I like to drive under the speed limit in the UK. It makes me feel like some kind of subversive - not giving money in speeding fines from the damn Gatso cameras everywhere.

I'm not American and I understand that although these are part of the same overarching conflict they didn't occur simultaneously. My point was that the GP suggested Europe as some warless utopia, it had a long running civil war in the Balkans in recent years. One noted for war crimes.

The Bosnian War was justified and humanitarian? Serbia attacked Bosnia - how is that justified? Ethnic cleansing - humanitarian?

The SFOR peace keeping mission was European but so were the protagonists.

You're saying the US started three seperate conflicts in Europe? Or are you letting us all off with invading Iraq?

Bollocks.

Europe is not a nation state, European Law is a collection of treaties at best and despite claims in Luxemburg, not all member states recognise its supremacy. National judicial systems vary greatly too. There is no single "police" either (Europol is an intelligence agency), so there would be no need for oversight.

As for "beating up on America", thats going to get an MP here nowhere, given the current climate of massive tax increases and political corruption scandal people are too busy with their own politicians

Modded insightful indeed - your first paragraph seems sensible but given that you opened your mouth and let your belly rumble on the last but one paragraph calls your entire argument into question.

Uncommon? Apart from the Bosnia, Macedonia or Kosovo then?

There are several European nations in Afghanistan (UK, Danish, French and Estonians among others) not to mention damn near every nation in Europe was in Iraq!

You may well be correct about Europe but that's not strictly true in the UK. While the Highway Code makes provision for pedestrians, it is not criminal law but can be the basis for civil law. Section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1988:

IANAL but I think this confusion comes from rule 170 in the highway code:

Jaywalking isn't a crime in the UK, except on a Motorway (where pedestrians aren't allowed).

If I had to guess, I'd guess they were drink related - vandalism, fighting, etc.

Eset has a particularly interesting paper on Stuxnet which may interest you.

Some places yes but I wouldn't say its "the norm" - certainly none of the supermarkets does it and that's where it pisses me off. Stand for 15 minutes in a queue only for someone to open a new till for someone who's hasn't waited at all.

I think as a nation, Britain has a real etiquette about queuing and I know I feel a real injustice when someone gets to skip it.

the government does follow this route, the real bonus would be better transparency. Procurement in general in the public sector is poor - those of us working in defence often seriously question the choices that are made, not to mention the massive overspends and delays.

That said, the average person in the UK is more interested in what celebrities are doing than how their government spends their taxes.

Yes: Booble, NudeVista and the excellently named "Mr Stiff". You can Google them. ;-p

See this is the problem with Wikipedia references.

I haven't seen the show, I'm in the UK, but I know the reason Italian-American interest groups are offended is because of a recent incident where "Snooki" was punched by a man who fits the stereotype they object to.

The interesting thing is MTV's hypocrisy over dealing with the issue, they blacked out the assault when shown on TV and offered a link to a support line after the show but showed a male being assaulted during another show about teen pregnancy.

Must be all about the memory, I had it running on a DX33 with 8Mb. It was fine but I remeber having a terrible time with a driver for the Avance Logic graphics card that it had fitted. Things like the clock (when you double clicked the time) as the hand swept round the screen wasn't redrawn.

Strangest thing was that the card worked fine in Slackware.

This comes to mind...