Posts by graeme leggett 2469 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
I just looked at FirstBus's setup for Norwich.
On one hand there is a city-wide zone and a "2 stop hop" for those short trips. Simple enough
On the other, trying to actually find out what ticket prices are for an adult is very difficult
On a third hand there is an app (for Apple, Android AND Windows Mobile!) so that you can buy electronic tickets.
"several hours arguing about rules that seem to have been written deliberately to be unclear"
They did come up with a rule to solve that pending clarification. the odd/even, flip of the coin one.
But then a lot of the fun in games is the lawyering. I think I even once found a loophole in Monopoly.
When faced with only a few pieces, how do palaeontologists rule out the possibility that they've dug up the Robert Wadlow or Warwick Davis of that species?
As opposed to mistaking a juvenile of one species as the adult of new one - where I presume there are some hints in the bone structure.
As a counter, I propose that if poor-bloody-consumer can check that their paltry internet performance at home is not due to badly positioned hardware, then it must be the ISP's fault and that incumbent can be rightly criticised. At the moment, they might try the "it looks alright at my end, it must be you" defence.
Equally, should the end-user find that moving their router from underneath the TV and wiggling the aerials ups their iplayer performance then they won't be beguiled by ISP's offer of faster speed at double the price.
I don't get any from others. I think about half of the VM stuff is generic "householder" at my address. The rest is personally addressed but since VM want me to phone them to stop the crud I count the short walk to the recycle bin as exercise and VMs futile postings as a miniscule subsidy for Royal Mail.
I don't think it's as much a deus ex machina as you make out.
The promise of finding Gallifrey has been there since Day of The Doctor with a fill-up since Dark Water/Death in Heaven. So that is present for those who have been paying attentions even if it hasn't been actively referenced since the final minutes of DiH
He's been carrying around a strange Gallifreyan device since the start of this series.
Much like old Clarkson.
I wonder how much was a scriptwriter that pastiched riffed on his greatest hits, and how much was his own contributions.
A test of editorial independence in the new motoring show would be if they did a piece taking the yellow stuff out of online order companies delivery. Or doing it themselves - how difficult can it be.
The Maginot Line (a series of supporting fortifications delivering defence in depth) and the Atlantic Wall (a comprehensive plan to turn the north French coast into a killzone) both failed if due to a single cause because they were incomplete (did not cover Belgian border) and unfinished respectively.
Remember the mechanical ones, not really? I've taken the electrical ones apart and put them together again for fun (replace valves and clean contacts)
Once the ignition was on they'd start ticking away trying to push fuel to the carb float chamber - this was in the days before return loops on the fuel line.
Generally they were sited somewhere inconvenient - up under the rear wheel arch - where they would get covered in mud and underbody spray.
A signatory to a treaty is the 'party' to it. (though I've seen the phrase "contracting power" used in the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, the Treaty of Rome uses "High contracting parties")
As the parties to this treaty are states, the meaning is close enough for general discussion.
This quote ?
"I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow"
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