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Well there's the old saying that "luck is where opportunity meets preparation". ...as in "you make your own luck".

Just an aside, but much of the bailout money was recovered when the shares the UK acquired were subsequently sold on once the banks had restabilised.

If push came to shove, would you be willing to go on the stand and testify as much if compelled to?

...worked for youtube.

Not even close.

"In fact, during this period, the travel industry lost over £2.1 billion in profit." Does this even make sense?

Surely you mean a 'frikkin laser beam'?

For games I'd also suggest opening the prompt just after the user has just beaten their high score. They're still going to be pretty pumped and are far more likely to leave a posit…

An idea I had was a site where members can make a list of all their possessions and how much it'd take for them to part with each item. They then have the opportunity to search the…

Something like... (Pseudocode) for( i= 1,100 ) { if( i%3==0 ) { print( 'Fizz' ) } if( i%5==0 ) { print( 'Buzz' ) } print( '\n' ) } There's no need to treat FizzBuzz as a special ca…

How is the geo-IP lookup performed? It put's my location in rural Algeria (I'm in Nottingham, UK). It does this even if I check the 'share my location with geosay.com' type warning…

The NHTSA spokeswoman said the agency wouldn't comment on its Toyota probe until a broader study is completed in conjunction with NASA, which is expected to take months. NASA? real…

A few years ago I started helping out making user generated content for a HL2 mod in my spare time. The mod got quite popular and a couple of us got invited on an all expenses trip…

I predict that 'real' 3D movies will go the way 3D sound did years back. 'Fake' 3D will die out as the camera technology gets cheaper. When Dolby surround first came onto the scene…

Average CPM is around $2.5 - $5. Reddit gets 280M pageviews pcm. Therefore, if it's only breaking even and not turning a profit then their server, bandwidth & wage bill must be in …

For a similar project we used the IR sensors off a USB ball mouse along with homemade encoder wheels to provide motor feedback. This method costs next to nothing and is pretty damn…