Sad to say but these days that is a real possibility.

Why do we, a supposedly intelligent species, make war rather than cooperate ? If you think that I am naive - please explain.

and his push for coal quite so much if the pollution so caused would stay within the borders of the USA so that only Americans suffer climate and health problems caused by the orange idiot's stupidity. Unfortunately this is fantasy: we all share this planet and it's atmosphere so we all suffer pollution elsewhere.

need do nothing more. They appear to have outsourced the problem to Microsoft.

Those are problems of yesteryear. Yes: you can still find examples but by and large plug and play just works.

It depends on who's you are talking about, not all users have the same requirements.

Most home users just want to do a little word processing and use the web - the web is how they access email - Linux has been able to support that perfectly for over a decade; the users will never need to use the command line. Other things like music playing and picture editing work well as well. Yes the user will need to do a bit of learning but that is quickly done.

Corporate office environments often have specific requirements but a high proportion will work nicely. I have news for you: you do not need to achieve 100% transition; pick the low hanging fruit and migrate harder ones later, some never will move.

All computer systems can be hard so you will need access to someone who can get under the hood. This is true for Linux, MS Windows, Mac or anything else. It is true for home and office use. So find someone. I support several like this, few issues - the last one was "I have forgotten my password", a universal problem.

The hard part of a move to Linux is doing it for the first time. Once done and the fear of the unknown has been conquered it all becomes much easier.

The car owners could be out of pocket for all sorts of reasons; will they be paid ?

* Did not get to the theatre, so unused tickets - not just the owner but others in the car.
* Missed a flight, so:
** booked & paid for hotel accommodation lost
** missed cruise ship leaving port
** missed your 60th birthday party to which 100 friends attended, most having travelled a long way, stayed in hotels, ...
* frozen food spoiled as it thawed on the way back from the shop
* 5 y/old daughter stranded at school, she was traumatised, money will not help - what will they do ?
* missed a child's wedding, how do they compensate ?

Jeep will do its best to avoid any compensation and will not pay anything to third parties who lost because of their blunder.

When you wrote the fossils were you referring to the fuel type or the car drivers ?

The sound of cards, clothes pins & wheel spokes will come for free - as standard. If you want it to sound like a V8 you will have to pay an upgrade fee -- prolly annually.

Correct: applications first. Also accept that you might not get 100%, there may well be a few that only run is MS Windows and you will not be able to find an equivalent that runs on Linux. That is fine, do not let perfect be the enemy of good. Once ISVs that only support MS Windows see a large number of potential clients that run Linux they will put the effort in to support Linux as well.

Migrating file formats to openly documented ones is another important initial goal.

My thoughts exactly: I have nothing to do with Microsoft, its products or services. How does it know that I do not want my face to be recognised ? The only way that it can get it right is opt-in of registered users only -- that will never happen just as AI companies will not respect copyright.

and backup sensitive information like this into someone else's cloud. Yes it might be easier but you are just inviting trouble.

Just asking for a friend.

A company cannot always expect to poach someone fully trained from another company - especially when the skill is a new one. Training is an investment that will pay off -- depending on how much of a bubble AI turns out to be.

Expecting someone to work 7 days/week is stupid - a good way of causing burn out. The staff may physically be there 7 days/week but where will their minds be ?

Speaking as a Brit I find it astounding that there seem to be so few controls on gun use in the USA. Yes: I know what the second amendment is but surely it is time that this was retired. An Internet outage is hardly important but 4.43 deaths per 100k is huge, you are not the worse but up there.