My neighborhood (suburb of Washington DC, near NASA Goddard) has underground utilities.
We have lost power for maybe 12 hours total over the past 30 YEARS.
When there's a lot of wind and rain, we sometimes lose power for seconds, maybe tens of seconds. Outages of more than a minute are extremely rare.
That's why the FIOS box, the routers, and the most important desktop are on small UPS units - primarily to avoid losing work.

Nearby neighborhoods with above ground lines lose power approximately annually, sometimes for days.

3. Download it off a torrent site, wait to get threatened by the copyright owner, show them proof that you purchased the product. If they sue you anyway, counter-sue both the copyright owner and Sony for conspiracy to defraud. Ask for seven figures on account of their vexatious litigation.

In OSS there's a certain desperation for quality code where a lot of bullshit has historically been tolerated.

In the comment you posted at the top of this thread, you talked about servers, desktops, and mobile devices. Now you want the conversation to be only about desktops.

Extreme? Not in my opinion.

Swappable batteries seem to make sense for city cars, otherwise they don't really work out. It would perhaps work better if we built space frame vehicles, but unibody is actually superior for overall user experience, especially in NVH.

On one hand, you raise good points, and on the other hand they don't apply to automotive traction batteries. Battery packs are chassis structural members.

Guess you forgot that we totally fucked up Iran

We have to both be thinking of TNG and later because in TOS the primary interface is physical controls and most readouts aren't screens.

In TNG the primary interface for casual use is verbal, but there are displays everywhere and it's common for people to ask for something to be displayed on them, and the primary interface for technical activities is touch screens.

Israel consistently breaks every cease fire. You won't have to wait long.

Oh, did Naziyahoo stop sending them money?

They expect people to not know, and they are taking advantage of them. You are forgetting that the average person knows how fucking nothing works.

I'll go ahead and accept those percentages, but only with the caveat that this reality is based on the pervasive, dominant paradigm of not questioning authority.

Because around half the country either doesn't believe that's happening or is in favor of it happening, and "their" side is in control.

Read the 13th and tell us which one we are