I've used both, and other distros, and other Unixes. I don't keep on using Ubuntu just because their leaflets and CDs are shinier. I keep using it because it has less hassles, less fanbois and is more usable.

Not wasting a weekend configuring shit because it already works is a freedom.

Not finding fanbois ready to discuss that "apt is better than rpm, therefore your not debian distro sucks" for hours is a freedom.

Downloading an iso with easy instructions from a polished website, or actually having a CD come to my address for free is a freedom.

Having the system work with most of what I need in a usable configuration in half an hour is a freedom.

Do you need any more freedoms that explain why do I use Ubuntu over Debian?

Apparently, to promote your own distro with your money is a grave misdeed. Fuck me, no, it is not. Sorry you feel suckered into having been their PR, but hey, at least someone started using Linux.
Oh, and responding with 'but all Ubuntu adds over Debian is polish' will get an eye roll. Yes, it might be 'all' it adds. It's still something that Debian hasn't managed to add in years. And it's quite a lot.

So the developers left the project for better money and it's his fault for offering them jobs? Fascinating!

You're not helping your case. Is it so hard to point out what the evil was in offering money for jobs? Was the SABDFL all evil like and cackling when he said "Help me DOOM Debian and you'll get 30 silver coins each! BWAHAAHAHA"?

"He"'s killed Debian? Sorry, but he didn't point guns at anybody to get users and developers. Build a better Debian, don't give us the "it's all Shuttleworth's fault, waaaa!" crap.

... And you'd be skewing the results another way. Part of the thing is watching good teams play. When thinking about an exciting world cup match, "North Korea vs Uzbekistan" does not come to mind. Good teams mostly come from Europe, or South America. Granted, the level of play in the last few world cups has been really shoddy, but still, using the 'let's assign slots using only population metrics' is completely absurd.

"Say hello to my little friend" was Cuban.

The title 'Presidente' although not exactly correct for him (the current Italian president is Giorgio Napolitano) is usually informally attributed to the Premier too. So the GP is sort of right.

I don't think he was talking about a 'legal' religion. Downloading for free something that you should be paying to acquire is morally wrong. It might not be theft, but it's certainly stealing.

There shouldn't be a debate about drinking and driving. It's just plain stupid. Even if you mean 'a debate about the maximum quantity of alcohol you can take before driving', which by now is a pretty much solved problem everywhere.

Oh, and between an epidemic of measles, pox or rubella that wipes off half of the country, and a statistical nullity of children with autism, I'd choose the latter. Call me callous.

If they are using their spam box emails to communicate with possible employers, I'd say they deserve all they get.

Or maybe I'm an idiot, and don't get sarcasm. Sorry.

Of course, the matter of all the people changing into those clothes - and putting away their own clothes, and putting them back again - is irrelevant. No mention of the facilities that would allow dozens or hundreds of people to change at the same time in time for their flights. Nevermind the distribution and recovery of the uniforms. Nor the fact that your own clothes would go with you on the hand baggage, which puts your 'security solution' back at square -20.

Seriously, think things through before posting. The article speaks against exactly this 'security theatre' kind of half-assed bullshit.

Edit -> Paste As -> New Image (Or Ctrl-Shift-V) could be interesting for you, then.

You do realize that if photoshop was somehow available as an OS/FS package for Ubuntu, it still wouldn't go in the Ubuntu CD for the exact same reasons cited for GIMP?

"the UI is too complex, it takes up room on the disc, and 'desktop users just want to edit photos and they can do that in F-Spot.'"

Those same reasons are valid for PS.

It just sounds really implausible to me that somehow lawyers cannot actually work in Schenectady because the laws aren't published. Over here, laws aren't binding until published in the official bulletin, which you can find at least in the Library of Congress (no, this is not the USA).

Maybe you cannot find a single volume updated to yesterday, but I find it much easier to believe everything is available somehow (and no, I don't necessarily think they should be free, though at least you could go to a library).

By your own quote, even if he actually found the disk he wanted, it would then be outdated immediately.

Lastly, the problem you mention in your latest post isn't particular to this issue, but to every congress and law body that hasn't got an immediate transcription of the law available on the web.