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You're gonna need £11.50 - there is postage as well!
A few years ago, my credit card company sent me £20 worth of vouchers as a "thank you" for switching to paperless billing. Unfortunately, the nearest shop that took them was in Cardiff, and it would have cost me more than £20 to spend them. So I stuck them up on FleaBay for a 99p starter. And two weeks later sold them, for £19.50 plus £2.50 postage... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It also utterly fails to explain what the offside rule is to someone who doesn't already know. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That was exactly my thought. I should know 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A post below reminded me of this track[^]
except for the lyrics, which sound like something a 13 year old dreamed up, a classic track that makes my fingers ache just thinking about playing it!
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Is that some kind of reference to All Along the Watchtower?
(I can't listen while at work)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'd imagine that on a rating of 1-5 (stars), 3 should be regarded as average. Because of that, I rarely vote at all simply because I don't feel I should have to comment because I think somethings average - surely that should be the norm. This can only skew the star rating towards 4-5 stars, making it utterly meaningless.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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But surely, an "average" vote is what "most people give it".
My latest article has:
Views: 11,390 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 79 Popularity: 9.35
Which means that only 0.7% of people voted at all. Hence the "average" vote is not 3: it's nothing, nada, sod all, no vote at all. Which doesn't need a comment!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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But it doesn't really work like that, strangely. It's more like this:
5: good
4: not good
3 or lower: absolute sh*t
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This is a very average point of view.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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If you care to plumb the morass of voting/reputation on QA: I suggest this as a fast-acting emetic:
"Is a vote of #3 on a QA post a down-vote ?[^].
“The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet
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That's what I thought, a neutral vote - in which case it should not require a comment to my mind.
I'll just stop voting, because (as with politics), there's no point voting in a rigged system.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Agree. Mandatory comments are the reason I stopped voting.
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The goal of the rating system is to encourage praise or encourage suggestions to make it better. If you like an article an upvote encourages the author. If you're not up-voting then it means there's something you don't like about an article in which case we want you to give your 5c on what needs to be improved.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We have a series of department meetings this week and yesterday, the manager brought in Dunkin' Donuts. Being in the Carolinas (live in South Carolina, work in North Carolina), the regional favourite is Krispy Kreme.
Something I said caused the new intern to ask where I was from.
I said I was originally from Northern Ontario.
Realizing I was from Canada, she exclaimed, "Tim Horton's! Oh, they are so good!!!". I agree with her, but they are not available here.
So, which of these do you prefer?
Tim
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Neither, it's either a home made ring doughnut with nothing but sugar fresh from fryer or a jammy one from the bakers.
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Krispy Kreme's are addictive, they are so good!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Tim Carmichael wrote: So, which of these do you prefer?
Bacon.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Nagy is right about the Jammy ones: http://www.hilarymoorephoto.com/mobile/wp-content/uploads/15.Jam-Doughnut.jpg[^]
But a plain ring, soaked in Rum and sugar syrup, served with ice cream is well worth eating... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We have Tim Horton's here, however the donuts are from frozen. Krispy Kreme is fresh at the store, but when they are in a convenience store look out. We have a chain called Jolly Pirate that I personally like (made at the store).
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In the UK, Oxfordshire. We're very much Krispy Kreme in the office. We all have our favourites a colleague and I keep going for the same flavour, bastard gets it everytime.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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We do not eat donuts here.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Shipleys.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Any one that I don't have to pay for is good to me.
What kind of moron complains about free food?
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Krispy Kreme gets my vote! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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A person tried for the Darwin award this morning. I missed hitting them by about a meter.
This was a dark rural two lane road (no street lights), and they were waring dark cloths. Even with an oncoming car lights I did not see them until I was upon them. Why they were crossing there or even why they were there I have no idea.
Scared me awake!
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