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by redjet 7mo ago
> There was a time when a notebook was also a legal document This is still the case in certain fields like policing where, in the United Kingdom at least, an officer's pocket notebook is an important document, albeit with some polic
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by redjet 11mo ago
To be pedantic, both 0171 and 0181 became 020, but with the 7 or the 8 moved to the front of the number, so 0171 222 1234 [1] became 020 7222 1234, with 7222 1234 being dialable in London without the area code. There are also now London num
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by redjet 1y ago
That mention of EPS takes me back, we used to use it all over the place to form basic hub-and-spoke networks in areas where we had lots of small sites that would all connect to a single exchange. It would generally bounce along at 2Mbps whi
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by redjet 2y ago
You have "Cannon Street Road" that runs from Wapping up to Whitechapel in east London but I can't think of any others: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.51016/-0.06012&laye...
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by redjet 3y ago
Canary date palms (phoenix canariensis) can and do grow in southern England, although they don't fruit. Immature date palms need to be protected in winter, this is often achieved by bundling and tying the fronds together.
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by redjet 3y ago
The UK adult comic "Viz" had the idea of "Kenny Loggins and his many logins" quite a few years ago: https://imgur.com/1ZUX26o
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by redjet 3y ago
Spectacular photographs of a Canary Wharf skyscraper being completed have been rediscovered more than 30 years after they were taken.
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Canary Wharf: photos of skyscraper rediscovered(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by redjet 3y ago|1 comments
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by redjet 5y ago
Practically the UK must maintain an adequacy agreement with the European Commission so any changes would necessarily be constrained by that. Given that much of what became the GDPR was developed by British civil servants and in line with wh