Funny thing. In Hong Kong it's quite popular to buy an iPhone (fashion) and hack it to run Android (functionality). Heard that a few days back from one of my colleagues who used to live out there last year. Going there Saturday to check if that's true (not the main purpose of the trip obviously).

And the added boost the economy so very much needs

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-57511984/will-the-iphone-5-boost-u.s-gdp/

Can be anything between 30 minutes and 1.5 hours depending on the running of Londons Tube network...

45 minutes is fairly typical, though oddly enough if there is a strike by the workers it runs faster and if theres the wrong type of leaves on the track it can be a LOT longer.

I am very happy to know that there are still guys out there that think this way.

I'm not one of them but thanks for making my day. Faith in humanity and all that

How about intelligent people just looking out for truly insightful comments amongst the various posts? It would be interesting to see a true, accurate demographic of slashdot folk, I guess the people that post are actually a fairly small subset and the number in computer related industries equally small...

Terrified of Gnomes but if they suck my balls I might get involved...

Yes, that's EXACTLY what the claims in Sweden are (one, he didn't wear a condom when she though he was. two, I forgt, was it the 3rd or 4th time they had sex that night.

Nearly Every Country?

Try most of Europe other than the UK at the moment (bit of a scandal, to say the least, going on at the moment about the freedom of press (they committed a few crimes) - it's sick what the journalists did, but you have to respect their commitment to the TRUE story

Slightly out of date data, but yes, Ireland is back to growing having taken a hit.

Opportunist - It never meant to be the FINANCIAL centre of europe, but the BUSINESS centre (that is how it is spelled).

Different mistakes. But mistakes on both sides.

You might consider Poland, Latvia, Switzerland and my other for other reasons. The Swiss Franc is too strong against the Euro (and also the dollar, which is helping bolster that)

Pirate Bay countries? Seriously? In Europe? Scandinavia is going to suffer massively in coming years (too strong a currency other than Finland where the biggest employer (Nokia) is going bust)...

There are plenty of places you can go, Middle East, Eastern Europe, parts of the Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore (of course you would have to give up US citizenship to avoid double taxation in low tax jurisdictions).

Innocent until proven guilty? Guilty until proven innocent?

Perp walk, most civilised countries BAN press coverage of a case until a fair trial has had a chance to run.

I'm sorry, but for me that is a crime by a nation against itself

Even though you are right to support the above AC your tone isn't helpful to any sort of discussion. Let me add to the flame - modders of the GP are people who... benifit? from the excessive spending in Califor-na-yay...

Control your Police, control your Fire Department and control your Prisons. Most of all control your lawyers, the healthcare system can't take it.

Control your lawyers and you control your ridiculous insurance costs. How much of medical care costs are the cost of insurance to protect the doctors from their very patients?

They're actually being sensible about it for a change. Tax breaks (temporary subsidies) on firms being located and hiring in areas of high unemployment if they employ a certain number of people in the region (similar to what happened in 1993/94 that helped the UK massively). The current government has done some idiotic things in the past, but thankfully they are acting well now, and know how to create a budget surplus given time (yes, it takes time!)

Let's see how much shit I get for this

No, there are firms that try to give you X months Gardening (Guardening if you want to be pedantic - origin was to Guard, not to spend time in the garden) leave and pay you FULL SALARY but say in the contracts that you are not allowed to work for a competitor/deal with old clients for 2X months.

It's common

It's Illegal

Kinda happening. Boston would be the other location.

In the UK they actually are providing "tax credits" - temporary low tax rates for businesses setting up and hiring in high unemployement areas.

Thing is, the "Silicon Roundabout" - what a pathetic name - is in one of those zones, "subject to contract" - they're looking to create the tech equivalent of the city/canary wharf for finance, mayfair for hedgefunds and soho/fitzrovia for fashion.