Yes, and no, it's ingrained in the UK's constitution and how we are an autocratic monarchy. The BBC is setup by royal charter directly by the monarch and therefore is not any real business of the government, who are there to technically advise the monarch through the privy council, however other than in certain circumstances (times of war, changing a royal charter, ignoring a royal charter) the monarch is to take their advice. There are certain points in the charter where it allows for the BBC to charge the television licence fee, and that the foreign office has to pay towards the running of BBC world service (the foreign office gets to use it for propaganda and sending encrypted messages at times of war, see the BBC weather report in WWII). But mostly the government has no direct control over the BBC and if they tried to impose it the monarch has a duty to disband and reform the government.

Yeah, I'm sure there was a big argument with oracle threatening to sue when Intel said they were dropping Itanium architecture several months ago.

"material assistance" aka, money, paper, lending printers or video cameras... Not that they can't walk around and put flyers through doors.

Well, in the UK we have police commissioner elections with similar problems at the moment.

Are Source engine, or a variant of it.

"could turn out to be the high-profile game that brings a AAA game engine to the growing Mac and Linux gaming communities"
Is he trying to make out CryEngine 3 will be the first AAA game engine on Mac and Linux? I guess the Quake, ID Tech, Unreal and Source (been on Mac for a while, Linux is in Beta now) engines done count?

Or the imprint was forged, or at least able to be. We don't know how the files were imprinted as no defence was made, he didn't try to refute the evidence. All we know is that the prosecution told the court: “Plaintiff has proprietary software that assigns a unique encrypted code to each member of Plaintiff’s paid websites. In this case, every time the Defendant downloaded a copy of a copyrighted video from Plaintiff’s website, it inserts an encrypted code that is only assigned to Defendant. In this case, the encrypted code for Defendant is: ‘xvyynuxl’,”

Therefore this case was open and shut, the defendant didn't even show.

Better not use the Oyster cards as they are MIFARE classic 1K and are well cracked already.

Head on collision slowed down as much as possible damages the bow sonar dome and possibly the first 2 hull plating, though the triangular shape would help strengthen this section of hull so damage to the cruiser is limited also the triangular shape is sloped to push objects down under the boat (usually it's water being pushed out of the way). So a few days to weeks in dry dock.

If one starts to turn instead and still hits the submarine it now scrapes down the side of boat putting dents in the hull plating as it bounces along it. Now it's weeks to years in dry dock as they replace half the hull.

The sub probably wouldn't get off so lucky.

I expect commendations for the actions of the cruiser crew as the submarine was at periscope depth and therefore only a shadow (possibly) and the periscope above the water to detect it by and they took fast and appropriate action.

Anyway 1) Why on earth didn't the sub crash dive when the sonar operator heard the noisy screws go full back? and 2) What the hell was the sub doing surfacing to periscope depth right ahead of another ship and that close to it?

Most of that "own image" isn't even from the US, most of that has deep British roots.

More recently you can go all the way up to the British Empire, who's laws and political systems US law is based on.

I guess sharks with frikin lasers attached to their heads are also sold separately?

DNA changes all the time, it's called mutation, often the change has no effect, other times it just ends up with a dead cell and so the mutation isn't multiplied, when this goes really wrong in other ways one ends up with uncontrolled growth and this we term as cancer, any 2 cells in the same organism may have slightly different DNA. Mutations happen from a variety of reasons, radiation, exposure to certain chemicals (we call these mutagens, they also tend to be carcinogens as mutations can cause cancer), viruses, and just simple errors in the way DNA is replicated during mitosis and meiosis. Cells also have a way to attempt to repair DNA damage though this does not always work.

I think you'll find it is: "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

Space is far from empty, it's full of stars and planets, nebulae and accretion discs. And measurable amounts of energy no matter where you are. We can only see stuff that either emits energy, reflects enough energy out way for us to measure or is near something doing one of the first two and we can see it's gravitational effects. Anything else we can't detect, it doesn't mean there isn't more out there.
What space is: "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Well, in truth we don't even know how big it is.