Authors don't have control over their work now. There are plenty of spoofs, fanfics, and porn versions of content that the authors hate. Do you think we should ban them too?

"Reptile" is such a broad, catch-all classification it's almost worthless. Dimetrodon, for example, has always been classified as a reptile, but is more closely related to humans than it is to any modern reptiles. Crocodiles are much more closely related to birds (and dinosaurs) than they are to other reptiles like lizards and snakes.

Ok, I'm going to stop replying to myself soon. It used to be brewed in north London between 1936 and the mid 2000's. And I agree with AC above about its "real" beer credentials being a little dubious now.

Oops, I'm wrong (about Guinness). All the Guinness consumed in the UK (and the US) is brewed in Dublin, apparently. I wonder where I got the notion it was brewed in England.

Nearly all the lager drunk in the UK is foreign - Carling is the only major exception. Some of the foreign beer like Fosters is brewed in the UK under license though. It is originally Australian, though, obviously.

Nearly all the "real" beer drunk in the UK is English, Guinness being the only major exception, though this is brewed in the UK too (though I assume Guinness drunk in Northern Ireland is brewed in Ireland, but I may be wrong).

1920x1280? When was that a standard?

Did you mean 1920x1200?

Why?

How will you using Sony's products without paying for them hurt them?

Really? If you could choose your penis size, what would it be? If everyone could choose their penis size, what would your choice be then?

I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.

Are there any intelligence tests in which people from sub-saharan Africa do come out on top?

For example, a Ferrari 458 with a paying passenger or a Kia Ceed with no paying passengers should not have different insurance premium for insurance covering damage to 3rd parties.

If every Ferrari 458 even previously driven on the road had killed a third party pedestrian, and no Kia Ceed had ever been in an accident, do you really think they should have identical third party insurance rates?

I realise this example is extreme, but there are some makes and models of cars that have higher risk to third parties than others. Charging more for third party insurance with these seems perfectly rational to me.

However, I do agree that the system has got problems. A few years back I asked for a third party quote for a used car I had just bought. It seemed a lot for what I was getting (just third party for me), so I asked if there was anything I could do to reduce it. It turned out that a fully comprehensive policy with my entire family as named drivers was about 200 pound cheaper. Yes, cheaper. I even told them none of my family were ever likely to drive the car, but they didn't care (three times they have driven it now, IIRC).

I haven't really paid attention the last few years, I don't know where they're plastering the ads these days.

The Internet.

I agree the text is way too large for viewing on a monitor

Really? It's perhaps a little too large, but not way too large. I sit about 4 foot away from a 22 inch 1920*1200 monitor - the entire web page is only two screens of text or so at this resolution.

Sapphire ***IS*** extremely true scratch resistant (as in the surface atoms resist displacement) because sapphire is BRITTLE.

Well... no. Sapphire is extremely scratch resistant and sapphire is relatively brittle. Just because something is scratch resistant does not mean it has to be brittle. Gorilla glass is, for example, both harder and tougher than normal glass. Diamond is both harder and tougher (iirc) than sapphire.

Third, in case you haven't notice, it is now more than a century we haven't discovered something that revolutionized the physics like relativity and quantum mechanics.

To be fair, quantum field theory was more recent. Also, relativity and quantum mechanics did _not_ revolutionise physics when they were first posited. They revolutionised physics when they became more accepted within the field. There could be a crucial major discovery that somebody made in 1995 that we'll only actually really notice and be able to prove in five years time. A year later, we'll be saying that there hasn't been a significant discovery in physics in the last quarter of a century.

But again, FTL is different. We have never once observed an object travel faster than the speed of light.

We have, in some ways. Light was slowed to 17 metres per second in 1998, and below 10 metres per second in 2004. People can run that fast.

I know, the speed of light in a vacuum is what was being referenced.