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"Romanian accent"? This suggests to me that either you yourself are Romanian or you have a rather acute ear. I live in Romania and it seems to me that almost every Romanian speaks English with a sligh…

I would love to watch while a group of say fifteen people off the street (not hackers) who've been using Firefox, are asked to try out Opera. It would soon be mightily evident why Opera commands only …

Try the Preludes. For anyone who might think of Chopin largely as a 19th C. salon composer they are shattering. They're also mostly quite brief. Some last only a minute or so. Epic especially are Nos …

To be clear, leaving aside his 'passport' status, he had a French father and a Polish mother. And it's interesting that he made no attempt to ever return to Poland after he'd arrived in Paris as a ver…

I am trying to work out how a large disparate and supposedly valueless list of links to these reports proves that 'uninformed people who've made up their mind in the absence of logic exist on both sid…

I hope there are stronger rejoinders in the pipeline than this one. Evidence of crumbling (if not collapse) of stout party comes with the final retort 'And even if it was ....'. Thermometers located a…

If you want some peer-reviewed background on why it's smart to cut out sugar and the foods to which it's added by manufacturers, do take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM This …

"It's" is only ever an abbreviation for "it is'.i.e.,"its gas supply". Otherwise articulate and smart people seem to have difficulty with this. I can't fathom out why.

I never knew insurance companies took on this kind of risk.

Rewards for decent behaviour? What's holding 'that back' is an evident paucity of scientists (in this small area anyway) with integrity and a desire to discover the truth, come what may and irrespect…

They are part of society and it's worthwhile to them. What they do with their wealth is up to them as indeed it is for you. Who knows what is necessarily good for 'society'? Politicians are constantly…

'Science' versus skeptics' is it? Really? Evidently you haven't been paying attention over the past couple of weeks.

You can't guarantee anything of the sort. Nobody with any sense uses the Daily Mail as a prime source of informed news because its role is entertainment mostly via hot gossip which people, though clea…

In Romania (Brasov - in the middle) we're paying about $14.7 for 4 mbps so that red splodge is a misleading indicator.

Am I wrong or does the anti-copy-and-paste on his site tell you something about his zeal to spread the word about his exciting discoveries? Bit petty isn't it?

I don't want to see environmental catastrophe any more than you do so why haven't you convinced me? Because as ever I'm offered a litany of highly questionable statements supposedly adding up to somet…

I wonder why you equate the article's attempt at human categorisation (with which you might fairly find fault) with putting people down or belittling them. Don't see it myself.

We know that Gordon Brown has no personal moral responsibility for the prosecution of Alan Turing but has nevertheless apologized to Turing, a person who no longer exists. But now everyone feels bette…

How do you apologize for something you haven't done? Governments are constituted by human beings; so who today is complicit in the persecution of Turing? Answer, no one at all. The past is the past.It…

Do you have some thoroughly reliable evidence to back up your claims about the Daily Mail readership? And your name calling? 'Deeply stupid'? The Met Office is cited as one of the worst buildings in B…

Sorry to be so thick but 'minimizing mindshare for your project' means what?

Conspiracy? Do you mean any 'theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful Machiavellian conspirators'? This would indeed be a weird way of de…

OK, appeasement is certainly one solution.

Governments do not even hold themselves responsible for the previous adminstration's fiscal measures let alone the laws that were in place generations ago. Nor should they. The dead are dead. Let's ex…

First step is to determine how many world births are currently unwelcome. Do we know this? If the number is small then coercion to achieve this aim is unavoidable. That's a bit euphemistic. Better say…

How about not flogging the dead borse? Anyone who's read a classic novel or two can see that Rand is a lousy writer. Yes, we do know that. Can we therefore agree that it's what she says that is inter…

Bernard Shaw's dictum may seem a little trite but it's true nonetheless "Money is the most important thing in the world until you have enough of it". Yes! - 'enough' begs a slew of questions.