Can you please show an example of indentation that's not "guido's way" and would not be accepted by Python?

If you think that's bad, take a look at the people who are currently in charge of US health care.

If you click a .jpeg file, even if it is marked executable, I don't think any Linux file browser I know would execute it. At worst, it would prompt you about executing it. Usually, it would just use MIME-type (based on extension or content) to view as an image.

Isn't it extremely slow?

1990's called, they want IE's find dialog back.

That's the wrong question. The right question is who owns the corporations. And that's not the taxpayers. At least not substantially.

Corporations, especially large ones, find ways to avoid paying most of the taxes they should.

You are naive.

By better security model, do you mean:

User clicks "Please do X".
Computer pops up asking: "User, is it really you who clicked 'do X'?"

I find UAC ridiculous.

What's the problem with trademark laws?

You realize that even if the patent system makes no distinction between software and hardware patents, it still makes sense to yell about software patents, because giving patents on software is fucking stupid?

Sounds horrible to those of us who don't regularly support users :-)

I guess if you have "apt" installing a VNC client is not so bad, so I'm not sure I appreciate the advantages that much...