If they meant lifeboat, they would have called it 'pelastusvene'.

So sue me. If the district court judges here can stop laughing long enough, they'll sanction your lawyer and award me costs.

ESA replaced Ariane 4 with Ariane 5 -- the last A4 launch was 15 February 2003 -- for cost reasons. two satellites on an A5 for less that twice the cost of an A4 launch. Soyuz didn't start launching from French Guiana until 2011.

I've checked the data on my iPhone and it's crap. Zero hits on my apartment, zero hits on my office. Hundreds of hits on places I've never visited. During a trip to the UK, I seem to have visited locations arranged on a one-kilometre grid covering most of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire -- which is odd, because I just went to my sister's house. Good luck using that for anything worhwhile.

The monopoly has been removed here in the Netherlands, and the old monopolist -- now owned by TNT -- is going broke. States granted a monopoly on mail delivery in return for a commitment to deliver to every address -- the private companies only want the easy work, delivering in towns and cities. Once the former monopolist goes broke, mail delivery in rural areas will stop forever. To prevent this from happening, the Dutch government will eventually have to legislate -- tinkering with the business models of the competitors -- or accept that if you live in a village or on a farm, you have to drive to the nearest town to pick up your mail.

What allocation? You may as well fill your boots. Run your intertube red hot 24/7.

I was always taught that writing the code wasn't the difficult part of programming. The hard part was figuring out what code to write. That's where the "new Sanskrit" comes in.

Dear Mr Taxpayer, Your raw data is ready -- 220,000 DVDs -- where do you want them?

The correct term is digital elevation model.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model

My mistake. Got my maps and my models muddled.

data sets will be provided under COFUR (Cost Of Fulfilling User Request) conditions

Not, rabbits -- hares.

With stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.

It works through cloud cover and at night.

Don't worry. The reflection from your tinfoil hat will blind the radar over your house.

Infoterra GmbH will be responsible for commercial sales of the data. The German Aerospace Center deal with the scientific utilization.