Sad thing is, looking at the room prices, I could either rent a studio flat for the same cost, or flat share for a whole lot less. In London, if you shop around, or just have friends, you can do so much better than this. This screams of taking naive, lonely, rich new grads for all they have.

Congratulations. Most junior developers take a good couple of years to realise that they're shitty developers. That might sound like a troll, but seriously, there's a point (well, several actually) in every good software devs career that they realise they actually suck at software. That's when they can start to really get better.

I'm rather skeptical as well (I'd hate to see wood burning become a long term "solution" to coal), but this should answer some of the questions in your post: http://www.pelletcouncil.org.u...

The source is likely to be biased as it's the uk pellet council, who have a vested interest in the fuel, but it does provide *some* useful information.

It looks like trees *are* replanted in the UK. It also seems that wood pellets are a tad different from tree wood, so you can't really compare your wood burner to an industrial burning plant. You may well still be correct about the fuel, but some of your post looks mislead.

UK population = 65,299,992
Tokyo population = 13,620,000

That's more like 4.8 Tokyos

But this should really be the last straw. If you've been polite and respectful in your previous rejections, and ultimately asked the person to stop contributing in a firm but kind way, then it's on their head if they refuse to accept the rejection and get a much tougher response.

Yes, I agree it's not a personal attack, but being too aggressive too soon will make it look like it is.

Merge conflict resolution can be taught in a very small amount of time. It's not very complicated at all. If you're training a team who are new to version control, this will not take long and will avoid the additional training needed should the team crossover to git later. I'd stay a million miles away from training a team on SVN instead of git if I had an opportunity like this.

Also, please note, I'm not simply pro-git. If you really don't want to use git, use mercurial. I've used a fair few different version control tools in my professional career, and I'm a little tired of developers having to re-train and move away from svn when they could have started with the tool they have migrated to in the first place.

That would fit, but only if it was normal to find cars parked in abundance that are unlocked and welcome people to open the door and get in. As it stands, the only reason to try a car door is if you are authorized to enter, or have malicious intent.

I'm guessing (and it really is just a guess), that it's because neither Windows or Mac have ever used it as their primary desktop toolkit, while Linux has.

Who says you have to be looking for survivors? Finding bodies in a life raft or even the schooner itself would bring closure to the families. Not knowing what's happened to a loved one can be worse than finding them dead.

Adder would be a more appropriate substitution, surely.