Let me rephrase it: "Higher education should be for the rich only".

There's a difference between natural disasters and man-made ones.
If anything, Fukushima thought us we shouldn't build nuclear plants in an earthquake zone (I know, all Japan is, this should push us towards better international cooperation, in a perfect world).

Dicks on the moon.

Can I call my distro Ubuntu-derived, but not supported by Canonical?

No, it's community stranglehold under the disguise of trademark protection.
Of course, if I started a distro called The Better Redhat I'd have lawyers knocking down my door by dinner time, but if I called it, say, CentOS and declared it derived from RHEL but not officially endorsed by Redhat, I'd be just fine. Now that you cannot do with Ubuntu right now, or anyway the details are shady enough I'd not risk it.

+1 genius

It's called "phalloides" for a reason...

Went with my wife to see Much Ado About Nothing, noticed that the theatre's booking/ticketing system ran on an old version of Fedora with Gnome 2. Might be because the theatre is just next to Milan's Polytechnic...

Why not trying having the tiniest clue on what the hell you're talking about?

Ok, how about pulling examples more relevant to the century we live in?

Because Chewbacca.

XP security support is about to finish and after that it'll likely become a malware gangbang.

You're describing the American mobile market, things in Europe work very differently: most people buy a SIM-free phone and then use the operator they wish. Phone contracts cover only a very limited part of the market (iPhones, mostly).

That sounds reasonable, but it doesn't explain why the European nation with the biggest weight problem (UK) seems unaffected.

Exactly, that's why tropical areas enjoy such a healthy life!