A train schedule leaving London and going to Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Warsaw, Kiev, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, etc. would be difficult to plan without [time zones]

I don't see that. If you know it takes the train 90 minutes to go between London and Paris, another 2 hours to Berlin, and a further 3 hours to Moscow, what difference does the presence or absence of time zones make in terms of scheduling that service?

Looks like they're already rotated daily.

Anyway by my understanding it wasn't the logs that caused the problem, they just demonstrate the extent of the sudden increase in requests by bots/scrapers.

But when you arrive in the UK they will ask you "why are you coming here?" and if you answer "I live here, my life is here, my job is here, my family are here" and present a US passport with no UK visa or other documents showing permission to reside in Britain they're going to start asking a lot more questions.

You keep talking about "safely" running these programs. What is the threat that you are trying to protect yourself against? Are you concerned that your unofficial copy of the program may contain malware, are you worried that the copyright owners may try to find you (via IP address perhaps?) and prosecute, or what.

And for the love of gods please don't think too hard about how they get baby oil the next time you're in the toiletries aisle.

I think I agree. The actual main building of Liverpool Street Station has been so hidden by all the other developments in that part of the City over the decades that it's largely invisible anyway.

Christmas is officially over.

Yes and no to all of those reasons, and many others.

There isn't a right or wrong way to install/use Linux. As the saying goes "you do you". If going through the Arch learning curve doesn't appeal to you, don't do it. If you're the sort of person whose curiosity sometimes leads them to do silly things that aren't necessarily logical but that you find enormously fun and satisfying, then maybe go for it.

Hopefully you didn't, because it's supposed to go off at 3pm today (Sunday)

You do realise that Greggs is the McDonalds of bakeries? Their goal is to sell mass-produced food at a very low price. It's tasty but if you're comparing it to any kind of small independent bakers it's not even in the same ballpark.