The thing is, it's not the same person. It's his constituents, using a tool to enable them to contact him about issues they feel are pressing. The fact that these people are using the same tool to communicate is irrelevant.

When you send an email from one of these web sites, you're supposed to email your own MP, not one picked at random. Therefore, the emails he is talking about are from his own constituents.

The "Tree Style Tabs" add on is great for managing your browsing. It gives your tabs context, lets you collapse groups of tabs and move tabs from one group to another. That, and having the tabs vertically arranged lets you have far more on screen at once and make better use of a widescreen monitor. Solving many of the problems addressed by Tab Candy.

I'm really surprised more people don't use it. It's the one thing now preventing me from switching to Chrome.

One of the most successful cinema chains in the UK operates on a flat rate all you can see for £12 / month subscription basis.

For frequent cinema goers, this is far easier to palate than paying £7 a time for a ticket, and I guess the cinema likes it because they have guaranteed income. And the cinemas in this chain do show their fair share of art house films.

Why isn't this practice employed in the US, for example? It would seem to me to be the most logical way to offset the sustainable rise in ticket prices.

If the pirates can distribute an indie film for $1 along side along side a $100 million Hollywood flick with no advertising and still turn a profit, surely the answer is self evident.

After all, some money is better than no money, and it takes a lot less to break even on a $1 million film than a $100 million one.

So I get my number put on a list that says "never call this guy under any circumstances?" Great. Where do I sign up?

Thanks for linking to that add-on. It's great. :)

Thanks. I'm not very familiar with the history of American government, so your response is appreciated.

And who would these people be?

I think those people have a warped definition of "living document".

Damn, I thought you were being satirical.

The MPs don't decide the government. The party with more than (total number of MPs / 2) MPs forms the government.

Since no party has an overall majority, the previous government stays in power. Traditionally, they are given first dibs at forming a coalition, however, since the Tories got more votes, they are giving them that opportunity.

But what you're saying has more or less the same effect.