Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21371 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Because it has so many loopholes
Doesn't apply "where working time is not measured " so if you don't physically clock in and out then it doesn't apply to you
Does reading an email at midnight count 1min toward your 48hours ?
What if you get a quick 1min email every hour ?
That's what I like about the left pondians, so careful about causing offence.
We renamed the 'release' button to 'deploy' because some people may have abandonment issues and 'release' may be traumatic.
What does it do?
It 'deploys' the new Kill Ninja 9000, automatic laser guided child seeking cluster missiles
> what does that tell you?
That the deal is for cheap Australian food to be imported making Oz farmers happy and UK farmers sad.
If you also questioned people involved in the major trade going the other way, eg. manufacturers of replicas of the Ashes you would find the millions of British exporters happy and the native Australian manufacturers of Replicas of the Ashes to be despondent
There is still a 25c/each tax on blank CDs here to pay for piracy. The money goes to the equivalent of the RIAA but somehow never made it to any artists, meanwhile small bands selling CDs at their gigs had to pay the tax.
There was a proposal to put a $50 tax on iPods but the iPod died out before it got passed
Is large plastics the problem?
After every storm there are large (metre size) lumps of styrofoam floats, + fishing gear on the beaches, it looks bad but is easily picked up,
How much damage does it do to the ecosystem?
You don't see the microscopic bits of plastic inside the organisms.
>stop making plastic jars and caps and replace them with glass and metal one
Fossil fuel required to make 1 ton of plastic milk bags = a little bit more than 1 ton
Fossil fuel required to make 100 tons of glass bottles (to hold same amount of milk) +
fuel required to truck heavy bottles to store, and to consumers + fuel required for consumers to wash glass bottles + fuel required to drive bottles back to store and then to factory+ fuel required to wash and sanitise bottles.
Our local store sells the organic milk in glass bottles and regular milk in plastic pouches, i'm guessing the glass bottles use 1000x the fossil fuel than the evil plastic.
Are we sure that this isn't an art installation ?
Following the success of the "poems on the tube", whatever Network-South-East-Is-Called-Today asked artists to come up with something which embodied the spirit of transport in the suburbs of the Capital
>Most people are O blood type, this unconcious A&E patient must be too?
All people can accept blood type O-, if you are in the ER they can very quickly type you.
If you are a 20 something RTA casualty who last went to your GP for a child hood vaccination, at your parents address that you lived at 10years ago - what's the chance they have your blood type on file?
>Tube trains are pretty small.
But even DLR or the automatic elevated metro trains here are still much heavier built than a National Express coach.
> Have to withstand some pretty high forces in csae of accidents.
Is that just historical though?
A car accident is obviously much more common. With modern signalling systems a commuter train really shouldn't run into a 225kmh inter city or a 10,000 ton coal train and wouldn't survive the collision anyway. So do they need to be built like tanks ?
Serious question.
Why are trains all built like a Victorian Dreadnought ?
It starts with big heavy wheels, which then need huge bogies and massive suspension and so bigger engines etc.
Obviously the miles long ore trains here with 6 locomotives need to be a bit 'chunky', but a local commuter train that is basically a bus body is still on a train chassis that was designed by Brunel.
Nuclear powered trains are easy - just put the spicy rocks in the firebox instead of coal and use the same Great British steam train technology.
>Oddly the Thunderbirds themselves appeared to be decidedly carbon un-neutral.
That's why they had to operate from Tracy island - outside the IPCC control
You don't need any of this new fangled windmill technology.
Just a simple sail on the top of the train and the Flying Scotsman clipper express can swoop up to Aberdeen on the winter gales (returning in spring)
Admittedly tacking is trickier on rails - but I'm more a big picture innovative creative Ted-talk type, I'll let the minions deal with details.
Bah in my day century we just needed a blowtorch and a glass rod .
Actually it's difficult to melt the glass rod and get a nice round blob of glass - there's a very nice introduction
It depends, do you use your laptop mostly for web browsing, watching youtube and a bit of office365 / google docs?
Or is it mostly used for CUDA based protein folding model development and doing the visual effects for your new 4k blockbuster, like all the people sitting in the window in Starbucks - then of course you need a 'real' laptop
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