Knowing that and knowing that the police will ding you for a tiny infraction of the limit means people back off a little bit. It is a limit and not a recommended speed! It seems the stricter policy works.

Maybe they should be that sensitive. I lived in Melbourne for a while a few years ago. It seemed the police regularly ticketed people for going 4kph over the limit on the highway (that's less than 4% leeway). Guess what? Everybody drove the speed limit or slower. When the limit changed, everybody changed speed at that point. Car speedometers are accurate enough these days that there is no need for any tolerance. People need to drive better and pay more attention.

The story seemed to be saying that they'd developed something radically new, so yes, it did seem that they were talking about a car running on natural gas. The word "gas" as a replacement for "petrol" is so uncommon that that wasn't the first thought that crossed me mind.

Yeah no kidding. I'm planning to move home so I will probably keep the service that long. No way am I choosing to give money to Murdoch. I'd rather switch to BT! Anyway, there's choice of fibre and other services faster than ADSL now without having to sell out to Sky.

For those of us living at latitudes above 50 degrees, darkness both going to work and coming home irrespective of DST is just reality for several months of the year. I'd much rather have a few more weeks light in the evening when I can enjoy it than in the morning when I'm rushing to work. It's really really irritating when the clocks go back and take that evening light away. I'm so looking forward to it being restored in a few weeks.

Yep, that's how I say it. But then I'm not a Yank.

Or don't have such a tiny laptop! I have a 17" MacBook Pro, which I realise isn't for everybody, but it makes for an awesome machine in a great form factor. I can work on it productively out of the office and it doesn't break my back cycling to and from work like most equivalent PCs do. In the office it's hooked up to a 24" screen too.

Not very accurate. Maybe too BT or BT reseller centric?

I put in my address:
ADSL available at ~7.5Mbps
Cable services not available
FTTC services available
BT 21CN services available
Wireless services not available

I actually have ADSL syncing at 18.2Mbs down and 1.3Mbs up, via Be Unlimited (I think they use their own hardware in the Exchange).

The INS.

Oh wait!

Ironic considering Americans call everything a city.

There, fixed it for you.

I live in London and I find Australia expensive. My wife is from Melbourne and claims she can't afford to move home.

I bought a book from Amazon.co.uk when I was living in Melbourne a few years ago. $45 to buy locally, $33 of which half was the postage to have it flown literally halfway around the world.

You could replace "MEP" with "MP" in your diatribe and you'd have the same point but different context. So what?

As with any politician in Europe, you fire them by voting elsewhere, etc.

Visit both countries and try English in both of them. You'll soon learn that this is a cultural thing.

Urrrrr what's your point? My 15" MBP from five years ago also does all that. Awesome little machine still going strong. That's not the attraction of an iPad though.

Mahatma Gandhi did quite well without guns.