I've never demanded anyone start a real war for Cersei's fictional c***.

That makes one of us.

"Listening to sermons and reading religious works like the Bible may also invoke a cognitive benefit. "You're exercising your higher cortical function, thinking about complex concepts that require some imagination,"

I've got a book by Isaac Newton called, "Optiks" that will give you all of that, without making you want to go out and kill non-believers.

Clearly, religion is the key to happiness:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/i...

http://media.dumpert.nl/foto/4...

***cab drivers have all kinds of rules & limitations for using public roads and bus stops***

I think you'll find the reason is that a taxi isn't a bus, you dribbling biffwit.

Newspaper photos are "editorial use" and protected speech.
Your facebook / flickr photo galleries are not journalistic expression.

Why?

Facebook even has a button to report images and get them taken down if someone posts an image of you you don't like.

Facebooks policy != the law.

Just don't take pictures of people who obviously don't want to be in your photo and you're fine

Must be a great place if you're a thief.

This means that you should be asking the people who will buy your product

They're the last people you should ask. http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki...

That's like saying "a GUI."

No it's not. His post was funny.

It's also great if you have a mother-in-law on the other side of the world. The cost per-minute for calls from phone to phone (she just cannot seem to figure out Skype) is as good as any provider.

My wife talks for an hour and it's just a few cents. Or at least that's how it seems. Plus, we can do all kinds of other tricks with voice to text and other things.

I was about to get really pissed if this story was about Google pulling the Voice service.

The only people who care about the temperature are manual laborers who work outdoors.

Then why do shops and law offices close for a few hours at midday?

This is part of the reason why they eat "late"--their clocks are between 1 to 2 hours ahead of the noon Sun. They also start their day "late".

One, maybe - Spain is at roughly the same longitude as Britain. Still, not enough to make the noon heat go away.

You must be an American, to assume a) that the whole world is air-conditioned, and b) that you know more about places you couldn't point to on a map than people who've been there and have relatives who live there?

Does anybody have figures on how many startups go tits-up? That's to say, for every Twatbook how many Boo.coms are there, and how many fold before they're even big enough to be noticed?

With totally inexperienced people running quick growing businesses perhaps the real surprise is that any survive at all.

Dealers try to mystify and generally complicate the process of buying a car by offering to arrange financing, making you a trade-in "deal" and obfuscating the true cost of the car. Fortunately you can get a detailed break down of the dealer's costs (including factory to dealer incentives) from Consumer Reports. Then you arrange financing elsewhere (or pay cash), sell your existing car yourself, decide on how much markup you'll pay, and resolve not to buy any additional services or warranties through the dealer. If you do those things you won't be walking into the dealership like a lamb to slaughter. They might as well try to fuck the Rock of Gibraltar. Some of them will try, but you just walk out the door and find a dealership that will sell you a car on your terms.

The last car I bought I walked into the dealer; the salesman saw I had the printouts and said, "I'm not stupid. How much are you going to pay?" I named a price 5% over the dealer's true cost. I could have opened with 3%, but I appreciated not having to go through the whole ridiculous ritual. It was a reasonable offer and the salesman immediately accepted. Half an hour later we finished up the paperwork; I dropped off a cashier's check the following day and drove my car off the day after that. It was all low-key and civilized, and by executing the deal quickly the dealership earned a fair paycheck for a couple hours of work.

This is the way buying a car should be: you tell the dealer which model you want, hand over a check and drive off. Letting the dealer do anything else "for you" is asking to be screwed over. Despite what the salesman claims, there is nothing the dealer can do to make your life simpler, except maybe fetching your plates from the motor vehicle registry. Do everything else yourself, including determining the price you'll pay for the car.

Diego Garcia

Otherwise known as "Fernando Poo".

You obviously don't work for the company that I do. The meatloaf-peeler vendors have persuaded our management that meatloaf peeling is an important capability these days, and any company that hasn't adopted this new approach to meatloaf consumption is doomed to quick obsolescence. So, whether our jobs need it or not, we are all being supplied with the top-selling meatloaf peeler, and other brands are banned from our desks.

But don't worry, your bosses will see the light soon, and a new MS meatloaf peeler will be installed on your desk, too.