I don't really buy into all the "OMG wage-slave conspiracy Rothschilds eleventyOne" shit, but this - the absence of basic financial education, on both sides of the pond - is one of those things that makes me do a double take.

I definitely remember being taught how compound interest works. I must have been younger than 10 - I remember the teacher and I changed schools at 11. It was in a separate subject he called "practical maths".

All those Xs and Vs and Ms were a right bugger.

Given some of the atrocities I've seen (including a few not a million miles from here) I reckon they'd be respectably mid-table.

Shouldn't it be the hundredandeleventyfirst?

And a gold sash? I watched that yesterday.

Key phrase: "If Gates sold all of his stocks "...

Because BYOD is totally hip, you dinosaur!

You mean we should say GNU/Android?

I donno, the Chinese seem to be willing to actually punish corporate executive and government official types from time to time.

I suspect there's very little overlap between those punished and those who are guilty.

When I say guilty I'm referring to the coruption etc. that they're charged with. Clearly they're guilty of being a threat to someone in power, or not paying the right bribes.

Metric bolts. If it broke down, they'd have to ship the tools in from Yoorp.

Yeah, next they'll be claiming that actors do it.

Need frosty piss? There's an app for that1111!!!eleven

And yet it required a remarkable degree of incompetence, a fair amount of luck, and financial and naval support from the French.

I'll bet we have plans to suspend the US Cons after Facebook goes down for 24 hours.

Make it a week and we've got a deal.

The problem with these "emergency modes" is that they run infinitely.

Wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

Speaking as a veteran (Not a raging libertarian) I can tell you that you would likely see entire units refuse to fire on American civilians. In fact we are taught to disobey unlawful orders.

Officer: fire!

[uneasy silence, some shuffling of feet]

Officer: They're cormanusts! And terrusts! And queers, probably.

Dakka-dakka-dak! Dakka-dakka-dakka dak!