lhopki01

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by lhopki01 11y ago
Interestingly enough Peter Pan has a perpetual copyright in the UK. All proceeds goes to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. There's a special Act of Parliament for it it.
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That's terrible methodology. For example maybe in a country with very few foreigners people aren't as worried about foreign neighbours as other things. It doesn't demonstrate anything.
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I'm not sure where you get your "European-style" ideas from. Anglo-style fungibility of labour hasn't found any solutions before why would it suddenly start? Weekends, pensions, paid sick leave, holidays, healthcare fo
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by lhopki01 11y ago
You go to when the country got a democratically elected government. As for nationalisation is certainly a violation of rights do you hold that all eminent domain is a violation of rights? IE if the government wants to build a road and uses
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by lhopki01 11y ago
Just be careful with these "give an animal schemes" Some of these schemes in Niger have lead to massive over grazing by goats and desertification.
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There are a few buildings like that. Near the barbican there's a massive building that is built over the road. There are a few more dotted around.
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A foreign coup is a valid response to nationalisation?
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Yeah on street parking is the bane of cycling. So many roads have on street parking on both sides and yet there's no space for two cars to pass each other. I don't know what will make the difference. I think in London it's
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by lhopki01 11y ago
In terms of resources used to gain ratio that's terrible. Methods that reduce traffic density are much better than ones that increase it. And that's before you think about what adding extra capacity does to a city. I've liv
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The use of roads is to get people and goods from A to B. If there's a way of doing that that doesn't involve endlessly building roads then do that. Roads are inherently inefficient for moving people around because use about 2 to
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Yeah I see this a lot. The first "cycle superhighways" in London were along these lines. Thankfully they've started building properly segregated cycle lanes and are rebuilding quite a few junctions. I think it helps that n
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Well first congestion isn't linear to vehicle miles. In traffic movement small things have a massive knock on effect. On my daily route to work I see the effect that adding just a few more cars to a road does. Adding 5% more cars do
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And what is that point? More roads mean less living area which means more roads to get out to where there is living area. A poorly designed response to a problem makes the problem even worse. There are better ways of dealing with pent up
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The problem is you get into an endless cycle of adding more and more road capacity and still ending up with the same amount of congestion. If you invest that money in public transport or cycle infrastructure you end up lowering congestion
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I cycle all over London and I don't feel safe a lot of the time. Big roads have inconsistent cycle lanes that start and stop at random or are ignored by drivers. Side roads have people who think 35mph is a reasonable speed to go on a
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by lhopki01 11y ago
That's a poor implementation of basic income. If each person has a need X then B should be set at X. That way if they work for someone everything on top isn't for need but want. Gives them the ability to choose more.
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Consumptions taxes hit poorer people much harder than rich people. A top rate of 43% isn't that high. The top rate in the UK is higher. Granted it kicks in higher but it's still set at 45%.
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This is not quite true. The EU can issue fines. The fines are enforceable in each member's courts because of the treaties they signed up to as part of the EU. But you're right in this case the EU can't do anything about Sno
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Yet ask people where they would prefer to live and more want to live in New York than Houston. A city is more than just a sprawl of houses. Much of the attraction of cities comes from other things.
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The US is worse of in this regard. The EU has rules about state aid that the US doesn't. In the US, states give enormous tax breaks to companies to set up a factory in their state. In the EU that sort of thing is illegal.
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by lhopki01 11y ago
Was looking for this point. For me I moved over to ebooks because I didn't want more physical books cluttering up my already small living area.
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That's such a glib saying that has no relevance here. You're not paying to visit the park - you are the product. You're not paying to use the local library - you are the product. Oh wait you are. That's what taxes are u
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by lhopki01 11y ago
Encrypted signals are not blindingly obvious. An encrypted radio transmission will appear as pure random noise and no different from all the rest of the noise that we pick up.
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by lhopki01 11y ago
Your statistics on violent crime are apples to oranges. UK figures include any incident where a person was touched by another person even if no harm was done. US figures are very limited to rape, grevious bodily harm and assault.
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The trend in the UK now is to just pay pubs and places like Macdonalds a small fee from the council to let the general public use their loos. It saves on having to have separate public loos.