Only during a hurricane when a falling tower (unlikely) could cause structural damage or injury.

Why does /. allow that troll to keep posting that shit? What happened to any form of moderation and control on here?

They're going to have to enhance the aurocorrect dictionary or it will make complete nonsense of Prof. Hawking's very technical speech.

... When some drunk pillock swallows one? How soon does it take before the lawsuit?

The fucking pointless cookie popups are a monster PITA on my phone. Especially when I clear them every time I close thr browser to save space.

An article that could have been astounding is on a site that got Slashdotted. Perhaps they need some experienced web programmers.

... so they cancelled the poll.

I didn't like their privacy system so I cancelled my FB account.

Because above the Armstrong Line (63,000ft) your bodily fluids (sweat, saliva, tears and blood) boil. That makes you die very quickly. You have to use a pressure suit.

Same here in the United Kingdom, for the same reasons.

• 1 Gallon (US) == 3.78541 litres
• 1 litre costs £1.379
• 1 GBP pound == 1.61340 US dollars.
• £1.379 == $2.22488

So 1 gallon of gasoline costs 3.78541 times 2.22488 or $8.42

Now stop complaining.

For folks who've not yet met the word "omnishambles", it means it's fuck up what ever way you look at it.

Most amusing was seeing Beardie Branson bleating that the Gov't was corrupt because they'd taken away his toy train set and given him a bank (Northern Wreck aka Virgin Money) to play with instead.

Or even a "DeLorean" if you want to get the spelling correct.

MOD PARENT UP.

We frequently get this discussion in the UK. It came up during the Olympics when cyclist was killed by a vehicle turning left across his path (he'd forgotten the simple rule of never go up the nearside of a vehicle that could turn across you). The media then got Bradley Wiggins in a press conference and asked him whether there was any way to prevent the death. Bradley (who'd not been briefed by his team or by British Cycling) said "Perhaps we should make helmets compulsory".

That doesn't work for a number of reasons:

1. Try getting an arsy teenager on his BMX to use a helmet, helmets aren't cool
2. You may take less care and do reckless and riskier things if you're wearing a helment.
3. I want to choose whether I use a helmet.
4. I don't want people dissuaded from getting on a bike because they don't want to use a helmet.

That said, I chose to wear a helmet. I've had too many visits to the hospital. I've cracked a helmet (rather than my head) when I crashed at speed. I've seen the reports of James Cracknell who was taken off the road in America by a truck wing mirror and survived (probably because he was wearing a helmet).

We're all adults we should be able to make our own minds up. We can also encourage our kids to wear a helmet but we don't want to follow our European friends by legislating for it.

Europe has a lot of advantages over the UK. They have bigger wider roads with dedicated cycle paths, they have car drivers who aren't selfish bastards.

I've only been waiting TWELVE weeks for the delivery of my Pi.

I'm not pissed off, of course.

Perhaps when they get round to delivering it, I'll be able to try some of this stuff.