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Another thing that came to my mind while reading the BBC article linked to by the Yahoo article in TFS (yeah, I actually read all that stuff, I must be new here) is the fact that while many people with non-english native language may be comfortable reading articles in english (maybe sometimes using Google translator or some other stuff) but not necessarily be able to easily answer the question, even if they knew the brand.
The "Ad-CAPTCHA" in question (image) asks to describe the brand "dyson". A valid answer would probably be "vacuum cleaner". Would the system accept "Staubsauger" (German for vacuum cleaner, actual meaning: "dust sucker") as well?

In the UK, handguns are banned for civilians. And most police don't carry firearms either. So in your mind, everyone is helpless. Result? A homicide rate a quarter of the USA.

The UK's overall violent crime rate is almost twice that of the U.S.

The U.S.'s homicide rate has fallen by 50% since the early 90s, while the number of guns in private hands has risen and many states have liberalized CCW laws.

On the other hand, the U.K.'s gun ban had no impact on the murder rate -- in fact the homicide and gun crime rates went up the first few years after it was instituted. Gun crime in the U.K. roughly doubled between 1999 and 2009.

There are also serious problems with crime being under-reported in the U.K.. And some allege (I'm less certain about this claim) that even murder is undercounted in the U.K. versus the U.S., because U.K. rates are based on final disposition of cases (i.e., someone was convicted) while U.S. rates are based on reports (i.e., there's a dead body).

I suspect that even with that taken into account,though, the U.K.'s homicide rate may be lower -- not for any reason involving firearms, but because the U.S. has more of a problem with economic stratification, and a greater lead pollution problem thanks to our car culture.

I have corrected your post for you.

No you haven't. The fact that the welsh parliament has created a 5p levy does not mean that the supermarkets didn't fight against it.

And not only are you logically wrong, you're wrong in actuality: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8265754.stm

That article is from 2009, they fought against it, but how am I wrong? the 5p levy has happened.

I have corrected your post for you.

No you haven't. The fact that the welsh parliament has created a 5p levy does not mean that the supermarkets didn't fight against it.

And not only are you logically wrong, you're wrong in actuality:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8265754.stm

The question here is incorrect.

The question is also misapplied. Trevor Baylis is not a good poster child for "ripped-off" inventors. First of all, he did not invent the wind up radio.

That did not stop him for demanding patent infringement to be made a criminal offence. BBC article

Screw him.

I dunno about that... Not only is this an issue in Europe (where I live and buy the honey I eat), but they're also asking each other, "Eat any horseburgers lately?"

Today's meteor event came a day after California scientists proposed a system to vaporize asteroids that threaten Earth.

Hmm. Maybe they're not too hard to see after all. I mean, if I were going to propose an asteroid vaporization program, I'd want to do it around some event that would prove the program needs to be funded immediately...

Well, there's part of the problem right there -- we don't want to shoot the things *down*, we want to shoot them *up* and *away*.

Gee, I wonder who they have in mind to man this system. I mean, it would take some kind of super human eyesight to spot things moving faster than a speeding bullet. You'd need some type of heat-ray working with the optics in order to stop asteroids that are more powerful than a locomotive. They'd have to be able, willing, but most of all trustworthy enough that they wouldn't mess things up. Up and away, indeed...

Do you know what the nickname for Jardarite is?
Perhaps some comic books really are just thinly veiled cultural acclimation programs.

Then again, if you already knew of an alien threat, you'd want to match their capabilities. The timing of the proposal and meteor events hint at a cunning on par with Lex Luther.

What interests me the most here is why wasn't this all over the news? We see posts about twice a year talking about the next "near miss" we're going to have. So what happened with this one? Didn't they catch it? Or did they catch it, realize it was going to hit, and decide not to tell anybody?

Because these incidents are fairly common and don't cause any harm. Objects this small are too small to track, and not worth tracking either. This object was probably no bigger than a car. The dangerous ones are as big as mountains...and bigger

Obviously the mountain sized ones (or even swimming pool sized ones) are terrible, but this one wasn't exactly a flash bang - look at Images 3, 4, 6 and 8

The Register says

First off, just what is the law? Various guides - including an official release from the Ministry of Justice - make it clear that pictures will fall foul of the new law if four components are present. The pic must be pornographic, or produced for sexual purposes. It must be realistic. It must contain certain specific imagery, including necrophilia, bestiality, activity depicting serious harm to breast, anus or genitals or life-threatening activity. Finally, it must be grossly offensive, as determined either by a jury or magistrate.

All those components must be there. Poster your walls with the most grotesque, the most blood-spattered out-takes from Saw or Hostel and unless someone can prove you actually get off on them, no prosecution could follow. That, of course, highlights one of the first of many question marks hovering over this legislation: is "produced for sexual purposes" defined relative to the motives of the originator of an image, or the motives of the person who downloads it to their hard-drive? Lawyers suspect the latter: so in fact, the out-takes in question might or might not fall foul of the law depending on your personal sexual tastes.

An englishman was recently convicted of possessing extreme pornography, but the BBC article does not go into the details-- and while The Sun has also covered the story, they have merely tarted up the details, reconfirming their utter worthlessness,.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-london/A20460782
"but due to the congested airspace around both Gatwick and Heathrow, he was directed to land at Southampton Airport. Southampton was closer, but all the maps and charts had been lost in the blow-out, and having never landed there before, the co-pilot was obviously anxious about the prospect of making a good landing."
http://www.fss.aero/accident-reports/dvdfiles/GB/1990-06-10-UK.pdf
"The co-pilot had requested radar vectors to the nearest airport and had been turned towards Southampton Airportand eventually transferred to their approach frequency."
"I have a VOR but it will be radar vectors onto the visual final"

'Bill Gates dumps another $10 million into researching new GM crops for agricultural takeover of Africa '

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18845282
http://www.naturalnews.com/036561_Bill_Gates_GM_crops_Africa.html

Oh, right, because faceless bureaucrats deciding what is best for your children is sooo much more effective than ensuring information is true and available and letting their parents decide.

Sometimes yes yes or even yes.

Figures. Typical statist response: "Here's some examples of isolated idiots making poor decisions, that of course justifies my use of tyranny to control and punish the entire populace."

No mention of what happens when idiots make poor decisions for millions of people. How do you justify that?

Oh, right, because faceless bureaucrats deciding what is best for your children is sooo much more effective than ensuring information is true and available and letting their parents decide.

Sometimes yes yes or even yes.

Any beef with each other? Did you miss anything? Yes, absolutely! :)

There's certainly the external threat from Iran, and the Shi'a population in many of the countries are less than happy with their Sunni rulers. Did I mention Iran? They're quite protective of Shi'as; be it during the recent uprising in Bahrain or the current war in Yemen [on Saudi Arabia's border]. There's always the threat of homegrown terrorists who wish to establish a theocratic state (Sunni). Saudi Arabia has been battling its own extremists for years now. Iraq already attacked Kuwait once and wanted to move on Saudi Arabia. Today Iraq is mostly a threat because of instability.

However you seem to have missed the real point of the GCC's plan; to come together and create a confederation for economic and social development. They're not banding together because of threats - they're planning ahead. How long will the oil last? What do they live off afterwards? They have to develop their economies, industries, educate and train the population and be less reliant on foreign workers [from Asia and the West].

As for India and Pakistan, that's not their problem as those are Asian countries. Israel is obviously not loved by the GCC countries.

Any beef with each other? Did you miss anything? Yes, absolutely! :)

There's certainly the external threat from Iran, and the Shi'a population in many of the countries are less than happy with their Sunni rulers. Did I mention Iran? They're quite protective of Shi'as; be it during the recent uprising in Bahrain or the current war in Yemen [on Saudi Arabia's border]. There's always the threat of homegrown terrorists who wish to establish a theocratic state (Sunni). Saudi Arabia has been battling its own extremists for years now. Iraq already attacked Kuwait once and wanted to move on Saudi Arabia. Today Iraq is mostly a threat because of instability.

However you seem to have missed the real point of the GCC's plan; to come together and create a confederation for economic and social development. They're not banding together because of threats - they're planning ahead. How long will the oil last? What do they live off afterwards? They have to develop their economies, industries, educate and train the population and be less reliant on foreign workers [from Asia and the West].

As for India and Pakistan, that's not their problem as those are Asian countries. Israel is obviously not loved by the GCC countries.

People of his mien come once a generation FFS.

Charismatic yet devious and subversive "leaders" that flaunt the very laws they're supposed to uphold and amass fervent followers and know what's best for everyone? Yeah, I know who fit that bill for my parent's generation.

So the US is ending their occupation of Afghanistan again? Like they did the last few times they announced a "full withdraw"?

Could you provide some links to these previous announcements about Afghanistan, and when they would occur?

The only thing I find more amazing than official US propaganda is that most people seem to believe it.

Indeed. By the way, where do you get your info from? A "trustworthy" party organ?

Last US troops withdraw from Iraq

Key features of this are things like a sapphire display which is much better than and much much more expensive than gorilla glass. The other thing is the "I am rich" button - to call your conceierge. This is to an iPhone as an iPhone is to a really cheap Android phone. Which is to say, on a cheap Android phone you will get a bunch of features that the iPhone doesn't have, such as the ability to side load applications, but your iPhone geek will just say "don't want" and point at his better display. This is the reason why top end Android phones devices to outclass the iPhone on display technology. Everybody knows the iPhone fans have to grit their teeth as they pretend not to care.

The other thing is that this is very clearly saying that their customers are wanting something that integrates with their surroundings properly. "You need to be part of an ecosystem," is the key quote in the BBC article in explaining why they avoided WP8. Coming from a former Nokia person, and almost directly a quote from Steven Elop on why they chose Windows, I think that could be a sign that Windows Phone will be abandoned sooner rather than later. Possibly with Elop going with it. It's certainly a pretty direct hint to the board members of his former employer.

I'd be interested to know how many people still wear a watch as anything more than a big piece of jewellery.

More than enough for Swatch group to report sales in 2012 totalling 8.14bn Swiss francs ($9bn; £5.6bn), up 14% from 2011.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20968837

Personally I have a watch because it is far more convenient, discrete and (in the case of some activities) safer to check the time by turning your wrist and glancing than it is to dig out your phone, orientate it the right way, press the power button and look down.

I wouldn't advocate big gaudy oversized watches, but there are plenty of midrange ones out there that look good with whatever style of clothes you are wearing (even a suit) and don't have to be charged every night to be useful.

The *facts* are that the mainstream of Islam approves and supports jihad and global Sharia (Google for the surveys).

Like this one
"Muslims want self-determination, but not an American-imposed and defined democracy. They don't want secularism or theocracy," said the professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington.

"What the majority wants is democracy with religious values."

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

Ah, one of the great dhimmi-wannabe sites. You know you are dealing with a loon when they whip out web sites like thereligionofpeace.com or jihadwatch.org as sources for reliable "facts."

Archived @:
http://slexy.org/view/s21UWKzafS
http://hpaste.org/79175
https://paste.debian.net/plain/216145
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The hum that helps to fight crime (ENF) Electrical Network Frequency analysis

"For the last seven years, at the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London, audio specialists have been continuously recording the sound of mains electricity.

It is an all pervasive hum that we normally cannot hear. But boost it a little, and a metallic and not very pleasant buzz fills the air. ...

"The power is sent out over the national grid to factories, shops and of course our homes. Normally this frequency, known as the mains frequency, is about 50Hz," explains Dr Alan Cooper, a senior digital forensic practitioner at the Met Police.

Any digital recording made anywhere near an electrical power source, be it plug socket, light or pylon, will pick up this noise and it will be embedded throughout the audio.

This buzz is an annoyance for sound engineers trying to make the highest quality recordings. But for forensic experts, it has turned out to be an invaluable tool in the fight against crime.

While the frequency of the electricity supplied by the national grid is about 50Hz, if you look at it over time, you can see minute fluctuations. ...

Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these changes for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year provides a digital watermark: a date and time stamp on the recording.

Philip Harrison, from JP French Associates, another forensic audio laboratory that has been logging the hum for several years, says: "Even if [the hum] is picked up at a very low level that you cannot hear, we can extract this information."

It is a technique known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis, and it is helping forensic scientists to separate genuine, unedited recordings from those that have been tampered with."

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=32789

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Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate'
Power lines act as police informers

- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/

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Noisy, muffled, incoherent recordings are an audio engineerâ(TM)s worst nightmare, but all too often they contain vital evidence in criminal trials. Itâ(TM)s the job of the forensic audio specialist to extract that evidence.

- http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan10/articles/forensics.htm

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(discussion forum) Electrical network frequency analysis, Mains frequency variations detectable in digital audio recordings?

- http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=81346

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Met Police use electrical 'hum' to solve crimes

The Metropolitan Police is using the "hum" of background noise produced by mains electricity to help solve crimes, it has been disclosed.

- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9739037/Met-Police-use-electrical-hum-to-solve-crimes.html

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Related Research
- http://www.ece.umd.edu/~ravig/Research.html

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Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime

- http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1331243/engine

The specs are so amazing I do wonder if they are true.
All that and only 16g. Not easy to even get a high quality video camera+transmitter that weighs much less than 16g.

Of course for some perspective, you can compare the specs with a dragonfly or hummingbird to see there's still much progress to be made in some areas ;)

Dragonfly
weight about 1-3grams
fully autonomous
self refuelling, self manufacturing.
maximum speed about 30+kph.
nonstop flight - more than long enough for me:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/dragonfly-1.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8149000/8149714.stm
Some even fly at altitudes up to 6000 metres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantala_flavescens

Hummingbird
weight : 3-4 grams typical, 8 grams max fuel.
nonstop flight - 800km with full fuel load.
flight speed max = 50-80kph

"His doctorate is an honorary one, bestowed by the Bob Jones University, in South Carolina but he likes to use the title."

In other news, Bob Jones University is some sort of racist Xian degree mill, and amusingly it's logo is a "BJ", which would probably appall the fascists in charge if they knew what it meant.

The thing about anti-assassination legislation is: its already illegal to kill American citizens without due process, and the government does it anyway.

As far as drones, probably because the further humans get from experiencing the result of their choice to take a life, the easier it becomes.

GW's ripped off Elisabeth Beresford's design.

Refer them to Arkell v Pressdram.

I don't know how you guys did it but in the UK we bought the banks. We own them now. When we sell them off we will get back what we paid for them, perhaps even a bit of profit.

Right..... That explains : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15769886 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9681545/UK-may-never-recover-66bn-spent-to-rescue-banks-MPs.html Your faith in the government is touching, but probably unfounded (see PFI, HMRC failures, FSA failures). Heck, pick up a copy of Private Eye to see just how often government utterly fails when working with commercial entities.

my other comment was a cut/paste failure

basically, they had a pretty good idea the location they were digging was the church where he was buried

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882

"In August 2012, an excavation began in a city council car park - the only open space remaining in the likely area - which quickly identified buildings connected to the church."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882

However, a team of enthusiasts and historians managed to trace the likely area - and, crucially, after painstaking genealogical research, they found a 17th-generation descendant of Richard's sister with whose DNA they could compare any remains.

Joy Ibsen, from Canada, died several years ago but her son, Michael, who now works in London, provided a sample.

people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn't make any money out of records because record companies wouldn't pay you! They didn't pay anyone! Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone. So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn't.

Story I read just today about a 15 year old Icelandic girl who is finally allowed to legally use her name. Prior to that the government referred to her as "girl".

The BBC is reporting that it was windows computers that were compromised. They quote Graham Cluley, a tech consultant at Sophos. All compromised computers were "thrown out and replaced." All passwords were changed. Another article reports that the hackers would begin working at 0800 Beijing time..

The BBC is reporting that it was windows computers that were compromised. They quote Graham Cluley, a tech consultant at Sophos. All compromised computers were "thrown out and replaced." All passwords were changed. Another article reports that the hackers would begin working at 0800 Beijing time..

Sound like total rubbish to me. Politicians do lie sometimes and they even occasionaly tell the truth but mostly they bend the truth out of all proportion. If they make a statement its not TRUE or FALSE usually the answer would be "WELL... ITS COMPLICATED.. it depends how you look at it" In the UK we have a radio show dedicated to statistics called More or Less http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd These folks can spend half the show discussing the truth behind a single political statement and then sometimes dont come to a firm conclusion

Funnily enough, some muppet tried this in regard to a speeding ticket. He was caught by a forensic analysis of the shadows, nice try though!

link

From the BBC story:

"I think people had their fingers crossed that it was a battery fault... it looks more systemic and serious to me. I suspect it could be difficult to identify the cause," [Keith Hayward, head of research at the Royal Aeronautical Society] said.

I would hope the folks in change of designing and building aircraft would depend on measurements and calculations, not crossed fingers. Did they also consult a Ouija board?

> It is amazing what software companies can escape with, things that in
> other engineering fields would totally blast them companies with lawsuits.

http://apcmag.com/seagate_settles_class_action_cash_back_over_misleading_hard_drive_capacities.htm

> Can you imagine a civil engineer gradually patching structural
> inconsistencies in a bridge as they show up? Yikes!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1829053.stm

"The bigger problem is just power."

I have a very simple solution to that: a DC power apaptor. As for your comments about A/V, I'll grant that Blender's a bad example for video editing. But Blender does have a video editing mode or whatever that's called. Just Google for Blender video editing. Here's the first hit I got:

"Video Editing with Blender, part 1 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sODml0PBlo5
Feb 2011 - 7 min - Uploaded by OpticalVampire
A short video showing a start to finish cycle of editing video with blender, including ..."

Simple video editing can be done efficiently using a touch interface. By simple I mean cutting out the ugly faces, riot, etc from your wedding/birthday video, or minor tweaks like improving the contrast/brightness. I don't mean the creation of a Hollywood blockbuster or Sundance cult classic, although it can be done, if your goal is to make a Blair Witch-type indie flick or comic sci-fi with deliberately cheesy "special effects".

Here's a BBC feature on smartphone film making, including, editing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9710004.stm

Unfortunately none of featured iPhone apps are FOSS.

BTW, I know about Android ebook readers. The two I have installed, FB Reader and Cool Reader, are good enough for reading eBooks formatted in the straightforward fashion of a Project Gutenberg eText, but appears to have a problem with eBooks with fancier formatting that includes sub-sections, epigraphs, graphics, and the like. The best FOSS ebook reader is, unfortunately, not available for Android, Calibre, described as primarily an ebook cataloging program that happens to have a "built-in ebook viewer". The "Calibre" program available at Google Play appears to be merely a sync program that connects to Calibre proper.

I love this report about the article:

One user, Taylor Winkelmeyer, wrote: "I clicked on the link because I thought the warning was a joke. "I am furious I had to see something like this. Someone please tell me how to get it off my feed."

It's got to be fake, right ?

...against their fellow man.

Interesting choice of words. One of the (few) criticisms that has been be leveled against Jainism is that it has discriminated against women. It generally involves the usual excuses: women are impure during their menstral cycle, women must be clothed or they will give men evil (sexual) thoughts, etc.

So, less evil than slaughtering thousands of non-believers (although another criticism of Jainism is that it practices extreme starvation, occasionally resulting in death), but still shy of that "untainted" mark by my estimates.

Instead of that insanity[1] I'd recommend two sleeps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

[1] The fact that the guy says when you get it wrong you'll feel tired for _days_ should tell you how insane that method is. You can probably _survive_ on that, but I doubt you will thrive.

A land grab is mostly necessary for the Chinese. It is protecting themselves economically - they need to feed their people. They currently have a severe lack of farmland, and buying from the world market is only going to cost more and more. Also it will be necessary for internal stability, their people's expectations for a living standard are rising, based on both growing wages and more information about the status quo outside of China.

Concerning Japan: what do you think this row in the autumn was about: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19632042 ? The actual islands? Lol.

Well I find this much, much more palatable than the iPotty, a product actually previewed at the venerable CES:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957844

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/dung-beetle-astronomy/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150721

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072

African dung beetles orient to the starry sky to move along straight paths The beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way Summary When the moon is absent from the night sky, stars remain as celestial visual cues. Nonetheless, only birds [1,2], seals [3], and humans [4] are known to use stars for orientation. African ball-rolling dung beetles exploit the sun, the moon, and the celestial polarization pattern to move along straight paths, away from the intense competition at the dung pile [5,6,7,8,9]. Even on clear moonless nights, many beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths [5]. This led us to hypothesize that dung beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation, a feat that has, to our knowledge, never been demonstrated in an insect. Here, we show that dung beetles transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky but lose this ability under overcast conditions. In a planetarium, the beetles orientate equally well when rolling under a full starlit sky as when only the Milky Way is present. The use of this bidirectional celestial cue for orientation has been proposed for vertebrates [10], spiders [11], and insects [5,12], but never proven. This finding represents the first convincing demonstration for the use of the starry sky for orientation in insects and provides the first documented use of the Milky Way for orientation in the animal kingdom.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072

And when the government standards, like export restrictions, fall far enough behind the state of the art, hilarity can ensue.

Apple tries to get G4 export ban lifted
Apple PowerMac G4 Commercial - Super Computer
Sci/Tech - Apple launches 'desktop supercomputer'

Arse. It translates to arse.

And like the AC says, that doesn't happen here.

Get your head down, stay out of everyone's way, do your time,... ...watch Sky Sports and play the PS3 or 360 [in low category gaols before anyone gets on their high horse]

Die someone say horse? There's plenty of that behind bars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8174000/8174870.stm

Bullshit: The sentence 'That's so gay' to mean something is bad, only showed its head at the end of the 90's. I'm willing to be proven wrong, so waiting for you to provide some actual proof.

"The use of "gay" in this particular way was first recorded at the end of the 1970s and developed among US high school students"

Hell, if something was gay in the olden days, it used to be merry/cheerful.

"The "Dictionary of American Slang" reports that gay (adj.) was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920. Rawson ["Wicked Words"] notes a male prostitute using gay in reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostitutes) in London's notorious Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Ayto ["20th Century Words"] calls attention to the ambiguous use of the word in the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store," by U.S. female impersonator Will S. Hays, but the word evidently was not popularly felt in this sense by wider society until the 1950s at the earliest."

If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, consider increasing your intake of lithium, which is available over-the-counter. Statistics from Japan seem to indicate that it is effective. How much should you take? Unknown. Good luck.

If you are depressed, consider increasing your intake of tryptophan, along with niacin, to increase your production of serotonin. I've also heard that saffron and tea have some impact. Your diet in general should be carefully researched.

If you think that you drink too much alcohol, you abuse drugs, you gamble too much, or you steal without reason, ask your doctor for a prescription for naltrexone to quell your opioid receptors. Your physician should make this medication available to you with few restrictions after reading the relevant literature (the book by Eskapa lays out how to obtain and use it).

This is the best advice that I have. I wish that there was more, and it was better.

It's not their fault, it's the Parliament making crappy laws, albeit most of them are lawyers, they either suck or are bought.
Paypal is a bank and like all banks they avoid paying taxes like the pest.

"Barclays Bank told by Treasury to pay £500m avoided tax"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17181213

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/10/18/banks-to-avoid-19bn-tax-bill-despite-bailout/
http://goodbanking.org.uk/archives/684

However the rich have hopped, over the border to Belgium and Switzerland. Bank of France reported that last month, French banks lost 44 bn EUR of deposits. So a run on France has started.

It's funny how that happens when you try to introduce a 75% tax rate for the wealthy.

Sounds a lot like the description of Italy in this BBC article called "Where vegetarianism is an exotic illness".