The Australians solved it even better and recommended Car helments. Didn't take off...

Do you cycle much? For Commute? The article is about how there's a correlation between forcing helmets on cyclist and the attractiveness of cycling.

Around here ~70% of daily cycle commuters do use helmets so many people think like you, but on the other hand you are complete wrong about car the dangers of cycling is more about road conditions than cars (20% of reported cycle accidents here in Sweden involve cars).

Nice... I'm guessing you guys wear other protective gear as well?

Sadly most bicycle accidents only involve one person and are caused by bad roads and bad conditions. Single accidents here in Sweden were 70% of all accidents and just 20% involved some kind of car. Basically what might seem dangerous, city traffic, usually isn't, it can be hard to get used to the stress of a crowded street but it's very safe. What is dangerous are those bike paths that seem lovely and then just end abruptly because of bad maintenance.

Agreed, from what I've heard 12 years is old enough to have road sense and balance, over here you are mandated by law to have a helmet until you are 15.

I'm guessing it's not possible to require companies to have UK presence, given laws in EU. Even if it was allowed I must say it seems like a pretty feeble goal to set as well, there are always work around if you got money.

On Gnome 2 i.e. Ubuntu 10.04 you can not use alt-tab while dragging something, this is a fundamental design error in metacity. It's apparently fixed in Ubuntu/Fedora etc see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135056 I don't know when it was fixed.

Thank you for being more specific, sadly that $500M is still abstract, e.g. Wikipedia does the calculation "cost of the whole shuttle program/launches = $1.5 billion" So probably not off by that much as you say.

Tell me more... While interesting factoids, do you think you might be off by an order of magnitude there, or maybe two? I'm just objecting to arbitrary numbers being thrown around it's like saying Columbus voyage could have been used to fund 1,500 people to be scholars instead..

I really have no facts on the subject but please watch: It Does Take a Rocket Scientist! Why Mars is Hard.

Apparently the guy posted a Youtube video stating "I'm armed and dangerous, and I will shoot to kill police officers if they try to take me out"..

I did some calculations on this a while back, and buying a moderatly cheap used car (~15000 USD) would cost me about 750 USD per month calculated over 10 years (if sold at an ok price).

So instead I bought a Cargo bike [wikipedia.org], it's fun fun fun. But I guess SF is abit more hilly..

How is colonialism worse than regular wars, like Yugoslavian conflict.

Sweden has give 150 million crowns per year to Cambodja for the last 20 years.. We pay a lot in foreign aid, and yes it's done to further political agendas set by politicians in Sweden, but only in broad guidelines such as help democratic movement by educating the opposition as well as the leading parties. E.g. I know the there have been a lot of work done in teaching how TOR works.

That's why I love cold weather, you can always put on more clothes. You are out of luck in warm weather.

Move to Scandinavia, I meet lots of people from the US who have a great time over here. Sure the pay after taxes is going to be less, and you will have to learn a new language, but in the end (of your life) you will have gotten the better deal over here.