[quote] And it looks to be one of those dumb British things, like inserting u's where they aren't necessary.[/quote] The Language is English therefor we set the rules (& make them so complicated and contradictory that no-one can ever be 100% correct) it is really anoying when you guy drop letters or replace s's with ...

[quote user="drurowin"]Does it work if you use the sign for a real currency? (¥, $, €, whatever Bitcoin uses, etc)[/quote]    What do you mean a real currency the £ is older than at least 3 of those currencies by a considerable margin. 

[quote user="OzPeter"]So what happens when your client decides that the 26 years worth of meetings scheduled for Monday morning at 9:00AM have to rescheduled to Tuesdays at 3PM because the new boss parties all weekend and never gets in before lunch on a Monday (and he can't be fired because he's the CEO's favourite ...

 You really do need to get a more accurate & less biased view of history. There is a strong argument that th UK SAVED your arse (an ass is simialr to a donkey).

[quote user="blakeyrat"]People who say they "like the feel" of physical books are idiots. Physical books are expensive, bulky, stinky, easily-damaged, and the ink rubs off. Fuck physical books.[/quote]  Although this is a bit extreme, I am keeping my physical books on the bookshelf ( where possible i have a kindle version ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"]Yeah, I'm reading the latest Jared Diamond right now. Kindle is the best thing I ever bought for my brain.[/quote]    I never though I would find myself agreeing with blakey is the world about to end ;-)

[quote] Security is just one more feature[/quote] No No NO! Security needs to be designed in from the ground up, not just addded as an after thought. If the end user wants to give everyone full permisions there is nothing to stop them (& they can clean up their own mess afterwards)

 except on sections of single tracks most railways will designate the direction of travel on the tracks, possibly with a short section used as the train chages direction & is moved back to the correct line.   The reason for this is to reduce the possibility of collision, allowing bidirectional running on multiple tracks would be a ...

The Uk drives on the left because our road nework dates back to knights on horseback. moving to the left means that oncoming trafic is on the side of your sword arm.  Europeans drive on the right because Napoleon was left haned & made every one conform to his needs (& they never reverted back once we had defeated him) the septics ...

 It is NOT FIXED we have a Temporary Partial  work around to minimise the impact. (A slight rewording of the situatioin to lead the sales team to belive it could colapse again at any moment, which is not too far from the truth anyway)