Dumb to do homework on...
Dumb in general considering the expense...

The truth is, the following is all that is required for a first class education.

1. Teacher, knowledgeable in subject, good communication skills.
2. Textbook, high quality, long on information, short on bullshit.
3. Student, appropriately prepared with pencil, paper, eraser, good breakfast optional but recommended.
4. Desk, comfort may vary.

Anything else just gets in the way.

...only God must be a little deaf.

They're starting to make theater seats the same dimensions as coach seats.

Is this a meme?

I suspect that's because you don't get pulled over for it.

In my state it is supposedly a ticketable offense to drive in the left lane on multilane highways without intent to pass. So far, I know of only one person who ever got pulled over for it. Same with not using turn signals. Police on traffic patrol always go for the big fish revenue-wise when it comes to ticketing, and that has always been speeding. Pulling people over for presumably lesser revenue offenses means time wasted pursuing the bigger fish.

So pardon me if I treat the results with a little skepticism.

Clear evidence.

I use it to play games off disk, period. Since the BD no longer functions, that's pretty much bricked for me.

You are also talking about the Gilded Age if you don't know it, at least in reference to what's going on economically now. Noblesse oblige is a concept in which the rich, the tycoons, the aristocrats, the upper 1%'ers gave back to the society from which they took so much, usually in the form of higher wages for their employees or through charitable act to the community at large. This was not so much out of any altruistic sense, but rather the idea that they cannot continue to be affluent if the society at large suffers. The Gilded Age that followed bears a striking resemblance to the "race to the bottom" capitalism that exists now, that somehow there will always be cheaper labor, there will always be shelters from tax, there will always be room for growth, and people should consider themselves lucky that they have a job.

Not surprisingly... the Gilded Age was followed by the Great Depression.

It should probably go.

1. Not me
2. Not you
3. Not the guy down the street
4. No one at all
5. Nobody
6. Never in a million years to anyone.
7. Who the fuck comes up with this shit?

Wait... OK, so there's the word trust... and very nearby there is "insurance company". Hmm. It looks like I'm going to have to double up on idiot pills to fit in today.

Windows does precisely this. It tries to hide behind the whole Home vs. Professional vs. Ultimate, but really it's one Windows distribution.

The whole point of multiple distributions is to target different markets and needs. What might be a good idea is to find out where distro overlap occurs and consolidate based on that need, but to get behind one single distribution that "fits all" sounds like a recipe for a piping hot cup of fail.