And if it has "People's" there's an implied "A small number of " before it.

Funny how they fail to get the behaviour part, isn't it? Most of the things that'd get you an ASBO in the UK would get you at least a misdemeanor conviction in the US.

Unless you're black, in which case they shoot you.

There's a reason why Eastern territories of Russia are sparsely populated. The chief reason is that it simply makes no sense to live there.

Presumably that wasn't case until fairly recently, or there'd be one hut instead of a few hundred.

Are these sparsely populated areas of Canada (which we all knew about, thanks) full of formerly thriving ghost towns? Outside of areas where there were gold rushes the answer is "no".

Did you actually read my post before replying?

As England goes, so too shall America go.

Funnily enough, we see it the other way round.

We never really had McCarthyism but I'm sure we'll get our version of the Patriot Act soon enough.

The writing style looks more like Fry.

Clarkson, in a bookshop?

Sadly they seem to have taken 1984 to be an instruction manual vs. a work of fiction.

My, that's original!

Doesn't he say "No man may harm me, harr harr", at which point she takes off her helmet, shakes her gingery-blonde hair and goes "I'm a girl, LOL!" and then pwns him good and proper?

It's like Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, there's a really good five and a half minute song in there somewhere.

I saw a TV program some time ago about how depopulated some parts of Eastern Russia are. There was a village that looked like it had 300 people in it; there was just an old couple.

If that's typical the Chinese could simply walk into half the country and it'd be months before anybody even noticed.

Off the top of my head, they'd buy them on the secondary market, and via proxies or other intermediaries.

I'm sure there are other ways.

When Russia sells petroleum to Germany, the transaction is completed in USD, ergo both parties need to have USD on-hand in order to trade.

Why does the seller need them on-hand? He's going to get some as payment.

It is what it is because a bunch of people got talking about problems they were having with their Linux set-ups and decided that the best way to solve their problems was to re-implement a few system components under the umbrella of one project.

It may be the best way to solve their problems. But if I'm suffering from these problems, I haven't noticed yet. So I'll take the status quo over a half-assed solution that's been in existence for a shorter period than some people's uptimes, thanks all the same.

Forcing is probably too strong.

But you'd be surprised how much shit a charismatic person in the wrong place at the wrong time can cause.

If you'd bothered to read the document you failed to link to you'd see it's not standard at all. At least three different units are in use.

And if you'd paid attention in maths class, you'd know that 0.075 and 0.075% are not the same thing.