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4111.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Most people use their country's embassy approximately never. Where they do need to use it (such as registering a birth) it's usually replacing use of a different government office, had they not lived abroad.
4112.
by Symbiote 5y ago
The jet bridge is more expensive (they take up more space, where you could park two planes). The lowest cost European airlines avoid this expense. However, I've hardly ever seen them at a major airport, with the exception of the huge a
4113.
by Symbiote 5y ago
I didn't see a paywall, but there was a video that autoplayed partway down the page. (Interesting article though.)
4114.
by Symbiote 5y ago
That is a pessimistic spin on things. They're opening the final part of the line (the new tunnels), they're confident of doing this in February, and there's a clear plan on how the rest will open in stages in the following 12
4115.
by Symbiote 5y ago
CRTs were in use for decades. In the early 1990s, there was no power saving. You could turn off the monitor with the front power switch, or use the screensaver. A few years later, power saving options began to be introduced. The computer
4116.
by Symbiote 5y ago
"The GDPR was adopted on 14 April 2016 and became enforceable beginning 25 May 2018." They had two years from when the law was made.
4117.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Why would a month-old domain cause a problem for access?
4118.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Most roads in the USA are also "free", as are the police, etc. Healthcare elsewhere may be similar.
4119.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Presumably the US government stores passport photographs, and the state governments store driving license photographs. (Estonia has a similar population to Maine or New Hampshire, 1.3 million people.)
4120.
by Symbiote 5y ago
I presumably made the same guess (spiced rice grains mixed with meat/veg), but British people have the cultural context to know what pilau means. They even a section in Tesco (not just a search, an actual section ). From Denmark, I c
4121.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Plenty of people are stuck with CG-NAT – with (sometimes) the option of paying for a "business" connection with a routable IPv4 address. Customers of smaller/newer ISPs, or even larger ISPs in some countries, are affected.
4122.
by Symbiote 5y ago
I spent an hour trying to work out what was wrong with a system. Files had timestamps from 1985, and I couldn't see where they were coming from. NPM turned out to be the source, with (this time) an American cultural reference: https:
4123.
by Symbiote 5y ago
I'm surprised, as the wood is worth more as timber than fuel in this case.
4124.
by Symbiote 5y ago
How long did it take them to replace them? Or is the problem that the replacements were on shorter buildings, with less signal range? Probably the latter: https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinions/rebuilding-nyc-tv-tran...
4125.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Before digital TV (2002), we had just 5 channels in most of Britain. CBBC existed as a brand, but was a few hours of content on either BBC 1 or BBC 2 (I can't remember) broadcast at suitable times.
4126.
by Symbiote 5y ago
This budget-brand fridge averages 17W over a year of use, and it only manages an "F" rating for energy use. The EU regulated refrigerator power use decades ago. https://www.beko.co.uk/tall-larder-fridge-lsp3671d-bl
4127.
by Symbiote 5y ago
My aunt's phone number in Germany was 14 digits as dialled, compared to her brother's 6 digits; he lived in the same town as us. Giving everyone, worldwide an internet address means they have to be longer than limiting it to the e
4128.
by Symbiote 5y ago
I think it's much simpler: Diskettes, floppy disks etc were invented in the USA, where the standard spelling is "disk". Compact discs were invented by Philips, who probably preferred the British spelling "disc", and
4129.
by Symbiote 5y ago
I was rather sloppy with my words there. I used a cheap PCI card, some years ago, with Windows and Linux. I had a Thunderbolt adapter for the Mac.
4130.
by Symbiote 5y ago
That would be a poor choice in this case. The data on the MiniDV tape is already digital. Any FireWire interface (cheap dongles also available) will allow most operating systems an easy way to read the tape, and as well as retaining the or
4131.
by Symbiote 5y ago
The intercom system at my building is "single user". Only the apartment for the last-pressed buzzer can unlock the door, or activate the microphone. If I do the latter, the person outside is stuck talking to me until I disconnec
4132.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Latin characters wouldn't be a requirement; Chinese users can do more-or-less the same thing using the Cangjie or Zhuyin/Bopomofo systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo https://en.wikipedi
4133.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Alexa also lists amazon.ca, google.ca, canada.ca, kijiji.ca, realtor.ca, (ebay.ca), walmart.ca, cbc.ca, bestbuy.ca, airbnb.ca, homedepot.ca, and several *.gc.ca sites. In my experience, outside the USA many ccTLDs are commonly used – includ
4134.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Unfortunately, one of the superficial and vacuous sides will soon be king, and there's little political will to prevent this.
4135.
by Symbiote 5y ago
The Cybertruck wouldn't be street-legal in Europe, since it can't meet pedestrian/cyclist collision safety requirements. Take whatever fashionable discomfort you like, but let's not increase the danger to others. "A
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by Symbiote 5y ago
A frequent, local subway can be as fast as a "big" train plus a connection. From Copenhagen Airport to the centre, by ordinary metro, is 17 minutes. I'll take a subway connection over a bus any day. Anyway, this comment sug
4137.
by Symbiote 5y ago
Heathrow Airport didn't open with a railway connection. The Underground (metro) was extended to the airport in 1975-1977. The first heavy rail connection opened in 1998. A significant extension to this connection (trains right through
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by Symbiote 5y ago
New track was built for the Heathrow Express, it opened in 1998. 2 × 5 miles of tunnel, plus a bridge/flyover to cross the Great Western Mainline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow_Express
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by Symbiote 5y ago
They're also impractical for larger planes — you'll only use stairs on an A320 or B737. I've disembarked from a B777 via stairs following an emergency landing. The stairs were narrower than the ones for a smaller aircraft, a
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by Symbiote 5y ago
When Europe does the airport rail connection well, there are both local and long-distance options from the airport railway station. Bearing in mind it's Sunday at 17:00, here are the departures from Copenhagen airport for the next hour

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