Insightful, my arse.

I'd like to say that you are living in cloud cuckoo land if you think this is anything to do with following banking regulations, but it's clear that in fact you're just bending reality to fit your dislike of OWS.

Some is, but you can find terrible beer pretty much everywhere, eg San Miguel in Spain, Kronenbourg in France, the stuff they sell as Stella Artois in the UK.

Strangely, these tend to be the most popular beers.

Dunno where TFA got the idea that beer is $2.45 a pint in France though: $6.50 is nearer the mark.

I once paid €10 for a 'pint' in Paris ($12.87).

This claim is about SOx and particulate matter, so is concerned with acid rain and smog, not global warming.

If that were really the problem in this case then the Facebook website would have exactly the same issues, and you'd have to download a Facebook client app for desktop use.

The real problem is that browsers on mobiles still suck.

Here's a link.

Would have thought the editors could have done this...

Another data point supports the correlation!

I don't know anyone in the UK who trusts the government.

But what to do? Vote for a Labour government, who lied about WMD, tuition fees and lots more, and introduced police-state bollocks like the RIPA?

Or opt for a Conservative-led government, who lied about the NHS, pension age, child benefit, reining in the banks, and lots more, then introduce police-state bollocks like the Draft Communications Bill?

Oh, they grasp this very well.

But the fact remains that the UK electorate has a choice between shit and shite, and the politicians know it.

I despair of the UK political landscape. And the rest of Europe is going exactly the same way.

There's plenty of research on herbal medicine. Searching pubmed for arnica alone gives me 15 pages of results. Among which I find this one which shows arnica to be less effective than placebo on muscle strains: it makes muscle strain worse.

Companies which produce herbal remedies also have huge piles of money, why don't they spend some of that proving their remedies work? Hint: it's because they largely don't work.

Many effective pharmacological do compounds come from plants. These are isolated, tested for safety and effectiveness, and -- if shown to be both safe and effective -- become 'medicine': Not herbal medicine, but actual medicine. Think of taxominofen, isolated from yew plants.

'Herbal medicine' is the practice of prescribing unknown quantities of a substance of unknown purity without understanding the mechanism by which its' supposed to work. You can have that if you want, but I don't want the NHS paying for it.

I don't doubt it.

I suggest that what happened was this:

Having found nothing wrong in your daughter's ears, the doctor ran out of ideas and/or patience, so prescribed a placebo in the form of homeopathy.

Your daughter's earaches then stopped due to the body healing itself, or due to the trigger for the pain passing. For example, tooth pain often presents as earache (it's called 'referred pain', in this case 'referred otalgia'), toddlers have emerging teeth, particular teeth finish emerging, otalgia goes away. The doctor could examine your daughter's ears as much as he likes: if the pain was referred, he would see "nothing wrong", as the problem is not in fact in the ears.

Result: homeopathy appears to work, but in fact doesn't.

Far more likely than magic being real, IMO.

UK (imperial) pints aren't the same size as US liquid pints: UK pint is 568mL, US pint is 473mL. In other words, a UK pint is 19.2 US fl oz.

And an imperial fluid ounce is a 20th of an imperial pint, but a US fluid ounce is a 16th of a US pint.

Draught beer can only be sold in pints or halves in the UK, by law.

Please explain to a dumb non-american...

If freedom of expression is absolute, and not partial, why is Bradley Manning in prison?

And presumably the SCOTUS has ruled that threats against the president are a-ok?

Freedom of speech is not guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence.

Are you perhaps thinking of the Bill of Rights, specifically the first amendment to the constitution?

I'm not even american and I know this.

Check your facts.

However, in Genesis 1, plants are created before the sun, moon and stars. Birds are created before land animals.

This doesn't make sense.

However, it is said that the Jatravartid People of Viltvodle Six believe that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called The Great Green Arkleseizure. This picture of an inflationary universe is not inconsistent with the 'big bang' cosmological model.

So I shall teach my children a balanced view: to fear the Coming Of The Great White Handkerchief happening before the heat death of the universe.

Lordy. Talk about the pot calling the kettle beige.

And if you need to carry a tool to open handcuffs, why not just carry the tool designed for the job: a handcuff key?

Also, I'm not too keen on Elton's latest wig.