What stereo spread? What sort of angular difference do you end up with?

Add to that war loans to the UK which were actually repaid in full eventually which netted you quite a pretty penny. I'm not complaining here, as I believe the US offered to write those debts off at one point but we declined the offer, and the deal was far from unfair.

VW/Audi/Porsche/Skoda/Seat/Bugatti/Lamborghini/Bentley you mean? Assuming we're just sticking to cars... I don't /think/ I've missed any, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Sell your house? So you're working on the premise that the people after you aren't in any real rush to nail you then...

Entirely true, when we use Imperial, we use Imperial :)

Yep, and it means when UK people hear about US gas guzzlers, it sounds far worse than it is (although it's often not that great to start with). Read a car report that lists 62.8mpg instead (there's plenty out there for tax band reasons, even a BMW 520d gets that), and that way it's pretty good whichever way you cut it.

That pretty much sums it up.

Other distances are imperial e.g. we still have furlongs in horse racing, and horses are still in hands.
Fuel economy is still typically talked of in miles per gallon.
Cold temperatures are in Celsius, hot in Farenheit.
Clothes are still normally measured in inches.

Erm, microsoft *do* list games on Steam, as Microsoft Flight's on, as are a couple of other titles. But it's entirely their choice whether they go on steam or not, as you say.

My point was entirely supplementary to that of vehicle control and I assure you doesn't in any way relate to airbagless rally cars. But on your point, let's be honest, if you've got more than your thumb at 6, and you're not texting, you're doing better than some.

I also read somewhere that 9 and 3 (or even lower) reduces injuries due to airbag inflation too.

I'd disagree. Encourage a swift and tidy wind up if you genuinely believe it to be a waste of effort. Do everything you can to wrap it up like that, *then* put it on github and see what happens. OSS developer time isn't an infinite resource, and it'd be best to divert as much attention as possible away from dead ends.

Entirely true. Problem is, you can make the same argument for all the other sources too and they'll show even more deaths. I'm sure if you applied measures to bring the safety of coal into line with nuclear you'd blow its price sky high. You'd have to make mining far safer, and capture almost all of the pollutants emitted from the power plants. Good luck with that.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html

In the grand scheme of things, are the disasters all that bad? Look at fukashima. Death toll from the earthquake and tsunami was in the order of 20k people. How many confirmed deaths cause by nuclear power? At least five. Total deaths after all's said and done? It's going to look paltry next to the natural disaster. If you can make these accidents considerably less common than natural disasters (and face it, we have), and kill far fewer people, that's possibly an acceptable risk.

I've got quite a few GU10 LED lights, and the only failures I've had have been faulty wiring as a result of shoddy manufacturing. After taking them apart and resoldering the contacts they worked fine again. That was only a couple though, and these were £4 direct from China bulbs.

If the rule sucks, the rule needs changing. In the UK, there really aren't *that* many stop signs, as almost every sign of that type is a "give way" sign, where it's your responsibility to give way appropriately (which may or may not involve stopping). If there's a stop sign, it's because there's an issue that means you're unlikely to be in a position to give way appropriately without stopping (say as a result of poor visibility due to walls or other obstructions). On that basis, I have absolutely no problem with people being charged with not stopping at a stop sign, as they really *should*.

Do you /really/ think this is true? Worker productivity in technical jobs is piss poor when you first hire, however good the individual is. Trained and experienced staff are an asset well worth developing, and if you just think you can burn through staff I personally think you'll end up paying more for less.