For the same price I send a text message I can talk for a whole minute on the phone, or leave a message on the "answering machine". Uncle has still an actual answering machine with a cassette tape inside to record messages anyway.

Read the title in Dalek voice. The World Economic Foum i sel in Davos in 1971. The Dalek's creator is Davos? Coincidence? We think not.

Why make illegal trash speed metal bands CD and tapes? Especially when not banndin One Direction...

I still have a portable mechanical typewriter, that is really useful to type addresses on envelopes. Laser printers and inkjets tends to jam more easily than a 1960 typewriter. Not to mention the always on (ever in blackout) capacity of the typewriters. Yes, I've also a 35 mm fully mechanical camera.

IT's because 112 was the number of the Carabinieri. And Carabinieri's quick response team cars kicks ass. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52287882@N05/6891872513/

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In the European Union VAT is different in each state. If you're buying as a personal customer, ie. you don't have or don't use the VAT ID, you pay the VAT and other taxes valid on the seller's country, except for alcool and tobacco. If you're buying as a professional customer, using the VAT id, the regulations are different due the compensations but the same basic rule applies most of the times except on some cases.

Yes, I'll be worried only if I live in Japan, especially near the Tokyo Tower. Anyway to be extra safel let's help Duke Fleed to steal the Grendizer.

The biggest problem I found so far with the Raspberry Pi is the buggy and broken USB driver. Bening based on an USB-on-the-go implementation in hardware, and not in a standard EHCI host implementation a lot of devices that are working without problems under Linux, like printers or usb-to-serial adapters like the ones used on Arduino duemilanove, aren't working reliably with the Pi. I hope that this problem will be soved soon, because is clearly a deal-breaker to use the Pi on general embedded linux applications. If you think the Raspberry Pi as a toy computer to be used by children with only a mouse and a keyboard, a dodgy USB driver isn't a big deal, but if one likes to use it for more general purposes not knowing if a given configurations works reliably it's a big problem.

I've a homebuilt desktop PC with Windows 7. With the classic window manager (Aero switched off) and using Microsoft Security essential makes the system quite responsive. Unfortunately the prebuilt systems are loaded with a ton of unusable crap that fills the memory and slows down the cpu.

I think that the tuition should not be too high and should be relative to the performance of the student. For instance if a student has all perfect grades for the current year, no tuition should be paid at all, if the mean of the grades taken is in the next best 3% of student, a low tuition should be paid. A student which the mean of grades is under the mean of grades of the school, should pat the full tuition, that should be not over a reasonable limit, say $2000/year. Then make a policy like "you must pass all the 1st year exams in the 1st or else" to stop the really rich to continue to try to pass exams by brute force. Problem almost solved.

Ask to our Romanian friends for a domain name for a site that's the reciprocal of me.ga http://mic.ro/

You can build pirate cards on Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/One-Piece-ge-2034-Playing-Cards/dp/B0045SWBUA/ref=pd_bxgy_t_img_y

Actually Press TV is perfectly visible on satellite television, not on BSkyB channels. http://en.kingofsat.net/find.php?question=press+tv&Submit=Zap There are a bunch of satellites that are transmitting now Press TV, including Hot Bird 13, so It's simply a matter to point a dish to the desired bird and enjoy some of their programs.

Teletext services could be transmitted with digital television signals, both satellite and terrestrial, and are a standard MPEG feature. A set top box will automatically decode the data and send them over the analogue outputs, or superimposes the decoded page on the video output. Satellite broadcasting for Italy, Germany and France are still sending Teletext pages. I've experience with the MHP services on terrestrial television in Italy. Simply put MHP services are totally and utterly slow, even if MHP decoders are more costrly due the bigger CPU they have to run Java ME, instead of use only the computer power equivalent to a Z80. Worst of all the user interface between various broadcaster is different, even if they're sending teletext-like news and it's too easy to put animated adverts everywhere.