Of course the UK is in the EU!
We're not part of the EURO but we ARE in the EU.

They're politicians, the only qualifications any of them are likely to have is one for "political science" or some other similar non-subject.
And they don't even need that, joe bloggs from down the street who left school with no o-levels could walk into the local political party office, join up, talk them round, get elected and become prime minister with zero qualifications at all.
(highly unlikely of course but he might be a manipulative charismatic bastard and pull it off)...

That's democracy for you.

It's happened.
In london. But that time it was after a bunch of armed gunmen took hostages in the iranian embassy.
1980, the SAS storming that is one of the iconic images of that decade.

The gayon...

After all it is composed of up strange bottom quarks... :)

"Agrajag: "Oh no, not again!""

Spooky. When I was reading your comment the thought of the hitchhiker's guide series vs film graphics sprang to mind.
The graphics in the original series from the late 70s were far better, funnier and flashier than the crap ones in the recent film.

IF demanded to answer an unanswerable yes/no question in court, the most prudent thing to say would be "Your honour, answering this question in the way that you demand would result in me purjering myself. I swore to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth and yes or no are not the WHOLE truth.There is no yes/no answer to such a question, it's far more complicated than that".

But this story isn't news for nerds OR stuff that matters.

Someone shot someone, who then died, so the first someone goes on trial for murder...

How is ANYTHING in the above a story that matters? Slashdot doesn't reportt every other murder,. If it did there'd be no room for anything else.
So why is this special?
Or is the implication that as he was neighbourhood watch, that was somehow a vindication that granted him more powers than the average man in the street?

I take it you've never seen "the matrix: dezionised"?
2 and 3 edited together, removing all traces of zion and various other tweaks.

Here;re some of my favourites...
Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay (The summer tree, the wandering fire and the longest road)
The winter of the world by Michael Scot Rohan (Anvil of ice, etc)
I'll agree with another poster here when he mentioned Taltos the Assassin (I got it in a single volume)
David Eddings' Belgariad and Malorian were good too... Preferred them to the sapphire rose books.
There're a hell of a lot more on my bookshelf but those are top of the list.
(I did like thomas covenant too,but that's had a mention already)

I DID like Robert Jordan's wheel of time... But I got stuck in one of them and never got it finished... And I found myself skipping whole chapters because I found the matt cauthon character utterly boring,

Just you try spending it.
"Sorry mate, I don't have any ningis on me"
Nobody's ever owned enough ningis to convert them to one pu and the galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.

Daleks haven't been challenged by stairs since 1988.
The sylvestor mccoy episode "remembrance of the daleks" had a transmat in the basement of a school used to transport daleks in.

First time we saw one float upstairs was THEN, not in the new incarnation "Dalek" episode.

And look what happened to Great Giana Sisters...
Real shame too, the game got a Crash Smash but then never made it to shelves (the spectrum version that is, I know the commodore 64 version managed to get released).

No system is perfect, but at least with this one, fear of losing a lawsuit can help stem the tide of frivolous lawsuits. Unfortunately, a lot of scumbag lawyers are doing the old "no win, no fee" thing now and the UK is beginning to look almost as bad and litigious as the USA.

Still got a bit to go before it catches up though, and as it seems america is still moving forward (backwards, shirley, Ed), the UK might be playing catchup for quite a while.

In the UK, the loser in such cases is often forced to pay the costs of both parties by default.

Which is how it should be.
Why should an innocent person be bankrupted by legal fees just because some greedy infantile pathetic idiot sued him when he didn't do anything that deserved suing?

Perhaps you should invest that money in building MASSIVE YACHTS instead. And then give the MASSIVE YACHTS away in a FREE random-telephone-number PRIZE. draw.