Speaking of Wakefield...

Be sure to use your green pen.

The figure given in parliament yesterday was around ~2500 people/couples who could be helped by this procedure. It's all there in Hansard, along with the list of who voted which. No prizes for guessing which side the Rees-Mogg gang were on.

Just how can you own land anyway? You can certainly go back quite a long time in terms of trades and sales but sooner or later you get to a point where the land was seized by the man with the bigger gun/spear/stick/rock.

If it really works people won't give a damn about patents.

Are the BT routers used now combined router/modem or do they still need the separate fibre box?

About minus $50 trillion... supposedly.

The ballot box has nothing to do with euros, dollars, or what...
Who am I kidding?

It seems the singularity has been and gone, yet nobody noticed.

I imagine it's because the relays are either in the engine compartment or hidden behind so much interior trim that they're inaudible. Either way a separate buzzer would be needed. In older cars the flasher unit was easily accessible and there wasn't nearly as much stuff behind the dash..

Call me when you can hack it to sound like George Jetson's hovercar.

If you don't notice a flashing green light barely in your peripheral vision I would start to wonder if you ought to be driving at all.

Kirk: "Where's... ... Mr. ... Spock?"

...

Kirk: "Good girl."

Sends a shiver down my spine.

I don't know about sad, but it's hardly surprising. On the one hand you have a group of people who greatly enjoy the source material and want to make more of the same for likeminded fans, while on the other hand you have a bunch of money-grubbing studio execs who want to make big bucks by milking a franchise and simmering it down to the lowest common denominator.

The problem with Abrams is that he left it on the heat too long and had to fill out the mixture with leftovers from his other movies.

I've really enjoyed them so far. For me they rank in order of air date: the first one was pleasing mainly for the return of Apollo and the actor who played the role in TOS, the second is a really solid story in the original style helped no end by casting Lou Ferrigno as on Orion slaver and an admirable performance by (sorry, had to look this up) Fiona Vroom* and the third was an excellent continuation of Mirror, Mirror.

Vig Mignogna plays Shatner to a T and easily surpasses him in the role of Mirror Kirk, while Chris Doohan (yes, it's his son) has obviously spent many an hour watching his old man and gets the accent just right. The series as a whole is well worth watching and I'll definitely be throwing some money their way if it means I get to enjoy more of the same; the show has clearly been put together by people who have spent far more time watching the original series than I. There are a number of small guest appearances that will bring a smile to your face, not least of which is Michael Dorn.

*Points also earned for having such a cool name.