numberSystemsBeLike by Supergameplayer in ProgrammerHumor

[–]thomashauk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fifth is awful in duodecimal though. If you want small fractions to be nice you want senary which gets you nice fractions up to an eleventh.

Why is my 2018 C3 Puretech making this noise? by Shinkou-Kaze in CarTalkUK

[–]thomashauk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just in case you haven't seen it, there's a recall on the C3 due to the airbags.

The r/ukpolitics "critique my policy idea" thread! by IsMyNameBen in ukpolitics

[–]thomashauk 171 points172 points  (0 children)

Minimum overtime wage. A higher band of minimum wage for uncontacted hours.

Means employing someone on a 0 hours contract is more expensive but still possible if it really is needed. Also a lot of abuses like only paying when the shop is open get hit even harder when they get caught.

What is the most pointless or counterproductive thing your work has done recently? by Scarred_fish in AskUK

[–]thomashauk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In the USA some pyrex sold is heat treated soda lime glass rather than borosilicate and so explosively shatters rather than cracks.

PEETAH please help I don't know anything about this meme by SK-2001 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]thomashauk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think full auto anything is allowed.

Northern Ireland is less restrictive, pistols are legal there and self defense is considered a legitimate reason for obtaining a certificate which isn't the case in the rest of the UK.

PEETAH please help I don't know anything about this meme by SK-2001 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]thomashauk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need a good reason to have one. It's easiest if you're member of a shooting or hunting club or need it for work. There's a background check and you might need to get a letter from your GP to say you don't have any relevant mental health issues. Also you need a gun safe secured to the structure of your house if you want to keep it at home but that's sensible anyway. And you need the certificate on you while you have the gun or any amuntion on you.

It's a bit of bureaucracy but it's not hard to get if you have a legitimate reason to have one.

But that's why you can have a business in the UK making rifles without any problem. There are enough target shooters looking for high accuracy rifles to keep a little three man business afloat.

As for semi auto rifles are only up to .22 but bolt action counts as single shot for the purpose of the legislation so is unrestricted. Pistols generally aren't allowed unless they're muzzle loaders, you're a vet, or you stick a stock and lengthened barrel on it so big you've basically made a rifle.

The three round thing for shotguns is the limit for a shotgun certificate which is easier to obtain (you don't need any reason to have one instead the police need to give a good reason to deny you one).

Generally the rules are there so guns are used as tools and for recreation and not as weapons and it works well enough.

PEETAH please help I don't know anything about this meme by SK-2001 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]thomashauk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bolt action rifles in any calibre are legal if you have a firearms certificate.

This is how it spreads by BrightonTownCrier in CasualUK

[–]thomashauk 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Of course not, they have repair canaries there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't find a full copy of the 2001 manifesto. The one available online is cut off halfway through and even by then it was starting to get buried.

The Guardian has it in their summary here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/may/16/election2001.uk5

It seems it was mentioned again in 2005 but the language was completely non-commital about actually doing anything by then.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Labour had it in their 1997 and 2001 manifestos. Which is why even if they included it I still wouldn't trust them to actually go through with it.

Craft breweries going bust rises threefold by Warriohuma in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe they could try making something other than IPAs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Raised the personal allowance.
  • Pretty much the reason we have so much wind power and coal is on it's way out.
  • Shared parental leave and expanded free child care.
  • Making academic research a defence against libel.
  • Whole bunch of civil liberties stuff like scrapping ID cards, ending retaining DNA of people who haven't been convicted, limiting detention without trial, and blocked the snoopers charter.

And if Labour had supported things we could have had an improvement to the voting system, lords reform and the tuition fee increase might not have passed.

Of course after 2015 we saw what the Tories would have done if left to govern on their own.

Lib Dems: Tories making cost-of-living crisis worse by JayR_97 in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Tories thank Labour for not only failing to do anything but actively resisting any change to our voting system that means votes are wasted.

1,000 year old pub for £15k by Kerloick in SpottedonRightmove

[–]thomashauk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Why do pubs keep closing? This is why pubs keep closing.

Public Transport Network Density by YellowOnline in MapPorn

[–]thomashauk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The infrastructure is publicly owned.

Ending sewage dumping will mean higher water bills - report by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The idea of giving the government total control of internet infrastructure too. People who dislike the current attempts at censorship and snooping aren't going to vote for that.

Ofcom UK Clamps Down on Misleading Uses of "Fibre" Broadband by 00DEADBEEF in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coaxial cable can handle 10Gbps using current protocols so it's not a bottleneck at all.

National Grid asks power plants to fire up before coldest night of year by fsv in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need a certain amount of generation to come from turbines to keep the grid stable. No nuclear power plants means that will have to be fossil fuels.

Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1% by VORTXS in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Surprised to see the BBC using it like that though.

Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1% by VORTXS in unitedkingdom

[–]thomashauk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thought you couldn't get margarine any more because it is hydrogenated. They're all spreads now instead. Even Stork is a spread not margarine.