what puts the higher price on these vehicles license plates is that usually there is a limited number of them
For example, Edinburgh city council limits the amount of black taxi vehicles plates to 300 in total(this is a made up number.. dunno how many it actually is)
Now it might only cost you say £500 GBP to buy that plate from the council if you were the original purchaser. you see this plate can be transferred from one vehicle to the other. it outlives the vehicle and thus due to it's limited availability it can and does sell for FORTUNES at auctions held for the rare occasion they come up for sale. London is NOT unique in doing the "knowledge". I can only speak for Scotland however each council here requires all black hack drivers to do the knowledge for their license area... i just pity the poor fuckers in the Highlands who have a gargantuan area to commit to memory!
WRONG!.. in the case of Scotland certainly. all drivers of vehicles licensed to carry passengers on a commercial basis must be licensed themselves.
Then the cars have to undergo safety checks and emissions tests and once the vehicle is licensed it must be appropriately insured with appropriate passenger liability insurance.
Otherwise it's 100% illegal for people to charge fares for taking people anywhere commercially. plain and simple as that.
In the case of Taxi drivers with a "Black cab license"(those who drive the classic London cabs)... then those guys have to STUDY for a minimum of two years and sit an exam called "the knowledge" to show that they know well the geography of the area. And their vehicles taxi license plates, in Edinburgh anyway, SELL FOR A FUCKING FORTUNE.....
The thing with Uber is that it is setting rates that are NOT set by the local councils Taxi licensing board. In Scotland each city council/local authority sets the rates for both black taxis and private hire cars such as Uber would be legally classified. Thus they are undercutting in a way that other companies would be legally disallowed from doing as the rates are set firm by the councils so as to avoid customers being humped.
So as you an see, at least here in Scotland, and possibly in england,Waqles and northern Ireland too.... Uber would have to recruit drivers who were already licensed with licensed vehicles , start it's own fleet and get drivers in to drive them or... operate illegally and get humped in various courts and jurisdictions around the "UK"
well here in Scotland a taxi driver has to be vetted for criminal records etc, then licensed. If he is an owner/driver then his car has to be passed through a "TAXI MOT"(MOT being an annual test for all cars here BUT this one is more stringent).
Also there is specific commercial insurance.... to suggest otherwise is just plain fucking ridiculous, seriously fucking ridiculous.
For vehicles used for commercial/business application, most especially passenger transportation, then specialised commercial insurance is required.
All private hire (ie non black taxi/hackney) vehicles licensed for passenger transportation have to display a special license plate on their rear bumper and also display this information, including the drivers taxi permit inside along with his photograph.
This is why Uber has no operations in Scotland as far as i know... because they, most likely, would be illegal in some respect here or not up to spec in some way.
all data usage and calls to and from the UK FREE.. well as covered by your package.
Saved me a fair few bucks on my travels between Edinburgh, here in Scotland and Denver and Houston at Easter.
for cheapness or both voice and data go for www.threee.co.uk
not only does it have all you can eat voice, but all you can eat data too and you can tether(4gb total tethering) and all phone data unlimited or filtered. mind you a little user agent spoofing bypasses the cap..lol
This is perfect for skype/oovoo scenarios where 4g would help.
Your daughter would be best going to either Glasgow,Aberdeen,Edinburgh or Dundee universities as those will have the best coverage being the biggest places.. St Andrews may have the name but it's not exactly a thriving metropolis.. so i would recommewnd any GSM phone of yer choise with a 3 SIM in it, that way only battery life can interrupt your connectivity and thus contact via voice/video etc.
DISCLOSURE - I AM a customer of three and have been for years.I don't work for them though....
they are much better than they used to be and unlimited 4g at no extra cost isn't a toughie to ask someone, it's a good deal.. in fact at the moment you can still get "The One Plan" month to month contract SIM card with 2000 minutes, unlimited data and 5000 texts for a mere 23 GBP..
And I'm also quite sure that you find very few potheads in the PVP ganker club.
Live and let live, love and let love, and by the way, do you have a bag of crisps?
utter SHITE.. i love to get stoned and get some FPS action.. some good weed and,atm Wolfenstein the new order, also a bit of Nether and some black ops zombie shootage with friends.... save yer "peace,love" and all that fucking bollocks.. give me weed and give me blood and guts and guns!
I'm pretty sure most if not all American retailers will take it back too.
With a restocking fee! Best Buy charged me 10% on the last TV I bought from them that didn't work out of the box. Unfortunately, the Republicans that rule this country won't fix that problem. Corporations keep dumping defective products on us, and the Republicans allow them to charge fees to take their nonfunctioning garbage back.
that's a shocking rip off, if it's non functional out of the box then, as a defective product it should be replaced under the warranty and thus should not be subject to any "restocking fee".. mind you never having paid a restocking fee for anything in my life.. i find the concept crazy to be honest... i live in Scotland btw where if a retailer tried that shit he would not last long..LOL
and his co-workers probably know about Urineluck or other "fake urine" products...unless someone is standing there watching you piss it's pretty easy to use something else and show "clean"...
indeed l0n3s0m3phr34k , i use it for a govt contract i have LOL.. works a treat even if they stand on the toilet near you... i have it inside my underwear , which heats it to body heat and then when it comes time to pee... it looks like i am just having a piss.... easily done.
however Captain Bollocks is probably the company snitch so, again, it's not something he'd know about..lol
I've been programming professionally for just over thirty years, and in that time I got a BS in Comp Eng in 1993 and a MS in Comp Sci in 2001. I have never even seen pot. I can't remember ever hearing anyone in this field mention using it. It just isn't common in our field. Of course when I was hiring for a new janitorial position here, I couldn't find a single male that could pass the drug test so it appears to be only the uneducated that use it.
that's because all the people who DO smoke it KNOW you are a prick and thus don't mention it near you
Contrary to Mr. Christie, Denver is a fantastic place to live, and I genuinely believe the recreational industry has improved it even more.
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Colorado, specially Denver is fantastic.. I go regularly to visit friends and for a wee bit of work. The state is happy as it's got massively increased tax revenue and the people are happy as they no longer are victimised for having a wee smoke. Police are happy as they can get on with other more serious stuff... and i mention the police as one of my friends over is a policeman and he and his colleagues much prefer it this way.
Hopefully people will come to their senses and outlaw tobacco and alcohol while simultaneously legalizing marijuana.
well there someone who hasn't a clue about what the effect on an outright ban on alcohol does....ever heard of prohibition and what happened there in America??
it created a massive criminal industry along with masses of violence and death... mostly from bullets but also from VERY badly made alcohol which poisoned people.Which is to say it created FAR MORE pr4oblems than it cured... in fact it cured NONE....
so perhaps before opening your sanctimonious mouth and letting your belly rumble... know what you are talking about first.
well i am Scottish and have encountered the Vlamms speakers at independence rallies and they were very,very keen to point out they speak their own,recognised language which was NOT Dutch......lol
The Flemish, who make up 60% of the population (not 50% as grandparent claims), speak Dutch. The existence of local variants in the language are no basis for a claim that there a multiple languages. Otherwise you'd have very few English speakers in the world.
Belgium is a trilingual country; there is a small population of German speakers.
Brussels is a bilingual region. It is geographically located in the Dutch-speaking Flanders, historically Flemish and Dutch speaking, but currently more an international city.
tell that to the Vlaams and see how long your balls last...LOL
I agree. And if it's just a minority that we're hearing, I'd kindly ask the British pro-EU majority to stand up.
part of the problem is that, at the moment, horrible,racist,bigoted arseholes from UKIP(euro-sceptics and SEVERELY right wing) are getting shitloads of airtime and have been for a while.
Twice now when their leader Nigel Farage came to Edinburgh here in Scotland...lol.. we have protested this racist pricks presence and he ran off.. once with a police escort... no violence or anything like that...... just a large volume of people who don't fig his racist, bigoted VERY FAR right shit.
Scotland , in my guess will become independent after the referendum in September due nto all the utter bullshit and hideeous shit the conservatives are doing such as privatising the NHS by the back door and treating the poor, the sick and disabled like criminals and getting their rags such as the daily mail to run campaigns slamming the poor, and such like.
For example they like to say that people are scrounging on benefits and are defrauding the DWP.. when in fact only 0.7% of the entire DWP budget is sucked up by fraud and half of that is.. INTERNAL!.. meanwhile sick and disabled people are being declared fit for work while terminally ill.. being penalised for having an extra bedroom when they need one for their carer/medical care/children.. it's a fucking disgrace.
luckily in Scotland we have protected universal free education,healthcare,prescriptions etc and the money is ring-fenced to protect the NHS in particular.
Scotland is pro-eu however we won't go for the euro.... not yet anyway due to the shenanigans going on atm. however should all go well and it's a YES vote in september then Scotland would remain in the EU and the EU will appreciate that as we have the largest oil and gas reserves in Europe.. not just the north sea but also off the west of Orkney and the west coast but also off Rockall (whichever Whitehall minion annexed that lump of rock saying it was in Scottish water did scotland a huge favour..LOL).. we are also a world leader in renewables too and everyone loves our whisky! mind you even without the oil/gas Standard and Poor(credit agency which downgraded the UK's AAA rating) would give an independent Scotland a tyriple A rating... much grooviness... roll on the vote!
How to you account for the economical benefits?. Do you think Schiphol would be a a an attractive airport if there would still be bordercontrols in the EU? How about your harbors?
Schipol is a major international hub with many transatlantic flights starting and finishing there, it'd be huge even outwith the EU,as for ports.... the Netherlands has always been a huge maritime trader.. so i imagine that would be the same
Since the BBC makes its money from the license fee, not from advertising, it has no concept of "return" for a particular program. And, while viewer figures are not totally ignored, it is regarded as having some mandate to put on programs for minority groups not well catered for by commercial TV - such as, for example, amateur astronomers..
The BBC also makes ASSLOADS of money from commercial ventures and selling their programming and licensing overseas.
They actually do have a mandate under their public service obligation to produce certain types of programming.
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what puts the higher price on these vehicles license plates is that usually there is a limited number of them
For example, Edinburgh city council limits the amount of black taxi vehicles plates to 300 in total(this is a made up number.. dunno how many it actually is)
Now it might only cost you say £500 GBP to buy that plate from the council if you were the original purchaser. you see this plate can be transferred from one vehicle to the other. it outlives the vehicle and thus due to it's limited availability it can and does sell for FORTUNES at auctions held for the rare occasion they come up for sale.
London is NOT unique in doing the "knowledge". I can only speak for Scotland however each council here requires all black hack drivers to do the knowledge for their license area... i just pity the poor fuckers in the Highlands who have a gargantuan area to commit to memory!
WRONG!.. in the case of Scotland certainly. ... then those guys have to STUDY for a minimum of two years and sit an exam called "the knowledge" to show that they know well the geography of the area. And their vehicles taxi license plates, in Edinburgh anyway, SELL FOR A FUCKING FORTUNE.....
all drivers of vehicles licensed to carry passengers on a commercial basis must be licensed themselves.
Then the cars have to undergo safety checks and emissions tests and once the vehicle is licensed it must be appropriately insured with appropriate passenger liability insurance.
Otherwise it's 100% illegal for people to charge fares for taking people anywhere commercially. plain and simple as that.
In the case of Taxi drivers with a "Black cab license"(those who drive the classic London cabs)
The thing with Uber is that it is setting rates that are NOT set by the local councils Taxi licensing board. In Scotland each city council/local authority sets the rates for both black taxis and private hire cars such as Uber would be legally classified. Thus they are undercutting in a way that other companies would be legally disallowed from doing as the rates are set firm by the councils so as to avoid customers being humped.
So as you an see, at least here in Scotland, and possibly in england,Waqles and northern Ireland too.... Uber would have to recruit drivers who were already licensed with licensed vehicles , start it's own fleet and get drivers in to drive them or... operate illegally and get humped in various courts and jurisdictions around the "UK"
In what way? Do you have any evidence?
well here in Scotland a taxi driver has to be vetted for criminal records etc, then licensed. If he is an owner/driver then his car has to be passed through a "TAXI MOT"(MOT being an annual test for all cars here BUT this one is more stringent).
Also there is specific commercial insurance.... to suggest otherwise is just plain fucking ridiculous, seriously fucking ridiculous.
For vehicles used for commercial/business application, most especially passenger transportation, then specialised commercial insurance is required.
All private hire (ie non black taxi/hackney) vehicles licensed for passenger transportation have to display a special license plate on their rear bumper and also display this information, including the drivers taxi permit inside along with his photograph.
This is why Uber has no operations in Scotland as far as i know... because they, most likely, would be illegal in some respect here or not up to spec in some way.
it just happens those places house some of the oldest and finest universities in the world ..Alba gu Brath Albannach agus Saor Alba :)
ALSO.. for trips the the USA ..... this is handy http://www.three.co.uk/Discove...
.. well as covered by your package.
all data usage and calls to and from the UK FREE
Saved me a fair few bucks on my travels between Edinburgh, here in Scotland and Denver and Houston at Easter.
for cheapness or both voice and data go for www.threee.co.uk
not only does it have all you can eat voice, but all you can eat data too and you can tether(4gb total tethering) and all phone data unlimited or filtered. mind you a little user agent spoofing bypasses the cap..lol
This is perfect for skype/oovoo scenarios where 4g would help.
Your daughter would be best going to either Glasgow,Aberdeen,Edinburgh or Dundee universities as those will have the best coverage being the biggest places.. St Andrews may have the name but it's not exactly a thriving metropolis.. so i would recommewnd any GSM phone of yer choise with a 3 SIM in it, that way only battery life can interrupt your connectivity and thus contact via voice/video etc.
DISCLOSURE - I AM a customer of three and have been for years.I don't work for them though.... they are much better than they used to be and unlimited 4g at no extra cost isn't a toughie to ask someone, it's a good deal.. in fact at the moment you can still get "The One Plan" month to month contract SIM card with 2000 minutes, unlimited data and 5000 texts for a mere 23 GBP..
well you take that up with the Vlamms people that came to attend the independence rally here last year sonny me laddo :)
... you are quite a dick..LOL
They were very groovy people and outspoken in many Flemish issues
As for not being violent... i do think you DELIBERATELY miss the point of what i was saying and thus
dicks like you are why UKIP are on the rise.. yeah.. YOU LOL
And I'm also quite sure that you find very few potheads in the PVP ganker club. Live and let live, love and let love, and by the way, do you have a bag of crisps?
utter SHITE .. i love to get stoned and get some FPS action.. some good weed and ,atm Wolfenstein the new order, also a bit of Nether and some black ops zombie shootage with friends.... save yer "peace,love" and all that fucking bollocks.. give me weed and give me blood and guts and guns!
NEVER seen that done by ANY network admin or said to be "good practise" EVER....... one thing guaranteed to fuck up a network map is DHCP
DHCP.. for a printer.. in the workplace?.... are you having a laugh?.. seriously NOT a good idea
I'm pretty sure most if not all American retailers will take it back too.
With a restocking fee! Best Buy charged me 10% on the last TV I bought from them that didn't work out of the box. Unfortunately, the Republicans that rule this country won't fix that problem. Corporations keep dumping defective products on us, and the Republicans allow them to charge fees to take their nonfunctioning garbage back.
that's a shocking rip off, if it's non functional out of the box then, as a defective product it should be replaced under the warranty and thus should not be subject to any "restocking fee".. mind you never having paid a restocking fee for anything in my life.. i find the concept crazy to be honest... i live in Scotland btw where if a retailer tried that shit he would not last long..LOL
a fair few of the established wealthy families in America got rich via the opium trade and then later via booze smuggling during prohibition.......
and his co-workers probably know about Urineluck or other "fake urine" products...unless someone is standing there watching you piss it's pretty easy to use something else and show "clean"...
indeed l0n3s0m3phr34k , i use it for a govt contract i have LOL.. works a treat even if they stand on the toilet near you... i have it inside my underwear , which heats it to body heat and then when it comes time to pee... it looks like i am just having a piss.... easily done.
however Captain Bollocks is probably the company snitch so, again, it's not something he'd know about..lol
I've been programming professionally for just over thirty years, and in that time I got a BS in Comp Eng in 1993 and a MS in Comp Sci in 2001. I have never even seen pot. I can't remember ever hearing anyone in this field mention using it. It just isn't common in our field. Of course when I was hiring for a new janitorial position here, I couldn't find a single male that could pass the drug test so it appears to be only the uneducated that use it.
that's because all the people who DO smoke it KNOW you are a prick and thus don't mention it near you
Colorado, specially Denver is fantastic.. I go regularly to visit friends and for a wee bit of work. The state is happy as it's got massively increased tax revenue and the people are happy as they no longer are victimised for having a wee smoke. Police are happy as they can get on with other more serious stuff... and i mention the police as one of my friends over is a policeman and he and his colleagues much prefer it this way.
Hopefully people will come to their senses and outlaw tobacco and alcohol while simultaneously legalizing marijuana.
well there someone who hasn't a clue about what the effect on an outright ban on alcohol does....ever heard of prohibition and what happened there in America??
it created a massive criminal industry along with masses of violence and death... mostly from bullets but also from VERY badly made alcohol which poisoned people.Which is to say it created FAR MORE pr4oblems than it cured... in fact it cured NONE....
so perhaps before opening your sanctimonious mouth and letting your belly rumble... know what you are talking about first.
well i am Scottish and have encountered the Vlamms speakers at independence rallies and they were very ,very keen to point out they speak their own,recognised language which was NOT Dutch......lol
Wow, you guys could have googled that.
The Flemish, who make up 60% of the population (not 50% as grandparent claims), speak Dutch. The existence of local variants in the language are no basis for a claim that there a multiple languages. Otherwise you'd have very few English speakers in the world.
Belgium is a trilingual country; there is a small population of German speakers.
Brussels is a bilingual region. It is geographically located in the Dutch-speaking Flanders, historically Flemish and Dutch speaking, but currently more an international city.
tell that to the Vlaams and see how long your balls last...LOL
what about the Flemish?? they don'tt speak Dutch of French.. well they can but Flemish is a language in it's own right
I agree. And if it's just a minority that we're hearing, I'd kindly ask the British pro-EU majority to stand up.
part of the problem is that, at the moment, horrible,racist,bigoted arseholes from UKIP(euro-sceptics and SEVERELY right wing) are getting shitloads of airtime and have been for a while. ...lol.. we have protested this racist pricks presence and he ran off.. once with a police escort... no violence or anything like that...... just a large volume of people who don't fig his racist, bigoted VERY FAR right shit.
Twice now when their leader Nigel Farage came to Edinburgh here in Scotland
Scotland , in my guess will become independent after the referendum in September due nto all the utter bullshit and hideeous shit the conservatives are doing such as privatising the NHS by the back door and treating the poor, the sick and disabled like criminals and getting their rags such as the daily mail to run campaigns slamming the poor, and such like.
For example they like to say that people are scrounging on benefits and are defrauding the DWP.. when in fact only 0.7% of the entire DWP budget is sucked up by fraud and half of that is.. INTERNAL!.. meanwhile sick and disabled people are being declared fit for work while terminally ill.. being penalised for having an extra bedroom when they need one for their carer/medical care/children.. it's a fucking disgrace.
luckily in Scotland we have protected universal free education,healthcare,prescriptions etc and the money is ring-fenced to protect the NHS in particular.
Scotland is pro-eu however we won't go for the euro.... not yet anyway due to the shenanigans going on atm. however should all go well and it's a YES vote in september then Scotland would remain in the EU and the EU will appreciate that as we have the largest oil and gas reserves in Europe.. not just the north sea but also off the west of Orkney and the west coast but also off Rockall (whichever Whitehall minion annexed that lump of rock saying it was in Scottish water did scotland a huge favour..LOL).. we are also a world leader in renewables too and everyone loves our whisky! mind you even without the oil/gas Standard and Poor(credit agency which downgraded the UK's AAA rating) would give an independent Scotland a tyriple A rating... much grooviness... roll on the vote!
Schipol is a major international hub with many transatlantic flights starting and finishing there, it'd be huge even outwith the EU ,as for ports.... the Netherlands has always been a huge maritime trader.. so i imagine that would be the same
seems to have worked just fine for them for decades..
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html
The euro started at about $1.17, in 1999. It's now about $1.35. The highest value was close to $1.60, just before the 2008 crash.
that high of $1.60 was due to Khadaffi trading his oil in euros..... ;)
Since the BBC makes its money from the license fee, not from advertising, it has no concept of "return" for a particular program. And, while viewer figures are not totally ignored, it is regarded as having some mandate to put on programs for minority groups not well catered for by commercial TV - such as, for example, amateur astronomers. .
The BBC also makes ASSLOADS of money from commercial ventures and selling their programming and licensing overseas. They actually do have a mandate under their public service obligation to produce certain types of programming.
well maybe he could have an omnitool to replace the screwdriver
nice one :P