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When I dabbled in logistics Liverpool was the preferred depot location as it was cheap! At the time it was also well placed to service most of the Midlands and North. It wasn’t a bad location for the whole of the UK though I gather Swindon now wears that crown.
Bob, your young crow was very lucky the adults did not administer their version of CPR!
More for light reading than anything else, but you may be interested in this post answering a question with respect to handling 10-20 hard drives! link
As I posted earlier my Apple-using son went for the NAS solution to avoid the Apple-tax on hardware.
The rain was predictable. Ask any school child; brilliant weather always ends at the start of the school holiday. The old early August Bank Holiday was almost as good as doing a rain dance!
Wheels, I’m afraid you are misinformed with respect to the Human Rights Act. Unfortunately thanks to TBLiar it will be difficult/impossible to untangle ourselves from this Act. As you will read in this article it is inextricably tied up with the Eire/UK Good Friday Agreement (GFA). The only way we can opt out of this act (which is NOT the same as the ECJ) is by a separate renegotiation of the GFA.
Much as I dislike many aspects of the Act I doubt that even the most ardent Brexiteer MP would fight to tangle that can of worms into a final Brexit agreement. In fact if you listen carefully, May, BoJo, Rees-Kitty-Litter et al have all refrained from mentioning the Human Rights Act.
Equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is unfortunately a popular cheap trick. However I do not want to get into the debate wrt Zionism and its impacts on Middle East peace I’ll leave that to a leading Jewish spokesman on Judaism.
The present Government has already produced an assessment of the regional economic impact of a hard Brexit link.
CETA gives nothing to the European Court of Justice. Human misrights law has nothing to do with the EU. That was TBLiar’s gift to the nation.
Both Eire and the UK have a common objective over a borderless Ireland. I think we are at the point where Eire has to be made aware that failure to sort out an acceptable agreement will result in that objective not being met and risk plunging the north and south of Ireland into civil conflict.
If we have a second referendum the sole purpose will be the same as the original referendum — to stop the civil war in the Conservative Party. Things have however reached the stage where medium term negative impacts on the nation at large are very likely if something is not done.
We are where we are.
If as many have said, May dare not use a threat of a General Election, then something has to be done to assuage all sides..
Politics is said to be the art of the possible, so although I agree May is a really poor strategist and a terrible decision maker, she has to move from where she is now or drag the whole country to a medium term ruin.
A new referendum could achieve that and get some sort of broad political consensus.
In answer to what has changed, basically the intervening time has made it clear that Brexit does not achieve many of the positive aspects claimed at the referendum, and the negative economic impacts are now very clear. Staring over the cliff-edge of a jobless hard Brexit could have major implications for many voters.
I cannot find the ‘little man in a circle’, all I see is a ‘go to top’ arrow!
However on the left hand side I have a ‘usb stick’ link to ‘My Blog’. Is that the same thing?
(Firefox on Linux PC)
“I do wonder what possible question could be used as the basis for a vote? ”
Three options with transferable vote, would be my suggestion..
a) Hard Brexit, with full short/medium term impacts on jobs/investment by region set out. i.e. no BOJO lies/dissembling.
b) A more realistic Canada CETA (The Irish border needs to be realistically sorted out even if that means direct negotiation with Eire)
c) Stay in EU
With respect to what gutless Cameron may or may not have done, an equally close result the other way would just have meant that Nigel Farage would be demanding another referendum. I’ll admit that a transferable vote probably means a move towards CETA but at least May would be in a stronger position to tell the odious Rees Mogg to go and play in his kitty-litter.
I do not refute the factual aspects of negotiating with the EU, however what the pro-Brexit politicians and others are overlooking are the simple dynamics of negotiation.
Negotiators (on BOTH sides) have to have a firm vision of what they are willing to seek as a compromise point. Neither the UK or the EU seem to have a tenable negotiating vision. That alone is worrying, but when you add in that each EU member state has to sign off on the final deal, the prospect of drifting into an ill-tempered hard Brexit that hurts everyone for decades becomes highly likely.
As no-one voted for such an appalling situation, a second referendum is the only way of reconciling a highly divided UK populace behind whatever is the final outcome.
Assuming his password was not in a Rainbow Table (i.e. too short and common) then he may have had it pinched during one of the many Yahoo debacles or one of the more recent password hauls. One good idea is to use Have I Been Pwned’ (link) every now and again as unfortunately you cannot really trust any site too much.
Obviously if you find your password, change it PDQ!
At a time of such upheaval, they shouldn’t be having a summer break.
True, but many of the leading Brexiteers need the break to sneak off-shore to get their investments tuned up to get the full dividend of a hard Brexit. Guardian Article
If you see lots of ‘crows’, those crows are rooks!
Titanium Dioxide used to be the go-to to keep things white and was used in just about everything from nylon shirts through white paint etc. It worked by absorbing the UV part of sunlight which was the main cause of white things going yellow.
There was a bit of a health scare over the compound a few years ago link, and I’m not sure if the Nanny State has banned it since then. If so getting a good stable white may have become a lot harder!
The crow obviously became disorientated and whacked a branch. Despite putting bird silhouettes on our patio door this is unfortunately a fairly regular occurrence in our house — normally idiot wood pigeons. No great loss if They don’t recover.
Starting (or ending) at The George? Not been there for a while.
One walk of twenty miles to Bradford on Avon and back started and ended at the George. One pint of Harvest Gold=7 miles, but it was so darned hot we probably drank twice as much water! The halfway point on that walk was the Angelfish at the Brassknocker Basin.. The Kennet & Avon canal is recommended for both walkers and cyclists as it is well served by both pubs and public transport. However if you cycle please do not tear-arse along. I got to feel positively evil towards some of the inconsiderate cyclists hoping they would end up in the canal!
I don’t know why it changes, but maybe the Preferences->Keyboard Preferences (advanced maybe) or Keyboard shortcuts could give you them back.
Following on Dan’s advice, when you have installed the new Mint set up Thunderbird once (just to get the links/file structure established),. If you then destructively copy over your old Thunderbird (a dor folder) it will have all your old mail, addresses etc. I rarely bother doing that with Firefox, and just export my Bookmarks.
I’m bailing out of this conversation for a week as I’m off on a long-distance pub-crawl where they drain canals link
My wife and I will probably crawl between the canal-side pubs of Bradford-on-Avon and Bathampton Depending on weather, it can make a very pleasant and moderately healthy walking break.
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