If a tree explodes in the forest...

...and you happen to have a mirror handy, you might just catch it's light echoes.

Or the car handed control over to the human behind the wheel, but they didn't notice because they were on Gmail at the time.

Either you're one of those super-privileged people who live close to the center of London and Paris, or you need to add 1-2h at either end to get from your suburb to the high speed rail station.

A lot of suburban London is within 30 minutes of central London. Suburbs further out just have faster trains. I used to live outside the M25, and had a 23 minute non-stop journey, with a train every 10 minutes at peak times.

Which law makes circumventing it illegal?

Thanks for mansplaining that for me. You must be a hit with the girls.

Have you ever seen init scripts?

I'm still trying to get over the upgrade to systemd, you insensitive clod!

Even more fun when you're calling out to the shell from some other language.

Of course you can go back. This is not Apple we are talking about. Just download the image for the version you want, and the flashing tools and flash it.

am I supposed to ignore GNOME's outstanding interface designs?

Which ones would those be?

GNOME 2 had some good ideas.

Strange, I've never seen or heard of Kelvin bits being used in place of kibibytes.

Sport is only "expensive" because cable sports channels have upped the bidding stakes.

Rank by "Page views" rather than "Harmonic centrality" (whatever that means). John Lennon is at number 122 among humans, with Jesus trailing at 123. Biggest musician seems to be Ariana Grande at number 1 (only Robin Williams is bigger than her).

I guess there's a point to the "1532 have blocked this number" except that ALL the people you want to block come from undisclosed numbers/PABX/skype anyway

I get quite a few calls from known numbers belonging to my credit card company's marketing department trying to sell extra services or increase my credit limit. But Android already had the ability to set the ringtone for a contact to NONE.

There was no congestion charge in 2003.

The London Mail trains are basically running between the mail sorting centres and the major rail stations (for mail going and coming from London) and major post offices (for within central London). Unless Royal Mail also rents this company space in those locations for setting up their distribution network, their existing network is not going to be much use for them.