It is frankly embarrasing that a modern individual can say wiht a straight face that TV sucks.

Maybe you suck at organizing your time, if you invest 5 minutes a week to find good programmes there is no excuse for TV to suck in an era of hundreds of channels, constant re-runs, film directors and actors working on TV and access to foreign channels (wherever you are: wide your bloody horizons).

Don't like it use the remote buddy. Very simple.

I have the following in my PVR:

- 3 Operas from the Royal Opera House.
- Several classic movies I have not seen.
- French police drama "Engranages" (Spiral in English).
- Several BBC documentaries.
- Used to have House, Borgen (Danish political drama), the Bridge (Swedsh/Danish police drama).
- Now that Euro 2012 is under way I can record matches as needed.

And so on and so forth, and in case I miss anything all major channels have on-demand services on the internet.

That is the problem with TV, too much choice of excellent programs (oh wait, you may be in the US where Republicans want to kill Public TV! My bad).

The only thing you need to do to lock down funds is to shut down the website down in purpose, no need of conspiracy theories.

... is just expressing the truth.

The fact is that many (all?) banks outsource whole departments to "reputable" companies where the attrition rate is high, so what happens is that your systems end supported by a guy that had a week of certification on a given technology but no experience whatsoever with highly sensitive business systems.

If explaining this reality is biternees, so be it.

Move to bloody Somalia then, you won't pay any taxes or will be forced to do so, literally at gun point. Win-win situation for the likes of you that love to whine about taxes in free societies.

And yeah, my memory is that good.

Women face outright hostility combined with sexism, and more often than not nothing is done about it.

My wife's colleagues often want to go to strip clubs as part of their social gatherings, and they surely would be surprised to be told such attitude does not make the workplace women friendly.

I want a doctor that woeks in an environment that promotes diveristy.

When I see a place with only whie middle aged doctors I know for certain that the buddy club effect is taking place and that more capable people that do not fit this particular group chracteristics are being overlooked.

I am not a programmer. But I have potgraduate education which included enough programming information.

I do not have programmin in my fingertips, but when given a programming problems I can pick i up, look at manuals (and increasingly the interenet) and work out a program as required.

As long as companies don't understand that interviewing is not really assesing the qualities of the prospective employees they will continue to experience "shortages".

In Fortune 100 companies those are 3 different functions for 3 different teams that have to talk to each other.

A jack of all trades will get something wrong (normally security), but hey, his skills were broad....

Paying in cash does not avoid VAT, the trader is supposed to declare it and eventually pay it.

What happens with cash is that it is more difficult to track, but the VAT & any other derived taxes (Income tax, or corporation tax if operating as a Limited Company) are still payable.

If your local health authority depends from a democratically elected body and is monitored by an independent body, then yeah, common sense indicates that I should trust their judgements in general terms.

This is not to say you should not be vigilant, but in general terms if you are not vigilant you are still likely to be OK (the decrease of infant mortality, longer life spans and better conditions of life later in life are proof that such optimism is not misplaced).

In other places you may have no choice: health service would be so precarious that it would not be a major concern, or you would be forcibly vaccinated to protect the fatherland.

So at the end, yeah, you as an individual have limited choice, because whatever the quality of your society you live on one and your choices don't take place in a vacuum (the day they do you are most welcome to do whatever you see fit), by limiting our choices within reasonable limits we benefit from joint action against diseases.

If everybody acts on his own, we can as well go back to the Middle Ages and wait for the next bout of the pest.

Nothing in Linux/Windows comes remotely close.

... by denying anonimity and pseudonyms that are no automatically identifiable with your account by third partoes.