spacecowboy_lon

BT doesn't own Telecity I suspect that if they did it wouldn't have happened.

And BT pays out around 3% dividend to its owners which is not excessive a lot of BT's detractors have an axe to grind (Sky, Murdoch and Virgin) and want to cherry pick customers and to hell with the USO.

Presumably you get the pension that goes with that

The IBM wasn't cheap when it came out - when comapared to a PET or Apple ][

I recall working on a Grey Import IBP Pc in the UK - Our electronics shop built an inverter to convert 240v to 110.

FMH I wonder what the Surgeons I have met (I am on a transplant list in the UK) would say to that.

There is a European arrest warrant.

The common good overrides that and if like Google you are going to stick to fingers up to the "man" over NSL's its very hypocritical.

As Seward said "there is a higher law than the Constitution"

That reminds me of my first job (late 70's)where one of the project leads was paranoid about losing data from experiments (eficiny of mixing in tanks)

He had 2 copies on floppy two on disk (in a separate building) and another set at home on floppy's

That's why in 1979 I used to by 8 inch floppy's in multiples of thousands

And Extrajudical killing of opposing deputies as well as having socialist deputies arrested.

Its easier to get a quorum if you can kill your opposition

It's people like you who gave the nod and wink to abuses like the mechanics school in the dirty war in Argentina.

No offense but this is "working towards the Fuhrer" in action

The bans on Masks etc in europe goes back a long way to public order issues that the use of Masks during carnival led to.

You effectively can't stop political risk - though they don't normally change it retroactively

Having said that the tax benefits are not that great in the US - Higher rate tax payers in the UK have faced savage cuts to the tax benefits. In some cases older doctors/ headteachers have to retire early as they would hit the life time cap if they went to 65

The average height in the west has been increasing over the last century due to improved diet.

Well if you exercise you replace fat with muscle which is denser - Though when I did 15 miles a day on a bike commuting I lost a stone in a couple of weeks so the statement that exercise does not lead to weight loss is bollocks.

Why is that? in the UK a SIP (Self Invested Pension) can invest in almost anything even direct investments in commercial property are allowed.

Sounds like the USA's Openednded mutual funds are even more dodgy than the uk equivalents (unit trusts)