If you can find it I thoroughly recommend the German film "The Lives of Others"

With a nick like that I'm sure a lot of stuff goes on your todo list

I believe that previously there was not enough evidence that the voicemail hacking took place. New evidence came to light which is what has spurred these court cases to take place.

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.