Posts by cdgp

Radioactive Tokyo tapwater HARMS BABIES ... if drunk for a year

Based on a wrong assumption

Your numbers only stand up assuming that all radioactivity ceased immediately when in reality it's still quite possible that even much greater releases will continue over months to come.

Apple grabs double-digit US laptop marketshare

Geeks buy Macs

Yes, the Mac culture is annoying as hell but the fact is plenty of "in the know" geeks buy Macs these days. Mac OS X is a powerful unix machine at it's heart and is much more open and geek friendly than Macs of the past. Factor in that Windows keeps getting "dumbed up" and less "hacker friendly" and the old arguments about the Mac being proprietary and locked in and the PC platform being wide open no longer make sense.

Eurofighter at last able to drop bombs, but only 'austerely'

to Craig Graham

"My view is Europe needs to retain sufficient capability that it costs a foreign power to attack us or something of ours.....That foreign power could be the US or China or someone else"

As nice as it is that Europe is starting to work together, and I do think the EU is a good thing, I think the chances of the U.S. attacking the U.K. (or any European nation) are far less than one European country attacking another.