They'll just give them Farmville credit or Facebook advertising credit instead. ;)

And there was me thinking it was a chocolate bar. :P ;)

I've been called out many times to clients complaining of slow computers. The reason they're slow is bloatware software like McAfee or Norton has been installed. These companies just prey on the gullible, then milk their victims yearly with extortionate amounts for yearly virus definition updates. I've lost track of the times people have called saying their computer is suffering from a virus, when it isn't and it's a hardware related fault. The media unfortunately help companies like McAfee spread so much fear about viruses that some consumers are frightened into buying their product. There are free options out there, many of which don't have such deleterious effects on computer performance and don't pop up with nagging messages each time the user wants to do something simple.

At least here in the UK there's a shortage of maths and science graduates who teach, because they can get higher salaries in the private sector. There's no controversy here about evolution. It's part of the curriculum they have to teach kids for their exams as well as related areas such as genetics.

You also have to take into account gravity though if you want a breathable atmosphere. At low gravities any lighter gases will merely rise (hence the lack of atmosphere at the moon). By tolerate slight variations, certain amounts (even in small quantities) of gases like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide or other things we find toxic would quickly make a breathable atmosphere unbreathable. The pressures and oxygen quantites you refer to are only for short term use. If people were to live and colonise these places, it'd have to be with a broadly similar atmosphere to that which we have on Earth as breathing for example 100% oxygen is eventually damaging.

You only need a licence to watch online if its live. If it's prerecorded (eg BBC Iplayer) - you don't. See http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104/ .

Sounds how I put it but better! :D If you look into any court case taken against licence dodgers you'll find that even though £1000 is a maximum fine the judge never fines them more than the cost of the relevant licence (eg B&W or colour). "but the guy's attitude when he was telling me this was completely unacceptable." Yeah, but you don't need customer service when you run a monopoly do you? From what I remember like many things in this country some of it is outsourced to a private company (whose aim is to make as much money as possible).

An atmosphere can be generated from what's there at the moon with the appropriate equipment. It's also far quicker to get to the moon than Mars. Mars doesn't have a breathable atmosphere either, although given enough time it could be terraformed. Mars is 95% CO2, 3% Nitrogen, 2% Argon + traces of Oxygen, Carbon Monoxide and water. Humans need it to be about (we can tolerate slight variations) 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% Argon and traces of others.

Do most TV licence holders have the understanding to decrypt a television channel though?

Yes I did try. Wasn't worth the price of a stamp for the response though.

Yes, as their letter actually suggested it. However you just get a form letter back stating they don't believe it because people lie to them. At the time the property had an aerial, I had terrible neighbours and was standing for local council. I suppose the frequency of spurious visits by TV licencing and the police might have been done for political purposes.

Don't worry I've since moved, although my uncle and Dad still have this problem. The TV licencing letters are twice as long in Wales though as they insist on making them bilingual. I really didn't mind them coming, I just found it disruptive and annoying (especially when at the time I was working from home and was losing money in the time it took me to deal with them).

How about the moon?

Yes, but do we need to listen to Vogon poetry as a result!? :P


"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

It seems that the BBC on this "slash and burn" of its websites (or bonfire of its websites) is keeping its core audience (all the kids stuff and stuff aimed at teens stays). However this client group isn't the one that pays the TV licence. In many cases people pay a TV licence and don't use the BBC's website or other offering (eg radio). The TV licence also goes to fund enforcement. As (when I lived on my own) I had no licence every so often a succession of strange men would come round, inviting themselves in to look for the "mythical" TV they thought was there. Each time the "quest for mythical TV" costing the licence payer 3.5% extra on their TV licence was a failure. Those engaged on the quest, left with sad faces, downcast and demoralised by yet another visit. In addition vast forests of trees were chopped down and red ink used for threatening letters, seemingly every few weeks. In this "Alice in Wonderland" fantasy TV licencing exists in they said "We can't trust people when they tell us they don't have a TV licence as some lie to us". Instead the humble people without TVs got persecuted by letter and people. Up was down, the ministry of the truth was the ministry of lies and Great Britain went on as it did before.