Haha, there is certainly no empire left, and while I'd like to put the last nail in the coffin with independence, the point still stands.

Find a global map where the UK isn't enlarged. Land mass doesn't translate to economic power and in turn power in the world.

The whole of the UK is enlarged on almost every map and thus is not in scale with the rest of Europe. My main point though is, who the hell cares?

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

Not cool BBC, not cool.

All fun and games till your forced to hand over the SSL key and then all that encryption is pointless.

Thank you for this! Was looking for a reference to it.

In the store. Google made some changes to Webkit a while back to improve Adblock, before Adblock used to still have to download the ads, then block them. Some changes Google made allowed the ads to be blocked before the ads were fetched.

No. It's currently providing free health care to everyone who is within the NHS's remits. The quality of care however is being degraded, for ideological reasons. That is the issue. I'm going to make the assumption, you're not a UK resident (well frankly it's obvious). An ageing population is a minor factor, nothing more. The simple fact is funding has been reduced, and is nowhere near in line with the rate of inflation. Therefore, more is being expected with less capital. Which has created a massive strain on the system. The political will for a proper, well resourced, nationalised health service no longer exists unfortunately.

I challenge you to find a source for that, I dare you. No, wait, I double dare you! Ironically, immigrants subsides benefits for the rest of the rest of the UK. http://niesr.ac.uk/blog/migrants-benefits-and-public-services-what-does-new-research-evidence-tell-us

The NHS is currently underfunded, just now the government in charge would love to abolish the NHS purely for ideological reasons. Since the global recession, politics in the UK has been fought over the issues of, public spending cuts, cost of living, the welfare state, immigration; the NHS has been shunned to the side and because of this has allowed funding to minimized. A (phony) promise was made by the government back in 2009 to protect NHS spending, an increase in spending was in fact claimed but the truth is polarising.

It's privatisation in the back door, under fund it, make it under perform, all of a sudden privatisation becomes an easy argument to make.

Google just need the data which users give away when using Android. All those searches, GPS data, emails, whatever else users are subconsciously giving away so Google can turn every user in to a product to sell to advertisers. As mobile becomes more and more prominent, Google is going to have to have rely more on Android to bring in revenue. Any plans which could negatively effect their market share is completely out of the question.

One day Android will lose its market share and it'll be the first sign in the fall of Google ad business.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC is selling them. Their profits, believe or not, go right back in to the BBC! Why don't we just start giving away DVD's of the Top Gear while we are at too?

Is there anything real terrorists didn't know before that they know now? It is in the public domain the laws like The Patriot Act means the American government can go to Google and ask for the emails from whatever account they want. Of course they are going be using services out with America and her allies control. All these leaks have shown is the general public is the real enemy of the state.

No, I know that. It was more to do with the AC comments about Linux gaming through OtherOS being advertised. Which was virtually impossible due to no access to the graphics card and cores being locked down on the CPU.