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Yes, that is the irony of it, that the only independent state covering the whole of Israel/Palestine in the last 2,000 years was neither jewish nor muslim.

The land is being fought over by the mainly jewish Israeli state and the largely muslim Palestinians, but the only time in 2,000 years or more that it was a unified, independent country was when it was the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099 to 1291. For the rest of that time up to the...

Yes, if we're not careful then AI may soon be able to recognise pictures of traffic lights.

I, too, remember that ice age prediction, but there were also others in my lifetime which have proved spectacularly wrong: 1. In the 1970s it was said that if the world population reached 4,000,000,000 there would be mass starvation because we would not be able to produce enough food. The...

I've had proof of delivery in the form of a photo of the item being pushed through next door's letterbox, literally three feet from mine.. You'd think that the Royal Mail staff would be more careful, rather than leaving photographic evidence of the item being misdelivered.

I do speak to businesses who trade with Europe and all they ever complain about is the amount of paperwork post-Brexit, not the financial side of importing/exporting, which is easier than it's ever been with electronic banking.

I don't think it's a very good argument to replace government "manipulation" with no control at all, leaving currency markets vulnerable to speculators able to exploit any weaknesses.

Falling confidence in a currency will usually be the result of poor economic performance and/or bad management of public finances, so the government can do various things to reverse that trend, including the following: 1. Raising interest rates to make investing in the currency more...

Before World War 1, gold coins were in circulation in the UK. Bank notes were also in circulation for convenience, but they were real promissory notes at that time, as they could be exchanged for gold coins. Those coins could be melted down into ingots and would still have had value, as gold...

Can you explain what units are being used in that vertical scale to measure purchasing power?

So what exactly is this money "invested" in its market cap? Do you mean the money investors spent to buy bitcoin? If so, then that money is gone, because it has all been converted to bitcoin, so cannot provide any backing. Bitcoin's value is illusory, based entirely on trust and confidence...

Not quite true. Although there is no gold or other assets to back fiat, there is the guarantee of the government which issued it, who can step in to support the currency in a crisis.

Please explain exactly how that gives any value to bitcoin.

He didn't mention it because it isn't relevant to the point he was making, that bitcoin isn't backed by anything of real value, or any government or central bank which would support it in a crisis.

Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham

This petition is highly misleading. Before saying why, I need to explain that the system before April 2016 had two elements: 1. The "basic" state pension, which required 35 years' contributions to earn the full amount (currently £139.60). 2. The State Second Pension (formerly SERPS) which...

Your original post is claiming that Einstein was wrong. If you can prove that, you are a certainty for the next Nobel prize in physics.

You have obviously not understood what I said and reached the false conclusion that it supported your original post.

Some of those other 49 lines were used, as they carried the teletext content.

The 480 line Standard Definition mentioned in the article was the old American NTSC system. The PAL and SECAM systems used in the UK and Europe were 576 lines.