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Would you prefer the Oxford English Dictionary then?

public ADJECTIVE

1 Of or concerning the people as a whole.
‘public concern’
‘public affairs’

1.1 Open to or shared by all the people of an area or country.
‘a public library’

1.2 Of or involved in the affairs of the community, especially in government or entertainment.
‘he was forced to withdraw from public life’
‘a public figure’

2Done, perceived, or existing in open view.
‘he wanted a public apology in the Wall Street Journal’
‘we should talk somewhere less public’

3Of or provided by the state rather than an independent, commercial company.
‘public spending’
‘public services’

4British Of, for, or acting for a university.
‘public examination results’

Public and private are antonyms.

Or if you want specifically the term "public parking", your countrymen seem to disagree (just some quick Googling)

Maybe it's a London thing to use "public" to mean "not public"?

Speaking of Dwarfs http://www.edwards.eclipse.co.uk/JBM-rbd.htm and funny naming schemes which cleared the courthouse.

I think most shipping companies will think politically stable Canada a preferable route to Panama.

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears" - I remember this line from Alfred Bester's Tiger Tiger

The word 'why' means different things in different contexts. A why-question can either ask for cause or morality. Scientist tend to answer the cause question, while religious types tend to concentrate on morality. The same seems heuristically true for males vs females.

A: He is a character created by P.G. Wodehouse. Mr. Jeeves work as a gentleman's gentleman for a slacker, Bretie Wooster. Jeeves is one heck of a problem solver. In fact Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe is a cry baby school boy compared to Jeeves who has an answer to any question you might imagine. Hence, the name for a search engine.

The stories are also dramatized by the ITV with Hugh Laurie as Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves.

Personally, I liked TV dramatizations very much and recommend them to everyone.

Perhaps take a gander over at:

Tattoo Page: Time

The same can not be said for Imperial measurements... even if SI has changed from it's beginnings, the units are elegantly interrelated. We live on the earth... the only universal (global) measurement is time. Thus everything is relative...

...And here I thought....

You were partly correct: (But it was only a suggestion)

Under certain precisely arranged conditions, atoms of the element caesium oscillate between two states at a very uniform (and fast) rate. By definition, 1 second in the time for 9,192,631,770 of these oscillations to occur. Then, 1 metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds. Although these ways of defining a standard second and a standard metre appear to be rather complicated and odd, scientists and engineers with appropriate equipment can use these definitions to measure time intervals and distances extremely precisely. When they do so, they will always all agree precisely in their measurements, an outcome that is identified above as an important goal in developing a standard system of units of measurement.

(Initially, 200 years ago, it was suggested that 1 metre be one ten-millionth of the distance from the north pole of the earth to the equator. This "standard" turned out to be insufficiently useful, because, among several difficulties, it was found that this distance was slightly different if you measured it in different places and so different users might end up with metres of slightly different lengths, causing confusion.)

Geeves has been very good at coordinating all the work,

Did you perchance mean Jeeves, by Wodehouse?

Well call me Catherine Cornelius and break out the psychotropic lesbian porn fiction...

Well it is true to the spirit of Moorcock. Just look at the cover art.

Ok, so it is a touch off-topic, but I was stunned to see a literary(sic) reference in a /. link

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...which seems to be taking place as we speak...
Link to more theory than you probably care to know
More Prototypes
Links to more than more than you probably care to know
Barry's Coilgun Design Site

...which seems to be taking place as we speak...
Link to more theory than you probably care to know
More Prototypes
Links to more than more than you probably care to know
Barry's Coilgun Design Site

...which seems to be taking place as we speak...
Link to more theory than you probably care to know
More Prototypes
Links to more than more than you probably care to know
Barry's Coilgun Design Site

evolution

Good! They can give it all back to Hasbro! See the History of Pacman to Quake II.