More 999 stupidity

From news.bbc.co.uk …

Time to call an end to free calls to the emergency services, I feel. If you waste Police, Ambulance or Fire Service time then you should be charged; and not only financially but in court for damn stupidity! Currently if your car is in a Road Traffic Accident your insurance will be charged an Ambulance fee. About time that the costs of the imbeciles who do not understand the meaning of "emergency" and cry wolf should be made to pay the cost of their stupidity.

Icelanders' struggle means CCP may leave

From www.guardian.co.uk …

CCP Games — developers of Eve Online — might be forced to quit Iceland because of the current economic climate. The Icelandic government is restricting access to outside investors and CCP, which also has offices in the USA and China and receives pretty much all its income in USD and EUR, needs those investors to help develop new projects. These include the much-trailed 'World of Darkness' MMORPG as well as other projects which were only hinted at during presentations at the recent FanFest in Reykjavik. As a player of their games, and as a member of their first player-elected panel — the Council of Stellar Management — I know how much being an Icelandic company is part of their ethos, indeed the first thing CCP did when the CSM went there for the initial face-to-face meeting was to take us out into the countryside, to the seat of Iceland's first parliament. I wish CCP, and all Icelanders, a better and more prosperous New Year.