So there is a bad car crash and some military vetern who has seen it all, been in it all and keeps his cool under pressure. Cannot raise help for the other may by 8-10 people who really really need help?

Thats perfectly fine. I will use a proxy and then I will only be technically using a single device from your point of view! But hey since you cannot actually tell what devices I have in my house that use the internet without digging into my data they I will be using ipsec to somewhere else. Of course though you have to get all isp's in the UK to change to this billing model together otherwise all your customers are going to leave and join the other isp. This is also fine because the crap isp's that are coming up with this stuff don't work anyway.

Actually .... you would have your sig 210 destroyed in 1997 :)

Is this not why people have a pin on their phone? Oh wait next they are going to be slapping little bobby in jail for not giving up his password under the terrorism act

Being in N.Ireland it normally is daylight by around 9am in the middle of winter. Except for around 2 weeks around the 21st December. However something that would effect us that typically in the longer days in the summer if they were moved by 2 hours instead of 1 would mean on the longest days it would be day light to long after midnight. Being a little further north and being a little further east buys up about 45mins - 1 hour extra daylight time towards the end of the day. Typically in June around here the sun comes up at around 4am and sets at around 11pm :) So we would have 5am -> 12am days. I actually like the idea but only because I do some outdoor water sports in the evenings in the summer. However since the company I work for offer's flexible working hours (up to an hour each way) it really does make a sods lot of difference what the government do. I suspect the people in aberdeen would have some important things to say about it. In winter I think there day light hours are 10am -> 3:30pm or something along thoose lines.

Actually the system does't work without it. Loo at the following. Its a gps device and a code is required. Ok so I would give it to the school nerd to carry for the day and for that agree not to beat him up. However I may have not had a chance to get the device off the person at the end of the day. So unfortunately the person skipping school gets cough out later @ 8pm because the device is still in the home of the other person carrying the device. Now you have two people in trouble!

I like how they only ever compare to how much has melted each summer. However these types of articles fail to mention how much melted and how much of those melted areas froze again the following winter. Without an accurate comparison of how much re-froze the information is completely worthless. Of course it almost needs to be calculated on a volume of everything based in the artic circle as it may not freeze again in the same area's Also not to mention has anyone published anything about how much is melting on top compared to how much is freezing on the bottom in the opposite season? it may have been the warmest summer in the artic. It may also have been the coldest winter in the antartic!

What about websites simply getting there own back. Redirecting users to a page with the information on it to describe what the end users isp is doing. Where the redirected page looks something like an IE6 warning going something like this. Dear ...... We notice that the internet connection you are using is BT based. We have some issues with this because they do not provide enough bandwidth to deliver content from our site to its end users (that would be you) etc.. etc.. We would recommend that you switch to one of the following isp as they do not traffic limit content providers .. Talk talk, BeThere, O2 .... etc.. etc... Great chance for the web sites to actually extort money from the other isp's to appear on the recommended list which is really getting their own back on the isp's but probably not recommended :) I for one say to them let them try and see what happens. When things stop working for the end user. they are going to speak with the nearest techie they know and that techie is going to recommend a different isp anyway.

right click and save as .jpg :)

I wonder how long it took them to actually figure this out? I wonder how much money was spent trying to figure it out. If only the people upstairs would listen to the lower down experts for a change instead of wasting everyone's time!

It would appear that doesn't happen in all designs of ABS systems :)

Except ABS is crap on ice. A perfect example of this is where the middle of the road isn't that bad. However the gutter has a lump of ice in it. The ABS kick's in because the wheels in the gutter lock and prevents the other wheels which are on solid ground from breaking. Sometimes typical features can be extremely dangerous!

Something that we don't normally get a lot of here is ice / snow. Except for this year we had lots. May by something more useful for it instead of stupid features would have been a limited slip diff!

You have worked on asteriods? Was the commute better than the average commute in china?

Damm I better sell all my knives and buy a new set of screw drivers for stabbing people instead.