>First thing I thought of when I heard of this was the problem of distribution.

Electrolyse water to hydrogen & oxygen and then just ship the hydrogen.

And before anyone says "there's no water in the desert" - run a canal from the Med for the ships you will be carrying the hydrogen in, or a pipeline (water one way, hydrogen the other).

Could have been worse, he could have been a spelling pedent.

In the UK, Peter Jones (a UK entrepeneur known mostly for his appearance on Dragon's Den) has the right idea. Although his wealth is estimated at about £220 million, he has stated that he won't give it to his children, instead he has offered to match what they earn (so, if they earned £30k then he'd give them £30k).

'My children won't get large chunks of cash, no. I've set up an arrangement which gives them something called match-funding. When they finish full-time education and start to work, whatever they earn, they will get the same again. Every year for the rest of their lives the trust will double their income.'

  And, if they are performing what he considers to be a "worthy" occupation (I seem to recall he gave doctor or nurse as examples) then he would double that gift.

>Only UK drives on the right and

NO, on the left. Along with Japan, Australia, India, Pakistan, Thailand, South Africa.

Chect TFA - they are not opposing this because they think the *concept* is wrong. It's because the law would only apply to ISPs with more than 400,000 subscribers. They are worried that people will shift to other smaller ISP who don't do the monitoring. They're just worried about their bottom line.

They were operated by the Royal Observer Corps and originally existed in WW2 to report the flight paths of enemy plans back to HQ. During the Cold War the focus changed and more posts were added and the bunker network was created - approximately 1600 were built across the UK.

A superb website exists here: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/index2.shtml

Matt

A lot of the original sites (approximately 1700) were sold to cellphone companies, mostly because they were situated on hilltops in the middle of nowhere. Generally the cellphone companies didn't use the bunker, they were just bought for the surrounding land.

>So the only place for the profits to go is to bonuses or shareholder profits

Not strictly true - if you're a mutual organisation (e.g. building society in the UK) then you could always reinvest the profits towards lower interest rates for your borrowers. Unfortunately most of these mutuals are converting into banks here in the UK.

For casual gamers, I would say here in the UK that it's the game prices that are too high, and not the console. It'd be nice to pick up games for under a tenner, but even 2nd hand games are still quite pricey. Maybe the US demographic is different.