Having travelled to both the UK and the US, my border experiences at the UK were much worse. That said I was living in the UK on a working holiday visa (and travelling a lot) and only one of my US trips was post September 11.

Just because you don't have to look at it doesn't mean people don't. I was in a car accident where the taxi driver was so preoccupied with looking at his sat nav he failed to check for traffic at an intersection. Fortunately no one was seriously injured but the other persons car was probably a write off.

That's really an endorsement for porting Linux apps to Windows.

They've also disabled strict aliasing which is a significant optimisation in GCC.

Strict aliasing and type punning don't play nice together. You can get away with type punning on MSVC builds but it can cause problems with strict aliasing enabled in GCC. A better solution would be to not do any type punning and re-enable strict aliasing. Well, it would help Linux anyway :)

A great write up can be found here: http://www.cellperformance.com/mike_acton/2006/06/understanding_strict_aliasing.html

The site is safe despite what Google says.

That would explain it. If this is true then WTF.

The reason that developers/publishers don't port to Linux isn't technical, it's financial. If publishers thought they could make a profit on Linux then they'd probably go for it, they are interested in making money after all. The problem is more about Linux's small desktop market share than the ease of porting.

There are more representative systems available - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_member_proportional_representation. Australia's nearby neighbour New Zealand uses MMP. It does give you more choice if you aren't satisfied with the two main parties. I don't think it necessarily means the quality of the politicians is any better though :)

Actually, because vegetarians eat diary products which contain B12 this isn't a problem. If you are vegan however some care is required.