I just sent him an email telling him that we need to ban curtains because obviously only people that murder other people in their living rooms have any use for curtains. So if you support having curtains, you are supporting mass-murderers.

Now I'm worried that this analogy is too complex for him to grasp.

For the same reason that I feel compelled to correct people if they happen to insult / mock someone close to me (such as my mother). I think that it is a human affection thing. If my mother isn't around then there is no harm done right?

I am not saying that I agree that the law needs to get involved here. It is very mean and certainly without class to mock my mother but there shouldn't be a law against it. In my opinion this is the same for mocking someone's beliefs or core figures of said beliefs. However, not understanding how that can be offensive is willful ignorance.

Where does it say that?

Oh no. My wall of text comment was of two purposes. One to point out that you posted a giant wall of text. I was mocking your format not the content. I didn't bother to read it. Second point was to see if I could look more inane than you. I don't think I did.

Also, how in the world did you come up with all that text in 15 minutes?! I am astounded, alarmed and slightly impressed. I didn't read it or anything but that is a long chunk of text!

I don't understand why they don't just send it to a crime scene investigators lab to have the image made crystal clear and so that we can view the asteroid at more angles.

I feel along with the sentiment. I do not look forward to putting Unity on my parents' computer but in my opinion there are a few changes that can be made to make it more friendly. First, remove the global menu bar, unless your users come from a Mac OS X background, it's not worth the retraining. Second change the backlight always on option in ccsm to toggle so it is easy to see when an application is running. I have big hopes for this alternate application launcher: https://launchpad.net/unity-lens-bliss

The overlay scrollbars have seen improvements in the last release. They don't bother me but I really never touch them anyway since I just scroll with my mouse. To remove them, copy and paste this into your terminal: sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar liboverlay-scrollbar3-0.2-0 liboverlay-scrollbar-0.2-0

I can understand why you would dislike the global menu on a desktop. To remove them, copy this into your terminal: sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt

There have been some very nice changes made to the application launcher. In my opinion, the top one of these is performance improvement but there are also other changes that make it easier to use such as seeing only applications from certain categories.

I recommend that you try it and then come back here and post about the success or failure of the latest Ubuntu release. Trying it out would lend more credibility to your stated opinion.

I don't hate it either. In fact, the only thing that I don't like about it is the application launcher but it's performance has improved a lot from where it was in 11.04. I really do hope that all the people complaining about Unity have tried the version that got released today and are not just basing their opinion on an old version.

If you want to read an eyewitness's account of what allegedly happened, then go read the book The Day After Roswell by Phillip Corso. I haven't read it but apparently it's interesting.