My favourite line in that song is "traffic jam, when you're already late" which IS ironic but only if you are a town planner on your way to a meeting to discuss traffic congestion.

As I understand it they are within the bounds of CO2, the problem is to get that efficiency it burns hot which is great for CO2/mile but also causes the Nitrogen in the air to burn producing NOx. That's the problem, a hot efficient engine pumps out too much of another pollutant that the UK isn't focussed on. Ex ministers are today saying that the focus on CO2 from the 90s when these regulations came in was a mistake.

What I find fascinating with this is that one day there was born a baby with blue eyes (as a result of this mutation). The reason we have blue eyes etc today is because the parents of that child didn't see that difference, one never seen before, as a problem and abandon it. It really shows how the microscopic can sometimes have a very real impact on the macroscopic. Plus I'd assume this means that everyone with blue eyes, or with that trait in their family, have a common ancestor.

Well we can, sort of, if you think that the cruise missiles today are really just small jet aircraft and we can quite easily ride in large jet aircraft today from any airport.

Actually there is one that's ironic... A traffic jam, when you're already late, IS ironic if (and only if) you are a town planner on your way to a meeting to discus traffic congestion.

Actually as of 1st July 2010 the EU has enforced an opt out (whilst roaming in the EU) cap of 50 EURO. You have to ask to have this removed and if you don't that's the most you can be charged for a given month whilst roaming. The cap you're probably thinking of is on the charges that can be levied rather than any cap on consumption and you're right that's not yet there on data.

Vodafone have the same cap I believe (500Mb). It got introduced in the back end of last year and I missed it completely until the 30 days had passed so am stuck, for now...

I appreciate some of what you're saying but how is today's society any worse than yesterday's (or I guess any better than tomorrows?)

I saved more than the fee for joining on my first trip when compared to any other supermarket. If you just buy an Xbox at the moment I think they're cheaper than buying online by more than the membership.

Having worked by Heathrow Airport back in 2000/01 I can tell you that with our wonderful triple glazing we heard no planes >> Concorde which was a good 50% or so louder and pretty deafening at take off if you were outside. I'm surprised you felt the 747 louder. I do miss that regular rumble that used to announce it was (whatever time it was that they took off that escapes me now but definitiely indicated it was time for tea and a biscuit)

Maybe that's the key to this working (living in a bad neighbourhood). That way you're far more likely to die sooner and therefore you need FAR less storage. In some areas if I believe the movies you'd need less than 20mins of storage before it was game over... If that's the case then these already exists in a simple camcorder.

In Melvyn Bragg's "Adventure of English", it is observed that Winston Churchill's speech, "we shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight in the streets, we shall never surrender", all the words can be traced back to old English, except for "surrender", which can be traced back to old French (n.b. I actually quite like the French but find the above overridingly funny)

That's probably true but where can you buy them?