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Works for me. On, err, IE6.


I don't think that's right. 10^6 is a million in both languages.

10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion.

10^12 used to be a billion in British English but is now referred to as a trillion.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ explains it all quite nicely.


I wouldn't be surprised if they were just manually adding a header.

I've seen it done like that before, using a browser extension to add a header and then mod_rewrite to apply a special set of rules if that exists.


I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but the cost of double spending is vastly higher than the value of the coffee.

The risk of accepting on 0 confirmations is probably lower than that of accepting fake currency or the cost of processing a credit card.


Just out of curiosity, how hard is it to create fake coins if a vendor is not checking for confirmations at all?


Being in the dictionary or not doesn't matter. Trademarks like "Apple" are often dictionary words.


But the idea isn't to teach kids chemistry - it's to get the kids interested in chemistry.

I was given something very similar to this as a kid: http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-MX-907-200-Electronic-Project/d... (in fact, I think it was that, 20 years ago!)

It didn't teach me anything about electronics, I was too young to really grasp what I was doing. It taught me that with sufficient knowledge you can make something out of individually useless bits of electronics.

You're right to be more demanding of your undergrad quant class but this might be just the thing to get your 8 year old niece/nephew interested in science.


And now we've closed the loop on the original debate that kids can't have dangerous chemicals, if they're not going to learn the difference anyway, may as well use perfume instead of carbon tet and koolade powder instead of chromium compounds.


That isn't how it works.


UK point of view: No, it's tax avoidance. Tax will still be paid in the form of VAT/Sales Tax and Corporation Tax.

You avoid paying Capital Gains tax.


You absolutely can in the UK. I pay £15/mo for the same service my friend pays £34/mo with a phone. He's in a 24month contract instead of my 12 and will end up some £150 down over the course of the contract.


That seems bizarre in the UK. I pay $24/mo and get truly unlimited data, with tethering included, as well as 2000 minutes and 5000 texts (and receiving doesn't come out of your allowance in the UK, the caller pays that fee).

It's absolutely cheaper to buy devices outright here.

Example of Three's One Plan for a 32GB 5s (£):

  24 mo contract
  Device        99
  Plan          46
  24 mo total = 1203
  
  12 month contract + BYOD
  Device        629
  Plan          15
  24 mo total = 989


Very possibly because of this: http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/12/the-big-ugly-affiliate-mar...

It doesn't look like squarespace offer an affiliate programme right now, but it seems they did and this is sensible if they'll ever want to again.


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