You are free to hate Unity, but what's that "without giving people any real option"? You can always apt-get any DE or WM you like, or switch to any other distro while taking your data with you. Options galore.

Like the cat.

Good for me. I was once afraid that I'd become dispensable when I get old (i.e., any time now). Not anymore, the way we are going I'll be able to choose my jobs until I die just because I can read.

It's on AXN in Germany, a premium channel most people don't have. At least they have an English audio channel, which is usually not available when a show airs on a German channel (just adding this for those who have no first-hand experience on the horrors of dubbing on German TV).

Your are changing the argument. In the post I replied to you had said, "no promise of a delivery date". The target date seems a promise of a delivery date: "expected delivery in May 2014". And what's your recourse? You could check with indiegogo.

Your cut is to get something you want that otherwise may never see the light of day. It carries a risk like every investment.

The date is right there on the indiegogo page. Vaporware maybe, but you could say that for nearly every crowdsourced project.

I'd be surprised if they make their goal (though it was a good effort anyway), no, you cannot safely assume that.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/08/want-to-try-ubuntu-touch-on-your-phone-were-almost-there/

Music.

Exactly. If app x has the option to let me send something to users in my address book (and which app hasn't), I understand that it will need access to the address book. That still does not tell me whether it will use that access to send all my contacts to its server.

I know all that, but that does not change the fact that they can't change important parts of the specs willy-nilly, like the guy I replied to suggested.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm

Yeah, that sentence is one of the scariest things I've read in a while.

So they are actually exactly like a pure libertarian or even anarchic state.

I intended to write a lengthy post about how random people are not the number one threat I perceive when using may smartphone. But the AC said it with 5 words.