rlongstaff

The review comments on Amazon tell you everything you need to know.

Surprised the article made no mention of the EV Rieu translation published by Penguin Books. I would have thought that was one of the, if not 'the', most well known one.

Although the idea of a 'United Democracies' or whatever it gets called sounds appealing, it has many flaws.

One of which you highlighted regarding what constitutes a democracy - some could even argue that the Electoral College in the USA means it isn't a true democracy!

Others are what legitimacy it would have in relation to countries that aren't members. Why should those countries care or co-operate with the organisation? Likely it would end up with UD trying to impose its will by force, which is a backwards step.

Furthermore, just because a country is a democracy doesn't mean it is automatically superior to every respect and entitled to adopt the high ground. Many democratic countries around the world have engaged in human rights abuses, started wars and interfered with other sovereign countries to install leaders who push their interests over that of the citizens. There is the danger that said countries in the UD would end up turning a blind eye to each other abuses because they, by definition, "wouldn't do that sort of thing".

After disabling my adblocker to visit the site I was greeted with an auto-play video (with sound) that took up half the page. This is not what I would term 'ad light'.

Hmm. Somewhat biased presentation in the article with use of the words "the latest in a growing number of competition investigations targeting American technology companies."

Gives the impression the EU is deliberately going after US companies when in fact the majority that are investigated for anti-competitive acts are European.

I've just installed it from the Ubuntu 15.10 Software Centre (v3.0.1-2).

Who decides that and is it true or fair? If the CEO earns 25x the average employee salary would it be clear that they add 25x more value to the company than any other employee?

... but what percentage of current C code is C11. More importantly, how much new code is written according to C11?

Don't suppose anyone has an equivalent for Linux?