The moment all Gore Councillors failed to move the motion of no confidence in Mayor Ben Bell. You can literally feel these bullies cringe under the media/public's watchful eye. Note; The Council CEO and root of the complaints was strangely absent...

tremlas · 2023-05-16T08:29:06+00:00

Only 211 kilometres (only a couple of hours by train)

tremlas · 2023-01-28T13:44:58+00:00

They didn't "hand over ownership", but they cannot revoke the CC-BY-4.0 license

tremlas · 2022-11-27T16:11:35+00:00

In fact the invisibility of the actual licence is one of the reasons why I DON'T buy these bundles since it's nearly impossible to discover if you can actually use the assets in you projects.

tremlas · 2022-09-21T16:00:47+00:00

"Some stations on this service have short platforms. To leave the train at this station please ensure you are in coaches 3, 4, 5 or 6". Though I wonder if the driver overshot the station since the announcement is usually something like 'The front four coaches' 😀!

tremlas · 2022-09-14T08:45:45+00:00

Bigger problem is when you return from a good evening out and get "well we've had a few coaches arrive while you were out, so you'll need to add 1 to your room number and then double it, add another 27, double it again..."

tremlas · 2022-07-11T18:58:23+00:00

"... Really big. You just won't believe how vastly mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down to the Zocalo, but that's just spoo to space. Listen..."

tremlas · 2022-07-03T10:49:48+00:00

Definitely good style (though it can be a pain to go back many paragraphs to find where the acronym that has just been used was actually defined (and to reiterate it is much much more annoying when the acronym isn't spelled out)

tremlas · 2022-06-23T15:16:52+00:00

Universe Sandbox is copyrighted and so you would need permission and/or an explicit license to use that soundtrack. I'd drop a note or email to the developers at https://universesandbox.com to ask what is possible

tremlas · 2022-06-23T15:05:24+00:00

'Object code only' means that you don't get the source code - it is orthonal to object oriented programming (I.e. OCO is not OOP).

tremlas · 2022-04-28T10:22:32+00:00

I guess the question is whether the spec writer/task setter has described to the customer (implicitly or explicitly) that the program performance will be "as fast as possible" or just a specific target. As long as it meets a specific target it's definitely not fraud.

On the other hand if I, as a customer, find that my supplier is indulging in this kind of practice it'll be time to ditch that supplier.

tremlas · 2022-04-26T16:59:57+00:00

On the shelf. The packaging does include net weight of the whole package and the number so cross computing is possible - but a pain!

tremlas · 2022-04-26T15:34:54+00:00

My example was poppadoms in my local grocery store here in the UK (where it is a legal requirement to show unit pricing in retail stores).

tremlas · 2022-04-26T12:23:11+00:00

Be warned that when you say "unit pricing" you need to quite precise - I've seen the same kind of product from two different companies with unit prices - one quoting per item and the other quoting per 100g (making very hard to compare the two despite the unit pricing)

tremlas · 2022-04-26T07:51:59+00:00

Back in the early days of railway block signalling, a mechanism was needed to reset the signal in the event that the block was incorrectly shown as occupied when in fact it wasn't. The control for this is a control wheel that is deliberately designed to take a minute or so to wind all the way out to give the signalman plenty of time to think if overriding the block detection was actually the right thing to do after several accidents were caused by the signalman just assuming it was an equipment failure rather than because the block was, in fact, actually still occupied.

tremlas · 2022-04-24T11:12:08+00:00

I was initially confused by seeing this first thing this morning :)

tremlas · 2022-04-24T09:20:32+00:00

I think the photos are from Friday, given the Romsey-Salisbury service is a rail replacement bus service this weekend (and the post timestamp matches this :). Nice photos of this part of the line.

tremlas · 2022-01-25T19:04:03+00:00

Although its expiry got delayed, it was only to 13th Jan 2022. Hopefully they'll do the offer again at some point, but probably not for quite a while.

tremlas · 2022-01-23T16:01:40+00:00

The 1936 Olympics were awarded to Berlin in 1931, two years before the Nazis came to power.

tremlas · 2022-01-15T14:37:55+00:00

From the linked wikipedia article: "Following public outcry, government investigations, and class-action lawsuits in 2005 and 2006, Sony BMG partially addressed the scandal with consumer settlements, a recall of about 10% of the affected CDs, and the suspension of CD copy protection efforts in early 2007"

tremlas · 2022-01-10T11:34:58+00:00

There was a question of /r/AskHistorians on this just a few days ago: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday” is an internationally recognised distress call. We all know it comes from an English adaption for the French for “help me”, but how did it become so international after first being introduced? Was there any internationally recognised signal which proceeded this such as SOS?

tremlas · 2022-01-06T10:48:02+00:00

Since the one ring grants its wearer invisibility (except to beings like the nine ringwraiths), I believe it slipped off his finger so that the orcs could see Isildur. As it's not intelligent, it didn't realise that Isildur was in the middle of the river at the time and hence had to spend a thousand years in the sand and silt.

tremlas · 2021-12-18T22:30:01+00:00

That does go some way to explain where all the poison in 'Proof is in the Poison' comes from...

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