Just because the past ones weren't caused by humans doesn't also mean the current one isn't.

I hear bagpipes.

You're talking about the Dukes of Hazzard (an action/fiction show).
The article is talking about 60 Minutes which is supposedly a factual news programme, the two have different requirements. In a factual programme it shouldn't be necessary to dub in engine noise.

Greece did it to themselves, but the EU in its breathless rush to get the Euro under way also decided to ignore the fact that Greece didn't qualify for the Euro under their own rules and let them in anyway. Greece being allowed into the Euro has caused Greece a lot of pain (and caused the eurozone plenty of problems).

I wouldn't be after one of our managers managed to run up (without realising) a bill of nearly 2 grand's worth of roaming charges when they went to the UK. That was just their phone polling for email.

Nope. I'm not mentioning Texas because of the supposed legal right to secede, it was chosen pretty much at random.
Member countries of the UK do *NOT* have the right to secede, a special exception was made for the Scottish referendum so the UK parliament passed an act to allow this to go ahead. It took a new law to be made by the UK parliament to allow the Scottish referendum to take place. This act is called the Scottish Independence Referendum (Franchise) Act 2013. Scotland didn't have a right to do this until this act was passed. (The referendum is September this year, not in a few years, so your knowledge of the UK is perhaps not quite as good as you try to make out).

A state in the United States can do things such as set its own sales and income taxes (no member of the UK can currently do this), states can set criminal law and penalties to a much greater extent than parts of the UK can, for example, the Welsh couldn't suddenly decide to introduce the death penalty, whereas US states can do this. The UK can also impose direct rule on a member, which has happened more than once to Northern Ireland when the squabbling parties couldn't come to any sort of compromise. Until recently, Wales didn't even have its own parliament. The Welsh assembly didn't get its first election until 1999 (and Wales has less autonomy than Scotland or Northern Ireland).

I only mentioned the Crown dependencies because there is a common misconception that they are parts of the UK.

The European Civic doesn't share a single body panel with the Japanese or US ones either (it wouldn't entirely surprise me if it shared not a single common part number). It's not just about the engine size, it's about what the car looks like and the design of the suspension. They aren't the same cars despite both being called "Civic".

There's plenty of demand for sending cash over the Internet, but Bitcoin as it stands isn't working for that because:

- it is too volatile, the value of what you sent can change too much by the time you've confirmed the transaction
- it's too difficult to turn into currency you can spend in a grocery store

I'd love to see a cryptocurrency work out because good riddance PayPal. But Bitcoin as it stands isn't this replacement, and for at least the next couple of years will only be working as a speculation instrument.

The Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation into the United States of America of the Republic of Texas, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. After declaring their independence from the Republic of Mexico in 1836, the vast majority of Texas citizens favored the annexation of the Lone Star Republic by the United States.

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And if the FAA ramp checked you (and the FAA inspector's motto is "We're not happy until you're not happy"), and decided it was an unauthorized modification, they could ruin your day dragging you through an expensive prosecution in court.

Yes, people who own small aircraft often do it and will usually get away with it (in many cases it won't count as a modification, a camera with a suction cup on the windscreen and powered off its own battery or the cigarette lighter connection isn't considered a modification, but mount something to the wing and it most certainly is. There's a good reason why in most cases the camera is set up in such a way that it won't capture the registration of the aircraft. FAA inspectors have been known to trawl for photos/YouTube and launch prosecutions when they see photo evidence of something unauthorized).

They do. The Airbus A380 has exterior view cameras. Not everywhere (it's not practical to do that) but in places where there's something to gain.

You do exactly like you do with your exterior mirrors right now - wipe the dirt off.

The US certainly did annex Texas, though.

The Falklands never belonged to Argentina. The first landing and claim on the Falklands was British. The Spanish name for the Falklands (Las Malvinas) isn't even Spanish in origin - it's French (derived from the city St Malo). By Sean Penn's argument, the Falklands are very much definitely British since they laid the first claim (and subsequent claim was by the French, who gave it to Spain. Later on, Argentina tried to take it and failed, then the British came and re-asserted their rule. It's from this that the Argentinians erroneously think that the Falklands are theirs).

In any case not a single Argentinian lives in the Falklands, they are all British, speak English and drive on the left. They have the right to self determination, and wish to remain British. Even the Argentinians can see that so they deny the population's right to self determination so as to continue their claim.

Websites should be seen AND NOT HEARD.

I've got no problem with there being an audio version of the story. However, I do have a problem with it being an AUTOPLAYING audio version of the story. Due to autoplaying audio and video (one an ad a while back on Slashdot which would periodically make the sound of a slamming door!), the audio is permanently muted on my work workstation.

I hope the autoplaying sound was just an April fool's joke. If not it's incredibly badly thought out, given the number of people who read Slashdot where they don't want suddenly a bunch of sound coming out their computer.