I am a smoker - and get hammered by the UK Government in tax.

As already stated here, if tobcco is _that_ serious, ban it. But then that will cause a black market underground whereby the smokers still smoke, but the tax man gets nothing.

Also, cynical as it may sound, the Governments think that by keeping people alive longer results in more tax, as like here in the UK, the retirement age keeps getting pushed up to longer and longer lifetime ages - luckily I am 55 now, and my retriement age is now 66 (it was 65 when I first started working 39 years ao). People of 20 years old will have to work until the age of 75+ before they will be able to retire.

The reason?

TAX.

I couldn't imagine being blind from birth - what a great story and a great guy. Hat's off to him and his work (that many sighted people couldn't do anyway).

...I was prescribed glasses for being short-sighted. After a few months of wearing these, I found my eyesight got worse and worse so I stopped wearing them.

I sort of trained myself to get around it* - and here I am now with still the same short-sightedness (usually first thing in the morning after getting up, or in bright sunshine on the street). But my eyes haven't got any worse since.

Try not to wear glasses but compensate - otherwise your glasses compensates your eyes and they will get lazy - and your eyes will end up dependant on them.

*I don't know how - I just sort of did.

What's the definition of a girlfriend?

A: Your future ex-wife.

"Here in the UK there is the Computer Misuse Act" So why did Gordon Brown recommend and Tony Bliar give Bill Gates an honorary knighthood? Where's the law there?

Don't forget U.N.C.L.E.

... all the compromised boxes to set up this DDoS network run MS software, and that is licensed, so you CANNOT sell what you don't own when you own it, even if you didn't own it when you owned it.

AGM But there was more stuff than this, like radar, Houston computers and the like controlling things.

The definition of 'computer' is something that computes - the first computers were human.

History is what the winners make it. So what to believe and who to believe is irrelevant - what you need to know if you was _there_ and saw it happen - that is where real history comes from.

Welcome to the new clear dawn (after 500 years when the bomb went off)

.... but then be put in a suspended state where no matter HOW many phone calls, e-mails, or other contact will you be allowed to get him back - even his Mother will be REFUSED until the investigation is completed, which incidentally will be 120 years. Only then will you get the body, minus interest and taxes.

That was me. Occam's razor.

NSA, GCHQ etc. must be running out of disk space. Get a MS to help out!

...Bill_the_engineer to troll this crap into /dev/null