Don't forget, Britain holds the ultimate deterrent. Invade Canada and they will return Madonna to the USA.

I believe these days the plan has been renamed 'Friendly Fire'.

From the Wikipedia entry for Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle: 'Encouraged by his Commanding Officer, in late-1929 Whittle sent his concept to the Air Ministry to see if it would be of any interest to them.' So, in fact, the British jet engine pre-dates the approval of Plan Red.

A conflict where only one side has jet engine, radar and computer tech is likely to be one-sided.

One good thing about an insecure system. You can change other user's strange desktop pics (see above).

I remember these from the days before Coke came in screw top bottles ...

GC wouldn't be a suitable technique, but you're right that they probably use an instrumental method.

I have a fairly common name, but so far I managed to keep a memorable and sensible ID over all the services I subscribe to by using my name but omitting the vowels.

I've never understood how AppleIDs are supposed to work with Mac user accounts.

I guess it depends on how much they would've made in the past by traditional means

Giz had an item on exactly this subject.

What people do with a camera in the privacy of there own homes is up to them - at least the images aren't permanently imprinted on their skin. Bad taste confined to a photo album is infinitely preferable to being subjected to other people's 'body art'.

I'd be slightly nervous about recovering a unit after a recon-only mission.

Maybe you live in a foreign country that doesn't use the American Quarter Dollar.

Spent many, many years working in chem laboratories and stood most of the time. What I found useful was a tall stool to vary my posture occassionally.

Army beans?

The Aussie band Silver Ray is my pick in this genre.

Wasn't this an episode of 'My Name is Earl'?

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I use QuickPick as a Launchpad replacement. Great app.