If I just need an approximation then it's pretty quick to get 400mm. And an exact figure doesn't take all that much longer. 5'6"1/2 I have absolutely no idea where to start. Not only am I dealing with fractions, but I'm also having to deal with different bases. I guess it comes down to what you're used to, and you would develop various mental shortcuts if you worked with these lengths everyday. But switch to weight and you now you need a whole new set. With everything in decimal those hacks need to be developed just once and they get used everywhere and hence become much more efficient.
It might not seem a bit deal but quick mental approximations are essential for spotting mistakes.
Tell me about it; experienced brokenness caused by central control yet again today.
Recent surgery has resulted in a painful infection, so I needed to go see a doctor today to get prescribed something to deal with it. My home practise had a walk in session but not starting until 10.30, so my options were either skip work for the morning to go there, or go into work and try and find something near work. So I went to work figuring I could see someone at the practise near there. They can't see me because I'm not registered with them, and at 20 miles away I'm too near to where I'm registered for them to be able to see me. So my options are go back home or go the emergency ward of the hospital! Worked out the timings and realised going back home and back again would take about the same time as queing at the hospital, and the transport was easier anyway, so ended up doing that. 4 hours out of work just to go see a doctor for 1 minute.
I really miss the Australian system. It's far easier to just go to any practise you want if you need to rather than this sorry, can't do that attitude. Every practise actually competing with other also makes them far more eager to try and get your custom too.
Whilst I'm not really expecting it to last, at the moment it remains very much a hands-off ownership. Having been with them since about 2002, not much has changed since BT bought them out. The moment it does, I'm out.
Don't discount Plusnet just because they're owned by BT, the two consumer divisions are run quite differently.
Sorry... Germany has hypermarkets and France doesn't? Carrefour pioneered the hypermarket concept in Europe, decades before they appeared elsewhere in other European countries.
The obesity difference between the two is more to do with one countries preference for potatoes and beer, and the other's for salad and wine.
Most grammarians would hold that your first comma belongs inside the quote. I understand why you put it outside
American grammarians yes. British English has diverged and commas are outside the quotes. A recent development is the full stop (period) has moved back within the quote if it ends the sentence, having previously been outside - both forms are often encountered though.
Our school system is much less anal about grammer over here, so changes do occur much quicker.
He was forced to so as it was the end of a 5 year term. As will Brown have to do by 2010.
And as Callaghan did in 1979 having become PM mid term in 1976.
Brown isn't the first mid-term change, and he won't be the last. It's happened many many times in the past, and I'm sure will happen again in the future.
I'm no fan of him; attack Brown for being an idiot sure, but claiming he has no mandate is completely unprecedented.
You can travel without any identification whatsoever between all Schengen countries. That includes the entire EU (maybe except the two newest memebers and they're also set to join), Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Not the entire EU. In addition to the two newest members - Bulgaria & Romania - the UK and Ireland are part of the EU but are not full members of Schengen.
It's not a great idea to travel without any ID though - the border controls can be temporarily reintroduced, usually done during football championships.
Yeah, another voice here to noticing the flicker on LED tail lamps.
Mostly notice when I glance down at the speed I'm doing, move my gaze back up and the momentary "something's not right" makes me think the car infront's braking.
Not the best situation really. I've had to start tuning myself to not jumping to the brake pedal, and I know that's going to cause a major issue sometime in the future.
Affected here on PlusNet. I can view the article fine and the 200px image on that page, but following http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg to get the significantly more risque 300px image results in a TCP reset and 'The document contains no data.' under firefox.
The following post on their community site back in January shows how their implentation of the IWF functions, and if the other ISPs work in the same way, it explains why lots of UK visitors are appearing from a small handful of IPs.
I'm a little pissed at my ISP now; I had absolutely no idea this was going on, and was sitting here quite smug about the situation in Australia.
No, it isn't a carb. It's single point injection, aka throttle body injection.
Have a good look around the car and you might notice the mono-motronic ecu, the catalytic converter, the fuel pump for the injection system. Take the air filter housing off and you'll spot the injector aswell...
The power increases over what's currently used is quite substantial. I'd imagine if you're receiving all but one channel it's because that channel is out of band for your aerial setup... the power increase will quite possibly overcome the inefficiency of your aerial in that band, if it's still remaining out of band after DSO that is; most sites are having a bit of a shuffle around to bring them back together.
Because it's not in France. Unlike most of the rest of Europe, here in the UK there are no legal powers to fine on the spot (actually a deposit for a contestable fine). Instead they take your name and address, and summon you to court to pay the fine later.
For minor offenses for which they don't arrest on the spot, there's no powers of extradition so the summons is quite useless. They'll have to wait until they're caught again in the country, so in nearly all cases the paperwork is far too much so they just ignore it.
They are planning to change the system to the continental deposit method, but only for foreign nationals.
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OK, try and quarter both those numbers. Quickly.
If I just need an approximation then it's pretty quick to get 400mm. And an exact figure doesn't take all that much longer. 5'6"1/2 I have absolutely no idea where to start. Not only am I dealing with fractions, but I'm also having to deal with different bases.
I guess it comes down to what you're used to, and you would develop various mental shortcuts if you worked with these lengths everyday. But switch to weight and you now you need a whole new set. With everything in decimal those hacks need to be developed just once and they get used everywhere and hence become much more efficient.
It might not seem a bit deal but quick mental approximations are essential for spotting mistakes.
Tell me about it; experienced brokenness caused by central control yet again today.
Recent surgery has resulted in a painful infection, so I needed to go see a doctor today to get prescribed something to deal with it. My home practise had a walk in session but not starting until 10.30, so my options were either skip work for the morning to go there, or go into work and try and find something near work.
So I went to work figuring I could see someone at the practise near there. They can't see me because I'm not registered with them, and at 20 miles away I'm too near to where I'm registered for them to be able to see me. So my options are go back home or go the emergency ward of the hospital! Worked out the timings and realised going back home and back again would take about the same time as queing at the hospital, and the transport was easier anyway, so ended up doing that. 4 hours out of work just to go see a doctor for 1 minute.
I really miss the Australian system. It's far easier to just go to any practise you want if you need to rather than this sorry, can't do that attitude. Every practise actually competing with other also makes them far more eager to try and get your custom too.
It's more expensive in the UK too. For much the same reasons.
Whilst I'm not really expecting it to last, at the moment it remains very much a hands-off ownership. Having been with them since about 2002, not much has changed since BT bought them out. The moment it does, I'm out.
Don't discount Plusnet just because they're owned by BT, the two consumer divisions are run quite differently.
Sorry... Germany has hypermarkets and France doesn't? Carrefour pioneered the hypermarket concept in Europe, decades before they appeared elsewhere in other European countries.
The obesity difference between the two is more to do with one countries preference for potatoes and beer, and the other's for salad and wine.
[snip grammar nazi]...while calling someone idiot on the internet.
Ah, the tradition never fails.
Most grammarians would hold that your first comma belongs inside the quote. I understand why you put it outside
American grammarians yes. British English has diverged and commas are outside the quotes. A recent development is the full stop (period) has moved back within the quote if it ends the sentence, having previously been outside - both forms are often encountered though.
Our school system is much less anal about grammer over here, so changes do occur much quicker.
It's not widely used.
Most of the world uses L/100km.
37p per min? Where the hell are you getting that figure from. Vodafone is currently 20p/min payg.
And even then vodafone's a bad example. There are cheaper payg providers that'll place your 130 minutes at less than £15 per month.
Not in England. One Imperial pint = 20 imperial fl.oz or 568ml.
Yes, it's an EU requirement. Like most EU requirements though some countries ignore it...
And it looks like someone fails to understand GMT... ;)
Yes, it seems it does.
Where I am, at the moment of writing it's 14:23 UTC.
Interesting...
There's complaint within Europe about EU Commissioners being unelected by the people; they're appointed by each nation, one per nation.
Unlike the European Parliament, where MEPs are similar to Representatives; elected and apportioned by population.
The lack of election of the Commissioners has always been portrayed in the media as a bad thing.
While Buffalo is certainly no London England
You might be surprised to check out the rainfall in London - about 600mm over the year, which is 23in.
He was forced to so as it was the end of a 5 year term. As will Brown have to do by 2010.
And as Callaghan did in 1979 having become PM mid term in 1976.
Brown isn't the first mid-term change, and he won't be the last. It's happened many many times in the past, and I'm sure will happen again in the future.
I'm no fan of him; attack Brown for being an idiot sure, but claiming he has no mandate is completely unprecedented.
You can travel without any identification whatsoever between all Schengen countries. That includes the entire EU (maybe except the two newest memebers and they're also set to join), Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Not the entire EU. In addition to the two newest members - Bulgaria & Romania - the UK and Ireland are part of the EU but are not full members of Schengen.
It's not a great idea to travel without any ID though - the border controls can be temporarily reintroduced, usually done during football championships.
John Major?
Yeah, another voice here to noticing the flicker on LED tail lamps.
Mostly notice when I glance down at the speed I'm doing, move my gaze back up and the momentary "something's not right" makes me think the car infront's braking.
Not the best situation really. I've had to start tuning myself to not jumping to the brake pedal, and I know that's going to cause a major issue sometime in the future.
Checked and double checked, hit submit, and forgot to include the link to how PlusNet do the filtering...
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,60045.0.html
Affected here on PlusNet. I can view the article fine and the 200px image on that page, but following http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg to get the significantly more risque 300px image results in a TCP reset and 'The document contains no data.' under firefox.
The following post on their community site back in January shows how their implentation of the IWF functions, and if the other ISPs work in the same way, it explains why lots of UK visitors are appearing from a small handful of IPs.
I'm a little pissed at my ISP now; I had absolutely no idea this was going on, and was sitting here quite smug about the situation in Australia.
Have a good look around the car and you might notice the mono-motronic ecu, the catalytic converter, the fuel pump for the injection system. Take the air filter housing off and you'll spot the injector aswell...
The power increases over what's currently used is quite substantial. I'd imagine if you're receiving all but one channel it's because that channel is out of band for your aerial setup... the power increase will quite possibly overcome the inefficiency of your aerial in that band, if it's still remaining out of band after DSO that is; most sites are having a bit of a shuffle around to bring them back together.
For minor offenses for which they don't arrest on the spot, there's no powers of extradition so the summons is quite useless. They'll have to wait until they're caught again in the country, so in nearly all cases the paperwork is far too much so they just ignore it.
They are planning to change the system to the continental deposit method, but only for foreign nationals.
Nope, in the UK you can't be done for cycling. The laws are applicable to motorised vehicles only.