It's a pretty tightly controlled market if so. There doesn't seem to be any way to get most smartphones on the independent market for less than the total cost of the contract in Europe.

Yes, but they did not want the Swainswick bypass built. To me that says the opposite of what you claimed.

Definitely not wilderness, lovely though The Stiperstones (surely the most remote part of Shropshire) are.

It's never cheaper to buy on the day. Sometimes a flexible ticket will be cheaper, but you can always buy that in advance, and get free booked seats with it. The fact that split tickets can be cheaper is infuriating, though, although they may remove the obligation for the railway to get you to your final destination (by taxi, if your last connection is not available through their fault, although they may not do this unless you demand it).

I'd be interested to know, too. Press coverage at the time says Bel Mooney (married to Jonathan Dimbleby) was dead against it (and it is hideous, though I only visited here once before it was built).

I've no real information about who was for it at the time. But if traffic was coming down what is now the Gloucester Road through Swainswick, then boy, oh boy, that would have been ugly.

Is there any way to tell when the light and the neutrinos left the supernovae, though?

What's so bad about the healthcare system in the UK? As a frequent flyer with the NHS, I see nothing but efficient processes, helpful consultations, quick referrals, proper monitoring and all the necessary care given.

Which also reflects my point of view as someone who helps those services get arranged and delivered in a mental health trust.

Not quite, in that with the UK system, those details only allow people to set up a Direct Debit, which can only be used for certain types of Consumer to Business payments, and are automatically refundable on the consumer end, but still makes it worth keeping your account number and sort code private.

I take it you know more about economics than you do about the command line, right?

I wouldn't call the normal operating depth of a military submarine as being 'deep ocean'. I don't know of any that have a test depth deeper than 400 metres, according to Wikipedia.

Or buy a non-consumer laptop.

You can certainly cancel the contract though. The comment above ( http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1945144&cid=34834280 ) tells you how.

Well, I've heard that logic as being attributed to Origen, so it goes right back to the early church. I'd say that's an old trick.

Yes, you'd hope so, wouldn't you.

But it's worth reading this article in The Register, one of their best ever: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/phantoms_and_rogues/

It seems it happened in the UK in the 1990s.