I just want it in the sweet spot for forcing proper driver support and development targeting, but not so popular that it becomes a primary target for exploitation.

I was thinking the same thing.

Change and control. Why replace something that isn't broken? What necessitates this change? If there's no necessity, then what value are we seeing to prompt this change? All features and tests and comparisons aside we then get to the final bit, the control. A fair amount of control is lost by switching to a dynamic init system, and it quite simply, confuses a lot of old world admins. There are a lot of advantages to a dynamic init system, but configuring and maintaining it aren't one of them. I myself have spent my share of time lamenting the difficulty the init changes have made modifying what used to be a simple one line fix.

I don't suspect finances to be a sticking point for myself either. I enjoy what I do, and don't imagine that will change. There are things that make what I do less enjoyable, such as meetings, this years flavor of workflow management practices, project management, et al. However, there is satisfaction in building things, discovering new things, and a satisfaction in being a part of something that helps to improve peoples lives. Similarly, my father in his 60s has managed to find things to keep him busy and is continually teaching himself new things after work as his father before him. I don't expect my desire to work and learn to ever fade; just who, and what I work for.

This. I've all but given up warning my younger friends and colleagues. Wisdom is earned, not given after all.

Well the brand still exists, and i have to work on an hp elitebook; so im going to say the statement tests as false. Irrespective of trends in market and a conpanies direction changing.

From a parent with a child with CP who donated their cord blood (didn't know she had CP at the time) I would recommend you pay the cost up front to bank it, and if it's not needed by the time they are 2 or 3 then I would seek donation options. In the US all the places we have found that will treat with stem cells requires them to be from the patient as the donor. In other words it seems public donations go to research, not treatment. Hold it for a few years, hopefully you won't need it, then you can donate it.

The going rate is around $1 per 1000 solved catchpa.

The threat of terrorism is a lame excuse for mass surveillance.
Copyright protection is a lame excuse for mass surveillance.
Child porn is a lame excuse for mass surveillance.

The Olympics!? They're not even trying any more.

The world in 1984 is a global symmetric system.

You have some of the prerequisites for that system in place:
Perpetual war on X
A vast military-industrial complex to destroy the excess of human production.
Choice between two indistinguishable political ideals.

However the 1984 world is also in equilibrium. Once big brother exists, he will always have existed.
You're discounting the possibility of being conquered from without.

I call rule 34 on rule 34

The function requires an animation loop and event handler otherwise it does nothing. After that, it's way more than 140 bytes.

Right, the American legal system would only destroy someone's life if they wrote a circumvention for a copy-right protection system.