Well I think one of the causes for this is the insistence from upper management that open plan offices are a good idea and impose it on every one but themselves.

the result is that people need to find a quiet place from time to time to not be disturb so that they can concentrate on a specific task. And when putting headphones on, not answering email immediately and so on don't work any more because people just come by your desk and stand there until you give up and talk to them, the only solution is to simply not be there!

If there is enough dynamic range information in the original raw file (these days modern pro/semi pro easily do) , it is also very possible that this was an HDR style manipulation from a single exposure.

You are right though that this look very much like an HDR

It is more than that. Apple actually owns CUPS. They bought it in 2007

Well yes it counts but not in the right way. As in it makes no difference if your BMI is 40 and you are all muscle or if you are all fat, . In both cases you are labelled obese and this is wrong. There is nothing scientific or medical about the BMI. it is just a meaningless made-up value created to dispense the medical professionals from actually doing their job and save money at the expense of the patients. It is much easier and cheaper to say, "your BMI is too high, go on a diet before I actually check you up... next!"

Well not quite, the new Slackware64 is not currently multilib. It puts the 64bit lib in /usr/lib64 to allow the user to add 32bit libs in /usr/lib if required but does not contain any 32bit libs itself.

I suspect a procedure that would work would be something along the lines of:
1) install (not upgrade) the new 64bit kernel
2) install (not upgrade) glibc-solibs
3) reboot using the new 64bit kernel in init 1
4) upgrade tar and pkgtools packages
5) upgrade every thing.
6) do some clean-up
7) reboot

Disclaimer: this is not tested, use at your own risk:-) This is not an exhaustive list and one probably should make sure to user the huge kernel as mkinitrd may not create the right image until every thing is installed. This may cause an issue for people using software RAID and/or LVM on their / mount point

True, Slackware updates are fairly simple these days and tools like slackpkg make life even simpler (or more boring depending on your point of view).

However upgrading from a 32bit to a 64bit distro is quite different, especially when the 64bit version is not multilib. As soon as the glibc-solibs package gets upgraded things will stop working (the libs will be 64bit and the leftover binaries such as tar will be 32bit).