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Worst format VHS won as they embraced free market.
Oct 19, 2017 at 11:47 PM | Pcar
In those days, most video recorders were rented, and VHS units were supplied "very competitively" to the major rental companies.
golf charlie
I see that George Soros has dumped $18 billion into Open Society - the outfit that in turn has given Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection $10 million a year for campaigning about climate change...
I'm guessing that a whole bunch of NGO folk are even as I type ferreting around to see if they can get their makeshift containers under the money waterfall.... the drooling is not difficult to imagine.
Oct 19, 2017 at 9:58 AM | tomo
Only $10 million? Climate Scientists can blow that on faked-up Hockey Stick reconstruction work every year. Mann shows no interest in going to court anytime soon.
golf charlie
@stewgreen, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:41 PM
Probably means Gov will spend £billions backing EVs as a winner
..only to be surprised by new tech coming up beating theirBetamaxPhilips/Grundig V2000*
FTFY
* V2000 was bettter: 5 hour recording, then flip (cassete) tape for another 5 hours; FFwd, RWnd & Pause with no interference, strobing etc.
However, like Betamax they were reluctant to license. Worst format VHS won as they embraced free market.
Lesson for Gov't: let the market decide what is best by what they buy. No subsidies, no banning, no interference or preference.
Pcar
@stewgreen, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:52 PM
@Tomo FakePoll : it takes you to a PREPRINTED page saying that 65% to 21% prefer WF
Confirmed, source code shows Poll Result is static (hard-coded) not dynamic
Pcar
@Mark Hodgson, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:33 PM
So, it doesn't seem that the UK has any claim to any of the capital assets of the EU to which the UK has contributed financially. The flip side, more positively, of that fact, seems to be that we also have no liability in respect of the EU's pension fund deficit. Although the EU has not specified how much it wants in respect of its pensions black hole (while castigating the UK for not making clear exactly what we are prepared to pay in defined cash terms), it strikes me that the deficit is substantial, and is likely to form quite a large part of any EU claim. The fact that any such claim is legally unjustified is therefore rather good news (for the UK, if not for the EU).
EU have re-interpreted that and proclaimed:
No share of assets; full liability for pensions - at an absurd discount rate that more than trebles liability to over £11Billion
Mrs May, walk away. Leave now with no deal & declare no import tariffs; stop wasting time & tax-payers' money.
Pcar
@stewgreen, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:00 PM
He didn't know what Adblue is, and so doesn't understand that that large diesels have it and that is the reason why they do better in real world conditions.
Yep, lorries are cleaner as the green crap works much better on large engines & the long highish speed journeys they make
Life would be better if people lived near their jobs instead of this crazy London thing of living at one side of the city and working in the the other
Author doesn't only drive across London, he drives from France(?) to London :/facepalm
Pcar
Searching Twitter tells me it's
\\ @matthewchannon_
I will be talking about the new Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill tomorrow
@ExeterLawSchool tomorrow evening at exelawtalks //
That talk was at 6pm today
'Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill' has a co bill Smart meter bill
previously called The U.K. Vehicle Tech & Aviation Bill
involves CCAV @ccavgovuk : Gov AutonomousV dept, @OLEVgovuk : go low emissison dep
@matthewchannon_ , @samuelhall0
The chargers will include Smart Demand Side management ... well of course
First tweeted by @ParliamentBill
Probably means Gov will spend £billions backing EVs as a winner
..only to be surprised by new tech coming up beating their Betamax
stewgreen
Goobermint at it again
Apparently someone called John Hayes who's being - ironically imho - called the Transport Minister is threatening compulsory EV charging points at retail petrol outlets across the UK and fitting public chargers on residential streets.... What's clear is that petrol stations generally only have enough space for fueling petrol and diesel.... it's not difficult to imagine the chaos that will ensue.
I have a feeling that DECC goons inside BEIS are at least in part behind this. My gut feeling is that reality will sneak up (well, as far as they're concerned anyway) and bite them on the bum - but not until they've splurged even more borrowed money on the taxpayer's account.
tomo
@Pcar how do we prove that the page is static
it could conceivably be "generated on the fly"
However Google doe not pick up such pages normally
and I can see that pagedoes come up on a Google search and is in Googles cache here
I'll tweet to the ASA.
Who regulates 10:10 ?
Its page has no about us saying whether they are a charity or no
Wiki "10:10 is a charity that enables people to take practical action on climate change, and combines these local actions "