug generators..."

So are easy tasks; it can be surprising how much of a bug generator is complacency.

Why, yes. People are normally much happier when they are at a comfortable temperature.

Hopefully, new graduates would work to protect us from GCHQ and the ilk.

Make a mini-grow-op.They'll never flag the extra power used for lamps.

Mac is the CEO's hot, airhead secretary (AA) who drinks double mocha lattes with extra cream and thinks her magnetic bracelet will cure her cold.

Windows is the fuckup team member (nephew of the chairman of the board) whose output is so bad that build scripts were developed to automatically remove his code.

But, is it turtles all the way up?

It's a good point, but the problem is to recognize the good one amongst all the bad ones. A bad one slipping through could cost even more lives.

How well does this work for randomized keypad layouts?

I think that you've come up with the only benefit so far. Congratulations.