But the KDE port to Win8 is on it's way.

It's going to be mandated:

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/ecall-automated-emergency-call-road-accidents-mandatory-cars-2015

On an Apple product it would be called the iPanick button.

And have round corners.

In the nineties I had a friend working for a company that bought a lot of old Soviet geophysical data.

It needed some very special transcription technology but once in the clear and fed to modern 3D seismic software it revealed a lot more than the original reports gave.

Retaining old reports is nice, retaining old raw data even nicer.

Now I appreciate the US concept of distance is, especially for those from the mid-west, different to that of someone living in say Luxembourg or Belgium but to call the moon close is a bit of a stretch.
I mean, even with your low fuel prices such a 480,000 mi round trip might get expensive...

Please keep that 'Most Europeans' out of the story, heck, I bet that given the chance a lot of Greeks would happily have some holidays in the states.

Now that doesn't mean a lot of Europeans are happy with the recent (last ~15 years) US government's politics re. their 'friends'.

US$ 1.3639

UH, many of us Europeans are pretty sure it's Amazon that is threatening the existence of their own employees and by consequence, the future of the company in the EU.
A company that underpays their staff lowers their value and their own value within the national economy, if they close down there's very little, if any, of value lost.

So what you are telling us is the US hasn't changed it's government since the advent of Ronny Reagan (and his partner Maggie Thatcher).

As I replied a minute ago in another tread:
An important difference is in the EU no-one forces you to join a union, there is total Freedom of Association.

This meaning closed or union shops are illegal.

Unions can be on a company basis but are more likely based on a branch of industry, they usually subscribe to a national labour 'umbrella' organisation or federation of unions that'll do the dealings on a national political level, call it lobbying.
These national federations are again members of a pan-European group that'll do the lobbying in Brussels.

An important difference is in the EU no-one forces you to join a union, there is total freedom of association.

While in the US there are still places where closed or union shops are legal and in other states people remember the bad days of closed shop.

Very much living examples are the performing industry and the major sports leagues.

The US claims there is no obligation to ban this sort of racketeering yet it signed and ratified international labour treaties guaranteeing the 'Freedom of Association'

And that's the way it is in Europe in general and Germany in this specific case.

Closed shop or union shops are unknown and would be illegal because it would contravene the freedom of association, on the other side the employers have their freedom to ignore the unions and Amazon is testing that path.

I have my pop corn at hand. :)

Hmm, the Amazon employees have given the company plenty of time to get on the negotiating table with a fair offer, this isn't something of the last few weeks or even months.

You are clearly not from Europe, we have laws guaranteeing a 2 year warranty.

Not that there are companies going out of business and leaving you to dry.

Your last sentence is the gist of what was at the end of WWII known as the Marshal Plan, the then-USA figured they could keep going back to a feudal Europe once every generation to sort the infighting or help them set up an economy to support themselves and become a great trading partner for the US.