It absolutey does for me. I just checked to make sure.

Thunderbird and any other FOSS email client I used since 1996 had email threading. I am stunned that some people were not aware of email threading until Gmail.

The fact that they have open wheels comes into play before the fragility. Because of that, cars easily launch into the air, and we have seen it happen quite regularly. That's always been a part of F1 and open-wheel racing in general, and it's what makes the driving about finding clean lines around the car in front of you, while leaving a centimeter of space, instead of just bumping it out of the way like in touring cars. And it's what F1 fans generally appreciate.

Except the situation in any country with decent public health care is the opposite: people don't go to the ER with trivial stuff because they can afford to go to a general practitioner in the first place.

FYI, there was a recent federal study (machine translated German article) critizising that waiting times for fracture operations can be longer than 48 hours in some German hospitals, which is deemed unacceptable. And while the study is not yet published in full, the structure of the German health care system suggests what we are talking about people insured by public health care (which is the vast majority).

Find a better geek. This was unnecessary even in 12.04

Seems to me that submissions are becoming increasingly of the sort the poster could have figured out himself if he had thought about it for 5 minutes. This one might be fun if submitted to xkcd's What If.

They are not caring for Unity right now, it's not a touch UI. They ported it to work on fundamentals first, like power consumption. Touch interface is a topic for later. http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/26/ubuntu-core-on-the-nexus-7/

"A core goal for Ubuntu 13.04 is to get Ubuntu running on a Nexus 7 tablet. To be clear, this is not going to be a tablet Unity interface running on the 8/16GB Nexus 7, but instead will focus on getting the current Ubuntu Desktop running on the Nexus so that we can ensure pieces such as the kernel, power management and other related areas are working effectively on a tablet device.

Topics such as battery life, memory footprint, and support for sensors are all areas in which needs and expectations vary widely between a PC and a mobile devices. The 13.04 cycle will very much be focused on this exploration and learning and this is why we want to focus our efforts on getting the existing Ubuntu Desktop running on the Nexus 7. This will mean that some user-facing parts of the experience won’t make a lot of sense on the tablet, but we want to get the foundations optimized before we focus on these higher level challenges."

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/26/ubuntu-core-on-the-nexus-7/

You called it a "popup window", which it is not. Anyway it's not different to the password bubble, you didn't ask for that either. And you don't have to 'click the "go away" button every time I visit a website', there are like 20 supported sites, which I doubt you use all of, and you click it once and only once for each. Stop exaggerating.

I'd mod you +1 interesting if I had points

This is what it looks like when you go to a site that supports it: http://i.imgur.com/8lz1V.png
You know, like the "want to save the password?" bubbles Firefox has had forever. Is that what you call a popup window? And why don't you say "no" and be done with it? It does not appear "every time you visit a web site" either.

Executed right now with up-to-date repos:
aptitude search unity-lens-shopping
i unity-lens-shopping - Shopping lens for unity

Dunno what you are doing wrong

Usually I don't complain about /. because it and its users are still rather amazing overall. But every time there is an Ubuntu story you people are just being idiots mostly, and this particular story is the worst. It's like my grandpa complaining about progress in general whenever something remotely new happens. Nerds came up with progress in computing, and now you want it to stop in 2005? Well not going to happen. The genie is out of the bottle, you released it and forced everyone to deal with it whether they like it or not. Only fair that you have to as well. If you don't like Ubuntu, don't use it and stop whining. Sheesh.

Obviously you didn't even see the feature in action, it does not behave that way AT ALL