Not quite, The analysis demonstrated that if you've gone a little bit out of your way to get a certain type of pen, you're more likely to be a good writer.

Having worked in a call centre and knowing many others who have. It isn't the repetition or mind numbingness that causes dissatisfaction. Its the constant abuse from unreasonable callers that makes the job so unpalatable that you'd rather work in a real cesspool. It stems from the fact that most people are ignorant, arrogant, unreasonable and uneducated arseholes that are only ever constrained by the fact that someone will punch them for being such an arse to their face. When given a safe distance, they're itching to become the wankers they know they can be.

Working in a call centre really destroys your faith in humanity.

It was an unfinished buggy mess and if you buy the DLC, it becomes a slightly less unfinished but still completely buggy mess.

I've been playing Civ since before Civ had a number and Civ V is the only time I've actually gone back to the previous version because it was better. Civ sequels have always been evolutionary. A refining of the original idea. Civ V was a dogs breakfast of dumbed down non-civ games with a Civ coat of paint thrown over the top and used the name to try to make it sell.

Beyond this, the beyond awful AI. I mean what world leader says "Look at the wide open land, ready for an empire to expand. I will build two cities and no more" because that's exactly what happens in Civ V.

EA screwed Civ like they screwed SimCity. All we need now is for someone else to release Call to Power 3 that is basically Civ IV with an updated graphics engine.

The bar likes it because they don't have to handle the cash.

Actually the bar hates it because they're now having to pay merchant fees where as with cash, they didn't.

This means they have to raise prices, raising prices means they will lose customers. Its a total loss for them.

It was actually my sister who asked me to buy it.

So I wish upon you that your children place you in the dodgiest pensioners home that they can find on 60 minutes.

Yep. Great system, though a little awkward when tipping and they're standing over you staring as you go to push the 10- no, 15- no, [gulp] 20% button. Maybe that's why they don't tip much in Europe.

They dont tip much in Europe because everyone is paid a wage they can live off. I know, what a novel idea.

However with tipping a fix to that is easy. Just add the tip to the end of the bill before putting it into the machine. If you go the same route as the rest of the world this is what you'll have to do as the EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer, Point Of Sale) device will not be able to change the value of the transaction once it has been entered or passed through to the device.

Also the waiter doesn't stand over you. They give you the device then walk away like they currently do with bills, at a good restaurant wait staff will only step in like a well trained butler if you need assistance.

Often I find kids will eschew high tech toys in favour of a simple cardboard box. I gave my nephew a simple electronic drum kit for Christmas (it was to help with developing his co-ordination and to give him better musical tastes than his parents, so there was some thought into the gift) but he spent the entire day running around with the box it came in and having a ball. You wouldn't have been able to pry that box off him with a crow bar.

You dont need to get high tech toys for kids, they'll enjoy lego, blocks, matchbox cars and the like just as much as I did when I was a kid. Hell, one of the best things you had to play with was a large refrigerator box.

Gender stereotypes work both ways.

Other news exclusively for misogynists and misandrists at 11.

Distance isn't a problem. Most people dont exceed the range of average EV's.

The problem is recharging. If you run low on petrol 50 KM from home you it takes 5 minutes to refill, if you run low on electricity 50 KM from home, you need to charge for several hours IF and that's a big if, you can find somewhere to recharge.

The reality is, if you run low on charge 50 KM from home, it's time to call a flatbed with a traditional internal combustion engine. So how many carbons does and Isuzu straight 6 diesel put out?

Iron Maiden, Metalica, Rise Against. Take your pick.

Telling you that the volume should be set to very loud is redundant. Metal should always be played at full volume.

Plus its a good source of sodium... But it's also a source of radiation so a privacy minded person knows that helps the government track you.

Fight the power, eat nectarines.

On the flipside, this means I no longer need to worry about the hire car company coming up with bollocks charges against me for damaging the car or got a fine because their camera didn't capture any of it. Also if I'm in an accident it will clearly show who is at fault (and I'm confident enough of a driver to say it wont be mine), so they cant claim their excess until "the issue is resolved".

It may be a bit paranoid, but when I hire a car I use my own dash cam in it for these reasons.

Because "Revenue Raising" is a popular conspiracy theory used by speeders in order to avoid admitting what they do is wrong.

Fines are punishments, but as you said they're only punishments up to a point. This is why most western nations have a demerit point system. If you accrue too many points you lose your license. A craw that sticks in the sides of the revenue conspiracy theorists in Australia is the fact we long weekends are "double demerit weekends", not "double fine weekends". So if you get caught doing 30 over in my state, its a $800 fine and 6 points. Do that on a double demerit weekend and its an $800 fine and a suspension (12 points). In Germany higher speeding fines come with automatic suspensions.

I dont speed, not simply because its stupid and costs money but because I also race my car, track, drift and on occasion, rally cross. After this you begin to realise that doing 15 over isn't just silly, it's boring compared to sliding a car round a track.

In countries with sane enforcement policies its difficult to challenge a speeding fine if you were actually speeding. Australia and most European nations have a standard of evidence that makes it hard to deny that you were speeding.

10 years... They already have to subtitle most English accents on TV... And I mean a Londoner, not someone from Blackpool or Yorkshire.