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Do you have any statistics to back this up? I still believe that in most first world countries, the vast majority of people that forcefully enter someone else's property without permission are not looking for confrontation, and those that are often have a grudge against the person who's home they are breaking into (drugs, debt etc.) and that's a different scenario altogether - if this was to occur the home owner would be expecting it. I don't believe it's common for someone to select a home to break into at random looking for violence.

Snails in france and Haggis in Scotland, which is a mixture of sheep heart, liver and lungs.

The fastest known private internet connection to a domestic residence in the world is 40Gbp/s - in other words, in theory, you could download around 1 full movie DVD in one second. The lucky owner of this internet connection is 75-year-old Sibritt Löthberg from Karlstad Sweden, who had only just purchased her first computer as it was being installed. Her son is Peter Löthberg, a Swedish optical internet guru working at Cisco. Obviously he is the reason for her home having such a high speed internet connection, as he was using her home for a trial.

Probably not strictly, I think the way you described it is more accurate. I will have a look at the legislation in more detail when i get chance. That's just my experience of police response times here, as with anything, YMMV. I live in the second largest city in the UK, and about a mile from the nearest police station. Also, they will generally only respond immediately if there is a current threat - if something has already occurred and ended, or something is currently happening where there is no obvious threat to any person (i.e. breaking into a house when no-one is home) it could be the next day before you get a visit from the police. They are very overworked here, and with our current prime minister in charge implementing budget cuts to front line services, that's just going to get worse over the next 4 years.

Living in a country where it is illegal to own or possess a gun unless required as part of your career (legal career of course), I'd make it very clear that there was someone present in the house, and call the police. Contrary to seemingly popular belief, someone breaking in is unlikely to be interested in harming you or your family. They most likely want your possessions and your presence is usually going to be enough to make them run - they know that the police hunting them for burglary is nothing compared to the police hunting them for murder or GBH. Failing that, one call to the police, informing them that an intruder is in your home right now is usually enough for them to be on your doorstep within 60 - 120 seconds, at least from my experience with the police. I would only ever get physical if I absolutely had to. You and your family are more likely to get hurt if you initiate this IMO. Give them as many chances as you can to get out. If you are in America and have a gun, the chances are that they do too. Guns are as easy to come across for them as they are for you. You shoot at them, they'll shoot at you. If you have doubts about the response time of the police, depending on where you live, tell the emergency operator you can smell smoke and suspect the intruder has started an arson attack. You'll have 6 burly firefighters on your doorstep in almost no time. Few intruders will stay for long in that situation.

Is Jamie Oliver behind this somewhere? He has been pushing healthy school meals in the UK for years now, and largely succeeded. The last I read about him though, he had tried to do the same thing in the USA, but he just got laughed away, with burgers thrown at him.

The UK is a bit far for me

Utah was the first state to have a "KFC". Sanders started off in Kentucky, but it wasn't called KFC there.

From her history at the previous school, it looks like she personally has no problems with working with students who know of her past, only the school had a problem with it. Therefore I have a hard time believing she left so easily of her own accord this time, as she fought for her job at the previous school. I may be wrong, but it sounds to me like she was forced to resign from the second school by senior management (i.e. "either resign and save both us and yourself the hassle, or we fire you").

While it's possible we haven't heard everything in the article, situations such as this aren't uncommon. Teachers (and anyone else who works in an educational establishment), unfortunately, are in one of these careers where you are expected to maintain certain standards both during work hours and during personal time (including prior to employment), and if you don't, you'd better hide it pretty well. While an argument does exist that the school shouldn't impose sanctions as a result of activities that don't break any laws and happening outside of work hours, the school would argue that it had become a distraction and would adversely affect the teaching and learning environment, and that the teacher is no longer considered a good role model for the students. Similarly, in the UK at least, if you have a criminal record (however minor or however long ago the crime was committed), you've just said goodbye to the vast majority of your chances of a well paid professional job. Heavenly father may forgive us, but the world certainly does not :)

From now on, you shall all know me as professor Trelawney.

They did that on purpose. Google's servers are crashing under the stain of the rate at which people are working. They figured if they could get people to slow down under the guise of some new technology which everyone laps up like apple's new releases, they will end up saving a lot of money.

Google tisp was quite amusing

We try and do something at work every year as a department. Of course, as an IT department it has to be IT related. A few years ago at a previous place, I turned the intranet page for the organization upside down. Today, we played a trick with the printers. With most models of HP LaserJets that have an LCD display, you can send data to the printer in a non-standard way which makes whatever text you send to it appear on the LCD display. We have about 50 of these printers at least, so instead of saying "ready", they said "Insert 20P" all day (a 20p is an English coin for those who aren't aware). Made for a few funny phone calls, though I was half expecting someone to actually try.

I'm still happy with my iphone 3G - I won't be getting anything else for a while, and when I do, it most likely won't be any form of tablet/pad/extra large phone. We've got plenty of ipads floating around work, and I just can't like them. I know the situation is different with everyone, but I'm much happier taking a macbook air around with me than an ipad. The inconvenience is just as much regarding the size, and I can do far more on the macbook air, because apple (thankfully) haven't decided to lock that down yet. And unless apple make some very serious improvements in the yet to be released iphone, my next phone will most likely be an android.

The people that don't get it are the people that the post was made for

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Some rather more detailed information on the nuclear reactors, from el reg: Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now! ? The Register Dont believe everything you read in mainstream media. They love words like "meltdown".

I need to build one of these in our chapel... we can always get them out after sacrament meeting:

Those fast and testimony meetings where someone gets up (as they do most fast and testimony meetings) and you know (as does everyone else in the congregation) that you are going to hear the entirety of their history and how bad their life is for the past month, and pretty much anything about themselves other than their testimony.

Yeah, those mean people who don't sing, they are cheating us all of the opportunity to laugh at the horrendous quality and out of tune singing each Sunday

Absolutely :) I don't use linux for anything other than servers nowadays due to compatibility issues, but I like to keep an eye on anything linux and hopefully one day we can see it get some considerable share in the desktop market.

Oh I've seen far, far worse. Sometimes people are actually trying to advise people who had problems 5/6 years ago. In this case, the "bumped" post isn't really that related to the OP - could have been in its own thread.

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It's barely 9am, cut me some slack :)