- The thesis is interesting and convincing, but the article is beautifully delivered with a wry touch of paradox to humanise it.
- > And dragging the cord around, and having to plug out and re-plug the cord in again because you want to do a different part of the room.
As someone who used to sweep the floor of the family home as a chore, as a child, that makes me smile.
- I believe this is what is implied by the Thursday deadline. Article certainly implies this.
- It’s kind of hard to see how much more support the US could withdraw from Ukraine, judging by the last article I read that gave Ukraine until Thursday to accept the latest peace deal negotiated between USA and Russia.
If we are in the world you describe, EU might as well do as it wants - its downside has been capped.
- It's really an open question - UK's railways were in a poor state & lacking investment when they were handed over. Rail journeys and infrastructure investment did increase in the intervening period.
It's not at all clear that railways will have consistent, adequate funding in the public realm, not least because the government is leery of capital expenditure and is always interested in ways to make debt levels look smaller.
- Without commenting on the sense thing, the user is being asked to pay for upgrading the infrastructure of the railways.
- This is how the UK government, faced with pressing issues, chooses to waste its time and destroy its remaining reputation for competence.
There was never any chance that this would fly outside the country, least of all in the USA. Whoever gave Ofcom the extraterritorial power it has to pursue these goals clearly intended to ensure its failure, and for this I am grateful.
- I am a fan of C++ const, but I don't really see what it has to do with effect labelling in this way.
- And that is demonstrably very high.
- Not the same person. That one was much less kingly.
- He hasn't been misplaced! He got first place in - er - The Rest is History English Kings Rankings!
- Thanks for the link - I was aware the government was preparing voluntary ID. I meant the zero proof element specifically as this is the first time I have heard mention of it.
- How do you know that?
- To be honest, I have my doubts.
Watches and clocks have always been high status, and watchmakers highly skilled individuals. For the hot polloi, clocktowers in parishes could supply all the time information that mass workers would need - hence the existence of horns and hooters in factory settings. A clock would be a valuable thing in a family and would be handed down. A miniaturised clock would be more valuable still and they were ornamented accordingly.
- how so?
- That last sounds a little bit Vonnegut: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- << Perhaps a better plan would be to replaces cranes with horses and ropes such that we can once again afford windows
No - just bring back window taxes
- I hear you with the running thing. I disliked walking, so I moved somewhere nice and got a dog and that helps tremendously.
Honestly, on many routes, I think this is true far less often than it used to be.