Evolution is part of the national curriculum and there really hasn't been any issue with it not being taught. I was taught about Intelligent design in science but only from a historical PoV and as evidence of how scientific theories change based on evidence (was also taught about elemental theory).

Thanks to Dawkins drumming up hysteria in tabloids about how evil faith schools are (despite between 1/3rd and 1/2 of people in the UK having attended a CofE school) we've these waste of time legislation being put in place. Sure it wasn't enshrined in law it had to be taught but given that it would cause pretty much everyone to fail their GCSEs if it wasn't taught (and probably affect SAT scores too), kids are pretty unlikely not to be taught it.

"But this belief that bacteria just magically eat oil and in turn leave behind no deleterious side effects is pretty much akin to claiming that women's reproductive systems magically expunge rapists' sperm."

Making connections between two completely unconnected, controversial events in order to do an ad hominem is pretty much akin to saying that to saying that babies taste good with bbq sauce. You sick baby eater!

I'd rather have a 3 year one where they didn't make me spend a fortune shipping it insured internationally to return (live in the UK, RMA centre is in the Netherlands).

I'm never going to buy another OCZ drive. Had a vertex 2, worked well for a few months then, without any warning, it died completely. Couldn't be read by any OS, wouldn't even be recognised by the bios.

As bad as losing data and RMA-ing a drive which potentially still had all my files on them, I also had to pay £20 to ship it insured to the Netherlands due to their awful returns policy.

Fine a multinational company too much and eventually it'll be cheaper for them to abandon the country and skip on the fine.

40,000 people out of a job and the 2nd largest source of oil and gas for the US being shut down (even if the assets were seized, it would take a long time for production to start up again).

I would just like to say I seriously hate you for doing this. You're saving a tiny, tiny fraction of your journey time in return for delaying hundreds of other cars by a large margin and creating traffic jams. Not to mention you make it incredibly difficult for people who need to pull in for their exit.

You say you don't need to leave stopping distance because it's hard for the lorry in front to slow fast? Your brakes are just as bad! If he brakes hard, you'll stand no chance of reacting fast enough, you'll hit his trailer, causing him to lose control, jackknife and take out a couple of lanes.

You can leave the 2 seconds, if someone's stupid enough to squeeze between two lorries, you can ease off the accelerator and give him 2 seconds. If it's possible for me the leave 2 seconds on the M25 every day getting to work, it's possible anywhere.

Three issues:

Expensive
Dangerous - encourages people to stare more intensely at the traffic lights rather than the road itself. People may speed up if they notice the traffic light has 5 seconds from a distance left.
Not possible for a lot of lights. Lots of signals have their timing controlled by external factors like cars waiting or prioritised busses.

Which is why the busier roundabouts are signal controlled.

I've a Lumia and the only problem I've had with it was caused by a hardware issue that needed an RMA. Browser has crashed out a couple of times but the phone itself is very stable.

Just wish they'd let you set the ring/alarm and application volumes seperately

How long has it been and people are still posting BS about the hack? The passwords were hashed, the CC info wasn't compromised and the server was up to date at the time of the hack (there's a google cache somewhere proving the version numbers). The personal details weren't encrypted but that's the same with most sites (besides which, if your server is compromised, so is the decryption key)

I repeat, there are no rules about if you pronounce a " s' " as it's own syllable or treat it as silent. It's all about what people think sounds right (and their accent). An example is "Los Angeles' citizens". Lots of people would pronounce that as "Los angelezis". Generally it's better to say it as it could confuse the listener as to whether or not the word is being used as an adjective or a noun with a possesive.

I'd wager most people would get them wrong or at least have to think fairly hard. In the case of " Chrises' " it's complicated enough for there to be no set rule about how it's pronounced (although most people would say 'Chrises' because 'Chriseses' sounds silly).

The second is definitely wrong (Ms. != Miss)

I had an OCZ drive fail on me. Was working perfectly fine, the day before. Turned on my PC, and the BIOS couldn't find the drive so it wouldn't boot. Booted up the old windows installation I still had on another HDD, nothing I could do could get any OS or the BIOS to even recognise I'd connected the SSD. All the data, completely unrecoverable with no advanced warning (after just 6 months of usage). Just to rub it in, I had to pay £20 to return the £160 drive to OCZ (and trust that they'd responsibly dispose of any data on the drive).

I'm extremely reluctant to buy another SSD after that and will never buy another OCZ product.

OK then, give me the correct plural and possessive for an object that belongs to a group of people called Chris (using "Chris" as the basis). How about an object belonging to a collective of women who like to identify themselves as "Ms." ?

The rules for apostrophes aren't as easy as a lot of Grammer Nazi's like to think it is. There are a bunch of rules, often contradictory where you have to learn which takes priority and it's compounded by vague "if it could confuse the reader" rules.