Posts by paulc 770 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007
'is more acceptable than a veteran returning in a wheel chair.'
at least you can see he's been wounded... it's those coming back and suffering recurring nightmares and flashbacks and dropping to the ground when a car backfires... they've also been broken... and expected to just get on with it... and they also don't tell you what services there are for you and that as a 'veteran' you have priority.
"If it's too much to expect the Tories to grow a backbone, risk their political careers, and save the country, then why can't they allow the country to decide for itself?"
Because the owners of the Brexit pushing press have the dirt on them and would kill their Political careers dead...
Gordon said the body was only providing information “of an administrative kind” to those who were seeking to pursue criminal offences. He said the body saw the MoU with home office as “lawful and proportionate”.
I would expect the people pursuing criminal offences to come with a warrant asking for specific information based upon reasonable suspicion...
but that the US parent is in /much/ bigger trouble, and has been siphoning as much money as they can out of the UK part and then over to the US.
oh yes over half a Billion pounds 'written off' in a loan to a shell company based in a tax haven...
https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2017/12/19/toys-r-us-pension-trustees-kept-entirely-in-the-dark/
In letters sent to the scheme trustees and to The Pensions Regulator (TPR), Mr Field accused the firm of waiving a sum of £584.5m in loans owed to it by a firm in the British Virgin Islands in the year ending January 2017, when it made a pre-tax loss of £673.3m.The firm had stated in its accounts this was part of a "group reorganisation".
"especially if he is one of most who do not stick to the prescribed 1m from the curb and then get all self righteous when somebody only leaves them a "door's width" (i.e. as much as you would leave if overtaking a car) of space when overtaking them."
prescribed distance of 1m? Nope, no prescribed distance... two positions, Secondary and Primary.
I take the Primary position when it is not safe for your to even attempt to overtake me and relax back to Secondary when I DEEM it to be safe enough for you to overtake me.
Why do cyclists ride in the middle of the road?
Watch this video which explains it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZMbiCRNT0
also this web article:
https://www.regit.cars/car-news/cyclists-why-do-they-ride-in-the-middle-of-the-road_62617
I would suggest to you that you go and download a copy of the current Highway Code and re-familiarise yourself with the contents and not with the muddled made-up rules in your head.
There have been a lot of changes since you probably threw it away after 'passing' your test...
"At the same time, you get so uppity that somebody is in your way when it's a faster vehicle that will be gone and out of your way and waste far less of your time than you would of theirs?"
faster only over the short distance between the back of each queue....
average speed of motor traffic is now slower than horse and cart days...
meanwhile, people on bicycles can maintain a much higher average speed by means of filtering...
"This is no surprise, of course, as it's the same on every platform known to man. The new version is slower than the old"
nope... not with Linux. My Mint LXDE has been getting faster and uses less RAM with each update...
Now Firefox... that gets slower and uses more RAM though with each update...
"Officials from one squadron said that the troubleshooting data are sometimes insufficient to pinpoint the issue with the aircraft, which can lead the maintainer to remove a component, order a new part from the contractor, and subsequently find that the new part does not fix the issue—a scenario that is both inefficient and costly."
numpties... swap it with a known good item and see if the fault goes away...
almost every Friday one or two Tornado GR1s from Honington would divert for a snag that mysteriously vanished when the groundcrew got to Newcastle airport to rectify it and have the dubious honour of spending the weekend guarding it until the aircrew, who conveniently happened to have friends or cirlfriends living close to Newcastle, returned on Monday morning to fly it back to Honington.
I was on the commissioning team for the GCHQ doughnut... redundancy was taken very seriously there...
the building does not run directly off the mains supply, instead, the mains was used to drive motor-generators to provide a very stable supply and in the event of a power cut, diesel motors would start up to drive the motor-generators instead...
>For example a VW made in Germany might be sorta OK but the ones made in Mexico can go all out Carrie on you.
they will do as they are built to different standards, the Mexican built one will most likely have far less crash resistance and no doubt no rust proofing either.
>Pray explain? Either you're implying that the US want to bomb Sandringham, or that they are protecting it.
The Queen has a residence at Sandringham... Sandringham is close to Marham, the royals use Marham as their own personal airfield, flying in and out frequently.
"because you are dealing directly with the driver of the cab."
you may be given one route for which you are charged, but the driver gets given another route for which he is paid
both of you get stiffed... you are charged for a longer route and he/she is paid for a shorter route...
fold the square into four, tear the folded corner and retain, unfold the square, put finger through the hole in the middle, wipe orifice with finger, use the square wit wipe off the finger... and the important bit... use the retained torn off corner to clean under the fingernail.
that's how I remember we were to maximise the use of the paltry few squares of Izal we got each in a 24 hour ration pack...
''If they'd built late delivery penalties into the contract and set delivery milestones we'd know exactly when the ship would be delivered. But no, typical MOD incompetence when specifying a contract.''
currently working on one contract with a foreign air force where there are late delivery penalties applicable and if we deliver it too late (unless there are extreme mitigating circumstances) they get it for free...
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