The warranty on my Dell laptop has just expired after its first year. I have been quoted £61 pounds to extend it for a further year. Is this a good deal or is it worth bothering with at all. I...
well we ought to pull our 10.000 troops out of afghanistan and let the u.s forces fight alongside the 3.850 frenchmen fighting there and remember the 350 british troops who have lost their lives...
This question is a follow up to andyvon's one below about the possibility of contacting alien life. The question is - should we actually want to? The example of life on earth (which is the only one we...
Could we communucate with and/or meet aliens? I think most accept that the existence of aliens is statistically almost certain and that similarly, with current technology and understanding of physics,...
If it is the governments intentions to get us all eventually to use electric cars how can they recoup the enormous taxes we pay on petrol and diesel engines? eg. I suppose they can always recoup some...
Would anyone agree when I fear that SETI is barking up the wrong tree? The search for other intelligences in the universe is limited exclusively to a radio search. I can't help feeling that modern...
Saw it at the pictures back when it first released (May 2010) and thought that it was a very ordinary film. Am at this very moment watching it on DVD, hoped that on a second viewing it would seem...
Can we ask why there has been a suspicious silence from 'the usual suspects' on AB on this story? If these paedophiles had been Muslim (as with the story from two days ago), would it have been a...
The latest chapter in this well documented saga of debased subhumans preying on innocent youngsters has concluded with two more of them being laughably sentenced to 5 and 4 years in prison. Whoopee...
I see easyjet had to take 30 passengers off one of its planes because it was overloaded with fuel..Why could'nt they take the fuel back out? is there no valve or drainage point?
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if an out door football pitch booking is cancelled due to the pitch being waterlogged. re the council obliged to refund the booking fee? or are the allowed to keep it/...
Never thought I'd have to ask this Q because my H always reckons a map will surfice, it seems he's changed his mind... Q is, He's now considering getting a Sat-Nav not an all singing dancing one but...
New law coming out that even if your car is off the road you must have it insured. How does this stand for people with motorhomes that only insure them for 6 months of the year?Asking as a friend of...
I have no idea where to post this, and no 'question' as such. I've had the strangest of conversations with someone today, regarding the above. They are absolutely convinced that there is a mad,...
Can anyone give advice on the following situation please. We purchased a property just over a year ago which in the brochure said it consisted of 8.5 acres. We have done some basic calculations and...
My Mum's car went into a local garage for a repair however, the mechanic somehow managed to drive it in at speed, smashed into their ramps, bounced it into 2 other cars and have written it off! Her...