How to be an idiot and fail to understand how the internet works. Whoever maintains that portion of caught.net needs their head pulled out of their arse..

Easy answer there. The Germans. Don't believe the proven lies spouted by the pro-Brexit idiots..

And that is a fishing expedition, and not allowed under the law, without a specific warrant.

Incorrect.
In recent years, more houses have been built in areas that were previously uninhabited. The resulting inability for storm water to drain into the soil and instead being forced to run off, increased the rate that water flowed into the river systems, meaning that rivers peak higher and sooner for the same amount of rainfall. This means more floods for the same weather patterns. Add in climate change and you lot are screwed for flood management.
Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit.
Actually, now that you lot are leaving, you won't get access to the emergency funds to help with problems like this that UK policies have caused over the past few decades...

As an aside, dredging can actually cause floods further downstream as it allows more water to reach the downstream areas in a shorter space of time, causing the river to "pile up" and overspill its banks, where it would not have happened if the dredging had not taken place.

Well, if the ~450 years up to the mid 1990's was anything to go by, it would not be smart to go down that route again.. We've worked hard to get to the current situation and we wouldn't be too inclined to be forced to give it up again,

^ this. Many times this..
It's absolutely no surprise to see the US based people getting stroppy when they get a taste of their own medicine - see the complaints when Brazil did a quid pro quo to treating only US citizens visiting Brazil to rigorous security theatre and allowing everyone else to enter normally, when the US started treating incoming visitors to the States differently.

I think it's a fantastic state of affairs that the US is finally seeing the reaping of the policies they've sown over the past decades, just unfortunate that so many normal and innocent people are going to be so badly affected in the future as a direct result. Then again, many normal and innocent people were affected when the US stuck its unwanted nose into other countries sovereign affairs...

Hehe, it's not like the wind can move airmasses from one place to another.. Local policies like this are pretty meaningless. Yes, it can be useful to change e.g. a very polluting power station within a mile upwind (in the usual wind direction that is) of a school. But, because cars and their output is pretty spread out, targeting car pollution specifically near schools is nothing more than lip service.

All EULAs are not worth the paper they are printed on. They are not contracts. They are not even agreements. My cat could click the agree button, and it would have the same effect overall. Just because some of you live in countries where you've sold out your rights, doesn't mean that the software company gains more rights over you.

Nowhere in the EU has an EULA been successfully defended in court.

Yes.

At least my main email client is a text-only client, and I can follow the link with something that is definitely not going to get triggered by a drive-by. And that's to check out strange links that I may get in email, even from people I have previously been in contact with. I definitely don't follow links. Still, on the phone, I may be exposed to vulnerabilities in the non-standard email client I use.

I bought this during the Black Friday sales.
My use case for this is to run SkySafari Pro 4, with the SkyFi box, to control my Celestron AVX telescope mount with a 6" reflector, and my SCB-4000 lowlight video camera for doing video-assisted astronomy.
It does this most admirably, and works very well when out at the scope, and it makes it easy to go chasing magnitude 15 galaxies from my backyard. Locate object in the app's database, center on screen, and tell the scope to slew from the screen. Then, I can see that celestial object on my portable screen.
When I got the tablet, I was aware that the bootloader was locked, but I knew there were alternate roms available via XDA developers forums. The one that I ended up using, SlimLP, renders the tablet pretty much a bog-standard low-end Android tablet. All the installed hardware works well, the bluetooth and wifi are perfect, and when I'm not using it for stargazing I have it on the coffee table for those quick web browses about subjects that pop up when watching my tv shows. The battery life is pretty good, I charge it about every 10-15 days when not in use, and it'll easily last for a full stargazing session when I'm outside.
Yes, the standard OS install is pretty crappy, but once it's rendered as a standard Android tablet, it's proven to be perfect for my particular use case.

Up to date spamassassin and well configured greylisting works very well for my email solution. The most spam mail comes in on mailing lists that deliberately have differing settings on them. Plus I have spam and ham training active. Rare enough to get spam into my actual inbox these days.

I've also got very little spam on my Gmail address as well..

For a 3 year old build, I'm pretty proud of how this has held up performance-wise. I've updated the gpu since I built this machine, and that's pretty much the only change since building it.

Intel i7-3930 @ 4.3Ghz,
16Gb ram,
120Gb SSD,
4x1Tb spinning HDD in RAID 1+0,
Asus Nvidia 760GTX (I think..).
Asus P9x79 pro motherboard.
Using the integrated sound, but with a PCIe wireless card.
1600x1200 Dell lcd monitor (yep, still in 4:3 land).
Closed circuit watercooling on CPU.

I have to send the motherboard away for repair as a BIOS update failed - for the second time on this board - I've already had a warranty replacement for failed bios update.

My GPS stable:

Samsung S4 Active (personal phone).
Iphone 5s (work phone),
Galaxy S2 mini (spare phone),
GPS usb dongle for my desktop PC,
Garmin satnav device in the car,
Garmin Edge 500 bike computer,
old Garmin handheld eTrex mono GPS ~8 years old now.

Easy enough to rack up the device count when a techie for long enough and involved in active sports.

Air filters are a bad analogy - as the stock ones are hugely low resistance anyway and changing for a so-called "performance" filter is anything but.

You can measure the resistance of an air filter by checking the pressure difference before and after the filter element. In all of the tests that I have seen the airflow resistance due to a stock filter is miniscule, and there is more pressure loss due to a bend in the pipe than due to the filter. Putting an ineffective filter that passes lots of grit through it, may be less pressure loss, but 80% of a miniscule number is still miniscule and has *no* measureable effect on power.

Otherwise I completely agree with you.

There's a lot to be said for a car company continuing to use a known-reverse-engineered protocol for the inter-module communications and code interrogation such as the protocol used by VAG on all of their cars. That makes things a lot easier, being able to use an inexpensive cable and software to access the same items as the main dealers.