The science often does boil down to measuring the average speed. It's not really practical to do an assessment for every mile of tarmac out there.

Here is a good read. It's about preventing accidents generally, but the author makes a few good points about those times when road saftey policy is decided with no real consideration of how people should drive or how they actually do.

For the sake of argument, why should they? Why should any company be forced to distribute a competing product? It's not like it's at all difficult to install a browser of your own choice.

Democracy according to C. S. Lewis.

It is when you flip past all that damn singing. I found myself watching the film in the same way: skipping boring parts far more often than I'd like.

You're not missing much, basically just Archer doing his usual huff-and-puff self-righteous speechifying and Tucker once again reminding us that he's been in space before. A weak episode even by Enterprise standards.

Allow me to share a thought with you...

Oh. Sorry, I can't seem to remember what it was.

No, we've actually seen the programmes in question so, apart from Doctor Who, we be uninterested in seeing things that have been on the television for the past twenty-odd years. Domestic developers probably know that this park is something that will get a bit of interest for a few months then devolve into a ghost town, peopled by a handful of foreign tourists who've already been to Buckingham Palace.

It's easy: pass a law. Whether it's actually possible or practical is irrelevant; he'll have already earned his political brownie points.

see: The Politician's Fallacy.

Then what do you call R2D2?