The article incorrectly states Britain. The propossed law affects England & Wales only. There is separate legislature in Scotland (and there will likely be a vote there too, in due course - although a similar bill was previously defeated). Northern Ireland also has a separate legislature which is not currently planning to have a vote on assisted dying.

Baloney. Graft means hard work. Neither word has anything to do with whether something occurs in either the public or private sector.

I have to say, as a Real-Time Embedded guy - the fact that it is taken about 20 years to get here wrt Real-Time Linux is about 19 years too late.

Conspiracy Theorists: NASA in secret plot to destroy humanity and terra-form Earth for their Alien masters. Also Conspiracy Theorists: NASA have never been to space - it's all just CGI.

The mooted proposals are for England and Wales - not Scotland or Northern Ireland (because those of us in Scotland and Northern Ireland give fuck all fucks about the UK government). https://www.theregister.com/20...

Next they'll be outlawing hyperlinks and that whole dammed Johnny Foreigner World Wide Web since it was invented by that Swiss/French mongrel called Tim Berners-Lee Cern.

LOL. LOL. LOL. "[using] services of a members' club without paying and without being a member" - and yet the entitled UK continues to claim it is being hard-done-to by the EU who are refusing to treat nonpaying Brexit-Britannia as though it was still one of the members of the EU.

So...are you suggesting we fit pets, grannies and kids with reflectors (presumably so that the drone can avoid dropping things on them) every time they venture out into the dangerously unsafe environment of their own garden?

Is it just me or can others see the obvious health and safety flaw here? Whether it be a snoozing cat or dog, or your granny, or a toddler in the garden fascinated by a hovering thing overhead, dropping something weighing up to ten pounds from a height of twelve feet is really not a good plan.

This all sounds very similar to Z and VDM - which at the end of the 1980s early 1990s was clearly going to be the way programming was going. I even put myself on a couple of courses to learn those formal methods - apparently I was guaranteed to get a return on my investment in my upgraded skills (or so I was told). Hohum. The problem was, they took time to learn and otherwise perfectly decent programmers couldn't necessarily get their heads around the esoteric nature of formal methods (being based on abstract logic and set theory) - and unless you were using them all the time you got rusty very rapidly. Maybe this time will be different...

Is there any point in wasting time on a facile report that doesn't even know the difference between Britain and England?

While I have no idea about American law – in the UK this is literally known as constructive dismissal and is prosecutable and sue-able under civil law. (The UK's new Prime Minister Liz Truss wants to abolish this though).

Ya do gotta larf that the Washington Post has paywalled this article.

"Scotland has little arable land." - umm,. so how does it manage to be a net food exporter then? Just another bit of Yoon propaganda from the Guardian newspaper masquerading as science. #DissolveTheUnion

Baffled as to what unit you imagine you are measuring in. Watts are a measure of energy per second - so your new unit is energy consumed per second per hour.