The UK's pharmaceutical culture is poor. If "NICE" doesn't think something is the right way to treat a condition, forget it. Even people with diagnosed conditions can struggle to acquire medication. Also, beware of daring to mention the name of a medication, because that's a sign of "drug seeking"! (Luckily I've not been on the receiving end of this, but know folks who have.)
The UK bans advertising to the public for prescription drugs, and has a standard cost-effectiveness approval process for what the NHS will prescribe ("NICE"). Drug marketing is a lot less prevalent here.
The first and most obvious problem is created by right-handed desks
I had a good laugh at your post thinking it was rather clever humor and was about to write something witty back about left handed shot glasses, nunchucks, and corkscrews, but then I Googled "left handed desk" just in case and.. crap, you're not kidding! What horrible bloody desks kids are subjected to in your country!
I'm curious.. why is this very suddenly an issue? Haven't countries like Iran and Syria been under embargo for years? Have more restrictive laws around sanctions been passed in recent weeks?
That seems a bit cynical. While SD's creator might not recoup that money directly, a lot of end users have benefited from its creation. That money has figuratively gone up in flames no more than the time or labor cost of an open source developer whose code is used by millions of people, IMO.
This is an astonishingly huge amount of money for an open source project to raise directly from its users. Most open source projects get basically nothing.
The notion that child abuse would end because there would be no market for commercial child abuse is a stupid idea. [...] Going after the producers/abusers is the goal. Going after users do next to nothing to protect exploited children.
Agreed, but that's exactly what I just said, lol :)
If people are involved in the transmission of child abuse, I'm happy for them to be prosecuted for that.
I'm not happy with the approach of prosecuting people for copyright infringement and then claiming they deserve it because of the child abuse material. That's a bait-and-switch.
Somewhat related trivia.. A retweet, however, has been shown to be able to be libellous as it's considered to be "republication" of the material, at least in this awful court case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAlpine_v_Bercow
Under UK law repeating a libel exposes you to the same level of liability as the original libel. People have paid legal settlements for retweeting things.
generally speaking, countries don't want you to be in them and be paid by a foreign company.
Curiously, the US prefers this for temporary visitors. If you are being paid by a company outside the US to speak at a US conference, it's fine, but you are not allowed to be paid by a "US source". I guess the theory is being paid by a non-US source means you're "on business" rather than "working in the US".
Foreign paid speakers fall, by definition of the words into immigrants who are entering the country in order to work (paid employment). The law does not special-case people who are going to leave immediately afterwards.
This is, sadly, not a new problem. It's been a problem for touring musicians for decades.
Sure, but for this use case if you're doing a set of database transactions each will be its own write to persistent storage. Which is why you care about the random 4k write speed.
"Sequential writes are much faster than random writes" is not at all a new problem, it dates from the hard disk era. Which is why most filesystems will cache as much as they think they can get away with.
I am more than ready for my thoughts to be considered economically naïve, but I wonder if it's to do with the ability for labor to move?
In the US it is easy (from a legal POV) to move between California and Texas or vice versa so an American employee would probably move to California if a much larger salary depended upon it. If an employer doesn't really care if someone is in any particular location within the US, they may nonetheless feel happy paying what they valued the employee at if they did force them to move to California, say. Of course, they may also attempt to pay less, but that's a risky strategy since the employee could just as easily then request to move to the expensive location.
The UK worker earning 1/4 the wage does not have this freedom. Very few UK workers can move to the US (or any other economy than Ireland) and so the market rate for developers in the UK is very specific to the UK. Only a fraction of the best developers who both want to leave and be able to leave. There's a certain local demand and supply and the salary has found its natural resting point, protected by a moat of visas and regulations.
Even within the US, it's been the case up until 2020 that the premium for having a worker in SF or NY was absolutely huge. Now that everyone has been forced to manage over Zoom for a bit, is that sustainable? I genuinely don't know.
(I have a 97th-percentile UK salary living in Scotland from an employer based in Austin, but that still probably doesn't compare to SF numbers)
Yes, it was mostly a "if you haven't seen this stuff, you need to check it out" for my subscribers. I'm not sure why it's become so popular.. I guess a lot of people still hadn't heard of it! (So mission accomplished, in a way..)
Have to laugh at all the Americans saying this is crazy or nonsensical when it's legal to carry guns in much of your country :-D
That aside, lest anyone think TV detector vans are all over the place, in my almost 40 years of living in the UK I've never seen or had interactions with one. They may as well be the Loch Ness monster for how mythical they are.
Yeah, transport hubs especially airports but also some railway stations will often have conspicuously armed police patrolling. And high-profile government buildings. The UK gun of choice for this is the distinctive HK MP5 submachine gun.
Conversely if you want to see the use of the AR-15 in public artwork, you should go to Northern Ireland.
In Switzerland I once saw a conscript get on a train and put his rifle in the luggage rack exactly as if it were an umbrella. But Switzerland is different (guns are mandatory, ammunition heavily controlled, the people are the "militia" and support the government, and the whole country is a mountain fortress).
This has already happened in a significant way in many European cities (often fuelled by downtown destruction during or post WW2). The suburbs of St Denis, Sarcelles and Aubervilliers in Paris are good examples or the manufactured suburb of Thamesmead in London.
What I had in mind was places like Dubrovnik as an extreme example, or York as a less extreme - walled cities in which all the old residential/commercial activity happened. Necessarily dense and walkable. Smaller versions can be seen in "market towns" e.g. Cambridge: central square with occasional street market, surrounded by 2-4 storey buildings with shops on the ground floor and apartments above. Some of which have been converted into offices.
There's a big split between European cities which decided to rebuild exactly as it was after they were bombed flat (or the few that largely escaped), versus those which decided to modernise and become car-oriented. Cambridge vs. Coventry.
I guess it depends on your operating system, but there are few where it'd be good operational policy to not have key system updates at least a few times a year. They do exist, of course..
There is no VISA you can get to receive an honorarium for speaking in the UK
Potential international speakers should also be warned this is also true of the US - except for certain types of academic institution (INA 212(q)). The UK also allows it via https://www.gov.uk/permitted-paid-engagement-visa but again, only for arts or academia. A commercial conference doesn't count, annoyingly (or even a community conference that merely happened to offer honoraria). However, if you are being paid by your employer to attend a conference to speak, it is fine (big disclaimer: IANAL).
Sure, the NHS does provide excellent care, but it's not free.
Correct, but the US has the rather odd status of spending even more per capita in public funds towards healthcare before they even get to the privately funded portion. The NHS has a lot of problems, but at least it's not (outside of dentistry) making us pay both ways at once.
Yup. The UK has a particularly vicious variant of this - the nationalised state-provided monotlithic system has its weaknesses, but everybody in the media only ever discusses American-style privatisation rather than all the various hybrid models. The mere existence of the American system is kind of a threat to our system which currently has zero healthcare bankruptcies.
(People also misleadingly claim that the UK system excludes private provision - it doesn't, it's just that only a small fraction of the population has it and the tax advantages are nonexistant. Optical and dental are also mostly private.)
Sort of. I've done affiliate stuff before but I don't like the vibe it gives off. Selling the products directly in a more publisher-esque way feels more honest, although I'm not entirely sure why.
The UK's pharmaceutical culture is poor. If "NICE" doesn't think something is the right way to treat a condition, forget it. Even people with diagnosed conditions can struggle to acquire medication. Also, beware of daring to mention the name of a medication, because that's a sign of "drug seeking"! (Luckily I've not been on the receiving end of this, but know folks who have.)
Could this result in a huge fine or penalty, not least due to potential PCI DSS violation? Here in the EU, it'd be a big data protection issue as well.
I think Google is actually pretty good at doing that. If you turn on all the various safety features, it's pretty hard to find anything too graphic.
But.. I think the problem is more a social one. Is Google going to comply with a single country's law when it requires quite an elaborate technological solution? The UK is not at the scale of China, and I suspect such companies will generally ignore the law (it's common in the UK to have laws which are broadly ignored, they're on the books for selective enforcement at a convenient time) or block the UK entirely.
offering a service to users, those users being in the UK should come under UK law
This is an attractively simple but terrible line of thinking. It implies that everyone is e.g. obliged either to block Chinese users or obey Chinese censorship (and infosurveillance) law.
Global jurisdiction is bad enough when it's just the US. If every country's jurisdiction extends to every website, that's a disaster. It's entirely possible for countries to have laws that are completely incompatible: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679...
The NHS (Britain's state healthcare provider) famously had a project with a budget of £12.7bn (about $20bn). It wasn't entirely software although that was the main part. It famously fell apart, but billion-sized parts were handed off to companies like Accenture, British Telecom and Fujitsu: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/21/nhs-national-...
NHS IT is, of course, vastly under-funded compared to even modest startups, and entangled in bureaucracy of upgrades. I used to work with someone who was one of two sysadmins for a hospital of several thousand staff.
I suspect many will not bother with consulting periods given the circumstances. It opens them to possible tribunal action, but rulings and penalties are usually mild, tribunals take ages to go through, and very few people bother or even know that you have to start the process within 3 months.
(If morbidly curious, you can keep an eye on tribunal outcomes at https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions .. I just checked this month's unfair dismissal outcomes and not a single one was in the complainant's favour, though some may have been withdrawn due to negotiating an offer.)
Mandatory consulting period for UK redundancies is 30 days or 45 days for larger employers - while some may have started it won't be hitting yet. It's the small companies to watch out for; can't have a consultation if you're insolvent.
Cameron is on a rampage. I've never feared rapid descent into dictatorship until now. I'm well and truly afraid of what the UK will look like in 4 years.
A lot of people said that about Bush in 2004. People are alarmist. Status quo is generally maintained with only minor changes in course - that's what our political systems are designed to do.
The UK public are extremely conservative, and extremely misinformed by conservative news sources. That's at the root of a lot of the demand for authoritarianism.
Railguns are terrible and conventional firearms are much more widely available. If you want a futuristic terror weapon powered by batteries, build a multiple-watt laser. Take down planes by blinding the pilots! Fire it at a glass sculpture in a shopping mall to give thousands of people life-ruining sight loss!
I know HN leans heavily US, but if anyone is in the UK, you can now earn up to £1000 in side income without having to declare it or file a self assessment tax return.
Also, if you have children and register as self-employed, you can claim Working Families Tax Credit. If you work or claim to work from home the required number of hours, even if you don't earn any money, you get (if my fiddling with the DWP calculator is accurate) £~150 a week, much better than the £~70 from JSA, and you don't have to deal with the Jobcentre any more.
As a European I'd give up a non-essential body part for a mortgage like that. Even 10 year fixes are rare in the UK and we're coming off of a 2 year fix later this year. While we have plenty of leeway with our budget, it's pretty annoying not knowing the exact amount I'll be paying until the very end of the mortgage. I wonder why this concept doesn't exist here.
There's an inch thick of delicious, buttery irony spread over a slice of Onion-tasting bread here. Asylum granted by a state that once sent 14 million people, primarily those who didn't agree with the authorities, into forced labor camps with millions meeting their deaths from malnutrition, exposure, and summary executions.. and which is still attempting to outlaw homosexuality.
> You can flee, apply for asylum, and enter when that asylum is granted.
Other way round. Asylum application must be made after arrival. You made a mistake in knowing what the rules are, so clearly it's only fair that you and your family are deported now.
That's because Blair's Labour Party was as right wing [..] as the Tories they replaced.
That's revisionist, and demonstrably false. The Blair government brought in gay adoption, a minimum wage, the Freedom of Information Act, the Human Rights Act, civil partnerships, banned fox hunting with dogs, increased NHS investment by >25% in real terms, achieved the lowest unemployment in 50 years, slashed child poverty, and more. Minimum wage alone was considered a bold left wing move at the time. Blair made modern Tories softer, if anything.
It's sad that the Iraq debacle caused people to write off what was the most progressive and beneficial government this country had seen in decades - I can't see how anyone could equate it to the governments of Major or Thatcher.
I think it's a good example of why a simple left-right dichotomy doesn't cut it. The Blair government had a lot of great social-democrat policies and was genuinely redistributive. It also relied on control-freakery and media management; all policy had to come from the Blair-Campbell office. There was no mechanism for incorporating friendly critique. And some of its policy was genuinely illiberal, especially in the antiterrorism & surveillance area.
That may have been a hidden tradeoff for taking on the security establishment enough to get a peace deal in NI.
The UK has quite the shortage of council/social housing so someone who is homeless tomorrow would struggle if it were not for "crisis" loans and housing benefit. Housing benefit pays the median market rate for a property in your area for you if your income is low enough. If your rent is cheaper, you can even keep a small amount of the overpayment.
Theoretically in the UK local councils have an obligation to house anyone who has a "demonstrated connection with the area". There is also a "housing benefit" system which pays rent for those who cannot afford it.
I say "theoretically" because it doesn't entirely work and there are still a gradually increasing number of rough sleepers, but it does at least keep children from living on the street.
> In 2015 there were 4.8 million families in receipt of Housing Benefit. Most families –2.7 million – claiming Housing Benefit are workless and living in the social rented sector (this includes pensioner recipients). Some 1 million were workless and living in the private rented sector. The remaining 1.1 million were in working families, half in private rented and half in social rented housing.
What the hell is the point of the Labour party these days? They are absolutely not an effective opposition.
Hear, hear. They've even done a 180 over Brexit, which they now support, against the majority of their supporters.
Labour claims this is because they respect the referendum, which is ridiculous. It'd be like the Democrats becoming pro-life and anti-immigrant to "respect" the presidential election. You don't just give up your own ideals and platform for what won - well, not unless you're the modern Labour party.
They are also staggeringly ineffective and can't seem to decide what they stand for. Miliband was OK despite the "controls on immigration" equivocation, but since then the party has turned into a circular firing squad.
Going back into history, I'm fairly sure we saw attempts at invasive surveillance under Blair's Labour; Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and the failed ID cards scheme.
It's not even clear whether they're able to oppose Brexit.
I'd not heard of MTP before, so looked it up: "MTP is part of the "Windows Media" framework and thus closely related to Windows Media Player."
I wonder, can Windows natively work with APFS volumes..? I know with extra software it can, but then with extra software macOS can do all the things in the blog post too.
There is at least one thing I can do on macOS though that I can't on Ubuntu: run the latest version of Photoshop in a stable manner.
The rationale talks about easy portability to Windows, but I'm skeptical - the underlying API and filesystem is different enough that this is likely to cause problems. '\' vs '/' to start with.
Even "telecommuting", assuming it's normal "work" and not just meetings or chat, is not technically allowed under a normal VWP. But.. it happens a lot anyway.
Telecommuting is very much a sociopolitical problem. Too many work places are so bad at evaluating work they end up evaluating the length of time employees spend in the office instead.
Whether it's a good thing isn't in the perception but the reality. The reality is that costs within the UK NHS are significantly lower than those in the US with its $50-per-mile ambulance rides and $10 aspirins.
While paying for medicine from tax money makes it look like more of a free ride, and potentially open to abuse, it seems that having a cartel of medical insurance companies and hospitals all jacking up the fees works out a lot worse for users in the long run.
Yes. The site for the UK's "Companies House", an agency that registers and tracks British corporations, only used to work during work hours. I seem to recall a public hack day helped resolve this somehow but can't find a story about it now..
I've seen patio11 say things like this over the years, but hadn't connected the dots with this particular issue - genius. Certainly something we'll consider doing as a CYA against HMRC (or even our own bookkeeper who is rather strict with us).
> Lastly, we won’t allow ourselves to be audited without our knowledge by the IRS by using a cloud-based personal finance app that could be subpoenaed behind our backs if they continue pushing for new powers.
Reminded of a slightly less dignified politician: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/09/thatcher.williamh... "Hague: I drank 14 pints of beer a day" - brand not specified, but if we take as "standard pre-CAMRA british beer of the time" Watneys Red Barrel at 3.8% that should give you an idea. He is also accused of exaggerating wildly; to me one pint an hour while doing manual work seems plausible-to-high for someone who's built up a tolerance.
Americans should probably date "stopping being drunk all the time" to Prohibition; the overwhelming national support for it, especially from newly enfranchised women(+), gives an idea as to how big a problem it was.
(+) As a non-American, I had to check this, and Prohibition very slightly pre-dates universal votes for women although both were in 1920 and it may be possible that the franchise differed by state? It's certainly true that women temperance campaigners were very important, given the role of alcohol in domestic violence and budgeting.
You're right. I'm gravely pessimistic about the UK in many areas but healthcare is an area I'm really happy with. Due to shortages at the time, I'm "private" for dentistry, and even private prices aren't onerous compared to those in the Americas.
I've paid £30 for a checkup, £400 for a root canal and crown, and £40 for an extraction before. Fillings are between £50-£150 depending on complexity. And then I hear of insured Americans who've paid $300+ for an extraction AFTER their insurance company paid the majority of the bill! :-)
We certainly have it good here. Unless you have cancer and want to get a radical new treatment, of course..
So I wrote a bit of code to compare against other HN comments
Do you have a corpus?
Further, and this is an open question, is there an archive/downloadable corpus of HN in part or entirety anywhere? It would be fascinating and I'd love to keep a copy to look back at in years to come.
This whole Facebook debacle has certainly helped me see some "bubbles" more clearly. I've encountered plenty of people who hadn't even heard of the recent Facebook privacy issues, let alone actually care. There are plenty of people who don't even follow the main news headlines, let alone pay attention when it gets political or technical.
There's an awful lot of people posting "we knew it was bad already, why do you care now?" Remarkably consistently across all articles relating to Facebook. Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy. But on the other hand a lot of people have been unhappy with it for a long time; suddenly the dam has broken and the public discussion in the media is taking an interest.
This happens with many scandals. I'm reminded of LIBOR "rigging", which all the participants thought was entirely normal.
Without making a comment on the rights/wrongs of it, this is very common, especially in smaller businesses. If you haven't encountered it before, you've been lucky.
But the crux of your post is what to do. You either 1) get over it, 2) quit, or 3) assuage your discomfort by only using legal software yourself. What you are willing to tolerate is a personal issue and one no-one can judge you for. I'd put up with it, because I've worked with people who've done far worse than copyright violation but I'm not a judgmental kinda guy.
P.S. Actually, there's a #4. Try and convert the company into using legally purchased, lower cost apps. If you're on the Mac, both Pixelmator and Acorn are great Photoshop alternatives (within a range of tasks). Problem is, it sounds like you have Windows and Mac gear and lots of people involved.. so it'd be an uphill battle for little direct win.
Not really a choice. 99% of people in this position are going to hit Accept, because they have no choice, and their clients aren't going to complain, because they want work done in Adobe format and have no real alternative.
This is going to continue until either there's a big copyright slapfight (you can't just copy Disney stuff and expect not to get sued), HIPAA, or DPA intervention.
The world might not be, but the United Kingdom seems to be. I've seen a few of these over the last year. I must admit, it didn't stand out as anything particularly revolutionary or interesting at the time, but I guess it must be.
Is this really true? IANAL but debt collection in the UK is particularly difficult even if you've received a legal judgment. Perhaps it's different for non-nationals, but even if you win a judgment at court against someone, you have to then get warrants and all sorts to pull it off.
The bit in here that seems unnecessary is the "debtor's examination" and subsequent arrest; neither of the UK debt recovery systems have a provision for forcing people to come to court, and it doesn't seem necessary anyway. If you fail to show up to the court process at which a debt judgement is made against you, then the bailiffs can go to work. But you can't be arrested.
I'm a big fan of ads from the 50s and 60s what if this technology existed then?
It'd have been as little used as this will eventually be with no significant effect to the advertising industry.
(I mean this in a non-derogatory sense. It might eventually be used on even a lot of TV programmes, but in the grand scheme of things, we're not going to be wiping the record of advertising from the face of the earth forthwith with this.)
Mobility scooters are designed to operate in pedestrian spaces, including indoors. Ones capable of 20mph would probably get banned from pedestrian areas, indoor operation, malls etc for the same reason you wouldn't let someone ride an electric motorbike up the corridors.
This 16 year old is an outlier, despite her mainstream looks.
Good point, but unless you're trawling social networking sites,the ones plastered over the TV (MTV, 90210, et al) are the only ones we see a ton of :-)
"Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown, 15, opts for an Eighties-inspired prom dress as she joins her fellow teen stars in unveiling much-anticipated third season of the Netflix hit"
(somewhat randomly selected, she's the most recent child star that came to mind; the Mail is notorious for various levels of creepiness towards young female stars)
Not a great overlap with HN, but this stuff sells newspapers in their millions.
A related issue - and one reason this policy has gone through without much complaint - is the growing negativity and dislike of immigrants by the majority of the UK public. Think I'm joking? YouGov found 55% agreed with the statement "migrants have changed UK for the worse": http://yfrog.com/mk3fqfj (and only 28% disagreeing)
Protectionism, my arse. These policies are fueled by xenophobia, the like of which even respectable Brits frequently agree, even if they say nothing about it in public (I've had these rows with people in my own family and social groups who I'd never had believed could be so xenophobic).
The hostile environment policy was popular right until the Windrush generation started getting deported as well. I really don't think people have any idea how hostile the system already is.
What really worries me is that voters can't see the "flow" of immigration, they can only see the "level", and they're going to keep voting for more and more hostility so long as they keep seeing nonwhite faces or hearing people speaking Polish. Even if those people are in fact full British nationals.
They're just the sort of people I fraternize with - I don't mix with weak people.
I dare say there are plenty of weak people in the industry having problems - it just looks like gender discrimination because men are less likely to complain about or leave the industry over such harassment due to pride and lack of options.
Merely trying to make the industry more appealing to women (rather than "people" generally) is like trying to make Detroit more appealing to the rich. Until harassment and BS is stamped out for the people already in the industry, the people who have a choice whether to enter the industry or not aren't going to be easily persuaded. The garden should be weeded before we plant more seeds.
Good to know that people believe in making work hostile for their marginalized colleagues. And people wonder why there are fewer women in this industry.
we locked in a 4.5% fixed interest rate on a 30-year mortgage
Here in the UK, I'd seriously give up one of my gonads for a deal like that. There are almost no fixed deals over 10 years and the only 30 year one I heard of requires 30% down and is about 6%. Instead, we're trudging on with 2 year fixes combined with prayer the interest rates don't skyrocket ;-)
Conversely, the US 30-year-fixed mortgages are fixed at a much higher spread vs the central bank rate. You pay a premium for the bank to insure you against higher rates. It's effectively option pricing, and neither side has a free lunch.
I was very happy to get a <2% fix for five years last year. I don't consider myself "locked into a high rate" because the rates are asymmetric: interest rates get weird towards zero and you're never going to see a negative nominal mortgage rate.
(as rates tend towards zero, house prices would tend towards infinity)
Because this topic, much like "the technology industry is sexist", has been discussed to death here about 342 times already without any reasonable outcomes.
This is one of those things my dad taught me that stuck with me! The UK's highway code has a specific rule about this on normal roads: "Do not reverse from a side road into a main road. When using a driveway, reverse in and drive out if you can." Backing out is so much more stressful and more dangerous – I get to experience both as my spouse is a 'drive in' so if I ever take their car, I have to reverse out ;-)
It did make me chuckle that the person defending the 'driving straight in' approach in the article is wearing a face mask incorrectly, but my spouse shares their 'easier to load stuff into the trunk' argument which I concede has some merit..
If you have a car that pulls to the right, you can compensate for this by steering to the left.
If the car is in fact travelling straight down the road while you're doing this, and a backseat driver says "you're pulling to the left, that's not a safe way to drive", are they correct?
Neville Brody did similar work for the Austrian broadcaster ORF in the 90s - it's profiled in The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 2 - but for their actual onscreen identity. Very similar in scope though.
The book is great but I couldn't find much good about it online except this before/after video that shows off how much Neville Brody dragged the channel into the modern era: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWwLcCsVrmQ - the "After" section starts at about 1:30. You see TV go from the cheesy 80s to the slick 90s instantly!
The TV series Deutchland 83 is also well worth watching for a snappy spy drama about a young man from East Germany being coerced into being a double agent.
I'm no economist, but my understanding is that inflation was pretty minimal for hundreds of years prior to the late 1800s. Inflation appears, though, to be reasonably beneficial and (this is totally not economics language) motivates the circulation of money, in moderation – enough so that they have a target for it.
There seem to be numerous economic theories and inflation plays a different role in most of them, that I can tell, both good and bad.
Almost everywhere I go here in the UK accepts it (petrol station, supermarket, etc.) It tends to be small merchants who don't (local takeaways, particularly.)
Nearest petrol station to my house is the unattended one at a supermarket. Chip&pin upfront to reserve transaction, dispense fuel, wave to cameras, drive off. No option to pay by cash.
> but listing Governors etc. of dependent territories at the bottom of the UK (Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands, Pitcairn) which, although they are quite small places, are more independent than Scotland and Wales.
This is largely an artefact of the UK's weird internal governance structure, which seems determined to leave everything as sui generis rather than have some kind of system. In the US or German or Swiss system the answer to "is this a state or federal power?" rarely depends on which state is asking.
(Yes the US has its non-states as well, DC and PR, which should probably also get regularized)
Yes. Click tracking is generally considered acceptable even by people who are dead against open rate tracking (DHH comes to mind). If your email is of a nature where the occasional outward click is expected and you wanted to clean the list of anyone who fails to click whatsoever, click tracking is an option.
The fresh fruit/veg idea is excellent; gardeners nearly always end up with perishable surpluses.
However, I'm a little concerned with formalising it in the EU in case some busybody decides that the many onerous agricultural rules on selling food apply.
The chap who runs the biggest bookshop in Wigtown is a funny character who's written a hugely enjoyable book called "The Diary of a Bookseller" about the ins and outs of running such a book shop. A way to get rich it is not.
Wigtown is a lovely little place, a locus for eccentric book people. There's not one but two science fiction and fantasy bookshops run out of people's houses there.
The southwest most point and the northmost point are tourist attractions. The eastmost point is a small marker in an industrial estate next to the gasworks in Lowestoft.
The Scottish Highlands are generally not very accessible and you'll often be charged extra postage by Ebay vendors. There's a single good road that runs north from Edinburgh. Beyond that it's twisty little single track roads on which it's difficult to make good speed safely without risking hitting a sheep round a blind corner.
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