gideonparanoid

First time I've encountered a site blocked by the work firewall, funnily enough.

The author of the post is wrong to say there's no famous cows, see the Craven Heifer [0] for example.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Heifer

Without convection or conduction?

Coronation Street - a popular TV soap in the UK had a storyline about this last year [0]. As the storyline played out, the character chose alternative therapies before finally trying conventional medicine, but it was too late & she lost her life.

I think it was quite brave of a soap to tackle that, & hopefully it's made people think if they were considering alternative 'solutions'.

[0] https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/06/coronation-street-spoilers-si...

Also would make cancelling your cards harder if they were lost along with your phone?

Some of these are beautiful. Spent a lot of time looking at them & the trees while riding up the south side of Coll de Sóller.

The electoral register is relatively open. You can view it in most public libraries, town hall etc. [0]. You can even buy it in some cases [1].

[0] https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register/view-electoral-registe... [1] https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil...

Ha, not too dissimilar to a floppy disc really.

> over 100 people die every day in traditional vehicle accidents.

Which isn't acceptable either. To some degree, people look towards autonomous vehicles as a way of reducing the number of fatalities/injuries on the road. If they're not better than humans & the other benefits don't add up, they won't be accepted.

I'm reminded of Dougal Adam's fictional band, Disaster Area [0].

>Disaster Area was a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and was generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as being the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

>Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.

>Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.

[0] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Disaster_Area

Yeah, it's probably a function of it being a larger laptop. & it's, of course, subjective. I saw this typing on my 2016 MacBook Pro, & I personally love the giant trackpad.

Looking at the Macbook in front of me & back to this laptop on my screen & the trackpad looks absolutely tiny. Large trackpads are good! Seems odd that it's so small.

I agree, two completely different types of suppression, each quite scary.

Your experience does not necessarily reflect the reality of it [0].

[0] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-b...

A good local bike shop is invaluable, especially if they have a good workshop.

This is a good analysis of the situation.

>(no idea who the other bloke is) Jonathan Bartley [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Bartley

Reminds me of this blog post [0] about a guy who lost his Twitter @N.

[0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

Also, surely that needs to be more accurately described as 'safest car ever tested /for its occupants/'.

I've found that with blocking every account I see a promoted tweet from, I barely see any any more.

We have ANPR[0] in the UK. Makes it very easy to follow vehicles around the country on main roads.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...

Were that the case, there's unlikely to be the resources to act on every crime. However, having some 'dirt' on everyone means that it'd be easy to take action on any particular 'problem' person.

There's no such thing as road tax, roads are paid for out of general taxation [0]. What they're thinking is vehicle excise duty, which doesn't apply to all vehicles, so that point is moot.

[0] http://ipayroadtax.com/

That's the difference between an acronym & an initialism. An acronym is pronounced as a word, but an initialism is just the letters (usually because it cannot be pronounced).

Usually it's pressing the down-volume & the power button at the same time.

For some context: Peel Remote is an app for using the IR blaster to control your TV/DVR. HTC used to have their own app for it, but it got discontinued so they put up Peel Remote as the replacement.

I was about to consider this a shame, as HTC's own app was pretty good, but not sure if I would trust them not to put ads in it anyway now.

My girlfriend has done some work in Antarctica before, she said that it wasn't uncommon to find food ten or twenty years past its use-by-date. This is kind of the next level though.

That depends on how environmentally friendly you want to be in reclaiming that steel [0]:

> A secondhand vessel is currently worth about $190 per tonne to a shipbreaking yard in Turkey, a price established by the local market in reclaimed steel. Sail on to China and a different market, and the same metal is worth $210 per tonne. At breakers’ yards in Alang in India, Chittagong in Bangladesh and Gadani in Pakistan, they will pay around $280 per tonne. Meanwhile, at the EU-approved shipbreaking sites, which are bound to conform to continental waste laws, and where vessels are dismantled in closed-off quays or dry docks, rates are less competitive: European yards offer zero dollars per tonne, and, in fact, tend to ask a fee to take a shipowners’ junk.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/02/where-oil-r...

There's only two parties - Lib Dems & Greens - which promised a chance to revert Brexit, so I wouldn't expect it to be reversed. A softer Brexit is certainly on the cards though.

This guide [0] from the BBC might help to understand how coalitions are formed. It's currently looking very tricky as the splits are crazy [1].

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40209087

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2017/jun...

I'm curious what the under-30s turnout is. I'm hoping this will inspire younger people & encourage them to engage more in politics.