Better than my flight at Christmas - left on time, arrived 3 days late (London snow).

Here's an interesting article for you: http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/Research/Rvs/Article/EMI.html

Here's an interesting quote: "Nordwall reports that the RTCA Committee 177 inquiry found 137 `incidents' (pilot reports, anecdotes) reported either to them, or to the FAA/NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) program, or to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). VOR reception (2) was affected in 111 incidents -- by far the most common occurrence. From the 33 reports direct to RTCA, 21 incidents related to laptop computers and only 2 to cellular phones. Navigation systems were affected in 26 of those incidents; fuel systems, warning lights and propulsion reported one incident each. Rough correlation of suspect with effect by turning the suspect device on and off was found in 14 cases, on-off-on in 6 cases, and no correlation in 13 cases."

Incidents > 0.

If I remember correctly, Thales generation 2 HUDS for A737's had a known issue with interference from mobile phones / laptops - they would blank or flicker.

Well, here's the ugly truth. People DO pay for Linux and BSD. Most contributions are from paid programmers working for companies. Those companies (like Redhat, IBM, Novell, Oracle) make money by selling support. You might think they're different things - they're not. The music from the radio is NOT free. Someone has to pay for it in one way or another. If you don't pay to listen, you get adverts. Yes, indies make money other ways, but how should radio stations make their money? You DO pay to read library books. It comes out of tax money. You DO pay to read the newspaper in McDonalds too - it comes out of the money you paid for the food. The truth of the world is that you get NOTHING for nothing. Just because you don't understand or see how things are paid for doesn't mean that they're not.

Nope, you can subscribe to Sky Player separately - you don't need a Sky box or a dish or whatever. There's a link on the front page: http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/online-tv.html

Glass. China never invented glass, so it stagnated. No lenses or slides makes it hard to do chemistry, physics, biology etc.

PR-STV: Proportional Representation with a Single Transferable Vote. Basically, if there are 5 candidates, I rank them 1, 2, 3, 4 and leave out 5 because I don't want to vote for a member of the killing puppies party. They count up all the 1 votes, and see how everyone's doing. If nobody's gotten 50%+1 votes (or 25%+1 votes for 4 seats, for example) then they take all the votes from the person in last place and count all their 2 votes. Repeat until someone wins. Ireland uses it. It occasionally leads to interesting results - many people will vote for an underdog as number one, then a strong candidate as 2, and occasionally the underdog gets a lot more votes than anyone expects...

Homer Simpson is an engineer in a nuclear power plant...

Typically, "Democracy" means "I don't understand the word Republic".

The problem isn't the multinationals that provide jobs - they will stay. Intel can't move a FAB overnight. The issue is with the shells like Microsoft Licensing - that employ 5 lawyers, 5 accountants and a janitor - and that do nothing but funnel profits. THESE companies will up and leave in a heartbeat, because an extra 2% on $62BN is ENORMOUS. At the moment the corp tax income on these companies is E110bn - and the IMF money is nowhere near that. Raising the corp tax rate might mean losing 50-100 jobs, mostly accountants and lawyers (not exactly going to get a sympathy vote from most people), but could leave the country more than E50bn a year down - not really an option right now.

They don't have financial dealings in Ireland as such - they have call centres - typically outside Dublin. Pulling them out would be catastrophic for the rest of the country.

...which means if someone gets one factor (your phone), they still don't have the other (your password).

T-Mobile will tell you they're a COMMON CARRIER. That means they don't get to pick and choose who uses their service. By your reasoning (they can do anything they please on a private network) they could decide to drop all calls from Blacks, or women, or Republicans. How long would that be tolerated?

I live in Ukraine, and often travel to Russia, so my knowledge is first hand. Corruption and bribery is institutionalised in the CIS - it a way of live, and it's not going to change. People can't imagine not bribing officials to get things done. In 2007 bribery in Russia was worth $33bn - more than the GDP of Lebanon or Kenya.

If you swap Up and across, you get the Barents Sea, Greenland, and 2 spots in Antartica - 1 land, one sea. Naimina is a girls name in Kenya.