You say that like it's a bad thing, you can have my Panasonic G20 when you prise it from my cold dead fingers.

BBC iPlayer. Ok, so it's only BBC channels but it's a start.

Indeed, my favourite incentive has always been those rectangular vouchers the government prints that people let you swap for stuff.

"The Bard" in that context is short for "The Bard of Avon" so no, it can't really be applied to someone else. I did a quick check just in case there was some social movement of which I was unaware and can find no reference to Douglas Adams as "The Bard" outside this thread.

A lot of the web crap that needs to work on IE6 doesn't need to work on anything else, it's antique ActiveX that doesn't and never will work on something other than IE6.

Colloidal silver treatment is not homeopathy, it's not even vaguely like homeopathy. Both are snake oil, but they're very different brands of it.

It crops up several times in his work but I suspect you're thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Under what circumstance is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?”

“That’s a trick question.”

“It is the key question, a radical question that strikes at the root of the whole dilemma of government. Anyone who answers honestly and abides by all consequences knows where he stands–and what he will die for

“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blameas blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside humans beings singly and nowhere else. But, being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect worldaware that his efforts will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.”

Am I the only one who thought I was on the Eve Online forums for a minute there?

Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Euro.

You are wrong I'm afraid, the definition of theft refers only to depriving someone of their property not any value that property might have. If I plant Leylandii in my garden I might deprive you of thousands of pounds of value from your house in lost value because of my hedge but I am not guilty of theft.

This is the definition of theft in the UK, the US definition I believe is pretty much identical..