Leopard was released October 2007 (clearly simply a typo on your part).

Why have you singled out the UK?

France spends more on defence than the UK, both in absolute terms and as percentage of GDP.

France is also higher than the UK on the Military Strength Index.

The problem is that the HTML specs provide a way to float crap on top, and ways to pin it to the top or bottom of the page, and also a hint to the browser that indicates how much reading space is covered by the crap

Could you provide a link to the part of the HTML specs which detail this 'hint'?

Thanks in advance.

They've certainly haven't shot a law-abiding citizen.

Here's three straight off the top of my head, and that's just the Met:

Harry Stanley
Jean Charles de Menezes
Stephen Waldorf

British dental health is much better than in the US.

British Teeth Aren’t That Bad (American Teeth Are Far Worse)

Which countries' children have the worst teeth?

Are you suggesting that the both the employer and the employee should be forced to continue a relationship they don't want ... or that only the employer should be forced to, but the employee can do whatever they want.

Well, this might seem really weird to you, but the second scenario is how it works in pretty much every country in Europe. "At will" employment contracts are largely illegal.

The employer can't get rid of you unless one of these is the case:

• You have committed gross misconduct
• You have committed a series of acts of lesser misconduct, which have all been documented through the agreed grievance procedure
• Your position is redundant

Note that in the last case, you won't be required to train your replacement, because it's your position which is being made redundant, not you.

For their part, employees have to work their notice period, which for some difficult-to-recruit positions can be as long as six months.

Note that Germany has some of the strongest laws on employee rights, and also is one of the most productive countries in Europe. Germany is also the third largest exporter in the world, only slightly behind the USA (not bad for a country with a quarter of the population and a fraction of the natural resources). I'm not saying there's a cause and effect, but I am saying that productivity and employee rights can co-exist.

I get it. You think that everyone who starts a business is suddenly a slave to the state, and to anyone that wants a paycheck from them. You're exactly the sort of entitled, lazy bum that's chasing businesses and jobs out of the country.

No, it's the ruthless and uncontrolled search for profits that are chasing businesses and jobs out of the country. Businesses are not motivated by enforcing some idealist "protestant work ethic". It's all about the money. US workers cannot compete with Indian workers: they don't have access to their cost of living, for one thing.

If an employer wants loyalty from employees, they only need pay them a fair rate for the job and provide decent conditions and the employees will stay.

If an employee wants loyalty from an employer in the US, they're shit out of luck.

Ah, the old "1 million lemmings can't be wrong!" argument. Okay.

Had I said "Hundreds of people say this, so it's true", you could have sensibly made that comment. But I didn't.

She deliberately provokes aggressive reactions with her pointlessly inflammatory articles: she is a classic troll.

Then she has the gall to complain when she gets the reaction she wants. The Guardian used to be leagues better than to publish the kind of drivel she writes for them: it's on the intellectual level of the Daily Mail.

I assume they only publish it for the page views.

How do you figure that? It sounds like you are saying female authors troll their readers more.

Some do in the Guardian. Jessica Valenti, for example, is a notorious troll.

In TFA she is quoted as saying:

'Imagine going to work every day and walking through a gauntlet of 100 people saying "You're stupid", "You're terrible", "You suck", "I can't believe you get paid for this". It's a terrible way to go to work'

Hundreds of people say this, because it's true.

The CIA World Factbook also quotes no sources.

53% of French people when asked ""Irrespective of whether you attend a place of worship or not, would you say you are a religious person, not a religious persons or a convinced atheist?" answered "Not a religious person" or "Atheist".

A Gallup poll (same wiki page) asked "Is religion an important part of your daily life?", and 74% of French people said "No". That makes France the 7th least religious country in the poll (which covered the vast majority of the world).

You can't get figures from the census because —due to the law on laïcité — a person's religion is not one of the questions.

France apparently has a 12% church attendance rate.

I lived in France for years and never met anyone who I knew went to church, or who professed a belief in God to me.

The article in Atavist is great too.

I couldn't help but think when I read it a couple of months ago that the problem with this type of extortion (or kidnapping) has always been the handover of the cash. This is where the feds are going to nab you.

Less of a problem with bitcoin...

No, you're spot on. This poll is totally bogus.

He told The Independent: “The NSPCC and Childline, organisations that exist for the protection of children, are quite deliberately using an atrocious study to feed into moral panic, and it’s clearly been coordinated with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.”

Mr Barnett said that regulators had been using porn for several years to justify internet censorship and “create a case for turning Britain back into a digital island”.

Source: NSPCC accused of risking its reputation and 'whipping up moral panic' with study into porn addiction among children

The ISP is required to be offered child web filter for free as part of the service.

For FREE?

Why on earth should people who don't want this kind of bullshit (maybe like me, they have no children) pay for people who want it?

I say if people want their web filtered so that children can't access porn, let them choose an ISP who offers this virtual impossibility.

Typical Tory bullshit. They claim to be in favour of:

• "Let the market decide"
• Personal freedom
• Less red tape
• Smaller government

But when it comes to sex, they just can't help themselves from doing the exact opposite to their supposed principles.

Many restaurants outside of cities in lots of countries won't take plastic

Even inside big cities.

In Madrid and Barcelona many restaurants don't accept plastic. Presumably it makes them more competitive at the Spanish national sport of tax evasion.

Sounds like you did the work for us. Which pages should we read?

Just read the summary and conclusions.

If at that point you feel like whining something like "Until they provide the raw unedited unnormalized data this can't be believed", then read the several hundred page reports.

Now any time she gets a bill for any service, her first step is to recover the password, then schedule service disconnect. Seems harsh, but it is the only way.

It's not "the only way" at all. If she can login to schedule service disconnect, she could login and simply change the email address to 'foo@example.com'.

She then no longer gets mistaken emails, but with the advantage of not being a total dick to the poor sod who made an honest mistake with their email address.