Yes - in another post I mentioned in length why I make many spelling mistakes - if someone tells you a word, you can figure out a reasonable guess to the spelling of the word, while it's not possible for me to do so. For that reason, I have problems with spellcheckers being unable to guess to the correct word to my misspellings.
Education? What education for deaf people? (In the UK, anyway with our "One Size Fits All" education policy...)
I'm deaf and I know many deaf people and I talk to a lot through the Internet. You'd be surprised how bad deaf people's grammar are, and the number of deaf people with fairly good grammar similar or better than mine unfortunately is vanishingly rare.
I'm deaf from birth I was brought up bilingually with spoken English and BSL - however I picked up on BSL far faster than spoken English - I still cannot speak English well and find it much easier and less tiring to communicate in BSL. However, I don't sub-vocalise - I don't even know how I read words - I don't think in English or sign language - maybe I'm wrong or misunderstanding sub-vocalising, but when I try to look at my thought process but I don't recognise it in either English or BSL.
You're partially right - but deaf people are not good spellers for different reasons. I'm deaf, while I don't make spelling mistakes like "fone", I cannot spell words I haven't specifically learnt. If there's a word I vaguely know, I can't spell it for toffee - you hearing people can guess to the spelling, or use phonetics to figure the spelling out - I make wild guesses and it's usually totally wrong. I have big problems with spell checkers being totally unable to guess the correct spelling because I don't misspell words phonetically, I totally flub it up. I usually have to ask other people for the correct spelling.
Deaf people tend to have shockingly bad grammar - you might think my grammar isn't great - it's better than most deaf people I know, unfortunately.
On the flip side, I have problems with speaking words in the exact way as they are spelt - it was only 5 years ago (I'm 30) when I finally understood that written "ph" is spoken as "f" despite always saying phone as "fone". It made huge sense to me why people misspell "phone" as "fone" - I used to wonder how could anyone misspell that - but now I understand why.
Radio signals can affect hard wired devices as well. I have a cochlear implant, and I used to have a belt worn processor with a wire between the headset and the processor. If you put a phone next to the cable between the headset and the processor, I would be able to hear the phone communicating with the cell tower. My current processor, totally BTE (Behind The Ear) - no long wires or anything - now I can't hear mobile phones commnicating with the cell tower.
Note, when I say this, I don't mean mobile phones can affect aeroplanes at all, just that it's possible that hard-wired devices can pick up radio inference.
I think disallowing non-flat mirrors on the drivers side is ridiculous. In the UK they are allowed - they usually are an optional extra on cheaper cars like mine. My current car has a non-flat mirror fitted by the factory and works great. My old car didn't have it, but I sourced an OEM mirror in a scrapyard and changed it over.
For example - http://i.ebayimg.com/06/!BzWmwGw!mk~$(KGrHqEOKj8E)T9GsOscBMVsWT3G7!~~_12.JPG - same as what I have on my car - you can see a black line signifying the area where the non-flat part is. In fact, the passenger side mirror is flat. If most cars in Europe have this, and people don't crash due to this, why can't the US have this without having to have expensive fallible electronics?
Go skydiving:-) Best form of flying, IMO:-D When you're under canopy, you have totally unrestricted view under you, unlike a balloon. Sometimes when I'm freefalling, I do nothing, just stay stable and look right down (while keeping an eye on the altimeter, of course!) and enjoy the gorgeous views. Fantastic. And you get to see awesome views like this:-)
Right so you would rather new shows online NOT be closed captioned? I'm profoundly deaf and I require subtitles to access any sort of video - and the movement of video from broadcast to online is scaring me as nearly all broadcast video has captions but internet video is incredibly rarely captioned and it'd be near impossible to use legalisation to get people to bother captioning videos. For example, BBC, 100% of their broadcast video is captioned, but very little of their video online are captioned. I guess you would much rather that everyone like me go without understanding any video that's broadcast online. That's discounting the fact that quite a lot of hearing people actually like to have captions regardless of the fact that they can understand the audio. And no, Youtube's CC feature does not count because it rarely works well, if at all.
I'm profoundly deaf, and loops are entirely wasted on me. I have to have subtitles to be able to watch films - replacing subtitles with loops is not the solution.
Pedantic note - the Intercity 225 fastest speed is 225km/h - 140mph. Though you're right, they're restricted at 125mph.
The Intercity trains are still the fastest diesel trains in the world, and considering very little of the UK rail infrastructure are electrified, it's not surprising that we're still stuck with diesel & diesel-electric trains.
Pull the ABS fuse, or learn how to drive a car with ABS.
My modern car don't have ABS (was an optional extra), so when I borrow someone else's car, I check whether they have ABS (amongst other things) and think hard what I need to do in an emergency before setting off. The ABS light is there to warn you that you need to change the braking method if it fails.
Otherwise, I totally agree with what RzUpAnmsCwrds said.
Callers office (where you go pick up stuff) in most city delivery offices usually are open from about 6am til lunchtime. Rurals are a different story, but some are open from 6am. I fully understand your problem if your work hours matches your delivery office times exactly. However, you can get it redelivered to another address, or get it sent to a post office of your choosing for collection.
Eh? I work for Royal Mail and have worked in several different sites and they most certainly do deliver parcels on Saturdays - no difference to weekdays (only Mailsort 2nd and 3rd class isn't delivered on Saturdays which is a significant amount of letters). It's only because Saturday delivery (either letters or parcels) aren't guaranteed, you pay extra to get your parcel delivered by a different company to get the guaranteed Saturday delivery. For example, if a parcel is posted on Friday first class via Royal Mail, there's a 99% chance it'll arrive on Saturday. You pay extra for that 1%. Stop your FUD.
Or choose your car carefully. My car is 8 years old, gets 4L/100km (65mpg) combined and cost me $3,500 last year. I've saved $4,000 in fuel costs so far - mainly because I had to drive a lot for a short period of time - 40,000 miles in one year.
Don't believe me? Well, here you go and this figure *is* accurate, I get about 750 miles (1,200km) in between refills of about 45 litres.
Sad thing is that this is still the most fuel efficient medium sized car available in the UK today. There are now a lot more fuel efficient superminis though, compared to only 2 when the car was new.
A while ago, I got a free energy monitor from British Gas that has a transmitter that goes around the live wire leaving the mains meter. That model had a option where you could buy additional transmitters that plugs in between the mains socket and the appliance's plug. The transmitter would then measure the consumption of the appliance and transmit it to the energy monitor. The monitor could measure up to 9 separate appliances. Okay, maybe not as good as this thing, but offers similar functionality and is available now. This was a couple years ago though and British Gas don't supply that any more. I found it to be pretty unreliable so I got another one from British Gas, but it only monitors the mains meter, and not any additional transmitters plugged between the mains socket and the appliance.
Found it on Google - here - note "The ability to monitor up to ten separate transmitter systems."
In theory, you should never need to replace a clutch if you drive it right. There's a source, but I can't find it right now.
My dad and I drove a manual car for 140,000 miles (total 150,000 miles from new) and it still had its original clutch before I sold it. It was *just* about starting to slip, though.
My current car has 100,000 miles on the clock, and the clutch is still in top-notch order (whereas the suspension isn't!).
Anyway, clutches are dead cheap to replace, on the first car I mentioned (the 150,000 mile one) - a new clutch costs £80 (about $120) and all needs to be done - release a few bolts, and it slides right out (no need to release or move the gearbox at all) and the new one slides right in and job done. My new car is a little bit more complicated than that, however.
My car with a manual gearbox needed a service recently, and I checked out the manual for the transmission fluid change intervals, and it said "No need to change apart from specific conditions". I checked out the service manual and it confirmed this, the transmission fluid never needs changing apart from really specific conditions which don't occur in normal life. In fact, to change the fluid, the mechanic has to drill into the transmission (there's a specific drill point) and drain it - there's no drain plug, it's completely sealed.
Interesting. In the UK the government MUST send the offender a penalty notice within 2 weeks or it is null and void - and it applies to speed cameras and parking tickets as well. Private companies aren't allowed to operate the cameras either.
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Yes - in another post I mentioned in length why I make many spelling mistakes - if someone tells you a word, you can figure out a reasonable guess to the spelling of the word, while it's not possible for me to do so. For that reason, I have problems with spellcheckers being unable to guess to the correct word to my misspellings.
Education? What education for deaf people? (In the UK, anyway with our "One Size Fits All" education policy...)
I'm deaf and I know many deaf people and I talk to a lot through the Internet. You'd be surprised how bad deaf people's grammar are, and the number of deaf people with fairly good grammar similar or better than mine unfortunately is vanishingly rare.
I'm deaf from birth I was brought up bilingually with spoken English and BSL - however I picked up on BSL far faster than spoken English - I still cannot speak English well and find it much easier and less tiring to communicate in BSL. However, I don't sub-vocalise - I don't even know how I read words - I don't think in English or sign language - maybe I'm wrong or misunderstanding sub-vocalising, but when I try to look at my thought process but I don't recognise it in either English or BSL.
You're partially right - but deaf people are not good spellers for different reasons. I'm deaf, while I don't make spelling mistakes like "fone", I cannot spell words I haven't specifically learnt. If there's a word I vaguely know, I can't spell it for toffee - you hearing people can guess to the spelling, or use phonetics to figure the spelling out - I make wild guesses and it's usually totally wrong. I have big problems with spell checkers being totally unable to guess the correct spelling because I don't misspell words phonetically, I totally flub it up. I usually have to ask other people for the correct spelling.
Deaf people tend to have shockingly bad grammar - you might think my grammar isn't great - it's better than most deaf people I know, unfortunately.
On the flip side, I have problems with speaking words in the exact way as they are spelt - it was only 5 years ago (I'm 30) when I finally understood that written "ph" is spoken as "f" despite always saying phone as "fone". It made huge sense to me why people misspell "phone" as "fone" - I used to wonder how could anyone misspell that - but now I understand why.
Radio signals can affect hard wired devices as well. I have a cochlear implant, and I used to have a belt worn processor with a wire between the headset and the processor. If you put a phone next to the cable between the headset and the processor, I would be able to hear the phone communicating with the cell tower. My current processor, totally BTE (Behind The Ear) - no long wires or anything - now I can't hear mobile phones commnicating with the cell tower.
Note, when I say this, I don't mean mobile phones can affect aeroplanes at all, just that it's possible that hard-wired devices can pick up radio inference.
I wouldn't call $1,600,000 "out of proportion"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/08/shell_suspends_chippin/
I think disallowing non-flat mirrors on the drivers side is ridiculous. In the UK they are allowed - they usually are an optional extra on cheaper cars like mine. My current car has a non-flat mirror fitted by the factory and works great. My old car didn't have it, but I sourced an OEM mirror in a scrapyard and changed it over.
For example - http://i.ebayimg.com/06/!BzWmwGw!mk~$(KGrHqEOKj8E)T9GsOscBMVsWT3G7!~~_12.JPG - same as what I have on my car - you can see a black line signifying the area where the non-flat part is. In fact, the passenger side mirror is flat. If most cars in Europe have this, and people don't crash due to this, why can't the US have this without having to have expensive fallible electronics?
Airbags don't save you if you don't have a seatbelt - in fact they are more likely to kill you.
Go skydiving :-) Best form of flying, IMO :-D When you're under canopy, you have totally unrestricted view under you, unlike a balloon. Sometimes when I'm freefalling, I do nothing, just stay stable and look right down (while keeping an eye on the altimeter, of course!) and enjoy the gorgeous views. Fantastic. And you get to see awesome views like this :-)
Is this similar to what the EU has been using for a while yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label#Cars
Right so you would rather new shows online NOT be closed captioned? I'm profoundly deaf and I require subtitles to access any sort of video - and the movement of video from broadcast to online is scaring me as nearly all broadcast video has captions but internet video is incredibly rarely captioned and it'd be near impossible to use legalisation to get people to bother captioning videos. For example, BBC, 100% of their broadcast video is captioned, but very little of their video online are captioned. I guess you would much rather that everyone like me go without understanding any video that's broadcast online. That's discounting the fact that quite a lot of hearing people actually like to have captions regardless of the fact that they can understand the audio. And no, Youtube's CC feature does not count because it rarely works well, if at all.
I'm profoundly deaf, and loops are entirely wasted on me. I have to have subtitles to be able to watch films - replacing subtitles with loops is not the solution.
Pedantic note - the Intercity 225 fastest speed is 225km/h - 140mph. Though you're right, they're restricted at 125mph.
The Intercity trains are still the fastest diesel trains in the world, and considering very little of the UK rail infrastructure are electrified, it's not surprising that we're still stuck with diesel & diesel-electric trains.
Pull the ABS fuse, or learn how to drive a car with ABS.
My modern car don't have ABS (was an optional extra), so when I borrow someone else's car, I check whether they have ABS (amongst other things) and think hard what I need to do in an emergency before setting off. The ABS light is there to warn you that you need to change the braking method if it fails.
Otherwise, I totally agree with what RzUpAnmsCwrds said.
I'm deaf. I don't listen to music. Why should I pay this "tax"?
With a mains RCD which has been required for over 15 years as part of electricial regs, the risk of electrocution is moot.
Callers office (where you go pick up stuff) in most city delivery offices usually are open from about 6am til lunchtime. Rurals are a different story, but some are open from 6am. I fully understand your problem if your work hours matches your delivery office times exactly. However, you can get it redelivered to another address, or get it sent to a post office of your choosing for collection.
That's "doorstepping" and that's officially not allowed in the UK. If a postie is caught doing it, he'll be disciplined.
Eh? I work for Royal Mail and have worked in several different sites and they most certainly do deliver parcels on Saturdays - no difference to weekdays (only Mailsort 2nd and 3rd class isn't delivered on Saturdays which is a significant amount of letters). It's only because Saturday delivery (either letters or parcels) aren't guaranteed, you pay extra to get your parcel delivered by a different company to get the guaranteed Saturday delivery. For example, if a parcel is posted on Friday first class via Royal Mail, there's a 99% chance it'll arrive on Saturday. You pay extra for that 1%. Stop your FUD.
Or choose your car carefully. My car is 8 years old, gets 4L/100km (65mpg) combined and cost me $3,500 last year. I've saved $4,000 in fuel costs so far - mainly because I had to drive a lot for a short period of time - 40,000 miles in one year.
Don't believe me? Well, here you go and this figure *is* accurate, I get about 750 miles (1,200km) in between refills of about 45 litres.
Sad thing is that this is still the most fuel efficient medium sized car available in the UK today. There are now a lot more fuel efficient superminis though, compared to only 2 when the car was new.
A while ago, I got a free energy monitor from British Gas that has a transmitter that goes around the live wire leaving the mains meter. That model had a option where you could buy additional transmitters that plugs in between the mains socket and the appliance's plug. The transmitter would then measure the consumption of the appliance and transmit it to the energy monitor. The monitor could measure up to 9 separate appliances. Okay, maybe not as good as this thing, but offers similar functionality and is available now. This was a couple years ago though and British Gas don't supply that any more. I found it to be pretty unreliable so I got another one from British Gas, but it only monitors the mains meter, and not any additional transmitters plugged between the mains socket and the appliance.
Found it on Google - here - note "The ability to monitor up to ten separate transmitter systems."
Some places I know of has a traffic light countdown timer which is extremely useful. this, this and this are just a few examples.
In theory, you should never need to replace a clutch if you drive it right. There's a source, but I can't find it right now.
My dad and I drove a manual car for 140,000 miles (total 150,000 miles from new) and it still had its original clutch before I sold it. It was *just* about starting to slip, though.
My current car has 100,000 miles on the clock, and the clutch is still in top-notch order (whereas the suspension isn't!).
Anyway, clutches are dead cheap to replace, on the first car I mentioned (the 150,000 mile one) - a new clutch costs £80 (about $120) and all needs to be done - release a few bolts, and it slides right out (no need to release or move the gearbox at all) and the new one slides right in and job done. My new car is a little bit more complicated than that, however.
My car with a manual gearbox needed a service recently, and I checked out the manual for the transmission fluid change intervals, and it said "No need to change apart from specific conditions". I checked out the service manual and it confirmed this, the transmission fluid never needs changing apart from really specific conditions which don't occur in normal life. In fact, to change the fluid, the mechanic has to drill into the transmission (there's a specific drill point) and drain it - there's no drain plug, it's completely sealed.
Interesting. In the UK the government MUST send the offender a penalty notice within 2 weeks or it is null and void - and it applies to speed cameras and parking tickets as well. Private companies aren't allowed to operate the cameras either.