Posts by WraithCadmus 328 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2012
@A Non e-mouse
There was a BBC News article on how Sweden is pushing very hard to go cashless. Many shops their now only accept card payments.
Indeed, I was in Stockholm recently and everyone took card, even the humble hot-dog vendor on the corner. Some shops the staff seemed almost offended if you tried to use cash. I took 1000kr (~£90) cash with me expecting to burn through it in the first couple of days, came back with about 700.
When I was in my final year of university I lived in a 1960's tower block (that has subsequently been demolished). The hall is catered, so there are only limited cooking facilities (microwave and fridge in shared kitchenettes)
Sounds like York when I was there ('02), except the catering had long since shut down, leaving you with a Baby Belling between 7.
Icon: York Brewey, Toft Green.
Zen too, no complaints, you pay for exactly one unit of internet and get exactly one unit of internet, I admire the simplicity. Also not hard to get a tech who can give you straight answers, I was shopping for a new router and asked what protocol it needed to support (telecoms is not my forté), they just gave that right out and I was on my merry way. It's possible there's cheaper, but I've never had any bother.
in terms of multirole it is probably better than the Typhoon
Well, yes, Typhoon was primarily designed as an interceptor, multi-role it's always been a bit naff at best. Unless that's what you're driving at with your post and I have the wrong of the stick.
Icon: Stand clear of jet wash
Disappointingly for whisky fans, though, the tongue failed to distinguish whiskies based on their peatiness
As an Islay fan that's a bit of a shame. Though of course not everything from that wee island is peated (see most of Bruichladdich's output).
Icon: What a good Ardbeg tastes of.
This quiet offends Slaanesh
Icon: More of a Khornate Daemon
This also turned up in the game Brütal Legend, if memory serves you could censor the swearing and the prompt acknowledged you might be doing this to spare your ears or because censorship is funnier sometimes.
See also: C*nt von C*nt
Thanks for the hints! Slow driving I can deal with (being a somewhat timid motorist myself) and I guess if I were in a motorhome I'd probably be tucked in with the lorries anyway going 90 at most.
It's odd you mention priority-from-the-right, as that was a constant source of worry for a Belgian-raised friend, they still have it but just made every junction a give-way, apart from when you get to the really rural bits when you have some old boy with his eyes shut, will in one hand and copy of the Code de la Route in the other...
@AMBxx
Do petrolheads not want this at all? I would have thought the option would be nice for humdrum travels, a weekend in the country with the robot eating up the motorway miles to get there and then taking the reins yourself to experience the B-roads seems like the best of both worlds.
As for who would want one... me! Passed my test at 17 and driven less than 100mi since. While I can drive I find it stressful and a chore (probably due to a lack of experience). A trip to the arse-end of nowhere requires me to fortify myself and do it, but I'm not looking forward to it. As a hill-walker it would be nice to tell a robo-vehicle...
"Trail starts here, drop me off, refuel, then meet me on the other side of the ridge in three hours time"
*bleep, bloop!*
"Good car"
I just had my job opportunities halved at a stroke by a bunch of spiteful shits who don't realise the EU was protecting them from being run into the ground.
EDIT: The thumbs down start already, but a lot of the areas that voted heavily for Exit are those were benefiting the most from the EU redevelopment funds. The reason they were getting those funds is because they were so staunchly for one party or the other they would always be passed over for the pork. At least the EU funds were (hopefully) awarded based on merit and how well you argued your case and not who you voted for.
I am now going to have some beer and a cry
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