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by andyking 15y ago
I dread crossing through American border control at the airport every single time. I use O'Hare, and they literally look and talk to you like dirt. I'm doing nothing wrong, I'm visiting America for legitimate reasons, yet I'm barked at like
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by andyking 15y ago
123-reg in the UK go one better. Passwords on there have to be eight characters long. No more, no less, exactly eight characters. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
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by andyking 15y ago
I don't think they ever did switch to full 3D, did they? Certainly, SimCity 4 was still in the top-down style. There was a competing game, Cities XL, which was fully 3D but never really gained much traction (partly because it was pants).
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by andyking 15y ago
One of the biggest employers in my hometown is the Swedish company AstraZeneca's huge Alderley Park research centre, employing around 3,000 people.
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by andyking 15y ago
Why does this have a redundant "free" in the title?
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by andyking 15y ago
Where I work, we listen to BBC 6 Music ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music ). It's eclectic enough that no-one gets annoyed with the choice of songs (if you don't like one, you'll probably like the next) and there's nothing particularly noisy or
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by andyking 15y ago
The BBC's programmes aren't, as far as I'm aware, geoblocked. I loved Americana... until Radio 4 removed it and replaced it with an interminable panel game featuring four of the usual suspect "comedians" who seem to take up an inordinate am
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by andyking 15y ago
I'd love it if there was a way to view or highlight new comments in a thread. Quite often, I'll read an interesting thread that's got 120 comments, come back a few hours later and see the same thread with 180 comments--but I have no way of
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by andyking 15y ago
A similar technique seems to be in use by at least one other UK network. I'm with 3 (one of O2's rivals) and if I access my account information from my handset connected to their network, it takes me straight to the relevant info without a
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by andyking 15y ago
When a shop closes down, or even closes for the night, the shutters are pulled down over the windows, hence it is 'shuttered.' I think it's an Americanism. I used the term once in a news story for a (British) radio station I worked for, and
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by andyking 15y ago
Surely the best place to find medical information is via your GP / doctor, not Google?
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by andyking 15y ago
For anyone interested, a similar list for the UK was published in the Guardian a couple of months ago. There are a few visualisations available, and the data's also there for download: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/nov/25/highest-pa
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by andyking 15y ago
I'm with Gandi and didn't actually realise I already had this facility under my nose. Thanks for the information!
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by andyking 15y ago
...prefers to order his lunch from a computer rather than a server. This sentence confused me momentarily. "Hmm. Isn't a server just a type of computer?"
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by andyking 15y ago
It says in the blurb at the bottom of the page that Liz is a "full time volunteer." Why can't they pay someone to do their PR if they're funded?
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Programming should take pride of place in our schools(guardian.co.uk)
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by andyking 15y ago
I've never heard of this publication before, but I've had a flick through and I'm really impressed with it, and particularly impressed to see something of this quality out of Britain. It makes a change to read content like this from a Europ
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by andyking 15y ago
I'm not looking to set myself up as a company, but just out of interest, what's the difference between registering yourself and buying an off-the-shelf limited company? I've known people do it both ways. If getting yourself registered as a
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by andyking 15y ago
It's quite regular that local media in Britain will report on a fundraising drive to send someone (often with a rare condition, sometimes not) to America for treatment because the NHS won't pay - here's an example just from today, where a f
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by andyking 15y ago
Comet is largely insolvent and has recently been sold for a token £2 to a "retail turnaround" outfit called OpCapita: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/business-news/kesa_s... You expect this sort of thing if you go to the Bowlers c
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by andyking 15y ago
I've never been to Seattle, but coming from Europe I found it very logical when I visited Grand Rapids, MI earlier in the year. There, they append a compass point on each street depending what area of the city it's in - Lake Drive SE, Wealt
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by andyking 15y ago
I bought a cheap Samsung dumbphone for this very reason--I was actually missing important calls (a job interview invitation was what tore it) because my smartphone battery couldn't handle a day of moderate use. Now, I keep my smartphone in
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by andyking 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Indiana, but sometimes, reading some of the madcap schemes that go through their state legislature is like going back to ye olde Victorian times.
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by andyking 15y ago
I think the days of generic local and national radio services, which play a mix of popular music carefully chosen to be as inoffensive as possible, and provide a diet of celeb gossip, political squabbles and local roadworks, are numbered. T
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by andyking 15y ago
Community radio stations like ALL FM (allfm.org), Sheffield Live! (sheffieldlive.org), and Resonance FM (resonancefm.com) to name just a few I'm familiar with are great for discovering music, let local people passionate about music showcase
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by andyking 15y ago
There just aren't the 'creative intellectual' jobs, though. Universities can churn out scientists, journalists, artists, designers, programmers and so on. But if we're all creating, who is consuming? We already have a surplus of people with
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by andyking 15y ago
Good point. I have the fantastic Pure One Flow[1], a radio which looks like any other old-fashioned set, but which picks up local stations on FM, the national and regional stuff over DAB digital, and then connects to wi-fi to receive intern
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by andyking 15y ago
I'm moving home (out of my parents, over to Yorkshire for a new job) in the next couple of weeks and I'm doing something similar for entertainment. Rather than shelling out £12 a month for a broadcast TV licence for my new house, I'm using
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by andyking 15y ago
My Brother HL-1250 was rescued from a skip outside a closing-down local authority office where a relative worked. There were at least ten just thrown out in the street. I got it home, it worked perfectly and has done ever since, with no ton
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by andyking 15y ago
January? I suspect these will be like hens' teeth until about October.

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