Do you shave your beard? Or keep it kept? I grew a Moustache for Movember, very itchy, and I'm glad to be rid of it.

Yes, means my clothes get dry and I don't need to keep an eye on the weather all the time. Drying indoors leads to damp (that moisture has to go somewhere), not to mention the loss of a room

Land of the free eh?

As a country, you think that universal healthcare is a terrible idea, but yo're happy to trample over people's freedoms not to mow their lawn?

You are not the typical person.

And if you only use a PC for eclipse, you're not a typical eclipse user either. I have eclipse open at the moment on my laptop, still own a tablet though.

When I develop I embed myself in the business. I never lose sight of the fact I'm writing code to make the business perform it's job better, which means I understand the business.

The department I used to work for is an internal department in a $7 billion organisation. I left when they decided to bring in product managers, technical analysts, business analysts and the like, none of whom had done a day in the core business, and aren't even based in the same building.

My old department is now being downsized, and a new team that's (once again) embedded in the business is starting up.

Erm, they don't know who's watching digital TV either. Unless you buy a receiver that phones home, which would be dumb. DVB-T is as open a standard as PAL, you can generate a valid signal from your video card.

http://bellard.org/dvbt/

You see I'd be sympathetic if inheritance wasn't brought into it. But then I'm a proponent of a 100% inheritance tax.

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.