Just stumbled on "Shadow of the wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and although I'm only 100 pages or so in I'm absolutely hooked. Not only is the language brilliant but the translation has...
And not before time in my view! http://www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-19921072 I think some on this site may require resussitation after reading this so - let's see - who would you rather it have gone...
One of the regular "order of operations" questions came up in How it works the other day and this thought struck me. Why is the order of operations the way it is? Is it just a general...
A 3 person civil Union has been approved in Brazil in huge controversy. If 3 people want this should it be refused - is there a victim to this "crime"?...
Gary Kasparov has just been arrested outside the court where the "Pussy Riot" women were just found guilty. Video of him being dragged off in the middle of a TV interview- demanding to know...
Yet another badly damaged person just asking to allow a doctor to be allowed to end his life safe from prosecution http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19249680 And yet they won't take action if they go...
Been trying to find this out but all I've come up with is how much less steel it's used and how it can be turned down to save fuel.
No actual number
Anybody do any better?...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/.../uk-politics-19149212 No Lords reform = no support for boundry changes Does this mean Cameron is now leading a minority government? With their current popularity I can't see...
Looking at a recent thread it occurs to me that it's a little odd that Bigamy is illegal. Marriage is after all a civil arrangement between people does enforcing a particular form of that arrangement...
It really isn't fair to compare a small country like the UK with the US and China If you even the field a bit and compare European sporting achievements you get quite an interesting result...
The European commission is proposing that fixing key interest rates like the LIBOR rate should be a criminal offense much like insider trading is.
Do you agree with them?...
In case you've ever wondered http://www.alexa.com/.../theanswerbank.co.uk# Apparently theres a lot of 18-24 year olds who are either highly educated or not educated but we are the 2,049th most popular...
...and were found to be in charge of "serious and widespread misconduct" in trying to rig financial markets. Would you expect to lose your bonus or you job? Is Bob Diamond a fit and proper...
Looking at this case today http://www.bbc.co.uk/...gland-london-18203628 this one 8 months ago http://www.metro.co.u...id-her-dna-in-his-car and this case http://worldnews.msnb...ghan-sex-abuse-report...
Thrown out for not standing for the national anthem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...england-tyne-18141421
Thrown out for being gay
http://news.bbc.co.uk...i/england/8578787.stm
Similar or not?...
Listening to a program on Game theory - ended on this rather interesting one. You're given £100 - you have to offer me some of it If I accept you keep the change If I refuse we both get nothing...
11 1/2 years for burning down the Reeves store in the Riot. More or less serious than this case do you think? A-G's Reference No 68 OF 2008 (MYRIE) Pleaded guilty to arson reckless as to whether life...
http://news.sky.com/h...tics/article/16016475 (Gary McKinnon) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17657814 (Abu Hamza) Or is it just that it needs to be easier for moslem clerics and harder for white...
