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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
Generally, they don't, and no-one cares. Airband scanners are freely available to buy online and in shops. It really manifests itself when you look online to see "listen to ATC" live streams and YouTube videos. There aren&#x2
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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
No, the Master followed the BBC Micro architecture, which was 32K RAM followed by 32K ROM, made up of 16K paged ROM then 16K of OS and memory mapped peripherals. The other 96K that made up the 128 was 64K in sideways RAM (which could be pag
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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
S4C (Sianel 4 Cymru, Channel 4 Wales) receives some licence fee funding (partially via the BBC making programmes for it), but it's a separate entity to Channel 4
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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
There's also a pre-school spin off called Timmy Time, which also uses animal noises in place of speech. But the best thing is that they subtitled it. https://subsaga.com/bbc/childrens/timmy-time/series-1&
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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
Why is it offering up .gb domains, when you can't register them?
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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
I got bored long before then. It's a terrible piece of self-backslapping drivel
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by isthisnametaken 4y ago
"No need to reinvent the wheel" Says yet another Linux video editor
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Couple of things to note 1) The Pico doesn't have an OS, by default. It's designed to run bits of code people have written in the SDK. There are no guarantees that someone won't write code that endlessly busy-waits checking f
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Kids swallowing coin cell batteries is a recurring and very serious problem. Hospitals will take it very seriously (x-rays, etc) if there's even a suspicion that one has been swallowed.
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
That map is very incomplete. It's missing at least 3 that I know of where I live.
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Did someone at Fisher-Price forget to delete the page on April 2nd?
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Indeed. I used to have some old bayonet fitting plugs from my grandparents' house. One was even in its original box, which showed an illustration of woman ironing using an electric iron powered by a cable hanging from the light fitting
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
HMS Queen Elizabeth doesn't have a catapult.
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Waste companies have always done this. It happens when shared rainwater/sewage drains become overwhelmed in heavy rain and overflow into rivers. The legislation isn't allowing something to happen that didn't happen before. Th
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Not just medium-sized islands. The UK has several interconnectors to other European countries for importing and exporting power https://www.nationalgrid.com/our-businesses/national-grid-ve...
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Sorry, what? Pure water isn't toxic. And you can get minerals from other sources. That's like saying tap water is toxic because it doesn't contain a balanced diet of vitamins.
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
Also, more precisely, it doesn't cover Northern Ireland, which is separate and has its own system linked to the Irish rail network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NI_Railways
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
As an aside, after one was destroyed when it derailed in Cumbria, its replacement - a standard, non-tilting train - was nicknamed the "Pretendolino"
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by isthisnametaken 5y ago
> British Siri was always a male voice The same male voice (same voice actor) who did the summary of contestant performances between rounds of The Weakest Link.
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
Thing I keep seeing and don't understand is "Legitimate interest" as a separate thing to consent. "You opted out of our cookies, but we're going to say we need them anyway, but you can still opt out of that". I
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
It appears the postcode was W12 8QT http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/downloads/14545 It's the old postcode for BBC Television Centre, so it's defunct (and the Royal Mail address search doesn't list it
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
"IKEA is continuing to try and remain true to their principals—protecting the environment and striving to become a carbon neutral company, while still remaining one of the world’s most pleasurable shopping experiences." Written b
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
The European Arrest Warrant sorts a lot of it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Arrest_Warrant
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
Atmospheric nitrogen sounds bad. And the Netherlands has to contend with some serious dihydrogen monoxide issues, too.
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
Presumably this service will be available for a week or so, and then replaced by a selection of garden furniture and a welding helmet
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by isthisnametaken 6y ago
"How does pricing work? For hourly plans you are charged a flat rate(depending on machine type) per month to cover storage and access. Am I charged when my machine is off? For hourly plans, if your machine is powered off, you will only
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by isthisnametaken 7y ago
> It shouldn't be possible to register a .co.uk domain unless you are a company that is registered in the UK That's literally what .ltd.uk is for, and no-one cares about it
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by isthisnametaken 7y ago
The UK's sleaziest airline is way ahead of you https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-...
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by isthisnametaken 7y ago
Even 10 Downing Street was essentially flattened in the 1960s and rebuilt as a new building behind the facade of the original.
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by isthisnametaken 7y ago
We did the same thing with my eldest when he was about 14 - confiscated phone, laptop, etc. He managed to get round it (at least until we realised) by using Facebook Messenger via the web browser on his Kindle.

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