Thanks to the EU and its various treaties, the word 'queen' doesn't mean anything anymore. She may still be referred to as such, but she is now a citizen just like the rest of us: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/06/royal-assent-of-treaty-of-lisbon.html

Those who want corruption make sure that government departments have corrupt leaders.

Mod up please. Natural people (human beings) are not 'people' in the legal sense. Legally, a 'person' is an entity that can have rights and responsibilities ascribed to it (as far as I understand, imagine the slave trade, slaves weren't 'people' - they had no rights - though I may be wrong).

Also, a human being cannot do business with legal fiction (a coporation) so your 'Person' (a legal entity created upon certification of birth) is there for that reason. A strawman used to enter into the commercial world.

Everything's a company of some description; countries, states, ministries, councils. The entire subject is a pretty eye-opening rabbit hole.

True. So really the size should be compared to other web servers, not other browsers.

For Windows versions, the current 'release' version of Opera (9.64) is 5.4MB. The beta (10.00b1) is 6.6MB. Firefox 3.0.11 is 7MB.

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=32022 http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?ver=10.00b1

I uploaded a 1x1 pixel black image. It scored 24.6. I then uploaded a 1x1 pixel white image, which scored 41.7.

Looks your rating is accurate :)

+1 insightful.
Concise and spot on.

Is this to the tune of 'O Caaaanada'?

Indeed; the 'Great British Apethy'. I'm not far behind you..!

If they're doing what? I'm not sure I follow...

Well, to be fair, your Treo was just an example you gave. Do you use Firefox, NoScript and Cookiesafe on your Treo?

Or, you could add the known Google advertising URLs to your hosts file, with the added benefit of adwords javascript not loading at all. Personally I do this as well as block cookies from the google.com domains.

Do you see the pattern there? 4 or 8 year terms. One comes in, does some bad stuff, gets removed. The successor is the popular choice (and B.O. was a popular choice in a mass-hysteria kind of way). No government is going to reduce their own power.

I don't think it really matters who comes in - as some say, they (reds and blues) are just two arms of the same body.

Oh, I know. The world is a corporation and the corporation is everywhere :)

I suppose I'd move to somewhere much less alarmist and less abusive of the system. Somewhere on the continent - Turkey, perhaps. I don't know. All I know is that the way this country is going just downright scares me.