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If oil hadn't been available do you think Karl Benz would have sat down and invented the entire drilling, refining and transport system before he started on the car?

The ICE was possible because oil infrastructure was there - the first gas stations were the pharmacists who already sold the oil

Mine has been locked for nearly 10years

I signed up when it was only available in the US now it's avialable in Scotland I tried to register for the UK version. You can't register for the UK cos you have a US account, you can't use the US account with a UK credit card. I asked them to delete the US account and it's now stuck in some sort of Limbo where I can't open a UK account cos I have the US one, and I can't log into the US one because it's been deleted. Once a year I spend a few days emailing them to try and sort it out.

What guarantees are paypal offering on handling their bank statements?

Even assuming paypal aren't crooks - is doing this OK with the Scottish Data Protection Act, Charities commission or Company registration?

It is, we had whale oil which needs handling in barrels and could be burnt in lamps, so we switched to crude oil which was then refined to the same grade as whale oil and could be handled in the same barrels and burnt in the same lamps. Then we switched to tankers but the oil could still be burnt in the same lamps so no consumer change, then the consumer changed to using it in their cars but we shipped it in the same tankers.

Now we have a system where we can only use a fuel that is delivered in a certain quantity to a local gas station as a liquid that can be burned.

Compare this with the electricity grid where we can switch from coal to nuclear to wind to gas without anyone noticing.

Sealaunch got around some of the problems - such as a launch site but then got stopped by the same vested interests.

California (coincidentally home to all the current rocket makers) first banned the launchers from docking in Californian ports claiming they were weapons - then banned loading the satelites in foreign ports claiming they were exporting secret technology.

Not quite - we use very large expensive rockets to launch very large expensive payloads. The rockets are large and expensive because the payloads are large and expensive - which they need to be because launches are large and expensive.

Imagine if Nasa had been in charge of developing aviation in the US - you certainly wouldn't have Cessnas and 737s.

There is a brilliant parody about Nasa being in charge of the old wagon trains going into the weat and their plans to make one giant wagon that would be able to make the journey and return safely.

Remember the interstate was justified as a military program

True - a rogue US president isn't a problem.

Of course a Chicago mayor shutting off bits of it when there is a G20 protest.

Or an Alabama governor for a civil rights march.

Or just an MPAA owned senator shutting down an ISP because of a pirate copy of a movie.

Useful when you absolutely definitely need to be there on time - and the other side has just destroyed your GPS satellites

http://books.google.ca/books?id=QymEXZIWEe8C&pg=PA332...

That's not the statistic you are interested in though. The question isn't - if you go to Harvard will you become head of facebook/apple. The question is if you go to Harvard will you do OK as a senior VP of a firm where the person hiring you went to Harvard.

MBA isn't for leaders - it's for followers, just very well paid followers.

A couple of years ago they announced something similar with GPS. On the same day two bits of government made announcements.

1, A massive funding for improved GPS security to prevent terrorists causing chaos by them blocking GPS signals.

2, An increase in the powers of everybody from the port authority to the girl guides to have a kill switch to shut down GPS if there was a threat of a terrorist attack.

If you are going to a World Top 5 - then it might be worth it to network with the people who are going to be hiring CEOs. But for the same money you can join the golf club.

Otherwise the world is full of middle managers who were sent on low grade MBAs by mega corps who didn't know what to do with them and couldn't fire them

When you are interviewing managers were given a year off by a now-defunct multinational to do an MBA, ask how all the projects they claimed to be deeply involved with managed to run without them during that time.

Netflix Canada have greatly expanded their range - it now almost competes with the 99c bargain bin at the gas station.

No worse than me streaming Netflix over my Shaw internet to replace me buying Shaw cable.

In fact Amazon are going to be more careful about dealing honestly with Netflix. If they spy on / interfere with customers on their cloud service because they might be competitors they are going to attract government intervention and lose a lot of customers.

If that's on mobilicty - they use AWS so you are bit more limited in your choice of phones, and where they will work.

Yes - you pay and they decide later what you get.