When you say remote control shutoffs I suspect you mean an acoustic remote control. This wouldn't work at the depth below the surface that this well is, and the BOP has failed so catastrophically anyway that presumably whatever the remote control would trigger wouldn't work any better than the hydrologic lines the ROVs they're trying to use at the moment are hooked into.

You agreed to buying it DRMd at the time. If you didn't like it you shouldn't have bought it.

Posting to undo incorrect moderation.

ferries, channel tunnel, trains, automobiles, nope, just won't do... I have driven from London to Athens in less time than many of these people have been sat in airports wringing their hands... I also suspect that it may be CHEAPER to hire a car and drive back home, than to attempt to live in an airport for a week.

I guess you haven't been reading the stores about the Eurostar and the ferry companies having their busiest days ever. Or the thousand euro taxi rides many are resorting through. Have you considered that people would like to get a train or ferry but they're all booked up?

What?

Oh wait, despite what the hyperbole of the summary may suggest this doesn't affect browsers on the Mac anyway.

Can't recall the last time I even used a Java applet. Just uncheck the box in preferences and forget about it.

Or you could just teach your kids to be aware but not afraid of traffic and not to run into the road after a ball. And by the way, you seem to have some serious anger issues.

The ones I've seen in the UK don't actually tell you your speed, they just flash the speed limit at you.

For those unaware, most of the GTA series is already developed in the UK, specifically at the Rockstar North offices in Edinburgh. Of course, as the summary points out, they need some more Britishness in the game to get the tax break (although, frankly, the government would do better to give them a tax break for not setting it in the UK).

I really don't understand how that's relevant. If you replace government with insurance company in:

In a universal care system, the government can mandate that only tests X, Y and Z may be performed for symptoms A and B, or that test X is only done once per year with as long as no symptoms are present.

Then that applies to a universal insurance system. And universal insurance is a type of universal healthcare anyway.

So then why doesn't that happen in other countries? Plenty of other places have universal health care, lower costs and longer life expectancy.

No way. You only have to look at a graph to see how absurd the difference is.

Spread out over the entire country, other people's ill health does affect you. The uninsured reduce the productivity of the country and when they require emergency hospitalisation for a treatable illness then the government will have to pay the bill. And by the way, socialism isn't a dirty word.

And without universal health care thousands of people will allow diseases to progress further because they can't afford to get it checked out. And then the treatment costs more, and since they weren't insured the government pays anyway.