Actually one of the reasons I like to take the bus is that I can then use the time to do something useful because I am not driving. If I drive it would take ~25 minutes but I can do nothing but drive for those 25 minutes. By bus it is ~45 minutes but for ~40 of those minutes I can sit down and answer email, read journal papers, write course material etc. So while the bus may take longer I waste only ~5-10 minutes vs. 25 minutes when driving because I can do nothing but drive. For me the thing that will kill public transport is the self-driving car.

Greece lied to get into the Euro because it thought it was going to be richer with a stronger currency. The EU turned a blind eye to it because they wanted the Eurozone to be as large as possible. Both are now going to suffer because of it. The Eurozone countries are not going to get their money back and Greece is almost certain to exit the Euro and very possibly the EU since there is currently no legal means to drop the Euro while an EU member. At this point the best thing to do is make this happen as quickly and painlessly as possible.

The reason there has not been a new version released since then is because System VI couldn't run emacs.

If they really want it entirely sin free it will be easy to localize: a blank page is the same in any language.

I think this is the key point. The characteristics of electric vehicles make them ideal for "secondary" cars - the one you use to run about town in for commuting, errands etc. We spend more on our primary vehicle because that's the one which has to be reliable enough to go long distances when we go on trips. However EVs are a terrible fit for this usage since they have limited range, limited recharge stations and slow recharging.

The budget we have for our secondary car is far less and we will typically buy second hand because reliability is less of an issue if you are only going short distances. While this would be a good fit for an EV there is little to no second hand market in these and, even if there were, the battery packs from several years ago had far shorter lives which is a concern for a used car.

Not so - 4th July 2015 is the third anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson! That's a far better excuse to celebrate than winning an armed conflict.

Actually it might make sense. The problem is that there are government capital controls on all the standard financial channels to get money out of the Greek banks. While BitCoin is terrible as a store of value it excels at being easy to transfer whether or not a government says that you can. If there is some mechanism to get your Greek bank balance converted into BitCoins then you can transfer these to a foreign exchange and convert them back to another currency - or even back into Euros but outside Greece.

Not really - remember that it is your government who decides which companies are too important to fail. So just make sure that you use websites that your politicians use and you should be fine!

...and then the government will pass laws making such rulings illegal and limiting the powers of the courts. Then you end up with messy infighting between the courts and government which introduces considerable doubt into who has the authority to do what which will undermine both of them.

Much as I disapprove of politicians saying one thing and then doing another there are times when it is necessary e.g. if the situation changes or politicians learn the true cost/implication of the promised action. This is why, in a democracy, the people get to decide. If the government can make a good case to the people as to why it cannot fulfill its promise then they can vote it in again, if not they can give someone else a chance.

Given the number of, sometimes contradictory, promises which politicians make any system where a court can force the government to fulfill a particular promise risks ending up as being government by the courts. This is bad because then you have government by whoever can afford the most lawyers.

Chrome (latest up-to-date version 43.0.X) on a Mac OS X 10.10.3. However it also occurs on Firefox 38.0.5 too (also on Mac). One issue may be your font size. If the icons are not obscuring the end of the title then try making your window narrower and notice how the icons slide gently over the top of the title text to obscure it!

It would also be nice if the icons for each story did not cover the title of the article on the front page too. How anyone though that obscuring the end of a title with icons that give a vague hint as to the topic was a good design I'll never understand.

It depends on how spread out the fallout is. Spread over a hemisphere it is not a problem but if small meteorite fragments streak over a city leaving a contrail of highly radioactive fallout it may be a big problem for certain locations even if nothing significant makes it to the ground. It is also worth pointing out that the size of a nuclear device capable of shattering an asteroid worth worrying about will be extremely large and multiple such devices might be required.

Actually this is only true if it is formed through some recognizably fair and democratic process. For example if it is formed based on a hereditary concerns or an unfair and biased electoral process the public outside of the group will probably feel free to ignore it as not representing the people it claims to represent. While this may not apply here the way a governing body is formed does play a role in whether people outside it accord it any legitimacy and respect.

You forgot:

3) Scatter radioactive fallout with

Still cancer takes longer to kill you that a massive asteroid impact followed by a decade of winter so I suppose it's a win?