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buh?

Or Inda used google.co.uk, which does return fitness equipment clearance first and Target second.

plus 17.5% VAT (I doubt that they would be able to get one sent over before the new year).

£87 total http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=119%24+x+1.175+in+%C2%A3

Not bad. Might think about getting one.

This is a perfect example. The DRM was broken so quickly, keys were available online http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=avatar+keygen so pirates were not inconvenienced, but the legitimate customers (the theatre who was showing the movie) were unable to use the item they had purchased in a timely manner.

You are aware that "avatar+keygen" gives no meaningful results, aren't you, because it's just link spam from fishy sites? Even if it *did* give meaningful results, they would be about the *game*, not the *movie*.

,,,isn't this an issue with the company not purchasing the proper licenses in the appropriate amount of time rather than an issue with DRM?

The issue with most DRM is that it a) Does not actually stop pirates (at best it slows them down) and b) Does impair the ability for legitimate owners to use their purchase as intended.

This is a perfect example. The DRM was broken so quickly, keys were available online http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=avatar+keygen so pirates were not inconvenienced, but the legitimate customers (the theatre who was showing the movie) were unable to use the item they had purchased in a timely manner.

So I would disagree, this issue is indeed with DRM

Once again the pirates solve a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=avatar+keygen

Otherwise, why not exercise some self-constraint and try products from Yahoo, or even host your own?

I'm sort of in the same position as the question asker; I use a huge range of Google services (my personal pictures are on Picasa, I use Latitude and MyTracks on my Android phone. I even use Google DNS). Google knows virtually everything about me - including things I wouldn't share with my best friend. But...

Yahoo knows virtually nothing about me. Microsoft knows virtually nothing about me.... EBay/PayPal/Skype also know, collectively, more about me than I'm strictly comfortable with, but that's a slightly different matter (and I'm moving from Skype to Google Chat for just this reason)

If we are to use the Web as it currently exists to the fullest we have to share information. You can either use a scattergun approach which spreads your data across a range of potentially unscrupulous companies, or you can pick one company which you hope will remain moderately honest. If Google turn out to have a bad security breach, or suddenly decide to sell my information to the highest bidder, I'm in trouble. But if you spread your information around then a security breach at any of the big search engine companies puts you in trouble.

Even if you trust Microsoft to be honest, do you trust them to be competent?

In summary: relax, Lintilla, and enjoy your shoes.

I watched it on TV, so I never read an article. Looks like Google has loads about it, though.

US unemployment rate eases to 10% (4th Dec 2009)
Current US population: 304m

304,000,000 / 10 = 30,400,000 aka 30m

Still don't think your system is broken?

For the longest time I have been using
define:<word>
on Google. Try it. Make sure you put the colon.
For example:
define:hadron
define:compunction
etc.

For the longest time I have been using
define:<word>
on Google. Try it. Make sure you put the colon.
For example:
define:hadron
define:compunction
etc.

I am an electronic engineer

I am a radio amateur and have never been paid to design an electronic circuit in my life... I also like hiking, walks on the beach, and cats. Does this help or hinder my argument?

I also happen to know that resistance and conductance are equivalent terms

They are not "equivalent terms", they are dual notions. Regular conductance and resistance are related by G=1/R, sure. But we are talking about specific definitions of /transfer/ resistance and /transfer/ conductance, used in modelling transistor circuits, typical in textbooks (bottom of page 33, highlighted for you) and literature, following from the consideration of duality expressed by the originator of the name.

You can model vacuum tubes or transistors, both unipolar and bipolar, by either conductance or resistance.

You /can/ surely, but you don't, because it means you're undermining the mathematical notion of duality in favour of the base physical concern that the BJT happens to be built out of the same material as a FET.

Under non-saturated conditions the current in the output side of the circuit depends on the excitation in the input, this excitation being a current in the BJT and a voltage in a FET.

In a FET, or a valve. As discussed in the previous AC posts. This is precisely what is important.

However, if you want to be pedantic about the word "resistance", you should study the behavior of both bipolar transistors and FETs under saturation.

No. Your argument here is, "When I pound the BJT enough, it stops responding as it did along the main part of its characteristic, so we can ignore the main part of the characteristic entirely." That you combined with a misunderstanding of what /transfer/ resistance is. Read the textbook above.

Conclusion: for true gramer nazis, only FETs should be called "transfer resistors".

The true language Nazi would look at the person who came up with the word and consider his justification for it in context rather than substituting his own. Which is what I did :-).

(I am off to bed... do feel free to continue waxing, although I won't reappear for another 24 hours and that depends on me remembering to leave the tab open.)

Another word not in there is "poop", synonymous with poo, bot unlisted as another word for faeces.

Compare Google Dictionary's result: http://www.google.co.uk/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&hl=en&q=poop

which merely lists poop deck, with Answes.com's: http://www.answers.com/topic/poop

which is comprehensive and exactly what you'd expect from a dictionary.

I'd say Google fails pretty badly on this (relatively childish) example and isn't up to the job (or should that be jobbie).

Asking for a definition of ecc turns it up, so it's obviously not that uncommon. And as we're talking about data corruption, it's the obvious one.

Most IT techs would recognise the term from "ECC Ram", which is ram that is capable of correcting bit errors and is often required by server motherboards.

The great thing about wireless is that you don't need LoS to the access point. You could be sitting outside* and still be able to access their connection.

* YMMV, not representitive of all outdoor places. Expect to be thoroughly disappointed.

Nevertheless, the Daily Mail is wrong: the woman has not "won the right" to the IP address; UK courts cannot give people that right.

Indeed yes, most of the media have this wrong, with headlines like being "forced" or "ordered" to reveal the IP address. And these are the same media articles that are also using the story as an opportunity to throw in jabs about Wikipedia being untrustworthy...

Try this and this - the second one cites temperatures of 262F.

One of the biggest weakness of Bing is that when I type in a search for an address (in London,UK), it does not bring up google maps http://www.bing.com/search?q=1+exchange+square+london+uk&go=&form=QBLH&filt=all. With google maps, I can see nearly transport options and I can quickly see nearby candidate restaurants and coffeeshops after an event http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1+exchange+square+london+uk&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a.

Surely thats because Bush does actually look like a chimp in many of his photo's (facial expression and body language) whereas Michelle Obama is only having the comparison made because she is black. Most of the Bush/chimp pictures show Dubya alongside a chimp and quite often the similarities are self evident, if the Obama pics had been done the same way ie; showing a picture of her that actually looked like a chimp (similar facial expressions and body language, not just because of her skin tone) alongside a chimp in a similar pose then i wouldn't think it racist, merely comical.

We can all agree that this man
  does like a monkey, not because of his ethnicity but because he's damn hairy!

Since the publishers are so keen on getting 8/10 reviews, lets replace the stars with a scoring system that just gives them more of what they want.

A good game gets one (8/10).

A mediocre game gets 3: (8/10)(8/10)(8/10)

And a terrible game gets a whopping 10: (8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10)(8/10) ... the publishers get what they want, and anyone with a calculator to hand knows what we really mean

They wouldn't do it for the word "Jew" so why would they do it for one person?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Jew

The Birmingham Canal network is great for transport geeks - e.g. start at Old Turn Junction (10 mins walk from New Street station) and head towards Wolverhampton. For part of the way there's a choice of an 'upper' canal (older, more trad canal with more locks) or the 'lower' canal ('newer' deep cut with fewer locks) and you can switch between them at Smethick pumping station (pumped water from lower to upper canal). Smethick Galton Bridge is a Victorian wonder all on its own. Esssentially you've got two canals, two levels of railway (each with their own station) and a vintage road bridge (foot traffic only) all stacked up/intertwined. And the lower canal goes into a nice tunnel.
Here's most of it:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&ie=UTF8&q=smethwick+train+station&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=train+station&hnear=smethwick&view=map&cid=17105829675278253099&ved=0CBMQpQY&ei=CEgNS6yVD-PMjAfgrtivBw&ll=52.50224,-1.977882&spn=0.004402,0.007617&t=k&z=17

The pyramid shapes are the roof of the two-level station, at the point the upper and lower railway lines cross.
The lower canal runs in the deep cutting NW to SE, the upper canal is just visible in the NE corner.

The historic Galton (road) Bridge itself is the middle one of the three (with the new wider road bridge below it in the SE corner).

Regular trains from Birmingham New Street take just a few minutes.

That's just the start. Canals radiate in all directions from Birmingham, often mixing with railways in a fascinating way. In many cases you can walk a few miles out and then get a train back, or carry on further to a different station, but actually I'd recommend starting outside Birmingham and ending up in the centre at Old Turn Junction where all the canals converge - lots of good pubs and eating places there, and the National Sealife Centre if you like that sort of thing.

• London Underground Journey Planner
• Accessible overland train timetables
• Accessible overland train timetables (mobile version)
• Crowd sourced *nice* things in London
• UK journey planner by every means available

It's also useful to know that each post code (zip code) is allocated to a small group of houses (say ten-ish) within the same street.
That's accurate enough to navigate using just the house number and post code. So if you wanted directions from, say, the British Museum (WC1B 3DG) to Buckingham Palace (SW1A 1AA) you'd google this: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC1B 3DG to SW1A 1AA

Get yourself a London A-Z (Zed ;) - most of the time dead tree maps still beat electronic (and there's no cellphone reception on the Underground).

Get yourself an Oyster Card. It's a significantly cheaper way to travel.
You don't have to register it if perhaps you're sensitive about personal privacy (just remember you're constantly under CCTV surveillance).

CCTV cameras will watch you everywhere Unless you happen to be the victim of a crime, in which case the cameras will be "switched off" or "pointing the other way".

Mobile data is pretty cheap (assuming you have a compatible phone) - pick up a Three or T-Mobile sim at the airport.

Lastly, no geek can be without their coffee fix: try Monmouth Coffee, Flat White or Cafe Amato.

And some other things...

The UK has a high population density which has some forseeable consequences. Hotel rooms will be small, especially in central London. Trains and busses will be crowded in rush hour - if you don't have to be travelling between 8-9:30am or 4:30-6:30pm, then don't.

If you want oriental food, then Chinatown (Soho), just off Leicester Square and a 3-minute walk from Picadilly Circus, does exactly what it says on the tin.

Set aside 20 quid to have proper Afternoon Tea, 3pm onwards at the Terrace Bar in Harrods department store. Ask the besuited concierges for this specific bar (there are many). Ignore anyone who says Harrods is touristy; you are a tourist, so enjoy it and soak up the atmosphere. Service at Harrods is far better than at Fortnum & Mason, even if the prices match.

Do you like engineering? Break up a tube journey by having a look around St Pancras railway station, a marvel of Victorian ironwork itself, and where the rather swish Eurostar train starts its 200mph journey to Paris. Still engineering based, visit the Thames Barrier, a moving metal marvel which stops London from flooding.

Take the Docklands Light Railway monorail (included in your underground tube train ticket) to East India station and gawp at Telehouse Docklands. Note how British police do not carry pistols. Oh no. If they're going to carry a gun, they carry an assault rifle.

Visit the Grenwich Observatory, home of the GMT zero line and note with amusement that, although us British have given up most of our Empire, we still tell the rest of the world when to wake up and when to go to bed.

Walk past Buckingham Palace but make sure you also walk past St James Palace, only two blocks away, which is much older and has far more history.

Really, really, make sure you take a compact umbrella.

Would I be better off not bringing my laptop and just using Internet kiosks (do they exist in London?)

Are you kidding me?. Although I would bring your laptop with anyway and make use of the many free wifi spots in pubs (sorry, bars) and the like. We are quite connected here.

The Natural History Museum and Science Musuem are practically next door to each other, and are both essential to any good trip to London. Google Maps link

I had the opposite problem, I assumed that this was his itinerary.

And I doubt there are any nations in the world licensing weather data.

How about Canada or New Zealand, or EU wide. The UK data is licensed by the MET Office and the Department for Rural Affairs.

And that's just from a 30 second Google search.

You have a vehicle that gets 30mpg and can fit a 50" TV in it?

An 'ordinary' British/European van gets 40mpg (imp) / 32mpg (US). Thats (roughly) a real figure as calculated by me (I currently run a fleet of them).
You could get four 50" TVs in one.

It's definitely worth seeing if you're in south west England (relative to the rest of England it's quite remote area).

Quite remote area ? If you're in NY then Seattle is quite remote too.

And if you're in the South Shetland Isles then you're a long way from Vostok. But I don't live in Antarctica.

Cornwall is only about 300 miles from the English capital

Time for a day trip! You are welcome to be one of the many Americans who visit this country (or, indeed, Europe) every year and severely misjudge just how much stuff there is in a small area, and how long it will take you to travel between it. Allow 6 hours for driving from London to the middle of Cornwall.

Pretty much the only bit of England more than 300 miles from London is the west half of Cornwall (if my estimate from Google Maps is accurate). 50 million English people (plus millions of Welsh, French, Belgian and Dutch) live closer to London than the Cornish people. Doesn't that make Cornwall remote?

The rest of England has motorways (blue on the map). Cornwall doesn't.

Even more importantly, it's a long way from other population centres (not just London). Take a look at a population density map of England and Wales. The nearest large settlements to Cornwall are Plymouth and Exeter. The other remote areas in the UK are in the north and East Anglia, but they all have large settlements not so far away (they're low density, whereas Cornwall is a long way away).

No but in the US, you can simply walk in, hand-over some cash, and get the PAP smear done. You can't do that with the UK Government's monopoly.

As others have said, you should check your facts (a Google "UK only" search for private cervical smear testing -- the top result says one should cost about £60).

>>Google, you KNOW I speak English, stop overriding my account setting for my language with demographic data based on my IP address. When I'm traveling it doesn't make me fluent in the local language...

Yeah, that drives me nuts, too.

I try to override the damn feature by going to http://www.google.co.uk/, but even that gets overriden half the time.

This: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/indepth/magicroundabout/ is more informative than the wiki article.

I in fact grew up in Tamworth, a similarly roundabout-endowed place with a junction similar to that in Swindon

This traffic circle is at the intersection of a two lane highway and a two lane road. I do not have any experience with how they work on intersecting four lane roads.

Checking your terminology:
"two lane highway" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?
"two lane road" = 2 lanes total, 1 in each direction?
"four lane roads" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?

I'm having trouble finding an intersection between two four-lane roads with a basic roundabout. Two four-lane roads suggests both are quite busy, so usually the roundabout is raised (or lowered) so traffic on a main road can continue underneath it. See the northern one here where the A34 continues straight through. The 4-lane A34 ends at the roundabout in the middle.

You can also see some other roundabout features (remembering traffic drives on the left):
- Filter lanes, so traffic turning left doesn't have to stop at all, e.g. driving north from the A34 to the A44 (at both the big one and the little one)
- On the large, high (ish) speed roundabout, traffic enters almost at a tangent. On small ones (e.g. in the industrial/whatever it is bit) it enters much more sharply
- There is some weird decorative stuff on the middle one. And I bet the planners groaned when they saw the railway line that runs through it.

Oh, wow. That one must have traffic lights (looks like they couldn't fit a bridge in for the main road, or didn't want to). It does have two four+-lane roads though. That's very unusual.

Short-of-space motorway junction (or not much used, so building 1 bridge rather than 2 is preferred).
Lots-of-space (for England) motorway junction, with massive roundabout. I think you can see where the old road used to go through the middle (?).

Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London (presumably predating motor cars -- yep, Wikipedia says 1690!).

Finally, the Magic Roundabout, Swindon which has traffic going round in both directions, and is actually five small roundabouts.

Right, I'm off to take my medication.

This traffic circle is at the intersection of a two lane highway and a two lane road. I do not have any experience with how they work on intersecting four lane roads.

Checking your terminology:
"two lane highway" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?
"two lane road" = 2 lanes total, 1 in each direction?
"four lane roads" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?

I'm having trouble finding an intersection between two four-lane roads with a basic roundabout. Two four-lane roads suggests both are quite busy, so usually the roundabout is raised (or lowered) so traffic on a main road can continue underneath it. See the northern one here where the A34 continues straight through. The 4-lane A34 ends at the roundabout in the middle.

You can also see some other roundabout features (remembering traffic drives on the left):
- Filter lanes, so traffic turning left doesn't have to stop at all, e.g. driving north from the A34 to the A44 (at both the big one and the little one)
- On the large, high (ish) speed roundabout, traffic enters almost at a tangent. On small ones (e.g. in the industrial/whatever it is bit) it enters much more sharply
- There is some weird decorative stuff on the middle one. And I bet the planners groaned when they saw the railway line that runs through it.

Oh, wow. That one must have traffic lights (looks like they couldn't fit a bridge in for the main road, or didn't want to). It does have two four+-lane roads though. That's very unusual.

Short-of-space motorway junction (or not much used, so building 1 bridge rather than 2 is preferred).
Lots-of-space (for England) motorway junction, with massive roundabout. I think you can see where the old road used to go through the middle (?).

Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London (presumably predating motor cars -- yep, Wikipedia says 1690!).

Finally, the Magic Roundabout, Swindon which has traffic going round in both directions, and is actually five small roundabouts.

Right, I'm off to take my medication.

This traffic circle is at the intersection of a two lane highway and a two lane road. I do not have any experience with how they work on intersecting four lane roads.

Checking your terminology:
"two lane highway" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?
"two lane road" = 2 lanes total, 1 in each direction?
"four lane roads" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?

I'm having trouble finding an intersection between two four-lane roads with a basic roundabout. Two four-lane roads suggests both are quite busy, so usually the roundabout is raised (or lowered) so traffic on a main road can continue underneath it. See the northern one here where the A34 continues straight through. The 4-lane A34 ends at the roundabout in the middle.

You can also see some other roundabout features (remembering traffic drives on the left):
- Filter lanes, so traffic turning left doesn't have to stop at all, e.g. driving north from the A34 to the A44 (at both the big one and the little one)
- On the large, high (ish) speed roundabout, traffic enters almost at a tangent. On small ones (e.g. in the industrial/whatever it is bit) it enters much more sharply
- There is some weird decorative stuff on the middle one. And I bet the planners groaned when they saw the railway line that runs through it.

Oh, wow. That one must have traffic lights (looks like they couldn't fit a bridge in for the main road, or didn't want to). It does have two four+-lane roads though. That's very unusual.

Short-of-space motorway junction (or not much used, so building 1 bridge rather than 2 is preferred).
Lots-of-space (for England) motorway junction, with massive roundabout. I think you can see where the old road used to go through the middle (?).

Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London (presumably predating motor cars -- yep, Wikipedia says 1690!).

Finally, the Magic Roundabout, Swindon which has traffic going round in both directions, and is actually five small roundabouts.

Right, I'm off to take my medication.

This traffic circle is at the intersection of a two lane highway and a two lane road. I do not have any experience with how they work on intersecting four lane roads.

Checking your terminology:
"two lane highway" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?
"two lane road" = 2 lanes total, 1 in each direction?
"four lane roads" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?

I'm having trouble finding an intersection between two four-lane roads with a basic roundabout. Two four-lane roads suggests both are quite busy, so usually the roundabout is raised (or lowered) so traffic on a main road can continue underneath it. See the northern one here where the A34 continues straight through. The 4-lane A34 ends at the roundabout in the middle.

You can also see some other roundabout features (remembering traffic drives on the left):
- Filter lanes, so traffic turning left doesn't have to stop at all, e.g. driving north from the A34 to the A44 (at both the big one and the little one)
- On the large, high (ish) speed roundabout, traffic enters almost at a tangent. On small ones (e.g. in the industrial/whatever it is bit) it enters much more sharply
- There is some weird decorative stuff on the middle one. And I bet the planners groaned when they saw the railway line that runs through it.

Oh, wow. That one must have traffic lights (looks like they couldn't fit a bridge in for the main road, or didn't want to). It does have two four+-lane roads though. That's very unusual.

Short-of-space motorway junction (or not much used, so building 1 bridge rather than 2 is preferred).
Lots-of-space (for England) motorway junction, with massive roundabout. I think you can see where the old road used to go through the middle (?).

Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London (presumably predating motor cars -- yep, Wikipedia says 1690!).

Finally, the Magic Roundabout, Swindon which has traffic going round in both directions, and is actually five small roundabouts.

Right, I'm off to take my medication.

This traffic circle is at the intersection of a two lane highway and a two lane road. I do not have any experience with how they work on intersecting four lane roads.

Checking your terminology:
"two lane highway" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?
"two lane road" = 2 lanes total, 1 in each direction?
"four lane roads" = 4 lanes total, 2 in each direction?

I'm having trouble finding an intersection between two four-lane roads with a basic roundabout. Two four-lane roads suggests both are quite busy, so usually the roundabout is raised (or lowered) so traffic on a main road can continue underneath it. See the northern one here where the A34 continues straight through. The 4-lane A34 ends at the roundabout in the middle.

You can also see some other roundabout features (remembering traffic drives on the left):
- Filter lanes, so traffic turning left doesn't have to stop at all, e.g. driving north from the A34 to the A44 (at both the big one and the little one)
- On the large, high (ish) speed roundabout, traffic enters almost at a tangent. On small ones (e.g. in the industrial/whatever it is bit) it enters much more sharply
- There is some weird decorative stuff on the middle one. And I bet the planners groaned when they saw the railway line that runs through it.

Oh, wow. That one must have traffic lights (looks like they couldn't fit a bridge in for the main road, or didn't want to). It does have two four+-lane roads though. That's very unusual.

Short-of-space motorway junction (or not much used, so building 1 bridge rather than 2 is preferred).
Lots-of-space (for England) motorway junction, with massive roundabout. I think you can see where the old road used to go through the middle (?).

Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London (presumably predating motor cars -- yep, Wikipedia says 1690!).

Finally, the Magic Roundabout, Swindon which has traffic going round in both directions, and is actually five small roundabouts.

Right, I'm off to take my medication.

Well, then why are there so many threads like this:

For the same reason there are so many things like this:
Windows
OS X

Ask a stupid question...

if the sound setup is done so well? There are four or five different conflicting threads for how to make stuff work... seems pretty clear. Also seems pretty clear cut that they rolled out a half baked sound setup in a LTS release. That's the main issue that did it for me.

If Windows/OS X setup is down so well? There are a billion conflicting results for how to make stuff work... seems pretty clear. Also seems pretty clear cut that they rolled out a half baked sound setup in every OS release.

Well, then why are there so many threads like this:

For the same reason there are so many things like this:
Windows
OS X

Ask a stupid question...

if the sound setup is done so well? There are four or five different conflicting threads for how to make stuff work... seems pretty clear. Also seems pretty clear cut that they rolled out a half baked sound setup in a LTS release. That's the main issue that did it for me.

If Windows/OS X setup is down so well? There are a billion conflicting results for how to make stuff work... seems pretty clear. Also seems pretty clear cut that they rolled out a half baked sound setup in every OS release.

Details here if you're interested.

People worldwide eat lots of meat that's "grown" on land that used to be rainforest.

Technically, going back to Pangaea maybe. Reindeer meat is not grown on recent rainforest land despite the homophone.

Um... what? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=deforestation+cattle.

You have narrow definitions of both "worldwide" and "meat". In northern climates, reindeer meat is a staple, and rainforests are only on postcards. Buffalo/Bison meat is becoming popular again in the USA now that people are raising them like cattle. Again, very little rainforest (percentage-wise) in the USA.

'I researched this subject thoroughly and found that it's almost completely undocumented'.

Did the thorough research include a Google search for 'ldd security'?

My thorough (3 minute research) turned up this tidbit from TLDP:

Beware: do not run ldd on a program you don't trust. As is clearly stated in the ldd(1) manual, ldd works by (in certain cases) by setting a special environment variable (for ELF objects, LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS) and then executing the program. It may be possible for an untrusted program to force the ldd user to run arbitrary code (instead of simply showing the ldd information). So, for safety's sake, don't use ldd on programs you don't trust to execute.

Um... what?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=deforestation+cattle.

There were reports at the time, that the recent Station Fire (the one that threatened Mount Wilson Observatory) put our more CO2 every two to three days as all the cars in the US do in a year.

Lets do an estimate of how much CO2 was released and compare to the CO2 released by the transport part of the economy. For the amount of biomass in a forest I get from 44 metric tons per acre for dry biomass in Montana up to 200 tons for all biomass including roots in tropical rainforest. If we take the mean and assume 122 tons per acre and 50% of dry wood is made of carbon. 336,000 acres was destroyed in the 2009 California wildfires. From this I get 20.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released, which I believe is an over-estimate. In comparison the USA released 1887 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007. Cars and light duty trucks account for two-thirds of the total or 1258. That's at least 60 times more than the fire released over 3+ months.

Of course, the AGW people either ignore or deny this because it doesn't fit their dogma.

Practise what you preach my friend.

Gahhh! My head a splode!

Do you mean the BKL? It's hurt, but it's still there

"It's difficult to describe how frustrating it is in the field seeing this man being our spokesman," says Richard Reeve, of the AI department at Edinburgh.

Well, quite.

What is "glazed glass" ? Is that glass that has glass in it ?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&num=20&q=glazed&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

It is partially a US Company as its share are listed on the NYSE

http://www.google.co.uk/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:SNE

IMHO, that pretty well counts.

Also, the do have some significant LOCAL(to the US) subsidiaries espeically in the LA area.