I had my boiler replaced in November 2020 by British gas and it cost £4k, not £1,600. Also Heat Pumps cost £5k-£8k. Had I known that was an option in 2020, I'd have taken that route as I'd have recovered the additional cost in bills by now.

An investigation by a major air manufacturer into an incident, involving its air-frames that led to a loss of life, is traced to faulty counterfeit parts. Sound familiar?

Members of Parliament and their corporate-owned hirelings shouting from the rooftops how technically ignorant and ill-advised they are, yet again. Let's lock up every bus driver, train operator staff and all the directors of London Transport, as every thief, murderer and rapist in the last 100 years used public transport at some point to "facilitate" their illegal activities!! I swear if we filled government with trained monkeys, you'd see an improvement in the way the country was run within days.

Maybe the "GMT" hints at an English hacker, which is why the British government is suddenly pushing for "anti-terror" powers with ISP's (again). Seen any SONY lobbyists at Westminster this week anyone?

I created an account so I wasn't an "anonymous coward" like you. That doesn't make me a "shill" because I don't agree with your rage-fuelled world view. What is you interest in this, apart from spouting capital letters? Are you a backer (like me)? Have you played the game (like me)? Didn't think so. Plenty of loud opinion, backed up with little to none first-hand knowledge.

If you are one of the 17% that posted you want a refund because Frontier tried and failed to make their online game work offline, then good luck. The guy who put ã5,000 in the KickStarter (Liqua) says while disappointed, he's NOT going to ask for a refund, and "The game is awesome - a good solid foundation. FD just need some PR lessons (and I in some self control)" if you didn't already have the game (as most complainers are saying) then you backed to the tune of less than ã50 - I don't think that gives you a seat on the board. Frontier have been honest. They could just have easily waited until after December 16th to not hurt sales, but they put their hand up and said "we just cannot do it". Most posters, which really annoy me are saying "I was going to buy this, now I'm not + rage comment". So no interest or commitment to Elite: Dangerous, just want to rage at someone. Nice. It's a shame that the offline option isn't open, but to anyone who had followed the game development you'd have to have been wearing a blindfold to see this announcement as a shock.