What, you mean apart from Admiral Hopper?

You're also ignoring the historical position of women in society - less likely to be educated, strongly discouraged from working in engineering type roles, would find it harder to raise funds to develop inventions, etc. It's hardly a surprise that the men with their access to education, encouragement and funding would achieve much of the progress.

Yet, comically, over half the people recruited for FTSE100 boards in the past two months were female.

(quoted this morning on the BBC by a woman on some organisation that monitors/helps boards in the UK)

If Fox can't generate sufficient revenue to continue broadcasting, because people are skipping ads, then Fox should stop broadcasting.

They shouldn't sue people that aren't watching the ads.

That expectation that the law must protect their outmoded (and exploitative) business models is what fucks me off so much about the media industries. Find a new business model. Find a new business. Engage and embrace your customers, because clearly they want to watch Fox, they just don't want fucking adverts.

hmm. I have an app installed on my phone that lets me press a single button and it'll use the microphone on the phone to listen to music playing, identify the artist and the song, and give me a link to purchase the track there and then.

I don't tend to use it to buy the music, but I do use it to identify and remember it, and do more research when I get home.

So for instance, at lunch on Thursday last week, the restaurant played
- Emeli Sande: Next to Me
- Caro Emerald: That Man
- John Lee Hooker: I Love You Honey

All three of which I'm pondering acquiring so that I can dance to them, none of which I'd even have known the artist for had I not had that app.

Petrol's just under $10 a gallon here, and non-carbon electricity costs over 15 pence/KWH if I buy it from the grid.

I don't have water flowing through my property, I have planning regulations, neighbours and limited availability making wind power complicated and expensive and if you think solar power's a viable option then you're a fucking lunatic.

So yes, cheap reliable energy available to me right now is carbon based. The fact that some other people in other places with different infrastructures, different weather patterns, different legal and regulatory frameworks and different energy needs can get non-carbon electricity for 6c/KWH is frankly irrelevant.

I can't, it's not an available or viable option, and I'd be fucking delighted if it was.

Nope, can't (legally) fly, but the lessons would be fun.

nah, it's a list of possible things. I don't want to do all of them. I wont do some of them.

Apparently you can get it free over the interwebs.

All companies offering investment services in the UK include a statement approximating:

(taken from an actual investment sales website)

So you know, I'm kind of feeling uncharitable to you. You were trying to make a quick return and didn't execute your deals fast enough. Tough.

Invest wisely and you'll be fine. Gamble and you may lose. You lost.

Hmm. Things I've considered as I approach my 40th:
- partner dancing (I went Modern Jive and WCS, but whatever works for you)
- round the world cruise
- hiking across south america
- buying a biplane and flying to south africa (from England)
- becoming a gigolo
- go gay for a bit
- get a new job
- suicide (ideally after blowing my entire net worth and whatever loans I can raise on some or all of the above)
- motorbikes (like fast cars, but faster, cheaper, and often negate the need for the above option)
- shooting shit (I use a bow)
- start a business

Several of those aren't really appealling to me, but it'll be more fun if I let you imagine which.

Yep, I was saying.. I can't purchase or generate sufficient power for 6c per kwh. Nice for you that you can. You probably pay less for petrol too, and have a bigger house. Can I come and live with you?