Is everybody stupid. XP is fast. Faster than all the current consumer grade PC OSes

True, if by "computationally expensive" you mean "we have to run this until the hardware breaks and starts executing our software non-deterministically".

Otherwise, true randomness in software is simply infeasible, because chip engineers deliberately design the hardware to eliminate non-determinism.

Always wanted to play with it, never wanted to spend the money.

Still waiting on a FOSS alternative.

[Citation needed.]

Oh shut up with that. People are getting crazy with the "citation" nonsense.

Which raises the question: why did Nissan design it to only pull 1KW from a slow enough 110V outlet when it was perfectly capable of delivering 1.5KW?

If someone makes an unsubstantiated claim, it is their responsibility to do the research and post the citation, not the 100,000 people reading the remark.

We just shoot them and then call the police. :-)

In Texas; you are actually required to call in the police now, instead of just the garbage pick-up company, when that happens?

... just remember that you have to empty a at least one 10 round pistol clip into the guy before you've hosed off five dollars worth of ammo.

And if you know those people you have also heard the stories about how ugly things got when the new accounting team forgot to pay the service contract

LOL, you know, I have never had an outage or problem like that from accountants forgetting to pay the bills.

Maybe your accountants suck? ;-)