UK has a lower rate of road tax for engines smaller than (I think) 1200cc.
However, company cars are now taxed according to their emissions. That makes sense. I have seen people checking the details of car emissions before choosing their company vehicle, that wouldn't have happened before.
Yes, in the UK they have red diesel for agricultural machinery. It stains the tank and fuel lines for a couple of weeks too. Spot-checks for red diesel are fairly common in rural areas.
Go out of business, or make good money selling them to the rest of the world.
I do think that unnecessarily large engines are obnoxious, hell I feel guilty about driving a 2 litre (it beats the shit out of driving my old Micra 1.0 though, and that's the trouble).
The stated reason for the high European fuel taxes is to reduce demand and therefore emissions of fossil carbon. If they are really telling the truth, Euro governments will not put high taxes on renewable fuel additives, as it should dovetail neatly with their emission reduction strategy. Unfortunately, I don't trust them to implement anything approaching a strategy, much less resist the urge to cash in.
Just do it, man. I'm in the UK, where pretty much everyone learns with a manual shift. Once you are used to the routine and start thinking ahead to select the right gear for what's approaching, it becomes second nature.
I'm nervous driving automatics because I'm not used to them =)
I'm all for recycling, but is it really true that oil can be used again without its properties changing? I thought one of the reasons motor oil has to be replaced is that the hydrocarbon chains start to break apart and reduce lubrication after a while. Sorry for being a pedant:)
Recycling vegetable oil is not important anyway. The oil was produced by CO2 fixing plants within the last year, you could just burn it and not add anything to the Carbon Cycle (which is why using it to fuel cars is so cool).
Btw, just bought a fresh bottle of extra virgin olive oil. That's pretty much straight from the plant, and clean enough for me:p
Sorry, I'm an accountant. I don't know the admin password, our systems guy is a real sourpuss and won't tell us what it is:(
I forwarded your mail to our systems guy for him to install, but he refused. He said something about informing your ISP , but I don't know what that means.
The Ogg Vorbis trials continued for several months before being halted. Something to do with merging Kingswood Warren with their new Streaming Media Services center. See here for details ntk.net
The commercial networks do have commercials, but I think they are less frequent than what you have to put up with in the US. A 1/2 hour sitcom will have 1 break in the middle, a movie might go 40 minutes or more without a break.
You would have had to get one of those expansion packs so you could program it in assembler. Was it true that you had no direct access to memory such as POKE on the basic machine?
Just make sure you check the latest news before doing an upgrade. Hang out in #debian for 20 minutes, if there is a serious problem with dependencies, you will see a steady stream of poor saps asking the same question. I have only been badly bitten once in 18 months of running unstable, and that time the topic in #debian had a warning about the broken package.
There will almost certainly be an election next summer, they should have something this far-reaching in their manifesto. As it is, the law will be put through this autumn, with no public input whatsoever.
Looking forward to watching the 3.5bn cost at least double though, and hopefully they'll get EDS to screw it up for them.
Nevertheless, each response was a genuine opinion from a concerned party. Just because those who were against it were the ones to be arsed saying so, doesn't mean the H.O. should have pretended they didn't exist.
Since referenda are the new black, perhaps we should have one over ID cards. It still feels to me as if this was always a done deal, there has been no real public debate
If I emailed directly, how do the government know it was me? I could code up an email bot to flood them with responses.
STAND was just acting as a proxy between me and the Home Office. My name and address were included, they could have telephoned or emailed a 1% sample (50 people) to check the responses were valid. In any case, the government's reason for discounting them were that they originated from affiliates of an organisation, not that they were untrustworthy.
Gathering responses by unsigned email is no more reliable than gathering them via a 3rd party website. By your argument, none of the votes should be counted as none can be vouched for.
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UK has a lower rate of road tax for engines smaller than (I think) 1200cc.
However, company cars are now taxed according to their emissions. That makes sense. I have seen people checking the details of car emissions before choosing their company vehicle, that wouldn't have happened before.
Yes, in the UK they have red diesel for agricultural machinery. It stains the tank and fuel lines for a couple of weeks too. Spot-checks for red diesel are fairly common in rural areas.
Go out of business, or make good money selling them to the rest of the world.
I do think that unnecessarily large engines are obnoxious, hell I feel guilty about driving a 2 litre (it beats the shit out of driving my old Micra 1.0 though, and that's the trouble).
The stated reason for the high European fuel taxes is to reduce demand and therefore emissions of fossil carbon. If they are really telling the truth, Euro governments will not put high taxes on renewable fuel additives, as it should dovetail neatly with their emission reduction strategy. Unfortunately, I don't trust them to implement anything approaching a strategy, much less resist the urge to cash in.
Just do it, man. I'm in the UK, where pretty much everyone learns with a manual shift. Once you are used to the routine and start thinking ahead to select the right gear for what's approaching, it becomes second nature.
I'm nervous driving automatics because I'm not used to them =)
I guess you're right about the Mom and Pop scenario. Still, anything that requires some user interaction has to be a help.
I'm all for recycling, but is it really true that oil can be used again without its properties changing? I thought one of the reasons motor oil has to be replaced is that the hydrocarbon chains start to break apart and reduce lubrication after a while. Sorry for being a pedant :)
:p
Recycling vegetable oil is not important anyway. The oil was produced by CO2 fixing plants within the last year, you could just burn it and not add anything to the Carbon Cycle (which is why using it to fuel cars is so cool).
Btw, just bought a fresh bottle of extra virgin olive oil. That's pretty much straight from the plant, and clean enough for me
Why are intelligent people who are prepared to actually think about government policy always derided as 'elite'?
Perhaps it would be better if the world were run by ignorant xenophobes?
And who needs jet planes? Let's hope the apathetic population take responsibility and throw him out in November.
Sorry, I'm an accountant. I don't know the admin password, our systems guy is a real sourpuss and won't tell us what it is :(
I forwarded your mail to our systems guy for him to install, but he refused. He said something about informing your ISP , but I don't know what that means.
The Ogg Vorbis trials continued for several months before being halted. Something to do with merging Kingswood Warren with their new Streaming Media Services center. See here for details ntk.net
The commercial networks do have commercials, but I think they are less frequent than what you have to put up with in the US. A 1/2 hour sitcom will have 1 break in the middle, a movie might go 40 minutes or more without a break.
Read his book 'Stupid White Men', he doesn't think the Democrats are much better than the current crew.
Here's an interesting article:
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http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/gnosticism
I read somewhere that Base-60 (and Base-12) were used becasue of a method of counting on fingers.
Use your thumb on one hand to count using the segments of each finger (3 each), you can count to 12 on one hand.
Once you hit 12, put up a finger or thumb on your free hand and start again. You can then count from 1-60 on your fingers.
Supplier: Please send us that brief again in Word 6 format, we can't read the document you sent us.
Client: What's wrong with you? Can't you read Word 2000 format?
Also, when MS stop releasing patches for WinME, could you honestly advise people to continue using it for credit card transactions?
Fair 'nuff, that'll do for me :)
Was the Zenith one of those early not-quite-PC-compatible machines, with a version of MSDOS but a different BIOS? No playing Sopwith for you then :-)
Are you sure? I though Gorilla.bas ran on GW-BASIC, and that was dropped in favour of QBASIC in DOS 5.
You would have had to get one of those expansion packs so you could program it in assembler. Was it true that you had no direct access to memory such as POKE on the basic machine?
Just make sure you check the latest news before doing an upgrade. Hang out in #debian for 20 minutes, if there is a serious problem with dependencies, you will see a steady stream of poor saps asking the same question. I have only been badly bitten once in 18 months of running unstable, and that time the topic in #debian had a warning about the broken package.
without dev tools offcourse
:p
Glad your dev tools aren't leading you astray
I agree with you, it will be cracked. My original post was a poor attempt at irony.
There will almost certainly be an election next summer, they should have something this far-reaching in their manifesto. As it is, the law will be put through this autumn, with no public input whatsoever.
Looking forward to watching the 3.5bn cost at least double though, and hopefully they'll get EDS to screw it up for them.
Nevertheless, each response was a genuine opinion from a concerned party. Just because those who were against it were the ones to be arsed saying so, doesn't mean the H.O. should have pretended they didn't exist.
Since referenda are the new black, perhaps we should have one over ID cards. It still feels to me as if this was always a done deal, there has been no real public debate
If I emailed directly, how do the government know it was me? I could code up an email bot to flood them with responses.
STAND was just acting as a proxy between me and the Home Office. My name and address were included, they could have telephoned or emailed a 1% sample (50 people) to check the responses were valid. In any case, the government's reason for discounting them were that they originated from affiliates of an organisation, not that they were untrustworthy.
Gathering responses by unsigned email is no more reliable than gathering them via a 3rd party website. By your argument, none of the votes should be counted as none can be vouched for.