Opel/Vauxhall or other GM brand?

I alweays had the feeling the engineers only included this because they could add another feature to the ads without adding any new hardware. There is no use in a warning light if it becomes NORMAL between November and Febuary. THANK YOU, I KNOW IT'S WINTER!

That's why my standard example for ergonomic design is a cockpit: Even with that overwhelming number of buttons, leversand displays and whatnots, there is one simple rule: 1 button = 1 function

In theory, you can control everything with three buttons: select, confirm, back/up/exit (like most computer monitors do; select up/down is a bonus) and many designers tell us that cleaner interfaces are simpler to use. But compare changing the picture brightness on an old fashioned CRT knob to finding your way through seven layers of settings menues you need to FIND that setting.

Maybe, but what makes you think that?

This?

That would be outright stupid. By that logic you could also conclude by looking back to the age of crusades that violently converting the world to christianity is the goal of christians.

Terrorists want to spread fear and terror. Hence the name. And by that measure, his plan worked.

Except for Second Life, that never had a purpose whatsoever...?

Or even easier: Just click on the &/&%" doodle!

I guess that depends on country and time period.

Beats me. Probably because you want to have another type of visa that strictly forbids any steps that might least to immigration?

And I hope you feel smug about wasting tax money for his overtime after calling him in on a sunday...

Yes. If someone is able to not call gathering grandmas phone calls "spying", then that's the finest example of doublethink.

Despite my former comments, I still doubt your statement.

I believe that most of NSA employees work with the best on intents. And if you believe that your work is for a greater good, it's easy to believe that

justifies spying on millions of grandmas also. That's why we all know what the road to hell is paved with.

In a democracy, the gouvernment has the burden of proof that their actions are well within the limits of the constitution (or however the constitution may be called in any given country) Secret police forces and other secret gouvernent operations are usually a trademark of totalitarian regimes.

Transparancy and public control of the gouvernment is a pillar of democracy. And given the track record of what has been done under the guise of "secrecy for national security", claims that something has to be done in secret should ring a whole set of alarms. (Though I acknowledge that there probably are quite a few tings regarding foreign intelligence that would be difficult to do in puiblic. But please also acknowledge that I'm not the least making any US specific points here.)

That's irony. I doubt that the people who do read our email have those stickers.

If I may offer a bit of an outside view: The bulk of the controversy about NSA over here is about a long chain of US presidents doing lip service by talking to the outside world of "friendship" and "trust" and "working together" as an "international community" and behind their backs let the NSA loose to spy on their so-called friends as if they *WERE* enemies of war.

Yes, yes, I know: "trust, but verify", but it is still slightly ironic that the US would go by a motto that is usually attributed to Lenin's as one of his signature phrases.

Perhaps the problem is rather "blue collar with no benefits" and perhaps no unions that would pave the way to a new manchester capitalism.