OK It's probably cheating because it's misinterpreted in a different language, but ... http://www.rathergood.com/elep...

I'd forgotten that site existed. Love it!

Translator here. Yep I've heard of that: original on the left, translation on the right. Let's see someone improve on that.

Sounds like vertical monitors are designed for people who use their computers lying down, so their sideways is up-down.
Actually it sounds quite appealing. I wouldn't need to get out of bed to work.

You're quite right to point that out, Sir. The correct expression is "post-typically".

I seem to remember that when I enabled my French modem/router as a hotspot in order to be able to use other hotspots, my bandwidth got seriously gobbled up by people who weren't me.
For all the use I personally make of hot spots, it just plain wasn't worth it.

Oh do so fuck off wanting to change the English vocabulary and then claiming history is on your side
Do you think the French say "gay orgueil" or "gay fierté"? They don't. They have two words for pride and neither matches. So they say "gay pride".
Which means what?
It means "gay pride" is a cliché. Jeez, talk about not doing oneself any favours.

I don't have a problem with people's sexual orientation, but is it too much to ask to leave the language alone.
Invent your own frigging word if "proud" (as it is HISTORICALLY defined) doesn't quite capture your meaning.

It is possible. Look at 'Grok" for instance.

OK that's fair enough, it does make a difference to how easily the problem is tackled once the infringement is discovered.
But I'm still not convinced that an irate copyright holder who finds their content on a Web page actually cares whether it's embedded or not, or should even have to care.

There is every difference between embedded content and linked content.
If you rip the video, store it on your site, then display it, there is absolutely no visible difference to the reader.
How do the underlying mechanics of how it got there change anything?

If only the voters could choose who gets into office.
Sure we get to elect a European parliament, but the European Commission is the body who issues the directives.
And they are appointed by the European Council.
And they are appointed by National governments.
And the only power the parliament has in all that is to veto the president of the Commisssion.
So what are the chances of my vote having enough clout to filter through to the Commission? Hell, if every country voted its government in unanimously, their impact on the commission would still be minimal.

I was at a house party a few years back where there was a Vietnamese girl who looked for all the world like a 15 year old. It turns out she was 25.
I commented on this a day or so later to a woman I know, who ventured to suggest that anyone who went out with her was obviously attracted to childish looks and therefore a dangerous, evil paedophile who should be locked up.
This might actually be true in the case of a genuine card-carrying paedophile, while at the same time a lot of non-paedophile suitors would be scared away. But what's the girl then supposed to do for a boyfriend? Go out with 15-year olds herself, making her the paedophile?

If you'd used population or economy instead of land area your point could have been valid without being misleading.
Germany, France, the UK, and Italy all have significantly bigger populations and economies than Spain.

You haven't looked into this fully have you?
http://www.oxforddictionaries....

The -ise ending is quite a recent introduction in UK English (c.1950), and from an etymological point of view is just plain wrong, as, incidentally, is the -yze ending in US English.

FYI the spelling is Britannica. Maybe you are confusing it with the two Ts and the one N in Brittany.

I put my PC together so long ago I can't remember how long. It's the same with the broom I've been using since God knows when.
OK, I'll admit I've changed the head a few times, and occasionally the handle too, but trust me it's still sweeping as good as ever!

Nods at your joke but points out that office is absolutely a French word.
I'm not saying it means office or anything, mind; at least not in the sense of desks, filing cabinets, inkwells 'n' stuff.