Hi Shuttleworth, you forgot to log in :)
I can see why you are afraid of Kubuntu but at least you recognised KDE is better than Unity.

Exactly!
That's why I carefully selected my ISP and mail provider, I can choose to receive all mail, including what is spam for others.
Now the problem is that a very large part of the world's population has selected Google (gmail) for mail and Facebook and Twitter for their information, dumb, yes but that's the present situation. (for dumb people).
It's similar to watching Fox News and declaring you're watching the news.

In the Free World but not in the USofA.
Around my ways we even have Freedom of Information!

There's nothing wrong with proprietary software as long as it is declared a such and we understand free software is better.

Although I've been running Kubuntu for over 10 years now and Linux (RH) since the late nineties I've never had a reason to visit this Ubuntu store, Muon (acces to the repositories) has most I want.

Quote from TFA:

Now that is wrong by any Linux and FS standard.

Another quote from TFA:

Duuuhhhh, only a minority of people speak English, yes it is since the end of WWII the De Facto Lingua Franca of this world but why the hell would we translate everything in English?

Yes there are reasons to promote Free Software and this shop is clearly not doing it's part as seen from the Free Software movement.
But hey, it's run by a commercial entity, what else do you expect?
B.t.w, I'm more upset about the way Ubuntu (Shuttleworth) has recently been treating Jonathan Ridell and by proxy Kubuntu and KDE.
http://jriddell.org/2015/05/26...

An interesting question, it's not likely by the number of kilometres of cable but possibly more by the number of switches.

A recent observation, Skype calls over 10 time zones and via a VPN to home were (a lot) better than without the VPN.
And yet that VPN connection must have been going over similar cables and interchanges.

As a European at hart and born I am sorry to say you are wrong.
But there is some truth, European law is usually more in favour of the individual than what we see in the USofA and the UK.

Very few governments would be able to get away with spying programs like it is happening in the Anglo-American circus.
One difference is their legal system was not affected by the French revolution.
And both the the Brits and Americans believe that because they live behind a moat they are somewhat special and this needs additional protection.
Yes this is medieval thinking.

For most continental Europeans this notion of neutrality was destroyed first by Napoleon and later by the likes of Stalin and Hitler.

Sure, and some of them hate it.

That's in their genes, there's a reason 1984 and Bletchley Park are placed in England and James Bond is British.

Oh really? :)
Hint, you are delusional.

It looks like you don't need to be either to be a fool...

Because it is fine for casual talk.
Just don't use it for sensitive political, business and lawyer subjects.

Sure, but then Linux with all it's variations is all but a monopoly.

They should make the source available via an ftp server, much cheaper than this fancy Brussels center and then you get the 'many eyes' advantage too.
B.t.w, in part of Brussels it's likely called a 'centre'.

Because it is in the non-metric systems so illogic.
In a metric culture all, even the girls, know this 1 Kg per liter or 1 ton per m3 thing.

I was waiting for some doofus to come up with this non-argument, over the years it has happened in every discussion on the subject.

You won the price :)

It's the simple conversions between length, area, volume and weight that makes the Metric system so nice.
Take a 10 by 2.5 meter tank that's 1m80 deep and it's trivial to calculate what the weight of the water content is.
45 ton.

Once you start using it metric (and SI) are so easy.
1 x 1 x 1 meter is a cubic meter, fill it with water and it weighs 1000 Kg. or 1 ton.
The SG of oil is about 0.8 so a cubic meter of oil weighs 800 Kg.

A 250 ml bottle (quarter liter) contains 250 grams or a quarter Kilo water.
A 10 meter column of water gives a pressure of 1 Kg/cm2, at 1 Km. depth water will give you 100 Kg/cm2
Etc, etc, etc.

Compare this to a bushel of wheat that's in weight incomparable to a bushel of corn or soy beans...

Hmm, over here in The Netherlands a lot of the lumber used (and still does) came from North America, most of our constructions (like kitchens) are based on multiples of 60 cm.

Sheet stuff is sold in multiples of 30 cm, same for lengths.
A 2x4" is sold as 44x94 mm. because that is the actual size.

I've never seen this conversion as problematic.