Ego.

Might have been trying to say "goku". That would make GP super-saiyan.

Welcome.

SysV init is really quite simple. Just a few minutes playing around with it on a system and you'll get the hang of it. First off, there are several run-levels. Let's focus on just one run-level for now since most people only ever edit one (they'll use run-level 0: shutdown, and run-level 6: reboot, unknowingly). Within each runlevel directory (let's choose /etc/rc5.d/) are symlinks that point to the scripts in /etc/init.d/, and these symlinks are named with S for start or K for kill, followed by a number for the order they should be executed in, followed by the script name (for readability's sake; it doesn't need anything beyond the S/K##). When starting or ending a run-level (booting/shutting-down), init goes through the simlinks in order and runs the init scripts they point to with either "start" or "stop" as parameters. The scripts handle the peculiarities of the various daemons, and act as an easily configurable startup mechanism that allows the sysadmin to fine-tune things. For example, if a server's system clock fails, ntpd will refuse to update because the clock-skew is too great ("2014!? But it's currently 2002 according to the system clock."). So, a sysadmin can write a little hack for ntpdate at the beginning of the "start" function in ntpd's init script. Mind you, this is a poor example, but easier to explain than any I could come up with quickly.

Editing init scripts is the exception, but because it happens enough times, the scripts should exist as a rule. Scripts allow for high-configurability while keeping some level of separation. The things ntpd does on startup could be parameters, and even the above ntpdate functionality (which is considered bad form in the ntp world: trusting the network time too greatly) could be compiled into the ntp daemon. But who wants to include every hack every sysadmin comes up with for their own environments in the main codebase for ntpd? And who amongst all the sysadmins wants to recompile ntpd for every change and essentially maintain their own fork? Not to mention the differences between distributions for configuration file locations, log files, etc. It's much easier to use scripts as that happy medium where sysadmins can edit without need for constant recompiles.

Why not one big super-script then...

...this violates the separation principle. And would be slightly annoying too. It's easier to handle the individual scripts for their respective daemons than it is to isolate the section that is needed, and as pointed out before, a mere list of executable paths isn't enough, even with parameters; not configurable enough. Let's say you make a change on server 1's init script for ntpd. Now you want to copy that configuration to all 10,000 servers you have. Easy-peasy for a specialized init-script (assuming they're all the same distro and version): just copy the file to every machine and restart ntpd. But with a monolithic script, if you copy it to every machine, you'll be copying entries for daemons that the other servers might not have, or worse: removing entries for vital daemons on the target servers. Keeping them separate is best. Just as keeping them highly configurable is best.

H-bombs are fairly net positive. Slightly uncontrolled, but it's a start.

"Flight is a scientific impossibility." - Dr. Cornelius, Archaeologist.

That has been Marvel's secret since they first started. Marvel has always been about the human side of the masks.

And created Harley Quinn from whole cloth.

Who knew Shaquille Oneal could act? The only thing I don't get was he also played Steel.

The internet isn't some zone that is free from libel and slander laws just because "it's on a computer."

They could just take all of their DC Animated Universe stories and convert them to live action. The writers for the DCAU seem to know how to grab a comic book audience. The DC live action movie writers don't want to make a fun comic book movie. They want to make a work of art based on a comic book series.

Some great uncles of mine were on the beach at Normandy. One of them got a blueprint copied directly from his entire left leg. He survived, but only because a quick thinking medic was able to replace it with a pin-up from the landing craft. He still gets compliments on that leg.

"Unlikely contagious" is an acceptable risk for a lesser disease, one that doesn't usually kill its host. But she and the CDC should have recognized that even a slight risk of spreading this thing is unacceptable. She should have quarantined herself.

Even worse: she's a nurse. She felt there was a chance she might have Ebola, so much that she called the CDC. She didn't err on caution. Forget the CDC's (non)answer. She knew what she was doing was risky. Even if no one gets infected, she had better talk to a lawyer about all the "mental anguish" lawsuits she'll soon be subjected to.

Apparently you are missing something because while common practice, it's not ubiquitous. And like all common practices, it gets spoken of less and less until new developers reinvent the wheel and decide they want passwords in plain text to make password recovery 'easier' ("click on the http link in your email and you'll see your password!")

Except that the human brain can separate out words as atomics rather than the parts that make up their whole. This makes remembering a string of a small number of truly random words easy to remember.
Demiurgic precompel Pediculicidal superimpersonally trichromate Voq
increep Sporodochium impassioning Winesburg Spicknel bacon-and-eggs
Are those really so impossible to remember? The biggest problem is when someone starts using sporodochium in casual conversation a lot, you know it's part of their new random passphrase or they started a word-of-the-day calendar.