Posts by Fruit and Nutcase 5697 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2013
There is also, depending on the installation, electricity billing implications.
In certain cases, the electricity company bills the relevant local for street lights according to a formula that has a daily hours in use as one of the inputs. So, controlling the lights centrally makes it easy.
Don't think they bill street lights by actual consumption at the lamp post. So, a lamp may have failed, but it will still be in the charge. May be one day...
The reality is not far off...
"The Telegraph has seen 40 instances of customers claiming that stamps - both old and new - they bought from Post Offices or the Royal Mail website were flagged as invalid."
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/royal-mail-post-office-daily-telegraph-post-offices-b1149108.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/03/royal-mail-stamp-chaos-post-office-barcodes/
Sounds like they were hoping they could delay the inquiry by submitting documents late.
They probably are regretting not sending it next day recorded delivery or via their parcels business - that would have taken care of the documents for a few months if not gone into a void, never to be seen again
@bazza
Canberra...
In WB-57 guise, a couple of examples on a NASA Eclipse chasing mission today
With 404 Day, you can plan for a party on the 4th of April
Microsoft could use the day of the year sequence to have a big bash on the 31st of December (or, 30th, if it's a leap year) to celebrate Office 365 - but given the outages, in a typical year, the party would a;most certainly end up having to be bought forward
Admittedly, Luna isn't a planet, but over at the Tesla website, the Cybertruck is promoted as "Built For Any Planet"
https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck
May be Musk should be challenged to take one of them to the Moon and let it run around under Autopilot.
A couple of familiar voices from the UK rail network... sadly no longer with us.
https://automatedannouncements.fandom.com/wiki/Celia_Drummond
https://automatedannouncements.fandom.com/wiki/Angela_Peberdy
+1
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.9.1
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/
under the eagle eye and draconian guidance of Matron
Played to a tee by Hattie Jacques, as Matron
In general, the Commission has a number of investigative powers at its disposal, including the sending of requests for information."
The EU should look to their Spanish members and ask them to adopt the methods of the Spanish Inquisition into the EU investigative toolset.
Consider this...
Wouldn't The Chimp[AI] hit a cognitive wall?
Just come across this on Electric Mountain - podcast/text
Geek's Guide - Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery
https://www.theregister.com/2016/05/16/geeks_guide_electric_mountain/
It went up, and it came down. Success!
That reminds me of Brian Hanrahan's famous phrase ''I counted them all out and I counted them all back'' when reporting during the Falklands conflict
Yes, they seem to have a soft spot for the numbers 3 and 5
Coincidentally, this was published today - may be one day, she'll get to space...
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