...is that it will finally, once and for all, prove that speeding doesn't have much effect on traffic safety. They've got speed cameras. They're writing a HUGE number of speeding tickets. And yet...traffic deaths in Britain went UP! Not down! UP!
Actually traffic deaths in Britain went DOWN! Not up! DOWN! Road death toll hits record low so by your argument those speed cameras must be working.
This is nonsense, a road outside a school would likely have a 20 or 30 mph limit whereas a long, straight deserted road in the middle of nowhere would be national speed limit (60 mph for single carrigeway road).
What the time of day it is is irrelevant unless you think that the council should employ someone to go around changing them every evening or morning.
The reason Britain has done badly in the Eurovision song contest since the invasion of Iraq is because not because of any political reason but because the British entries have been so utterly aweful.
This years entry was a "Pop Idol" reject most famous for her wardrobe malfunctions and last years entry couldn't even manage to approximate singing in tune.
Some idiot decided that all the cameras had to be painted yellow which has encouraged the style of driving that you describe. Paint them grey again and the road deaths will start going down again.
I can't really take the comments of someone who lives in England and clearly doesn't understand the difference between "Britain" and "England" seriously though.
Why? most of the English have problems with this point too. It's only recently the English football hooligans stopped waving the Union Jack.
I think you worry to much. If my memory serves me correctly the detector vans are used simply to decide who to 'call' on. The technology to detect TV EMF invades the privacy of the home and so requires a warrant (much as wire tapping does) if it is to be used as evidence.
There is no case where the evidence from a TV detector has been used in court. They rely on someone admitting that they have a TV and no license or get a warrant and physically see the TV.
This was another lie from the "Christian" nuts. There was under 200 swear words in Jerry Springer the Opera. It was a 2 hour long programme so 8000 would have been more than 1 a second.
For your own edification you may want to examine the patent dates on CFC's
Unfortunately for your conspiracy theories CFC-11 & CFC-12 have been used as refrigerants since 1932 & 1931 therefore any patents expired in the early 1950s.
Very similar to the hunting ban in the UK, the lords didn't want to ban it so the Government used an act ment for emergencies
The parliment act requires a bill to be passed by the Commons twice, in separate sessions more than a year apart. If you can wait a year it is not an emergency. The act is designed to stop the unelected Lords blocking the elected Commons and that is exactly what it was used for.
I seem to remember quite an outcry from a specific segment of the British population when Parliament recently pushed through a ban on hunting foxes with shotguns.
You remember wrongly. The ban was not on shooting foxes but on hunting foxes with packs of dogs then having the dogs rip the fox apart with their teeth. Shooting foxes is still legal and has increased in Scotland where hunting is already banned.
The grandparent was trying to claim that there was some sort of controvesy about cause of the ozone hole and that it was caused by the sun. It is difficult to know what the grandparent was referring to as none of the links quoted are actually about the ozone layer.
The chemicals that don't reach the ozone layer are totally irrelevant, it's the ones that do that are important.
CFC's were found to be an ozone depleting gas at exactly the same time that the patents ran out; requiring entire industries to switch to a recently patented, more expensive, less inert alternative.
Unfortunately for your conspiracy theory CFC11 & CFC12 have been around since early in the 20th century. The ozone hole was discovered in 1985 with the phase out of CFCs starting in the early 1990s. Patents last about 20 years, you do the maths.
The reason is that not everybody agrees. For instance, the ozone hole that has been growing and shrinking every few decades. As kids, we were all told the hole's expansion was caused by greenhouse gases. But it actually grows and shrinks, and the cycles correspond with solar cycles of the sun.
The ozone hole was only discovered in 1985 so I don't know where you get your theory that it has been growing and shrinking every few decades from. The ozone hole is caused by a few chemicals which happen to be greenhouse gases, not all greenhouse gases cause ozone depletion. It is caused by chemical species (principally chlorine radicals) catalytically destroying ozone, any effects from the solar cycle are minor.
None of the links you quote even mention the ozone hole, they are all about global warming. Did any of the moderators even bother to click them before rating this as "Insightful"?
The chemicals (such as CFCs) that damage ozone are inert in the troposphere. The only way they are destroyed is when they reach the stratosphere (where the ozone is) and are exposed to uv. This produces the chlorine radicals.
On another note, it is only this year (in my thermodynamics course) that I found out that 0 deg. C is not just the freezing point of water but the TRIPLE POINT of water (the temperature at which ice, liquid water, and water vapor can exist).
Also, on other unit scales, why is it that the definition of the kilogram has moved from being defined as 1000cc (1L) of water at maximum density (4 deg. C) and gone to being defined by this chunck of platinum in the NIST valut.
The triple point of water is actually 273.16K (0.01 C).
The standard kilogram is in BIPM in Paris, not NIST and has been used for over 100 years. The accuracy of the measurement using water depends on the accuracy of 5 measurements (weight, volume, temperature, purity, atmospheric pressure) one of which (pressure) already depends on the definition of the kilogram. It is much simpler to stick to the chunk of platinum iridium alloy.
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Actually traffic deaths in Britain went DOWN! Not up! DOWN! Road death toll hits record low so by your argument those speed cameras must be working.
This is nonsense, a road outside a school would likely have a 20 or 30 mph limit whereas a long, straight deserted road in the middle of nowhere would be national speed limit (60 mph for single carrigeway road). What the time of day it is is irrelevant unless you think that the council should employ someone to go around changing them every evening or morning.
The original criteria for entry into the EBU was the ability to pick up a television signal transmitted from their headquarters in Vienna.
The reason Britain has done badly in the Eurovision song contest since the invasion of Iraq is because not because of any political reason but because the British entries have been so utterly aweful.
This years entry was a "Pop Idol" reject most famous for her wardrobe malfunctions and last years entry couldn't even manage to approximate singing in tune.
Mandatory, expensive and mediocre health care.
Health care spending per person in the UK is half that in the US but we still live longer. Our mediocre health care must be doing something right.Some idiot decided that all the cameras had to be painted yellow which has encouraged the style of driving that you describe. Paint them grey again and the road deaths will start going down again.
Step #1 isn't needed, the DSL provider will do it.
I can't really take the comments of someone who lives in England and clearly doesn't understand the difference between "Britain" and "England" seriously though.
Why? most of the English have problems with this point too. It's only recently the English football hooligans stopped waving the Union Jack.You can buy ready made 3 stage thermoelectric coolers that get bigger each layer that will get down to -70 celcius.
The average 24% saving is based on the actual savings in 15 schools so all those things are included in that figure.
That being the very definition of "average" it's no suprise whatsoever!
No, that is the definition of the median, which is not the same as the average.You mean the page where it says "No one can be imprisoned solely for licence fee evasion."?
You can't be sent to jail for not having a TV Licence, the maximum penalty is a fine of £1000.
TV Licensing are actually run by Crapita, the famously incompetant computer service company.
I think you worry to much. If my memory serves me correctly the detector vans are used simply to decide who to 'call' on. The technology to detect TV EMF invades the privacy of the home and so requires a warrant (much as wire tapping does) if it is to be used as evidence.
There is no case where the evidence from a TV detector has been used in court. They rely on someone admitting that they have a TV and no license or get a warrant and physically see the TV.
This was another lie from the "Christian" nuts. There was under 200 swear words in Jerry Springer the Opera. It was a 2 hour long programme so 8000 would have been more than 1 a second.
Bullshit more like. The patents expired 30 years before CFCs were banned.
For your own edification you may want to examine the patent dates on CFC's
Unfortunately for your conspiracy theories CFC-11 & CFC-12 have been used as refrigerants since 1932 & 1931 therefore any patents expired in the early 1950s.Very similar to the hunting ban in the UK, the lords didn't want to ban it so the Government used an act ment for emergencies
The parliment act requires a bill to be passed by the Commons twice, in separate sessions more than a year apart. If you can wait a year it is not an emergency. The act is designed to stop the unelected Lords blocking the elected Commons and that is exactly what it was used for.
I seem to remember quite an outcry from a specific segment of the British population when Parliament recently pushed through a ban on hunting foxes with shotguns.
You remember wrongly. The ban was not on shooting foxes but on hunting foxes with packs of dogs then having the dogs rip the fox apart with their teeth. Shooting foxes is still legal and has increased in Scotland where hunting is already banned.
The grandparent was trying to claim that there was some sort of controvesy about cause of the ozone hole and that it was caused by the sun. It is difficult to know what the grandparent was referring to as none of the links quoted are actually about the ozone layer.
The chemicals that don't reach the ozone layer are totally irrelevant, it's the ones that do that are important.
CFC's were found to be an ozone depleting gas at exactly the same time that the patents ran out; requiring entire industries to switch to a recently patented, more expensive, less inert alternative.
Unfortunately for your conspiracy theory CFC11 & CFC12 have been around since early in the 20th century. The ozone hole was discovered in 1985 with the phase out of CFCs starting in the early 1990s. Patents last about 20 years, you do the maths.
The reason is that not everybody agrees. For instance, the ozone hole that has been growing and shrinking every few decades. As kids, we were all told the hole's expansion was caused by greenhouse gases. But it actually grows and shrinks, and the cycles correspond with solar cycles of the sun.
The ozone hole was only discovered in 1985 so I don't know where you get your theory that it has been growing and shrinking every few decades from. The ozone hole is caused by a few chemicals which happen to be greenhouse gases, not all greenhouse gases cause ozone depletion. It is caused by chemical species (principally chlorine radicals) catalytically destroying ozone, any effects from the solar cycle are minor.
None of the links you quote even mention the ozone hole, they are all about global warming. Did any of the moderators even bother to click them before rating this as "Insightful"?
The chemicals (such as CFCs) that damage ozone are inert in the troposphere. The only way they are destroyed is when they reach the stratosphere (where the ozone is) and are exposed to uv. This produces the chlorine radicals.
The real defense against UV is the O2, NOT the 03!
Not true. O2 only absorbs the higher frequency uv. Without O3 we would be exposed to much more uv than at the present.
On another note, it is only this year (in my thermodynamics course) that I found out that 0 deg. C is not just the freezing point of water but the TRIPLE POINT of water (the temperature at which ice, liquid water, and water vapor can exist).
Also, on other unit scales, why is it that the definition of the kilogram has moved from being defined as 1000cc (1L) of water at maximum density (4 deg. C) and gone to being defined by this chunck of platinum in the NIST valut.
The triple point of water is actually 273.16K (0.01 C).
The standard kilogram is in BIPM in Paris, not NIST and has been used for over 100 years. The accuracy of the measurement using water depends on the accuracy of 5 measurements (weight, volume, temperature, purity, atmospheric pressure) one of which (pressure) already depends on the definition of the kilogram. It is much simpler to stick to the chunk of platinum iridium alloy.