Funny! Actually the worst email are from clients/users that insist on using plain text. A few messages in to an email thread and you end up with fugly misformatted mess that's incredibly hard to read over. Thank goodness iPhone's aren't quite as bad as they were a few of years ago when they came along and started f***ing things up.

Appeal to people who aren't stuck in the 1980's and Usenet formatting flamewars?

Totally missing the point that with mutli-process browsers, I can manage the browser better because I can:
1) See which tab is using excessive memory
2) See which tab is using excessive CPU

At the moment the only option to conserve battery life on a laptop is to close Firefox or minimise tab usage. That's user unfriendly bullshit.

The other major point is that multi-process browsers are more secure and more robust. Mozilla devs have never seemed to like thinking beyond monolithic processes though (I've had this argument with them for years from before Firefox and Thunderbird showed that mail and browser didn't need to be in the same process space). Architecture doesn't seem to be a strength of the Mozilla devs does it?

I wish they'd finish their maildir support, which apparently made it t experimental. The mbox format is terrible for backups and general folder reliability:
http://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/import-or-migrate-mbox-to-maildir-in-thunderbird/

Using Thunderbird is like taking a step back 10 years in MUA's. The core features (writing emails including their formatting, browsing folders, etc) doesn't really seem to have changed much since the Mozilla Suite days (which was only a small change from Netscape Communicator). It's looking pretty long in the tooth, and writing good looking emails is lagging behind other applications.

I don't suppose the re-assigned devs are going to anything useful, like multi-process Firefox. I switched to Chrome a few months ago for this one feature, and won't be coming back until they implement it as I now have per page/tab control over my laptop battery's life (I can kill CPU hogging tabs easily with Chrome).
http://lawrencemandel.com/2011/11/15/update-on-multi-process-firefox-electrolysis-development/

China protects its companies [...]. The US does not. [...] One of the reasons so much manufacturing is done in China is because that's the only way to sell there. China puts high import taxes on goods made elsewhere, while the US does not

Bullshit. Have you seen how many jobs have been lost in British Columbia (a province in a country that is the US's neighbour, ally and largest trading partner) at various times due to the softwood lumber dispute? The WTO ruled in favour of Canada, but that seemed to make little difference. If that's how the US treats its friends, it's little wonder the Chinese are so defensive.

Go look at the footage of the more sane pols from the Great Society era who warned we were spending our children and grandchildren's inheritance... they were right. It's all spent. The social security 'trust fund' is just a bunch of IOUs from the government to be paid by the government; meaningless.

This is probably the biggest reason why young people should be voting, although it's probably far from their minds. The baby boomers and unions have been and are busy voting for policies that ensure they have a cushy retirement. The young people are expected to pay for that, but as they are relatively smaller number, they will lose out on existing services or pay higher taxes as the bill for the older people goes up and up. In some ways it's pretty short-sighted by the older generation as it could backfire on them later when they're getting too frail to fight back.

No, 3G is good enough most of the time, either to check something online on my phone, or even for me to work tethered (email obviously, not something ore fancy like RDP). Think about the 80 or 90% use-case when you're on the move at a station. 3G doesn't cost anything... included in the monthly data rate. Wifi in this case is going to cost money after the Olympics too...

Oh please, talk about a disingenuous argument. Nobody in their right mind buys paper tickets. Especially as they're priced high to discourage you. That was your choice.

I live in Hammersmith (at the Chiskwick end)... I mostly walk, or sometimes take the bus. Going from Hammersmith Broadway as you were to Shebu is an even shorter walk - probably 10-15 minutes (or the time it took you to buy your tickets, wait for the next train, travel there, and then walk from Goldhawk Rd or Shepherd's Bush Market. If you were going to a concert at the Empire, you only needed to go one stop on the Tube.

If you were going to be driving to Hammersmith, why not just go a bit further and look for free parking on a side street near Shebu? As somebody who lived five minutes walk from the Green, that's what I would do, and what my parents would do when they came to visit me.

BTW, Shepherd's Bush is in Hammersmith, but assuming you were only coming from Hammersmith Broadway (the start of your Tube journey), Shebu is 0.8 miles, much less than your 2 mile business. Yes, that makes it sound more expensive, but also really makes one scratch their head as to your motivation for taking the tube in the first place.

Shanghai has working phone reception and 3G data on trains and stations throughout the underground - who needs WIFI? Time to catch up with China.

Actually I'm glad there's no voice phone service on the Tube... I really don't want to be jammed in inches from somebody yammering on about their banal life and their dull X Factor hero worshipping.

I switched to Chrome a few months ago. There are a few annoyances that I've got used to. I don't regret the switch at all... now I can tell which page is using excessive CPU and draining my laptop battery. Now I can tell which page is using excessive memory. Now I can close the offending page without having to quit the whole bloody browser. You failed long ago Mozilla.

Convenient that you stopped at 2008. Your figures are offset from the ones on Wikipedia, but you've confirmed what I said: debt grew significantly from 2002 onwards, even though the economy was at the top of the economic cycle. Absolute madness by Tony Blair and George Brown. If they hadn't grown the public sector by 1 million employees, if they had focused on maintaining a healthy economy, they and the subsequent government would have been talking about growth policies instead of austerity when the freaking global crisis hit. Absolute moronic stewardship of the economy by Labour.

You're wrong about the healthcare. Residence status for tax and for OHIP for instance are different.

http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/publications/ohip/travel.aspx

You generally pay taxes for the part of the year you were in Canada before you moved abroad, not for whole year. I.e. Canada taxes you for the time you're still considered a resident. If you move to country that also taxes you for the time you're resident, then you haven't really been dual taxed. Unlike the US who will double-tax their citizens for the whole year.

You seem to have a short memory. New Labour under Blair and Brown were running an increased deficit during the boom, even after increasing taxes. There was no room left for the government to do something with the economy when the recession came.

Government debt stood at 29% of GDP in 2002, and had increased to 37% before the crash in 2007, despite incredibly strong economic conditions. What exactly do you think was going to happen? That's why it's spiralled so quickly to 90% of GDP.

Servicing just the interest on the debt is about the same as the defence budget, or if you prefer, the fourth largest budget item. We're basically fucked for decades due to the previous government's profligacy.

I pay £145 / year (~CAD$233) for a TV license. My TV has a FreeView tuner built-in, but I also have a cheap-o Freesat box too. That's about a half what you need for basic cable in Canada. I actually refused to pay Rogers when I lived in Toronto due to being too expensive, and not offering much more than the handful of free channels from the CN tower (and way better video compression quality OTA).

To get the Game of Thrones, I'd have to pay for the Atlantic HD channel from Sky. That would double or probably triple the cost of TV, and support that scum Rupert Murdoch. Hmmmm, I wonder why people are downloading GoTs in the UK?