In the UK, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act means that past offences get wiped from your record after a certain period of time depending on the nature of the offence. In some cases, it is never wiped from your record.

The two launch markets for the MotoE were the UK and India. That appears to be where they are most popular, not USA.

Well no end user deals with Visa directly. You have to go through an intermediary, usually a bank, and Paypal is one of the intermediaries you can use.

People deposited fiat money with MT Gox in exchange for Bitcoins, however MT Gox did not have enough Bitcoins in stock to give them out to all the people that bought them, so the Bitcoin denominated account balances at MT Gox were liabilities with limited assets to back them. They relied on the fact that most people would not withdraw their Bitcoins, therefore it was a fractional reserve system.

The difference between banks and MTGox is that while banks also use fraction reserve, the full liabilities are backed by assets in the form of loans they have handed out, and security on the assets of the borrowers such as property. At the time of the financial crisis, those assets and collateral were not sufficient to cover the fractional reserve liabilities, but at least they had something, unlike MTGox which had nothing to back the fractional reserve liabilities.

Governments do generally recognise that you can steal things other than legit currency.

The problem is that you still need PayPal or a similar system (such as BACS, SWIFT, Visa etc) to get your fiat money to the exchange.

No, the police can do a "stop and search", and arrest if they find something.

A helmet cam would only show footage of the cubicle door, Not particularly interesting.

My water bills tell me I use about 47 cubic meters (approx 61 cubic yards) of water per year, so a cubic yard would last me about 6 days.

Desalination is usually done by reverse osmosis. You need a pump of some description to do that. A solar array could provide the electricity to run the pump or power some sort of steam engine.

I have a 9 year old Canon IP8500 on my desk for photo printing. Everyone is really impressed by the quality of the photos it produces, and I realised last year after replacing its worn-out printer head that it is getting pretty elderly.

The thing is, printers haven't really improved in the last 10 years. They now have ethernet and wireless/airprint as standard whereas my museum piece has USB only. But they a lot cheaper, a generally worse quality. If I had to replace my printer with something the same quality, I would have to get an A3 printer, which wouldn't fit on the available space on my desk.

The cost of consumables for my printer works out about the same as taking the photos to Snappy Snaps for printing, and the resulting quality is about the same, but I much prefer a trip to the paper drawer 4 meters away to a trip to Snappy Snaps in town during opening hours whenever I want to print photos.

The Yahoo services I still use are uk.finance.yahoo.com; and sometimes the equivalents from other countries. It hasn't changed, and that's a good thing.

Also the Yahoo Weather app on my phone. It has changed, in a good way.

I don't know why you would want to add 9 + 40 to get the value of Core Yahoo.

Yahoo Inc (value $a) owns Core Yahoo, of unknown value $b, plus shares in YJHI (c%) and YAHI (d%).

To get the value of Core Yahoo b, you take a - ((9 * c/100) + (40 * d/100)) to get the result.

With a car battery, or a laptop / phone battery, you care about kWh per cubic cm. With a grid storage battery, the amount of space it takes up isn't that much of an issue, but you do care about about how much of the kWh you put into the battery you get back out, and how much it costs per kWh of storage.