In Australia, cans are 375 mL, and in Europe they are 330 mL.

1 mile is 1.609344 km. I suspect the GP confused the conversion of 8 feet to 2.4m with miles to km.

The US customary units differ from the imperial units anyway. Imperial gallon is 4.54 L (based on volume of 10 pounds of water), US gallon is 3.785 L (defined as 231 cubic inches). Even the ratios of fl oz to cups and pints is different. 1 imperial pint = 2 Imp. cups = 20 Imp. fl oz ~= 568 mL, 1 US pint = 2 US cups = 16 US fl oz ~= 473 mL.

The FDA also already defines metricated units for use on food labelling, so that on nutrition labels where fl oz are stated, that really means 30 mL exactly, and similarly for teaspoon (5 mL) and tablespoon (15 mL).

Although the international inch, foot, yard and mile are all the same in every day usage, the US also has the special survey foot and mile.

The US survey foot differs from the regular foot by about 610 nm, and the US survey mile by about 3.2 mm (~ 1/8 in). That difference multiplies to about 1 foot over a distance of 95 miles, or about 27 feet over the 2600 mile distance from San Francisco to New York.

Except blood pressure, which is still measured in mmHg (millimetres of mercury) instead of hPa (hectopascals).

Ask the English how that worked out for them. They buy petrol by the litre, but measure speed and distances in miles, and fuel economy in miles per (Imperial) gallon.

In Australian copyright, there is the concept of fair dealing. This is similar to fair use in the US. That gives the right to use copyrighted material for, among other things, the purpose of news reporting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#Australia

Opera does hold patents and does sometimes patent new inventions. (As an employee, I am forbidden from discussing specifics and I don't know if a patent application was even filed for this particular feature). However, for specifications developed within or submitted to the W3C, Opera is subject to the W3C patent policy.

WTF? How does it possibly stop you from removing the battery when the phone is turned off? Isn't the battery held in with some sort of mechanical latch, with either a slider, something to depress to release the hooks, or similar? Which blackberry model are you talking about specifically?

These patents are NOT related to HTML5. These are related to the Widget specifications in the WebApps working group. The HTML5 work does not make use of this specification (though W3C widgets do use HTML5). Apple has not and there is no indication that they have any interest in doing anything that will impede the work of HTML5.

Torrents you've already got won't be affeted by thepiratebay.org going down. The web site is only used to distribute the torrent files and magnet links. Once you've got that, then you find other peers either through the openbittorrent.com tracker or the trackerless alternatives.