It's an alternate reality story. WWII went on longer in this reality.

It's an alternate reality. WWII went on longer in this reality.

Except his work wasn't suppressed for reasons of national security. He made the discovery within and for an intelligence organisation. He didn't get screwed at all, he seems perfectly happy to have done his part for his country. Making discoveries like this to be kept secret was his job.

It's known as a Veblen good when just having the most expensive regardless of quality or improvement over cheaper goods as it shows you have the money to buy it and that is what people want to show off.

"In the UK, the Charity Commission for England and Wales ruled in 1999 that Scientology was not a religion and refused to register the Church as a charity" Except the UK doesn't recognise Scientology as a religion

Where do you see drug testing is carried out by rival teams? During the off-season teams test their own cyclists and will somtimes dismiss cyclists based on this. Tom Boonen was caught by testing within his team. Tour De France testing is centrally regulated, so if you hit the cycling big time then you need to hide it from doctors associated with no teams.

Of course if you think that only people who have protested this long were innocent then surely it makes sense for a guilty person to keep denying until the ends of the earth. In the end it's hard to tell using this sort of metric if someone is guilty or not. Sometimes liars will deny it until they're blue in the face, and sometimes innocent people will give up early when they feel there is no chance of people believing them.

The point is there are no strings, therefore no string bending. If you watch the video though you can see the the right hand uses a touch sensitive screen to control pitch etc. so you can simulate a bending effect. It's not a guitar, just an electronic instrument inspired and shaped by a guitar

Except something like Vista isn't comparable directly to Linux as it's like Linux + KDE + a bunch of other things. I'm not surprised no-one knows how all those things link together, it's a much larger scale codebase with a much wider set of design goals than Linux.

Except it depends on how the modules were originally tested. The study is saying that they break more than previously thought, rather than they break a lot. If they were originally tested in a stressed system similar to Googles and Google is finding that they have far more errors than they should then their study is still valid.

FTFA - "Naturally these rules are that you never say anything bad or negative about the company" Sounds like you can have a beer in the pub and discuss good new products, just not bad ones.

Care to post these odds and the credentials of the scientists involved in these calculations?

The point is you're not raising cattle or pigs in order to make the oil you're using an otherwise wasted by-product. Take for instance an old dairy cow that has lived past their efficient milking years or fat byproducts stripped for otherwise useless butchers waste. Also I would imagine turning sick animals into usable oil would be a better alternative to just burning them.

Not sure this really matters. Red Dwarf has always been low budget, and the later series (7+8 and to a lesser extent 6) where more money was thrown at it also corresponded with a huge dip in funniness. Generally speaking the same few rooms are used on the ship or often just Starbug. Growing up in the UK you get used to low budget comedies and high budget stuff just doesn't have quite the right feel; Red Dwarf always used to be perfect, incredibly low budget and relying just on script and actors to make it enjoyable. My favourite Red Dwarf episode ever was Marooned and that's just Lister and Rimmer in a single part of Starbug for the whole episode (with a Thunderbirds style crash at the beginning).

Wish I had mod points to mod this up. While taking photos of yourself nude and sending them around where they could eventually end up anywhere (internet, whole schools phones etc.) is not the smartest thing to do they're just following the most basic and driving of human instincts. Kids at this age probably don't think too forward into the future about consequences that lie ahead, but that's no need to say that exploring their sexuality in such a way was wrong. Education about the future consequences of making such pictures public or texting them is probably the right strategy.

When I first went to University (UK) the people who got into the worst scrapes (drinking too much to the point of being taken home by strangers and not remembering, having unprotected sex whilst drunk and not remembering) were usually from single-sex catholic schools who had been kept on a tight leash. Their first experience of the adult world was from the perpspective of someone who'd been sheltered from it.