Re: Who is buying this?
More like the law of diminishing returns. Beyond a certain point, to get something slightly better you have to spend a lot more money. Wine, hi-fi, cars ... there are many other examples.
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But what is that in snowflakes, the new official El Reg unit of uniqueness? I would say the "icy volcanic activity" also found on Io, Triton and Enceladus means Ceres only bags a few extra kiloflakes on the uniqueness scale, despite all the actual snowflakes that must swirl down when the big Ahuna kicks off.
I'm also looking forward to Nasa's assessment of Jupiter's uniqueness. They could rank the planets in order, perhaps from "utterly" down to "really only a little bit".
As a unit of uniqueness may I propose the snowflake? Or its abbreviation, the flake? "Studies have shown that among the bodies of the Solar System Jupiter possesses uniqueness of the order of 50 megaflakes, dwarfing Pluto's measly 1.3."
"the experience of trying to get somewhere in a foreign country with a driver that neither knows the country, nor the language"
How about the experience of trying to explain a potentially lethal nut allergy to an uncomprehending waiter? This is clearly a cartel trying to protect its interests. If there were a powerful organisation of restaurant staff they would be attempting the same sort of thing with equally flimsy justification.
I'd also like one for trees. And an audio app for birdsong.
Even more useful would be a plant-identifier for foragers. Someone who always knows which mushrooms to eat would be a real funghi to be with. However I imagine there could be legal difficulties with that one: there'd have to be a massive disclaimer every time you used it.
No chance. If we vote to leave we are gone, outta here, adios. Sterling will slide but not catastrophically. Markets don't like uncertainty. Once the result is in, whatever it is, that's a big chunk of uncertainty removed. Enough investors will have confidence in a post-Brexit Britain to stop the markets going through the floor. But ... how things will be in the long term compared to what they would be if we stay - nobody knows.
The only scenario I can see in which a Brexit victory doesn't stand is something like the following. Cameron tries to cling on as leader and so a vote of no confidence triggers a general election. This is fought between Corbyn, who promises to rerun the referendum, and a fractured Tory party led by Boris, who undertakes to honour the original result.