I've helped friends similarly who had broken ps3/xboxes and the retailer wouldn't do shit to help. As soon as you quote the relevant law they realise that they can't pull the wool over your eyes and give up.

Two things need to happen in the UK. We need better education of consumer protection laws, starting at school but also through government advertising and we to crack down on retailers who tell consumers it is out of warranty when legally it isn't.

I believe the actual statement is "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs"

The problem with Iran is that its a polarising issue, everyone involved has already cemented their opinion. If I was Iran, I'd be bricking about now.

If you don't publish, what prevents people from investing time in that less effective scheduling algorithm again and again?

A lot of the deaths occur from the bullet entering your shoulder and hitting your heart. Penetrating your shoulder requires a lot less velocity than your head. This paper "Can a Falling Bullet Be Lethal at Terminal Velocity? Cardiac Injury Caused by a Celebratory Bullet" seems to suggest that you can indeed be killed by falling bullets.

Wrong, celebratory gunfire kills quite a few people every year

Erm, you mean in other words USB 3.0 doesn't work just fine with Windows 7?

cyanogenmod for me doesn't lag, but the stock version did.

And building a moon base will be done by the Chinese.

I remember something similar for championship manager. Another team would approach you to buy your player at some low price you have set. You clicked "I will consider it", then went onto the players options and set their sell price to 50 million. A few minutes later they would ask again to buy even at the inflated price. Fun times.

I didn't realise Emacs was an operating system... oh wait.

You are basically describing a system on chip. You have one in your phone.

I found some interesting pictures of the MV Tricolor. I tried to find a video of the cutting process in action but failed. Does anyone know how this "cheese wire" actually works?

But that begs the question, why are we slipping?

No need to say more as in yes he very easily could have survived 40g?

From wikipedia