Sorry, I meant that the spending capability is there if the financial case justifies it.

And no, there aren't massive swathes of potential avenues of attack. There are only the pathways that bacteria don't share with humans where the drug has no other toxic effect. There will be new antibiotics - no question - but its questionable whether there will ever be another sulphonamide or penicillin.

We did have a little thing called "smoking" which was quite popular in the 20th century. A second order effect was something called "industrialisation". Another second order effect was the fact you became ten times less likely to die of accident or disease. Yeah, certain cancers in certain cases are driven by environmental exposures, and other cancers have trends we don't have explanations for. From there to "it's getting worse" is an unsupportable leap.

No. The iPhone was announced January '07. The glass replacement was decided in early May. The release to consumers was the end of June.

A large part of the quadrupling is simply increased survival at all ages increasing exposure to cancer inceptions, plus better diagnostics of boring, non-dangerous cancers.

Wrong. Antibiotics as a chemical class are pretty much played out. There is plenty of funding for research - big pharma would love a MRSA killer. The substances simply don't exist.

(1) You don't know they would be dead. (2) If that criminal was rehabilitated and changed his ways society would be better off.

Sorry, falls in particular is a ridiculous number to cite. Everyone that doesn't die of a heart attack or car crash or random shooting will have a serious fall before they die. It's pretty much what happens when you get old (indeed it's one of the main ways you find out that you're getting old). You're effectively citing the number of people who had health issues in the couple of years before their death.

I did mean to keep writing there, but on the other hand I think it stands quite well as is. Jobs.

That is *exactly* what happened when the first iPhone launched. Jobs

Oh, it's quite easy to get the mods to find your comments insightful. Generally something pedantic will do it, especially if it involves something rude and untrue abut women.

Actually, GP, had the right etymology - in Italian it would be scenari - but he did blatantly make up a plural that is not used in English. Hypercorrectness is a fault, not a virtue. It confuses your audience and leads them to doubt your accuracy. Kinda silly, really.

Your comment sounded kinda insightful, apart from your use of a made up word 'scenarii'.

Quite. I cycle in central London. I would die every other day if I didn't take responsibility for dealing with other drivers' mistakes.

You can get a Sansa Clip+ for £20-30 plus a 128GB microSD card for about £60. Slap Rockbox on it and you've got something smaller and with better sound than an iPod.

Damn kids. Push off and don't come back till you've been here since '98.

How does blowing up a roundabout prove anything? (I haven't watched Mythbusters, but I gather this is how they test everything)