Do 4 or 6 plug-ins hanging from each car? Don't see that happening any time soon.
Like a cow on a milking machine.
XP was fast as hell until you patched it up to SP3.
I'm with you. Nowadays I run XP SP2 as it comes off the CD with zero updates and no network or internet access in VirtualBox on Mint 17 for the occasions I must. (COM port behaviour with Wine can be iffy.) SSD and 16 Gigs of ram and it boogies. SP2 to SP3 made the wheels fall off.
Basically, when you give up the certainty of Romanticism and Religion, you need to fill the void with something in order to give life meaning and direction, or else there'll be this big empty spot where your heart used to be.
Good example of that is when Japan lost WW2 and the people came to realise that the emperor was NOT the invincible descendant of the Shinto sun god. For many it was a great dissapointment and they kinda fell into a hole for a while. Many replaced this devotion to a religious emporer figure with devotion to a secular job. Japan then rose and rose.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.