I must be having a dull day. How are drilling rights a subsidy?
You have to pay for an exploration permit, spend massive amounts of money looking for oil, then spend billions more in drilling and exploitation. Quite a lot of that cost is in direct payments to governments at all levels for licensing, permits, impact assessments, regulatory compliance and now more than ever, public relations.

I just have a picture of old Wishbone in '49 climbing down off his mule and staking his claim. As he starts piling wash gravel, exercising his digging rights, Nelson Muntz walks past pointing "Ha Ha, subisidised bastard!"

I shudder when I hear somebody has shingles. I have had gaping wounds and broken bones. Nothing has ever approached the unceasing mind-searing agony of shingles. Nothing, not-ever. I genuinely feel for you.

You'd have to vote for the Sex Party and the Shooters Party right! Gotta be a great weekend right there! Leaking on the the wikis not-so-much.

Pleading "not guilty" is a "plea" to charges laid and read. It is not a statement of facts. It is a formal notification that you are going to make a case for consideration by the Court. On some charges, in a number of jurisdictions, you are not even allowed to plea other than "not guilty". Pleading is not and cannot be either a truth or lie.

So, when did he lie?

Bill Gates to call on the Prime Minister to get this nipped in the bud in 4 3 2...........doh he was there yesterday!

  http://www.news.com.au/national-news/prime-minister-julia-gillard-meets-microsoft-founder-bill-gates-in-canberra/story-fncynjr2-1226652083384

When did he do that?

The guys name is FOSS! Sorry it's late. Hehehe.

"give the Emperor whatever the fuck he wants."

I am intrigued by this version of the New Testament. I'd like to get my hands on a copy. I might even take up preaching if this a typical sample of the prose.

It would be awful to die all alone like that though........

"racist, sexist, homophone!"

It's all just personal taste of course, but that's the first thought I had when I saw those new Window's Nokias. ;)

My government issued compasses, prismatic, liquid damped, Barkers Francis, hand held, one, for the use of navigators, was marked in mils not degrees.
6283.1853 mils in a circle, but the U.S. military standardised this to 6400 mils to simplify things and everybody else had to go along with it or be shelled every day by "friendly fire" instead of just Saturdays.

Found a site that explains it thus:
"From the radian we get the mil, or mil-radian. This is another unit used to define angles. These are used by the military because an angle of n mils is n units wide at a distance of 1000 of the same units. So when viewed at 1000 metres a 3 metre long vehicle will appear to be 3 mils in length."

US Army - already secretly dealing it out in metric and keeping it classified.

63360. 5280 feet in a mile. 1760 yards, 8 furlongs, 80 chain. Being 1/10th of 1/8th of a mile makes it natural for a cricket pitch to be 22 yards. What could be easier than that and walking on your hands while whistling?

Not long after Imran was voted as one of the world's most handsome, or sexiest, men (I can't remember exactly) he was playing in Australia and felled by a low blow. He slowly buckled over and tried to relieve some of the pain in his groin and ended on his knees, face on the pitch.

Richie Benaud : That shouldn't happen to a Prince. There will be tears in the eyes of young girls all over the world tonight.
Rod Marsh: Well I should think there's a few tears in Imran's eyes too Richie!

Methods of getting out in Cricket: Laws 30 to 39

Bowled
Timed out
Caught
Handling the ball
Hitting the ball twice
Hit wicket
Leg before wicket
Obstructing a fielder
Run out
Stumped

A "wide" in simplest terms is when the ball is bowled so far to the side or above the wicket that batsman is denied a reasonable opportunity to score.
In other use: "The Slashdot Editor's life looks like being called a wide".

It is for now, Unobtanium. ;)