Considering Mandrake is a comic character, that's quite an achievement! ;)
But you're right, it was because of a lawsuit from the Hearst Corporation (their comic subsidiary also holds the rights to The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Popeye and a ton of other classic stuff).

Oh, yes, because the Debian releases sound so much more mature, right?

Get your head out of your ass before you step on your soapbox.

I simply don't keep track of all the distros out there because I have decided on ones I prefer.

Same here, though it's probably because I personally prefer the Debian area of the Linux family tree (currently Mint (Xfce) on Desktops and Debian on servers).

Bloomberg made his money off the finance industry and he's in politics.
Trust him when he says that the world will never run out of assholes.

^^ It's more of a company tradition.

Most of those people aren't "anti-Europe" either. They're just against the bureaucratic cancer the "EU" has become.

Since you don't even have the slightest idea what you're talking about, do us both a favor and go back to play with your sand molds.

And what has how the major parties have become a US-like collection of corrupt scum where only the name on the door is different have to do with the fact that the German Pirate Party has turned into its own parody?

When all the nutjobs came streaming into the party it basically imploded.

Nowadays they're basically just arguing over gender equality (the usual feminazis turned it from a valid objective into an insane obsession), basic income guarantees (without any idea beyond "money for nothing") and useless infighting by some self-obsessed idiots.

At the same time they're getting ass-raped by the government (new laws, selling out people's right to privacy and presumption of innocence more and more with every new week) and corporations (e.g., Deutsche Telekom's online branch recently laid the groundwork for a move away from actual flatrates to throttling beyond ridiculously outdated volume caps even though there's no technical need for it) and they don't even notice it because they've long since left behind their original goals.

Nowadays, they mainly just post press releases online where nobody but their own people will read them and they make themselves obsolete by outdoing the fringe wings of other parties.

When they do show up in the press it's members' dirty laundry dragged into the public, party-sponsored gender equality "discussion" events where you first have to sign that you won't support any opinions other than what the event organizers (the party's feminist fringe) deems acceptable (they even kicked a rather active member of the party out of the event because he dared to disagree) and inquiries whether the city state of Berlin is ready for the zombie apocalypse. But, my favorite example is a recent "online protest" where they met in some obscure voice chat to demonstrate against some cause in a place where absolutely nobody even gives a shit.

As a former supporter, I nowadays actually hope for someone to nuke that sorry mess from orbit so something useful can take its place again.
Right now, what they've become is pretty much their own worst enemy.

Now that the German one has turned into a complete waste of time (taken over by all the nutjobs the Greens, Left Party and others were only too happy to get rid of) it's nice to see at least one country make more progress in the original direction.

Won't it be more like Oracle's next lead security guys for Java?

True, there's no need to degrade monkeys and put them on the same level as politicians.

I'm sure there's a joke about the catholic church somewhere in there.

Gave it a try and already lost interest again before any video even had a chance to start.

The German page didn't have any content, the US page wanted me to install Microsoft's Silverlight (was kinda surprised to see that this stuff is even still in use) and then ran into a region block.

Germany will most likely only get some dubbed versions with the usual delay (even their streaming services over here usually don't include access to the original audio for US-made content) and after that Silverlight crap I've already lost the interest necessary to get me to activate the proxy options.

Congratulations! You managed to completely miss the point.