No, we just live in a civilized country.

Well
    A) Forced, are you forced to work?
    B) She was 12, I was talking about child labor.

Sometime around the age of 12 one of my children commented "I wish we were rich."

I stopped the car and turned around, "We are rich." I said

"Both your mother and I both earn enough money to have a house and a car. You are always clothed and fed, you never go to bed hungry and cold. You get to travel, play sports and get a good education. Nobody forces you to work, ever. You don't have to fetch water just to survive, morning noon and night"

"Remember that there are tens of millions of people around the world who have none of these things, and you have them all."

I turned around and continued driving.

Years later my daughter reminded me of the conversation and how it had triggered a kind of awakening.

Belling the cat

No disagreements, but would you honestly recommend Arch to lessor mortals?

I've been using Linux since 0.9 and even I can't be bothered with it.

I'm pretty sure that was his whole point... though perhaps point is stretching it bit. How about, yes, that's what he's whining about.

Was any part of that incorrect or misleading?

Package management is possibly a Debian based distributions greatest strength, however if you want to be on the bleeding edge it does handcuff you.

Similarly, try getting up to date versions of boost and ogre actually installed and be sure to report back so we can drink your tears.

Yes... I know, [citation needed]

*cough* Cambodia *cough*

It's called "smart dust", and the idea is anything but new.

That would be nice. We already know there's a special hell reserved for those who talk at the theater.

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, so yes more or less.

Sure enough

Trust the Canadian government to have a web page devoted to how not to freeze to death.

My understanding is that's the "core" temperature, and that extremities drop below that all the time, but I have not researched this at all.

... because what we always need is another standard.

I'm not saying that hobbyist 3D printers are useless, but like any tool their use should be selected against the other available tools.