oldcynic

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by oldcynic 8y ago
That's... disappointing. I don't know enough about the scheme to comment much. Maybe the fees are low enough to not encourage much change. Perhaps we need a popular campaign of dumping all the single use plastic back to Tesco etc.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> Irregardless of your perceptive on this, it is good to be self-conscience Well played! Perfectly acceptable internet usage. Especially in a world with auto-correct. :) Yet somehow lose/loose grates a little when a they're&#x2
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by oldcynic 8y ago
The rules are too complex. If you move home to a few miles away the rules change. Various parts of the recycling chain are highly fragile and far too easy to pollute (as the article discusses), or too susceptible to not being profitable. We
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by oldcynic 8y ago
We've forced species so near to extinction that they need to be "brought back", we've had such a profound effect on the environment that there is essentially nowhere left that does not show the impact of humankind. We&#x
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by oldcynic 8y ago
It seems to avoid niche and profession specific coinages pretty well so they must be looking for candidates to spill over into more general usage. I wonder if they're uniq -c everything lodged at the British Library each year. They&#x2
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by oldcynic 8y ago
It's been dodgy and worsening towards dire ever since they did the brand and recency updates. Mind I'm finding I need Google less at all lately. When I first switched to DDG maybe 20% of my searches were pushed to !g. Now it'
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Short version. Use checklists. Even intelligent and highly trained people such as pilots use them. We used them in intensive care and surgery and avoided many basic errors as a result. I'd recommend not buying the book it's basica
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> feelings are personal and not something i care to share with workplace associates or strangers "xj9 you don't seem to share the enthusiasm for our exciting journey. We're a family here at SaaS.com and you seem to be trea
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by oldcynic 8y ago
I don't understand trying to conflate GDPR and this copyright proposal. GDPR is a reasonably written attempt to preserve some measure of citizen privacy (i.e. you and me). It's an extension and continuation of Data Protection that
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Simple really: "BigMedia" want me to pay to link to this, so here's the same topic on SmallMediaSite. or I wanted to link this, but "BigMedia" want me to pay, so now I'm not even mentioning their title of the t
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by oldcynic 8y ago
As I mentioned milk changes taste dramatically across regions. Well it did before the current trend for homogenisation which has hurt the taste in every region. So I would not be in the least surprised to find that the resulting cheeses a
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by oldcynic 8y ago
The "World Championship" organised by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association with Wisconsin doing so disproportionately well every year. Hmmm. A bit like the world series then for international coverage. The World Cheese Awards h
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by oldcynic 8y ago
You don't think it's reasonable for a product bearing the name of its origin to be made in that place? Considering how different water and milk from different regions are it can lead to vastly differing end results. That's qu
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Shit hardware too as you find out when they need repair. Components are combined for cheaper manufacture, so don't expect to easily replace a defrost heater element without a whole bunch of other components in the block and a regas at
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever I suspect everyone thinks that. It's all those people from other parts of the world/country that have accents. :)
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by oldcynic 8y ago
I am so glad I discovered FreeBSD. I've been running it since '95 and I think 2.2.5. Still detest the awful, bland 3D generated "new" logo and flat variant. Please bring back the original. It saved me from wasting so muc
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Hmm. Yet snow is becoming rare in UK winters compared to the norm even 30 or 40 years ago, and we've had a succession of warmest November, December, etc on record reports over recent years. What are you expecting? Course if the Gulf
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Teaching others, even if you don't know the material too well, pays because your students will come up with bugs, problems, and questions stemming from misunderstandings that you can't even conceive of. So it forces you to go away
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Yes I think you have it. I took that mahogany example and the slightly surreal case of requiring a slave to work a swing to operate one as exceptional. Generally aiming for conspicuous consumption is the simple answer. I'm sure they&#x
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by oldcynic 8y ago
They trust them for being being popular. Being popular has become the goal. Aspiring to be famous for something, like being a great musician, no longer seems to be thought a necessary component.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
The Indian nawabs and maharajas preferred deaf punkah wallahs for this very reason. They were using them long before the British Raj vassalised the princely states. Interesting that the American version seem to be usually wood. In India and
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by oldcynic 8y ago
That seems to be borne out when a few minutes on the front page gets the article flagged.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> that Science has explanations for everything now, or at least they'll have it all figured out soon You don't need to care if they ever figure it all out to "believe in" science. Quoting Yoda? Hollywood puts a whit
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Not sure I buy that. UK passed >50% atheism some years back and is steadily becoming more so going on census. Ethnic minorities seem far more likely to retain some religion and keep the figures up. In my generation most were still given
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by oldcynic 8y ago
From your Excel link: Of which 50% are deliberate, and there is no breakdown of how many of the rest are random mechanical failure as opposed to having been involved in a collision with an associated fire.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
I am saying I would expect the trade body to carefully and selectively phrase their responses for the sole benefit of the trade. "could lose as much as 80%" (but will usually be far less). A study that came shortly after this one
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by oldcynic 8y ago
"said a spokesman for the Crop Protection Association, which represents pesticide manufacturers"
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by oldcynic 8y ago
What a surprise to find the pesticides manufacturer's association disputes this. I'm shocked! There's been a few studies since this one. No one seems to have actually required a reduction yet though. I think France has a targ
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Ah yeah, that was the one. :)
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by oldcynic 8y ago
I can only find that claim on a Powerbulbs store blog post. Current UN regs do indeed require white. Definitely not "much worse", more like simply different. They were very yellow, right out there with sodium lighting and oblite

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