In Spain, power companies are untouchable - remember the power outage which took the entire electrical network down for almost two days several month ago? Well, no one has been blamed for it.The reason is very clear: When high-rank politicians retire from politics, they are hired as "consultants" by these electricity companies getting big bucks for doing essentially nothing (we call it "revolving doors"). Therefore, politicians are very careful of not bothering their "retirement angels". Approving a law which would force the electricity companies to spend money in safeguards, redundant systems, etc., might put their "golden retirement" in jeopardy.
This happens since the moment the ex-president Felipe González (supposedly "socialist") privatised the main power companies in Spain... and then became part of the Board of one of them.
Telephone operators, on the other hand, are not as involved in politics as power companies are, so they are more "vulnerable" to laws which force them to comply with minimum standards of service as they don't have a way of "retaliate" later.

Unity was the reason I switched from Ubuntu to Mint.

We don't know yet. But the European Commission has to give its approval first. On the other hand, being from different countries might dodge the anti-trust laws (IANAL, though).

This guy really put the "up" in "upload".

Just a side note FYI: In Barcelona only tourists eat paella. And it usually is fast-food paella, which tastes awful and is likely to give you an intestinal storm. Oh, wait, the bus company must be behind... Bus-Paella conspiracy, anyone?

...so for sure El Trumpo wants them down.

My (Japanese) wife and I got married in Spain. Then we just registered the "already existing" wedding in Japan, and that's it!
It can be a romantic alternative for Japanese couples: instead of getting married before the wedding trip, get married during the trip. They have Hawaii quite close, which is a very common holiday destination for them, so it shouldn't be that difficult.

They are what nearly 100%? Breastfeeding rates in developing countries? I think you'll find it's highly variable.

Utter bollocks. Go read up on some basic physiology.

You were given soy milk as a baby. By coincidence you are now allergic to soy. The dots connect to show a coincidence. You haven't specified what you mean by "allergic". So?

Really? Care to elaborate on that? As far as I'm aware severe food and severe insect bite allergies are both type 1 IgE-mediated reactions. There may be differences, but saying there is "virtually no comparison" is ridiculous.

Wow there's even people left on Slashdot to mod offtopic. Check out my user number, I could be modded offtopic for months without my karma taking a dent.

Yeah baby. I remember the joy of getting a story accepted. In fact, it was once a major achievement to be in the first 500 comments on a story.

I remember when getting first post was a major acheivement.