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by Toucan 13y ago
Works for me. On, err, IE6.
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by Toucan 13y ago
I don't think that's right. 10^6 is a million in both languages. 10^9 used to be a milliard in British English but is no longer used. It is now referred to as a billion. 10^12 used to be a billion in British English but is now r
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by Toucan 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they were just manually adding a header. I've seen it done like that before, using a browser extension to add a header and then mod_rewrite to apply a special set of rules if that exists.
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by Toucan 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but the cost of double spending is vastly higher than the value of the coffee. The risk of accepting on 0 confirmations is probably lower than that of accepting fake currency or the cos
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by Toucan 13y ago
Being in the dictionary or not doesn't matter. Trademarks like "Apple" are often dictionary words.
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by Toucan 13y ago
But the idea isn't to teach kids chemistry - it's to get the kids interested in chemistry. I was given something very similar to this as a kid: http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-MX-907-200-Electronic-Project/d...
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by Toucan 13y ago
UK point of view: No, it's tax avoidance. Tax will still be paid in the form of VAT/Sales Tax and Corporation Tax. You avoid paying Capital Gains tax.
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by Toucan 13y ago
You absolutely can in the UK. I pay £15/mo for the same service my friend pays £34/mo with a phone. He's in a 24month contract instead of my 12 and will end up some £150 down over the course of the contract.
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by Toucan 13y ago
That seems bizarre in the UK. I pay $24/mo and get truly unlimited data, with tethering included, as well as 2000 minutes and 5000 texts (and receiving doesn't come out of your allowance in the UK, the caller pays that fee). It&#
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by Toucan 13y ago
Very possibly because of this: http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/12/the-big-ugly-affiliate-mar... It doesn't look like squarespace offer an affiliate programme right now, but it seems they did and this is s
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by Toucan 13y ago
You aren't, the port is backwards compatible, not the cable.
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by Toucan 13y ago
I quite like the system Hong Kong has: http://www.gov.hk/en/about/govdirectory/govstructure.htm "The Legislative Council is the law-making body of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It comprise
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by Toucan 13y ago
Funner fact, the Trident II D5 ICBM shoots up to low altitude orbit and then fixes its location with a star sight! GPS is assumed missing in the global thermonuclear war scenario.
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by Toucan 13y ago
Less than 100 years ago, GPS wasn't a nav tool until the mid 90s. Astro nav was the standard right up until then and is still taught to masters today. We have calculators for atmospheric diffraction but the long hand method is still used.
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by Toucan 14y ago
But when driving a manual car the driver doesn't put the clutch in while braking until almost completely stopped. If you need to slow down quickly enough that you're not just letting the car coast in the gear you were driving in then using
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by Toucan 14y ago
When I use my brakes I don't put the car in neutral until I'm almost stopped. The fuel consumption is the same.
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by Toucan 14y ago
It still wear components that are not as easily replacable as brakes. As for coasting to a stop whilst still in gear, I agree with that being a good idea but I don't think that's what digitalWestie was getting at.
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by Toucan 14y ago
I think we're talking about different things. digitalWestie's advice to use the gears to slow implied changing down through the gears to use the engine to brake, not simply leaving the car in gear while applying the brakes. For what it's w
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by Toucan 14y ago
How would that be efficient? Engine braking wears transmission components which are considerably more fragile and expensive than replacing brakes. Engine braking only stops you using the driven wheels, brake discs apply to all wheels.
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by Toucan 14y ago
One thing I have been taught to use is the "shit sandwich". Positive, negative, positive. The danger is your negative lesson being lost so this method does favour directness. The advantage of finishing on a high is it often lets the convers
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by Toucan 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Australia_and_New_Zealand We have different bacon to Americans.
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by Toucan 14y ago
Flock was a web browser until last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser) I know there are only so many names, but in this case both flocks are social apps, tracking updated photos between friends. I wonder if Zynga (the
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by Toucan 14y ago
Additionally it has a very low centre of gravity, further increasing stability.
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by Toucan 14y ago
A friend at a botanical institute sends and receives a 500GB hard drive weekly, exchanging data across the Atlantic. Back of beermat calculations at the time demonstrated huge efficiency compared to similar cost broadband solutions!
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by Toucan 14y ago
I first heard this (or an adaptation) on the CBC podcast Wiretap: http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/episode/2012/05/04/hell-is-other-p... I'd recommend it if you enjoyed reading this, it often carries features of a similar calibre.
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by Toucan 14y ago
The island photo is pretty synonymous with package holiday in the UK, which flight + hotel approximates in this case.
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by Toucan 14y ago
Being a naval officer also. 18/21.
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by Toucan 14y ago
"To marry" is a verb. "Married" is the past tense. The headline is fine.
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by Toucan 14y ago
It's a joke, not a recommendation engine or search engine. An old joke at that: http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/index.php
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Open source dive computer(heinrichsweikamp.net)
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