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by pmyteh 2y ago
Habeas corpus allows you to challenge the legality of detention. If a writ were sought in this case the prison governor would present the original order of the court authorising imprisonment and the application for habeas corpus would be di
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The CBO is more reasonable than the ASBO, certainly - one of the issues with the ASBO is that 'anti-social' was defined in an enormously wide-ranging way, so could (by design) be applied to people who were not breaking the law but
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by pmyteh 2y ago
The history of cricket in Italy is surprisingly long and they have a modestly successful national side (albeit at Associate level). Different to many countries where it is largely played by immigrants from the subcontinent. [0] Seems a weir
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by pmyteh 2y ago
You can still buy them (though for non-industrial use is not clear why you wouldn't buy a cheaper Zero or a 2/3 for similar money). The Pi 1 A+ is currently ~£20 including taxes: https://www.rapidonline.com/raspber
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Yes. And local authorities in the UK routinely have grants of arms and banners/flags of them (albeit most of them are newer and less classy than the City's). Ditto police forces: although most smaller authorities' police have
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Some of those individuals are not residents but expressly included as nominees of their businesses, a form of franchise that exists nowhere else in the UK. It's true that the vote is exercised by the company's nominee, not the com
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by pmyteh 2y ago
They found some volunteers and did the study! This is one of the classics from the Christmas BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 The study has... let's just say "other methodological problems&
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by pmyteh 2y ago
One solution to this is to collect three different kinds of statistics. One set is reported (to the police) crime. This is fairly concrete but is affected by people, for example, deciding not to report petty theft because they don't be
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by pmyteh 2y ago
It's easy to see how that might be beneficial for Internet: pay Openreach for last mile access but your chosen operator takes over after that. You can see an advantage for electricity and gas if you squint really hard: your supplier is
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by pmyteh 2y ago
Nationalised industries can be (and often are) structured as ordinary companies where the government owns all the shares. The ability to sue thing also depends a lot on where you are. The Crown Proceedings Act 1947[0] waived most of the spe
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by pmyteh 3y ago
I thought this was an interesting question, so I looked it up. I don't have figures going back to the 1990s, but I've looked at the DfT's dataset on modal share NTS0409 [1] which has data 2002-2018. Looking at number of trips
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by pmyteh 3y ago
We have a Supreme Court. It's the old House of Lords judicial committee with new robes, though: the powers are nearly identical and the legal business of the HoL has been done by the most senior judges since the 19th Century. The nuanc
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by pmyteh 3y ago
It's sometimes described as the 'good chap' theory of governance. Everyone is expected to be a gentleman, so flexibility is possible with an absence of formal guardrails. It obviously handles capture by bad faith actors fairl
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by pmyteh 3y ago
The UK courts partly relied on evidence that those asylum seekers were not always treated in accordance with the convention. The Supreme Court judgment noted cases of refoulement (expulsion to the state the asylum seeker is fleeing from) as
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by pmyteh 3y ago
There's never been a direct link between Quakers and the Quaker Oats people, for whatever it's worth - it's always just been a brand. The reason is reputedly that Quakers had a reputation for honesty in business, but I don&#x
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by pmyteh 3y ago
Yes. The Garter and the Thistle (and the Order of Merit) are exclusively small and also in the personal gift of the sovereign. The Order of the British Empire is much larger and appointments are made on advice from the government.
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by pmyteh 3y ago
I think the writer means literary in the narrower sense of 'literary fiction'. Christie was a genre writer; like F/SF etc. I understand that wasn't quite respectable in the upper echelons of the book world. Certainly the
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by pmyteh 3y ago
I am an EA of long standing, though not very active on the movement side of things. I think SBF is a big deal, at least in so far as it prominently exposed a moral weakness in the movement. A heavy use of Bayes' rule coupled with a foc
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by pmyteh 3y ago
Yeah, globally. Most long distance hikes seem to be a few hundred miles of mostly majestic wilderness, while the C2C is an unusually lovely and varied walk strung together from local footpaths...
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by pmyteh 3y ago
It's quite normal to stay in pubs and B&Bs doing the Coast to Coast - that's how my wife and I did it for our honeymoon. Wild camping is not lawful on any(?) part of the route, and organised camp sites are relatively scarce fo
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by pmyteh 3y ago
Yeah, you can arrange RISC OS on the Pi to boot up into BBC BASIC V. Much of MOS is in there too, but there are things that changed between the BBC and the Archimedes (and between the Arc and the Pi) so not all code is compatible. Could pro
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by pmyteh 3y ago
It's also helpful when dealing with old hot chassis appliances such as antique radios, where the metal case is wired to what is hopefully neutral but can be at line voltage if the plug or socket is wired in reverse.
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by pmyteh 3y ago
A 3kW kettle is the classic 13A appliance in the UK. I'm sure people would be keen to have a higher power version if possible, but lowering to 2.3kW would waste precious tea drinking time. I've also got a 3kW plug-in electric radi
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by pmyteh 3y ago
And it's still massively more of a deal for spectators then academic sport in, say, the UK. I spent a term as an exchange student at the Catholic University of America, a smallish university with a completely unexceptional D3 football
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by pmyteh 3y ago
Yes. British local taxation is banded (and deliberately regressive WRT property values) rather than proportional. It's a compromise between the old Rates (like a US millage) and the poll tax which Thatcher disastrously tried to introdu
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by pmyteh 3y ago
The English Bridge Union has introduced a National Grading Scheme as a supplement/replacement for master points, for exactly the reasons you suggest. It's got its idiosyncrasies, but it's a lot better than the old "num
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by pmyteh 3y ago
It's a Britishism for stocky with an implication of fat, so probably intended as-is.
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by pmyteh 3y ago
BS1363 plugs are joyfully oversized, yes (and make excellent caltrops if dropped) but they are in other ways excellently engineered. Inherently polarised, fuses to protect the appliance wiring[0], socket shutters that open on the earth pi
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by pmyteh 3y ago
There's also a need to stop lobbying being used as a cover for bribery: either openly or as a quiet quid-pro-quo. Your firm's argument for the importance of a regulatory change may be useful, but the associated $10k "donation
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by pmyteh 3y ago
It's not more important but it is in my view (and most others'?) better than canasta (or at least deeper/more strategic/more interesting). I also play Set, but they don't scratch the same itch (any more than Set i

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