One of you managed to make my eyes bleed, but I'm not sure which one.

Thank you Captain Bad Analogy. Here's my attempt:

This is like running down the street naked and then being surprised when a picture of your junk shows up online.

Yes and no. Once that water has evaporated it's not going to be available for irrigation for a very long time.

That "lost" 98%, which as you correctly note is not "lost" it has merely evaporated or become runoff, is now water that is not available to be immediately used for any other immediate purpose. (Sort of like money and near-money in economics.)

The point of calculating water footprints like this is to determine the sustainability of current practices, it allows you to calculate how much of various crops can be produced with a certain amount of available water.

And that was exactly the point. These sorts of calculations are very meaningful to farmers who have to beg, borrow or steal that water.

California, this is what you get for attempting to support a massive population in a semi-arid region. (And not just the local population, you crazy fools export that food to places that have a water surplus.)

I agree that Gnome 3 out of the box is a bit of a train-wreck in terms of usability, but what I discovered is now that gnome-shell has been around for a while there's lots of extensions that make it highly configurable and I have to confess I like what I can do with it.

But what I can do with it is nothing like the default behavior. :)

T H I S I S S L A S H D O T !

*flying kick*

Not really, no.

Perhaps I'm just jealous that I don't have enough time to fuck around with dead platforms, but I doubt it.

Or you could stop fucking around with a dead platform and move on with your life.

So true, but a small part of me just died.

Looks like I'm slightly miss-remembering some of the history, the racing ancestry goes back to the 20s with the Supermarine S4 and S5, the first attempt to militarize this was the Type 224 that was specifically for a military test contract. This led directly to the Spitfire. (In fact Supermarine asked the RAF to reserve the Spitfire name while testing the 224.)

I don't remember where I read this now, but my recollection is that the designer R. J. Mitchell viewed Spitfire as a direct descendant of the racing planes from the 20s.

The Spitfire started life as a racing plane design in 1931 based on previous successful designs, the actual Spitfire was demonstrated in 1936 and went into production in 1938.

Given that this 100p was still not even flight worthy in 1939 it seems it would have needed five to ten years of development to turn it into a production combat aircraft.

Even the Mustang P51 took four years to go from concept to production and that was a major manufacturer under war conditions with government backing.

It's a fantasy, there's no way an aircraft that was so experimental in 1939 that it couldn't even fly could have been refined, militarized, produced in reasonable numbers and trained for in time for the Battle of Britain.

Which they were already doing (Which you probably knew or you wouldn't have mentioned it.)

I actually grew up within walking distance of one that stayed operational as a municipal airport. Coincidentally 15 years ago I met a British veteran who had trained there towards the end of the war. He had fond memories of his posting to Canada.

I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find the internet is full of wack jobs and grammar Nazis!

How about a complete lack of evidence?

But I'm sure that's going to be as successful an argument with the Bitards as it is with anyone who believes in things without evidence.

I assume you're joking

I would have guessed that US-UK relations have taken a turn for the worse due to Dell customer support.

Spriggs said he was stuck in traffic at the time, and therefore it would have been impossible to be driving recklessly.

He has also said that he opposes phone calls and texting while driving and would support reckless driving charges for mobile phone users where appropriate, but this was not one of those cases so he challenged the ticket.