Isn't the lack of multiple profiles because of a patent for this kind of thing on mobile phones held by Nokia?

Not to mention google. There were plenty of pre-google web search engines.

At least the UK has enacted the Human Rights Act 1998, which gives protection where rights afforded by the European Convention on Human Rights are violated by the state.

Whilst I'm sure bad stuff happens in the UK, it does provide a framework that prevents overt abuses such as Guantanamo Bay...

The thing about "cannot sue" clauses in contracts is not really quite accurate. It's not that uncommon for commercial contracts to contain an arbitration clause. I.e. a clause that the parties agree to resolve disputes about the contract via arbitration rather than through the courts. If there is such a clause then in many countries the courts will decline jurisdiction to try the case if one of the parties asks them to. That's fair enough really - they've contracted to resolve the dispute that way at the outset.

Of course this particular case is a bit different, because it's not really a case of both parties agreeing to submit to arbitration at the outset.

The retirement age only affects when you can get the state pension. If you're expecting the state pension to make a significant difference to your standard of living in retirement then you're pretty much doomed anyhow.

The UK is a constitutional monarchy. The sovereign does not have any effective power.

The power to refuse to sign an act of parliament is a nominal one and is never used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Try the Scandinavian countries instead.

I'm not sure what the killer argument for smart watches is. That's not to say that there won't be a market for smaller devices that smart phones. But the real issues are display size and input method. Current smartphone sized displays can't be strapped to your wrist, and its not clear that a smaller display is useful in a general purpose device. If glass-type devices take off then it's possible then you solve the display problem, but then why would you want a watch too?

A lot of the value of gold is simply because people want gold. In that sense it's no different from bitcoins.

Of course additionally it has practical uses in industry, but if that was all there was to it then it wouldn't be stockpiled as a store of wealth the way it is now; and its value would be less.

It's not clear that there is a limited supply... depends on whether you believe the universe to be finite. I'm not being entirely facetious - we could well see commercial asteroid mining operations in our lifetimes.

Equal airtime for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

http://www.venganza.org/

Since Doom came out I've played a lot of games. These days I don't really play at all. I don't know if it's me or the games. I occasionally give something a try, but it doesn't hold my attention.

The ones I spent the most time on were Doom, Doom2, Quake, Quake2, Quake3, UT, UT2, Tribes2, WoW. A few single player games are good, but once I've played them through there's not much more to do.

If I had to pick a favourite it would probably be T2 - best game for real teamwork.

Not really. Either you're pregnant or you're not. Authoritarian is a much more slippery concept...

Of course the UK is part of the EU...

I've completed quite a few of these courses. I've also bailed out of a couple. One because I was doing 3 or 4 at the same time and I realised that I didn't have time to do them all properly. Another because I started a real world full time course and that took up all my spare time.