Steve44

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by Steve44 3y ago
In the UK I was taught off-side and near side which referred to the sides nearest and away from the kerb as you are driving. That would be localised to which side of the road your location drives on, but not affected by left or right hand
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by Steve44 3y ago
You could start by learning the ropes.
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by Steve44 4y ago
Thank you for writing that. I loved the LoTR films and as you say they felt real and natural whereas I've only seen about 15 minutes of the recent Hobbit and I couldn't watch any more. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I
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by Steve44 4y ago
It's not just films, a lot of TV programmes are heading that way too. One example is the recently released adaptation of Great Expectations[1]. It's not just the overall darkness, but general lack of colour which is striking to m
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by Steve44 4y ago
> You might have one thing measuring fuel burn rate in grams/second and another in kg/second. One of my jobs is reporting on packaging weights[1] in the UK and it's not uncommon to have this problem when I request data. Fo
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by Steve44 4y ago
From what I've seen a major factor was the cladding manufacturer may have mislead architects regarding the validity of their testing and certification. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56101186 and https:/&#x2F
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by Steve44 4y ago
> but no one seems to be acting on it They've been widely available in the UK for a few years now and are also being looked at by the Government as part of a wider Vitamin D program. https://www.tescoplc.com/news&#x2
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by Steve44 4y ago
My wife has a vitamin / mineral problem and part of what I've found out is the Vitamin D you take is processed by the body into a Vitamin D it actually uses - they aren't the same. There could be a problem with how your body
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by Steve44 4y ago
I feel that part of the problem fuelling fraud like this are reviews such as the three star one I've copied below. Given it corrupted files why did the person keep it and also still give it three stars. 3.0 out of 5 stars Good storage
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by Steve44 4y ago
New regulations came in a few years ago to cover that. Hopefully anywhere serving rare burgers is diligent about their supply chain and kitchen processes. https://catersafeconsultants.co.uk/new-regulations-rare-burg... ht
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by Steve44 4y ago
I'm fat and well into my 50s and agree. I can fairly easily not eat until lunchtime, it's later in the day when it becomes much harder to manage it all. And yes, the famous "breakfast of champions" as it used to be know
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by Steve44 4y ago
Slightly different environment, but my dad was a service engineer in the 1960-1980s mainly working on coin counting equipment. His workwear for customer sites was a white coat over his suit. That was fairly normal back then so probably ke
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by Steve44 4y ago
A zero-zero seat means it can safely be used at zero speed and zero altitude. It needs to give enough height and separation to allow the parachute to open, not just get the pilot out of the aircraft. As far as I'm aware all modern sea
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by Steve44 4y ago
That looks like a problem with the thrust balance. It pitches forward after the bounce, likely excessive aft thrust or loss of lift fan thrust, which damages the nose wheel. Once on the ground at a jaunty angle the aft thrust spins it anti
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by Steve44 4y ago
We have about five HP 4200 printers in our office and I use genuine 38X toners which I think are rated at 12,000 pages. When we get a Toner Low message it'll then do about 500 pages before it reports Toner Out, after that print will ra
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by Steve44 4y ago
The UK has the plastic packaging tax already in force and the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging coming into force on 01 January. [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/plastic-packaging-..
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by Steve44 4y ago
On a related note the Museum of Berkshire Aviation [1], about 30 miles west of London, has a Chevaline[2] reentry module. This includes a dummy warhead along with gyroscopes, decoy 'flares', and all the hydrazine pipes and steeri
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by Steve44 4y ago
It's one that I know and flick through regularly. It covers the wider aspects of the packaging industry and has a good reputation for following what's going on.
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by Steve44 4y ago
The issue is primarily with sorting and contamination, such as different coloured bottles going on to the same batch meaning that resultant material won't be as clear. 10 years ago rPET containers were slightly foggy, but now it'
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by Steve44 4y ago
That can be one use for it, however certainly in the UK most of the clear food packaging is made from rPET. PP, usually ready meal and microwave trays, at the moment can't use recycled material and still be certified for food contact.
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by Steve44 4y ago
> And virtually all the plastic produced by Coca-Cola is 'new' plastic made from Crude Oil Not in the UK. They've been using rPET[1] for some time and are now increasing the rPET content to 100% in their smaller bottles.
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by Steve44 4y ago
As is PET, the plastic drinks bottles are made from.
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by Steve44 4y ago
I'm not too far from you, there are quite a lot in the Iver area. One comes in and crosses the M25, then there is quite a lot of them between Iver Heath and Uxbridge.
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by Steve44 4y ago
I've been to Santa Pod in the UK a few times and the Top Fuel cars are in a league of their own, you really do know when they are running. Others have mentioned about the noise which is something very hard to describe in words. You ca
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by Steve44 4y ago
> which required computer control to keep it stable. I think most modern fighters are like than. The fly-by-wire isn't just an electronic control as with early developments, but basically tells the computer what you want to do and
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by Steve44 4y ago
To add to the examples of the name is the 1950s Fairey Rotodyne[1], a hybrid aircraft-helicopter-gyrocopter with jet exhausts in the tips of the rotor blades. There is a 1954 prototype[2] at the fabulous but small Museum of Berkshire Aviati
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by Steve44 4y ago
That's really interesting. In the UK you can cross reference with the National Library of Scotland maps[1] which allows you to overlay quite a few different maps of an area over different time periods. [1] London Kings Cross area with
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by Steve44 4y ago
Our old cutlery is apparently Dubarry pattern (fairly similar to that linked below) which looks to be a very similar profile but less fancy than your Kings pattern. I much prefer using it over our newer Newton, see my other post in this th
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by Steve44 4y ago
> It's really very strange how awful a lot of cutlery is in terms of ergonomics We've got the Amefa Newton[1] cutlery which I think is a good example of design over practicality. It's excellent quality,8mm forged 18/
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by Steve44 4y ago
We have had to increase prices, but on most things aren't maintaining the normal percentage margin. We've really trimmed down on some products, which is making it tricky because our operating costs are going up too. Most people i

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