Screw that can I have a 4:3 one please. I still hang onto my 1400x1050 14" Toshiba Tecra M5 for this reason.

No it was founded on the principle that they objected to paying taxes to contribute towards the defence of the 13 colonies. They felt that this was unfair and Great Britain should pay for the defence of the 13 colonies themselves. The traitors where the biggest bunch of free loaders going.

Unable to win the treasonous rebellion on their own they managed to hoodwink the French king to supply money, arms and soldiers etc. on the basis of your enemies friend is your friend. The "assistance" thus given to the traitors bankrupted the French nation and led to the beheading of said king.

So if you ever feel the USA does XYZ that you don't like the real people to blame are the French for meddling in other peoples affairs in the first place and allowing the USA to come into existence.

Not selling to the nut jobs would be a starting point.

I think you will find the cosmetics firm has been around far longer than 10 years, a quick Google tells me that the Lush cosmetics brand has been in existence since 1995, and the company itself has an even longer history being a major supplier to the Body Shop before it took production in house.

Granted if you where not living in the UK 20 years ago you might not be aware...

Thing is roundabouts are not just a little bit safer than a crossroads/intersection they are massively saferm we are talking 90% reduction in fatal accidents by converting an intersection to a roundabout, 40% reduction in pedestrian collision and a 37% reduction in collisions overall.

Depends what you target for identification is. That is if you are looking for something that will give you reasonable grounds to get a search warrant, bring someone in for questioning etc. then it does not need to be perfect.

More likely USA based Apple lawyers finally got around too consulting with their European counterparts and discovered that what the opting in without written confirmation that they where proposing to do was flat out illegal over here.

Hum nobody read the judgement. It is unlawful because E.U. law requires a compensation scheme to be introduced if the private exception to copying will cause "harm" to the claimants. The judges accepted the Secretary of States argument that everyone is doing it, they expect to be able to do it and the claimants by not pursuing claims against them have tacitly accepted this position.

However the Judges have ruled that the evidence the Secretary of State has relied upon to show that the "harm" to the claimants from the exception was sufficiently small that they there was no requirement to introduce a compensation scheme was inadequate to meet the requirements of E.U. law, and as such the law breaks E.U. law.

The Secretary of State now has three options. Firstly appeal the decision on the basis that they have sufficient evidence the harm to the claimants is sufficiently small. They will almost certainly do this to begin with. There is appeals, supreme and the EU court to go through at this stage.

Option two is get a change to E.U. law on this matter. Probably easier than imagined because all E.U. states must have the same issue, and it would help the U.K. government to make the claim to stay within the E.U., on the look we can get it to change.

The third and nuclear option which is open to the U.K. is just to push the law back through Parliament and including wording that this piece of legislation overrides everything passed before it. This would due to the way the U.K. constitution works means that the law would now override all E.U. law, and the basis on which the appeal was successful at this stage would be irrelevant. Given the current U.K. governments stance on the E.U. it is not beyond the bounds of possibility if option one and two fail.

You failed to account for the system admin time to keep the server patched and secure. Also you assume that everyone is renting rack space and it is infinite in supply.

These constraints mean that in my experience when a box is no longer doing anything useful it gets issued with a shutdown command to save the power. At this point if it really is required and a user somewhere starts shouting I can power it back up in a couple of minutes.

Then generally six to 12 months later it gets removed from the rack because the space the servers are occupying is required for big project X.

My parents taught me at a very early age that TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.

Seriously it's called GPFS Native RAID, go Google it.

A feature added to GPFS by IBM paid for by a USA government agency. Does not take a genus to work out now which agency that was, noting that IBM said it was paid for by a USA government agency but would not say which one *BEFORE* the leaks from Snowden.

There is an upper limit on the bag mass for handling reasons. So one bag at 35kg and one bag at 5kg is not the same as two bags at 20kg even though the combined mass is the same.

Wrong it is used with thin provisioning in enterprise storage products. That is I can thinly provision a volume on my storage array and it will use the TRIM commands to "reuse" blocks that are no longer needed in exactly the same way flash drive would.

Point of note, here in the UK we never really gave a dam about what Sweden was getting up to in the 17th Century. I also suspect neither where the Spanish.

Talks a lot about telephone lines, that looks like a VERY good reason that all those copper lines need replacing with fibre optic