A lot of the time the question or information I was looking for is included in the preview text beneath the link, so I don't bother visiting the page.

"reviewing alternative theories" So teaching Pastafarianism creation, or Satanist, Wiccan, Buddhist, Norse (the list goes on) should also be taught as alternate theories? There's already a class for that, it's called Religious Education, it's usually quite distinct from science. It's a science class, where science is taught, a religious class is where religion is taught, if science was taught in RE, then there would be a mob of imbeciles clamouring to get it kicked out; yet again it signifies religious group's hypocritical nature.

Yaourt... *shudder*

The University of Leeds provides guidance/support for Linux users for connecting to their network and several other things, I don't know the extent of their support if I had a problem though.

There could be a degree of overlap between the people they follow on twitter and their real-life friends.

The Sky+ box offered by Sky can let you pause/rewind/FF live TV for an hour and even over that (I think it's dependent on how much you have stored on the hard-drive however), but the principal is there.

See, the older generations grew up with computers as these big, fragile things; you couldn't fuck around too much, otherwise something might break and it would be all your fault

My grandmother is at times quite frightened when she uses her laptop in case she 'breaks it', there have been quite a few times where she's minimised something or Windows has displayed a pop-up of some type and she's concerned to do anything in cases things go wrong.

My Acer Aspire One only has 512mb.

Scatter radiation is produced when the x-rays interact with mass (the patient) in addition to the x-ray beam being divergent; people wear lead aprons to protect against the effects of scatter radiation. I think the OP was more referring to how ultrasound is reflected from surfaces to gain an image and how x-rays have to pass through and attenuated by the patient then an image receptor is used to gain a useful image.

At ASDA they have company vans which are fuelled/maintained by the company with refrigeration units in the back; it's the same for all of the major supermarkets which do home delivery here, in the UK.

I use Openbox, none of this Unity, KDE, GNOME3 rubbish for me. Are DEs really needed?

So does that mean that we could venture to the edge of the solar system in under two years? (Two years comes form a guestimate from wikipedia image)

I have two monitors on an nVidia card in Archlinux, they work brilliantly. But I am using the nVidia drivers, which I have no objection to. Also, nVidia drivers come with this handy setup GUI dohicky.

Maybe the politicians do read books. It really does come across as an instruction manual for them.