The UK changed to metric units for groceries a few years ago. I was there at the time and found it a great relief no longer having do conversions in my head. Now everyone else around me had to do it instead. It was really strange.
Australia changed the road system to km in 1974 and hasn't looked back.
The first is the laminated type, which has layers of plastic between the glass layers to hold it all together and prevent penetration and decapitation. This is typically used for car windscreens.
The second is toughened safety glass which has water sprays played on it during manufacture to produce residual stresses in the glass that give it more strength. When it does break, it shatters into granules that are relatively harmless.
This type is used in mirrors and side windows. Both types are also used in buildings for shower screens and glass doors (mandatory in NSW)
The toughened type used to be used for windscreens also, but had the problem of instantly obscuring the drivers vision when hit by something hard enough to break it. That's why laminated glass is used for widnscreens now.
Side and rear windows of toughened glass fixes the problem of emergency access, but the poster who is worried about getting out if his car falls into a river should consider buying that cheaper model that lacks the electric windows. Then he can just wind them down. Far safer than trying to break them no matter what they're made of.
Also remember that Microsoft and Adti have no problem with *BSD because the licence lets them use the code in commercial software without contributing anything. It's GPL software they have a problem with, not Linux per se. Ken Brown practically said as much himself.
THerefore I think they realise that to go after *BSD is to kill the goose that's laid them plenty of golden eggs.
Strangely enough, I also found it necessary to put an Australian flag sticker on the back of my UK registered car to avoid road rage in France from people who assumed I was English.
I have often heard complaints from Brits about how rude the French are, but I can tell you they change rapidly when they find out you are Australian. Maybe the novelty hasn't worn off yet.
Getting back on topic, thanks to the "All the way with GWB" attitude of our respective Governments, being British or Australian is no guarantee the Middle East these days. Thanks Mr Blair, Thanks Mr Howard.
Time to cultivate a NZ accent. Fashion chups Fashion chups
No, Macs (or any OS other than Windows) just can't run the virus that autoloads when you put the CD in a computer. It's that virus that stays on your PC forever once it's loaded and diverts any attempt to play the tracks on the CD to the crippled WMA format files instead.
If you disable autorun (a good idea anyway) or press shift while you load the disk, you can play the real tracks and basically treat the disc like a proper CD.
Someone needs to write a remover for this thing.
I can tell you all this because I am in Australia and the DMCA doesn't apply here until the Free Trade Agreement is ratified.
Chances are you didn't use enough bleach. The water in your tap, has been dosed with chlorine at much higher concentrations than what you would have drunk. Haven't you ever been swimming in a pool? Didn't you swallow any? That didn't give you the runs did it? I agree with the other poster who said you should have used more bleach and left it for an hour or two. I think the water purifying tablets you can buy say much the same thing in the instructions.
I run Mozilla and Konqueror on a PII400 (under Linux) and a PIII550(under FreeBSD) and neither of them suffer. The fact that they have plenty of memory may be helping. One of them has about 380Mb and the other has 192Mb. I wouldn't run anything in KDE on less.
In Australia, Diesel is all the same colour, but diesel used on farms doesn't get taxed. Not legal to use it in your car, but a lot of farmers, especially in remote areas, used to drive Diesel powered Peugeot 504s (relatively uncommon in most parts of AUstralia) when these were the only diesel powered car available. You can't tell me they weren't using their farm fuel in their car.
Now they all drive diesel powered SUVs like Sydney people and it doesn't look as suspicious anymore.
I read somewhere that in the UK, police are stopping diesel powered cars that smell of fish and chips to bust them for evading fuel tax.
Britain has always relied heavily on the tax revenue from things like alcohol and fuel. That's why people go to France for their Christmas grog and take jerry cans with them for the car as well.
Meccano is available in Australia still. Not in the traditional sets 1-10 form, but it remains compatible. One improvement they have made is to change those slotted screw heads for hex key ones.
They have added little plastic people a-la Lego to appeal better to younger children.
You should be able to find an on-line store that will export if you can't get it in Canada direct.
A colleague of mine from Pakistan says that so-called "reconditioned cars" are available in Pakistan. They take a car that's worn out, and rebuild it to the standard of a new car.
It makes a lot of sense in a country where labour is cheap and raw materials are expensive.
At the moment they are only available domestically, to fill a demand for cheap "new" cars.
In the West (Australia included) the annual model change and improving safety standards in new cars prevents any demand for these, because a car yard can sel a recent model for similar money with nothing done to it at all, and no-one is going to pay A$15,000+ for a 15 year old car, no matter how effectively "new" it is, unless it's some kind of "classic" model.
That may change as cars get more expensive. Then watch out for a glut of reconditioned cars from Pakistan.
Our main water supply comes from the regular source, but the water we use for the garden and flushing toilets, etc comes from a recycling plant at Rouse Hill.
This has been running for about ten years now and our fresh water demand is about 2/3 of what it would be with a regular supply.
Also, to get back on topic. There are uses for which seawater is quite acceptable too, like toilet flushing. This is done in Hong Kong and Singapore. The only downside is that sewerage materials have to be carefully selected to avoid corrosion from the salty sewage.
For that matter there are other conservation options like composting toilets, waterless urinals, rainwater tanks - all of which could replace or delay the need for a desalination plant.
The ex-pats, we like(and I havce never met one I didn't). It's the foreign policy of their country that gives some of us the s__ts. That and the fact that a lot of them don't seem to understand why that's the case.
I remember in the Fortran course thatn was part of my Engineering degree we had teletypes. I used to log in to the VDU to write my assignment, then log out and go to the teletype to print it out because it was easier than figuring out how to use the printer.
I was forced to learn when they junked the teletypes.
No, you see that's only if you are resident in Australia at the time you earn foreign income. I was resident in the UK.
I was in Australia for part of the year. I gave the dates when I became resident again and commenced paying Australian Taxes (and being entitled to FTB) from that point on.
When I returned from the UK, Australia had brought in a new Family Tax Benefit system.
Being now a proud parents of one child, we applied for this, and, because the form asked for it separately, we put our UK income for the time were were overseas (more fool us).
When we did our tax, we only included our Australian income, because the UK income had been alreday taxed in the UK and we had been non-resident in Australia (therefore under "no double taxation" principle, none of their business)
Centrelink (what we call our Social Security Dept now, for some reason) cross matched our details with our tax return and determined we were entitled to a benefit. Nice, except that after they paid us the benefit, they had another look at our form, saw the UK income (earned while living there) and decided we weren't eligible. Now they want it back.
I started paying them at the rate of $40 a fortnight, but now I've changed my mind. I'm going to fight this.
And I'm going to claim back what I already paid them.
Bastards. If they're going to cross match, they should at least be consistent in what they count as income.
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The UK changed to metric units for groceries a few years ago. I was there at the time and found it a great relief no longer having do conversions in my head. Now everyone else around me had to do it instead. It was really strange.
Australia changed the road system to km in 1974 and hasn't looked back.
You are confusing two types of safety glass.
The first is the laminated type, which has layers of plastic between the glass layers to hold it all together and prevent penetration and decapitation. This is typically used for car windscreens.
The second is toughened safety glass which has water sprays played on it during manufacture to produce residual stresses in the glass that give it more strength. When it does break, it shatters into granules that are relatively harmless.
This type is used in mirrors and side windows. Both types are also used in buildings for shower screens and glass doors (mandatory in NSW)
The toughened type used to be used for windscreens also, but had the problem of instantly obscuring the drivers vision when hit by something hard enough to break it. That's why laminated glass is used for widnscreens now.
Side and rear windows of toughened glass fixes the problem of emergency access, but the poster who is worried about getting out if his car falls into a river should consider buying that cheaper model that lacks the electric windows. Then he can just wind them down. Far safer than trying to break them no matter what they're made of.
Also remember that Microsoft and Adti have no problem with *BSD because the licence lets them use the code in commercial software without contributing anything. It's GPL software they have a problem with, not Linux per se. Ken Brown practically said as much himself.
THerefore I think they realise that to go after *BSD is to kill the goose that's laid them plenty of golden eggs.
I want to put this stuff on my car.
No more radar speed traps!
It sounds more like an ugly duckling.
Strangely enough, I also found it necessary to put an Australian flag sticker on the back of my UK registered car to avoid road rage in France from people who assumed I was English.
I have often heard complaints from Brits about how rude the French are, but I can tell you they change rapidly when they find out you are Australian. Maybe the novelty hasn't worn off yet.
Getting back on topic, thanks to the "All the way with GWB" attitude of our respective Governments, being British or Australian is no guarantee the Middle East these days. Thanks Mr Blair, Thanks Mr Howard.
Time to cultivate a NZ accent.
Fashion chups
Fashion chups
Kia-ora Bro!
that says "I am not an American" in English and Arabic.
No, Macs (or any OS other than Windows) just can't run the virus that autoloads when you put the CD in a computer. It's that virus that stays on your PC forever once it's loaded and diverts any attempt to play the tracks on the CD to the crippled WMA format files instead.
If you disable autorun (a good idea anyway) or press shift while you load the disk, you can play the real tracks and basically treat the disc like a proper CD.
Someone needs to write a remover for this thing.
I can tell you all this because I am in Australia and the DMCA doesn't apply here until the Free Trade Agreement is ratified.
Chances are you didn't use enough bleach. The water in your tap, has been dosed with chlorine at much higher concentrations than what you would have drunk. Haven't you ever been swimming in a pool? Didn't you swallow any? That didn't give you the runs did it? I agree with the other poster who said you should have used more bleach and left it for an hour or two. I think the water purifying tablets you can buy say much the same thing in the instructions.
I run Mozilla and Konqueror on a PII400 (under Linux) and a PIII550(under FreeBSD) and neither of them suffer. The fact that they have plenty of memory may be helping. One of them has about 380Mb and the other has 192Mb. I wouldn't run anything in KDE on less.
Don't forget the voice under at the end:
"I buried Bill. I buried Bill..."
'cause Bill Gates actually died in a car crash years ago and they had to find a double to pretend to be him.
Just look at the box covers. There's clues everywhere.
Remember too, that under the UK system, you can buy replacement number plates from Halfords with whatever number you like on them...
I guess this system is partially intended to fix that problem.
In Australia, Diesel is all the same colour, but diesel used on farms doesn't get taxed. Not legal to use it in your car, but a lot of farmers, especially in remote areas, used to drive Diesel powered Peugeot 504s (relatively uncommon in most parts of AUstralia) when these were the only diesel powered car available. You can't tell me they weren't using their farm fuel in their car.
Now they all drive diesel powered SUVs like Sydney people and it doesn't look as suspicious anymore.
I read somewhere that in the UK, police are stopping diesel powered cars that smell of fish and chips to bust them for evading fuel tax.
Britain has always relied heavily on the tax revenue from things like alcohol and fuel. That's why people go to France for their Christmas grog and take jerry cans with them for the car as well.
On my Pentium 2, try 5 days
Meccano is available in Australia still. Not in the traditional sets 1-10 form, but it remains compatible. One improvement they have made is to change those slotted screw heads for hex key ones.
They have added little plastic people a-la Lego to appeal better to younger children.
You should be able to find an on-line store that will export if you can't get it in Canada direct.
You mean the tea they didn't already spill all over the table using one of those long spout teapots?
A colleague of mine from Pakistan says that so-called "reconditioned cars" are available in Pakistan. They take a car that's worn out, and rebuild it to the standard of a new car.
It makes a lot of sense in a country where labour is cheap and raw materials are expensive.
At the moment they are only available domestically, to fill a demand for cheap "new" cars.
In the West (Australia included) the annual model change and improving safety standards in new cars prevents any demand for these, because a car yard can sel a recent model for similar money with nothing done to it at all, and no-one is going to pay A$15,000+ for a 15 year old car, no matter how effectively "new" it is, unless it's some kind of "classic" model.
That may change as cars get more expensive. Then watch out for a glut of reconditioned cars from Pakistan.
They will die and be buried in the dust or they will return home in coffins!
Sorry , which occupation were we talking about?
The Iraqi Information Minister.
We have this in North Western Sydney.
Our main water supply comes from the regular source, but the water we use for the garden and flushing toilets, etc comes from a recycling plant at Rouse Hill.
This has been running for about ten years now and our fresh water demand is about 2/3 of what it would be with a regular supply.
Also, to get back on topic. There are uses for which seawater is quite acceptable too, like toilet flushing. This is done in Hong Kong and Singapore. The only downside is that sewerage materials have to be carefully selected to avoid corrosion from the salty sewage.
For that matter there are other conservation options like composting toilets, waterless urinals, rainwater tanks - all of which could replace or delay the need for a desalination plant.
The ex-pats, we like(and I havce never met one I didn't). It's the foreign policy of their country that gives some of us the s__ts. That and the fact that a lot of them don't seem to understand why that's the case.
do you people have over there?
Here in Oz, it is written into our constitution that the states are not allowed to tax the movement of goods between states.
Looks like your founding fathers missed that one...
I remember in the Fortran course thatn was part of my Engineering degree we had teletypes. I used to log in to the VDU to write my assignment, then log out and go to the teletype to print it out because it was easier than figuring out how to use the printer.
I was forced to learn when they junked the teletypes.
No, you see that's only if you are resident in Australia at the time you earn foreign income. I was resident in the UK.
I was in Australia for part of the year. I gave the dates when I became resident again and commenced paying Australian Taxes (and being entitled to FTB) from that point on.
When I returned from the UK, Australia had brought in a new Family Tax Benefit system.
Being now a proud parents of one child, we applied for this, and, because the form asked for it separately, we put our UK income for the time were were overseas (more fool us).
When we did our tax, we only included our Australian income, because the UK income had been alreday taxed in the UK and we had been non-resident in Australia (therefore under "no double taxation" principle, none of their business)
Centrelink (what we call our Social Security Dept now, for some reason) cross matched our details with our tax return and determined we were entitled to a benefit. Nice, except that after they paid us the benefit, they had another look at our form, saw the UK income (earned while living there) and decided we weren't eligible. Now they want it back.
I started paying them at the rate of $40 a fortnight, but now I've changed my mind. I'm going to fight this.
And I'm going to claim back what I already paid them.
Bastards. If they're going to cross match, they should at least be consistent in what they count as income.