Can people stop selling it as 3D, it's sterescopic. The picture does not change when you move.

Using that logic every game is also optional.

640 qubits ought to be enough for anybody

Theyre also cutting subsidies for solar from spring next year

Read the post again. German company buying power from Norway.

I know this is an exception rather than the rule but a very close friend of my brother studied History of Art as he was passionate on the subject. He published several graffiti magazines (all profitable) during his degree and as part of his studies published an art book - photography of derelict urban sites, old hospitals, prisons, mental asylums, train yards, factories, etc. That was also rather profitable.

A degree like that gives you time to pursue something outside of the degree, something related perhaps, or something completely seperate.

Doing something you are passionate about, especially if you have the means, is much more fulfilling than doing a degree that you hate just to get a job.

That said, I studied Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics and now work as a Trader. I hated my degree (went from boring, to tedious, to purely abstract - Something I would enjoy as a hobby, but not on a schedule) but every bank wanted a degree to consider you for employement. I love my job, though lack of free time is a bit of a drain (and my bonsais have suffered, as has free time to dabble with computers) and am constantly challenged. My brothers friend is currently in washington working for Al Jazeera (he is a proper, proper Brit oddly enough) and loving it too. Different paths but both ending in careers that we are both happy with. Albeit by very different routes.

How about a few hundred metres underwater a few tens of kilometres out to sea?

The markets react.

Shares of E.ON and RWE are getting hammered, Renewable Energy Corp, Vestas Wind, etc are up sharply today.

Wear "A" Lilac

I'm still thinking of whether its worth going back to my 22" flat(screen) LaCie CRT currently in the attic.

2048*1536 - just glorious, but space is a constaint...

I believe in two basic things, freedom and helping those that cannot provide for themselves.

I am more than happy to pay my taxes, if I felt they were excessive compared to the opportunities afforded by living here, I would leave (the UK) and go live somewhere else, it is a freedom that I have.

What I don't like is supporting those who can and don't want to. Someone easily capable of work is not encouraged to do so unless the pay is fantastic compared to the national average. Someone on £20k a year - $32,500ish, would have £1,330 in their pocket at the end of every month before expenses. Someone unemployed living in my area would be getting up to £275 a week in housing allowance, around £60 a week in unemployment benefits. On top of that, the individual would be saving £100ish a month on council tax. So that £1,450 a month or so against £1,230 (after council tax) earned by someone working on damn near the national average wage.

Is that the right way to encourage people to get employed?

You have all those taxes in Europe as well... In the UK - top tax bracket is 50%, 20% VAT (in effect sales tax), 5% tax on higher value properties (read - anything in a decent area of London where a family can live), interest on mortgages is not deductible and bills for everything are higher than in the US. Car tax is ~$750 a year for a typical American car (based on emmissions here). Council tax (paid by each household annually) ranges from around $1,000 a year to $4,000+ depending on what a property was worth 20 odd years ago. Petrol (Gas) costs around $2 a litre - roughly $8 a gallon. Need I go on? The only thing thats expensive in the US is healthcare (though anyone who can afford it goes private here as well) and education at College/University level - and the UK is going that way as well.

So someone on $1,000,000 would be paying $800,000 tax?

I believe emigration would be in order.

It's not "unfair".

How is it "fair" to have some individuals paying in one year in tax what someone on lower income would not pay in a lifetime?

The system as it is is set up to quell social unrest and does a reasonable job of it

The wealth redistribution you are refering to is called "socialism" as far as I am aware, and I am not arguing against it, I am all for it. But please don't call it "fair".

And you decided to respons as AC... Fantastic.

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