I take my mayonaise with a grain of salt.

Hear! Hear!

Over many months the fuel may evaporate, but the taxes are paid up front. Hence, they are certainly exactly the same as the % you pay for using the same fuel in a car vs a mower.

In the UK healthcare is run by the National Health Servce, a large public sector organisation as the OP pointed out. In other words, not an organisation in the "profitable" sector of the economy. Perhaps they're better on budget control, or atleast slightly more professional than a local council.

Reading your quote, I'd say "cyberpsychology" is in need of a self esteem boost themselves.

I think http://slashdot.jp/ looks less cluttered, for a start there are no kdawson posts on it.

Currently it appears that the main wikileaks site is unavailable. Thankfully wikileaks is actively mirrored, a list of which can be found on http://wikileaks.info/, http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010/ ought to take you straight to the original page. On a side note, the guardians' data blog have a nice writeup and sample of the data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-afghanistan-data

In chromium this is possible on the Options > Under The Hood tab as the "Use suggestion service..." option.

I'd say Apple make the quintessential "branded pc".....

It's especially likely that someone will 'reverse engineer' your model in the case that they don't need to bother, given that you've already published it in a financial journal way back in 1973...

They've also made their 'distro' available, see http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttlinux/ and their gpl page http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl

I mean who really wants another windows pc?????

Wiis

iPhones

or worse, quicklaunch icons?