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"I don't want a new-fangled 'automobile', I want a horse with wheels god damnit!" - probably someone to Henry Ford in 1905.

A web developer walking into a bar and leaves when she doesn't like the table layout

A DBA walk-ins into a bar and joins two tables together

You made quite a few big leaps there. Care to expand how all those are linked and immigration is therefore the cause of violence and crime?

No paper trail? I'm pretty certain they already use email and digital documents. Allowing them to hotdesk (as this is essentially what it is) is hardly a way to prevent employees establishing a paper trail.

Here was a democratically conducted vote for which >50% of a population voted "Leave".

50% of those who voted, not of the population. The turnout was ~70%; of that ~51% voted to leave.

So for every 10 eligible voters, 7 bothered to turn up. Of those seven 3.5 voted to leave; 35% of the electorate voted leave unless my maths and assumptions are incorrect.

You're choosing Apple over all the existing car manufacturers? What have done in this space other that carplay?

Fred had a working replica coal mine in his back garden. Here is the full programme on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcH4nY43msk

I haven't read the submission yet, neither am I fully up to speed on the topic, but I'm going to go all meta on you and ask what a pseudo-intellectual is?

I'm intrigued - how is BTC reversible within 10 mins?

I'm not an economist, but in simplistic terms if everyone was guaranteed X amount of income, wouldn't the price of everything go up by X amount - inflation?

How about making things like, food, clothing, healthcare, education, housing - basic human rights - universal for all instead?

So what if it is assisted by China? What you imply is that You would rather be fed news and information from just one side of the coin?

I would rather receive my news from multiple sources (who'll have multiple agendas), plus the raw data, and draw my own conclusions.

talk about a passive aggressive tone.

It's super mario bros on the background. You can use your keys to control him.

Erm, he isn't expressing a right to vote here, he is telling others what they should do (without any supporting facts, reason or evidence).

In your analogy, he isn't the voter, but the legislator, and it's perfectly valid to ask the question "and how many laws have you passed?"

And how many babies have you breastfed?

Which village in Bangladesh out of interest?

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

I was about to say the exactly the above.

    People who evaluate the situation for themselves and cross on their own terms

I'd be interested to know how Americans who live in countries with strict gun controls feel about not being able to carry a weapon? Do they feel any less safe?

Yes, there is no shadow around him, unlike the guy walking past. I think it has been photoshopped in.

next to him is an easter egg if you zoom out slightly http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=169.0923...

6 years is 2190 or 2191 with 1 leap year or 2192 with 2 leap years.

As of writing I created my account 2170 days ago. It is by far my most visited site (at least once a day). Sure the content isn't as great as it use to be, but I expect that with the increase in traffic and submissions. It is still head and shoulders above the rest though.

Happy birthday HN!

I still don't get it, the first half of your post backs up your original stance, whilst the second half agrees with what I said that it's not a necessity (for basic things you can use your finger).

Doesn't the irony you highlight in your post regarding people buying "those little rubber iPhone/iPad styli like hotcakes these days", indicate that people find it easier to use a stylus for certain things? A stylus is certainly a part of the UX, but not an integral part.

Using your finger is not the best option for all scenarios, if that was the case we would have been dipping our finger in the ink pot instead of a quill.

I don't get it; Why do styluses (plural?) get such a bad rep.? It's not like this is a new invention, they've been around for ages, and how is it dissimilar to a mouse for a PC? or a pen used to take notes in a notebook? It's not as though you can't use you finger for short tasks like making a phone call.

I hate to say this as I will either get downvoted to hell or start a fanboi war, but I really do think that if Apple had produced a stylus device for the iphone/ipad, those that are complaining would be saying quite the opposite.

My 2 week old iPhone 5 had the same problem - home button never worked properly from day one. As this was my first Apple purchase it took me that long to validate that this wasn't normal behaviour after comparing with other iPhone 5s. At the Apple store they just replaced it without any questions.

Sounds interesting. What's the name of the documentary?

IANAL. What worries me about this is that by changing a line of DNA in a 1G seed, 2G seeds (and beyond) fall under their patent. ie, they own the entire seed, and more importantly they own all the offspring of the 1G seed.

Isn't this the same concept as saying you replace a part in your vehicle/phone/pc/whatever with something that is patented, and now the patent covers the entire vehicle/phone/pc/whatever?

Alternatively you patent a commodity (seed/raw material/synthetic material/etc), now everything that is made from that commodity is covered by the original patent? what happens when you use the commodity to make a tool, with which you build other end products? where does this end?

Maybe I am misunderstanding, or have the wrong end of the stick?

This reminds me a of a line by Trigg in the classic UK comedy Only Fools and Horses (Trigg is a road sweeper for context).

In this classic scene, Trigger claims that he's had his road sweeper's broom for 20 years. But then he adds that the broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.

"How can it be the same bloody broom then?" asks Sid the café owner. Trigger produces a picture of him and his broom and asks: "what more proof do you need?"

From 'Heroes and Villains' (1996)

http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/579394

Related Tetris god video on YouTube. This still amazes me every time I watch it http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eQOswiAGLU4&desktop_uri=%...