"He's been on a concerted campaign to get rid of people like Clarkson from the BBC"

Indeed. And given his religious upbringing I smell something more than just a standard guardianista agenda.

"something tells me a token female presenter on Top Gear wouldn't go down too well with him."

To be fair they could do a lot worse than put VBH back on. And she'd be a long way from token!

"Here's the video where he says "nigger" on camera"

Seems to me you have a good imagination. All I can here is nnnn....nnnnn

Clarkson never got laid?? Time to wake up and read the papers sleeping beauty!

"using the n- word on camera etc"

He didn't actually. But that didn't stop the liberal left making out that he did.

And no , I'm not a particularly clarkson fan - he can be funny but generally the man is an oaf. However there were agendas on both sides in this.

I'm not sure what height you'd count as a mountain but most people would imagine its more than the few fathoms you'd have in a coastal bay.

Clearly you've never heard of breakwaters.

"A wall is much thinner than an artificial island"

And much longer.

"for the crazy idea you mention"

I didn't mention any idea. Can't you even read poster names?

"I think I even drove on a road that was more than 250 miles long before."

Congratulations. Do you want a medal or something for driving along that road? Or perhaps for that miserable attempt at irony?

"Japan gives not one tenth of one fuck about environmental impact, so long as it doesn't affect them, just like everyone else."

Actually they don't even give a fuck when it WILL eventually affect them. If it wasn't for international law they'd have probably fished whales to extinction by now.

"You're going to need to move an extraordinary amount of dirt."

And you think the raw material for building a 250 mile concrete wall is just going to be lying around nearby do you?

" myself imagine that the "square root of fuck all" is masturbation"

GTFU.

You sure you're 45 because you're coming across like a student and not a particularly smart one at that.

"A good reason why they should vote? Because they are humans and citizens."

Oh boo hoo. Where's my violin?

"Firefox is open source right? If it has gotten out of control, why can't the good pieces be carried over to something better, and the old Firefox be shut down?"

Thats pretty much what happened with Netscape Navigator - and it became Firefox. Thing is, rewriting code may free up some cruft and get rid of some bugs and make the devs feel like their doing something more productive than simply firefighting, but in general it simply replaces like for like - you simply get new cruft (after a few revisions) and new bugs to deal with. Rince and repeat.

Welcome to the world of the Millenial.

... getting their code airtight and less time constantly fucking about with GUI and javascript interpreter - sorry, "engine" - changes perhaps these exploits could become less of an issue.

"look at where only allowing those with "mature" brains vote has gotten us. "

And you think letting kids who know the square root of fuck all about the world having a vote will improve things? Get a grip.

"Why shouldn't felons get to vote either? Who better them has insight into how our current criminal justice system is or isn't fair. Are they no longer human just because they have been put in prison?"

They opted out of the rules of society when they broke them. Give us a good reason why they SHOULD get the vote?

" There are reasons for why I think this should be the case"

Because you're 12 or 13?

... and those responsible for it at Intel should have been brought to book about it. There is NO good technical reason for its existence and it introduces a multitude of issues and not only security ones. eg: timing issues for realtime OS's, buggy firmware causing sudden crashes. Sure, it makes some things such as emulating hardware simpler but that is hardly a compelling reason to have this barn door of a security hole in every Intel motherboard.