>Anyway, what do you guys have in those old city centers?
In the US, the concept of a city centre as known in the UK, Germany, etc, is utterly alien in the majority of cities. If you want to buy something, you go to a mall... I guess Boston is a bit of an exception, and there will be others too, but shopping = mall.
The US method was really strange to me, when I visited the US last year. It was inconvenient, too.
I couldn't find a shop selling fresh fruit in Atlanta. I asked someone working at the backpacker's hostel (she had an orange!) and she laughed, and said I'd need a car. No wonder the people who can't afford a car can't eat properly.
It can't always have been like that, and I really hope the UK doesn't go this way. (Some parts are already heading that way, but possibly the loss of the independent grocery shops and their replacement by Tesco Express (etc) keeps people coming to the high street..?)
Councils are realising that they must be careful not to kill the centre complete, so are slowly reacting to adjust business rates to be affordable for smaller businesses, and are also realising that city centre parking is an important part of the equation: as an example, Leeds has reduced its parking rates from £2-3/h during the week to £1/h at weekends.
They need to make sure the parking isn't just used by shop owners/staff. There's been a massive out-of-all proportion backlash against Westminster introducing parking charges on Saturday and Sunday nights, but as far as I can tell the spaces are mostly used by owners and staff.
Traffic is one of the worst things (in my opinion) about shopping in Westminster. Pedestrianising many streets (starting with Oxford Street) would make it a much nicer place to shop and socialise.
Outside London though, British cities mostly have at least one major pedestrianised shopping street/area.
My Sony SLT-A55 has more than one "Auto" mode -- there's "Auto+", which tries (and does fairly well) to detect what you're trying to photograph, and adjusts the settings accordingly. There's "Scene", which is the same as Auto+, except you tell it you're trying a portrait, low-light landscape, etc. You can see what it's doing, and apply the same settings in a manual mode.
It's great for my first DSLR, since it takes better pictures in Scene mode than I do in unfamiliar situations. Also, I still find myself overdoing things, if I adjust manually and get carried away.
Can anyone recommend a good place (website / book) to learn more? I borrowed a few books from the library, but they both tried to cover every type of photography in hardly any detail. Most of my photographs are taken on holiday, a mix of buildings, landscapes, street scenes and people (occasionally other things, but I care less about wild animals, posed portraits, etc).
Even in the UK, you are entitled to leave your job anytime you wish as well. Anything else is slavery, which hasn't been recognized as legal in the UK for well over 400 years (in some parts, as much as 900 years).
Notice you must give your employer If you have worked for your employer for one month or more, the legal minimum amount of notice you must give is one week.
(Unless there are special circumstances, e.g. job is dangerous.)
Excuse me while I do some math, so this will make sense in US dollars, and the size of a ceiling tile.
A standard office ceiling tile is 2'x4' (0.6mx1.2m). The article shows a price of 1000 euros per square meter. (1 sq/m = 10.764 sq/ft). 92.90 euros per sq/ft, or $118.88 USD per sq/ft. 8 sq/ft per panel. or $951.04 per panel.
Why bother with the feet?
Cost 1000€/m^2 Tiles are 0.6m x 1.2m = 0.72m^2 0.72m^2 * 1000€/m^2 = €720 per tile, or $920 according to Google.
Another move to artificially increase the already artificially high price of oil. I live in the UK and can barely afford to leave the house to go to work as it is.
(Whoever wrote that obviously doesn't use their bike. I somehow spent £230 on cycling-related stuff in 2011 -- I keep a record of it, to justify being smug^W^W buying expensive toys with the money I save. Insurance renewal, new chain, new sprockets, brake pads, replacement waterproof trousers, better kickstand, 4 AA batteries for lights, one inner tube, fixed penalty notice (ahem)...)
A good place to start is asking which human right they'd remove. Or, for level 2, which group of people the rights shouldn't apply to; then in which countries the rights should not apply. At the moment the rights are universal, covering all humans --
I've got to stop you right there. I've attended quite a few political discussions (I've never ran for office myself but I have some background in political activism, I've prepped people who've ran for office, etc.) and you might be surprised with how many (possibly most) people disagree with something you've said so far.
My argument is applicable to Britain, where (I think) most people are in favour of these rights, if they think about it. But most mentions of them in the press suggest that only "bad" people benefit from them.
The talking so far has been about replacing the Human Rights Act with a "British Bill of Rights", but there has been no detail on exactly what that would mean. Hopefully it won't happen -- the HRA is a fantastic bit of law. That the government doesn't like it is a good reason to keep it...
Oh? Judging by the first picture in the series, I could probably find someone not unlike that in the downtown of many large cities
Indeed, some of the dazzle patterns are great. I sent the link to a friend of mine, an amateur makeup artist. I'm planning on trying it the next time I go here [NSFW].
I'm surprised about this, In the UK we are all bound by EU law, which clearly states "The right to a private family life" or something along those lines.
So please, the next time you hear someone supporting the Tory's repealing of the Human Rights Act, convince them they're wrong.
A good place to start is asking which human right they'd remove. Or, for level 2, which group of people the rights shouldn't apply to; then in which countries the rights should not apply. At the moment the rights are universal, covering all humans -- British soldiers torturing someone in Iraq is illegal, regardless of the law in Iraq; and non-British people in Britain have the same right to e.g. a fair trial.
(Incidentally, the European Convention on Human Rights doesn't come from the EU, but the Council of Europe.)
You can: - Turn off WiFi. There's also a setting to turn off WiFi automatically after 15 minutes of inactivity. - Turn off 3G - Turn off synchronisation - Turn down the screen brightness I think my HTC Desire lasts approaching a week if I do all this, which last happened when I went to a music festival in another country (no WiFi, data roaming would cost hundreds, no intention of sitting near a power socket, no interest in email; but I did have very good signal).
I never remember to charge my phone at work, so I often turn off 3G and WiFi on my way out on Friday evening; then I'll be the only one at 4:30am on Saturday who can check the train timetable to get home.
He lives in Norway. Ryanair fly between London and Oslo for "£12", plus £6 "booking fee", plus £15 to take a bag, so £33, so £66 return. That doesn't leave anything for the transportation to/from the airports, or the parking, so maybe someone gives him a lift at both ends.
The most obvious conclusion is Norway is expensive. A cinema ticket here in London is about £9 = $14, or £13 = $20 in the West End, or £6/$9/£8/$12 for children.
I've never bought food or drink in a cinema, I can manage without for two hours (or take my own in).
There have occasionally been problems because the engineers aren't as familiar with the units as they might be. "Max Load: 1000kg" -- it's useful to have some concept of how much that is to spot obvious mistakes.
Other problems result from the confusion of having two sets of conflicting units. For example, I think the NHS have removed all weighing scales from hospitals that could be set to measure in Imperial units. There was a risk that a scale might be set to pounds (perhaps by a patient more familiar with pounds), giving a reading of, say, "110", as written down by a nurse. The pharmacist would think that was 110kg, which could easily lead to an overdose. 50kg (110lb) and 110kg are both reasonable weights for a person, so the pharmacist might not notice a problem. (Here again, if the nurse was more familiar with kilograms she'd know that 110kg = obese, and might see the mistake herself.)
For answering the specific question, "How hot (or cold) is it outside?" Fahrenheit is damn near perfect. 0F isn't just cold... it's the point where it genuinely starts to become *dangerously* cold.
No, Fahrenheit is just what you're used to. 0F is no more "the point" than 5F, -5F, 3.42F, etc.
In weather terms, 0C is almost meaningless...
Well, it means water will freeze. There's quite a lot of it outside, it freezing marks an important change in the weather as far as I'm concerned.
British roads (and railways) are funded, designed and constructed in millimetres. Both are only signed in Imperial. The design standards even state things like positioning a new road sign 300m from a hazard and labelling it "300 yards", presumably with the intention to change it, eventually.
Beer and cider in pubs is sold in multiples of a half-pint, but in shops it must be labelled in mL, common sizes are 568mL (1pt), and 500mL. Wine in pubs is metric (some multiple of 25mL, I can't remember exactly -- 175mL, I think). Same for spirits.
Humans in casual conversation are weighed in stone; but at the gym, doctors, hospital, for a safety harness, etc -- anything serious -- it's kg.
A 12 oz can of Coke is 355ml, a more precise measurement.
Sounds like a measurement in ounces to me. Here in the UK some milk is sold as "2.27 Litres". That's 4 pints, whatever you call it. (Other companies label their milk as "2 Litres". Having competing products in different but similar volumes is unfair to consumers, and has been illegal for many centuries for some things, like bread, but apparently for milk it's traditional...)
A can of cola here is 330ml. That's a metric measurement. It may well be a preferred number in some way.
Was thinking the same thing. I never bought 3L bottles anyway, they went flat before I could finish them.
I assume it's a joke. Are 3L bottles more easily available, marked "50% extra free!" for example?
If you want to get us Americans to use metric, all you have to do is require the most important thing we deal with to become metric: gasoline purchases. Everything else will follow.
That hasn't quite worked in the UK. Road signs and beer/cider sale are still in miles, miles per hour, yards and pints (and half pints).
Petrol has been sold in litres for a long time (20 years?), but my dad fills a 60L tank with 55L of petrol, costing £1.29/L, total £70.95, then converts that to gallons (approximately), then divides how far the odometer reads (in miles) by that, to get miles per gallon. I think you'd need to convert the odometer too, and probably the road signs.
(The UK has a very vocal minority of anti-metric people, who are frenzied by the right-wing anti-Europe press. Some industries benefit from this, since any proposed laws to force fairer consumer labelling of products are shot down. Since some point in the 1970s education has been entirely metric, it really is just the old people claiming inches and pounds are somehow "British" and worth preserving for tradition's sake.)
Have you tried mpd? I use a GUI client (ario) and an Android client (mpdroid), and sometimes the basic terminal client (mpc), mpc; flatmates/visitors have used Windows/OSX/iPhone clients too. There's a curses client, but I've not used it: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients
They don't have as many features as Amarok (which I use at work), but I wanted something that runs on the desktop, which I can control from my phone or laptop. (The desktop is plugged into the amplifier.)
Not needed you say? Okay, can you find the error i made in the paragraph above? (I'm not joking, start a timer, how long did it take you to find? It's there!).
Less than a second, probably less than half a second. But I know what kind of error is easy to slip into a paragraph of text like that, so I was was looking in the appropriate places and it stood out obvious.
Access requests
We provide initial responses to access requests within a reasonable period of time, typically within thirty days. You can also download a copy of everything you've put into Facebook by visiting your “Account Settings” and clicking on “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.
Of course, "everything you've put into Facebook" isn't all the data held about an individual, hence they still need to allow data access requests.
Deletion
When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Facebook. It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days. You should only delete your account if you are sure you never want to reactivate it. You can delete your account at: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
Is that what you see? Because that's what I see, and I think that's OK? There's no mention of deleting individual posts, comments etc.
The whole point of a restraining order is to prohibit harassing behavior without tossing the culprit in jail.
I have no problem with an order that prohibits harassing behavior, but a blog post is not by itself a form of harassment. Given the First Amendment protects the content of people's speech, the restraining order against this man should only address his behavior.
I'm sure something in your constitution protects the freedom to walk around, but you still put some criminals in jail. The whole point of a punishment is to take away some rights -- in this case, his right to communicate with certain people, about a certain person, or to travel near that person.
Even rehabilitation takes away rights, assuming attending it is compulsory.
Actually, I'm a reasonable approximation of a Scotsman by heritage, although 3rd generation in Canada.
Do any North Americans claim to be English? Some Americans are very quick to tell me where their great-great-great grandfather was born, if it was Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Germany,... but no one has ever told me they're "English by heritage".
I'm curious, as I am English (though I usually describe myself as British).
I also find the whole "heritage" thing weird -- are you not Canadian? I assume your Scottish ancestor(s) left Scotland to find a better life.
Collecting IP addresses isn't illegal, but building a profile tied to an IP address is.
An IP address in isolation is not personal data under the Data Protection Act, according to the Information Commissioner. But an IP address can become personal data when combined with other information or when used to build a profile of an individual, even if that individual's name is unknown.
However, they're from the USA, so I doubt they care.
Perhaps bike, if I'm alone (not tried that yet), but not take a car.
Navigation is more difficult than the other methods (same as the rest of the UK). The signs for motor vehicles lead you onto busy, smelly, more dangerous roads. The blue signs for cyclists are infrequent, and BoJo's blue signs lead onto busy, smelly, dangerous roads with some blue paint at the edge.
There's generally an OK route, but you need to look at a map to find it. For unfamiliar journeys I know I'll do more than once I work out a route through residential areas (and canals, parks, etc) most of the way. OpenCycleMap and CycleStreets are useful websites. TFL provide free cycle maps (order online, or try a local bike shop).
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>Anyway, what do you guys have in those old city centers?
In the US, the concept of a city centre as known in the UK, Germany, etc, is utterly alien in the majority of cities. If you want to buy something, you go to a mall... I guess Boston is a bit of an exception, and there will be others too, but shopping = mall.
The US method was really strange to me, when I visited the US last year. It was inconvenient, too.
I couldn't find a shop selling fresh fruit in Atlanta. I asked someone working at the backpacker's hostel (she had an orange!) and she laughed, and said I'd need a car. No wonder the people who can't afford a car can't eat properly.
It can't always have been like that, and I really hope the UK doesn't go this way. (Some parts are already heading that way, but possibly the loss of the independent grocery shops and their replacement by Tesco Express (etc) keeps people coming to the high street..?)
Councils are realising that they must be careful not to kill the centre complete, so are slowly reacting to adjust business rates to be affordable for smaller businesses, and are also realising that city centre parking is an important part of the equation: as an example, Leeds has reduced its parking rates from £2-3/h during the week to £1/h at weekends.
They need to make sure the parking isn't just used by shop owners/staff. There's been a massive out-of-all proportion backlash against Westminster introducing parking charges on Saturday and Sunday nights, but as far as I can tell the spaces are mostly used by owners and staff.
Traffic is one of the worst things (in my opinion) about shopping in Westminster. Pedestrianising many streets (starting with Oxford Street) would make it a much nicer place to shop and socialise.
Outside London though, British cities mostly have at least one major pedestrianised shopping street/area.
My Sony SLT-A55 has more than one "Auto" mode -- there's "Auto+", which tries (and does fairly well) to detect what you're trying to photograph, and adjusts the settings accordingly. There's "Scene", which is the same as Auto+, except you tell it you're trying a portrait, low-light landscape, etc. You can see what it's doing, and apply the same settings in a manual mode.
It's great for my first DSLR, since it takes better pictures in Scene mode than I do in unfamiliar situations. Also, I still find myself overdoing things, if I adjust manually and get carried away.
Can anyone recommend a good place (website / book) to learn more? I borrowed a few books from the library, but they both tried to cover every type of photography in hardly any detail. Most of my photographs are taken on holiday, a mix of buildings, landscapes, street scenes and people (occasionally other things, but I care less about wild animals, posed portraits, etc).
Even in the UK, you are entitled to leave your job anytime you wish as well. Anything else is slavery, which hasn't been recognized as legal in the UK for well over 400 years (in some parts, as much as 900 years).
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/RedundancyAndLeavingYourJob/Resigningorretiring/DG_175837
Notice you must give your employer
If you have worked for your employer for one month or more, the legal minimum amount of notice you must give is one week.
(Unless there are special circumstances, e.g. job is dangerous.)
Excuse me while I do some math, so this will make sense in US dollars, and the size of a ceiling tile.
A standard office ceiling tile is 2'x4' (0.6mx1.2m).
The article shows a price of 1000 euros per square meter. (1 sq/m = 10.764 sq/ft).
92.90 euros per sq/ft, or $118.88 USD per sq/ft.
8 sq/ft per panel. or $951.04 per panel.
Why bother with the feet?
Cost 1000€/m^2
Tiles are 0.6m x 1.2m = 0.72m^2
0.72m^2 * 1000€/m^2 = €720 per tile, or $920 according to Google.
Another move to artificially increase the already artificially high price of oil. I live in the UK and can barely afford to leave the house to go to work as it is.
In other news, there's been outrage at 0% fare rise for cyclists.
(Whoever wrote that obviously doesn't use their bike. I somehow spent £230 on cycling-related stuff in 2011 -- I keep a record of it, to justify being smug^W^W buying expensive toys with the money I save. Insurance renewal, new chain, new sprockets, brake pads, replacement waterproof trousers, better kickstand, 4 AA batteries for lights, one inner tube, fixed penalty notice (ahem)...)
A good place to start is asking which human right they'd remove. Or, for level 2, which group of people the rights shouldn't apply to; then in which countries the rights should not apply. At the moment the rights are universal, covering all humans --
I've got to stop you right there. I've attended quite a few political discussions (I've never ran for office myself but I have some background in political activism, I've prepped people who've ran for office, etc.) and you might be surprised with how many (possibly most) people disagree with something you've said so far.
My argument is applicable to Britain, where (I think) most people are in favour of these rights, if they think about it. But most mentions of them in the press suggest that only "bad" people benefit from them.
The talking so far has been about replacing the Human Rights Act with a "British Bill of Rights", but there has been no detail on exactly what that would mean. Hopefully it won't happen -- the HRA is a fantastic bit of law. That the government doesn't like it is a good reason to keep it...
Oh? Judging by the first picture in the series, I could probably find someone not unlike that in the downtown of many large cities
Indeed, some of the dazzle patterns are great. I sent the link to a friend of mine, an amateur makeup artist. I'm planning on trying it the next time I go here [NSFW].
I'm surprised about this, In the UK we are all bound by EU law, which clearly states "The right to a private family life" or something along those lines.
So please, the next time you hear someone supporting the Tory's repealing of the Human Rights Act, convince them they're wrong.
A good place to start is asking which human right they'd remove. Or, for level 2, which group of people the rights shouldn't apply to; then in which countries the rights should not apply. At the moment the rights are universal, covering all humans -- British soldiers torturing someone in Iraq is illegal, regardless of the law in Iraq; and non-British people in Britain have the same right to e.g. a fair trial.
(Incidentally, the European Convention on Human Rights doesn't come from the EU, but the Council of Europe.)
You can:
- Turn off WiFi. There's also a setting to turn off WiFi automatically after 15 minutes of inactivity.
- Turn off 3G
- Turn off synchronisation
- Turn down the screen brightness
I think my HTC Desire lasts approaching a week if I do all this, which last happened when I went to a music festival in another country (no WiFi, data roaming would cost hundreds, no intention of sitting near a power socket, no interest in email; but I did have very good signal).
I never remember to charge my phone at work, so I often turn off 3G and WiFi on my way out on Friday evening; then I'll be the only one at 4:30am on Saturday who can check the train timetable to get home.
So I provide a valid opinion and reasons why it's good to do web development with and it gets modded to -1? WTF Slashdot?
You aren't a subscriber, and your five-paragraph comment was submitted within a minute -- and I'm being generous -- of the article being published.
You are clearly being paid to post here, so "your" "opinions" are worth less than nothing.
("Redundant" would be a better moderation than "Troll".)
He lives in Norway. Ryanair fly between London and Oslo for "£12", plus £6 "booking fee", plus £15 to take a bag, so £33, so £66 return. That doesn't leave anything for the transportation to/from the airports, or the parking, so maybe someone gives him a lift at both ends.
The most obvious conclusion is Norway is expensive. A cinema ticket here in London is about £9 = $14, or £13 = $20 in the West End, or £6/$9/£8/$12 for children.
I've never bought food or drink in a cinema, I can manage without for two hours (or take my own in).
There have occasionally been problems because the engineers aren't as familiar with the units as they might be. "Max Load: 1000kg" -- it's useful to have some concept of how much that is to spot obvious mistakes.
Other problems result from the confusion of having two sets of conflicting units. For example, I think the NHS have removed all weighing scales from hospitals that could be set to measure in Imperial units. There was a risk that a scale might be set to pounds (perhaps by a patient more familiar with pounds), giving a reading of, say, "110", as written down by a nurse. The pharmacist would think that was 110kg, which could easily lead to an overdose. 50kg (110lb) and 110kg are both reasonable weights for a person, so the pharmacist might not notice a problem.
(Here again, if the nurse was more familiar with kilograms she'd know that 110kg = obese, and might see the mistake herself.)
For answering the specific question, "How hot (or cold) is it outside?" Fahrenheit is damn near perfect. 0F isn't just cold... it's the point where it genuinely starts to become *dangerously* cold.
No, Fahrenheit is just what you're used to. 0F is no more "the point" than 5F, -5F, 3.42F, etc.
In weather terms, 0C is almost meaningless...
Well, it means water will freeze. There's quite a lot of it outside, it freezing marks an important change in the weather as far as I'm concerned.
British roads (and railways) are funded, designed and constructed in millimetres. Both are only signed in Imperial. The design standards even state things like positioning a new road sign 300m from a hazard and labelling it "300 yards", presumably with the intention to change it, eventually.
Beer and cider in pubs is sold in multiples of a half-pint, but in shops it must be labelled in mL, common sizes are 568mL (1pt), and 500mL.
Wine in pubs is metric (some multiple of 25mL, I can't remember exactly -- 175mL, I think). Same for spirits.
Humans in casual conversation are weighed in stone; but at the gym, doctors, hospital, for a safety harness, etc -- anything serious -- it's kg.
A 12 oz can of Coke is 355ml, a more precise measurement.
Sounds like a measurement in ounces to me. Here in the UK some milk is sold as "2.27 Litres". That's 4 pints, whatever you call it. (Other companies label their milk as "2 Litres". Having competing products in different but similar volumes is unfair to consumers, and has been illegal for many centuries for some things, like bread, but apparently for milk it's traditional...)
A can of cola here is 330ml. That's a metric measurement. It may well be a preferred number in some way.
Was thinking the same thing. I never bought 3L bottles anyway, they went flat before I could finish them.
I assume it's a joke. Are 3L bottles more easily available, marked "50% extra free!" for example?
If you want to get us Americans to use metric, all you have to do is require the most important thing we deal with to become metric: gasoline purchases. Everything else will follow.
That hasn't quite worked in the UK. Road signs and beer/cider sale are still in miles, miles per hour, yards and pints (and half pints).
Petrol has been sold in litres for a long time (20 years?), but my dad fills a 60L tank with 55L of petrol, costing £1.29/L, total £70.95, then converts that to gallons (approximately), then divides how far the odometer reads (in miles) by that, to get miles per gallon. I think you'd need to convert the odometer too, and probably the road signs.
(The UK has a very vocal minority of anti-metric people, who are frenzied by the right-wing anti-Europe press. Some industries benefit from this, since any proposed laws to force fairer consumer labelling of products are shot down. Since some point in the 1970s education has been entirely metric, it really is just the old people claiming inches and pounds are somehow "British" and worth preserving for tradition's sake.)
Have you tried mpd? I use a GUI client (ario) and an Android client (mpdroid), and sometimes the basic terminal client (mpc), mpc; flatmates/visitors have used Windows/OSX/iPhone clients too. There's a curses client, but I've not used it: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients
They don't have as many features as Amarok (which I use at work), but I wanted something that runs on the desktop, which I can control from my phone or laptop. (The desktop is plugged into the amplifier.)
Not needed you say? Okay, can you find the error i made in the paragraph
above? (I'm not joking, start a timer, how long did it take you to find? It's
there!).
Less than a second, probably less than half a
second. But I know what kind of error is easy
to slip into a paragraph of text like that, so I was
was looking in the appropriate places and it stood
out obvious.
Some of that's cleverly worded:
Access requests
We provide initial responses to access requests within a reasonable period of time, typically within thirty days. You can also download a copy of everything you've put into Facebook by visiting your “Account Settings” and clicking on “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.
Of course, "everything you've put into Facebook" isn't all the data held about an individual, hence they still need to allow data access requests.
Deletion
When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Facebook. It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days. You should only delete your account if you are sure you never want to reactivate it. You can delete your account at: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
Is that what you see? Because that's what I see, and I think that's OK?
There's no mention of deleting individual posts, comments etc.
I have no problem with an order that prohibits harassing behavior, but a blog post is not by itself a form of harassment. Given the First Amendment protects the content of people's speech, the restraining order against this man should only address his behavior.
I'm sure something in your constitution protects the freedom to walk around, but you still put some criminals in jail. The whole point of a punishment is to take away some rights -- in this case, his right to communicate with certain people, about a certain person, or to travel near that person.
Even rehabilitation takes away rights, assuming attending it is compulsory.
It should be illegal for these companies to keep user generated content once the user deletes it.
It's legal because the user agreed to let them keep it..
No. No matter what Facebook say, they can't override European/Irish (in their case) law.
I don't know the specifics of Irish law, but for example, personal data must be deleted once it is no longer needed.
Actually, I'm a reasonable approximation of a Scotsman by heritage, although 3rd generation in Canada.
Do any North Americans claim to be English? Some Americans are very quick to tell me where their great-great-great grandfather was born, if it was Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Germany, ... but no one has ever told me they're "English by heritage".
I'm curious, as I am English (though I usually describe myself as British).
I also find the whole "heritage" thing weird -- are you not Canadian? I assume your Scottish ancestor(s) left Scotland to find a better life.
According to the first article I found, they're also breaking UK law. http://www.out-law.com/page-8060
Collecting IP addresses isn't illegal, but building a profile tied to an IP address is.
An IP address in isolation is not personal data under the Data Protection Act, according to the Information Commissioner. But an IP address can become personal data when combined with other information or when used to build a profile of an individual, even if that individual's name is unknown.
However, they're from the USA, so I doubt they care.
I'd rather drive in a city that was meant to be efficient than one meant to be "fun."
I'd rather live in a city that's fun than efficient.
Fortunately, cities here were made for people rather than their cars :-)
Perhaps bike, if I'm alone (not tried that yet), but not take a car.
Navigation is more difficult than the other methods (same as the rest of the UK). The signs for motor vehicles lead you onto busy, smelly, more dangerous roads. The blue signs for cyclists are infrequent, and BoJo's blue signs lead onto busy, smelly, dangerous roads with some blue paint at the edge.
There's generally an OK route, but you need to look at a map to find it. For unfamiliar journeys I know I'll do more than once I work out a route through residential areas (and canals, parks, etc) most of the way. OpenCycleMap and CycleStreets are useful websites. TFL provide free cycle maps (order online, or try a local bike shop).