Just curious, have you compared it to other desktops? In particular I would be interested in knowing how it performs compared to Xfce and Awesome.

Nice graph. I always thought Android used Linux. Guess I was wrong.

I just recently got an N9 (after using an Android phone for about 2 years) and it's just an amazing phone (hardware *and* software wise). Maybe that would be an option for you, if you still manage to get one somewhere.

The difference is that if you're a (proper) democracy there might be a way to make a referendum. This tends to make politicians behave a little less like complete douchebags and sort-of forces them to take the people's opinion into consideration even after the elections.

But then, of course they'll just be "protecting" you, the country and the children from all those horrible thing on the interwebs so maybe it really doesn't make much of a difference.

I'm not sure that "most of us can agree [that these] should be illegal". Trying to outlaw that is usually accompanied by banning essential security tools like nmap, wireshark etc., tools that some of us actually need for "peaceful" purposes.

Because, you know, all your eggs, one basket, single point of failure etc.

I for one would love to lose my phone, cell and TV connection too whenever my ISP has one of their "little technical difficulties".

Not even Ford Timelord?

+1 Insightful.

"pretty damn good" doesn't mean "free of bugs" and compared to the binary ATi driver it works significantly better (at least for me), supports all the latest fancy stuff (KMS etc.) and generally just does its job without needing special attention – pretty much what I'd expect from a driver. That there are issues is unfortunate but happens to any piece of software (I still occasionally get a corrupted mouse pointer).

Which I said where exactly? Loving the attitude, btw.

Huh? The radeon driver is pretty damn good these days.

This, very much. Too bad I can't mod you.

I wouldn't necessarily blame this on the federalization, other countries (eg. Switzerland) seem to be doing reasonably well with a similar system. It would be interesting to see whether such a system could work throughout the EU and is IMHO a sine qua non for me to even consider joining that union.

Gah, sorry, I mis-modded your post and can't seem to find an undo button anywhere. I meant to choose "Insightful", not "Redundant".

Just posting to (hopefully) undo my moderation :)

Nice excuse. Too bad direct democracy works quite well in other places.