It's in the owner's interest to say that the honour system is working well; future customers will be more honourable if they believe others have been too. If people feel that everyone rips off the bakery then they'd feel less bad about doing so too.

Thus; the owner saying the system is successful shouldn't be trusted without proof.

I wonder how the issue of change is sorted out. Maybe some people overpay or underpay because they don't have the right change and this balances out, but that seems unlikely.

Could you expand the copper loop antenna with more wire? e.g. make your whole jacket into an oyster card

Tiny mona is poor ass pixel art, man.

Watch out for hackers. A free pass means you can't get your steam account banned for hacking, which is quite tempting for some.

Pretending to be a pedophile is sexual harassment, mmmkay?

Cool.
Links to original BBtv episodes these appeared in?

#2 Maybe not all of their graffiti is legal, so they don't want to be photographed with cans in their hands next to wet paint, even if that particular paint was legally applied.

The 23rd is also my birthday, so this makes me really chuffed! :)

That's an awful book cover.

#13 Mebaja, it's just you. It's not photoshopped.

noen: There's already services you can call to chat to young women, they're normally advertised in the back of magazines.

Och aye the GNU: My old school is one of the few in the UK to teach the International Baccalaureate and A-Levels. From experience, I can say it's worse than the A-Level system. More bureaucratic, more hoop jumping and the marking system is very transparent, so it's easier to 'teach to the test' than A-Levels.

These paintings, especially the more representative ones, are more made by the mahout(trainer) than the elephant. By choosing which colours to give the elephant, and gently pushing a tusk or giving clues in their voice, the close relationship between the two allows the mahout to guide the elephant.

The elephants do learn how to apply brush to paper, but any article claiming they have an artistic understanding is probably baseless. Elephants have poor eyesight.

squirrelgirl: not all UK supermarkets have this system, some use the electronic breaks, most have no security.

It doesn't seem bizarre; it provides an incentive to put the trolleys back instead of just leaving them in the car park or stealing them to take your shopping home. I imagine in the US, where more people drive, the second problem is much less significant. If you rely on customers to return trolleys to the proper place without incentive, then some won't and they could roll about and damage cars, especially in windy areas.

Some British Councils make supermarkets pay for some of the cost of clearing up trolleys abandoned in the city. Since the trolleys have the supermarket's logo on them it's not hard to see who's responsible (other than the customer who stole it).

The system is much more prevelant in Europe than the UK, and 'lower-class' stores are more likely to have it too.

Reply to MARSHALL - "Why is it that in Nairobi an illiterate metalworker on the street can come up with these concepts, but in the US it takes a highly educated college student"

I assume the college students' proposals included how their designs could be mass produced. These aren't opportunistic one-offs - they're adding another layer to the food chain.

Anyone can find a cool handle and attach it to something else. The important part is seeing how you could collect toothbrush handles of a standard design and consistently reuse them.

To be honest, the most efficient method would be for all small, hand held tools to use the same handles, but there's less money in that.

This just basically rips off Look Around You

This part of the fashion industry was mentioned before in that essay about copyright vacuum's in the professional magic industry.

Both magic and fashion seem to be able to work without copyright because there are different classes of consumers. The high-class consumer protects copyright for a short while, enabling profit - then the low-class consumer breaks copyright, preventing monopolies.

High/low class sounds a bit pejorative, I know, it's just what came into my head.

To Jackgreg - there are many benefits to staying current with fashion because of the way others will perceive you. Looking similar to other people is not JUST following the herd, it is saying that you are a social person who is part of society. People respond to that. Obviously some people take that too far, become 'fashion slaves' and that impresses no-one. The balance, as it has always been, is to look good in a way that is your own but people can understand.