If you're reusing passwords, it's not secure.

They will, and it will be far more secure than using "my5tr0ngP@$$w0rd!" that you reuse on other sites.

Remember you have George W Bush in charge for 8 years. Anything more complex than a big red button would have been beyond him

If WWIII breaks out, how will the value of my bitcoins be affected?

Err, those are examples. And EK do fly San Francisco to Dubai too, which allows connections to that part of the world.

I believe Virgin (UK), Ryanair (Ireland), Qantas (Austrailia) and Qatar (Qatar) all offer, or offered, in flight mobiles too, at least on some planes, and I know the last TAP (Portugal) flight I was on offered it. The fact others haven't tells me that the commercial demand just isn't there, but on the whole there's no global problem with carriers offering it.

No doubt you'll come up with some obscure example like "I want to fly from Hicksville to Bogata on a Star Alliance carrier and they don't offer it unless I choose a seat near the front but I prefer to be behind the wing as I get a better view".

You know what game deserved a sequel? Duke Nukem 3D

Emirates have an amazing network, if you're happy to change once you can get from pretty much anywhere in the world to anywhere else. Nairobi to Berlin? Tokyo to Manchester? Sydney to Delhi?

Emirates couldn't give a stuff why the FAA say, just like delta couldn't care less about what the CAA says.

By flying low. I rarely get a signal above 10k foot, and have never managed to get one above 20k foot.

Citation needed.

Here's a reason: I want to phone home and talk to my wife and child
Here's another reason: I want to join a conference call, which is tricky enough to arrange in the first place with people in the States, Europe and Asia all on it.

Choose a different carrier if you're that bothered. Emirates offer it on 300 flights a day.

Well I have used them, they're fine for a quick call, but they're hard to hear over the low quality and loud engines.

BA have phased them out on the new planes, and turned them off about a year ago on the old planes.

But then I remember flying back in 2008 on TAP when in flight mobiles were allowed. The problem wasn't people talking, it was the teenagers who didn't know how to put their text message tone on "silent"

I don't know about US plans, but typical intercontinental roaming rates for UK phone contracts are well above $2 a minute, nearer $3.

As of 2012, 38% of BP shares were held by American investors, 36% by British investors, and 14% by the rest of Europe with the remaining shares held by investors from other countries.

I'd rather use a windows phone to make a phone call than an ipad, but I'm quite unusual in that I dial phone numbers.

It leads me to say

"That's what your mom said"

Well yes, but his point stands.

We call it Western Antarctica as it's longitude is west of an arbitrary point.

Where the west coast of europe, or america, or austrailia, or the atlantic, or the pacific, are easily spotted on a globe if you know "north" is the hemisphere with most land, choosing "West" on a continent that encircles the globe is arbitrary. If the Meridian was where the dateline is, "western" antarctica would be what we call "Eastern Antarctica"