You also don't find USA-levels of greenhouse-deniers in Japan, South-Africa or India.

USA is however much more important for the climate than Ghana. Thus the harm caused by misinformed americans is much bigger than it would be if the misinformed people lived elsewhere.

I know, my point was that human psychology ain't that different, so when people in USA widely believes that "the scientists are still debating" while people in Norway, Germany and South-Africa generally believe that "the sciencetists pretty much agree", the reason for the difference ain't psychology.

The reason for the difference is a well-funded deliberate campaign of misinformation from industry and the right in USA.

It's pretty clear that -whatever- problems arise from climate change, you're more likely to be able to compensate for them, the more resources you have.

Who's gonna starve if food-prices triple ? The rich, or the poor ?

The thing is, it's mostly typical of -american- psychology at this point. The views in Europe are a lot more in line with the science.

The thing is, it's quite likely the brunt of suffering will hit those today -least- repsonsible for the problem. It's a fair bet that Europe and North-America will be able to adapt better than poorer societies.

And even if not, if say food-production goes down, and prices go up, guess who will still be able to afford to buy food ?

This makes it amoral. It's not moral to create problems for others, while reaping the benefits for yourself.

If you think you need to switch to a different distribution to get a different desktop environment on log in, you my friend are the "dumbass". I've been using linux likely since shortly after you were born and have seen distributions come and go - as far as Linux desktops go it does the job. Eventually you grow up and realise the desktop environment is pretty irrelevant, so long as it has basic window management, a file manager and the ability to fire up an xterm. Anything else is a bonus.

Yes. But distribution is a bigger problem the more capital and less manual work is left.

Imagine digging a trench with shovels. The difference between a good and a poor digger is perhaps a factor of 2 or 3, essentially all healthy adults has something to contribute, even if some are better.

Then replace it with a robotic digging-machine. Now suddenly, there's no reason why a tiny group of people couldn't own them all, leaving the rest out of income.

Put simpler: Capital is much more concentrated in the hands of a few than available-working-hours is. The question is what to do with the large majority which is without substantial capital.

Most corporations are owned mostly by the top 5% in wealth. What's your plan for the other 95% of us ?

Furthermore, whilst it may not be to everyone's taste, ubuntu is quite usable out of the box. It has a terminal, it has a browser and installing a few network admin tools is not rocket science.

Other than of course default to HTML web based rendering and let Google put out an app if appropriate (ala Apple).

Exactly. People seem to forget that google is, first and foremost an ad company. If you don't want ads, google is not the company for you to rally behind.

No, it means MS is a competitor who is violating the youtube TOS in a product that competes with Android.

Others are monetizing it. Whlst technically they are breaking the TOS they aren't big enough to warranty going after. MS is.

Certainly MS saw this coming

Have only had a brief play with unity and don't get why so much hate? Yes it is dumbed down significantly. I still have a shell, it worked out of the box, and i haven't had to touch a configuration file yet? Things don't have to be hard to use to be powerful. Besides, if you don't like it, switch to another desktop environment?

Pretty much same here. For all the IE hate we have, its easy to forget what the alternatives were back in the day. Another reason IE was so popular was the IEAK which made it easy for ISPs to pre-configure dial up settings for their users and bundle a browser all pre-configured out of the box. This was FREE, I'm pretty sure back in the Netscape days, that sort of thing required a license.