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Oops, I'm wrong (about Guinness). All the Guinness consumed in the UK (and the US) is brewed in Dublin, apparently. I wonder where I got the notion it was brewed in England.
Oops, I'm wrong (about Guinness). All the Guinness consumed in the UK (and the US) is brewed in Dublin, apparently. I wonder where I got the notion it was brewed in England.
Nearly all the lager drunk in the UK is foreign - Carling is the only major exception. Some of the foreign beer like Fosters is brewed in the UK under license though. It is originally Australian, though, obviously.
Nearly all the "real" beer drunk in the UK is English, Guinness being the only major exception, though this is brewed in the UK too (though I assume Guinness drunk in Northern Ireland is brewed in Ireland, but I may be wrong).
1920x1280? When was that a standard?
Did you mean 1920x1200?
Why?
How will you using Sony's products without paying for them hurt them?
Really? If you could choose your penis size, what would it be? If everyone could choose their penis size, what would your choice be then?
I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.
Are there any intelligence tests in which people from sub-saharan Africa do come out on top?
For example, a Ferrari 458 with a paying passenger or a Kia Ceed with no paying passengers should not have different insurance premium for insurance covering damage to 3rd parties.
If every Ferrari 458 even previously driven on the road had killed a third party pedestrian, and no Kia Ceed had ever been in an accident, do you really think they should have identical third party insurance rates?
I realise this example is extreme, but there are some makes and models of cars that have higher risk to third parties than others. Charging more for third party insurance with these seems perfectly rational to me.
However, I do agree that the system has got problems. A few years back I asked for a third party quote for a used car I had just bought. It seemed a lot for what I was getting (just third party for me), so I asked if there was anything I could do to reduce it. It turned out that a fully comprehensive policy with my entire family as named drivers was about 200 pound cheaper. Yes, cheaper. I even told them none of my family were ever likely to drive the car, but they didn't care (three times they have driven it now, IIRC).
I haven't really paid attention the last few years, I don't know where they're plastering the ads these days.
The Internet.
I agree the text is way too large for viewing on a monitor
Really? It's perhaps a little too large, but not way too large. I sit about 4 foot away from a 22 inch 1920*1200 monitor - the entire web page is only two screens of text or so at this resolution.
Sapphire ***IS*** extremely true scratch resistant (as in the surface atoms resist displacement) because sapphire is BRITTLE.
Well... no. Sapphire is extremely scratch resistant and sapphire is relatively brittle. Just because something is scratch resistant does not mean it has to be brittle. Gorilla glass is, for example, both harder and tougher than normal glass. Diamond is both harder and tougher (iirc) than sapphire.
Third, in case you haven't notice, it is now more than a century we haven't discovered something that revolutionized the physics like relativity and quantum mechanics.
To be fair, quantum field theory was more recent. Also, relativity and quantum mechanics did _not_ revolutionise physics when they were first posited. They revolutionised physics when they became more accepted within the field. There could be a crucial major discovery that somebody made in 1995 that we'll only actually really notice and be able to prove in five years time. A year later, we'll be saying that there hasn't been a significant discovery in physics in the last quarter of a century.
But again, FTL is different. We have never once observed an object travel faster than the speed of light.
We have, in some ways. Light was slowed to 17 metres per second in 1998, and below 10 metres per second in 2004. People can run that fast.
I know, the speed of light in a vacuum is what was being referenced.
Just because Apple is saying that the OS comes free doesn't make it so.
Try not paying the VAT (or sales tax) when you sell a £20,000 loaf of bread that comes with a free car to carry it in, and see what the tax man will say about that.
A "biological population" is not one person, thus your example of comparing yourself to your parents does not show evolution by the very definition you're using.
If you believe that you are different than your parents then you believe in evolution.
If you believe that all that is required as proof for evolution is being different, you're setting the bar a little low.
Also, evolution existed quite a while before sexual reproduction did... sexual reproduction had to evolve.
I asked some people about that, saying that in the UK the victim would be blamed for making their stuff easy to steal.
What? I live in the UK, and leave my house unlocked all the time. I also leave my car unlocked all the time.
For the former, it helps that I have a 35kg dog (who is a complete wuss, but potential burglars don't know that). For the latter... I'd prefer a thief to open the door than to smash the window to get to something inside. If there's nothing inside, no harm done.
"Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing." -- G. Steinem