That was a while ago, The cross channel catamarans have long gone too, replaced by a train.
I believe catamarans still operate on the Irish Sea though.
The idea was never to change the voltage in any EU country, the idea is about free movement of goods and services, in this case goods.
The standard is to ensure that any electrical appliance sold will work anywhere in the EU. The consumer can buy from anywhere in the EU, the tolerence ensures that this is possible.
Sounds odd to be honest, I would imagine most peoples sleep will vary by more than an hour on different weekends. Just depends what you have on and how good a night it is at the pub.
The UK has somewhat different customs in this area (and possibly different laws). I recall reading a comment a few months ago from someone in the UK talking about how many more cars get through a green light in the UK than the US because the UK drivers are all ready to start moving as soon as the light is green, rather than waiting for the car in front of them to move before taking their foot off the brake. It is perhaps unwise, but if that's the habit, it's more understandable.
That is probably explained by the UK having a red and amber phase, about 2 seconds between read and green, meaning the green does not come unexpectedly and drivers are ready to move as soon as the lights turn green.
Like the US, in the UK, 100% of the blame lies with the person doing the rear ending.
Most are in residential areas and will have very little usage, unless someone is visiting a neighbour occasionally.
If you live next door to a B & B, a pub, cafe, or a layby where truckers stay overnight then your experience will be no doubt different.
You are still sharing the bandwidth and I would expect a very small number of these access points get most of the usage.
It happened to me when a POI was on the front door of a store, and the nearest road was an expressway.
The solution is either to map the parking aisles or to put the POI on the entrance to the car park.
9 to 5, 5 days a week is 40 hours.
A car is personal space, it has your stuff in it. Imagine having to take everything out of the car every time you arrive at work and when you get home. Its not going to work.
I can't vouch for San Francisco, but in the England, the supermarkets have always fought against plastic bag bans. Which suggests to me you are inventing a conspiracy where there isn't one.
I have corrected your post for you. Wales has a 5p levy on plastic and paper bags.
Living close to the border we do get to experience this, people almost never pay the 5p but do tend to take bags/walk out with shopping piled precariously in their arms or just take it out to the car in the trolley and dump it in the boot (trunk).
At McDonald's you can have a small paper bag for your fries (as they are not wrapped), but a bag big enough for you Big Mac as well. Thats 5p. Amusing in the drive through watching them handing over each Big Mac/Quarter Pounder one at a time.
Don't know how it works if you fancy a Chinese, Indian or Kebab on the way home from the pub.
Northern Ireland is looking at a similar idea, but as a tax. In Wales the money goes to charity.
Don't know about Scotland, but it is usually the world leader in nanny state legislation.
If I wanted to I could legally change my name to trigpoint and have it on my passport, driving license and credit card. Most legal name changes follow the firstname last name principle, but they don't have to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deed_poll
Debit cards and credit cards look the same but they're completely different things.
They look similar, my debit card has debit printed on it. Not that a shop ever gets close enough to read the card.
They can tell them apart from the number however, hence how they know to offer cashback with a debit card but not with a credit card. It also allows different surcharges.
And that TV guide covers all channels, not just the one you've called the Teletext up on.
CEEFAX always had full listings for all of the analogue channels, and I think it had them for digital channels as well.
I feel sure that in the early days CEEFAX only carried BBC programme details, and ORACLE only ITV programme details.
There were no all channel TV guides until 1991, just the Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times(ITV). Newspapers had all channels, but only a day at a time.
For many people the Christmas/New Year double issues of Radio Times and TV Times were an annual event.
Just to clarify (in case anybody asks), Orange also block Skype.
But T-Mobile don't.
There is not yet an EE network, as far as I (as a T-Mobile customer) can see it is just a roaming at present.
On my phone I can see which network I am using, internet conectivity seems to work better when connected to T-Mobile.
Thats where my French fell apart in a French McDonalds. Had ordered the food perfectly and was asked what sauce for the Nuggets, my answer "Tomate". Total blank look, then I said "Ketchup". Up to then had never occured to me that Tomato Sauce and Ketchup are not interchangable everywhere.
They sell beer in McDonalds in France.
Different Markets, the Pi is targetted at the UK where wide flat screen TV have been the norm for much longer than the US. Chances are the old living room TV that has been relegated to the kids bedroom has HDMI.
4 years ago, seeing old fashioned 4x3 CRT TVs on sale in Canada came as quite a shock.
Just switch to a "pay before you pump" system.
If it's good enough for prostitutes, it's good enough for your petrol/gas.
Or: Implement a vast database to track everyone's fill-ups using CCTV.
Yeah, that's probably the proper British approach... carry on.
How does pay before you pump work in practice? With my own car I can usually work out how much fuel it will take, give or take a few litres. But I want it full, even 2 litres under is 20 miles off the range. What happens if you guess high and can't get all the fuel you have paid for into your tank, do you get a refund?
I can see this being a big problem with high (rental) cars where you have never filled them before and you return them full, otherwise you get stung for a refueling fee.
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A year of free breakdown cover is a normal when buying a new car
That was a while ago, The cross channel catamarans have long gone too, replaced by a train. I believe catamarans still operate on the Irish Sea though.
The idea was never to change the voltage in any EU country, the idea is about free movement of goods and services, in this case goods. The standard is to ensure that any electrical appliance sold will work anywhere in the EU. The consumer can buy from anywhere in the EU, the tolerence ensures that this is possible.
Sounds odd to be honest, I would imagine most peoples sleep will vary by more than an hour on different weekends. Just depends what you have on and how good a night it is at the pub.
The UK has somewhat different customs in this area (and possibly different laws). I recall reading a comment a few months ago from someone in the UK talking about how many more cars get through a green light in the UK than the US because the UK drivers are all ready to start moving as soon as the light is green, rather than waiting for the car in front of them to move before taking their foot off the brake. It is perhaps unwise, but if that's the habit, it's more understandable.
That is probably explained by the UK having a red and amber phase, about 2 seconds between read and green, meaning the green does not come unexpectedly and drivers are ready to move as soon as the lights turn green. Like the US, in the UK, 100% of the blame lies with the person doing the rear ending.
Cold pizza is nothing, for real gross try cold donna kebab. Now thats living.
Most are in residential areas and will have very little usage, unless someone is visiting a neighbour occasionally. If you live next door to a B & B, a pub, cafe, or a layby where truckers stay overnight then your experience will be no doubt different. You are still sharing the bandwidth and I would expect a very small number of these access points get most of the usage.
It happened to me when a POI was on the front door of a store, and the nearest road was an expressway. The solution is either to map the parking aisles or to put the POI on the entrance to the car park.
9 to 5, 5 days a week is 40 hours. A car is personal space, it has your stuff in it. Imagine having to take everything out of the car every time you arrive at work and when you get home. Its not going to work.
Don't know how it works if you fancy a Chinese, Indian or Kebab on the way home from the pub.
Where I come from Chinese and Indians don't come in bags.
Well they come in aluminium or plastic trays, but getting them home without a bag is a little difficult.
I have corrected your post for you.
No you haven't. The fact that the welsh parliament has created a 5p levy does not mean that the supermarkets didn't fight against it.
And not only are you logically wrong, you're wrong in actuality: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8265754.stm
That article is from 2009, they fought against it, but how am I wrong? the 5p levy has happened.
I can't vouch for San Francisco, but in the England, the supermarkets have always fought against plastic bag bans. Which suggests to me you are inventing a conspiracy where there isn't one.
I have corrected your post for you. Wales has a 5p levy on plastic and paper bags. Living close to the border we do get to experience this, people almost never pay the 5p but do tend to take bags/walk out with shopping piled precariously in their arms or just take it out to the car in the trolley and dump it in the boot (trunk). At McDonald's you can have a small paper bag for your fries (as they are not wrapped), but a bag big enough for you Big Mac as well. Thats 5p. Amusing in the drive through watching them handing over each Big Mac/Quarter Pounder one at a time. Don't know how it works if you fancy a Chinese, Indian or Kebab on the way home from the pub. Northern Ireland is looking at a similar idea, but as a tax. In Wales the money goes to charity. Don't know about Scotland, but it is usually the world leader in nanny state legislation.
Norfolk is not a town. Norwich is not "nearby". Norwich is in Norfolk. It indeed, Norfolk's county town.
Norwich is a city.
If I wanted to I could legally change my name to trigpoint and have it on my passport, driving license and credit card. Most legal name changes follow the firstname last name principle, but they don't have to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deed_poll
Which is why they wanted a unique cell phone number to identify my account...
Which is when I stopped using Facebook (about 7-8 months ago).
Just use a Pay As You Go SIM card, just keep it for facebook and nothing else.
Debit cards and credit cards look the same but they're completely different things.
They look similar, my debit card has debit printed on it. Not that a shop ever gets close enough to read the card. They can tell them apart from the number however, hence how they know to offer cashback with a debit card but not with a credit card. It also allows different surcharges.
And that TV guide covers all channels, not just the one you've called the Teletext up on.
CEEFAX always had full listings for all of the analogue channels, and I think it had them for digital channels as well.
I feel sure that in the early days CEEFAX only carried BBC programme details, and ORACLE only ITV programme details. There were no all channel TV guides until 1991, just the Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times(ITV). Newspapers had all channels, but only a day at a time. For many people the Christmas/New Year double issues of Radio Times and TV Times were an annual event.
Beefy Miracle (Fedora 17) has to be the dumbest name ever.
Just to clarify (in case anybody asks), Orange also block Skype.
But T-Mobile don't. There is not yet an EE network, as far as I (as a T-Mobile customer) can see it is just a roaming at present. On my phone I can see which network I am using, internet conectivity seems to work better when connected to T-Mobile.
But never plastic. Lord no, never plastic.
They are acceptable on carnival day and in the mosh pit.
and "tomato sauce".
Thats where my French fell apart in a French McDonalds. Had ordered the food perfectly and was asked what sauce for the Nuggets, my answer "Tomate". Total blank look, then I said "Ketchup". Up to then had never occured to me that Tomato Sauce and Ketchup are not interchangable everywhere. They sell beer in McDonalds in France.
Different Markets, the Pi is targetted at the UK where wide flat screen TV have been the norm for much longer than the US. Chances are the old living room TV that has been relegated to the kids bedroom has HDMI. 4 years ago, seeing old fashioned 4x3 CRT TVs on sale in Canada came as quite a shock.
fuel theft (in the form of drive offs)
Wait, what? This is still a problem?
Just switch to a "pay before you pump" system. If it's good enough for prostitutes, it's good enough for your petrol/gas.
Or: Implement a vast database to track everyone's fill-ups using CCTV. Yeah, that's probably the proper British approach... carry on.
How does pay before you pump work in practice? With my own car I can usually work out how much fuel it will take, give or take a few litres. But I want it full, even 2 litres under is 20 miles off the range. What happens if you guess high and can't get all the fuel you have paid for into your tank, do you get a refund? I can see this being a big problem with high (rental) cars where you have never filled them before and you return them full, otherwise you get stung for a refueling fee.
Mopeds in the Uk, have number plates and are taxed and insured just like any other motor vehicle. You need to be 16 to ride one on the road.
Also, you are forgetting about the Chunnel
And ferries, and hovercrafts, and the UK-Irish border.
The hovercraft stopped many years ago, bumpy horrible thing they were. Cost me a set of shock absorbers they did.