Yes but when it lands?

Landlords can and do rent to you at less than his mortgage cost on the same property - it's quite common. The landlord is happy to eat the (probably small) loss per month in the hope of a nice capital appreciation. In other words the potential sale price of the property goes up enough per month that it makes the landlord cool with the gap between your rental payment and his mortgage payment. Of course the landlord would ideally prefer not have that gap but rents are extremely market-sensitive.

This practice is IMO quite mad but it works so long as property prices keep going up, as they currently are in many areas. As soon as they start to decline (areas such as London right now) the wheels very quickly fall off this dopey business model.

People who like tea don't use tea bags

This is outdated information; it was true 50 years ago but no longer. You can still just about buy loose tea but a trip to any supermarket will show you dozens of different brands of teabags. I am talking about regular people drinking tea in their offices not the occasionally-encountered specialist tea snob.

Letsencrypt sounded great but broke on installation for me. Broke (differently) for a work colleague also. When your product majors on ease of use then this is not good, not good at all. OK it's free, thank you, but especially as it rather bizarrely wants unusually frequent cert renewal why take the risk of it eating all your support time?

The A4 Bath Road runs alongside one of the runways at Heathrow and is basically a strip of airport hotels. Whenever staying in one of the hotels I liked to stand at the front entrance and watch Concorde take off. Absolutely impressive and I would agree it is several times louder than anything else leaving Heathrow. I also live under what was the flightpath a few minutes flight time from LHR, that was pretty loud also.

Remember the last time an Austrian tried to dictate policy globally?

You mean when Max Schrems got Safe Harbor overturned? I sure do!

So she was in an aquarium alone and separated from her "long-term mate". Sounds pretty evil to me. These places need to be closed down.

No problem here is your link. That particular situation is now resolved but would you like to bet your life that there are no more hidden things like this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

What if you wear fixed-focal eyeglasses for driving? These will allow you to see the road just fine whether directly or through a mirror. You cannot see a video screen however unless you remove the glasses (and in my case put on a different pair.) Varifocal or bi-focal would fix this but they are not cheap.

How about genocide all the sims and delete everything, then repurpose the hardware as a bitcoin miner.

I have the entry-level Pebble, the price of which has by now dropped to spare-change levels. It does most things that the Apple Watch does, except no heart rate monitor. It's fine for notifications, fitness monitoring, sleep tracking, and so on.

I never lusted after any kind of smartwatch but tried one out because it was cheap enough to experiment with. My verdict: get one, you will find a use for it. A bit like a second monitor for my PC - at first I thought it was a waste of money but now I would not give it up.

Most useful practical applications for smartwatch are (1.) Being able to look at notifications in meetings where pulling out your phone is frowned on but you can get away with looking at your watch (2.) Turn-by-turn navigation when walking through an unfamiliar city in the rain.

Biometric passport just means that the visible photo is also stored on there as a .jpg

If someone is waving a talking gadget around in the workplace then maybe you can do something about getting it removed. What about their smart nose stud or some other thing that does not look like a threat? The only way would be airport-style security on your office door and I suspect nobody wants the expense or inconvenience.

I run Rosetta Stone on an inexpensive Linx 8 tablet with Windows 10. Rosetta Stone wants you to load new languages from CD-ROM but obviously tablets don't have optical drive. You can get round that by plugging in a USB CD-ROM drive or creating an ISO on another computer. Apart from that everything works well. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linx-i...

The UK land area would fit into California with plenty left over, we're just over half the size. Our population is almost double however, which means almost everywhere is really crowded. We're also used to driving in a reasonably/mostly/hopefully rule-abiding way. I think that makes us a good testbed for driverless cars. Bring it on Google, please.