If someone claims to be Napoleon, rational debate will not make him any less certain that he is a short and somewhat acquisitive European emperor.

Mods, this isn't trolling, it's a sensible question, one that I'd love to know the answer to.

If it comes from Bennett, RUN LIKE HELL.

I would like to sell you this contract to buy my share in three days. Price: that of one unit of stock.

Also, most of the solutions here forget that you can sell stock anywhere, including under the shade of a buttonwood tree. Make the exchanges illiquid and people will just fuck off elsewhere.

No, I don't think that is a reasonable expectation. Reasonable expectation is that of a dispassionate, rational person.

I would be curious to know the proportion of nominally airgapped machines that in fact have storage devices, etc, inserted and removed regularly. The cynic in me says, quite high.

Yah, and I hope you told your insurer that you're dicking around with your car's electronics, because if not good luck getting coverage when you do kill someone.

Actually, constructing an argument at common law that the unwritten contract includes the photographer only doing what the subject might reasonably expect at the time it was taken would not be difficult or beyond the wit of the courts. As far as I know no-one's gone down this route yet.

Insurance never covers your whole costs - its an extremely important principle that insurance should never make the insured event as desirable as it not happening. Besides, crashes are not good for your passenger numbers.

One question for ya. Are the people paying for SAR the same people who'd be paying for the trackers? Oh. Thought not.

One London council. There are about thirty of them covering different areas of Greater London.

Hi, care to present the calculations you did to establish statistical power? No? The please stop talking about statistics as if you understand the subject as opposed to parroting pop-stats bullshit.

They kept it quiet to try and find the rock before a collector did.

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