You're nuts. I've been driving a manual transmission for my entire life and was *never* told to put the hand brake on at a red light. In fact, I was specifically told not to, because it takes time to disengage and can impede traffic if you have it on when the signal turns to green. As for putting it in neutral, usually not. I leave it in 1st, with my foot on the clutch. That's a safer stall than leaving the car not in gear at all: if my foot slips from the clutch, the car will lurch and stall completely, and the engine will keep it from moving further until I turn it back on. My other foot is on the brake at intersections, btw.
There's a definite difference in this respect between North America and the UK - the UK has an amber "prepare to go" signal on traffic lights, North America does not. I'm pretty sure, just not quite 100%, that this applies to other European countries where I've driven. This is presumably a difference due to the prevalence of manuals in the UK (where some warning to get the car in gear etc. is useful), while the US and Canada have a majority of automatic transmission cars, so the extra signal is not as useful.
In any case, in countries where you are taught to put the car in neutral and turn on the handbrake at junctions, you are given fair warning to get the car ready to move again before the green light.
Just because the UK doesn't like to pay for music doesn't mean it's a failure.
From the Wikipedia page you linked to:
...it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 163,000 copies in its first week.
What are you talking about? I mean is there any need to bring nationalities into this, when they're cleary irrelevant?
I've joked about the same thing: that github is my social network of choice.
Unfortunately, my less technically-inclined friends took that to mean that I had joined a network exclusively for curmudgeons.
Yeah, I didn't make it clear in my original comment. Especially because I used the 'svn blame' command, as opposed to the less loaded 'svn annotate'.
I need to learn to be clearer in my wording, especially on the Internet, where nobody knows you're a dog.
Most diffs can ignore whitespace...
Using subversion, specifically 'svn blame' doesn't have such an easy time with whitespace. Sometimes I want to know who changed a line last (and created a bug) and re-indenting significantly reduces the value of that information.
All well and good until you want to travel, which is when I can the greatest appeal of reading e-books: why use all your weight allowance on dead trees when you could take this one lightweight device that has all those titles and more loaded on it? That said, e-readers have their own problems for travel, in that they cannot be left unattended worry-free like their tree-based counterparts. Go to a beach with a book, leave it on your towel to swim. Go to a beach with an e-reader... Hope there's a very low rate of opportunistic theft in the area?
Also, there are still those of us who like to have a device that can last a week or more without charging, like my trusty phone (bought in 2007, still going strong).
Going with '112' breaks a perfectly good standard in a country that at least has a standard phone number format. Try calling India sometime for an example of what a lack of phone number format standards can cause.
So everywhere else in the world should break their standard for the sake of the US? Implementing both seems the only really sensible route.
Isn't it as simple as this:
I also quite like what I read elsewhere in these comments about Sweden's system, where you aren't required to be paid for the first day of sick leave, which means the company doesn't (have to) pay for your hangover days.
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
