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I'm suspicious that he's arguing against the tax rate by giving a flat figure rather than an alternative rate he believes is true.

Not to mention the UK is ruled by a hereditory monarchy with an unelected upper house of parliament.

Because the consequences can only be determined by a long and drawn out negotiation process. Like getting a divorce and then work out custody and share of assets after.

Go with the previous version before this release, 40.24 While getting a handle of the basics of the game you really won't miss out on any of the new features in the latest version.…

Is there any way to change it? I imagine if your name was Alexa (or even Alex) or had a close friend with that name you could also get a lot of false positives.

I don't think specs are ever going to be perfect. Simply because the people typically writing specs (project managers, user experience designers, business analysts etc.) view the r…

That might follow the pattern but it breaks a bunch of typical user story rules. It's easy to blame the format, but it sounds like the product owner needs to be educated on the pro…

I pay a similar amount sharing with two friends in Clapham/Balham. It helps that we've been in the same place for 4 years so the rent hasn't gone up too much over that period.

Nutters that are becoming increasingly popular.

It can. Although my understanding is that if one side purposefully generates high costs then they can get in a lot of trouble for doing so. It's also worth noting that the UK is lo…

Interestingly one of the most well known figures in the Starcraft scene, Sean 'Day[9]' Plott, yesterday announced that he was working with a browser based game company on a new RTS…

I like Captain Duck who has a bunch of tutorials and Lets Plays along with a soothing Dutch accent. http://www.youtube.com/user/captnduck To get a great flavour of dwarf fortress i…

Well without a contract (even a verbal agreement) in place for them to refer to in court, as a case it seems pretty thin. It also seems like the lawyers will make more out of this …

All an IQ tests, is your ability to do well on an IQ test. It's not a particularly great measure of intelligence. The fact that you can often improve your IQ by 20 points (or more)…

It is when your attitude is a contempt towards a court ruling.

It is when your attitude is a contempt towards a court ruling.

For me, it wasn't surprising to hear this happening. The scale of it, however, was surprising.

Also the 5% isn't evenly distributed. So for some people the 5% is going to look like 20% while for others it looks like 1%

While Open Street Maps is an incredible and worthwhile project. The release of iOS 6 this week has demonstrated just how hard it is to get maps right.

Also a friend of mine built qwitter a good while ago. Looks like someone else is running it these days: http://useqwitter.com/

Interesting thanks. I'm the only previous owner, I let it lapse carelessly. As my the domain is my name, and a pretty unique one, it doesn't have much resale value. My guess is tha…

If someone has a domain of my name that's very low value (I'd a domain I used to use for a blog). Is it likely they'll let it go after a year with little traffic? If not how much w…

Fair use doesn't exist in EU. There are certain provisions of copying allowed for research and a few select reasons but its much more restrictive than the US. So if they had used q…

It's not been massively uncommon for knighthoods to be refused. Notable individuals include: Dirac, Faraday, Hawking, Henry Moore, GB Shaw, David Bowie and Huxley. http://en.wikipe…

> Who decided 14 days is the proper amount of annual vacation time? Worth noting that this is a fairly uniquely American standard and would be illegal in most of Europe.