@thehouserules: Changes in the air pressure can give you a rough guide of what the weather will be. I've got a cheap electronic weather station and the weather predictor is fairly accurate about 75% of the time using just the air pressure readings.

@DonLaFontaine: But sadly the aircraft would then be about ten times too heavy to fly.

@MonkeyChunks: No, it won't as there will always be another country somewhere that will be able to do the work for less and when profits are the main motivation for corporations, they'll always chase the lowest production cost. Plus most of the cost of living has little, if anything to do with the level of the…

It's called a sabot round not a subot which I believe is actually a kind of computer Trojan.

@pand0ra: Perhaps your "close allies" don't want to associate with you any more because of the shit storms that they got dragged into in Iraq & Afghanistan?

@m57: Are you aware of how much taxpayers subsidize the profits of Walmart?

@Settings: The early British made models like the DC01 are pretty robust, but the later models do seem to have a tendency to break.

@Make.Sense: But the Libyan rebels asked the US/West to carry out these attacks.

@scarbrtj: How old were the trucks?

It was ironic that this happened at an airport named after Ronnie.

What's ironic is that last night the BBC broadcast a new satirical comedy called Twenty Twelve about the build up to the Olympics. And they had a scene where a Damien Hurst type artist had built a countdown clock which they then found out was actually a countup clock!

@LordieLordie: I always wondered why they don't build a small 50cc two stroke engine into these electric cars, so that you can always get home even if it's only at 30 mph or so. I guess it's a weight/cost issue.

And you can just about read the words "I must copy Elisha Gray's water transmitter..... "

I'm sure that the A10's would have reduced the imbalance after a while.

@Pook365: Because most of the cnuts that work in the British media have iPads/Android devices?

How about watching people in their 90s trying to explain the internet?

I'd happily be stuck in a technology loop with Carrie Brownstein.

@Hello Mister Walrus: There's an app for that.

We don't have much of a manufacturing industry left either as some politicians thought that we could create enough wealth with the the service and banking sectors. Let's see how that worked out....