The BBC (and Channel 4) are the only ones who use Met Office meteorologists, actual scientists who know what the fuck they are taking about. All others use dolly birds (and boys, occasionally) as presenters going "Scorchio" and save the facts for sensationalist "when clouds attack" type features.
I'd much rather have someone able to explain what is happening than a parroted summary and it ties in neatly with the charter to educate that the BBC has.
Re 4: BT in UK already does this (and has done for over a decade) as part of the opt-in FON network. In return you get to use hotspots around the world for free.
If the entire population would consider the basic income to be enough then you might have a point. Except it won't pay for the things they want, rather just the things they need (food, fuel, etc.). So the population willingly works in order to buy stuff as, apart from stealing it, they won't get it otherwise.
"Just let us train you to kill people and we'll feed you. We will even pay you to do so and educate you in ways to kill people with stuff you didn't know existed."
You don't see anything wrong with that "work ethic"? No wonder there's millions of people who fucking hate America.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity, and UK is a lot hillier than Denmark or (especially) the Netherlands. Cycling in the latter is almost effortless compared to UK, apart from the Norfolk Broads where it is equally flat and the biggest slope you'll encounter is in a supermarket car park thus requiring a 4 wheel drive SUV for the 1 in 75 incline...
Relative to what? In the last three weeks there's been two and a half month's worth of rain.
If by "droughts" you mean "declaration of a drought after three days of dry weather by the water companies that don't collect run-off and just let it drain into the sea instead so no, you can't use a hosepipe" then yeah, we had them every year. The Met Office got annoyed with private companies declaring the status of the weather contrary to evidence and ran to Teacher, so they haven't done that for a couple of years now.
In 1976, when there *was* a drought, there wasn't a hosepipe ban. Mainly because the water companies just cut areas off (by emergency Govt. powers) and you had to use standpipes.
Doubtful. Calling the emergency services for something that isn't an emergency is illegal in most countries. Yes, the police will speak to the operator, but only to gather evidence against the dumbass caller.
Wrongful accusation is surely dealt with in other legislation, such as slander, libel and defamation of character to name but three. Does DMCA nullify that legislation?
So it could stream lower quality video / audio that would take less battery to play is one thing that springs to mind. If a site monitored battery usage while streaming HD to your phone it could calculate if you had enough to juice left to finish watching.
Then use a Homeplug setup to use the existing wires of your ring main. Get the pass through variety and plug in a WiFi access point into the downstairs one.
Who should have been wearing reflective gear and walking on the side of the road that has oncoming traffic. Like the Highway Code says should be done.
I've had a few idiots who decide to dash across the road from a darkened doorway in front of me like a fucking panicked rabbit just as I'm driving along the street. You saw me coming, with my headlights on and everything, right? But it is somehow my fault if I hit you.
With regards to low UIDs, it's refreshing to see so many posts from sub 1E6 users. It's a pity that the quality of/. has gone so far downhill that it is only news that we're about to get fucked over again that brings them blinking into the light...
And if you've been around long enough and contributed by moderating it's +2. I turned mine back down to +1 down ages ago, but not because I didn't think I'd earned it.
SCs have power of arrest (as a police officer, because they are police officers) unlike PCSOs who only have citizen levels. There's a whole bunch of "school prefect" style additions in order to keep someone around until an officer can arrest them if that officer deems it valid, but apart from that they are little more than a member of the public in a hi-viz jacket.
Depends on the operator and rolling stock. Southern Rail don't have sockets for the public (they have them by the doors for the cleaning crew) but I've seen passengers using them. South West Trains do have them, as do some Thameslink stock.
Not in UK you don't. It's amusing to break protocol on a jam-packed Tube and look to see how people studiously try to avoid looking at anybody else even when there isn't a choice.
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The BBC (and Channel 4) are the only ones who use Met Office meteorologists, actual scientists who know what the fuck they are taking about. All others use dolly birds (and boys, occasionally) as presenters going "Scorchio" and save the facts for sensationalist "when clouds attack" type features.
I'd much rather have someone able to explain what is happening than a parroted summary and it ties in neatly with the charter to educate that the BBC has.
Yeah, that worked out for everybody...
Re 4: BT in UK already does this (and has done for over a decade) as part of the opt-in FON network. In return you get to use hotspots around the world for free.
If the entire population would consider the basic income to be enough then you might have a point. Except it won't pay for the things they want, rather just the things they need (food, fuel, etc.). So the population willingly works in order to buy stuff as, apart from stealing it, they won't get it otherwise.
"Just let us train you to kill people and we'll feed you. We will even pay you to do so and educate you in ways to kill people with stuff you didn't know existed."
You don't see anything wrong with that "work ethic"? No wonder there's millions of people who fucking hate America.
If the woman is Eccentrica Gallumbits then the mathematician is correct as he doesn't have to move at all...
Goats are caprines. Sheep are ovines.
Originally it was. Now it's just vapour.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity, and UK is a lot hillier than Denmark or (especially) the Netherlands. Cycling in the latter is almost effortless compared to UK, apart from the Norfolk Broads where it is equally flat and the biggest slope you'll encounter is in a supermarket car park thus requiring a 4 wheel drive SUV for the 1 in 75 incline...
Relative to what? In the last three weeks there's been two and a half month's worth of rain.
If by "droughts" you mean "declaration of a drought after three days of dry weather by the water companies that don't collect run-off and just let it drain into the sea instead so no, you can't use a hosepipe" then yeah, we had them every year. The Met Office got annoyed with private companies declaring the status of the weather contrary to evidence and ran to Teacher, so they haven't done that for a couple of years now.
In 1976, when there *was* a drought, there wasn't a hosepipe ban. Mainly because the water companies just cut areas off (by emergency Govt. powers) and you had to use standpipes.
My Capri had a hidden switch somewhere under the carpet on the driver's side of the central column just in front of the seat.
Then I fitted a Thatcham alarm system which came with its own one. So I had two. No twocer was going to be able to start *my* car...
You called?
Oh, wait...
Doubtful. Calling the emergency services for something that isn't an emergency is illegal in most countries. Yes, the police will speak to the operator, but only to gather evidence against the dumbass caller.
Wrongful accusation is surely dealt with in other legislation, such as slander, libel and defamation of character to name but three. Does DMCA nullify that legislation?
So it could stream lower quality video / audio that would take less battery to play is one thing that springs to mind. If a site monitored battery usage while streaming HD to your phone it could calculate if you had enough to juice left to finish watching.
Then use a Homeplug setup to use the existing wires of your ring main. Get the pass through variety and plug in a WiFi access point into the downstairs one.
Who should have been wearing reflective gear and walking on the side of the road that has oncoming traffic. Like the Highway Code says should be done.
I've had a few idiots who decide to dash across the road from a darkened doorway in front of me like a fucking panicked rabbit just as I'm driving along the street. You saw me coming, with my headlights on and everything, right? But it is somehow my fault if I hit you.
With regards to low UIDs, it's refreshing to see so many posts from sub 1E6 users. It's a pity that the quality of /. has gone so far downhill that it is only news that we're about to get fucked over again that brings them blinking into the light...
I accidentally read two words of the punchline and had to lie down in a darkened room for a few hours.
"1 killobit".
Using frequencies lower than infra dead, presumably.
H/T to Douglas Adams, RIP.
And if you've been around long enough and contributed by moderating it's +2. I turned mine back down to +1 down ages ago, but not because I didn't think I'd earned it.
SCs have power of arrest (as a police officer, because they are police officers) unlike PCSOs who only have citizen levels. There's a whole bunch of "school prefect" style additions in order to keep someone around until an officer can arrest them if that officer deems it valid, but apart from that they are little more than a member of the public in a hi-viz jacket.
Depends on the operator and rolling stock. Southern Rail don't have sockets for the public (they have them by the doors for the cleaning crew) but I've seen passengers using them. South West Trains do have them, as do some Thameslink stock.
Only inasmuch as *all* cargo was considered valuable. However there was always a margin for "spoilage"...
Not in UK you don't. It's amusing to break protocol on a jam-packed Tube and look to see how people studiously try to avoid looking at anybody else even when there isn't a choice.