The summary is misleading; the act will probably pass on Tuesday, and the provisions will be restored. It's depressing how completely dishonest this story is.

Yes it does. Litigants in person in the UK can claim £18 per hour for their time. If you hire legal representatives they can claim for their time

Costs also depend on parties being reasonable; court should be a last resort, so even if you win if you are unreasonable you may not get any costs awarded, or a nominal amount.

Testimony of something you have witnessed is not hearsay, at least not in the UK.

Yep, you've hit it on the head: the fashion world heavily depends on hyperspecific brands. A parent company may own an immense number of outlet identities that aim to cater to a specific submarket. Hot Topic is a good parent company for ThinkGeek because their model is already built around faddish, meme-driven trends (as you said), but the two target audiences have little enough overlap that this will be a substantial diversification to their marketing reach.

It's exhaustingly parodical—and entirely targeted at those who are sick of the book. Jasper Fforde has been hailed as a suitable compatriot to Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Judging by covers, etc.

"Council housed and violent" - police slang from the 90s that made it to mainstream referneces in the UK.

Extending on this, there is at least one book where time travel is invented following the discovery of a recipe for unscrambling eggs.

WEll, not in the UK. If your income is below ~£10k p.a. you will pay no income tax at all.

I imaginme the IRS has a similar level at which under this point you pay no tax to them.

...well, maybe they weren't happy with the specifics of the Nationalist-Socialist platform. (I bet it was the anti-smoking mindset.) It's not quite as if neo-Nazis have a monopoly on profound racism, or even a monopoly on holocaust denial. Sometimes it's just desirable for the sake of some local variety of nationalism to pretend the Jews weren't as abused during World War 2 as they actually were.

...But it's okay, because he actually died years ago; no one has bothered to check because he continues to emit information.

You repeating the same crap as before doesnt make it true

Youre ignoring the deaths from rota arent you, again. Becuase it destroys your argument.

Vigorous!

Maybe unlimited storage of email text?

Not sure that that is the correct distinction. When I posted the original submission, the distinction I was specifically talking about was applicationsthat run as distinct pieces of software, and applications that run completely in the web browser.

Also, Harvard isn't the only educational institution with 11 figure endowments.