If I roll a die, and cover it up and look, maybe it says 3. So if I ask you, who doesn't see the number, what the chances are it's 3, it's 100%, because it is a 3. The fact that you can't see it can't change reality, they say!

yeah whatever Dave, you failed your saving throw ok, just give it up man... just give it up.

See... the good Doctor Himmelstein

it's pronounced "Homm-el-steen" ...

yes of course google is much better,...

oh no wait it returns the same 'Why are Macs so expensive.' That's right. You're not hallucinating." article as the 7th link instead of the top

incidently when i tried on bing it was the 3rd result

while there may be many reasons to hate bing, this story is really ;
man doesn't put search in quotes, doesn't get results he was expecting!

the failure is on the part of the user, not the search engine

i have one of these mythical toasters of which you speak, i use it to turn frozen sliced bread into toast.

however really stale bread toasted just makes horrid toast that just crumbles to dust when you try and spread anything on it

though i agree that toast is a good use of bread that's just a bit too stale to enjoy

All the loaves of bread in my refrigerator

keeping bread in the fridge causes it to go stale faster.

apparantly quite cool temperatures causes the starch crystals to form long shard like structures (making the bread hard) baking causes the starch to form small spiky balls, but this is not a stable state, hence breads tendency to go stale.

the best way to store bread is at room temperature, or freezing.

my source for all of this is a random science program on Radio 4 so is of course COMPLETELY true

a failed Miss USA contestant (can anyone find her as one of the 50 finalists? I personally couldn't [geocities.com]),

it helps if you search the right year 1986 (i'll give you a clue, she's the one called halle berry, that looks a lot like a young halle berry)

When reading an article about the Mona Lisa on Wikipedia, I expect to see a photo of the article in question for purpose of discussion, not "to see this painting, please visit the Louvre in France"

yeah if only the NPG was prepared to give them some lower resolution images suitable for the web or something... the bastards

basically wikimedia has taken someone elses hard work because they think they can get away with it

and the end result of this sort of behaviour is that less works will be digitalised, because there will be no one to pay for it

if wikimedia needs this information so badly, it should put its hand in its pocket to support the people that made it available in the first place, through A LOT of hard work

there are a lot of those places in the UK, the fuel pipelines that take aviation fuel around the country are a good example

lots of them are semi-secret some accidently show up on some versions of maps and then vanish a bit later

mark thomas did a TV show on them mark thomas secret map of britain

mind you lots of stuff just gets accidently lost, one project i was working on found a 100KV powerline by digging through it, you'd think it would be quite hard to miss on your maps that you have a 100KV line missing if you were the power company, but apparently not

we went back through the version of the mapping, and it was there up to a minor version change in 1976, and then gone on all future versions

probably someone left for a lunch on friday meaning to add it it when they got back, and then never did

i suspect there is vast amounts of stuff not on maps becuase of errors like this

Now look, no one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. *Even*...and I want to make this absolutely clear...*even* if they *do* hot link wolfram|alpha

You want VPN users to stream video or download game patches or do other non-business-related bandwidth intensive operations over the VPN

no i want them to do their bloody work!

if you allow your users to stream video and download games during working hours, more fool you

either they are working and require VPN or they are not and they don't

your solution is just a security nightmare

I'm obviously going to win with my idea to feed the people from overpopulated countries to starving people. Gets rid of world hunger and overpopulation!

I'm afraid there's prior art...A Modest Proposal

This the sort of feature that will be able to have about 5 different DVD releases, with the niche market running out to buy every version.

I for one can't wait till they release the Watchmen Babies edition... V for Vacation sounds awesome

What hyperbole? I stated a fact.

oh dear, no you didn't you made an unsupported assertion

Indeed. There is a difference between 'exceeding the speed limit' and 'speeding'.

actually no there isn't, that's exactly what speeding means under UK law

you may well be mistaking it for driving faster than the conditions allow, but that would be classed as reckless/dangerous driving, not speeding

On the contrary all of them must have been speed related. Stationary cars kill no-one.

oh dear you are really reaching now aren't you , so in effect you are now defining speeding as any form of moving... which is a trifle contrived since this is pretty much the raison d'etre for a vehicle

Drinking alcohol is not, in itself, a crime.

i never stated it was, however the death by drink figures put the death by cars figures in perspective...

the death by knives figures however are crime related and are on par with the number of deaths caused by speeding as defined by the police, i notice you ignored that point

i am full aware the drugs deaths included paracetamol poisoning ... all 242 of them, which again is about the same number of people killed by speeding, by the police's estimates

however the significant majority of the deaths ARE caused by illegal drugs, which puts the lie to your assertion that speeding causes more damage than ALL other criminals COMBINED

Speeding motorists kill more people, maim more people, and damage more property than all other criminals put together.

hyperbole doesn't help your argument

the number of accidents where excessive speed is a factor is variously quoted by the police at anywhere from 10-15%

"Nationally 13 per cent of all fatal casualties in 2007 were due to exceeding the speed limit."

total number of road deaths in GB in 2007 was 2,946

so we can assume 300 of those are speed related

this compares with about 275 knife crime related deaths for the same period

or 8,724 alcohol-related deaths in 2007

even if you dispute the 13% figure and assume all road deaths are speed related, you may wish to see the number of drug related deaths for the same period

The total number of deaths related to drug poisoning in 2007 was 2,640

speeding may not be a very safe or desirable activity, but to suggest it is the most dangerous criminal activity is disingenuous at best