Youtube comments of Tony L (@tlangdon12).

  1. The glitching is probably cause the fact that the steel reinforcement in the tire is acting like a Faraday cage. The antennas in the GoPro and phone will have some polarization, so the combination of a weakened signal and polarization might well cause irregular drop outs. Great video. Thanks!
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  2. I find it incredible that with that much experience in the cockpit, and the stick shaker going, that one of the other pilots didn't demand the Captain perform a stall recovery.
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  3. This fact is lost on Russians.
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  4. Actually, we have the best mandate to provide military assistance to Ukraine seeing as how we, the UK, guaranteed the security of Ukraine in the Budapest Memorandum. Only the USA and Russia(!) have to also provide security to Ukraine. If the USA will not do it, I don't see how that lets us off the hook? We should be there now, meeting our obligations.
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  5. Correct, but slip rings aren't perfect conductors either, and they wear out, which can mean reliability problems.
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  6. If correct this will be the end of EV and Hybrids, as no insurance company will insure them and they will be banned from all car parks.
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  7. I watched this news report on a Russian YouTube channel a couple of days ago, and the Russian comments were all praising the Russian forces for saving the airport infrastructure, and blaming the Ukrainians for defending it! Considering the extent to which the city of Mariupol has been bombed, it is quite clear that the Russian's wanted to avoid too much damage to the airport. I would assume they hope to be able to fly re-supply missions in it, but I don't think they have enough cover on the ground to make sure that aircraft are not destroyed by anti-aircraft missiles as they approach.
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  8. Your grandpa was right. That is why these fighters are so brave.
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  9. Yes, the explosion seemed to come from an IED or mine under the right hand track as we viewed the footage. The obstruction seemed to cause the front on the tank to come down exactly where the charge was placed. Other comments say there is a missile coming in from the right hand side, but I can't see any movement despite having reviewed the footage in slow motion.
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  10. I agree that local councils could easily check whether someone is in receipt of Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance and Pension Credit - they have access to the data from the DWP to check Council Tax and Housing Benefit Claims. They could then automatically reduce their council tax. It would save a lot of money processing manual claims for Council Tax Support.
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  11. The decision of the Department of Immigration is and should be a matter of public record.
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  12. It had to happen at some point; I disagree with BBB! I beleive that the MT (E&W) R 1982 do allow stopping on the slip road in the event that you run out of slip road. My argument is that Subsection (4) of Section 7. allows stopping on the carriageway if the driver cannot proceed due to the presence of another vehicle on the carriageway. (It doesn't mention where that vehicle is stopped or moving). Stopping is also permited by Section 16 of the same regulations "where it is necessary for him to do so to avoid or prevent an accident". Further evidence in support of my view is that Rule 259 of the Highway Code does not mention not stopping, and none of the laws/regs that underpin Rule 271 of the Highway Code differential between a slip road and the main carriageway. Can you point to the law that says stopping on the sliproad (as opposed to the main carriageway) is not permitted?
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  13. I would expect that an experienced police officer will be able to come up with a reasonable suspicion about just about anyone at any place or time. However, asking for their reasonable suspicion is good practice as it forces them to consider what their suspicion is AND whether it is reasonable. If they realise that they are on very shaky ground, many officers will change how they deal with you.
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  14.  @raylopez99  I expectthe are fully aware of the limitations of their body armor. It only covers a small percentage of their bodies, but is effective against shrapnel from grenades.
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  15.  Isaac Clarke  I wonder how many generals have told him that the nuclear arsenal is in tip-top condition?
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  16. There is an advantage to cutting the aid budget. It aligns Starmer with Trump and allows Starmer to suggest that he is on-side with the President. (After all, copying is the sincerest form of flattery!) And it allows Starmer to say "We've got $7 billion more to spend on defence, and we will buy hardware from the USA if you don't impose tarrifs on what we export to the USA". We were going to buy some stuff from the USA anyway, but Starmer should tell Trump he can wave this goodbye if he imposes tariffs. This is the sort of strong lanuage that Trump understands - if Starmer says anything that suggests he is a liberal, Trump will laugh him out of Washington.
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  17.  @luka1608  It might be war crime due to the effect it would have on the civilian population of Crimea, but if Russia are using to it to bring reinformcements and weapons into Ukraine, it is a legitimate military target. However, you don't need to destroy the bridge to put it out of action. You merely bomb the roads and railsways to either side of the bridge. As a fan of architecture, I would hate to see such a significant structure destoyed, but Russia has damanged far more of Ukraine's infrastructure.
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  18.  @dontwatchtv5797  And when your luck runs out, will you have any feeling for the police office that has to visit your family to tell them you have been wiped ou, or for your family, when they realise that the person who hit you is suing your estate for the damage you caused to their car and there is no defence they can offer as to why they should not pay?
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  19.  @lebohangmokheseng9250  They have lost their economy, their standing in the world, their position as trading partners, and thousands of their young men
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  20. What do you think his answer will be?
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  21.  @chrisfloyd8512  If you think any Ukrainian has time to stage a propaganda film you are not paying attention to the dire situation in their country. They are fighting for their lives in a brutal war.
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  22.  @WindmillStalker  They are almost like a luxury car in terms of their complexity, cost and the reasons for purchase.
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  23. Cutting their education budget is only going to increase the time it takes!
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  24. The UK has been drifiting towards the American societal standard of individualism. We are seeing the same cracks in our society as they see in theirs. We need to become a more equal society, with people being less focused on their individual success and more on the success of everyone.
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  25. Now they just need to find a way to get a couple of Neptunes onto a ferry that can taken them out into the Black See, and sink another Russian Cruiser that now thinks it is out of range! Slava Ukraini!
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  26. It is difficult to imagine that Ukraine has large numbers of troops in this one building, at all different levels; this would not make tactical sense. The building seems to have been shelled indescriminately.
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  27. Funny how the Russian peacekeepers in Donbass were shelling the Ukrainian army and civilians at least as passionately as the DRP/LRP military were.
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  28. It is one reason why there are multiple frequencies, e.g. one for Ground, one for Clearance Delivery and one for the Tower, so that the number of aircraft trying to share a frequency is reduced. Pilots learn what overlapping transmissions sound like and should reissue any communication that they think might have been overlapped.
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  29.  @AB-C1  Tony Martin DIDN'T use his gun to defend himself, he shot before he could even see who he was shooting at, and continued firing even as they tried to leave the property.
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  30. If you are struggling to pay for energy to heat your home, contact the advice agencies in your area and ask to be referred for a fuel voucher.
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  31. While Russia lost something that is more valuable than territory - respect.
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  32.  @flamingsmore5904  If true, this is a woefully capability on the Russian's part. In 21st century warfare you are likely to be attacked by swarms of cheap drones and a few missiles. If your ship defences can't pick out the missiles from the other targets, or wastes time and ammunition engaging drones that pose no threat to the ship, you are going to lose your ship!
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  33.  @nf413  THe Northern Ireland Protocol could turn out to be a very positive thing if it causes a peaceful reunification of Ireland. As a child at the peak of the troubles in NI, I was so pleased when a way was found to have some peace there. The Irish government have had the starkest of example set as to what happens when you mistreat a population, so perhaps they might find a way to integrate Ireland that leads to hope, optimism and success for NI.
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  34. Older captains are much further away from their own experience of learning to fly, so might not realise the full impact of a mistake that the FO might think is career-limiting. However, allowing the FO to complete the flight would be an example of encouraging the FO (akin to getting straight back on the horse that has just throw you). A supportive debreif, and electing to return as passengers would have been the best route, but the returning flight was made safely. Petter didn't mention who flew the return flight, but I've assuming it was the Captain as he did the walkaround.
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  35. Even more than solicitors, the police don't like giving legal advice. Actually, solicitors don't mind too much, providing you pay for it.
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  36.  @RussellDeacon  It's a matter of law. You are breaking the law. The law is there for everyone, and it is not for you to decide which laws you are willing to comply with; unless you are happy to be labelled and prosecuted as a criminal.
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  37. I didn't know the full story, so I have learned something about Canute today. I knew that Trump had no sense that his own power had limits.
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  38. He is  @MTecs lso very knowledgeable, which his interviewees quickly pick up on.
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  39. Yet this case shows that you cannot lash out at someone just because you have been scared one too many times. Cyclists owes a duty of care to others, as you do to them. I am sure you raise your voice to ask them to take greater care, but I do wonder if the answer might be to develop an strange/alarming gait as they approach. 😄
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  40.  @taaha2299  Correct. It seems a trivial wound, unless we are not being told the full truth about the extent of his injury.
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  41. I'm not sure I would trust the pressure-sensitivity of Russian anti-tank mines! A rope strung down the road would have been a safer way to remove the mines. They could have been dragged off the road. Hopefully the Ukrainians have some armourers who can prepare them to be used against Russian tanks.
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  42.  @SunriseLAW  Did you ever decide which continent to obliterate?
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  43. The MET statement at the end of this video is, dare I say it, a cop out. Just doing the bare minimum isn't good policing, it is mediocre policing and by not acknowledging it as such, the MET confirm that they are self-serving, not public-serving.
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  44. There's no need for the pension funds to be offered by NS&I exclusively. It would be easy for government to legislate to require all private pension funds to publish accounts, in a simplified form, but which would explain where the money was invested and demonstrate that it was sustainable, which would embody the requirement to avoid climate change.
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  45. The siutation witht he Drax powerstation is also scandalous. Drax receives £300million per year of state subsidy for their supposedly 'green' technology, while also paying shareholder £330million per year in dividends. Our tax is going straight into the pockets of the shareholders!
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  46.  @aaron6806  That's the fundamental issue here. They forgot their most basic training, and yet as professional pilots have been trained to troubleshoot problems. They failed as professional pilots and failed as basic pilots.
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  47.  @jepulis6674  The sewage pipes were not placed in the slab, but under it and brought up through insulation and the concrete slab. You saw underfloor heating pipes being set into the slab. I tend to agree that the design of the slab makes this a problem if/when the pex pipes start to fail. PEX has a potential lifespan of 100+ years, but when it does fail, the whole house will have to be torn down to replace the pipes. The Supergrud/Aeroground system (and others that seperate the foundations for the walls from the floor slab) doesn't have this problem. You could also lay the UFH pipes in a screed laid over a slip membrane on top of the slab. Then you just have to lift the screed while leaving the slab undisturbed.
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  48.  @Tomas_Pita  The doctor happens to be a thyroid cancer specialist, but they are not necessarily Putin's doctor because of this.
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  49.  @andypandy1986  The purpose of QE wasn't to address wealth inequality. That it would make wealth inequality worse was to be expected. The question is What are we going to do about it now? Ban QE (as Reform want) or tax the wealthy and redistribute the money (which Reform definitely don't want)?
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  50.  @cisium1184  It's argument that they ignored when considering whether to pump gas under the Baltic through the Nord Stream pipelines.
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  51.  @christopherjamespoole8270  No, they wouldn't. This is something that Russian will never understand until they become civilised, and that it going to take a very long time.
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  52.  @fylbike  Imagine an advice worker who knows all the benefit rules. That's going to cost the government a lot of money!
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  53. Commercial aviation depends on a team. No one person can do everything, and so it is right that every member of the team respects what the other members bring to it.
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  54. War in Ukraine has raised prices, and the national grids needs money to adapt to the changes required by climate change, and to increase resillience in uncertain times, but fundamentally Ofgem is mismanaging the energy market. There should have been greater reductions in price due to the switch to more sustainable forms of energy, as the 'fuel' is essentially free, but the windfall has gone to the shareholders (much like in the water sector).
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  55. This has to be a reason not to say anything until your have seen a solicitor and your replies are being recorded properly. If arrested I would hope I would say something like: “I am upset at being arrested and so I will not sure anything further until I have spoken to a solicitor.” - I have written comments on Crimebodge’s channel recommending that if the police want to arrest you, you should go quietly as the problem is never going to get sorted out on the street.
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  56. 0:06 Here's a driving lesson for you: if you see someone make a mistake and get themselves into a potentially dangerous situation, help them to sort themselves out as soon as you can. Make it your priority to do so, don't just barge through just because you are in the right and they are in the wrong.
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  57. Yes, Ukraine can fight on for many years. It has supply lines from the south and west, it has hundreds of thousands of citizens who are willing and able to fight, and it has allies with much bigger stores of ammunition than Russia. It also has capable commanders.
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  58. I think that the captain was deficient in assuming that the autothrottle would always work. Watch enough Mentour Pilot videos and you realise that many of the systems have various points at which they are inhibited and many reasons why they might fail. The operation of any button, but especially a critical one such as the TOGA buttons on the throttles, needs to be verified by someone.
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  59. Most of the videos showing Russian tanks being destroyed showed this happening in open countryside, not Mauripol (or any other city).
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  60. As someone who has been aware of the option to self-build for a long time, I would agree. However, the issue is more to do with the cost of labout - the brickies need to pay their rent, so with high housing (and food and energy) costs, labour costs are through the roof.
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  61. And 280 kills is a pretty impressive dent in Russia's invasion force, as the majority of Javelin kills would expected to be of MBTs.
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  62. Destroying public and private property isn't right.
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  63. The one advantage of arming jet fighters with these missiles is that they can carry them much longer distances, and so take the fight to the enemy.
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  64.  @yves1551  There's no cement in it. It is just a crushed stone, usually the stones in the mix ranges from 0-40mm, but here they seems to be using a smaller maximum size. Compacting it causes the mixture to interlock and become quite solid, and certainly load bearing even on relatively soft ground.
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  65. And don’t reply to it.
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  66. I found this video to be moving, informative and important. I am shocked at the fact that with over 1480 views there are just 9 likes and 6 dislikes. The speaker raised a number of important questions for society in the UK. She clearly want to help things improve; for judges, advocates, litigants and the children who lives are affected by decisions in the family court. Thanks Jo
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  67.  @UwU_for_Christ  You are misrepresenting the situation. You are only liable if you have set a trap (man trap, bear trap, broken glass, whatever). You are not liable if they trip over coiled hose, stab themselves on a splinter of wood on your shed, or hit their head on your boiler flue.
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  68. A software company that I in the early 1990s worked for gave every employee (about 100) their own office with a door that could be shut! The only person who didn’t have an office was the receptionist! This was because the work needed concentration and was harmed by distractions. There were meeting rooms for times when teams needed to get together, but people spent 70% of their time in their office, head down, writing and testing code. It was a great environment, but office rents were cheaper then compared to highly profitable work. But you can see that for some sort of work, working at home is better for the employer, the staff and the environment. The only downside is that your manager can’t see that you are working. We have to train managers better.
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  69. The USA is not relevant to Ukraine now.
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  70. There is a difference between an allegation being unproven and it being proven to be malicious. In many cases, the allegation may be unproven but clearly had some basis in fact - it was not baseless, but it was also not as serious as alleged. In other cases, where an allegation is completely baseless, the court might not be able to see any way to penalise the perpetrator without causing harm to the children, so the perpetrator goes unpunished. This does seem unfair - surely some penalty can be found that only affects the perpetrator - My suggestion would be to name and shame them in the local press.
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  71. I disagree, and you don't know anything about the problems in the penal system. If you did, you would have made a more useful comment.
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  72. Having some indication of a popped breaker is actually quite a difficult engineering challenge.
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  73. Russian sources also claim that the Bayraktar TB2 drone that distracted Moskva's missile defences has been spotted flying loop-the-loops over Sevastopol in celebration.
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  74. Once you have decided this is so, you are part of the problem. I don't hold that view. I think there are things we can do together to solve the problems we have.
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  75. It's not really that case that nothing happens to them. They do get wiped out on a regular basis, and their bikes get written off.
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  76. They are relying on that fact that most people won't consult a lawyer. Which is pretty daft since more than 50% of home owners will have access to a free lawyer via their home insurance!
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  77. Without some military training, anyone would be a liability on the battlefield. However, the Ukrainain civilians are being armed and are having to fight, and possibly die, for their country. With some basic language skills, some fitness and some luck, anyone might last long enough to become useful. But you might also die. No-one should go to Ukraine to fight who is not reconcilled with the idea that they are probably not going to come back alive.
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  78. I'd agree with his assessment that Starmer's meeting with Trump tomorrow is incredibly important, at least for the UK. I just wonder if Starmer understands that he needs to give Trump something shiny?
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  79.  @stu281  And an incorrect one. Ukraine has shown that it can slow the Russian army to the point where it is conceivable that it might run out of ammunition, or even troops.
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  80. I imagine that the CIO was begging the board for money to fix the systems, much as the COO was begging for money to overhaul and replace the physical infrastructure, but shareholders were put first. I see this as a problem of regulation. Ofwat has failed, and if the cause of their failure is that they were not given adequate powers, then it is the Conservative government that privatised and deregulated the water industry that is the root cause. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's Labour governments may be equally culpable if they did not fix the problem.
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  81. Ukraine wasn't a rich country (per head of capita) prior to the war, but Putin's aspirations and greed has made Ukraine much poorer, for the moment.
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  82. Could be. Inslow-mo you can see a small flash of light when the missile is about 4m behind the tail. This could be the sub-munitions being deployed.
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  83. I often think that our electorate is cleverer than our politicians give us credit for. Most of us know someone who is caring for a young family or caring for a sick or disabled person, and we know the people who are being cared for. We know about them because they are part of our lives. We know intimately the challenges they face and how certain people will never be welcome in a conventional workplace because they need too much support. When politicians try to drive wedges between us, it succeeds when we allow them to focus on our differences. They fail when we focus on what makes us the same; and that is generally that we are humans, with all the strengths and weaknesses that that implies.
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  84. One has to wonder if the employment legislation is forcing employers to become super-selective because they feel they are penalised if they make a mistake in hiring someone. I don't think the employment legislation in the UK is wrong, but it might be driving some undesirable behaviours from employers. Hope you are successful in your job hunting.
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  85. Great research. To fill my engine and oil filters I use an plastic oil jug that is only ever used for clean oil and which has a large screw-on lid to cover the hole where you put the oil in and a flexible nozzle for dispensing the oil. The nozzle also has a lid that screws on and off. It cost £10 or about $12 (I'm in the UK).
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  86. But not to go to countries with lower taxes.
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  87. Some magnetic Domino's signs on the side of your car might have speeded things up...
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  88.  @stevehiggins1263  My daughter has done the same in Denmark.
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  89. This is a very common myth and can be very damaging. I would encourage anyone who has children and is living with the children's other parent to research and review their legal situation. There is no need to get married, but you need to understand the legal implications of not being married in certain situations, such as the death of your partner.
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  90. He also has support from others, some of whom are much cleverer than he is.
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  91. Russia has had lot of "temporary" setbacks in Ukraine!
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  92. No, there is a column of armored vehicles visible at the top of the screen in the first few seconds of the clip. I think this tank was sent to check for an ambush.
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  93.  @FunHog69  It's not entirely lies. The part about the biolabs may in fact have a grain a truth (but only a grain). And it is also true that Ukranians were killing Ukrainians in Donbas, some of whom were ethinically Russian. But these "ethnic Russians" were Ukranian citizens who were also killing other Ukranians. It is currently unclear if the Ukranians had biolabs, but if they did, they would only have been to test for biological agents, and to advise on dealing with biological weapons. The chance of the Ukranians actually having developed bio weapons in these labs is zero.
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  94. The UK could learn a lot from Denmark about respect. I'm so sorry that this vile program was produced in the UK.
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  95. It's an assault and you are likely to get arrested if the kids make a complaint. The fact they were smoking weed will not wash as a provocation You could have called the police, but I like the idea of playing Vera Lynn at full volume, which is an assult of a different kind!
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  96. This is one reason why this report by Mentour Pilot is so important - new pilots need to learn that there is no reason why any pilot should have to find themselves in a situation where only extraordinary skill or luck can save the day. It is better to play it safe and be told that you could have done something different to save the company a little money, than take a risk that ends up costing you your job.
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  97. I actually think he is really worried that the parts of Russia that are close to China may be absorbed by China or may align themselves with Bejing, rather than Moscow.
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  98. No.
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  99. If you want to learn more about how the UK legal system works (and doesn't work), try to get a copy of a book called The Secret Barrister and have a read. It is rather hair-raising.
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  100. It is important the such trials are fair. The trial needs to take into account the degree of choice that the person had in cooperating with the invaders.
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  101. And this is why many electrical engineers won't change meters, because they don't have permission to remove the DNO's fuse, and you can't do it safely if you don't remove the fuse.
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  102.  @jebise1126  NATO isn't one country. Lots of countries are willing to help Ukraine, so the cost is spread.
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  103. So you are suggesting that it is treason to think that their might be a better way on managing the prison system than the Tories? The Tories implemented laws to ensure that more people spent more time in prison and then they didn't build any more prisons! This has the obvious result of so overcrowding the existing prisons that the prison officers could hardly retain control or have any time to undertake any rehabilitation of the prisoners. They also cut back on mental health services and provided little to no drug rehabilition services. They has to be a better way, and looking for it isn't really treasonous.
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  104.  @BlackBeltBarrister  And neither had it been used. It's also part of consumer legislation that if a salesperson says that the product is suitable for certain use, and it turns out not to be, then you have a valid claim. So if the sales person tells you a bag is suitable to be used for "deep sea diving", and it turns out not to be, you will generally be entitled to a refund. I managed to return a mobile phone because the mobile provider had failed to port my old number to their new SIM. My contention was they I had been assured in the shop that they would be able to do this. My purpose in buying the phone and their phone service was, in part, to port my number to a new phone.
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  105. The conversations we have with children and as children are enormously important. Children should have the opportunity to engage with adults outside their family circle and who are not teachers, so that they are exposed to other ideas of how a good life might be led. It is for the child to decide, for themselves, what sort of life they want to lead. In particular, we need to talk to children about our jobs and how the world works from our perspective so that they can begin to understand what might be important to them as adults, and what sort of work they might like to do.
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  106. Petroroubles are worth even less than Roubles. You can only by gas with Petroroubles! With real roubles you can at least buy a glass of vodka or a babushka doll.
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  107.  @changkaiseng  No. NATO was at the border of Russia for many years. NATO has thousands of nuclear weapons pointing at Russia. If Ukraine joined NATO, there wouldn't be any more nuclear weapons pointing at Russia. This is a smokescreen by Putin. All Putin wants is the natural resources of the Ukraine.
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  108. Not printing money to avoid the collapse of your banking system is more stupid.
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  109. This is a great technique and can help both parties be clear at to what was said and agreed.
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  110. That particular strike might be discouraging people, but all the news footage from elsewhere in Ukraine is encouraging people to go, because they believe Ukraine can win this war and people are sick of seeing Russian strikes on innocent civilians.
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  111.  @Hickalum Richard was talking about electricity pricing.
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  112.  @mikaeljonsson4686  That's a good idea. It would be difficult to ignore such a pile, but Putin would tell Russians that they were mostly Ukrainians.
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  113.  @naimsalahuddin-bey2919  I pray that they never get that “memo”.
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  114. While I agree, the issue is recalling the flow diagram when you are stopped in the street at some random point in the future. Even if you keep the flow diagram on you, you might find it difficult to consult without escalating the situation. Really the best advice is to keep the conversation pleasant with the police, and try find out: i) if you are under suspicion of an offence, in which case you will have to give your name, dob, address for indentification, ii) if they want you to account for yourself, in which case you should (only) tell them about what you have been doing, where you have been and are going and what you have on you and only do so IF you wish to (they can ask the question, but you don't have to answer), iii) if the police want to search you, in which case, you should ask them what they are looking for and why they think you have this item on you; you don't have to tell them anything but should allow yourself to be searched. Try to memorise this.
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  115. No, please no.
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  116.  @bloccoaspirale1867  I am inclined to agree with this advice, as avoiding being arrested can be beneficial, e.g. when travelling to the USA and US Immigration ask "Have you ever been arrested?"
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  117. Yet another way in which Putin has cripped Russia. If Russia ever want to return to the world economy, they are going to have to repay all the aircraft leasing charges (plus interest), and to replace all the planes they have ruined by not maintaining them. The same is true of any Russian owned aircraft outside of Russia. They will all be ruined (or reduced to flying only in Russia) because their maintenance paperwork is in Russia and no one will/can pay to do the time-based maintenance on them. If you wanted to isolate your country and your countryment from the rest of the world, Putin has found a great way to do it.
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  118. The citizens of Mariupol were not deliberately targeted by their army, they were targetted by Russian forces fighting that army. The only reason that this is the only source of aid available is that the city has been cut off from all other aid by Russian forces. These people were trapped by Russian forces and are still not allowed to leave, unless they want to leave to go to Russia.
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  119. Fundamentally, we have to address this with our training of business leaders/executives, and with regulation (especially in relation to Directors insurance). The Executives need to understand their responsibilities and that they will be held to account by the shareholders if the board does not. Long-term incentive programs are good for executives where the effect of their decisions might not be truly understood for five to ten years. Short-term bonuses encourage short-term thinking. Perhaps Shareholders should become more active in taking legal action against executives, and perhaps the Insurance policies that protect Directors should not do so in cases where there is clear evidence of self-interested decision-making.
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  120. There are now unknowable unknowns! Who can know the mind of a madman?
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  121.  @kieran4434  If you refuse to do anything about it, then yes.
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  122.  @weirdscience1  Presumably the others were reported for violations of YouTube's policies.
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  123. The supply of water to Crimea via the North Crimea Canel would be a good point to include in any peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. A peaceful agreement on the future of the Crimea would be best for Crimea, and any such agreement really needs to address the spply of water to stop it becoming a problem for future relations.
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  124. No, unfortunately not. If you are in the left hand lane, and are travelling at a greater speed that the middle lane hogger, you cannot pass them on the left UNLESS their lane is congested. Normally middle lane hoggers are not travelling in congested lane; they are usually well seperated from vehicles in front and behind them, meaning it would be easy for them to see that it was safe to move into the left hand lane - but they never do!
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  125. You fall into the exact trap that BBB was advising not to fall into! You haven't said anything about how the judge arrived at the sentence. What mitigating or aggravating factors did they take into account? Without this, no-one can know whether the sentences are correct.
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  126. I was surprised that the piece said that you could have a pistol in NI for personal protection. I didn't know that.
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  127. Perhaps the requirement to wear a helmet has been implemented so that the police can feel more able to take the risk of knocking someone off their quad when they will not stop?
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  128. Life would become much more expensive for all if we did, so you are correct.
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  129.  @pootle5095  If you are suspected of an offence that is nothing to do with driving or you are supected of an indictable driving offence (such as taking the car without consent), it will be better to exit your vehicle, as the police can "do what the hell they like" to extract you, and damage to you vehicle will have because caused in the lawful execution of their duty. Generally the police will use anything you say against you, so say as little as you need to. Sometimes, admiting to a minor traffic offence can defuse the situation, possibly leading to a stern warning and nothing else. If you are behind the wheel of a car and have the keys in your possession, you are 'driving' it. The "travelling in it" arguement is spurious. I will get out of my vehicle for motoring offences I may have committed IF the police office is in danger if they try to deal with it through the window, such as on a motorway or fast dual carriageway. Ideally we would all drive to somewhere where the police can interact with us without danger to themselves, such as a service station or car park.
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  130. Spread spectrum radio communication was invented by Hedy Lamarr (a famous film actress in the 1930s and 40s) and George Anthiel during World War II, as a technology for communicating with torpedoes to give them updated guidance information in a way that could not be intercepted or jammed.
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  131. And Putin is the clown of Russia.
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  132. At the very start of the clip, at the top of the screen, you can see a column of armored vehicles. It looks like this tank might have been sent forward to check whether there was an ambush waiting.
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  133. Presumably they were also asking all the other students to provide guarantors. I'd like BBB's view on whether a court should/would apportion the landlord's losses over all the guarantors, should the landlord take multiple guarantors to court?
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  134. That bridge has protective concrete in front and behind of two of the main piers, but not the third. No doubt the investigation will uncover why this was the case.
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  135.  @janickpauwels3792  Half the English get it, the other half do not, and we are stuck with leaders who cannot lead.
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  136. @ However, a progressive tax system would ensure that billionaires could still continue to accumulate but at a slower rate, giving the rest us a chance.
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  137.  @unwantedvoid1678  I agree that if the Ukrainians had implemented genocidal policies in Ukraine, then Russian (and every other nation) should challenge the Ukrainians on this. But its not clear whether Ukraine did implement genocidal policies, or just implemented policies that were unfair. Russia and Ukraine tried to arrange for peace in Donbas via the Minsk Agreement, but neither Russia nor Ukraine were able to make this agreement work. Rather than invading, Russia should have tried other routes to find an agreement that would provide some external oversight of the policies that Ukraine implemented in Donbas to ensure that they were fair to all Ukrainians. I fear Russia will pay a heavy price for its failure to find a peaceful way to bring fairness to all Ukrainians.
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  138.  @wjf0ne  I agree. In this case, even if the area had been one where the crime rate was very high, the police should not search you or ask for your details unless they consider that you have done something wrong.
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  139.  @logicweaver7152  I agree that the fact they can be traced and verified is important. I think it is brave of these residents to give their names, and that they should be protected from harrassment when they have only told the truth as they see it.
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  140. All nations will help Ukraine. Even China are helping by not supporting Russia.
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  141. The daily grind is called that because it can grind you down if you let it. Many people who have to commute use the time productively, either for their employer or for themselves.
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  142. John Lewis tried this with me on a tumble dryer that was faulty. John Lewis have also been refusing to accept Smart TVs returned under the CRA 2015 because of data protection - they say that the memory of the TVs can't be cleared of customer data by doing a factory reset on the TV, and are using this as the reason that it cannot be returned. My contention is that this is evidence that the TV is not fit for purpose. The memory must be able to be wiped, so that the TV can be returned if it is faulty. If it cannot be wiped, and this is required for a product to be returned, then it is not fit for purpose. Anyone agree?
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  143.  @Eaglebird8853  Trump was Putin's ally! Trump would have given Putin prior permission to invade Ukraine.
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  144. I think you mis-understand; America simply needs more oil!
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  145.  @ASBO_LUTELY  Ah, so Domino drivers pay for their own fuel. Now it makes sense that you wouldn't want to use the magnetic signs that Domino's provide.
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  146. There will always be debate about whether a government should do something or not, but there are some fundamentals that all prosperous societies rely on. The rule of law, courts and legal protection for property owners, defence, social services to care for the ill and disabled, immigration control, regulation of critical services such as banking, building, industry and transport are all vital. Stopping all of this, at once, is crazy. Swamp or no swamp, you don't take needless risks.
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  147.  @rickatatastan2695  Seeng how Trump is renaging on the deals he made with Canada and Mexico on trade, who would trust him to keep any deal that he signed?
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  148. When I started working in Group Accounting, I quickly realised that the profit made by the group made was very much down to how much the board wanted the group to have made! After more time working with accountants, I also learned that a number was only ever 'correct' if two accountants agreed it was correct!
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  149.  @petertelford5338  There was nothing special about the Lightning's fuel; it's just ordinary kerosene, like every other jet engine uses.
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  150. Of course, Putin wants a negotiated settlement. Any 'negotiation' starts from the position that Russia keeps the terririty it has invaded and occupied. Putin will not negotiate if the starting point is (as it should be) that Russia withdraws to its borders and the negotiation is about how much Russia will pay for the damage it has caused in Ukraine. Russia needs to pay for the actions of the tyrant and return the land it stole to the people that live there; who are Ukrainian, but ethnically Russian.
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  151. So Putin's arguement is that Russia has an interest in seizing Ukrainian territory, and the USA has no such interest, so it should just let Russia do this? If Russia can take Ukrainian territory, then why not Finland's, and then Sweden, and then Norway. Putin will not stop unless someone stops him.
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  152. Hitting the rev limiter it unprofessional and potentially damaging as very fast acceleration can over-rev the engine before the engine management unit can do anything about it. Porsche engines count the times the revs have gone over the rev limiter, and this can devalue the car.
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  153.  @sleepingwarrior4618  It’s not a decision for individuals if they can kill their patients, customers and colleagues. It’s irresponsible not to have the vaccine and I can’t understand how an unvaccinated person could live with themselves knowing that they could be spreading a very contagious and life-threatening virus.
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  154. If your quota is filled by Wednesday, this suggests that some Russians would have time to develop skills, but clearly the state in Russia has a great interest in limiting the skills you can acquire. This might lie at the root of the Russian state limiting immigration, in spite of rapidly falling birth rates and the loss of young men in the war in Ukraine. Immigrants bring new skills and languages which they might teach to Russians, who can then leave.
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  155. It's not a good policy for the reasons Richard suggests, but also modern business thinking isn't that businesses exist to make a profit, it is that businesses exist to make customers for their products. This seems equally at odds with the social benefits of enterprise, but it perhaps does explain to employees their role in a more relatable way.
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  156. Persistance is an underrated quality. As we have learned about the challenges of mental health, I think we may have become too accepting of people standing back from what is difficult rather than being expected to overcome the difficulties where it is likely they can do so.
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  157.  @gordonstrong5232  Thank you. In that case, I have TDS big time and will continue to call out Trump's mistakes regardless of whether his supporters think he is their saviour. He isn't.
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  158.  @stephenroldan5107  Poo tin
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  159. A very good question, but sadly the answer is that they will be monitored by the existing parole officers; just not very well! A parole officer with 300 ex-offenders to supervise might find themselves having to supervise 350. This is unfair and might cause some to leave their jobs, further reducing the numbers of experienced officers.
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  160. I would very much doubt not. They might have discussed this with their insurers and decided jointly to carry that risk.
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  161. As the video points out, should you feel the need to defend yourself, anything that you might reach for becomes an offensive weapon if you pick it up with the intention of harming someone with it, but the police and CPS will not generally prosecute you if you have picked up the first thing that came to hand and only used it with reasonable force to defend yourself; which might mean waving it about and making threats towards the attacker, using it to parying any blows they might throw at you, or hitting them with it. If you only use it enough to stop them, and not to harm them any more than is necessary to get them to stop their attack, you have a defence in law.
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  162. I am expecting that a very expensive item is going to be delivered to me before Christmas, and I will video its delivery from the point the truck stops outside my house. (The delivery will have be arranged so that I am in to receive it.)
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  163. The problem with that is that collisions from cars would break the pot. A large granite rock is a good decoration for the end of the drive IMHO.
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  164. Good points, especially about the balance between paying people who have to cope with a disability and funding the services that would minimise or eliminate the disability.
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  165.  @CamEraFitnessChannel  He might not be stupid, but he could be deluded, and that might be just as dangerous.
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  166. Proper investment in staffing and training would save more that it costs. The only losers are the agencies!
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  167. It is outrageous if it is true. There is so much disinformation that it is difficult to know whether people were required to speak Ukrainian in stores and in public buildings. I don't have too much of a problem requiring people to speak the national language when engaging with officials (to pay taxes, claim benefits, apply for permits, etc.) because translators are expensive, but people should be able to use any language in business or at home. Clearly in a store, the staff have to be able to speak Ukranian, but there should be no expectation that customers cannot use Russian when, for example, speaking to the person behind them in the queue. Ukrainian and Russian are really similar languages anyway. I would expect a Russian from Vladyvostok to be able to communicate with a Ukrainian shopkeeper to buy breadand milk, and the shop keeper should be grateful for the custom, even if their Ukrainian is a bit dodgy.
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  168.  @leejohnson3209  I agree! The student loan system is going to produce very unequal outcomes, and that isn't good for the UK.
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  169. I think you have covered one reason for the lack of productivity in the UK economy in a previous video - the effect of long chains of subcontractors, but I agree that we are also underutilising our human resources. Part of the issue is that managers are not well trained in the UK. Better trained managers would understand the need to allow staff the room to do the best job they can do - including the managers own job! - if they are capable of doing it. Managers need to to understand that if they have trained someone to do, or even just discovered that someone else can do, their job, this is not a threat to them, but very liberating and rewarding. If the manager's manager is also well trained, they will recognise that developing new managers is a skill in itself and will value and reward this skill.
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  170. Use the money for public good would seem a very sensible decision.
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  171. There are many business customers in the UK who have contracts with Gasprom's UK subsidiary, where the contracts state that payment is to be made in Sterling and the contracts are written under UK law, so there will be limits about what Gazprom can do if the other party doesn't agree to pay in Rubles. It might make sense to pay in Rubles if you know that you are going to end the contract at the first opportunity. You can buy all the Rubles you need now at a bargain price!
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  172. It seems more likely that the chose this airport due to a perceived saving in cost to the company.
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  173. The Wolf is here and it wears a fake tan!
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  174. As someone who has worked in the City in a hybrid set-up, I can confirm that working in an office with your colleagues is very much more productive when engaged in project work.
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  175. Good advice.
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  176. One thing I have learned from 30 years in business is that value takes a long time to create, and it can be destroyed very quickly. Some leaders don't take the time to understand where value is in a business, so inadvertently destroy it without even realising. Others know where the value is created, but are mistaken about how robust the value creation process is, and stretch it beyond breaking point without realising. In mergers and acquisitions where the leadership comes from just one former business, the leadership can fall into the trap of assuming that because the businesses are similar, they generate value in exactly the same way. You need insight and understanding of both businesses to figure out how to combine them in the best way, so that move value is created rather than less.
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  177.  @sassy3923  The truth is that prior to 2014, when Ukraine was more aligned with Russia, there was peace and some prosperity across all of Ukraine, and especially in Donbas. But from 2014, the coup in Kiyv ousted the pro-Russia government, and a pro-European government was elected. The pro-European nature of the government upset many in Donbas who have traditionally had stronger ties with Russia than other areas of Ukraine had. It is also the case that the shift to a pro-Europe view in Kiyv was accompanied by a greater nationalism, which is to say Ukraine begain to see itself as more an in independent and sovereign nation. I don't mean nationalism in the sense that the Nazis used the term. True Nazis believed that everyone who is not of their race is sub-human. Ukraine became more nationalistic in sense that people were more patriotic about being Ukrainian. One result if this nationalism is that a law was passed to encourage the speaking of Ukrainian (in Soviet times, you were only allowed to speak Russian in Ukraine, so that is what was taught in schools). I don't think Ukrainians think that Russians are sub-human. Many Ukrainians have close family in Russia and vice versa. It isn't clear to me whether the law to encourage the use of the Ukrainian language was abused or not. Clearly a supporter of the far right would be inclined to abuse it, and force Russian-speakers not to use Russian. My view is that anyone should be able to use any language they want to at home, and in any small business they run, but it is reasonable to expect that only Ukrainian will be taught in Ukrainian school, and that you need to use Ukrainian when filling in official government forms, e.g. for paying tax, or claiming benefits. If the Ukrainian state has been telling Russian speakers that they cannot speak Russian at home, then this is wrong, but I don't have enough information to know whether this was the case. It's all very sad for the people of Ukraine.
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  178. Your account number and sort code appear on all your cheques.
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  179.  @bradpayne4264  It's a good question; in the UK, in recent times, we have given more weight to the value of life than to property. Taking someone's bike is less serious than taking someone's life. However, we don't know whether the thief who died has also killed people during his criminal career, and had just been lucky not to be caught.
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  180.  @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333  Russia has attacked many undefended targets in Ukraine.
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  181. The oil that we mine doesn't leak out from the ground very much at all, so it will be safe enough if we put it where we got all the oil from.
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  182.  @JKL100-0  Can you be certain? Where does your certainty come from? The mouth of Putin? If so, prepare to be shocked.
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  183.  @tamasraduly2676  We hope so, the city of Belgorod is a legitimate a miliaty target as Bucha.
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  184. Украинцы сказали, что будут драться с Россией до последнего человека.
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  185.  @troycalgaro413  There is nothing to be aware of. There are no NATO or US troop in Azovstal.
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  186. Providing the street as more than one lane! 😁
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  187. @Liberty In Peril You are correct. In a war where the army is trying to defend their cities from an invader, it is enevitable that the army will take shelter in the cover that is available in the city. There aren't any forts or gun emplacements in Mariupol. It was a happy, prosperous city until one month ago when the Russians invaded.
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  188. or Barbours.
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  189. It's a worryign time to be a federal employee - not only might you lose your job, but you might also have nightmares because you know what your job does for ordinary Americans.
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  190.  @tarquin161234  I don't think anyone is arguing that Musk didn't have the right to fire anyone who worked for X, but taking the same approach with the US Government is just reckless.
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  191. I'm not sure it is. As an employee I accepted that the business had to make a profit, and that it had to distrubte most of that profit to the shareholders and pay the tax due. I hoped that some profit would be paid to me as a bonus, but I also wanted the business to be able to invest; to replace worn out equipment, to train staff in better ways of doing things, and to stop doing things that harmed the environment. I hated it when I saw executives making decisions that seemed to destroy the value inherent in the organisation (i.e. it's ability to make a profits n the long term) in order to increase profits in the short term. I am now a shareholder in a great many companies as a result of being retired with a personal pension, and while I want dividends now, I also want them for at least the next 30 years or so.
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  192. This is why, young and old, need to work together to stop the likes of Trump and Badenoch.
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  193. They have imprecise weapons. Their rockets and artillery are always going to cause civilian casulaties when fired into cities. The Russians don't care about civilians as the civilian population is resisting the Russia invasion.
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  194.  @lesigh1749  It is vital we are protected from people with an unhealthy interest in coffee.
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  195. This is an area where Artificial Intelligence (AI) could add a lot of value - if the external camera view was being analysed by AI, it could a) alert the flight crew that looked unusual and b) allow a fast rewind to the start of footage that was anomalous.
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  196.  @carolramsey6287  And having an offensive wife!
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  197. One of my uncle's had a learning difficulty, but held down a job as a CNC Programmer for many, many years, much to the surprise of his family. This is because his 'disability' was incredibly useful when programming CNC machines because he could deal with the level of detail that the machines needed, while 'normal' people struggled to do so. With Artificial Intelligence disrupting all forms off work, we need senior managers in businesses to ensure that opportunity remains available to all who want it.
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  198. Richard's point is that we give those words meaning. Trump cannot remove their meaning if we do not let him.
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  199. Expensive to buy and to heat! You might not mind paying so much for a new house if it meant that your energy bills were going to drop massively compared to your old rented property.
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  200. Only you are listening to one side of the story. The other side of the story is there for all to see.
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  201. The rotor configuration is important to the self-starting characteristics of the rotor. The graceful curved blades on some Darrius-type VAWTs are not there to look nice, they actually improve the ability of the rotor to self-start because there is always some part of the rotor that is at the optimal angle of lift to start the rotor turning, and as that part of the rotor turns away from that angle, another part of the rotor is turning into that optimum angle. Self-starting behaviour is a particular difficulty with VAWTs, but it can be overcome with careful design.
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  202.  @AlbertoForniture  No, just another one who has seen the footage from Mariupol, Kiyv, Kherson, Karkhiv, etc.
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  203.  @penniavaswen  Most expensive or most flammable will cause your to sweat for sure!
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  204.  @VinceLammas  I agree with you. And so that society can understand, manage and prevent the great harms that indistries can inflict, we need experts in those industries to be working within the regulators. Much as the tax authorities are always chasing to close the loopholes that allow tax evasion, regulators need to be able to keep up with the new ways that industries invent to do more harms.
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  205. Don' forget that in the UK, anyone can arrest anyone who is in the process of commiting an indictable (or either way) offence. BlackbeltBarrister has a video about Citizens Arrest with some valuable advice. Deciding to arrest someone when the police will not attend a crime is probably going to result a problem, if not a prosecution, as by the time you have consulted with the Police and found that they will not turn out, the crime will have been committed and the basis on which you might lawfully arrest someone is no longer valid.
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  206. Victoria Crosses are not awarded for being somewhere or doing something that is merely brave, but for doing something that is so exceptionally brave as to warrant the very highest award. It is awarded for acts of valour that are rare and rarely survived. Each VC is awarded on its merits; it must be so, otherwise it devalues the award. The acts of bravery that justify a VC are usually obvious to any military commander who regularly receives reports of bravery. They are so unusual, so far and above the deeds of ordinary heroes, that they scream for special attention. That the acts of these brave Canadians have been reviewed twice by their own commanders and these commanders have not thought them sufficiently exceptional should be enough.
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  207. I use the size of my key ring to keep an eye on how complicated my life is. I have actively seperated off bunches of keys that I only need on certain occasions from my main keyring.
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  208.  @mfx1  I disagree. It is very clear that many cyclists don't stop for red lights ever, and yet most motorists do. Cyclists are thus in the habit of not stopping. Car drivers are in the habit of stopping. These habits come into play in unusual situations when more care should be taken.
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  209. Certain builders might decide that destroying their work is a good way to hid that it is shoddy.
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  210.  @JetSopp  Clearly Russia has more Neo-Nazis than Ukraine.
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  211. I think your idea that we need to connect the act of saving and the consequences of doing so is correct. It's our money and if it is being used while we don't need it, we should be engaged with how it is being used. I like the idea of a regional ISA - such that if I have an affinity with my home town where I no longer live but want to support its regeneration, I can invest in the ISA tthat will benefit that community. Most people will, of course, invest in the community in which they currently live, but there is the option to support another community if you wish.
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  212. Russia and Ukraine were talking before the invasion. Putin's point of view is that they could have given away parts of Ukraine to Russia (Donbas & Luhansk) to avoid invasion. But no democratically elected governement is going to allow a small, but vocal, population decide to decide to leave the country when the majority of the population didn't want to. Especially when this small population has taken up arms and caused a civil war. The Azov Brigade was fighting on the side of the Ukranians who wanted these areas to remain part of Ukraine, and certainly some of the Brigade espoused far-right views. A good neighbour would have forced the parties into a peaceful settlement. Not so Russia. It invaded, and Ukraine had no reasonable choice prior to the invasion if it was to maintain its sovereignty.
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  213. The premature failure of a Boeing-built satellite (iS-33e) also reminds us that companies need to have reserves of goodwill. If many of your products are getting slated for quality problems, you can’t afford another bad story. When will they learn that you can save too much money.
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  214. Not sure I would want an unpaid, unqualified volunteer deciding the fate of my child. If you don't pay people, why would they take the time to become qualified?
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  215. Children are generally at more risk if no action is taken. At least the family court and judges can take actions and ensure that these actions are carried out. Most risk arises from parents that don't put the needs of their child first.
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  216. Only those who are inclined to riot, which is as it should be.
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  217. In Patrick's video we saw the destruction of Mariupol by Russian forces. One month ago, Mariupol was a happy thriving city, now it is a bombed-out shell, and all because Russia invaded Ukraine in violation of international law. I hope Russia has deep pockets because it will be paying to rebuild Ukraine for many years.
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  218. You are right that no politician should be in power for too long. This is one reason why Putin needs to go, he has been in power for too long and has become drunk on the power.
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  219.  @landcruiser801  Of course it does, but it doesn't permit threats that have no basis in law, or illegal threats.
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  220. Not as clear as your uniform is sat in your troll office.
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  221. @Carl Ruffier There are many civilians who have not been able to flee Ukraine and who are not fit enough to lift a rifle to aim it. Certainly no child would be allowed to fight no matter how dire the situation.
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  222.  @dustinrobinson58  I tend to disagree with you. Only combat experience ensures that you know what you are walking into when you volunteer to join an army. Military training doesn't do that.
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  223. I'm happy to accept the power of the state so long as this is wielded fairly. There has to be the opportunity to protest and the opportunity to appeal decisions. The previous Tory government was against both of these essential safeguards.
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  224. I've had thoughts along these lines for a while. Vegetable oils would provide a carbon-rich lubricant to allow granulated biochar to the pumped underground.
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  225. The employees, customers, shareholders and suppliers will pay any increase in Employer tax. There is no-one else who could pay this tax as the employer gets it's money from customers, and spends it on employees and goods and services from its suppliers, distributing what is left (after Corporation Tax) to its shareholders. So an increase in Empoyment taxes is either going to create an immediate upward pressure on costs to consumers (if the cost is passed on to consumers) or a immediate downward pressure on the amount paid to shareholders (or the business owners if it's a private business). This will then get unwound as employees aren't given payrises and suppliers are told that they can't increase their prices.
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  226. Quite possibly. You might be able to sue someone if you tripped over a charging cable across a pavement, if the cable wasn't marked, and lit at night. It would be nice if the insurance industry took a lead in reminding policy holders that they have to take care when charing their vehicles, and doing so might lead to a negligence claim that their policy would not cover them for.
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  227. The CCTV footage is probably showing the failure of reinforced concrete and or steel beams under intense heat. The passive fire protection required on such structures guarantees a degree of protection, but this protect has a limited time period. The period is usually sufficient to guarantee that all people escape, but won't necessarily allow personal property (i.e. cars) to be moved. If the car park owner has no liability to the owners of the cars parked in it, why would they build it to protect the cars.
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  228. Children who use Social Services to undermine the authority of their parents will be very few and far between. Social Service teams simply don't have the resources to get involved in most disputes between a child and its parents. Where Social Services are involved, they have an expectation as to who is the adult in any dispute.
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  229. The Russians are bombing civilians indescriminately anyways, so it doesn't matter to a Ukrainian whether they are seen as a civilian or a combatant, they know the Russians see them as only fit for eradication.
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  230.  Юлия М  Russia has not released nothing like the number of videos that Ukraine have released, so clearly their campaign is not going well.
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  231. You are not being penalised. You know that you are big and that you are outside of the normal seat dimensions. You are choosing to travel by air in seats that are not big enough for your because the alternative is less convenient.
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  232. CIFAS have been around for many years. I expect that this person will not be able to clear their name without taking very expensive legal action. The system appears to be broken - this person's bank will have known an enormous amount of information about them; who they shop with, who their mortgage is with, who supplies their energy. If a long-standing customer is accused of commiting a fraud, then the fraud needs to be investigated (by a competent authority), but while this is going on there should be a presumption of innocence (or at least an acknowledgement that the complainant may have an alternative motivation to not wanting to be defrauded). I think this person should write to their MP, as should we all. This system needs a review.
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  233. It might, if the legislation that the UK government are bringing in for health and social care workers is dependent on that Act. If the legislation is not dependent on the Coronavirus Act 2020 then it won’t be.
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  234. The man is fighting for his life, and that of all his countrymen. You would be on TV every hour of the day if you thought it would help.
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  235.  @EngineeringwithRosie  I think the question you posed as to whether VAWTs are not efficient enough yet for commercial use is due to a lack of development or an inherent inefficiency is a great question. It's not that they produce no energy; while it is certainly true that there is published data that shows certain VAWT installations did not performed well, these tend to be in poor wind sites where a HAWT would do no better. There is other data from large VAWTs in good wind sites that have produced a lot of energy quite reliably.
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  236.  @skg8268  This is one case in which not saying anything to the police might have helped.
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  237. The UK, as a result of its North Sea oil and gas projects and the Offshore Windfarms, has a depth of experience with marine engineering that is second to none. The corrosion problems can't be overcome indefinitely, but they can certainly be overcome economically. The missing link, as well as grid upgrades, is storage. Tidal power is predicatble, but intermittent and might arrive when demand is low, so cracking the storage conundrum is key.
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  238.  @BAICAL.  Теперь это смешно.
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  239.  @manoo422  Every window I look out of, I see a climate that has and is changing.
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  240. Yes. The populations water and energy needs will continue to fall as electical devices become more efficient and as homes become better insulated. Better ways of storing electricity and heat will become common place.
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  241.  @DarronSanderson  You didn't. Trump was a joke, and a Russian stooge. Biden is old and reasonably wise.
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  242.  @rashmigupta9  The problem is that Russia invaded and has been fuelling a war in Donbass for 8 years, and did not support Ukraine or DRP/LRP to implement the Minsk accord. Ukraine did not enough, but there is more fault on Russia's side.
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  243.  @cubaasid3002  Russia didn’t exert any of its influence on DPR and LPR to stop fighting or remove the weapons they had donated. Ukraine had a right to expect Russia to do what it said it would in the Minsk agreement and Russia did not. Perhaps the two need to go back to the negotiating table to discuss a settlement they can both honour?
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  244.  @AFloridaSon I'm surprised Zelensky is so against "Denazification", but we don't how Putin defines this.
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  245. TheRoidemortetfleur I agree coal power has the potential to be cleaner, but when you burn coal you get CO2. No amount of cleaning is going change this. We have to stop polluting the atmosphere with CO2 that should not be there.
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  246. The duty of car will extend to life and limb, but not to property damage caused by secondary means. If a car were to be damaged by the building collapsing because it had not been built correctly, then the builder might well be negligent. But as BBB explained it's not negligent if the damage is from a secondary cause. There is not evidence tht the designers didn't think through all the hazards, but the car park owner will have set a limit as to how much the car park could cost to built it. If you want a car park that protects your car from all foreseeable hazzards, expect to pay £200-300 per day to pay there rather than £20-30.
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  247. I thought it was telling that none of the assembled leaders was nodding in agreement with Putin. Perhaps this is something you don't do in case your head accidentally falls off.
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  248. Using renewable energy to create fuels makes a lot of sense, as the optimal fuels are stable, easy to store and burn and and easily transported with existing technologies such as pipelines.
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  249. I did this yesterday having witnessed Trump and Vance's attack on their ally.
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  250. Russia haven't stopped fighting, so why should the Ukrainians. Russia are crying about the war coming home to roost just like they accused Zelensky of crying. I don't see Zelensky or any Ukrainian crying.
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  251. Better for hitting Kremlin. But Ukraine better not do that or Putin will complain that Ukraine is bombing his capital city.
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  252. I'm sure it did change as a result of foreign businesses. The Russian elite wanted the West's money, goods and services, but could not allow the proletariat to develop skills that might ultimately lead them to challenge them.
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  253. После восьми лет боев ополченцы Донбасса захватили небольшой поселок в 20 км от Донецка! Отличные новости! Это так забавно. (After 8 years of fighting, the militias of Donbas have captured a small village 20km from Donetsk. Great news! Hilarious.)
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  254. I suspect there is a lot more bad news to come. But Labour wanted the job of fixing it all. Let's hope they can do so. If they fix a quarter of the problems that Richard Muphey talks about they will have made a big difference.
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  255. Complex systems tend to have complex ways in which they can fail.
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  256. To be fair to Daniel, this bias is baked into the law. I regret the tendancy to create a "them and us" feeling as the Police had a difficult job to do, and normal law-abiding citizens being antagonistic just makes the job a bit harder. As citizens we want to be treated fairly, and the best way seems to be co-operate with the law when we are able to do so. There are times when our right to silence is vital as the police are not necessarily impartial and they can make mistakes, and can be wilful and dishonest as much as anyone else in spite of the high expectations we have of them.
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  257. Yes, such insight!
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  258. Everything in this video is 'true' but you have to analyse it to see what is means. We saw one shell that had falled in the street in the first segment. The damage to the buidlings that we say in that clip was not caused by that one shell. All the citizens that Patrick spoke to in that first segment said it was just one shell. This might have been a dud that was not aimed at that area of the city by fell short. We don't know where it was fired from or by whom. The interviewees said that it came from where there are Ukrainian forces, but given the war that is being fought how can they know where the Ukrainian army is, or that the cannon fire they can hear from the west is what is landing in their streets. Patrick is putting a lot of spin on what he is seeing.
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  259. Your experience is of Tenant Farmers; farmers who actually work the land. The land owners who have bought farmland to avoid inheritance tax wear much fancier clothes.
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  260.  @jamescornick8739  Big bombers from the 1960's!
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  261. The problem is that not all the parents know enough to teach their children. Many people are confident about managing their money. The parents need the education as much as the children do!
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  262. It only matters if it was a service police officer who had been provided with evidence to investigate a crime. If it wasn't this, then the IOPC wouldn't have any jurisdiction to request that the source be identifed. However, Manchester Airport know who they gave their footage to, so it's not going to be the Police Officer that received the evidence, rather it will be someone else who had access to the evidence. Clearly Manchester Police don't have perfect control over who can access electronic evidence.
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  263.  @mlai2546  Mentour Pilot did not say that the pileot went closer to the Airbus for a better look at it. The pilots knew that a plane of that size will create substantial turbulence, but their training would have emphasized that the risk was greatest when taking off after a heavy aircraft. The potential for the A380 to cause problems when passing other aircraft in the cruise wasn't well understood when this incident happened.
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  264.  @mlai2546  Very few aircraft pass directly under or over each other, and the winds aloft often blow the vortices to outside of the airway before they can descend to the level of another aircraft. Few aircraft will be the size of the Embraer - most of the few that run into top vortices at height will be large/heavy aircraft rather than mediums, due to the routes the A380s are used on. Plus this incident occurred early in the A380 service life, so I don’t think the pilots did anything wrong.
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  265.  @OncleM  I helped someone else complain about a solicitor that had charged them £800 for “Opening a file” and got this reduced to £200.
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  266.  @kat7777  Given the complexity of the laws, and the situations in which they sometimes find themselves, I think some clownery might be enevitable.
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  267. If there was a vast oversupply of labour from abroad, this might be true, but there isn't.
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  268. So this a great example of how Trump's America First policy was not a great idea. If you want American companies to have a monopoly in the USA; sure, charge high tarrifs to keep the good stuff out or more expensive, but don't complain when you can't compete on quality.
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  269. It is fortunate then that they have you to undertake all their banking and to meet their postal needs.
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  270.  @isthatujeebus  If the store says it cannot cancel the ticket, but it has lied about this and this comes out in discovery, can they be sued or brought into the case as co-claimant?
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  271. There needs to be a mixture of measures, but ultimately tough sanctions on those who are not is the answer. Perhaps there should be a civil offence of failing in your duty as an MP?
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  272. Your Dad was on shaky ground in arresting a drunk driver. Unless they have killed someone, the relevant offences are summary-only offences, so a citizens arrest would be unlawful. Luckily, the police are likely to turn up before a drunken driver will have wandered off or run away.
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  273.  @Anyonymous92  The LPR and DPR have also been bombing the Ukrainian miliatary and civilians for 8 years as well, using heavy weapons supplied by the Russians. This is part of the fundamental problem in the Donbass, there is no good side and no bad side, they are both basically as bad as each other. You can argue (and I have in other comments) that Ukraine has a right to determine whether the Donbas is part of Russia or Ukraine, and that the Russian-speakers in Donbass want to be part of Russia, but none of this is going to stop the war. What is needed is a security solution to stop the fighting and a mechanism for Russia and Ukraine, and the people of the Donbass, to decide what needs to happen for the long term peace and prosperity of the Donbass.
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  274. To be fair to the media, they cannot know how the judge is going to find in the case until the case is heard, but it is incumbent upon the media to report on the facts that are known, and not to 'spin' the story in ways that might not be correct. I think we need to be wary of what we read or hear because it is very easy for the media to make mistakes.
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  275. Deserts are better suited to solar pv and solar furnace technology for exactly the reason you point out.
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  276. The UK ISA regine is incedibly generous. Few other countires have such generous tax breaks on personal savings. A limit on the total amount of tax-exempt savings would seem a reasonable option, but people need to have some cash savings. The city is misguided in thinking that limiting how much can be put into ISA will increase the investment in stocks and share. People crave the certainty of cash. Cash in the bank should be safe.
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  277. It is tactically difficult to relieve Mariupol. The Russians have a lot of force attacking Mariupol currently and can bring reinforcements from Melitopol and Kherson. Moving forces to counter-attack the Russians from other parts of Ukraine take time and exposes the troops and vehicles to many risks. There is also a risk that any new troops and vehicles might be cut-off by a Russian offensive. I think they must try to relieve Maruipol, but it will be difficult.
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  278. Thank Jo for that amazing insight into the challenge of being a Barrister specialising in family law. The lecture illustrates that a fundamental difficulty is that cases cannot proceed without the vital roles of judge and counsel being filled, yet the pressure of occupying these roles makes it more likely that the individuals will overwork to the point that they cannot function in the role!
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  279.  @aleksanrnaskela  I know that! But his internet minions need to know that the information war is still not going his way.
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  280. I know it feels very unfair to be held to a higher standard than cyclists are, but if they get it wrong, it just damage to a car/bus/lorry, but if a driver gets it wrong, it's them gone for good.
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  281. The Ukrainians are being such heroic fighters, I'm beginning to believe that their sticks will shoot!
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  282. Yes. A person’s vaccine status is not a protected characteristic, so it is entirely legal to discriminate against people on the basis of it, and against people who will not reveal it.
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  283. The precursor charge to defeat reactive armor is very smart, but Javelin may fair less well when if the Russians can deploy active defence systems on every tank. Until then, happy hunting Ukraine!
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  284. Agreed, although the Conservative Government's proposal to allow ministers to overrule judicial decisions is also very worrying. This current government is allowing serious miscarriages of justice to take place (e.g. by not providing a right of appeal to CIFAS listing), while seeking to remove the one protection we have against dictatorship.
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  285. If the stuff posted on the internet meets the criteria to be though capable of inciting racial hatred, then the people posting it shouild go to jail. Imagine if someone posted that you were a pedophile and gave your home address and you had to flee you home in fear of your life? Would you want some action to be taken against them beyond the post being taken down?
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  286.  @billnikola2463  Because if they don't they will be pariahs for centuries.
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  287. Richard, your thoughts align with mine to a large degree. I have always said that firms need to have some spare capacity, and that managers need to take responsibility for and understand what they are delivering. Does the IT director need to know how to program a computer? No, but they need to understand the risks that are involved in software development, including the risk that if you outsource your software development to another company, you are beholden to them to decide if you can have access to their programmers when you need them, and that you are limited by your ability to specify in a contract what the service is that you need - in my experience most managers don't have the experience to specify what they need in a contract. Many need expert help to acurately specify what is needed, especially around flexibility. Once the flexibility that the business actually needs is priced into the contract, the true cost of outsourcing usually becomes clear - it's almost always cheaper to do the work in-house.
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  288. Richard has run a number of small businesses, and been a manager and an executive.
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  289. What scares you about Joe Biden? I’m genuinely curious.
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  290. So the 'answer' is to reduce the rate at which benefits are paid or raise wages. The level of benefits is not generous; you can exist on them, but you can't 'live' unless you are prepared to go without certain basics. The only viable answer is to raise wages, and that requires greater productivity. Sadly we are heading in the wrong direction in terms of productivty, and it isn't the idle who are affecting this, it's the people who are working!
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  291.  @xxportalxx.  Correct. It's an example of a rotary transformer.
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  292. Agreed. Thus it is clear that any such rule could not be set by a politician. If the bar is set by a politician, they will set it so low as to guarantee they can jump over it and claim they are successful. With a bar set to a high level, Labour might fail, but you could be sure that the Conservatives would fail to a much greater degree. Would the electorate give credit to a government that did it's best to follow the rule, but did not obey it fully?
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  293. I carry a pair of scissors in the boot of my car to allow me or my partner to cut off the cable ties that retain the plastic wheel trims if we ever need to change a tyre. I bought some pair of Fiskars Child Scissors for this purpose as they are very short and have completely blunt ends. I bought these specifically to avoid any suggestion that I was carrying an offensive weapon!
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  294. That's a good point. If the majority of working age people cannot work because there are no jobs, then if the Universal Income that is paid to them is not enough to allow them to buy very much other than food, fuel and a few clothes, the economy will shrink.
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  295. This is good advice; going to court is often a lottery. Avoiding court if you can is a good strategy.
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  296. I would endorse the idea of reading delivery information carefully as well. Often the delivery information will say things like the courier should wait for you to open a package to check that the item is not damaged, and if they will not wait then you need to report any damage within so many hours.
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  297. No, it's too much fun to watch Patrick trying to justify the unjustifiable. He's trying really hard, bless him.
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  298. The Ukrainian military confirmed today that they have more operational tanks now that they had at the start of the invasion, and they stopped the Russian army from invading Kyiv. Pretty impressive for a small and weak army.
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  299. So we are in a battle against the Far-Right. Democracy is but one tool we have available to us. We have our words and deeds. The Facists cannot win if we refuse to join the in-group even if we meet the critieria to be members. UK voters who are considering voting Reform need to remember that just because you are white and male and straight, you don't have to join the Facists. You can be strong and defend the weak by voting Labour, Liberal Democrate or Green or any number of other parties.
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  300. Having worked in large businesses for many years before retiring, I now volunteer and come into contact with a number of pulblic-sector organisations, who are incredibly efficient compared to the organisations I worked in. They acheive a great deal with relatively little. The problem we have is how Productivity is defined and measured. Richard is right; a GP who is looking at how their service can be improved is not judged to be productive, and yet that work could make all the GPs in the practise more productive.
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  301. I think this would make an interesting video. There are many areas of private property, such as shopping malls, that members of the public are allowed to access freely (during opening hours), but where the access is granted due to certain rules, such as behaviour or dress. The boundary between 'public' and 'private' spaces is interesting.
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  302. I'm surprised at BBB. I thought he would have a more balanced viewpoint, but perhaps this only serves to reinforce something we already knew - that race is still a hot topic in the UK.
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  303. Solar panels would be great if we had a way to store the energy for six months. Without large-scale grid storage that can do this, solar panels create more problems for the grid than they solve. Fortunately, old EV batteries make very good storage systems for homes and businesses.
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  304.  @davidr4114  Please supply links to the evidence you say is out there.
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  305. Only a despot would feel threatened by a democratic organisation.
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  306. I agree. One growth area is going to be in security response. AI can help spot problems, but it is not going to stop theives stealing copper from battery banks or wind turbines, or stop Trump turning up on your doorstep with his pocket army. Nor will it actually rehabilite offenders when they are caught. That is going to need real empathetic humans that can lead people in a better direction.
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  307.  @myoldmate  These we’re the facts determined by the jury that heard the evidence.
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  308. I doubt the law requires you to comply with a "follow me", but why wouldn't you? I would follow the police car up to the point I became uneasy about where they were going. e.g. If they drive into dark industrial estate, I wouldn't follow them. I'd stop where there were still street lights. They would have to reverse and explain where they were going. Realistically, they are only going to use a "Follow me" to take you to the closest point they can safely stop you which might be a lay-by or service area. I beleive that the traffic cars that have such signs also have a STOP sign. I would understand that this STOP sign is the same a Police Officer stopping you as provided for by S163 of the RTA 1988. So you have to STOP, but you don't have to follow the police into an unsafe area - you commit no offence of not following them.
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  309. I think there should be some state support for those people with children. We need to ensure that children are cared for, educated and encouraged to meet their potential and take their place as citizens. Providing the number of children is not excessive, then I think some state support is desirable and necessary.
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  310.  @therealunclevanya  I can just imaging the conversation. "My stick? What stick? Oh, this. It's a walking stick. I'm walking you know. Where to? To my daughter's house. Where is that? I'm not quite sure; do you know? Perhaps you could take me there, I think it must be this way as I was walking in this direction, or was I coming home? Do I know where I live? Of course I do, I have my address taped to my walking stick. It's why I never leave home without it. Now how can I help you? ...
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  311. The police can't provide evidence to the court that suggests you did NOT commit a crime. Only you (or your defence attorney) can do this. The police might have a lot of evidence that you did not commit a crime; while they can share this with the prosecution, and the prosecution will use it decide whether to prosecute you, the prosecution will only send evidence to the court that suggests you DID commit the crime. You (or your defence attorney) has to submit the evidence that you did NOT commit the crime. Via the disclosure process, both parties learn on what basis and evidence the defendant is being prosecuted, and on what basis and evidence the defendant hopes to defend the charges.
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  312. Just like all countries, but the UK understand that there is benefit in helping Ukaine and nothing to be gained from helping Russia.
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  313. I think Richard's point still holds for public pensions - unless the public services of tomorrow are the services that the younger generations want, then there will be no funding to pay public pensions.
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  314. A 100% Capital Gains Tax would help - any increase in asset values goes to the government, so there is no point trying to sell any asset for more than you paid for it (or its value at the point the tax was brought in).
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  315. Great discussion on an important topic. Very wide ranging with lot of useful information for anyone leaving the military after a long period of service.
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  316.  @tarquin161234  No, I think it shows how transparent he is.
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  317. But the people in Donbas are part of Ukraine. Russia agreed this in 1990. If these people want to be seperate (andI have no doubt they do), they needed to find a way to persuade their fellow Ukrainians to move out of Donbas. The Ukrainians who needed to move could have been compensated, and helped to resettle in Western Ukraine, but instead of facilitating a peaceful settlement, Putin sent heavy weapons! He's the warmonger here, not Zelensky, and certainly not NATO.
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  318. We have a mall near us with an in-store Starbucks, and a large Starbucks store about 50 feet away from the store entrance!
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  319. Germany is capable of being self-sufficient regarding energy. Why it would want to become reliant on another country is beyond me.
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  320. As one of the other commenters said, I think we have to separate 'farming' from 'agricultural land owning'. One is hard work and produces food and employment, the other is easy (if you are wealthy) and produces nothing.
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  321.  Mr Perfect  Not so perfect English, Mr Perfect. Did you mean that Putin doesn't care what we think? If so, he might be surprised about what happens in the future.
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  322. The full concept of Passive Houses is that the home is heated and cooled passively, i.e. without any mechanical or electrical assistance and without consuming any fuels. So cooling is obtained by having windows that can be opened, fresh air supplies that enter the home through a long run of pipe underground (so are tempered), and by shading windows and fitting "E" glass to avoid the structure absorbing too much heat in the summer. Passive heating is acheived by the triple glazed windows that don't allow out heat that the "E" glass has allowed in, having thermal mass to retain heat, and air sealing so that warm air doesn't leak out of the house. Some of the biggest savings to be had are available for very low cost if you take the truely passive approah. But for most climate zones, some active heating is necessary and comfort can be increased with active ventilation.
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  323. It could be a missle strike. There is a comment that it was a salvo (2) Neptune missiles. The first explosion seems to be much less intense than the second, but I think this might just be that the position of the ships relative to each other absorbed some of the explosion. Neptune is a sea-skiming missile and would not have been visble from the camera angles we see in the news report.
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  324. I can imagine a situation where you might need to defend someone else against the police. Freedom Fighter below mentions that the police can be observed using unnecessary force. But even observing the police using unnecessary force would not always require you to defend someone. Only if you see the police using so much unnecessary force as to endanger someone's life would it be necessary to step in and defend the person. You would have to think it to be your only and last resort, and you would, as the BlackBeltBarrister says, be allowed to use only the force necessary to stop the endangerment. Also bear in mind that shooting an armed criminal or terrorist is unlikely to be an unneccessary use of force. Defending yourself or others against the police is a risky business.
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  325.  @SorbusAucubaria  Most Russian leaders have been shocking, and Putin is one of the worst. How did Russia allow him to decide how lon he shoudl remain in power?
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  326. I'm sure this will be a very useful video to anyone who is separating and needs to decide whether to argue over who takes a pet or animal with them. I would encourage anyone in this situation to think about what is best for the animal in the future. Who will provide them with the love, food, exercise and vetinary care that they need? If both parties can do this equally, but the parties are going to be living a long way apart, a decision is going to have to be made that is ultimately going to be 'unfair' on one party. I would suggest that in this case, that one of you opens your mind to getting a new pet (ideally from a rescue). Of course, it won't be the same as the pet you are giving up, but it is likely to love you with the same intensity and honesty as your current pet (unless it is a cat, in which case all bets are off).
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  327.  @superkang7448  One might even argue it isn't even an error. It's part of the designed behaviour of the system. It doesn't mean that the claimants are 200 years old. It just means a valid date isn't held on the system. You could stop their payment until you can obtain a valid date, but it doesn't indicate fraud, or 'swamp' or anything Musk says it does.
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  328. I would lay money that Daniel did attend State Schools. I'm interested in the answer to this question, in part because my mother took job so that my parents could send me to a (cheap) private school as I was failing at the State Primary I attended. I was incredibly lazy and the school didn't seem to know how to motivate me - I arrived at the school aged 7 knowing more French than I left knowing! That's a pretty poor result.
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  329. I would argue that the seperation of powers in not alien to England; the opposite it true - England was one of the earliest constitutions that recognised the value of the seperation of powers, do you not remember Maga Carta and the English Civil War? And why should a court have to have its basis in history? To only base one's institutions on what has gone before is to deny the possibilty of radical improvement. Improvement is improvement whether it is gradual or instantaneous.
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  330. That's a good question. I expect that there will be quite a few young who will flee westwards, and quietly forget any support they voiced for their region to become a separate state. I have no problem with this. I will always welcome someone who changes their mind about something, provided they have not murdered people before their epiphany. I'd expect the older residents to stay put, as they know that control from Moscow or Kyiv is likely to be quite similar from a day-to-day point of view.
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  331. I was suprised and heartened to see the discipline that the reenactment group had on the field.
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  332. There are a whole load of financial issues that prevent people getting a home. Problems finding the first month's rent, the security deposit, guaranteeing the rent, lack of transport to get children to school, etc. All of these problems are solvable with money, but it needs some leadership to start fixing them.
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  333.  @williampatrickfagan7590  You will be pleased you did. The Gresham College lectures are all top quality.
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  334. It's not really a defence as a shopkeeper would be expected to inspect the shop fittings on a regular basis. A risk assessment would have shown that there was significant risk from such a heavy fitting, and hence fittings of that type should have been inspected more frequently. It doesn't require much specialist knowledge to try to push over a barrier. If it falls as a result from a tug that a child or a shoppers coat might exert if caught on it, then it isn't fixed securely. If an company engages a contractor to do work, it has a right to expect that it is done properly, but it remains responsible for checking that the work has been done correctly. If it can't do this because it doesn't have the technical expertise to do so, it must either engage another contractor to do, or find a way to make the contractor responsbile, but also able to discharge its duty, e.g. by requiring another division to perform an inspection, or to provide a report to evidence what has been checked.
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  335.  niels lund  Providing their IDs to the family might bankrupt the Russian state!
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  336. When you are driving a car, an additional set of rules comes into being. You can be stopped and asked to give your name, address and date of birth, and you must do so when asked. (You commit an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 if you do not.)
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  337. The problem with students is that they are generally young. And the young make mistakes, fall ill, and fall out with each other, just as us older folk do.
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  338. Only Trump's hubris will allow him to imagine that this will not come out in the end and destroy his reputation.
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  339. I would reframe your statement - "If they are not on EVERYONE'S side then I am not on theirs." This is what we expect of a Labour government. They should not 'forget' people, or undervalue their roles. As a retired person who volunteers, I see an enormous amount of 'work' being done for free by people who have good pensions and who still want to contribute to society. My volunteering brings me into contact with the sick, the disabled, and the carers. Not all of these supply a service to the economy, but the carers certainly do. Mothers and Fathers aren't just caring when they spend time with their children, they are also educating. Many of the sick and disabled would want to do some work, but the benefits system doesn't always allow them to do what they can do. So much needs to be improved in the UK, and Labour cannot do this if their focus is too narrow.
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  340. Every dog has its day.
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  341. I don't think you would get into trouble if you only confronted an intruder in your home. Your 'sporting goods' are not on the proscribed list of offensive weapons which cannot be possessed even in a private home. However, if the intruder did not leave, but instead rushed towards you, I think you would get in trouble if you loosed an arrow (even if it didn't hit them). Your actions would have strayed into the use of unreasonable force. A better choice would be to use the bow to keep them at arms length, essentially using it as a staff. Not taking an arrow with you when you grabbed the bow would be a much better option for a legal defence.
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  342.  @trooperdgb9722  The point was that the U2 wouldn't be cruising anywhere after encountering a Lightning and its air-to-air missiles!
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  343. According to Zelensky, the Azov Battalion are heros. This is because of the incredible fight they have put up against superior Russian forces. If you look at the map of the Russian invasion, anyone trying to defend Mariupol stands the risk of being cut off from the main Ukrainian force. It is an incredebly risky and brave thing that the Ukrainians are trying to do in Mariupol. Mauriupol is very important strategically for the Russians, so they have thrown everything at the city, indescriminately bombing the place until it is little more than dust. The Ukrainian forces there deserve to be called heros, and the Russians desrved to be called out for their viciousness against the people of Mariupol.
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  344.  @MaouVallkur  I knew how she was. My daughter lives in Denmark and has met Queen Margrethe. Just because you are ignorant does not mean we all are.
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  345. The police get to decide. In the situation you describe the police would attend, if they had the resources to do so, and probably suggest that you stop shooting your air pistol in your garden even though this is your right. If you become beligerent and shoot your mouth off about your rights, they are likely to do something that you will regret. However, if you agree that you will stop, and then go around to your neighbours and invite them to review the safety precautions you have in place, and offer them a go with your air pistol, and you can convince them that it is safe, you can carry on shooting and no-one will be any the wiser.
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  346. Probably not, but there is certainly a case for the situation to be addressed to our MPs and councillors. Get writing people!
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  347. I wish Richard would do a video on what he considers might work as strategies to either prevent the crash or prevent the very wealthy from benefiting from it. Sadly, options will exist for foreign countries that do not exist for private individuals, especially those who live in the USA.
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  348. This is standard practice, and I think it is correct that the police don't turn out for every alarm that goes off. There are too many false alarms. We have an alarm go off in our area every week. It's at a number of different houses, and I have been out to look when the alarm isn't silenced by the homeowner.
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  349. It means it is not against the law. Aldi could provide a power supply in their loading bays that would allow refrigerated lorries to use mains electricity rather than their engines. This would save fuel and reduce pollution, especially for staff. You could write to head office to suggest it.
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  350. j I’m sorry you were abused, but it is not the fault of the court, but of your aunt and your sexual abuser. The courts can make mistakes but generally they save many children from horrible situations. I think you are wrong to say the courts do what they do because they are on a power trip or that any financial considerations plays into their decisions. I know this is not the case. The courts act as an essentially safeguard for children and families against Social Workers and that Social Services departments that may have failed to assess and support the family correctly. If the courts were not there, families would have no way to stop a social services department from making mistakes. If anyone is on a “power-trip” in a family court it is usually a parent who believe they have a right to mistreat their children - they don’t have this right, and the court is there to enforce this.
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  351.  @stevekenilworth  Who knows, perhaps an airline will offer this service, but at present none do so you are faced with the option of buying a ticket that assumes a standard weight per person or choosing a different mode of transport.
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  352. There is no need for Russia or the Russian Federation to break up. Breaking up Russia is a matter for the people of Russia. Russia just needs to respect the borders of sovereign countries that don't want to be part of Russia or its federation.
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  353. It would be great if everyone in the UK could afford to buy a warm winter coat that would last a long time for, say, £300. Sadly, they cannot. We need our society to be more equal in terms of wealth and while I don't like Inheritance Tax, until we are very much more equal, I think it is a necessary evil.
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  354. Putin, you have brought the most powerful anti-russia propaganda in to being by your actions! And no-one is saying that Russia should be divided. No-one.
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  355.  @firstbloood1  It's already paid for. Germany might have to buy a few more, or there might not be any credible threat to require the inventory is restocked.
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  356.  @joline2730  Correct, if the party that receives the amended contract isn't happy with the crossings out, then the contact isn't formed because there hasn't been a meeting of minds on what the agreement is. The landlord could refuse to let the property and refuse to hand over the keys unless an agreement in the form they are happy with has been signed. The porvisions on unfair terms would still apply to such an agreement, but the wise landlord will get their guarantor agreements drafted by a solicitor who will not include terms that would be crossed out by a court.
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  357. While it is legal to filter on a motorbike, it can be difficult to restrain oneself from blocking a motorcyclist when you see one who is not keeping their speed low as suggested by the Highway Code. This is of course no excuse. Motorbikes are allowed to filter. A motorist who blocks this completely would be guilty of driving without consideration for other road users, and possibly of dangerous driving if they block someone who is going too fast to stop. We each have a duty to each other to behave reasonably and with consideration as this help keep the traffic moving and prevents accidents.
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  358. Ukraine will be attacking Rostov-on-don shortly, so you had better move your family much further away. I’m pleased your family wasn’t hurt, but I’m also pleased that they have had first hand experience of the terror visited on countless innocent Ukrainians by Russia.
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  359. The Budget we have just had was one of the most honest we have had for many years.
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  360. I have long thought that children need to meet adults other than their teachers and parents. They need to learn to interact with adults in all sorts of roles. But fundamentally the parents are too scared to let them. What has scared them? The world has; which brings us back to Richard's point! The high-functioning adults need to change things so that everyone can be happier.
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  361.  @dna9838  You are right. By 'high-functioning adults' I meant any adult that can act with a purpose.
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  362.  @59vlada  Money has always had influence, but you should not forget the power ordinary people have to direct money to the right place.
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  363. @TeflonBilly Correct, BBB is very clear that other evidence is needed.
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  364. To even suggest that Ukraine were not going to repay the USA for the tremendous amount of aid and support they have had was crass. Donald Trump was the first (and only) person to suggest that they would not.
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  365. Destryoing a factory during a war when the workers are out fighting your troops isn't strategic, or even sabotage, it's spiteful. What is funny is that Russia, and the Russian people, will have to pay to rebuild Ukraine's Industrial Military Complex.
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  366.  @hafizzx96  Russia cannot wipe Ukrainians from the face of the earth. Genocide is illegal and you should not support it, lest your country be the one that gets erased.
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  367.  @JetBirdZ  Which is why regulation of the field is important. Countries that refuse to regulate risk condeming humanity to oblivion.
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  368. That is a great pity. I live with a teacher, my stepdaughter, and I see the effort she puts into teaching, caring for, and nurturing the children at her secondary school.
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  369. If there is a will, there's a way. It just needs someone to push for it and to take responsibility.
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  370. Any deals that have been made with him have been broken, so no-one should trust Putin. This is a big problem for Zelensky, if he wants to negotiates peace, how does he get guarantees from Putin that he can trust? He can't, so we will have to take a blind leap of faith. For this reason, he should never agree not to join NATO.
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  371. When you see the quality of the accident reports produced by certain other countries you realise that the NTSB are very good at what they do.
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  372. Wanting to provide a good life for your children is a very natural and human thing to want to do, but land owners have to accept that there can be no exceptions made for privilege.
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  373.  Ezekiel 33  In your dreams, Putin is not going to live very long.
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  374. There is not much more that ATC can do, other than scramble the emergency equipment, and ATC should know that the pilots don't have ANY time available in this case to do anything other than to fly the plane. If the Pilots need anything, they will evaluate whether they have time to call ATC or not.
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  375. The lesser of two evils.
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  376. There are many residential streets, including the cul-de-sac where I live, where enforcing this rule would be take a monumental effort just because of the number of cars that are parked. However, the rule might be easily enforced on a major road.
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  377.  @polarissilvertree  I think your assessment is fair.
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  378. Accept cash for small items, use a third-party such as PayPal or a solicitor for larger items.
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  379.  @normnicklette5694  The focus in urban areas needs to be on solar PV for electrical needs and capturing heat for heating needs. Solar PV panels sit unobtrusively on top of most structures and using other large surface areas such roads to gather heat during the summer and stoing it underground where the natural insulating properties of the earth mean that it can be store until it is need in the winter then accessed using heat pumps is the best way to source the heat needed to heat our homes.
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  380. To call the workers in the City that are superflous "middle management" is to completely misunderstand both "middle management" and these superflous roles in the city. Middle Management is a productive job - work needs to be organised and planned. Some of the superflous roles in the city will be middle management, but most will not be. Most will be ordinary workers who report to middle management.
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  381. Except that most of the rioters were born in the UK and their families have been in the UK for hundreds of years.
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  382. So it would seem the only safe thing to do if you find a firearm is to call the police and stay with it (but not pick it up or otherwise take it into your possession) until they come pick it up?
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  383. It certainly adds cost and complexity to government. The extra complexity makes it harder to see where the accounability should lie.
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  384.  @danielg9418  Is that the goal for the USA government? That it becomes more profitable?
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  385. Nothing like a war to make projects hit their deadlines!
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  386. It will be interesting to see what happens if Zelenskyy signs the mineral rights agreement with the USA. Doing so would seem to require Trump to maintain the USA's finacial support for Ukraine - there would no point in Zelenskyy signing a deal that didn't result in the USA continuing to support Ukraine, and with Europe set to increase its defense spending, Russia would be finished. Can Zelenskyy trust Trump? No! Trump could make exactly the same deal with Putin, so regardless of who wins the war, the USA gains mineral rights they didn't have before.
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  387. Did you complain to the airline? You booked a seat and got half a seat, even though they did deliver you to your destination. It seems to me that some compensation was in order.
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  388. It falls to the investment managers to make sure that the money is invested wisely. Richard's point is that, while many try to do so, the world and local economies are likely to be changing so rapidly in the near future that even these experts cannot adjust their portfolios swiftly enough. They need to be able to sell asset A to buy asset B, and if they are late trying to sell asset A they will not realise enough money to buy asset B. Part of the answer is diversification. In reality, different economies will change at different rates, and different asset classes will become stale at different rates. This creates a real value to the work of the professional investment managers, something Richard seems to ascribe little value to, as well as providing hope that the transition can be managed well enough for the majority of pensioners to continue to receive income from their pension savings.
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  389.  @rodh1404  Your comment really goes to the nub of this argument - in forcing employees to be vaccinated, employers are forcing employees to take a very small risk to prevent a very big risk. Employers do this all the time, as very few actions are risk free. The point is that it is reasonable for the employers to do this, so no employment tribunal is going to find that someone was unfairly dismissed if the employee wants to take a massive risk to others avoid a tiny risk to themselves.
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  390. I disagree that most people can’t afford it. They can, if they get a loan, as can the landlords that own any rental properties that need upgrading.
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  391. Better caves than dead.
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  392. I think that "Giving people purpose, pride, hope, and happiness" is a great phrase that should be taken up by all of us as a civil duty to our young, our old and ourselves.
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  393. The law has to deal with a wide range of situations. Imagine that you were walking down a dark alleyway on your way home, and someone you were following decided that you were about to attack them, and fearing your imminent attack, picked up a branch laying in the alleyway and turned and hit you with it. Would you want the law to say that they can only use reasonable force to prevent your attack, or would you be happy that they could continue to beat you to a pulp with the branch? Would you be happy that the law allows them to use a knife that they were carrying on the off-chance of such an attack to stab you and cut your throat? I can understand why you feel that the situation is unfair and unbalanced, but in reality the law is trying to be balanced, and we (lawabiding citizens) all need to try to work with the law rather than against it.
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  394. You seem to be missing the point that an outdoor 'unit' is the only thing that can supply heat into the home or reject it if there is no demand in the home. There has to be something outside the home. It could be an air handler or a ground-source loop, but there has to be something that sits outside of the home. Ground source loops are great if your property has a lot of outdoor space, but for homes in urban areas air handlers remain the most compact form of outdoor unit to gather or dispose of heat that is not needed in the home.
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  395.  @skussy69  I hope that we never become desensitized. We need to look on and feel the horror of every lost life, and then do everything we can to prevent it happening again.
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  396. You might have expected your friend, 'Alex Ferguson', to have his driving licence on him at all times for exactly this situation, but clealy the police were being difficult because they misread the situation.
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  397. Mariupol has been bombed into dust by the Russian forces. They still haven't managed to dig out more than a handful of the 1500 civilians buried in the theatre basement where they were sheltering yet.
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  398.  @lestrem11  Parents with Children at fee-paying schools are now paying VAT on those fees, and Farmers are no longer exempt from Inheritance Tax, that's a start.
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  399. I think Daniel's point was that being inconsistent can lose you the case, but being consistent cannot win a case that has no merit.
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  400.  @Globaldave1970  Long disputed territory of Crimea? But Russia agreed in 1994 to respect and even protect the borders of Ukraine as they existed in 1994. Russia wants the oil, gas, minerals and industrial capacity in Ukraine, and it wants to expand, to recover its lost glories.
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  401. Also, NATO has the right weapon for this mission.
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  402. You can ask them what their reasonable suspicion is. You could even say to them that you are helping them, as you will be complaining, so it will help them if they tell you what their reasonable suspicion is so that you are sure that they have one. If they can't articulate their reasonable suspicion, may be they don't have one, but it may also be that the reason for their suspicion should not be articulated to a potential perpetrator of the crime.
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  403. If you ask a member of the public a question like that, without providing them with all the available knowledge of the impact of noise that you can’t actually hear, what do you expect their answer to be?
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  404. This is one reason why the UK should be doing more to help Ukraine, but we have our own problems and financial challenges so the rate at which we can help them is constrained.
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  405. They are brilliant fun. I had one where the two front seats were like a bench seat - you could seat six people comfortably in it for trips out. The little engine was so lowly geared that it would still perform well six-up, until you met a hill....
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  406. Richard is one of those people who likes to think about the future and help other people understand what is going on in the world. Trump and Musk are delivering change at an unprecedented and untested pace. The probable effects of this is interesting to many people, especially those like yourself who will be badly affected by it.
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  407. That is a good question. Labour's communications seems to have been woefully inadequate. I was hoping that there would be more communication from the Labour party as to why the government policies were a good idea.
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  408.  @Markcain268  Reving it close to the red line is ok, but he has no intention to make an offer on it. Over-reving it is damaging it.
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  409. In the UK, we have never valued the role of the Manager. Most managers are promoted with no support or training. It is unsurprising that large numbers of them make a mess of it?
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  410.  @GeigerFarm  Russian is learning a hard lesson. Both the Russian leaders and the people will be wiser when this war ends.
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  411. 73 drones shot down, and a number hit their targets. That's a very large attack. Is anyone in Russia suprised that Ukraine can mount such a large attack? There will be some very unhappy Muscovites this morning.
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  412. Exactly. Say nowt until you have spoken to a solicitor, and decided with them that self-defence is available to you as a defence.
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  413. Goering said bombs would never fail on Berlin. One of his speeches was interrupted by the first air raid on Berlin! If only Russian television could have interrupted one of Putin's speeches with this news from Belgorod!
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  414. We have a national education service in the UK. The question is whether the service is fit for purpose, if it is scaring children.
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  415.  @mbak7801  Business likes stability, Speculators like instability. Be careful what you wish for.
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  416. @ Well, he will be so the speculators are happy.
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  417. I tend to agree, but would encourage anyone inclined to take the law into their own hands to exhaust all the channels available, and to take legal advice before doing so. If you can show that you exhausted all the channels open to you, and you took advice and still went ahead, you are already prepared to defend yourself should the authorities take exception to your actions.
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  418. Russian troops were 20km from Kyiv ten days ago, and they still haven't taken even one area of Kyiv. I'm sorry but Russia is not winning. Ukraine may not be winning yet either, but the Ukrainans have 900,000 fighting men on the ground, the Russians have but 200,000.
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  419. You misunderstand how the world works. There is no 'deal'. No one owes you a job or a home or a meal. Once you are an adult, you are responsible for getting those things.
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  420. Personally, I don't think it is a good idea to force any form of orientation. Orientation will occur naturally from the point that the F/O and Captain meet on the ground.
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  421. No one is funnier than Putin!
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  422.  @martineshamzin7535  There are 40 million Ukranians, and you would struggle to find more than 4000 Neo-nazis in the whole of that population. There almost certainly more Neo-nazis in the USA than in the Ukraine.
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  423. Potentially, but again the question of whether it is in the public interest to prosecute someone for assult when the assault was accidental. If they have been careless and are not apologetic, then potentially the police might get involved, as they are likely to be a danger to others.
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  424.  @kazanec_izhevod6015  Зеленский не говорил об отмене Минских соглашений. Путин сказал! Украина продлила действие особого порядка местного самоуправления в отдельных районах Донецкой и Луганской областей в соответствии с Минскими соглашениями до конца 2022 года. Украина не хочет иметь ядерное оружие, и она уничтожила все свое ядерное оружие после Будапештского Меморандум. В 2022 году Зеленский заявил, что если Россия не будет соблюдать Будапештский меморандум, она может и не соблюдать его. Поскольку Россия вторглась в Украину, было бы разумно сказать, что Россия нарушила соглашение. )Translation: Zelensky did not say that the Minsk agreement was abolished. Putin said it! Ukraine has extended the Special Order of Local Self-Government in Certain Areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions as required by the Minsk Agreement until the end of 2022. Ukraine does not want to have nuclear weapons, and it destroyed all its nuclear weapons after the Budapest Memorandum. In 2022, Zelensky has said that if Russia does not honour the Budapest Memorandum, it may not honour it either. As Russia invaded Ukraine, it would be reasonable to say that Russia has renaged on the agreement. )
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  425. If there is one thing pilot's love, it is banter.
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  426. I doubt the Conservatives will move back to the centre; not while populism seems to pay dividends at the ballot box. I think we have two options: apply pressure on Labour to implement better (more equitable/left-leaning) policies than they currently seem inclined towards, or start a new party with a proper social agenda and the economic rigour to deliver this within the UK economy. This party might well be on the left of Labour on some issues and to the right of Labour on others.
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  427. This is one view of what is "really" happening in Donetsk. There is another view that is also as factually correct as the one that Patrick has shown. Perhaps we need to stop fighting propaganda wars and real battles, and start finding a way for these Ukrainians to live peacefully with one another.
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  428. There is no way to find out exactly what he did, so stop thinking about this. It is also not your responsibility to protect someone else, especially if you don't have any evidence that can help. What you do need to do is share your concerns about the person on the life licence with the Police. I would do this in writing, and as per the video, you should provide all the evidence you can. The Police should review the information and add it to anything else they hold, if they think that your evidence is relevant. You can, and probably should, ask for the information to be passed to the person's probation officer. The Police won't tell you what they have done or are doing, so don't ask them or worry about this.
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  429. This is one way to make your job less boring is to try to be a mentor to someone who is struggling to adopt the habits of hard work, or to try to automate parts of your job to give you time be a mentor.
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  430. They don't have to accomodate you if you are disabled. They have to make reasonable adjustments. If you live in an iron lung, you can't expect them to take all the seats out of 10 rows just to get your iron lung onboard.
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  431. David Wright And who will ensure that the nuclear waste that remains dangerous for 1000+ years will remain safe in that time? I don’t trust my government to be able to look after something for so long; do you?
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  432. BBB - you need to be more careful with your words - the sign doesn't say "Non-Consumer Parking" it says "Non-Customer Parking". A business entity that has no rights under the Comsumer Rights Act would be a Non-Consumer, but such an entity can still be a customer of Tesco - the business can still buy its milk from Tesco and if it does it is a Customer of Tesco.
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  433. Yet the truck driver doesn't take the hint.
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  434. Destroyed, not liberated. The camera does not lie.
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  435.  @Buckets1000  That would cetainly help Denmark defend its citizens in Greenland from American aggression.
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  436. There is a risk that moving to a new model in the UK makes the UK more attractive to economic immigrants who don't want to work. We may need to prioritise giving work to immigrants so that they can earn the right to the Universal Income, if this is the route we go down.
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  437. Fetching and carrying needs doing in any army, but if you go to support the Ukrainian army, you will be drafted into it, indefinitely. You'll have to stay until peace is assured. You can expect to be constantly pushed to the front of any battlezone, and will be likely to die due due to inexperience.
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  438.  @c0d3w4rri0r  Correct, but my point was it would be difficult, in the time available, to form a different opinion to the police.
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  439.  @Lowlander-ci7is  In Ukraine, trying to shoot down Bayraktar drones.
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  440.  @johnholmes5674  Three points it is!
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  441. They don't rely on metalic elements that are only found in abundance from China. Australia has 20% of the world's Zinc reserves and can extract Bromine from the sea. They also have better tolerance to high temperatures, making them more suited to hot countries.
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  442. I don't find this odd at all.
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  443. Well, it has been underfunded for many years.
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  444. We have a choice as to how we respond, as do the politicians. Richard is correct that Donald Trump will try to pick off countries individually and will not cope if a block of countries does not capitulate. If the UN and NATO do not act because of American influence, then they are not useful at this time.
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  445. A good education has potential. Even AI systems need someone to set the goal and what can be changed to achieve the goal. We will also be needing people who can understand what AI has learned, to make sure that the AI is applying sensible rules. It would be perfectly possible for an AI system to apparently determine the severity of someone's disability by counting the number of letters in their surname! This approach might, even with a large sample size, product 'perfect' results, but is this a lesson that we want AI to apply or do we want it to figure out an approach that is better? Someone has to watch over the AI to check that the goal is set correctly, and that the lessons it is learning are appropriate.
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  446. No, Mariupol hasn't been liberated or captured. Parts of it have been occupied.
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  447. It was the same company that made the swords and the razor blades.
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  448.  @liamholcroft7212  Given the very serious penalties for assaulting a police officer, you really would have to be in fear for your life. But to come back to the initial point - is screaming for help a good option if you think you are being arrested by someone posing as a police officer (or even by a police officer who is acting in commission of a crime)? I think it is. It may attract attention from passers-by who might regard you are being misguided, but if they stop and watch (or better still record your arrest), it may give the perpetrator cause to consider whether they can get away with their crime as evidence will exist of them committing it. You could ask the by-stander to check via 999 to see if the police control room is in communication with the officer arresting you. You could call out the reasons why you are suspicious, to see whether the by-standers agree. (e.g. there being no police equipment in a supposedly marked police car). You should explain your concerns to the officer and ask them to consider what they could do to reassure you. Usually something can be done beyond showing you a warrent card.
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  449. Alerting other drivers to a possible danger is a permitted use of the horn, but you would have to be specific about the danger and the driver(s) that you were alerting. This is one reason why the highway code advises trying to avoid over-reacting to situations on the road because you might, having just done something you know is stupid, hear a horn sounding and think that someone is chastising you, but in fact they are sounding there horn due to warn others of a situation that you cannot see.
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  450. In theory, the same law cited by Daniel applies. The law is effectively bringing in a duty of care that the user of a vehicle has towards others. You would appear to be guilty of an offence if you are are wilfully negligent of your responsibility to other users of the woods. So a private race between individuals opens you up to being charged with the offence if you hurt someone. The situation would be different if you were racing over a marked course, say organised by a club, and the person lifted a tape in order to walk across the course. They are responsibile for their safety in this case. The club will usually have insurance as well that may mean the injured party might not want to prosecute you as much.
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  451.  @joemoody7440  it is difficult to believe that the 100 Neo-nazis in the Azov Battalion could even try to ethnically cleanse Luhansk and Donetsk; city/regions of hundreds of thousands of people.
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  452.  @snnetwork8420  how were Russian speakers prevented from participating in the 2019 elections?
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  453. Sitting in a cold trench waiting to be stormed by the Russian army is an experience that I would not enjoy. I can't imagine the terror that might take over a person if they did not have both enormous amounts of blind optimism and the resolution to manage their fears.
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  454. Agreed.
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  455. I see what you did there!
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  456. Truth is always a defence.
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  457.  @geezerp1982  Except that nowhere in the Bill of Rights 1688 does it say that commoners can ignore laws that they feel are unfair.
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  458. My view is that it is wrong, because we are taxed throughout our life. If we earn money, we pay tax (Income tax), if we spend money, we pay tax (VAT, Insurance Premium Tax, Passenger Air Duty, Fuel Duty, etc), if we save money, we are taxed on the interest (Income Tax), if we buy more than one house we pay tax (Stamp Duty Land Tax), if we invest prudently and are lucky enough to make a gain, we pay tax (Capital Gains Tax). At the end of our life, what we have managed to accumulate in spite of the tax system, should be ours to do with as we please. It is my view that the state should have no call on it.
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  459. That is absolutely what did NOT happen. Had the UK government kept and even strengthened their resolve and the lockdown, Covid-19 could have been eradicated from the UK.
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  460. You have been blinded and can't see the good any longer. The UK has a great deal going for it, in spite of the Tories trying to destroy much of what was good and valuable. They haven't succeeded, but the new Labour government have a monumental battle ahead to restore things. Please don't make their work any harder than it needs to be.
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  461. It wasn't 17% all the time. My mortgage rate varied from 8% to 15% over a 17 year period.
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  462. The decision in Neale vs. DPP is interesting. It is not one that, as a I lay-person, I was familar with. However, I think the decision needs to be explained. Having read the final decision my understanding is that Neale was not obliged to give his name and address to the police when stopped for potentially committing an offence under the Coronavirus Restrictions, so could not be arrested for not doing so, but he could be arrested so that his identify could be confirmed so that he could be prosecuted for the offence that the police beleived him to be guilty of. So Neale eventually had to give his name, and could not be found guilty of wilfully obstruction of the police in not doing so on the street when stopped. So the right of silence is extended as you say, but there seems (to me) to be little practical benefit, as you might be arrested for the offence anyway. Have I got this correct?
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  463.  @surrendramonkeyshines5634  Except that he didn't successfully accomplish anything in phase 1, other than show the world that Russia could not take Kyiv.
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  464.  @surrendramonkeyshines5634  He owes it to all the Russian soldiers and their families to only seek military goals that have a strategic value for Russia. If you are suggesting that Kyiv was a diversion, you are sadly mistaken.
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  465. The size of UK housing is dire, and this has the knock-on effect that internal insulation is impractical for perhaps 50% of the housing stock because it would reduce room sizes too much - e.g. you couldn’t get a bed into the bedrooms!
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  466. That's a fair ask, but it's a very difficult problem to solve, and it is isn't helped by overlaying the problem with racial hatred (not that you have expressed any in your post).
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  467. We don't need nuclear power to solve the problem, there are other ways that we know work. Given that nuclear is so expensive, and so risky we should use the other options that are available.
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  468. I think the problem is that while every learner driver tries to learn the Highway Code, they only do so from their point of view, they don't think about this from another drivers point of view. If they did, they would realise that other cars can leave a roundabout from any of the lanes, and therefore undertaking any car you have given way to is a really bad idea.
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  469. Dynamic protection isn’t working on the T-14, what makes you think it will work on a relic like the T-54?
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  470.  @cigmorfil4101  No, your point is valid, but it leads to the conclusion that it will fall to someone else, e.g. a police officer, to decide that your manoeuvre was probably illegal and unsafe. If there is a lesson to be learned from this discussion it is “Don’t drive like an idiot and you will not draw the attention of the police.” If you are stopped by the police for an undertake in questionable circumstances, you might admit that you thought the other lanes were sufficiently congested to make your manoeuvre legal, and let the police office consider how difficult it might be to prosecute you. The police won’t bother if there is little chance of a conviction.
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  471. The thing is that it's not just something that a snowflake didn't like, but rather where a court found that the online post met the test set by Parliament as being likely to incite racial hatred. Now you either want to be able to post hateful stuff online or your don't. Which is it?
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  472.  @squicker  How I wish this was an option.
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  473. He probably hasn't heard of Australia, or if he has, he thinks it's just outback and kangaroos.
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  474. You have misunderstood the advice. It was to not ignore court notices. BBB didn’t say you should respond to the scammers via email.
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  475. No point having an army then if it can't deploy anywhere. It's just playing at soldiers. Of course, this is rubbish. The British Army aren't just playing. They can be deployed.
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  476. Again, this is where the company culture has to step up - the captain needs to know that they are going to have a difficult conversation with their boss if they don't do around when the FO calls for it (assuming that there is no justifiable reason that a landing must be made from that approach).
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  477. We will probably end up with a society where there are no employees. Society will stratify into two layers; the people that own the access to AI (those people who are allowed to tell the AI to learn something new) and those people who are only allowed to consume the AI proided to them.
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  478. There is no social contract. There never was. All there was was opportunity. If you wanted the opportunity, you took it. No one forced you.
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  479. While a mechanical system would be relatively simple, Rosie has neglected to mention the difficulties that VAWTs can have in starting, and also the need for them to cope with high windspeeds, e.g. by feathering the blades. These problems mean that the optimum blade angle is dependent on the windspeed, and a mechanical system would be made much more complex if it had to also factor in the windspeed to its mechanics.
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  480. I'm sure there will be a new set of stamps released showing a fuller range of Russian military hardware that has now been reduced to scrap.
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  481. I think Richard understands that pension assets are dynamic, but he is suggesting a far greater dynamism will be needed to ensure that pension funds remain invested in assets that are capable of producing a return in the future. He is also concerned about the assets that are being superseded - who will buy them if they clearly have a very limited life left - the price of them will reflect the limited life and the loser will be the pensioner whose pension fund has hung onto the asset for too long.
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  482. The Treason Act of 1351 must be a contender.
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  483. I agree. An old sailing instructor of mine once told me, "It's not good enough to know that you need to give way to a larger vessel, you have to let other captain see that you know that you need to give way. If you are giving way, do so clearly, so that they know you know what to do." It's a lesson I have used in the air as a pilot, and when driving. Your position in the road can tell other road users alot if they have eyes to see it.
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  484. I'm not sure if you are aware of Vertogen, but they are working on an self-governing variable pitch VAWT mechanism that might improve the efficiency of VAWTs significantly. It might be fair to say that "automatic variable pitch" is the holy grail of VAWT technology as it promises improved efficiency, improved self-starting and another layer of safety against overspeed. Only time will tell if the benefits outweigh the downsides produced by the complexity.
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  485. And not obeying society's reasonable rules is the act of a sociopath. If you want to have children in schools, and the shops open, you need to stop mixing in pubs, bars and restaurants. That's reasonable and measured.
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  486.  @serjg6390  Russia: 1, Ukraine: 111 then.
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  487. All the vested interests in the country have been aligned against the new Labour Government. The opinion polls have been influenced by all these vested interests talking down the government. We had to suffer the Tories for 14 years, I think we should give Labour a go for five years and see what they make of it - oh wait, that's what we did on 4th July 2024!
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  488. I have a feeling that this will not happen in the case of Russia. It will take Europe a long time to trust any Russian leader, especially one that keeps changing the rules so that they remain in power.
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  489. No. There are no laws, providing you have a fair hearing. If the fast-tracking results in an unfair hearing, you can appeal and will very likely have the conviction quashed.
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  490. Ukraine doesn't need luck. Their allies will give them all the money that has been seized from Russia in sanctions.
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  491. In theory, you can be charged for dropping off or picking up , but in practice you would use the time it takes for your passenger to get out of the car (or into it) to familiarise yourself with the terms being offered for parking, and leave when you realised you did not want to be bound to those terms. It would be for the parking company to show that your purpose in stopping your car was not to familiarise yourself with the terms, but to pick someone up or drop them off. This may be easy for them to do if they have video of you not getting out of your car to study the signage.
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  492.  @petermachondo8285  No, Putin is the world's biggest problem at the moment.
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  493. Exactly. But it is a sandcastle that has taken nearly 250 years to build! Business people can destroy value in an instant with bad decisions.
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  494. They aren't normal, any I'm guessing that most 'normal' people have no idea how different Harrier pilots are.
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  495. A false flag operation is clearly very risky for Russia; a) the lose a valuable oil/fuel storage facility b) the whole world is backing Ukraine for taking this offensive action against Russia c) it looks really bad if they are ever found out.
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  496. Do you know that it costs around £600,000 to build one prison cell? Reducing the number of prisoners we need to constantly house could provide a massive amount of money to offer mental health services and drug rehabilition services to the 2/3rd of the prison population who are only in jail because they have a drug habit or a mental illness.
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  497. You are correct, but your point is completely irrelevant to the video.
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  498. Most systems I have come across give a 10 minute grace period to find a space or leave if you cannot.
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  499. Pretty much everyone is a foreigner! Most people in the UK can trace their families to the Vikings, the Norman Conquest or to Ireland and Scotland. There is not much Angle or Saxon blood left, and even than came from Europe. So arguing for mass deportations of foreigners is arguing that we should all be throw out. It's nonsensical. And the moment you say that you don't mean people who haven't been here for hundreds of years, you are making it racial, because you don't want people who are VISIBLLY foreign.
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  500. Yes, but many people ignore the notices that the court sends.
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  501. The Tories tried hard to do irreparable damage in 14 years, and didn't quite acheive that, although they got devastatingly close to it.
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  502. If they are responding to a crime there will be a crime number, but the number will almost certainly not be known to the office that is responding, so there is no point asking for it when you are stopped. If you want to complain later, the police may use the crime number within any internal investigation to show that the stop was legitimate, but I doubt you would ever be told the crime number (unless the matter went to court when the police might release it as part of their evidence).
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  503. If we rely on the NHS to solve the mental health crisis in our young people, we will wait for ever. The numbers are too great for a centralised solution. What we need to do is for ALL of US to help these young people find their feet, build their health and experience the rewards of working.
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  504. I too was thinking that the Judgement of Solomon was a legal 'precedent' the might be applicable in such cases.
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  505.  @joline2730  So if a guarantor is party to the tenancy, they can end it. If the tenant doesn't leave, the landlord has to go to court to evict them (or could offer the tenancy a new tenancy).
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  506. A court will look at the evidence, and it is for the claimant to show that "on the balance of probabilities" that their case is more correct than the defendants. The court is likely to find that the vet's evidence is correct "on the balance of probabilites", the vet having expertise that neither the claimant or defendant has, and no interest in asserting a false claim. If the vet says the dog is between 3 and 6, and the claimant says they have had the dog for 20 (or 6000 years), the court is not going to find for the claimant as they haven't proved this "on the balance of probabilities".
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  507. And while the transport of hydrogen does have some risks, pollution from the hydrogen fuel is not one of them. If a ship blows up, the result is fresh water! I would expect that a well engineered system could minimise the risks involved in hydrogen transport, but humans have proven somewhat inept at imagining the different ways in which systems can fail, and with any new system one or two disasters might be expected.
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  508. But you have to work because you want to eat. No one has to feed you, other than your parents, and what will you do when they die?
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  509. The point of the war is to subjugate Ukraine and make it a vassal state of Russia. Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union so he can be a Soviet hero. (Putin said it was to rescue Ukraine from Nazis, but seeing as there are only about 1,000 Nazis in Ukraine, and none in any positions of power, the Ukranians didn't want any help from Russia.)
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  510. I expect they will cancel Nordstream. Russia and Russians have shown that they cannot be trusted. It will be a hundred years before anyone in the world believes anything a Russian says.
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  511. But saying Yes to a narcissit is worse.
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  512.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  60,000 less than the c500,000 people who die in the UK each year, but the argument against locking down to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 ISN'T to stop 60,000 people dying but to prevent the 2.4 million who would die if the virus wasn't held in check. Currently 3.7% of people who catch Covid-19 will die. The UK population is 66.6 million currently, so this mortality rate will kill 2.4 million people. That is not a drop in the ocean.
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  513. Велика поема!
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  514. LiFePo4 batteries are very energy dense. These flow batteries are never going to get small enough or light enough to be used for mobile or portable systems, but for applications where space is not at a premium, they can offer a useful cost savings as they don't rely on any rare elements. Static applications is where they will excel.
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  515. You only have to look at the dividends paid by solar and wind energy companies to see how profitable these companies are with the current model. This has to change.
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  516. Learning to read Meteorological Actual Reports (METARs) and Terminal Airfield Forecasts (TAFs) is something that pilots start learning relatively early in their training, often within the first few hours of starting training. After a while, the amazing human brain starts to translate the codes as you read them!
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  517. I suspect the answer is that one is a criminal case and one is a civil case, but I don’t know the Belgium legal system.
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  518. Being able to alther the strenght of the magnetic field potentially has an application in wind turbines where the strength could be altered to exactly match the torque available from the wind (implementing MPPT via the winding rather than by boosting the output voltage), and to aid starting. In theory, the turbine could also be braked, but to avoid overheating, it is better to dump the excess electricty as heat (or to a battery) and only use electric braking as a backup to friction braking when the turbine is at a standstill.
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  519. But that's not a correct portrayal, is it? Prisoner 4 is in jail for Arson AND Assault on an Emergency Worker
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  520.  @петрсмирнов-ф3щ  Есть пропагандистский ролик. Мы пока не знаем, кто совершил преступление. Россия говорит, что это Азов, Украина говорит, что это Россия. Только уголовное расследование может установить истину и привлечь преступника к ответственности. (Translation: There is a propaganda video. We don't know yet who committed the crime. Russia says it's Azov, Ukraine says it's Russia. Only a criminal investigation can establish the truth and bring the perpetrator to justice.)
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  521. This ability to be kind is important. There is a need to be kind to the real farmers in the UK, who work extremely hard, running businesses that are complex and financially challenged, but we don't need to be kind to the privileged and the entitled.
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  522. I'm sorry to hear you have been struggling to find work.
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  523. That was a very powerful statement, which I endorse wholeheartedly.
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  524.  @random_an0n  I knew Denmark had a queen. My daughter lives in Denmark and has met Queen Margrethe. Just because you are ignorant does not mean we all are.
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  525.  @misssilencedogood5968  I found some of the people quite convincing. I am prepared to beleive that some of they were speaking the truth, but what they were saying was that the Ukrainian armed forces were shelling their village becaue the Russian Army was in the village. The worker in the school said quite clearly that the Russions bombed the school after the Ukranians left. The Russian army has no right to be in Mariupol, Donessk, or Kherson, and it has no right to bomb any school. The Ukrainian army has a right to defend Ukraine.
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  526. I'm surprised that the investiation didn't recommend including the visibility in the approach clearance IF it was below the minima for the approach.
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  527.  @Gryffster  That justice should prevail and the courts should be impartial and sensitive is a target that should always be aimed for, but in a court system that is staffed and used by humans, and underfunded, those admirable aims are not always going to be met.
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  528. They have a production facility in the NATO country.
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  529. I think Petter is of the same opinion - he mentioned that he thought the FO was pre-occupied with juggling the throttles to execute the rolling take off correctly, so would have been focused on the near-distance view, not the view to the end of runway and beyond.
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  530. Family trusts can work to a degree but discretionary trusts have to pay IHT every 10 years, and the overheads of running a trust can be onerous.
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  531. Ruggedising the unit for use in the field is clearly a good idea, but I do hope that your employer declined to add sharp edges!
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  532. A dash cam might help.
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  533. Although this comment seems completely off-topic, BBB might consider whether he wants to present on the mysteries of the law in relation to benefits.
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  534.  @DaveyRedbeard  If his intention had only been to recover his bike, he could have remained at the scene and called an ambulance.
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  535.  @delhatton  For a start, lawyers (especially barristers) are really expensive. (We effectively have two levels of lawyers in UK; solicitors and barristers). I think the BlackBeltBarrister would recommend getting either a solicitor or a barrister to represent you in court in many situations, e.g. a criminal trial or a large civil case. But managing, arguing and winning a simple case in the civil courts is not beyond the capabilities of a well educated and organised lay-person. Such a person might use a lawyer for legal advice, but then use that advice to plan and the their case themselves. If you pay a lawyer to do everything, it gets very expensive, very quickly.
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  536. What an absolute peice of gargage. Fancy asking a President at war why he's not wearing a suit when everyone knows Zelenskyy wears a uniform to show solidarity with the troops.
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  537.  @nasterfireguy4467  That seems a small point. If Russia wanted to undo the transaction, they could have done so much earlier than 2014.
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  538. There is a reason they had the drug dog present.
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  539.  @MyKharli  No, they haven't! Money isn't cake. The old still have some of the money, but mostly it is in the hands on billionaires and the super rich.
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  540. iPhones generally don't have this feature in case anyone is looking for it, or an app, for iPhone.
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  541.  @sandeepmehta5311  TCAS would provide a second safety net, but the first safety net should have been a prompt call to ATC.
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  542.  @AA-be9rn  Good advice. It may be beneficial in some cases to explain why the question is not applicable if this is not obvious or provided for in the question.
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  543.  @learn.englisheasily  Dan Cooper was saying that most civilian deaths at the moment are being caused by Russian shelling. All these people are pro-Russians. They talk about "them" and "us" when they are all Ukrainians. This is not a reason why they should be shelled, I am just pointing out that they are pushing the Russian view that Ukrainians are shelling their citizens, when we have seen very little evidence. Clearly very little of the damage in the video was caused by the one shell that fell into the street in the first section of the report. Even the people in the videos don't know where the forces are that are shelling them. They hear cannons firing from a certain direction, but can they say with certainty that they are Russian or Ukrainian guns when they are many miles away? Russia need to leave the battlefield. If they did, then we would know who was shelling these civilians, and I bet the shelling would stop.
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  544.  @redberries8039  I would agree that there are no UK forces on the ground in Ukraine. Politically it is too sensitive to have any Nato forces in Ukraine, with Putin having shown himself to be completely mad.
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  545. @Richard Marsden Actually they are fighting to have a chance to be Europeans.
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  546. It is insane. The current Labour government is not doing ordinary voters any favours by allowing electricity prices to remain so high when they don't need to be.
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  547.  @kennedykaram516  The Ukranians are making them beg.
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  548.  @adamson5779  The Russian invasion was unlawful. All Russians should be ashamed of their President.
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  549.  @wendyfloyd6981  The thing is, he isn't sure what he witnessed, other than an elderly lady being manhandled into a police van. He doesn't know, and we don't know, what she did. She might have assaulted a policeman. The law has to apply equally; to MPs, Judges, and little old ladies. I do think the MP demonstrated considerable intelligence in NOT wading in physically when he was not sure what was going on. His circumspection is a lesson to all bystanders.
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  550. GBU-57x MOP would be a much better weapon to take out the bridge. Barnes Wallis devised the Grand Slam bomb used in WWII to take out the Bielefeld viaduct. The GBU-57x is the natural successor to the Grand Slam bomb.
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  551. Elon's biggest mistake so far has been to look a little bit like Mike Myers!
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  552. She has the right idea. I think the Russians have behaved abnomnably in this long-running conflict, but the Ukrainians, and the speratists in Donestk and Luhansk are no angels. The question is "Can the Ukrainians find a way to solve the problem they have in Donbas?" If they can't, the Russian will always be inclined to keep the conflict going.
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  553. Part of the issue might be that MPs are given a budget to run their constituency offices. These offices do a lot of good work helping the MPs constituents, but this budget means that MPs never actually has to deal with someone who has had their car or their life savings stolen, and then found that there is no justice system to investigate, prosecute and get back what they have lost. If these budgets were withdrawn, MPs would realise within a day the extent of the problems they have not fixed, and how their inaction has affected ordinary people.
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  554. You know how bad things have got when a Conservative MP says we need a "Modern Workhouse" for the first time!
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  555. Being ominidirectional also means that they don't need slip rings to transfer the generated power from the nacelle to the round. Slip rings wear out eventually and need maintenance, but then so do the bearings of a VAWT!
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  556. The "secret sauce" is the software that manages the compressors to very tight tolerances. AI wasn't mentioned, but there is potential for AI to optimize the operation of a cascaded system even better than a human.
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  557. It is a very risky way of achieving the mission, and probably unnecessary if they can get missiles to hit these targets.
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  558. A free one?
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  559. You should only write any such statement once you have heard all the questions the police want to ask you, and you should really only write such a statement with your solictor and if your solicitor was present when the police asked their questions.
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  560.  @JohnSmith-uf8qi  Agreed. Putin had set himself up to be a man that can never be defeated, and his rhetoric and arrogance will continue until he is defeated, and he will be at some point.
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  561.  @SunriseLAW  Result!
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  562. Credit Cards are one of the most complicated financial products that you can take out as a retail customer. They are as complicated as pensions. You people need to be warned about this.
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  563.  @CurtOntheRadio  Do you understand the order in which payments to your card are applied to outstanding balances, cash withdrawals, and zero percent interest purchases, and what the different interest rates you pay for purchases and cash withdrawals on your own credit cards? Do you know when Section 75 protection applies to credit card purchases, and when it doesn't? Do you know what the late payment fees are? Do you know why your credit limit is what it is, and why the lender might want to increase this? Credit Cards are way more complex than pensions, even after you add in the fact that pensions are taxed. It's easy to get your head around saving for retirement. It's not so easy to understand the byzantine rules associated with your credit card!
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  564. The people actually fighting this war don't always have the time and connectivity to comment, and there are many more poeple watching the war than fighting in it, so that it is enevitable that the sofa warriors dominate the comments.
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  565.  @Misaki.Manifestation  They certainly should.
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  566. All it will take is for a flaw to be found in the blockchain algorithm.
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  567. The manhours figures given in this video mean that an aircraft needs to earn enough revenue to pay for 1000 hours of maintenance per month, on average. Imagine that a licensed aircraft engineer costs the same as the mechanic at your car dealer - upwards of £60 in the UK in 2018 and you can see how much the airlines spends on maintenance for one aircraft, more than £60,000 per month. And if you need a replacement part, aviation quality parts are a lot more expensive than parts for your car.
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  568. You would hope that the signage specifies the age of the child, but that discretion would also be applied by an attendants noticing an apparent infraction, e.g. if they see a parent with an adult child in a motorised wheelchair who is using the space because the disabled spaces are all full.
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  569. The Russian people have a great opporuntiy to be able to cleanse their country of the old Soviet thinking and paranoia. Time for another revolution!
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  570. In the UK, because of our public health system and the benefits we pay, we are at great risk from inflation. Regardless of whether the government has taken in more tax revenue, if we are to be fair to civil servants and benefit claimants, we have to increase the pay and benefits in line with inflation. Therefore ANY UK government needs to have keep inflation very low as its primary aim. The moment that inflation exceeds the increased tax revenue from growth in the economy we are on a path to financial ruin. Are we prepared to make the sacrifices we need to get inflation under control? We might for example need to start charging capital gains tax on people's homes, so that they can't pay more for new home just because someone is paying them more for their home.
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  571. The Russian force in the area is very large, and the Ukrainians have not been able to break through. Rather they are being pushed back slightly each day.
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  572. I am inclined to think that Daniel's client was at fault. If the other driver was driving too fast and came across Daniel's client crossing the road rather late, even at speed, they would be able to slow down and steer to the inside lane sufficiently enough to avoid a colission. Only if Daniel's client pulled out when they were too close to take any avoiding action would the other party have not been able to avoid a collision. I think many experienced drivers will have encountered a situation where they have cleared a road to enter it, only to have a speeding driver "appear out of nowhere" and have to slam their brakes on to minimise the chance of a collision.
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  573. ​ @Lee Price My understanding is that Rice v. Connolly is overridden by PACE if the officer has a suspicion that you may be guilty of an offence and articulates this suspicion to you.
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  574. A peaceful resolution would need Russia to accept Ukraine's sovreignty. Russia will demand that Ukraine will never join NATO. This is a difficult decision for the Ukranian government to make. If they agree to this, they will never be able to call on NATO's help if some other Russian madman fancies their chances. Russia should pay to rebuild Ukraine, but to force them to do so will mean further ignominy, and they may baulk if this is one of Ukraine's demands as part of any peace.
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  575. There is nothing in Andy's video that might lead you to that conclusion, so how have you come to it?
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  576. Legal Aid to families could be capped, (to make the provision of aid affordable to the taxpayer), as could the legal costs of the other parties providing information to an inquest, and could be capped at the same level to ensure a level playing field. Perhaps coroners could be allowed to increase the cap in cases of greater complexity.
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  577. Mr Lancaster does not go anywhere where the Russian army cannot assure his safety.
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  578. You are so wrong. The UK isn't finished. The UK has a history of leading the changes. We have some incredible thinkers in the UK. We can solve this problem, but the government has to engage with the problem, rather than repeating what has been tried before.
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  579. The application process described in the video might be appropriate for employers who are hiring on a long-term basis, e.g. Officer Selection in the Army, Airforce or Navy, or for Management Training schemes at top employers where the successful candidates will have a great deal spent on their development, but it is completely inappropriate for the majority of jobs that young people without degrees will be applying for. This behaviour clearly isn't as a result of it being difficult to dismiss someone who is not able to do the work. I suspect it is due to a lack of trust within organisations. Hiring managers aren't trusted to get it right, so they make the candidates jump through hoops to secure even basic jobs.
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  580. Regardless of where they are, they have a great position and have dug in well. The mix of armoured fighting vehicles, advanced weapons, and tactics (plus a good field kitchen) will make them a hard nut for the Russian's to crack.
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  581. I can’t see a difference between silent prayer and loitering, and either may be done with the intention of harassing someone. I think you are wrong to characterise silent prayer as thinking when it is done with the intent of harassing; it is an act, not a thought that is being criminalised.
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  582. Wes Streeting’s portfolio is large, but he should have arrived in office with his ideas on how to implement the Dilnot report so that what could be afforded could be implemented immediately already fully formed. Not to do so is wasting valuable time and leaving people and the care sector to suffer.
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  583. I would say not. An adverse inference would be unsafe if no questions were put to you because you did not attend a voluntary interview. There is also some protecting in the fact that the interview is "voluntary", assuming the police are honest when reporting that you failed to attend an intervierw that they told you was voluntary.
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  584. The non-judgmental approach to accident investigation in aviation is and should be a model to all forms of accident/near-miss investigation, so that lessons can be learned.
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  585.  @piccalillipit9211  Your father's prediction was just one of a small number of possibilities. One of them was almost bound to be correct.
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  586.  @alex_n8863  While your concerns are valid, I do think there is time to do things to arrest the decline of civil society, and to reduce the rate at which we are causing the climate to change. We are perilously close to creating climate conditions that no technical solutions or investment or behavoural change can reverse. We have to keep the pressure up to make changes to improve matters, on all fronts, but especially on climate change, so that there is some sort of future for our children. We cannot just give up.
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  587. It looks like a dime store flag! The Russian Federation really splashed out on their victory flag.
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  588. We do. It will be for others to scrutinise the contract to check that it doesn't breach the act.
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  589. The thing is that Nationalists are not in power in Ukraine. The Nationalist parties got less than 2% of the vote at the last election.
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  590. The small family farms are all too small to pay IHT. The introduction of IHT will cause land prices to fall. A farm that was worth £5m today and would require IHT to be paid will be worth less than £3m in future so no IHT will be due. Richard addresses this apparent contradicition in an earlier video about this policy change.
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  591. He was not "just following orders". He had a choice.
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  592. The invasion wasn't completely unprovoked. Ukraine should have done more to sort out the situation in Donbas, but when you are fighting a civil war and your countrymen are armed with heavy artillery provided by Russia, it can take a while to get things sorted. Zelensky has only been in power for three years, so Russia should have allowed more time and been more supportive of a peace deal, e.g. by exterting its influence on the seperatists to stop fighting. Russia should not be allowed to leave the peace table without agreeing to fund the rebuilding of Ukraine.
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  593. Because she is an appeaser.
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  594.  @_Mentat  That is the reason, and it is a very good reason. We should pity anyone that has to deal with such footage.
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  595. I hope so too. Russia should pay to repair all the damage they have caused.
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  596. RE #4 While it is legal to own and operate an ex-military figter jet in the UK, the costs of doing so legally are eye-wateringly high.
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  597. Which presumably was canceled when they appealed it?
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  598.  @ONIGIRIKINGU  As a business owner, it's your job to pay your employees as much as you can afford to pay them. If you aren't trying to increase their standard of living as well as your own, you are not a good employer. Politicians should be paid some multiple of the minimum wage, and shouldn't have any influence over what that wage is set at. The level should be set by an algorithm that takes into account what the country can afford to pay, and what level of inflation there is.
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  599. Nicking someone's country because you want their wheat and their gas is not noble!
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  600.  @oldcremehelian3708  To stop the Russians.
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  601. Yes, it's abrushless motor, but whereas the brushless motors in your power tools have magnets in them, these motors don't require magnets.
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  602. Having Ukraine a "buffer zone" makes no sense because there are numerous NATO members that have borders with Russia. The only reason Putin wants to de-militarise Ukraine is so that they cannot fight when he tries to steal Donetsk and Luhansk. Zelensky should not agree that Ukraine will not join NATO if it wants to do so. Ukraine is a sovreign nation and so can decide who it allies with and for what purpose. Putin has no say on what happens in Ukraine.
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  603. He has proven remarkably effective in the end. He clearly figured that 'little' atrocities like invading Crimea wouldn't work, so he doubled down.
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  604. Time for you to be even more of a friend.
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  605. If they ask if they can search your cars, say "I do not consent to you searching my car". If they want to search it and they think they have power do so, they will search it regardless of anything you say or do, so you and your solicitor will have to respond after the car has been searched if the police go ahead and search it.
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  606. Great video. American car manufacturers should do everything to make their cars as safe as possible. Signal ambiguity is bad for safety.
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  607. That's one of the neat things about growing up in the UK. If you lived in a city, unless you were a member of one of our cadet organizations, you were unlikely to have fired any kind of firearm ever. You don't miss what you have never known.
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  608.  @johnsjunkyard  It's a well known fact that an MOT certificate is only proof that the car was roadworthy at the time of inspection (assuming a competent and honest inspector).
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  609.  @user.--.  Standards were very different in earlier times, and the 1970's were a different time. With only one TV in the house, ExaltedwithFail might have been very happy they had gone out as it meant they could watch Play for Today or the Sweeny or something even more unsuitable!
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  610.  @AK-np4rp  Starmer has more about him than most, but I am with Richard in thinking that Starmer should not be trying to get along with Trump. My view is that the only safe response from the UK government is ignore the USA until there is no option to do otherwise, and then engage with them to the bare minimum.
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  611. It's not unusual for leaders to be perceived very differently at home to how they are perceived abroad!
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  612.  @downshift4503  Agreed. The motivation to create the goods and services that sustain life has to be maintained. If a Universal Income would destroy the motivation to create these goods and services, we can't have it.
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  613.  @hamshackleton They might have the key, but if the key doesn't work, the car can't be tested.
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  614. This seems wrong because the mosquito can't tell how 'sweet' your blood is until they bite you. There has to be something going on before they bite that attracts them to a person.
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  615.  @Stettafire  The challenge here is that the pilot can't look at the button they are pressing, and locking the button out runs the risk of the lock failing at a very inopportune moment. Some sort of throttle shaker might work to communicate that if you want TOGA thrust you are going to have to move the throttle levers to get it!
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  616. Given all the war crimes that Russia have committed in Ukraine, it's not something to be proud of.
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  617. We can't print roubles, and if we can't buy them, we can't pay.
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  618. My daughter lives in Denmark and everything the Danish politician said is correct. The Danes work herd, but they have a good work/life balance and their treat everyone well.
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  619.  @vikaskaswan4817  Everyone will pay to rebuild Mariupol for the Ukrainians that live there. Well done Russia.
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  620. It is reasonable to ask for a copy of the terms of a contract, and the parking company should supply it - they are going to have to provide a printed copy of it for the court if they want to take legal actions, so send you a copy and noting that you have received it is a sensible step for them to take. Your technical point about credit card makes no sense if, practically, an enforcible debt is created.
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  621. You're right! It is a better propaganda video that all the others on social media. Well done, Patrick, you make the best propaganda videos!
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  622.  @TenFalconsMusic  Probably, but if we don’t take a stand, the criminals win.
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  623. So have you restarted your business?
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  624. Did you vote for them?
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  625. The A320 airspeed in the initial climb to 5000 feet will be about 200mph. Even if you see a flock of birds a mile away, which would be a miracle, you would be in the flock within 15 seconds or so, and a pilot's initial reaction would be to turn way to avoid birds being ingested into the engine rather than adjust the engines. Remember that these engines are certified to be able to take a bird strike from something like a pigeon with minimal damage.
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  626. I wonder if Putin has realised what he has done to reinvigorate the European and American armaments industry?
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  627.  @EngineeringwithRosie  I think Drema Boy is suggesting that the generating coils/magnets for a VAWT could be more efficient if they are positioned at the periphery of the rotor rather than in a relatively small PMG driven by a shaft. His point being that the linear velocity at the periphery is greater than at the centre. I don't know enough about generator design to know whether he is right. :-(
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  628.  @sarahjaneross2918  I agree we have plenty of space - you only have to fly over the UK to see the vast areas of green space. Only 13% of UK land is occupied by housing, roads, industry and commercial buildings!
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  629. I tend to agree. While one might leave two four year olds at home while one nipped to the neighbours to borrow a cup fo sugar or whatever, leaving younger children (unless that are in a safe environement, e.g. a play pen that you know they can't get out out of) is neglectful. The children's mother will be beside herself and I hope that she will be able to receive some psycholigical support while she is in custody.
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  630. We didn't have much information about the consequences of our behaviours, but I'm fairly sure that even if we had had the Internet and someone like Richard Murphey telling us what would happen, we still would have done exactly what we did! All we can do now, is try to do the right thing to improve the situation for all the younger generations, not just our own children.
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  631. You only have to watch It's a Wonderful Life to see how the rich (Mr Potter in the film) act during bad times.
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  632. Yes. There are legal decisions about how property is to be divided when two people who have lived together and contributed to the property. These decisions are common law.
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  633.  @Mr66Danzo  Why? If every contry in the world belonged to a single defensive pact it would end all wars. NATO is a defensive pact. The Treaty doesn't allow it to start a war.
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  634. They would be shot by their commanders as traitors. Russia doesn't want western aid to reach Mariupol in case it is used to sustain the defenders of Mariupol. I expect that the people who are receiving the food aid (who are all Ukrainins) will ensure that some food reaches the Unkrainian forces that are in Mariupol defending it.
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  635. No.
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  636. Your persistance will win out. Keep asking for the evidence.
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  637. Over-reving the engine is not checking it out. It's damaging it.
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  638. More taxes would pay for more Police.
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  639. It is our job to make sure that this doesn't happen. We need to make the UK a fairer society. I understand why you think nothing will change over the long term, but not trying to change is one way of guaranteeing that nothing will change. We have to try.
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  640. The need for a tower, its foundations, dump loads, braking system, and the on-going maintenance all make small-scale wind more expensive than the simpler PV or PV + battery option. For most urban situations, a PV + Battery system combined with variable tarrifs is going to the most cost-effective solution.
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  641. Luckily, the Danish government passed a law in 2009 that allows Greenland to become an independent country, but the law does not allow it to decide to join another state (independence is the only option), so the Danish Parliament would need to make a new law for this. In the absence of such a law, Denmark would be bound by its own constitution to defend Greenland. Would the USA really go to war with Denmark (as Argentina did with the UK over the Falkland Islands)? I suspect they would, and I suspect that the EU would help in the same way it has helped Ukraine, even though Ukraine is not a member of any military alliance with Europe.
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  642.  @marhawkman303  Agreed - the Captain seems to have failed to model the correct behaviours for CRM. They should have called STOP and watched the FO to check that they were stopping expeditiously. I suspect the Captain's actions were also prompted by being startled.
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  643.  @roceye  GBU-57s under the bridge piers would be even better.
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  644. The problem is that it can take months to evict a tenant, due to the legal process, and how busy the courts are. In that time, the landlord can lose very much more than the deposit covers (Deposits are limited to 1 month rent).
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  645.  @Pius-XI  She is a leader to her people. She is relevant to 6million Danes. Which is a lot more people thatn GB News is relevant to in the UK.
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  646. @Mike Allen I think that locking the doors and speaking to the police officer through a partially open window is fine, but if the officer is concerned about your manner of driving, e.g. they think you are drunk or driving under the influence of drugs, or the car is not roadworthy, they are not going to let you drive any further than the safe place they have stopped you. So if you decide to drive on after being stopped, whatever other offences you are (or aren't) prosected for, you are likely to be successfully prosecuted for failing to stop for a police office. You have the choice whether to drive on or not, but I can't see it being a defence to claim you are scared of police officers, unless you have strong evidence of this. I think it also makes a difference if the police officer is working alone - I would see a lone office as much more of a threat. If you know the area, and you know of a petrol station or an open supermarket or pub car park you can drive to in five minutes or so, then I don't see the problem with saying to them "I'm a lone female, you are a single officer, I don't feel comfortable dealing with this here, can we drive to xxx?". Their response might cause you to drive to the nearest police station to report them as a police impersonator, or might reassure you that all is well.
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  647. But it doesn't have to be. There are sustainable alternatives to most of the uses of oil, but there will probably always be a requirement to produce some oil. However, if people won't stop burning plastics at the end of their life, then governments might have to prevent the production of oil using more draconian means.
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  648. As a result of my own PPL training, even when flying on commercal flights I always wear shoes and clothes that cover my body as much as possible. The clothes I wear are chosen for their high natural fibre content, as I don't want melted polyester/viscose/etc adhering to my skin in the event of a fire. I always study the safety card to see how the doors are opened, where the lifevest is stowed and how it is fastened. I also mantain a 'sterile' seat for takeoff and landings, with my bag as far under the seat in front as possible, nothing plugged into the entertainment system (if any) and my shoes on. That way I am ready to get out, and nothing will impede anyone sat outboard of me getting to the aisle.
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  649. The police might ask why someone who is adept at Akido could not have disarmed the attacker or twisted his arm behind his back and arrested him. This is a question that 'your friend' needs to have discussed with their solicitor before deciding what to tell the police about how how the attacker became injured. In reality, the police and CPS understand that in a fight there really is no telling what the outcome will be, it is just chance whether the weapons ends up in your leg or the attacker's leg. In true self-defence situations there can be no time to evaluate risk; there is just the immediate need to protect oneself, so one does so, without thought of the consequences or risks. The police and CPS take this into account.
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  650.  @TheEndOfIndependantGeorge  Thank the Conservative government for running the Courts and Tribunals service down so that justice takes forever.
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  651. This is an interesting question. If the customer is not paying for the advice, can they rely on it? If you pay for advice, you can sometime sue if the advice was not correct - it depends on whether the advisor was neligent in some way. I would expect that your employers insurance does not cover liability for their staff giving advice to customers, so there employer is at risk if they allow you to do this. It would make an interesting video from BBB to hear about the liability that might attach to free 'advice' from strangers on an internet forum, free advice from a sales or customer service assistant in a business, and paid-for advice from a solicitor, accountant or surveyor.
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  652. There is no harsh reality to green energy.
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  653. Roger Onslow It’s not more expensive. The cost of building a fossil fuel power station and running it is very similar to the cost of building the same output using renewables. The laws of physics mean that you need the same amount of copper winding around a generator to produce 1kw of power regardless of whether the generator is turned by wind or steam. The cost of the plant that goes in front of the generators is very similar, e.g similar amounts of concrete and similar lifespans. Wind turbine blades wear out, but so do steam turbine blades. It’s all much of a much. Even the labour costs are similar. Your point about the base load is valid, but is it harsh? Harsh, to me, would mean something that did harm. We can’t do as much good until we can solve the base load problem, but we are not actually doing any harm. The base load issue will be solved by a combination of diversity of supply, over-capacity and storage. Over capacity is not a bad thing because it provides security of supply and allows for maintenance.
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  654.  @MouseDestruction  Good luck to them figuring out how to fire it. Many Ukranians speak and read English. Few Russian soldiers do.
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  655. Accounting and auditiing aren't part of the popular conciouslness. Only a Professor of Accounting can help everyone understand that it really is important that central and local government have proper accounts that can be trusted when the data in them used!
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  656. I would go so far as to say it the most important book written about life in the UK in the 21st century. It should be a set book in English and Welsh schools.
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  657. This is unwise as you don't know that they don't have business insurance to cover their use of their vehicle. I used to have commercial travelling cover as part of my motor policy.
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  658. Love the irony!
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  659. I agree that firing the new hires is going to lead to vast knowledge gaps in future.
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  660. Very interesting video Richard. Thanks for making it. I agree that organisations do not respect the people applying to join them. While free market capalists will argue that there is no commercial imperative to provide young people with opportunities, there is a very great societal risk if we don't!
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  661.  @annleo  I know a little about Euromaiden, the civil war in Donbas, the law that was brought in to encourage greater use of the Ukrainian language, the history of the Azov Battalion and other far right groups in Ukraine. I would like to read the text of the Ukrainian language law to see what it actually says. The treatment of civilians in Donbas in 2014 and since then has been wrong, but both sides say it is the other’s fault. The casualty numbers indicate to me that civilians were targeted deliberately; the numbers are too high to collateral damage (UN says some 3,500 civilians killed in Donbas between 2014 and February 2022). The DRP and LPR wee given heavy artillery by Russia to defend themselves, but of course this just lead to further civilian casualties. I am from the UK and watched the civil war in Northern Ireland, and saw how the war only stopped when the two sides managed to put the cruelties of the past behind them. This what needs to happen in Donbas. Even if Ukraine seeds Donbas to Russia (which I think it might to end the war), Ukraine and Donbas will be neighbours forever. These neighbours need to stop hating each other for the sake of their children and their future.
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  662. Given that BBB is describing the laws as passed by Parliament (and not the police) I think you are wrong.
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  663.  @SquintyGears  Yes, once you understand that the cable is effectively extending the PCI bus, you reaslise why its so expensive, and the engineering in it justifies the price. We're looking at a peice of technology that would have been regarded as impossible twenty years ago.
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  664. The cost of MVHR is usually less than £5,000 in the UK, and the benefits of having a house that can be heated and ventilated in the winter with 1kW of power is well worth having.
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  665. Russians clearly don't understand irony.
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  666. Some change was necessary, but dismantling the whole government, in a matter of months, will lead to incredible problems. Surely an intelligent person would have done some research and thought about what needed to change? As Richard points out. Musk is breaking everything as quickly as he can. Mistakes will be made needlessley, and vast amounts of value destroyed. It's a social experiment without parallel. I'm not sure I want to be one of Musk's white mice.
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  667.  @cat6462  Украинцев морят голодом и обстреливают российские войска. Что вы делаете, чтобы остановить это?
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  668. For me the most surprising part of this story is the lack of Wig-Wag lights at the entrance to the runway. In my experience, if an airfield has any lighting at all, it has these lights.
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  669. Partick is showing the other side of the propaganda war. The people he interviewed are all Pro-Russian, this is to be expected as he doesn't have access to the other side of the battle lines, but their shouldn't be a war in Ukraine. Russia have no rights to attack another country, even if that country is mistreating its citizens. Russia coudl have helped broker peace in Donbas, but they gave the seperatists heavy artillery to shell the Ukrainian army, and because civilians had been killed by the Ukrainian army, they also shelled civilains. It's a bloody civil was and only a peace agreement with support from Russia and Europe will help stop the bloodshed.
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  670. I disagree. The potential for fraud isn't dictated by policy, but how the policy is implmented. It seems that neither the goverment nor the civil service has been paying attention to the prevelence of fraud, and don't know how to implement policies in a way that prevent fraud from the outset.
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  671. That roundabout in Hemel Hempstead is a bit special! It is one where the mini-roundabouts are relatively unusual in that they have more than one lane.
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  672. Only if Scotland join the EU! The EU Army will then have the Scottish Regiments, complete with Bagpipes and Kilts. The USA Army will be quaking in their boots, or they should be.
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  673. These flow batteries should be ideal in your application, but Redflow are not focused on the residential market yet. Their focus is on grid-scale applications, and it is there where the money exists to improve the product to the point where residential customers will be able to buy them and be happy with the. The moving parts should be source of concern - in a grid-scale implementation there is enough redundancy for the failure of a single battery to be of no conseqence, but if the pump fails in a residential application, you are stuck; neither being able to charge nor draw on the power stored in your battery. Perhaps Redflow will develop a high-avalability version of their product with a redundant or hot-swap pump, or perhaps a solid-state pump will become available.
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  674. The US has actually been a very reliable ally to the UK and Europe, only under Trump has this waivered.
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  675. This is another very good option for areas where the land is not the best for agriculture. Slow growing trees are more valuable for their lumber, which embeds the CO2 into our buildings, but fast growing trees (and shrubs) can be used to pull CO2 out of the air quite rapidly as well. We should be looking at any areas of wasteland to see which can usefully be converted to forests.
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  676. Alarms are supposed to automatically shut off after 20 minutes. If they don’t, you should complain to the home owner, and the council if they don’t get it fixed.
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  677. I think it should be a requirement that we purchase more than one seat if we don't fit into one seat. We also have to accept that flying is not a right. Airlines are commercial organisations. They should be allowed to provide a service that does not accomodate everyone. A tall person may not fit in the seat, and so the airline should not offer to carry someone whose legs will not fit into the space available. The airline has made a commercial decision to set the seat pitch knowing that some potential customers will not fit, so it should not offer seats someone who will not fit into them. Allowing a 'wide' person to buy two seats is compromise, as is offering seats on the emergency exit rows that will accomodate very tall people. In both cases it is charging a premium for the space. Even if someone is disabled, they have no right of carriage, teh airlines only have to make reasonable adjustments.
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  678. BBB’s channel has got a bit clickbait’y of late. The fact he missed out the consumer regulations that stop this behaviour is worrying.
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  679.  @richardmarsden1897  You are no longer standing in Sumy.
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  680. Putin will test this out. Putin is clever. He has been testing Europe with his attacks on undersea cables, and will find other subtle ways to threaten the territory of NATO members, e.g. by invading Norway's northern border. A small incursion, just to see what NATO does if Norway fires shots at the Russians to force them to leave.
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  681. Absolutely. And fraud is an Either Way offence which means you can perform a citizens arrest on anyone you think is perpetrating a fraud.
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  682. When the benefit rates are so low, it is forcing people either to work or to steal.
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  683.  @jbertucci  So can Russian subs. The truth is that you cannot hope to destroy all the subs before they launch their missiles. So any nuclear war ends in the destruction of both sides. The only way to win is not to fight.
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  684. There might be more environmental concerns with boring holes. Even with a geological survey, you can't be sure what you will hit on the way down, and what you might do to the ground water in the area.
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  685. As someone who has at times changed a cd while driving, I have learned to do it by touch so that I can keep my eyes on the road at all times. I will also not take my hand off the steering wheel unless I am on a straight road with a good view ahead. Town driving requires more concentration, so I might pull over to change the cd if I am in town. I expect policemen develop similar habits that mean they can take a swig of a drink without it being careless.
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  686. And you should always check them as soon as you can do so.
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  687.  @tylerhood5035  I agree that the rich will not care enough to provide everyone with a basic income they don't need us to do work, but there is nothing to stop us from providing each other with a basic income IF we have the means of production. Therefore we have to prevent the rich from taking the means of production from us.
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  688. Putin doesn't have a military background. He only served in the KGB. His professional training would not have included how to fight a war.
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  689. Yes, it's curious how there are no private emergency and accident departments in the UK. I hope that this remains the case.
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  690. Exactly. This is why Zelenskyy had to call out Trump on his lies even though he know that the Trump will get upset.
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  691. Trump has done that most successfully.
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  692. Nice overtake of the VW Polo, but are you sure that the speed limit does not apply BBB's video says that cyclists are supposed to obey ALL road signs, and I expect that would include the speed limit signs.
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  693. Patrick is a Russian stooge. The advantage of this is that you can get to see behind the Russian lines.
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  694.  @salia2897  What would be interesting is to see if they then have the same trouble switching to a 'normal' bike or is 'normal' actually better/easier.
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  695. No, there are no legal self-defence weapons. You can however use any item for self-defence. You could use a mop or a saucepan or a torch for self-defence if the need arose. You cannot use a marking spray for self-defence (unless you hit someone with the can). Marking someone is no defence against attack. Stopping someone escaping (e.g. with a bolas, however launched) is not self-defence. Using a bolas it might be justifiable as part of a citizens arrest. If you happen to have one on you, not to use it seems daft, and using it is no different to rugby-tackling someone who is trying to escape. Remember that to make a citizens arrest the offence you are arresting someone for needs to be indictable.
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  696.  @tonyoliver4920  The rape alarms you describe are the only devices I am aware of that can be legally carried for the purpose of self-defence. Anything else you might carry with you such as a wallet, a handbag, a set of keys, a bread knife, a tin of Spam, a small dog, a coat, an umbrella, etc. cannot legally be carried for the purpose of self-defence. If you are carrying them for self-defence you have effectively weaponised them. A rape alarm is a very useful device for self-defence as any attacker will not want to be seen/identified or anyone to come to your aid. If you have any concerns for your personal safety, get one of these alarms and get into the habit of carrying it on you are all times and in a way that allows it to be used instantly. Using the alarm to try to permanently damage the attacker’s hearing would be taking your self defence beyond the force necessary to defend yourself. The force used has to be reasonable in the circumstances. Personally I would not want to get close enough to an attacker to be able to operate the alarm by their ear.
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  697. There is such a display on the Boeing 737 800 - you can see it on the co-pilot's side of the cockpit at 1:54 in this video. It's the screen to the left of the co-pilot's Primary Flying Display. If you look closely you can see an area of green to the left of the centreline on that display. This is the terrain being displayed.
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  698. Their backgrounds have been examined by their local constituency office and by the central party. They are as sane as your or I.
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  699. I think the goal is to save peoples lives. I've seen nothing to suggest the UK government has any interest in creating a cashless society. However, biometric identification is coming.
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  700. If developed countries adopt clean energy, the Chinese will realise that they are losing competitive advantage and will change. Clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels, and will continue to get cheaper whereas fossil fuels can only get more expensive as we have already removed the most accessible deposits. The Chinese know they need to change but they can’t change overnight.
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  701. The video confirms that if you feel threatened and you adapt something you are carrying, that does make it an offensive weapon BUT you are allowed to defend yourself and this can include using an offensive weapon. I would take this to mean that you can use any weapon you have on you, including a banned weapon or one you have adapted in the moment. But you cannot prevent yourself being prosecuted for having a banned weapon - a defence of self-defence will not work to defend you against a prosecution for possession of the prohibited weapon. You might not prevent a prosecution if your adaption was by way of breaking a bottle. You will probably not be prosecuted if you used your keys in the heat of the moment. What you cannot do is sharpen the keys, or add a particularly sharp key to your keyring, or carry the keys with the INTENTION of using them to defend yourself. You CAN carry the keys to open doors. If you admit to the police that you were only carrying your keys in order to have something to defend yourself with, you have turned them into an offensive weapon and can be prosecuted.
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  702. Fantastic analysis Matt. Reflecting on your observation that the two most significant blockers to energy efficient are money and political will, many viewers will regard the USA as a very rich country. If this is correct, then the ONLY problem you have is your leaders! Luckily Americans have always been very self-sufficient and willing to ignore a lack of leadership and just get on with it, so I expect the USA will improve, but more slowly than countries where the leadership is proactive.
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  703. I think you have misunderstand that the BIG advantage of the technology is that you have to reach 700C because you get a much great heat storage capcity at this temperature, not just because 700C is really hot, but also because it causes the aluminium to melt.
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  704.  @ianstoyan  It's a great video. It's quite funny when one gets past the serious implications of talking to the police.
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  705. That's a bizarre thing to say; Globalists aren't a thing. Globalism is a concept. You might be called a Globalist if you subscribe to Globalism, but you can't join the Globalists in the same way you can join a Pollical Party. The only person sowing a smoke screen is you!
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  706.  @davecrupel2817  I don't think the error was in the design - the designers knew the problems they were designing into the ships. I the error was overconfidence in their solutions to the problems. The designers designed in solutions that just didn't work well enough in practice. The end result is the same though, a colossal waste of US tax payers money. Someone high up didn't call the designers on their hubris.
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  707.  @elrjames7799  As opposed to interesting in parts.
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  708. Actually, the Ukrainians got lucky and didn't kill any civilians. I doubt they have sufficient intelligence on the ground to be certain that they would not kill or injure a civilian.
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  709. No. The new General will fail like all the other Russian Generals. He's clearly not clever enough if he has come to the attention on Putin. If he doesn't deliver victory by 9th May, his body will be with the rest.
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  710. I think this contract could be a good thing. There are only a few companies that have the techology to implement the very highest levels of security and the auditing to make sure that it remains secure. Palantir will be one of these. The NHS doesn't have the technology or experience of managing federated data services, so involving a third-party that does have this experience is sensible. It's a pity that we don't have a UK supplier who could match Palantir, but we have to have some faith in the procurement processed, and trust that others with access to the information will check that we are getting a good deal.
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  711. The thing is that Covid-19 is not a flu virus; it is much worse and all the experience shows this to be the case. Wanting it to be a trivial bug does not make it a trivial bug. The recovery rate is no 99.x% it is actually 96.7% which means that 3.7% (or 2.4 million people in the UK) will die from it if it is allowed to run unchecked through the population. Let's NOT go for no restrictions!
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  712. It was uninteresting, and not just because so much of it was trialled before yesterday. Uninteresting is potentially a good thing. The Employers NI rise was only 1.2%, and the increase in the Employment Allowance means that nearly 1 million of the smallest real businesses will not pay any NI. (One man companies will still pay it). The problem with 'uninteresting' is that it means that the fundamental issue of how the effective tax rates on very wealthy people hasn't been addressed. My opinion is that it is too early to expect a Labour government to implement a really well thought out way to increase the effective tax rate, that cannot be got around, but the clock is now ticking.
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  713. Russia has no right to attack a sovreign country. The UN will punish Russia eventually.
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  714. Yet more misunderstanding of NATO. NATO is not frustrated. NATO has neither the desire nor remit to fight on Ukrainian soil. Russians are paranoid.
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  715.  @MJ-ee7fr  NATO is not frustrated in any way. NATO has no remit to assist Ukraine.
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  716.  @MJ-ee7fr  NATO is not frustrated by its remit.
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  717. No, Trump's plot is disruption, as Richard suggests in the video. We have to show him that he is impotent against the rest of the world.
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  718.  @quartinium6079  The coup reversed the direction of movement that Ukraine was taking so that instead of moving closer to Russia, it moved closer to Europe. The Ukrainians in Donbas didn't like this because they have closer ties to Russia than the rest of Ukraine. Of course the West would support Ukraine, because the coup was supported by the majority of the population in Ukraine. Only in Donbas were the majority of Ukranians not in favor of the coup. But Ukranians in Donbas can't just decide to invite another country in to take over Ukrainian territory. The Ukrainains who live in Donbas and don't want closer ties with Russia also have a say. The failure here is that Ukraine and the Ukrainians did not resolve the issue quickly or without bloodshed. Russia should not have invaded Donbas. They had no right to meddle in the internal politics of a foreign country. Russia should have supported the Ukrainian government to arrive at a peaceful solution.
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  719.  @yellowmicrodot  You can be sure that it produced more generally law-abiding citizens than it did out-and-out criminals. Even today, the number of generally law-abiding citizens far exceed the number of out-and-out criminals. The media focuses on newworthy stories, so criminals and their crimes get more coverage than the people who go about their lives quietly working, paying their bills and looking after the family.
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  720.  @rogerking7258  Absolutely. From my time in the ATC I would know how to apply the safety catch to most guns, so if I came across one that had been discarded by a criminal I could make it safe.
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  721.  @velisvideos6208  charliecrome207's point was that just staying alive is not meaningful. There has to be more to it. Each of us has to figure out what their life is for. I do think we have failed out young in not giving them experience of many different kinds of work, and talking to them about how a job might give their life meaning. Caring can be a very meaningful aspect of work, whether it is directly caring for someone, or more indirectly care about risks that could harm someone. Caring roles can range from caring for one relative to being Head of MI5! Raising a family can be very meaningful. Building roads and houses can be meaningful, as can creating employment for others. We have to help youngsters find their reason for being AND accept that some of the time work isn't going to be ideal, but it should be bearable and should have some reward.
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  722.  @miatrue98  A payment receipt would not have help on Daniel's example.
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  723.  @SimonBlandford  Cash would seem to be the obvious answers for items up to £250. Above that, perhaps some form of ESCROW might be necessary.
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  724.  @beeble2003  Thanks. I’ll not do so in future.
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  725. Much like with the pandemic, the result of NOT doing anything would have been much worst. If you don't think so, you need to study a bit more.
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  726. I think the young are particularly vulnerable to these sorts of problems. There are many story of students being duped into acting as money mules.
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  727. The DDA may say that the police can seize a dog, but when the owner is not cooperating, and the dogs have already bitten someone, it's a braver man than me that tries to take seize a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. They are such a powerful dog and you will not stop one biting you if it wants to do so. It's very unfortunate that a shotgn was used, but it is far to easy to miss with a handgun. I think the experts verdict is that this was justified, proportionate and sadly, necessary. The experts will not pass an opionion that this was avoidable, as that is speculation, but clearly once the owner refuses to cooperate, the police have no way to seize the dogs in a reliable manner.
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  728. I think the point that Russia wants very different things to what Trump thought they wanted is telling, and perhaps more than anything else, suggests that Trump is not a Russian asset. But if Trump now understands that Putin wants Ukraine to be a non-country and is happy to make a deal with him that delivers this and gives America mineral rights in return, Ukraine will have a very hard time avoiding this fate. The only thing Europe and the rest of the world could do about this would be for their armies to arrive in Ukraine to boot the Russians and Americans out. Refusing to allow any increase in USA troops on European soil would be a wise step to take advantage of the greater distance that the USA is from Ukraine. If troops could only arrive in Ukraine by sea, from the nearest nation prepared to bend the knee to Donald Trump, it would slow down the rate of Troop arrivals to the point where the European armies would have defeated Russia before the Americans arrive.
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  729.  @DamienYuen7718  I understand that child soldiers are common in African and the Middle East, and you are right that there is some racism and some normalisation of this barbaric practice, but it is not common in Europe. Also other countries have been less able to act in Africa and the Middle East because many of the wars whee child soldiers have been forced to fight have been civil wars.
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  730.  @auchnleckmakhina8821  The Ukrainians will make them pay.
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  731. Opposite of what is needed. Frauds always rely on speed and the lack of attention to detail that comes with it.
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  732.  @mysticmarble94  Wise words.
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  733. The eight year old could certainly be guilty of the offence, if they had been wilfully neglectful - parents should be educating their children on the need for care when cycling. But the CPS will also look at whether there is a public interest in prosecuting the office. I expect that in the majority of cases involving minors, there would be no interest or necessity to prosecute the offence.
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  734. Patrick is not unbiased.
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  735. It seems a big question as to whether Russia can last that long.
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  736. It will be interesting to see what Ukraine have left, and how they use it.
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  737.  @millennium677  Only in as much as he owns shares in Kvartal 95.
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  738.  @bobigorg1665  Satellite photos show that the corpses in the road had been there for two weeks before Russian troops left Bucha. You are not telling facts, you are just repeating Russian propaganda. Please stop as is does you no credit.
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  739. Only because they are paranoid.
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  740. Your rumours are wrong again. There is no way for any ships other than those of the Russian Federation to approach the coast of Ukraine. The Russians have the Black Sea fully covered. The Azov are still in Mariupol, and still fighting the Russian invaders.
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  741. No! When you look at the engineering and research going into Wind Energy Conversion Systems its apparent that Windmills are are the forefront of our technical development. So much advanced knowledge in Materials Science has been gained as a result of wind turnbine development, and AI will play a part in maximising the performance of wind turbines for years to come.
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  742. So Trump wants US voters to be paying $6 a gallon for gasoline (which is what we pay in the UK)! Brilliant. I wonder where all the money will go?
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  743. You are correct; parking charges have been struck off because the signage was too small or only appeared in a place where someone was unlikely to see it. The 'better' parking companies (if there is such a thing) have got wise and now make sure that there is adequate signage in their car parks.
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  744.  @mythoughts7722  You have have had some good advice. The lesson here is that we are all assumed to know that the law prohibits things like machetes in public without good reason, so when choosing a tool for a job, take the least prohibited tool you can. Only take the machete when it is the only tool for the job and clearly justifiable!
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  745. Russia will buy them lots of new machines from Germany and Japan.
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  746.  Misericordia  Luckily the Finnish pushed the Russians back, as will Ukraine. The question is how far will Russian forces be pushed back?
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  747. Adapting is the super-power of the human race. There is plenty of potential to adapt to how robots and AI will change the world, but we need to ensure that humans are always in control. There has to be an 'Off' switch somewhere, even if this is controlled by humans we don't like or trust.
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  748. The question is whether Zelensky acquired his fortune legally or illegally? This is a question not only for the Ukrainian people, but also for the states that support Ukraine. If Zelensky has acquired his fortune by illegal acts outside of Ukraine, the governments that support him might be doing a disservice to their own people. I hope that the UK government has investigated Zelensky's source of funds.
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  749. But it will also destroy a lot of valuable land including Mar-e-lago.
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  750. I'm happy to have some diversity as to how local government is arranged.
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  751. In your company and on your aircraft, are you able to talk to your operations center, and if so, how do you do this?
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  752. America has oil. Not need Russian oil.
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  753. I doubt the IOPC has the authority to instigage a criminal investigation into the source of the material, as any crime commited would not be a crime related to police misconduct UNLESS there is suspicion that a serving Police officer was the source.
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  754. I’ve been watching for over a year and haven’t seen Russia make any sort of meaningful progress in the last six months. They have just lost men and machines for nothing. Very sad.
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  755. The ferry is certainly well organised. I also took it recently and was surprised that we were passed by three ferries going in the other direction and realised that there must be at least eight ferries on the route at any time. One being loaded in Puttgarden, one being loaded in Rølbyhavn, three heading north and three heading south. The economic argument for the tunnel became clear.
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  756.  @w.m.e.cantinoobtrader1334  No, tactically the Ukrainians will retreat into any buildings, but my point is that they would not occupy every apartment. Russia has destroyed every apartment, which means it was not attacking the defenders, but attacking the block. It’s evidence of a war crime.
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  757. That is for the Ukrainian government and people to consider. They have a choice; something Donald Trump always forgets.
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  758. Reform assumes that everyone who isn't wealthy will rent their home from a Reform MP!
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  759. Said Russian Rhodium 10! 😆
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  760.  @Эльвира-з7с  Значит, Бог не хотел его?
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  761. I don't think so. I think it is more the case that he hasn't figured out how to address the cause of the civil unrest. The Tories couldn't solve the problem of number of asylum seekers arriving in small boats, so it's a bit rich to expect Labour to solve the problem AND sell the approach to the public in a matter of weeks.
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  762. Why would you need to criticise Islam? It's a faith like Christianity, but unlike Christianity, it doesn't require its followers to try to convert others to Islam. Much of what you think you know about Islam has been as a result of wars and coups in countries that have been Islamic states for hundreds if not thouhsands of years. It doesn't require religious wars, jihads, but has a word for them in the same way that English has the word 'crusade'. Christianity doesn't require anyone to go on a crusade. Isl;amaphobia isn't really a fear about the religion, but about the people who follow it, who happen to mostly be arab rather than caucasian, so really it's a fear about race.
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  763. There isn't any real disquiet about where the aid provided to Ukraine has gone. Even Trump hasn't suggested an investigation (yet). The money has been spent fighting the Russians. In many cases, the 'money' wasn't money at all but military hardware that has been thrown into the fighting. Any investigation would find that most of any cash sent to Ukraine was spent buying drones, food and body armour for the army.
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  764. If martial law is imposed by legal means (as it has been in Ukraine), then the closing of borders would be a reasonable and justified porvision, as would conscripting every able bodied person (providing this is in line with the country's constitution, e.g. women may be prevented from taking up arms). However, martial law cannot compel someone to fight or to serve their country, but you might tend the wounded, or operate essential services such as water/power/transport as your service, if you object to killing the enemy.
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  765. A really interesting analysis Richard. It's great to see some research and rigour behind the intuition that I have that most wealthy people will not leave the UK if taxes rise a bit, because it's a great place to live compared to the alternatives. Most of the people who say that the UK is dreadful, haven't tried to live in the British Virgin Islands or the Cayman Islands. They might have visited these places, typically on a cruise or behind a high resort wall, but they are insulated from the realities of having to try to live in such places. Thank you for calling out the nonsense of the rich media types who don't want to pay any more tax or live in a society where their might be more equality of wealth.
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  766. Good luck seizing back the land by force - the establishment has things set up to avoid this, so better to keep your head down, invest what you earn, and let the establishment work to keep you in clover.
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  767. All this will come in time.
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  768. Well. they are a Labour government. Ken Clarke was a right winger, and so many of the comments are so far to the right of anything the Ken Clarke would agree with, I have to conclude that "Far Right" is the correct label.
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  769. Later sections of the same act require you to provide your driving licence and insurnance.
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  770.  @nohandler1493  And Putin did? Putin was never a politican.
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  771. No, because your number plate has to be clearly visible at all time. You are not allowed to do anything that obscures the number plate. The issue is that the relevant legislation doesn't make any distinction between a vehicle that is moving and one that is parked, so a parked vehicle has to comply with all the regulations that moving vehicle does.
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  772. @ I believe the UK is extremely resilient and that we will succeed in spite of poor government.
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  773.  @SoleOxana  Because we've seen the footage of the hospitals after Russian shelling, and because Ukrainians would not bomb hospitals because it could be where their brother or mother is being treated, or where they neices and nephews are being born.
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  774. Or given knighthoods for saving nearly 2 million lives.
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  775. Perhaps the person that this video is about could not share details of the conversation because it too place thorough an intermediary. The video does serve to highlight the risks of dealing with anyone you do not know intimately. I think if I was in a similar situation, I would exchange information via text messages, and insist that the authenticity of the item I was selling was proven by way of an original receipt (or other means) to the purchasers. Using an ESCROW service via a solicitor would be sensible for more expensive items.
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  776. I agree with everything you say, but airlines are commercial organisations, and its up to them to decide how to cash in on the desire we have to travel.
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  777. Or possibly mortar rounds.
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  778. Write a letter of complaint.
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  779. These civilians have a choice. They don't have to pick up arms, but in doing so, they change from being non-combatants, to being combatants. If I was Ukrainian I would certainly fight to expel the invader.
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  780.  @Dudleymiddleton  There is an American company that is trialling a battery that heats graphite to white hot temperatures when charging and the uses a special solar panels to convert the light to electricity when discharging.
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  781.  @Галина-о2ю2э  Новые дома в зоне боевых действий или компенсация в рублях ничего не значат, когда ты украинец. На Украине не должно быть российских войск.
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  782. The best thing to do is to use the phrase given in one of the comments above: "I fully intend to help you with your enquiries and answer all your questions as best I am able but I wish to have a solicitor present with me when I do". You are effectively forcing the interview to be a formal one, but my feeling is that this is better all round.
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  783. I can't see why it would discrimination - your vaccination status is not a protected characteristic (although a disability that prevents you having a vaccine might be). It's certainly not illegal, as venues can refuse entry for any reason that they decide. You might have a claim under the sections of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 that deals with unfair contract terms, if the fact that they would refuse you entry was not made clear to you before purchasing tickets - you would get your money back, and probably other incidental costs, such as travel to the venue.
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  784.  @Droningonuk  I agree. Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want to believe, but they can’t impose their beliefs on others. You can’t make someone accept you into a venue when you believe that there is no point to having a vaccination, and they do. They own the venue, so they get to set the rules.
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  785. Special rail realignment; I like that.
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  786. My guess is that the cost will have been about 2 million Ruble. The cost in the UK would be about £25K, but materials and labour are cheaper in Russia.
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  787. It should be quite promising for able-bodied people. Much of the green economy requires construction and electrical skills for installations, and will produce on-going needs for maintenance and security responses. The majority of jobs don't require a university degree, but do require intelligence, common sense, adaptability, physical fitness and some basic mathematics.
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  788. As an ex Private Pilot, and having spent hours practising for engine failures after take-off, I find it extremely worrying that the commercial aviation world wasn't training Airbus pilots for double engine failures after take-off. While single engine failure after take-off is clearly an emergency that needs to be trained for, to not train for a double engine failure seems absurd. It is an extremely unlikely event, but given the likely outcome of a complete failure is so dangerous it is incredible to me that that this was not practiced for. Perhaps it is a hang-over from commercial aviation's earlier days when all Air Transport aircraft had four engines? With a four engine configuration, the chance of losing all four engines on take-off due to striking a single flock of birds would have been so low enough to reasonably ignore it, and system redundancy would have avoided a complete failure of thrust due to faults on the aircraft.
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  789. This is because the wealthy were not taxed enough to help the poor.
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  790. I don''t think you can write off all designed items as fraud. Many small design businesses provide a lot of employment and a wider range of clothing that the major brands would otherwise provide.
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  791. I am sure you will achieve more working to your own goals than you would if you worked to someone else's. Best wishes to you for 2025.
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  792. We need to meet.
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  793. As a matter of good practice they should tell you what crime you are suspected of, and why they suspect you of the crime.If they won't tell you these details, you could say. I am aware that I do not have to give you my details unless you suspect me of crime, and as you have not told me what you suspect me of, I maintain my right to silence. This was the point of BBB's video in the right of silence is usually understood to be the right not to say anything that might incriminate yourself, but the case of Neale vs. DPP (referenced in later comments) extended this right to include the right not to give details. Be aware that the Neale case won't stop you being arrested if you don't give details, but would stop you from being prosecuted fro wilful obstruction of the police. (You have to give your details if you don't want to be arrested).
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  794. The First Sale Doctrine makes the sale of the car to you with the trademarks still affixed legal, even if Dominos didn't agree to the sale, but you are not going win a legal argument that you should be able to keep the Dominos logos on the car. If this goes to court, the judge will order that the logos are removed and that you keep the car, so why not remove the logos and move on with your life? Have you offered to remove the logos?
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  795. This Labour Government isn't very left wing. Jeremy Corbyn is very left wing! This government is left of centre, but only mildly so. Your problem is that you have become used to a very right wing Tory government, and can't see that this government is only mildly left of centre.
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  796. Because everyone wants to pass on Covid-19 to their friends and family and watch them die horribly? Or struggle to get back to work after the experience of long-Covid?
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  797.  Anthony Silcock  Doctors can test things like lung function, fever, and cognitive impairment. There is a recognised set of symptoms to Long COVID.
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  798. It does so for the same reason, the use of artillery and mortar shells. Troops need to dig trenches to protect themselves, and the artillery and mortar shells leave the same sort of pockmarks they did in WW1.
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  799. Talk about extracting the wealth. It's not surprising that many enterprising parents have bought houses where the son/daughter is attending university to reduce the cost for their child. Once the other rooms are rented out, the exercise is reasonably profitable, especially for the government that gets the CGT on the increase on the price of the house.
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  800.  @rogerblackwood8815  The employee has the right to ask the employer this question because it is a matter of their safety. Employers also have this right because the have a duty of care to the staff and customers/service users that the staff may come into contact with.
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  801.  @nickjung7394  No, the vaccines are licensed, so the employer is not liable if the employee suffers a side effect. The manufacturer or licensor of the vaccine might be liable if they had been negligent.
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  802. @Deborah Casey I doubt GPs are frightened to lose this funding. GPs make enough money from treating their patients. They don’t need the hassle of organising the vaccinations.
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  803.  @jannejohansson3383  Agreed.
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  804. No. There is no evidence.
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  805. If that was Putin's intention he would have launched the strike by now. Russian forces are well away from Kyiv.
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  806. Good advice. Chefs might want to have a lockable box for their set of Sabatier knives.
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  807. Mother Russia is without glory.
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  808. What about Stingers (or Stop-Strips) as the americans would call them. Can a member of the public own a Stinger? Clearly the use of such a device on anything other than a vehicle that you own is going to result in a claim for damages, and possibly criminal damage. There may be circumstances where someone might want to own and use a Stinger.
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  809. No worries. Russia will pay to rebuild it.
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  810. Russia will pay for the rebuilding. The Peace talks between Ukraine and Russian are likely to agree this.
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  811. It can't solve the whole problem, but if we don't try to solve this problem, it will make living on Earth really difficult, so perhaps it's better to try?
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  812. @ No, I’m retired, so I’ve paid all the NI I need to to secure my pension, and continue to pay income tax on my income (and VAT) to pay for everything else.
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  813.  @lestrem11  No, I'm also going to be paying 40% IHT on my pension, which is a lot more than the extra NI any employer will pay per employee (The extra NI is less than £1000 per employee per year, so £40K over a working life). I expect to pay £100,000in IHT, where previously I wouldn't have paid any. I'm not that well off.
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  814. Contracts can allow rules to be changed (e.g. employment contracts often allow the employer to change certain things). Terms and conditions may be amendable if you are given notice of the change, and/or allowed to terminate the contract if you don't want to adhere to the new rules. When reading any contract, I would encourage everyone to pay very careful attention to whether the contract can be varied in any way, and how it can be terminated. When you are getting into a contract, it is really important to know how you can get out of it!
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  815. Have you considered self-employment?
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  816. I would like to think so, but there is no evidence of this.
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  817. Due to the diminishing returns when installing insulation, it's very hard to design a home thatcan gather the heat needed to keep occupants warm in the winter, and yet not get too hot in the summer. The Passive House concerpt tries to do this, but even the best passive houses have some form of active heating.
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  818. Videoing the Q&A session is probably very useful to the cadets who might not have taken in all of the detail in Petter's answers.
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  819. They can hear the turbines and so avoid them.
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  820. I would much rather pay migth taxes and not have to wait as long to see a GP, especially if that GP is relaxed because there is some slack in their timetable. We need slack in our systems to cope with illnesses, unexpected events, opportunities that present themselves, etc.
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  821. Ukrainians would rather die than be forced to become Russian again.
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  822. Yes. The most interesting thing about the footage is how thin the concrete is!
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  823. Or the same scientific advice, proven over many years as being the only effective response to a pathogen that is transmitted by social contact?
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  824.  @adammoss5284  If you aren't even going to give them a chance, why you should they care about you?
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  825. Move, possibly, drive on the public hiiughway, no.
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  826.  @shtyry7150  If that's "success", I don't want to see how bad a Russian failure looks.
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  827. It's difficult to see how the minerals deal, which is a just a trade/reconstruction deal delivers any security to Ukraine. But if it reassures the American people that Ukraine will not forget their generous support over the last three years, it's probably a good thing in and of itself.
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  828. The problem is that education lags behind in the real world. The pace of change has increased and no one is quite sure what the impact of AI will be. So what should our schools be teaching to equip children to thrive in the world they will inhabit? Is it how to light a fire? Or how to interact with a sentient machine?
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  829. Russia should not have been hitting any military targets in Ukraine. It has no legal military targets in Ukraine.
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  830. He is certainly uncaring, and should not have been given the power to do what he is doing. His mistakes will be Trump's fault and legacy.
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  831. I'm guessing that solicitors make a note of when any item arrives for a case, so that they can see if there is a history of very late delivery. As a litigant in person, you would be well advised to do the same.
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  832. If Ukraine seize the North Caucusus, they will be able to get Russia to pay reparations.
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  833. Not really. The other NATO partners have no need of the information to the level of detail or timeliness that Ukraine need it. Any request for that level of intelligence would be transparent.
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  834. I though Damian Green showed his true colours in asking that question, but it has to be right that he can ask it. He did at least allow Martin the luxury of answering the question as he saw fit, and Martin, to his credit, gave a good answer. It did make me want to shout at Mr Green "This! This is why trust has broken down in Politicians!".
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  835. As enemy combatants, they have a right to be treated as such if they are captured. The Russians are going to kill every civilian in Ukraine anyway, so it doesn't really matter if you die as a civilian or as a combatant. Many people would prefer to have the opportunity, no matter how unrealistic, to to kill one of the invaders and to die defending their homes and their families.
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  836. I understand your logic, but the judge can only apply the law as it written, and if the defence requires a “good” reason (and not just a reason) then someone has to decide what is “good”. I can see why you think the judge overstepped the mark in deciding that they had the authority to decide, but harm is harm and it was the judge’s view that harm can never be good. The appeal court agreed.
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  837.  @BlackBeltBarrister  I think there is also something to be said about being careful who you bank with. I would expect that this person's bank perhaps makes more mistakes than most. Perhaps we should start keeping public records on which banks close accounts on insufficient evidence. This sounds like the sort of think Martin Lewis would sponsor...
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  838. You are wrong about the damage that is potentiallyed caused by over-reving it. A very fast acceleration can over-rev the engine before the ECU can do anything to stop it. No professional driver would be happy to hit the rev limiter.
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  839.  @richardmarsden1897  And clearly you can never retire from Moscow's intelligence services, you are just put out to pasture on YouTube!
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  840. Sounds like a good plan.
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  841. But the point being made is that the young people aren't willing to do check-out work either, which leaves jobs for tradies that want to slide cans of beans over a laser scanner rather than developing a skill that they can be paid more for.
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  842.  @robertmcgivern6585  But if you hadn't asked you would automatically have been constraining yourself. There are always constraints on us, so there is no need to add more if you don't need to do so.
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  843. Did you complain to the coach company? Did you give them the feedback that you would not accept the seat at the back if they did not restrict the size of their customers?
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  844. The polystyrene being used in the video will be EPS300 which is rated at 300 kpa (or 43 psi) for a 10% deflection (and 120 kpa or 17psi for 1% deflection). It's not ordinary polystyrene. It will easily support the weight of a two storey house built with a timber frame or aereated concrete block.
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  845. Actually many ordinary people in the West and in Ukraine want Russia to suffer some more before negotiating a settlement. Russia has behaved abominably, commiting war crimes against an innocent civilian population. I say let the killing stop as soon as possible. Let neither Ukraine nor Russia suffer any more than necessary.
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  846. Salter's Ducks collected energy from the waves, which are principally driven by wind, but they were inefficeint compared to wind turnbines.
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  847. If the cyclist was reckless in the knowledge that the person was likely to be hit by a car, then yes.
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  848. Donbas does not need liberating. It is not under the control of anyone other than the elected officials. Many people in Donbas don't like who the majority elected, but fighting for 8 years hasn't solved the problem, so perhaps peace talks should be tried again - once Russia has left Ukrainian territory.
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  849. Far right = Racist Thugs. You can't tell that what I saw on TV was a political protest.
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  850. Richard suggested that we would not have a use for oil. This is not correct. Some uses of mineral oil are unlikely to ever be replaced, such as plastics manufacturing, and certain lubricants. These uses don't require the oil to be burned unless we fail to recycle the plastics and burn them carelessly. One interesting question is what will happen to the petrol that is necessarily produced as a by-product of refining crude oil, when we no longer want to burn it as fuel.
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  851.  @wli2718  The reality being that Russia has stolen part of Ukraine. There is a scenario where Ukraine does not lose land. It is the scenario where the Ukraine beat the Russian army. Four weeks ago this would have been unthinkable, but now, who knows?
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  852.  @mrchepelopez1818  President Put-it-in of Russia started the war. He invaded Ukraine.
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  853.  @knowledge-is-infinite  In your dreams.
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  854. If a robot's purpose is to be a soldier, it will not always be friendly.
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  855. Russia has already issued Russian passports to people in Donestk and Luhansk in preparation for their annexation of the Donbas. I don't know the number of people in Donetsk and Luhansk that have dual nationality (Ukraine and Russian) but I expect it would be quite a few because Russia has been issuing these passports since 2014.
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  856. He also hates that Zelenskyy didn't investigate Hunter Biden and got Trump impeached. He will never support Zelenskyy.
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  857.  @mhappy01  If you let a police officer know you are under time pressure, you are handing them a way to exert more control over you. Don't get mad, don't fume, stay cool and the chances are it will be sorted within 20 minutes.
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  858. Russia cannot dictate to the USA or Ukraine. The USA has not funded or started biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine, there is simply no proof of this this. Russia was invited to provide its proof to the UN, and couldn't, because there is none. Russia is the aggressor here.
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  859. #2 Evidence is everything. This is especially true in business. Unfortunately many business decisions are made on the basis of opinions or emotions by lazy people who cannot be bothered to gather the evidence that is available. Making your decisions on the basis of evidence can avoid many problems, including that of group-think where everyone agrees with a decision, and but is based on an incorrect opionion that everyone happens to share.
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  860.  @boiteobscure  На самом деле я понимаю, что имеется в виду: мы видим много видео, которые являются «правдивыми» в том смысле, что они не являются постановочными или фальшивыми, но то, что означают эти видео, требует анализа. Многие видео Патрика Ланкастера «правдивы», но смысл, который я им придаю, сильно отличается от того, что говорит Патрик Ланкастер.
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  861. That is because the managers aren't trained properly or incentivised NOT to overlook the human resources at their disposal.
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  862. Depending on where the Moskva was positioned, the Ukrainians might have revealed that the Neptunes have a longer range than is officially published!
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  863.  @Puzzoozoo  The Azoz brigade should have been shut down by the Ukranian government, but the government only came into power in 2019, so it's not surprising that they hadn't managed to do that yet. The current Ukranian government was in dialog with Putin, but Putin did not wait or support the new government, he invaded, presumably hoping that they would not be able to mount an effective resistance, or that the military would not yet be loyal to them. This was a fatal mistake.
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  864. Thanks for posting this Neil. Not many people will beleive that joint ownership can be made to work, but it sounds like you were able to find a way.
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  865. @ It depends on your definition of rich.
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  866. Putin has messed around with Russia for the last time. He will not survive this catastrophe for Russia.
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  867. That a legal knife would be adequate for self-harming is a good point, and I personally thing the prosecution was in the public interest.
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  868. He was impeached the first time. This second attempt might see him shot.
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  869. He might we worth trading for any Ukrainian who had been found guilty of a similar crime in Russia, providing the conviction was based on evidence.
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  870. No, the laws that underpin lockdown have been voted for by the majority on MPs. The unelected scientific advisers only suggest what the laws should say. And I would want the country's best scientists to advise the government, because few politicians are scientists. The PM is a journalist by trade! What does he know of epidemiology?
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  871. Except China isn't in the room, and haven't indicated that they want tobe. They know Putin has made a mistake and want to see how it plays out.
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  872.  @andyxox4168  Personally, I would rather produce it at the roadside. I would also be happy to hand it to the officer through my partially open window. I know it's valid and I know what classes of vehicles I can drive and don't drive other than in accordance with my licence so I don't have too much to worry about if I pass it to a police officer. I'd be interested in hearing what people think the result might be of letting the police officer touch my licence or even take it to their car?
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  873. @1xobile Only a Russian would treat a refugee as a 2nd class citizen.
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  874.  @nicholussibusisovilakazi951  It is very possible that they will win.
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  875. The Conservative government will carry a large portion of the blame, as they had defunded the Prison and Parole Services to such a degree. It will take years to train new prison parole officers to supervise even the people who are just coming to the end of their sentenace it the normal term, let alone any additional releases. However, the people being released are probably only going to be athreat to themselves or to property, not to other people. The release decisions will bear in mind the need to protect the public, and anyone who suggests that this will not be the case is wrong.
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  876.  @thesenate1844  Alternatively, Farage could say he is going to achieve the same great things that Trump is achieving with his chaos.
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  877. While a return was possible, to do so would have been against all their training and US Airways SOPs, so that was never going to happen.
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  878. @Mohammed Sabeel Trump would certainly side with Russia, and would stop sending aid to the Ukraine. This would not stop the war. Europe will support Ukraine, and will even go to war without the USA if necessary. The thing that would cause Europe to join the war is if Russia looks like it was losing control of a nuclear reactor at a power station in Ukraine, as this would cause radiation to rain down over the whole of Europe.
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  879. I don’t think the courts have a system to do this, and it would be relatively easy to avoid suspicion by changing your trading name on a regular basis.
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  880. You don't know how lucky you are to live in the UK. You have become blind to the many positive benefits of living here. I wish you would leave. All you do is moan! Why don't you get off your a*rse and get involved in improving things? Because you don't want to make it nicer for immigrants? Because you don't want to make it nicer for people who are crippled? Because you don't want to help anyone, not even yourself?
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  881.  @stevencalvert9454  He's a sad mate in reality.
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  882. Unfortunately Russia haven't liberated ANY towns in Ukraine. No towns were under the control of anyone other than the duly elected authorities. Even in Donbas, Russia hasn't liberated any towns. They are all still part of Ukraine and all subject to Ukrainian law. Russia has and will acheive nothing other than the death of many of its young men and its exclusion from the worlds of commerce and culture.
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  883.  @АленаКараваева-ь6т  It’s not a lie. The UN has verified it.
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  884. But there is no hard evidence to suggest that the officials have it wrong; just armchair experts who think that a video of a fire allows them to determine what is burning.
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  885. I disagree. By repeating the Russian propaganda, Patrick is just prolonging the war and giving people hope that Russia will manage to deliver peace by fighting. Russia can't deliver peace by fighting a war. Only a peace process can do that. Russia should never have armed the seperatists with heavy artillery, but should have dragged them back to the peace table and enforced the peace in co-operation with Ukraine and the UN.
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  886. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I find contract law and the civil courts interesting because it is the forum where arguments get settled.
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  887. The wingtip vortices are very powerful.
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  888. The commercial entity isn't paying the tax, the owner is. And the benficiary is receiving a whole load of wealth. If I am to be taxed on the property I leave to my children (which is rented out so is providing a home to a family), then farmers should be taxed too.
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  889. The country is tryoing to recover for 14 years of mismangement by the Tory government. That doesn't happen overnight.
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  890. While I agree that you should have to pass an exam, you should not have to undertake a training course. If you can pass the exam without studying, you should not need to spend the time attending the training. This is a productivity point that so many of our organisations fail to appreciate.
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  891. I think Professor Menon's assessment that we are clinging onto our Remainer or Leaver identities is correct. I also think that doing so is not going to help us in the long term. It would be better for us to think of ourselves in the terms that Professor Menon described; Socially Liberal (SL) and Socially Conservative (SC). With these labels, we can discuss what being SL or SC means in relations to the decisions we need to take in future. If we keep the Leaver/Remainer labels, any discussion is obfuscated by the fact one or both parties think we might be discussing the leave/remain arguement, when we are not. That decision has been taken, and is not going to be reversed in the near term.
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  892.  @georgedoorley5628  Yes, it’s a bit like a civil war.
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  893. It might appear to be hyperbole to you, but to many it is encouragement and adds to the sense that it is okay to stir up racial hatred.
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  894. David Wright Not according to Wikipedia. The state isn’t broke, wind power didn’t breaks the state, locals are paying higher prices because there are higher transmission costs and possibly some profiteering by SA energy suppliers.
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  895. The answer seems reasonably clear from Richard's presentation - all the sacked government workers will be available to replace them!
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  896. Petter makes the point in other videos that humans make mistakes all the time, but commercial aviation has developed ways to make sure that these mistakes should always be trapped by a specific role or by procedure. The development of these methods is due, in large part, to the non-judgemental approach taken to accident investigations. By seeking to understand the cause, and then to close off that cause from causing further accidents, commercial aviation becomes safer and safer. However, humans are very good at finding new ways to screw up, so training flight crews to be vigilent is also important.
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  897. Ukraine is a large country, with many cities that need protecting from the invader.
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  898. So the Russians bombed and assaulted the city? The result is the same, devastation and destruction of what was once a beautifiul city. A little over a month ago, people were sitting in cafes in Mariupol, talking aout their plans for their summer holidays. Now look at it! Russia will pay for its crimes.
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  899. Agreed, but BBBs video is a warning about saying anything before the police arrest you. I agree with his advice, but would firm it up in the following manner: "If you know NOTHING at all about the crime that the police are questioning you about you can PROBABLY take a chance and answer their questions. If you know ANYTHING at all about the crime that the police are questioning your about (e.g. if you know the victim, the perpetrator, the location, the post code it occured it, the colour of the vehicle involved, etc.) you should not talk to the police without your solicitor present."
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  900.  @ENGLISHISBEST  Option 1) Ask the pub to get the parking ticket cancelled, while hinting about the number of followers you have on your youTube channel. Option 2) Offer to pay the parking company anything they will accept in full and final settlement of any liability for parking on the land.
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  901. Russia are losing the information war because they have to rely on transparent progandists like Patrick Lancaster.
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  902. Denying Donald Trump what he wants is a pretty good tactic if all countries stand up to him. Even with the might of the US Military, it can't reasonably start wars with Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Europe all at once.
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  903. Trump can't even spell Chess.
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  904.  @thomasransome8147  Did you complain about this, and what was the response?
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  905. This is how Russia liberates the people of the DPR!
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  906. I doubt it would have protected anyone trying to stop the police from shooting Charles de Menezes, unless they could have shown a reason why they knew (in the moments before he was shot) that Charles was not a terrorist when the police thought he was.
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  907. What is the end game if America can withstand more pain that Canada? Tarrifs on Canadian export but no tarrifs on American exports to Canada? Trump taking over Canada? Why would you try to cause that much pain to your ally and closest trading partner?
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  908. Yes!
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  909. Is rolling in communism like rolling in clover? If so, count me in.
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  910. When you see the way Russian soldiers have butchered civilians in Bucha, you can understand why the woman interviewed by Patrick was so keen on Russia occupying Mariupol. To say anything else would be suicide!
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  911. I think it more likely that the advances will come from Artificial Intelligence (AI). Once each blade on the rotor can be controlled independently, an AI algorithm is more likely to find the most efficient way of controlling the blades in dynamic situations. Materials science and metrology are also important. If the AI can't measure a parameter, materials science might mean that the AI can ignore it.
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  912. Like Daniel said; we should feel sorry for them and the negative state of their lives.
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  913. Actually you can do all of that; not completely, but to some degree. Taxes and Regulations go someway to fixing stupid, curing greed and forcing moral decisions, but only if they are implemented intelligently.
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  914. Sending T-56 tanks to Ukraine looks like Russia is using 105% of its military power!
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  915. Maine seceding from the USA and joining Canada might make Trump think!
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  916. I suspect that there are technical ways of removing GHGs from the atmosphere, but there is currently no reward for doing so. If we said to China we will pay you $X for every ton of GHGs you remove from the atmosphere, they would have it done in five years, but we don't seem willing to pay the price of solving the problem.
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  917. We all have a stake in society. We all need to look out for each other, and especially the children and other vulnerable members of society.
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  918. That's rubbish. Many European nations, including the UK, have had economic growth and a state that was engaged in the marketplace as a regulator and a provider of finance.
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  919.  @stevehiggins1263  So does the USA, and they have been trying a different model for the last hundred years or so, and they have increased debt and inflation. I'd argue that inflation is mainly caused by the quantative easing employed to rescue the banks in the financial crisis of 2008. As to the cause of debt, you have to look whether governments are borrowing to invest or borrowing to spend day-to-day (or on vanity investment projects that will never produce any sort of return even a non-financial one).
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  920. It's nice to hear that a cyclist has been pulled up for their riding, and that the police dealt with it sensibly. If someone is prepared to listen and take on board the advice from the police that their behaviour will result in prosection, I am happy for them to be given a chance to change.
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  921. The government really needs to be looking at the reasons small businesses fail, because the statitics are frightening. Self-employent is another area that schools don't team children about. If you were not allowed to start a self-employed business until you had demonstrated some knowledge and ability to manage such a business, the economy would be saved a vast amount of waste.
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  922. And the logical outcome of quantative tightening is falling asset prices which makes wealthy people feel poorer, and therefore complain about tax rises more than they would do otherwise.
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  923. You are correct that the war in Donetsk and Luhansk is a civil war - it is a civil war between Ukranians. The ethnic Russian Ukranians in Donetsk and Luhansk asked for military support from Russia, and when this didn't work, Putin decided a full scale invasion was the only way to resolve the matter. Zelensky didn't drag Russia into the war, the people of Donetsk and Luuhansk did. Zelensky needs military aid to defeat Russia, or to at least persuade Russia that it cannot win. Once Putin accepts that he cannot win, Putin will allow the peace talks to succeed. We need to hope that Ukraine can get him understand this quickly, so as to save as many lives as possible.
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  924. All EU countries are increasing their defence spending, but very little of that spend will now come to the USA. Certainly finished goods won't be bought from the USA, F-35s, Abhams, Bradley's etc. but Europe will still have to buy a lot of chips and electronic components from the USA.
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  925.  @stuartd9741  Only if the legislators allow loopholes. Close the loopholes and everyone has to pay their fair share.
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  926. Don't resist arrest. Sort out whatever is the problem at the police station.
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  927.  @cirese22  Because they need a way to force Russia to pay reparations.
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  928. They have plenty of good Russia steel and brass for medals.
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  929.  @AA-xs8mv  It's difficult for Russia to increase the bloodiness of their campaign, unless they move to using chemical weapons more.
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  930.  @GundamReviver  They might have to accept his terms, so Russia will win the war, but will have lost much more than they would gain.
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  931.  @MrAlb3rtazzo  So they aren't leaving to go to low tax envirronments!
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  932. Vertogen are working on just such a design.
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  933. I would think that this would be a case of false imprisonment. You should not have been prevented from leaving, and equally the parking company would not have been prevented from suing you for the parking charge, had you not paid it. There should have been no need for an invoice if you were issued with a ticket on which the charge had been calculated. If you parked, you agreed to pay the pound per minute parking charge. On the other hand, if you drove through the car park, and didn't park, no charge should have been levied.
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  934. I'm not sure but I suspect in the majority of cases the CPS would drop the prosecution.
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  935. They are of such a high standard, and cover such a vast range of subjects, that it it is perhaps inevitable that some are not as interesting as others. I thought Lady Rose had put a lot of work into researching the subject, and I did learn some things that made me reflect on the nature of the judge's' role in a different light.
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  936. Invading Crimea when they had agreed in Budapest to respect and even protect Ukraine's borders was trecherous act that did indeed start the war.
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  937. It seems that reducing the amount of fish that humans take from the sea could also help reefs recover. Allowing the herbivore fish species to increase would potentially allow macro-algae to be reduced to the point where the corals can compete with them. It would also provide the the food needed by increased seabird populations once rats have been eradicated from more islands. Very interesting lecture.
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  938.  @swojnowski453  Sel-employment can be a blessing, but starting a business at 18, before you have experience of how businss works, is very risky. Better to start working in another small business and learn what you can from the owner about how to make it work.
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  939. What is in the interests of the electorate? Having a prisons system that can treat people with mental health problems, and help drug addicts to find ways of living without having to resort to crime? Or having a prisons sytem that is so overcrowded that the prison officers can barely control the situationand go to work each day in fear of their lives?
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  940. Trump has a lot to answer for. But he will get his comeuppance.
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  941. He doesn't beleive Zelenskyy is a dictator, hence the lack of adulation. He does believe Putin is a dictator, hence the cozying up to Putin.
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  942. We've plenty of money and arms to give to Ukraine.
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  943. Keith Kellogg just described it as a blow to the nose of the donkey with a 2x4 - to get the donkey's attention, as donkeys are known to be stubborn. Of course Trump is extorting Ukraine, and it's downright rude suggesting that Ukraine wasn't going to pay back the USA. Who says that of an ally during a war?
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  944. We know that the Market alone does not produce the outcomes that most people want. We have examples such as Thames Water, Royal Mail, the Energy market, private rented housing, railways, banking, etc, etc. Most people want a caring state that provides a counter-balance to market forces, to prevent capitalism from putting all the choices in the hands of the very rich. Not everyone wants to see their neighbour as themselves, because this requires empathy and self-sacrifice. The UK has been following the US model of individual independence for too long, hence the rise of gated-communities. It's not ok that the rich starve everyone else of law and order because they are safe behind their gates! I felt that Tony Blair's government achieved the best political outcomes because they had Gordon Brown making sure the government actually cared and Tony Blair to find that 'third way' that was neither Tory nor Labour, but was a sensible long-term strategy that both parties could live with. Merry Christmas Richard! Thank you for a thought-provoking year.
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  945. Legal question: If a case came to court (in the UK), could a judge introduce the lack of the correct pre-contract information as a defence if the defendant doesn't introduce it? I would expect not, but the judge knows there is a valid defence, but the defendant doesn't, perhaps because they are representing themselves and think they can show that work wasn't done well.
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  946.  @BlackBeltBarrister  Presumably if they lawfully seize the vehicle (e.g. for no insurance), they can lawfully seize the keys as well?
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  947.  @NiekEdeling  Yes. This why it is so important that the CRM culture is embedded across the entire organisation, so that if a FO annoys a captain with how they handle a dangerous situation, the FO is fully supported by the company. The time for arguments is when everyone is safely on the ground. If the FO has over-reacted, then this can be the subject of further training, but the correctness of speaking up and taking action needs to be reinforced.
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  948. That was my thought - the welders built a bike there was no point stealing; no-one can ride it, unless they have 8 months spare to learn how to!
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  949.  @gregbenwell6173  So the American economy really isn't working very well.
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  950. Legal expenses cover on your home insurance can help reduce the cost.
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  951. There is something in this. Our heating is set to 18C and we could go lower. 20C is fine for old folks who are at home all day and can’t move as much to keep warm, but young, fit people should be ok at 18C.
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  952. The UK had vast stocks of energy-inefficient terraced housing built with solid brick walls. While sufficient exterior insulation can be applied to the solid walls to make them more efficient, the work really needs to be combined with re-roofing so that the roof/wall junctions are also efficient. You can’t do this one house at a time. You have to do the whole terrace, and in some cases it will make the pavement too narrow, so the road has to be narrowed, which halves the parking available. It’s a massive problem for the UK, and no-one has the will to do anything about because it will be unpopular.
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  953. The council had a clear conflict of interest in acting for the lady. I would be interested to know if there is any such law that should have preventing them from acting for her. IMHO They should have sought our an independent advocate for her, but I don't know if they were required to do so by law. The conviction should be recinded, but I wonder who will fight for this for this person?
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  954.  @rupertmiller4718 Great obfuscation! The issue isn’t with the retailers of electricity, but with the producers.
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  955.  @fernarias  It's a very popular way of building foundations across Europe. The slab provides thermal mass and the insulation keeps the heat in the house.
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  956.  @spencerlool  They will happily die rather than be subjugated under Russian rule. Russia will win a pile of dust in Ukraine.
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  957. Home heating might only be required for a fraction of the year in Aus. but in the UK and northern Europe we have millions of homes that need heating for nearly half a year, and personally I'm spending about 5000 AUD a year to do so at the new energy prices, so anything that might cut is of interest.
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  958. It's very odd seeing the yellow bikes on the streets - Sheffield, where I live in the UK, now has exactly the same bikes!
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  959. This a good strategy. Russian oil is still being exported to India, but if the production facilities are destroyed, India will not pay for oil that isn't delivered.
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  960. The Belgian court decided that the had made a mistake in posting the video.
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  961. There is no hope of Victory for Russia in Ukraine.
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  962. Where are the regulations that require fire suppression?
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  963. We've had to suffer 14 years of Tory misrule. It's time that Labour had the chance to put somethings right.
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  964. And Trump is a criminal, so of course it is an option in his palybook.
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  965. You mean the people who are disabled, or so ill that they can't hold down a job? Perhaps you would like to be afflicted with something serious so you can see what a difference it would make to your life.
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  966. @rskdevelopments Dog hair everywhere seems to be a bit trivial; surely that's why you wear overalls and have seat covers? However, a car that smells so strongly of dog that the tester cannot bear to be in the car should be refused a test - a mate of mine bought an old Astra where the back seat reeked of dog so badly that passengers used to hang their heads outside of the window rather than have to smell it.
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  967. @rskdevelopments Fair enough. I’m not allergic to dog or cat hairs so I tend not to think about it, but for someone who is allergic it would make it impossible to test the vehicle.
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  968. If the T&Cs on the signs require you to display a ticket that has your VRN on it, but you can't get such a ticket from the machines available then you can't park there (unless there is another option, e.g. paying via an app, or via the internet or phone). If you pay, but don't comply with the contract, you will get a PCN that can be enforced (not displaying a valid ticket is the same degree of transgression as parking across two parking spaces). Your best option now is to negotiate to pay the parking company (not their debt collectors) an amount that they will accept in full and final settlement of your liability to them. Get proof of payment and written confirmation that you have settled the liability in full.
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  969. The wealthy person's instinct not to part with their money is a financial lesson we could all do with learning. Most money coming into a family is hard-earned, and hence we need to respect it and not fritter it away.
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  970. I don't think she says this anywhere does she? She wants to be able to purchase two seats and not have people complain that she is preventing some else from flying, which she patently would not be doing as the 'plane has 400 seats, not 2.
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  971. What aspects of the Russians in the video do you believe indicates them to be Wagner group mercenaries?
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  972. I think that we in the UK have to remain obsessed with inflation because of the scale of our public sector. The problem is that there is only a very weak link between inflation and tax receipts. In periods of high inflation, tax receipts don't rise as rapidly and this means that there isn't enough tax income to pay the higher costs experienced by the public sector. Richard suchhests that big inflation jumps are peaks, but they can do a lot of damage when that peak is two years long. Pensions, the NHS and basic civil services all risk becoming unaffordable if we don't get inflation down to near zero and keep it there. If the costs just keep increaseing, so will taxes have to keep increasing, and what happens when we reach 100% of GDP? It's not sustainable if inflation continued to have bouts when it gets out of hand.
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  973.  @axeman2638  One of the points made in the video is that our knowledge has improved over time. They didn't tell it would happen by now. They thought it would be years away, but as the science has improved, we now know that THIS is the decade where it will be won or lost.
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  974.  @joemoody7440  where’s the evidence that there are more? In all the clips we never see more than a handful of people who definitely are neo-nazis.
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  975.  @Rs-mp3ru  you make my point for me! You are referring to information that is 8 years out of date!
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  976.  @snnetwork8420  So we can't really know how many voted inthe referendum, or how they voted?
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  977.  @Rs-mp3ru  I beleive the BBC have mostly told the truth, both previously and now. It is difficult for foreign journalists to get insight into what the Azov Battalion was doing and is doing, in part because helped turn Donbas into a war zone, and then invaded Ukraine and unleashed very imprecise weapons. I would still like to know a lot more about the war in the Donbas. The one thing I feel certain of is that the Ukrainian army, the Azov Battalion, and the seperatists have all, and some time or other, perpetrated some horrific acts on their fellow Ukranians. The question now is can any Ukrainian move beyond the horror of what has been done to create a new, peaceful future?
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  978. Not if the vehicle is in a public place. If it is on private land then inside the vehicle is also a private place.
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  979. No doubt Trump will reframe himself as 'saviour' as he will be the one that signs off the bailout!
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  980.  @stalin1489  Russia doesn't care about NATO. There are lots of NATO countries that border Russia already, and NATO has thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at Russia. If Ukraine joins NATO, the number of nuclear warheads aimed at Russia won't change. Russia wants Ukrainian land, but the land belongs to the UKrainian people who will not give it up without a fight.
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  981. I think Russia will choose to surrender.
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  982. No, of course not. The UK and our King should not stoop to Trump's level. We should not enter his swamp. An invitation has been extended to an ally. We need to show Trump how to behave towards an ally. Not so he will learn; he's incapable of learning, but because it is the right thing to do.
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  983. The banks are still trying to adjust to the fact that they have evolved from a Branch model where 'authentication' consisted of the Bank Manager having been at school with either you or your Mum or Dad! It's a very different world we live in now, and both the banks and we have to adapt to that very different world. The pity is that this isn't new. 10 years ago the Building Society I worked for had a system to allow branches to authenticate staff calling from Head Office (the phone systems weren't connected at that time). The same system would work for bank customers if our apps displayed a number that was visable to bank employees and ourselves but no-one else.
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  984. BBB forgot to mention that you could be prosecuted for doing more than 30mph in an unenforcable 20mph zone (assuming 30mph was the speed limit that could be enforced).
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  985. DT isn't, but some of his most ardent supporters are.
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  986. Russia has caused so much damage in Ukraine, and killed so many people, that any compromise also needs to include reparations.
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  987. A great analysis, with great detail and insight. However, on your point about the APU/Ramair/Normal/Alt Laws, it seemed that because Sully started the APU, the aircraft was only able to follow the Normal Law, so Sully could not achieve the nose-high attitude he wanted. Consequently the landing speed and kinetic energy was greater than he wanted or was necessary to retain control of the aircraft. I am curious as to whether you think this was a good think that he could not do this, or do you think the aircraft would have been less damaged if he had been able to have full control over the aircraft?
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  988. No, as Richard points out, there are some sorts of work that can only efficiently by done in a workplace.
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  989. Agreed, it is just so unfair. 😂😂😂
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  990. Winglets on the wingtips would allow VAWT blades to create its own ducted shroud as it rotates.
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  991. It's a feature of the rampant individualism promoted in the USA. Donald Trump is the arch-narcisist.
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  992. The cameras are clearly mounted high up, as you would expect CCTV cameras to be mounted. They are also trained on areas where CCTV might be expected to be required to provide security. Good try, but this is real footage.
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  993. Yes, its entirely possible. Vertogen are working on just such a design.
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  994. One thing that politicians don't think about is the people that are not as clever as them. (Its hard to become an MP, you can't do it without being intelligent, despite whatever evidence you say exists to the contrary.) Humans come with a range of intelligence and capabilites, and there are some people who will always be at the lower end of the spectrum, and hence vulnerable. We have to look after those people and protect them from whatever is out there that can ruin their lives. This is an MP's job. I would vote for a politician whose sole policy was to ensure that MPs could not be paid more than three times the national minimum wage and could not have a pension that was more than three times what the state pension pays. With such a rule in place, if MPs want a pay rise or a better pension, they have to ensure that the poorest get more first!
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  995.  @Ffish69  Absolutely. This is the correct/legal way to overtake a MLH. It takes some foresight to realise that your approaching a MLH - I have sometimes been caught out by the closing rate if they are dawdling along at anything less than 60mph. Sometimes I’ve needed to slow down to fall back to position where I can safely overtake them, but you can use the time to check the lane you are moving into is clear.
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  996. Not so, have watch of Crimebodge's channel on YouTube!
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  997. I hope you get enough weapons to arm every citizen who is able to fight. Slava Ukraini
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  998. 1,075 billion roubles bites the dust!
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  999. Is it possible for a private individual to obtain a search warrent from a Magistrate? Has anyone ever tried?
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  1000. Clearly these civilians are happy to shield their president from the death squads sent by Russia to kill him. I wish them every success.
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  1001. That does sound like he mis-spoke. Keir Starmer, probably more than most people, would uphold the idea that people are innocent until a fair legal process finds them guilty.
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  1002. And wrong. There are tasks that robots already do better than humans can. AI can already think thoughts that no human could have thought because the human mind isn't that flexible. This capacity is only going to increase exponentially. The answer is not to assume that robots and AI will destroy humanity but to ensure that it does not, by thoughtful regulation.
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  1003. I agree with points 1 and 3, but disagree with the state funding political parties. To me, it is fundamental that political parties have to be funded by the people who want the party to exist. This needs to be completely transparent - we need to see how businesses, wealthy (and poor) individuals and unions fund the political parties that they do. Having the state fund political parties just creates the potential for parties to argue that they aren't getting enough funding; if you want a political party to behave in a certain way, you need to put your money behind it and be happy that everyone can see what you are doing. I don't want my taxes to fund any political party, even the one I support.
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  1004. That's not going to happen.
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  1005. People currently claiming disability benefits might be forced to look for work, but when they cannot find work (because the pool of jobs is reducing) then they will claim a means-tested benefit instead. So they will still be fed, housed and heated by the state, but will have a much lower quality of life. Is this what we want for our citizens? Perhaps the answer is, as Richard has suggested, to accept much lower levels of productivity in the workplace, so that as many people can be employed as possible, even if they need support to do so. Paying for this support seems to need the state to provide a means by which it can pay for the support, otherwise employers will not hire people that will be harder to manage.
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  1006. It's more like a MOP (Massive Ordinance Penetrator), but smaller. About 9 times smaller! The M is MOP is not there without good reason.
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  1007. One thing that Russia is doing right is that it is keeping valuable ships outside of the range of Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. The sinking of the Saratov in Berdyansk might be a rare occasion when Russian ships came in range!
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  1008. I don’t see the need for a national coronial service that is separate to the HM Courts and Tribunals Service. Could it not be created as a new “Inquisitorial” division within HMCTS? (I ask the question as a layperson)
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  1009.  @Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ  We have plenty of firewood, but in the UK, most Gazprom contracts require payment in Pounds Sterling and are written under UK law. So, if the contract doesn't allow one party to change the currency that payment is required in, Gasprom can't force UK customers to pay in Rubles. All it can do is stop supplying gas. The same might be true in German. I don't know how their energy market works. No Gas, no Rubles and no hard currency.
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  1010. Many people don't consent to being arrested and yet they are. I think you have your answer.
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  1011.  @Hello-uk5xp  With all the gas in the Donbas, the Ukrainians have enough money to pay for nuclear weapons.
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  1012. It's also the job of the senior crew members to mentor the junior crew members. Training captains need to be sure that they have the capacity to teach their first officers during every flight - flying below minimums means that the captain isn't modelling the correct behavior and has set themselves up (at best) with a situation where they can't teach the first officer anything because their own workload is so high.
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  1013. They were hit quite badly by the pandemic.
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  1014. @rokot2010 There's not much evidence to support your statement. The video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting Russian soldiers in the leg is still being investigated.
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  1015. My understanding is that you have to start removing yourself from the car park immediately. If the car park is large, or your vehicle moves very slowly, it might take you a bit more than five minutes to leave, but if you start to leave immediately you have confirmed by your actions that you do not accept the contract.
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  1016.  @solesurvivor7989  If only Putin had help him instead of invading!
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  1017. Be strong for your boy. He does need to see his family and to be able to make friends, but if they are carrying a virus that can kill him (or more likely you and your parents), it would be unwise to let him be very close to them. The pandemic will be over soon enough. Compliance with the rules on social distancing and lockdown will make this happen more quickly. Total deaths in the UK are normally about 500,000 per year. Covid-19 is currently killing about 3.7% of people who catch it, so that's 2.4 million people!
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  1018. Great stories. Thank you for telling us of your travels and experiences. I've watched a number of your videos and learn more about China with every video.
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  1019. I'd agree that for any contract involving the supply of a service you should write down what you think has been agreed. You really need to be quite diligent in reviewing what agreements have been made, especially if the other party wants to insert an Entire Agreement clause as this means that what in in the contract, and only what is in the contract, is agreed.
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  1020. We don't know about Labour. The current crop of ministers has never been in power before, but referring to one of Richard's earlier videos, the jury is out on whether they really care for their portfolios. Those who care will care about fraud as this affects what they can do with the money given to their department.
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  1021.  @perjohansson1087  Or on Canada, so he can take their minerals.
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  1022. In reality, the post goes, and arrives when it does so. You can't expect solicitors not to send a letter on a Thursday if it is ready to go. The UK Post Office is doing a jolly good job of randomising when mail is delivered anyway. Perhaps cancelling Friday and Saturday deliveries might be a good thing!
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  1023. The core message is that saving for your pension is only possible if you can buy assets that will remain valuable. If all the assets you can buy don't remain valuable for very long, then you can't easily save for your retirement. Richard is asserting that many assets that pension funds currently invest in do not have a long-term viability, and he is questioning why pension funds are not investing in assets that are more likey to be viable in the long-term.
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  1024. Ukraine will never be "over", just as Russia will never be over.
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  1025. Sadly this is true, no matter how big or expensive the bridge might be.
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  1026. The Russians also attacked and killed civilians in Ukraine today. Neither side can stop until there is some sort of peace treaty.
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  1027. This advisor spoke rationally and intelligently. Don't forget that Ukraine was not an independent country again until 1991. It has had to generate a political class and elevate this class to the highest eschelon's of statemanship since Russia became focused on reacquiring it. Everyone, including Zelenskyy, has been learning on the job.
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  1028. Martin Blank should be on this list.
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  1029.  @robertgabriel597  No, the wheat and gas in Ukraine were his first and last concern.
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  1030. You are being disingenuous in suggesting that you don't have a political problem with the policies of the Labour government. You didn't bring out ANY of the vast number of examples where Conservative or Liberal politicians changed their minds, didn't adhere to campaign promises and generally brought politicians into disrepute. It was totally biased. You are wearing your politics on your sleeve.
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  1031. If you agree to work on camera but it is shoddily or not carried out, it could be even more of a problem for you.
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  1032. If he brokers a peace deal with Putin, he may well get a Peace Prize. I hope that he can broker a deal that means no more Russians or Ukranians lose their lives, but which also sees Russia pay for the damage and destruction they have caused.
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  1033. It might, if it had happened, but Russia can’t even win in Bakhmut.
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  1034. Drones don't have the payload, and there isn't anywhere safe from Russian shelling until you get about 80km from Mariupol. You can see the scale of the operation needed. Delivering that much food with drones would be impossible. However, delivering water purification tables by drones would be practical. You could deliver tablets sufficient to cleanse many thousands of litres of water per day by drone (or artillerty shell).
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  1035. A patriot would not also be a terrorist like Trump is being.
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  1036. Idiot. Zelensky’s home is in Ukraine, just as Putin’s is in Russia.
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  1037. Because there is no deception.
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  1038. Change might be necessary for the USA, but a good politician would have found a way to change things without destroying so much that was good and valuable.
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  1039. But it is a false narrative! How can you thank someone for telling you lies? Even if you want to hear them and want to believe them, if they are false, you need to be aware of this.
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  1040. I think you are correct, and BBB points out in the video that it is an area where strict liability applies.
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  1041. Yup, anyone who has supported Russia is going to look pretty silly.
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  1042. Australia is helping to liberate the civilians in Mariupol by sending weapons to the Ukrainians. At least your goverment understands enough not to listed to Patrick Lancaster.
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  1043.  @TwilightMysts  I’m not worried about the risks in my lifetime, but about the risks of the waste that remains radioactive for hundreds of years.
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  1044. Those kids had some experience; they had been through a military training course, and they had NCOs who had fought in Europe and Africa. They didn't have any language barrier either.
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  1045.  @benenivel1478  Correct. Russia is loosing the information war because of how its soldiers have acted on the ground.
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  1046. The thing is that Sage is a group of scientific advisors, not a group of politicians. The Sage group didn't want to be in power, they wanted to be the best scientists they could be, which is probably they are best placed to advise the government. Lockdown should only end when amount of virus has been reduced to the point where Test and Trace can work effectively. It cannot work at the rates we saw in September and October.
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  1047.  @EngineeringwithRosie  Are you familiar with Qblade? I've done some work with the VAWT modelling in Qblade as part of my research into VAWTs.
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  1048.  @shookoneldn300  Good advice. You need a solicitor with you before you talk to the police under caution. You and your solicitor should let the police ask all the questions they want, answering none of them, and then work out what evidence or information you might actually have to rely on in court, and provide just this information to the police via a written statement. Your solicitor should help you balance the value of telling the police something so that you can rely on it in court, and the risk of not telling something that you might need to rely on. I imagine you would need a very good reason not to tell the police something that you were likely to rely on, to counter any adverse inference that might be drawn from not telling them.
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  1049. We might be militarily weak, but we have some economic power.
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  1050. I would argue that there is an other answer that we should look at. If Capital Gains Tax were levied on the increase in value of ALL houses (i.e. stop the primary residence relief) and CGT was payable at a rate of 100% based on the value of the property on a specific date according to the Nationwide House Price Index, then any sale after that date would result in ALL profit going straight to the government. This would make it pointless to sell your house for more than it is worth on that date. Such a change could be implemented for a limited period - say until we hit the mean for housing costs compared with other OECD countries - at that point the CGT rate could come down to 98% - effectively allowing house prices to rise only at the same rate as a sustainable amount of inflation.
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  1051.  @physiocrat7143  We have a problem with empty homes in the UK. Improving the speed at which we bring disused or unoccpied homes back into use would have to be part of the solution for the UK. Ultimately we are not going to be able to do much about underoccupied homes (that people own), because their ownership of the home should give them the right to occupy it as they wish (so long as they do actually live there).
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  1052. Russia should surrender and leave Ukraine.
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  1053. It makes you an undertaker.
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  1054.  @AC-um2mk  because you are forcing your way into a congested lane - it must be congested for the initial undertake to be legal. If you overtake the lorry you are overtaking the cars that your undertook.
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  1055.  @dtesla2118  Actually most people know that Russia is Russia and Ukraine is Ukraine, only brainwashed Russians don't know this. If I was Zelensky, I would not agree to peace unless it is agreed that all Russian children will be taught this in school.
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  1056. What could go right is a more interesting question. Might there be a better way that what the Tories have been doing for the last 14 years? i.e. underfunding the prisons system while increasing sentencing guidelines?
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  1057. That's not true. There is time to take action. We cannot let his indifference lose the opportunities we have to save the planet for our children.
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  1058. Patrick is a Russian stooge. Ukrainian soldiers are not firing on their own civilians.
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  1059. The truth is that we ALL suffer from a global catastrophe. The USA is one of the few nations that could hope to create a concensus on action, but with Trump in power, the USA is doing the exact opposite of what is needed, and we will all suffer as a result. Thanks America!
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  1060. This may be what Trump wants! He has always said he thinks Europe is too dependent on the USA to fund NATO and provide the majority of troops to NATO. (The USA has about 1.3m armed personnel, total for all other NATO members is 2.1m).
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  1061. He's clearly much smarter than Trump. A turnip is smarter than Donald Trump! But I think Putin is quite clever. Misguided, definitely evil, but clever enough to hold power in Russia. That takes some doing. We need to be very wary of Putin's cleverness.
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  1062.  @bazsnell3178  Few of whom would be able to handle the complexity of the cases that came before them...
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  1063. @ It was never a contract. There were never any guarantees. You have to speculate to accumulate.
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  1064.  @Anastasiya-n8w  Europe will cope if it receives no gas from Russia. Sure it will be cold, but we have other sources of energy to ensure no-one freezes. We will never forgive Russia, and will stop buying Russian gas as soon as we can.
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  1065. I think Richard's analysis is correct. It's not the inequality that scares adults and children, but the effects of the inequality. Can we reverse the effects without creating a completely equal society? Of course! You only have to look at the examples in the Nordic countries to see that their societies have inequality, but less than we do in the UK, and much less than in the USA.
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  1066. One of the hardest things to learn in life is how to set your own boundaries as to what you will and won't do.
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  1067. More like £350 according to Barbour's website.
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  1068.  @CecilJRhodes  Only someone who hates the society they live in would rather spend money on things they don't need (causing waste and pollution) rather than pay it in tax to benefit their fellow citizens.
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  1069. While I think the driver was wrong to have reversed at speed when called on their mistake by the cyclist, I don’t think they are the sole cause of the harm to the dog. The dog jumped off the quad bike because the quad bike rider decided to a) have an unrestrained dog standing on the vehicle and b) use the verge to avoid the reversing car rather than stopping (and being hit by the car). It is likely that ANY other car driving down that road correctly would have been driving more quickly than the reversing car, and the quad bike rider would also have had to take to the verge to avoid it. The driver will have been looking where they were going, but could not slow down enough to stop before the quad bike passed it, likely because the quad bike was going too fast. This is as much the quad biker’s fault as the driver’s. We all need to remember that our actions have consequences, and we rarely know what these will be before taking them, so we all need to be a bit careful, especially in public places.
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  1070. There are some Foam Glasses available that have very significant compressive strengths and very high thermal insulation values if heat loss through foundations is a concern. (Look up FoamGlas Perinsul HF)
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  1071. The Ukrainains are prepared to die for their country, the Russian soldiers are also prepared to die, so many will die, and Russia will be a pariah throughout the world, while the world will love Ukraine. Russia is badly led.
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  1072.  @unhingedbracket121  The problem is that no government will put consent into a Bill of Rights. Not even the US Constitution allows citizens to opt out of complying with the law.
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  1073. And yet parliament made laws that Conservative, Labour and Liberal MPs agreed should be made to ensure that UK is a fair place for people to live.
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  1074. A mediator has to be unbiased. Frankly, none of the three can be unbiased. Finding an unbiased mediator is going to be difficult.
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  1075. Not to mention FCS and System W, which were mainframe programs that implemented the idea of a spreadsheet but without showing the spreadsheet on screen like VisiCalc did. VisiCalc was a visual version of programs that came before it. Dan’s innovation was not the spreadsheet. It was the idea is showing the spreadsheet on the screen!
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  1076. There is a company in the UK called Vertogen that has a patent on a mechanical pitch control mechanism.
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  1077. I would imagine that it was at least as common for Air Traffic Controllers as it is for pilots. Thank you to all controllers for persevering with their training.
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  1078. Given the Infinity Train's route, even if it couldn't generate 100% of the power needed to return itself to its starting point, solar panels on the roof of the motor units and battery cars could generate the additional power needed, and they would continue to do so on the return journey (if it was done during the day). The Infinity Train and eDumper are examples where using the very lightest battery is justified.
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  1079. It's about those who are inclined towards sociopathy arguing that they should be allowed to run riot and not obey the reasonable rules of society. The many reasonable people in the UK won't let you do it - get in line, stay in line and be like the rest of us.
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  1080.  @MrLoftusjj3  We can launch Trident without US approval.
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  1081. Yes, if we could drive out all the fraud we would be able to reduce taxes AND spend more on important areas that are currently underresourced like the criminal justice system and social care. It's unrealistic to expect to be able to drive out all the fraud, but you have to try to do so, otherwise you will never get close to doing so.
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  1082. Correct. I have been pulled over by CID officer in an unmarked van when driving like a loon. He showed me his warrent card and tore me off a strip, and admitted he couldn't take it any further. I seemed relieved that I was repentant, as he was clearly stuggling to think what to do to take it any further (which was probably just to pass my reg to traffic to keep any eye out for). I did stick to the speed limit from that point onwards when driving through the chicane that the local council had thoughtfullly installed in the road that led off our estate. I was lucky that my Marina could make it through that chicane at any speed!
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  1083.  @ianhandforth5672  It will be just their luck that the whole approach will have changed and they will find themselves shipped off to Canada.
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  1084. Actually, it's the ordinary people who have gone mad! They think it is sensible to have 80,000 people in jail, when the jails are overcrowded and there are not enough prision offieers to spend time rehabilitate offenders, some of whom are only in jail for a few months - you are not going to change a lifetime of bad habits and decisions in a couple of months. James Timpson, the current Prisons Minister, was appointed because he is something of an expert in the penal system, and has stated before being appointed that he beleives that at least a third of prisoners should even be in jail due to their mental health problems. They don't get treatment for these problems because there is no time, and no mental health services to help them, so they go away for a few months, them come out to reoffend. It's plain daft, but the public think it it's ok. They are wrong, and its time the people that know about this stuff started telling them they are wrong.
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  1085. Not for UK audiences.
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  1086. No, in a comparable situtaion in the UK, you would be arrested, but could remain silent until you have had the opportunity of speaking to a solicitor (who should ideally be one that you are paying to represent you), with no adverse inference possibly being taken in court from your silence. It is good advice not to say anything to the police when stopped or arrested, but not saying certain things can escalate the situation rather than defuse it. Giving your name, address and date of birth, producing your driving licence and insurance when stopped driving a car will tend to stop situations escalating (unless you happen to be wanted already), but if the police are searching for someone, any interaction with them is likely to indicate that you are a suspect and refusing to answer questions is probably a good thing.
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  1087. Anyone looking at a modern wind turbine would conclude that they are enromous contraptions that are expensive to build and maintain. If the economic case can be made to build and maintaining a wind turnbine at sea, I don't see why it couldn't be made for this form of sub-surface turbine. There is not a lot of difference between them.
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  1088. Putin is hoping that the gas reserves under the Donbas will pay some of the cost that Russia has incurred in fighting this war. How sweet it will be when he realises he is not going to get a single breath of Ukrainian gas!
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  1089. I would share your concerns. A better arrangement to regulate power in high winds is to set the blade angle for as much anti-rotational torque as you can without stalling the blades (and then zero torque), but if you have no ability to change the pitch you are left with the electrical torque that the generator can produce, and as you observe, if this fails, you will get a runaway. To my mind any turbine needs an emergency brake, so it would be better to plan on implementing them from the outset.
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  1090. All of this is Russian propaganda and no journalist will publish it for Russia. Put it in Pravda.
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  1091. I understand your argument and tend to agree with it, but I can also see how the CPS would think that prosecuting the chap would be in the public interest because we don’t want mentally unstable people from having large, sharp knives with them in public. I can see the judge’s logic that harming yourself is not a good thing to do, but in making that determination they seem to be saying that hurting yourself is not a fundamental human right. I don’t know what the law says about self harm being a human right but I wonder if this decision by the judge was in line with it? It the matter had been decided by the jury, I think he would have still been convicted, unless he could have shown that he was travelling to somewhere to self-harm, e.g. he was on his way home immediately after buying the knife.
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  1092.  @zubrickadvisors6742  I guess there is only an impact on the marine environment if they dump the salt back into the ocean. Using it as a medium to store heat would be one potential commercial use that would keep it out of the ocean.
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  1093. No, only when declining to answer a question might any adverse inference be made.
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  1094. Not it's not. Go back to sleep.
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  1095. Because Russian soldiers should not even be in Ukraine.
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  1096. The best defence against Trump is economic isolation. Trump will be removed by his backers if their economic interests are being harmed by him.
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  1097. It would be easier just to stop the tax releif on ISA and Pensions and use the extra tax to build more social housing.
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  1098. I love how YouTube offers to Translate your comment to English!
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  1099. I wonder whether counter-claiming against them would work; e.g. to pay for engaging another contractor to remediate the work they did so shoddily? Does anyone think that this might cause then to end their court action?
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  1100. You can't tell a scientist something and not expect them to look at the data that is available. And the data shows that in the tropics, average sea temperatures are getting warmer, not cooler.
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  1101. Putin started it, Zelensky can only stop it by pushing all Russians off Ukrainian soil. Putin can stop it with one order.
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  1102. About 50% of Ukrainians in the Donestsk and Luhansk oblasts are pro-Russian - many of these are ethnically Russian rather than Ukrainian. The others are for a free Ukraine. These will be the pro-freedom Ukrainians who are travelling west to move out of the area where Russia has said they are now going to concentrate their forces.
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  1103. Actually, there is no evidence of Kristian kerner existing. They would have a capital letter at the start of their surname if they were a real person.
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  1104. Putin will fail. The influences that lead to democratic expansion are too strong, in Ukraine and in Russia.
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  1105. You are nevery going to be able to legislate sense or courtesy into people; it's something that driving instructors need to train into their learners.
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  1106. I agree. Trump will spin any meeting they have to his agenda regardless of what is said or discussed.
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  1107.  @LewisNuke92  He's more Scottish than I am.
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  1108. There are many people who hold the counter-view. The shadow needs to be fought off. It is a time when leadership is key.
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  1109. Not the Sharpest Tool in the Box are we? Russia and China were always the most likely aggressors to a NATO member, so inviting in the treacherous liar Putin to join was never on the cards. The US had just one plan - stay out of a war in Europe. Their support for NATO was designed to allow them to stay out of any such war for as long as possible.
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  1110. Anything that can increase the wind speed seen by the turbine in low wind conditions will help, but in high wind, it would be ideal if the funnels could be reversed so that their action helped protect the turbine.
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  1111. Sorry to hear you are struggling. Your comment is the strongest recommendation for people to learn more about how their pensions work.
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  1112. Phasing changes in would be better in many cases; especially for the change to add VAT to private school fees because the children involved might be settled in their school. But the problem all political parties have is that their opposition will probably reverse the change as soon as possible, and therefore, to get the financial benefit of the change, it has to be made early in the parliament. If the Tories would agree to keep the change for at least 10 years, Labour could agree to it being phased in.
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  1113. Now there was a Politician you could respect! (He was my MP when I was teenager). The counter-intuitive effect of early prisoner release is a lesson to BlackBeltBarrister and all those who think this is a bad idea - the situation is far more complicated that it appears on the surface.
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  1114. That's not going to happen because when the truth comes out, Sage's advice will be shown to be correct and optimal, it was just the Conservative government who gave into whining about the economy that messed up the recovery by not clamping down harder in May and June to eradicate the virus from the UK. New Zealand did it, the State of Victoria did it. It can be done if there is political willpower, but this Conservative government is too much of a friend to business, and did not look out for its citizens safety enough.
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  1115. It is upto Britain how it makes peace with the countries it colonised. Those countries have a right to discuss it with Britain. If Russia wants to make peace with Ukraine, it has to expect Ukraine will have a price for peace. Reparations are likely to the price that Ukraine will expect.
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  1116. Cash, PayPal or ESCROW.
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  1117. Did you cross-examine their evidence?
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  1118. This is why Petter recommends studiying the procedures before flying them, and using any time you get with the instructor before you enter the simulator to check on any points that aren't clear, because there are going points on more or less every procedure that new pilots won't be familiar with.
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  1119. A thought provoking and useful video. Thanks BBB. I have commented on a comment below that I think that a defence of self-defence stands even if the defendant was using a prohibited weapon. e.g. If Tony Martin had fired a few feet behind Fred Barras and a freak ricochet had caused the fatal injury, it is likely that his defence of self-defence would resulted in a Not Guilty verdict even though the shot was fired from a weapon that Tony Martin did not have a licence for. Do you agree that if I have a prohibited knife and I use it to defend myself in a wholly valid situation I have a valid 'self-defence' defence against a charge of wounding, but cannot defend myself against a charge for possession of the knife?
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  1120. Putin should do the honourable thing and withdraw from the foreign country he invaded.
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  1121. You really know nothing. Just over a month ago, Mariupol was a peaceful city. People had jobs, drank coffee in cafes, went to the theater. Now they have nothing. Thanks to Putin.
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  1122. Water-cooled computers have been around since the 1951. Moving the heat to somewhere that wants to pay for it is the problem. Few people want to pay for what they see as a 'waste' product but unless someone is prepared to pay, there is no money to pay for the pipes to move the heat.
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  1123. Lethality. Even the larger drones pale in destructive power compared to Storm SHadow and Taurus cruise missiles. A large swarm attack of drones and cruise missiles could multiple the effect of substantially.
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  1124.  @shabelijsg2615  50% of the population didn't vote because in those referendums because it was organised by the DPR and LPR and they didn't trust that their vote would be counted.
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  1125.  @andriiproniuk4411  That is really good to hear. I hope Ukraine can retake Donbas.
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  1126. They don't buy your cars because they cost $80,000! They aren't as rich as the USA. If they cost $30,000 dollars, they would buy them.
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  1127.  @edsanville  Loughborough, ha ha.
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  1128. To get you started, there are a range of options as to how you might vary the pitch of the turbine blades; using a cam, you might turn the blade through less than 180 degrees, or using a gear mounted on the blade spar, you might turn it through the full 360 degrees. The cam or gear might be operated by a mechanical arragement or by a motor operating under the control of a fast acting electronic controller. The interesting bit is the calculation of the apparent wind, lift, drag, resultant lift and torque vectors and then controlling and optimising these to extract the most energy from the wind. Having full control over the blade pitch allows starting to be optimised, and for the turbine to be braked in high winds.
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  1129.  @lucicerlanfe3897  Being a member of NATO does not mean having weapons of mass destruction on Russia's door step. Your reply is pure Russian paranoia. NATO can NEVER be an aggressor. The Treaty doesn't allow it.
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  1130.  @Anonymous-il9pb  The North Atlantic Treaty does not guarantee that NATO would not move closer to Russia. It is not a treaty with Russia! The Treaty DOES ensure that NATO can never be an aggressor. NATO and the West means Russia no harm. We were quite happy to trade with you, but when you invade a sovereign state, you have to expect consequences. Putin has destroyed any chance of progress in Russia for the next 100 years, possibly longer.
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  1131.  @george11419  But where does the tax go? It's not going to pay for new stuff, it's generally going to pay the higher prices of the services that we have always had. Inflation is killing us. If we don't reduce inflation to the same rate that tax income is increasing, we are not going to be able to spend any tax on new initiatives without reducing the payments for existing services.
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  1132. I would go further by saying not only must people be at the centre of fiscal rulemaking, but also that we have to put children at the centre of it. Children are one of the most vulnerable sectors of our society, and are poorly represented by politicians. You have only to look at the decisions taken by the government during the pandemic that affected children disproportionally to realise that their voice is rarely heard in government.
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  1133. This minerals deal will not earn him the Noble Peace Prize.
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  1134. He is worthless because he is reporting lies.
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  1135. I am sure that every volunteer has appreciated the life-threatening nature of a real war. Their friends and loved ones will be hoping they are lucky and return unharmed. Not all will be so lucky.
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  1136. I like the idea of blimps! I could see a giant ski-lift affair being used to tow the blimps from the Middle East to Germany in a continuous circuit, all powered by hydrogen.
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  1137. They were not disagreeing with how the country is being run, they were causing damage to public and private proerpty, which is why they have been jailed. Their political views are just a cover for their rioting.
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  1138. In cases of domestic violence, legal aid can still be obtained. Solicitors will often give some free initial legal advice at an initial meeting with a client, but much of the meetings also needs to be spent ensuring that the client understandings what the solicitor will charge for their services if the client engages them, so you won't get a lot of advice via this route. Some universities offer free legal advice from their law students, supervised by their tutors. Potentially the best sourse of "free" legal help is the legal expenses cover that you have already paid for as part of your home insurance.
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  1139. Russia are winning, but slowly. The problem for the Russians is that this allows time for the sanctions to bite harder, and for new weapons to come into Ukraine. Their overwhelming manpower and military hardware, especially in the air and at sea, shoudl ensure they win eventually, but if they make tactical mistakes, Ukraine might cut off a significant Russia formation and slow the Russians to a crawl in some area.
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  1140. The journalists who comment on the morality of the war are all agreed that it was immoral of Russia to start this war by invading a sovereign country. Patrick cannot express this view as he is relying on Russian forces to facilitate his access to Ukrainian sites and citizens.
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  1141. Well, she would be less likely to hold rascist views, but anyone can make the mistake of expressing their views when they should not.
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  1142. I disagree about the shared spiritual outlook. One of my parents is spiritual, the other is not, and I am not. I don't need spirituality to spend plenty of time with others - I volunteer with two organisations, I care for my parents, my adult children and my partner. Spirituality is very personal, and I don't agree with indoctrinating children before they have the critical thinking skills to judge whether they want to be spiritual or not. If it does do anythign for social cohesion, is does it in a malign way.
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  1143. While the idea of reduced pricing for a second seat is attractive, I think that the airlines will have to price such second seats at nearly the full price so as to avoid people who might otherwise travel in business class buy a cheap second seat to guarantee that they don't have to sit next to someone.
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  1144. I think the comments show that few are letting him get away with the shambles he left.
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  1145. Running away is a very good option.
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  1146. It's too late to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President, so it is more of a warning.
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  1147. He certainly showed Damian Green up.
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  1148.  @Nickle314  It also gives you something to recycle.
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  1149. There is a fine line between a threat that should not be made and threatening someone with legal action for a specific reason that the law creates. When the law creates the possibility of legal action, 'threatening' someone with that action if they do no desist their behaviour is not a threat that cannot and should not be made. When receiving a threatening letter, we have to decide if the threat is more in the nature of a reasonable pre-advice, or is it a threat that is not permissible.
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  1150.  @rfrisbee1  Inheritance is 'fair' because during my life I pay tax at every turn; I pay it when I earn money., when I save money, when I invest money and make a return on the investment, I pay tax when I buy goods and services. At the end of my life, whatever I have managed to acquire legally (and paid the tax I was required to pay), I should be allowed to give it/leave it to anyone I want to.
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  1151. You certainly are Russia’s allies, but you may come to regret this.
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  1152. He's a murdering criminal, and will pay the price, as Russia is already doing for sanctioning his war.
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  1153. Interesting video Tim, thanks.
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  1154. Putin would prefer Zelenskyy to Zalunzy! 😊😊
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  1155.  @carlg7190  Sweden has already contributed 5 billion dollars of military aid to Ukraine, and is about to send another million dollars. Multiply this by the 27 nations of the EU, and the EU has contributed more than the USA. The Swedes are doing their bit. Will America continue to do so, or will they sell out to Putin?
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  1156.  @OneAndOnlyMe  MPs aren't underpaid. I agree that they should have their costs of being an MP funded, e.g. their essential staff, and their rent for a property in London (or wherever their parliament building is), and travel to an from their constituency and in relation to their parliamentary/government role. I do feel their pensions are somewhat gold plated. If I was in charge, I would make the rule that MPs can only get the WORST pension that anyone in the UK gets - so if MPs want to have a better pension, they have to improve the lot of everyone else before they can do so AND this has to be economically viable. They can't just give people better pensions if there is no way that the country or employers can afford to do so.
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  1157. That's not fair on the people that live in the Donbass. The problem in Donbass is caused by the fact that some of these people are pro-Russian, and some are not. Some have been oppressed by Ukraine and some have not. It is unfair to suggest that anyone must move their home, their children and their livelihood just because Ukraine and Russia have not found a way to secure peace in the Donbass. Russia would not allow independent peacekeepers, but if they are pushed out of Donbass, they may have to.
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  1158. Yes, it would be false imprisonment, but your recourse is to call the police to free you, and the police will make sure you either pay up or provide your name and address to the taxi driver. If you don't, you might be guilt of theft, and be arrested for this offence, so calling the police is likely to be a double-edged sword.
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  1159. It should also be a matter of pride that your car is relatively clean.
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  1160.  @kentonian  Efficiency isn't the name of the game here. What is needed is clean energy, and storing renewables is cleaner than buring gas, providing care is taken during the production process.
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  1161.  @ef7480  I plan to do this if I am stopped. I also plan to stop the engine and put the keys in my pocket. It would make the officer too vulnerable to reach for them while I'm still in the car, so I can be certain that they won't do so. I don't think there is a real propensity to reach in for the keys; I think this view has arisen from TV shows such a Police Interceptors, where the police have struggled to get someone to stop at all and they don't want to have to chase them down to a stop all over again. In cases where the stop is for erratic driving, the police are probably going to seize the keys lawfully anyway, when they have determined the cause to be drink, drug or medically related, but I would like the police to try lawful means first to determine that my keys should be taken from me rather than reaching in and snatching them from the car. Telling the police you don't consent to them searching you car if you get out of it is a good idea if you know they are worried that you might have left the keys in the car.
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  1162. No, he's trying to break the government. He doesn't care what the effect of this is and doesn't really care if it saves money because he knows his taxes will go down if he pleases Donald Trump.
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  1163. Many hybrid inverters can work as a UPS in the event of longer power outages. They won't allow you to run your heat pumps, unless you invest in at lot of batteries, but they will keep essentials such as lights and ventilation on. I watched a video on YouTube where someone had hooked up a second-hand 24kWh Nissan Leaf battery (which cost about 7000 USD here in the UK) to their inverter. With energy storage that cheap, even running your heat-pump through an outage becomes feasible.
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  1164. It seems unjust to me that someone can drive onto my land and just park their car and walk off. Fortunately the law allows me to put up a sign and a machine to take payment if I want to do so.
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  1165. No wonder you are no longer dating this psychopath.
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  1166. #3 It is perhaps worth considering why Dates and Times are "everything". I think the answer is that either you have an unimpeachable source for the date and time (like an email or timestampped CCTV footage) OR the event was so important to you at the time that you made a contemporaneous note about it. This leads to the decisionmaker understanding the importance of the event in relation to the case. Also, humans can relate to a chronology better than many other forms of presenting information. They can see the interconnections better, and they can also make inferences (sometimes incorrect) from the periods when actions did NOT occur.
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  1167.  @selfdiscipline296  And yet this is exactly what Russia did in Donbass! Gave the seperatists heavy weapons! So heavy in fact that one of the terms of the Minsk Accord was to restrict the size of artillery that could be sited in Donbass.
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  1168.  @matthewkopp2391  Clever!
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  1169.  @jaredjones7632  Correct. Patrick's reporting is facilitated by the Russians not because it is good journalism, but because it supports their narrative.
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  1170. As a litigant in person, you can always use a solicitor for legal advice on how to respond to a letter, providing you can identify the legal question that the letter raises. You can write the reply yourself. If you are lucky you might be able to find answers to your legal questions online, but solicitors have access to the case law databases can be vital to any case.
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  1171. No, the UK gets in nuclear weapons from the USA, so we are beholden to them to a large degree. However, providing we don't actually go to war with the USA, we will be allowed to keep the nuclear weapons. Ending the special relationship would require the UK to give up its independent nuclear deterrent. It would be a brave Prime Minister who agreed to this. With Russia at war and intent on expansion, it would be even more foolish to give them up.
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  1172. No they haven't. They have done the only thing that is scientifically proven to stop a pandemic where the transmission method is by social contact.
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  1173. The world does not need Russia, but Russian's need Russia. This conflict is not about Russia's right to exist. Russia has an absolute right to exists if its people want to do so. It does not have a right to invake Ukraine.
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  1174. I think this is a very well argued analysis, but Putin miscalculated that Kiev woyuld fall quickly, so it seems more likely that he will also miscalculate the degree to which NATO will stick together. Turkey is a potential weak link, but Turkey is the European buffer against the failed states in the Middle East, so Europe would certainly come to Turkey's aid. Northern Finland makes more sense as the point of escalation, but I think it more likely that Denmark, Norway and Sweden would immediately come to Finland's aid, and probably one or two other norther European countries like Holland and the UK.
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  1175. Which are tiny in comparison to the world's oceans.
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  1176. Given that humans are programming the possibility of consciousness, it would seem sensible to also program a requirement for conscience.
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  1177.  @altar7885  No, they know Russia invaded Crimea, that it is Russian territory, and that the cannot be respect for Russia until Crimea is free.
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  1178.  @aaronj2296  That was the point I was making.
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  1179.  @CadizHexus I disagree with most of your points: Dressing troops or vehicles as the enemy is a very dangerous tactic. It is very unlikely to be successful; Russian troops would be very unlikely to be taken in. What possible policitics, strategic or tactical advantage does evacuating a village and then destroying it provide? You've made your countrymen homeless. It doesn't make any sense. Russia didn't invade 8 years ago, but it was supplying heavy weapons to Donestk and Luhansk so that the seperatists could fight the Ukrainian army. The Minsk agreements limited the size of artillerty to less than 100mm - which means that Russia had been supplying artillery greater than this to the seperatists. The fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk has been on-going for 8 years and both sides have killed civilians and destroyed public and private property in a civil war. You say that the Ukraine and US doesn't want people in in Donetsk to have internet or be in communication with the outside world. What is your evidence for this? More rumours from Telegram groups?
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  1180.  @briantyler1562  Well said.
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  1181.  @CadizHexus  Thank you for taking the time to provide a long reply. I don't think that Putin had any justifiable security concerns. A strong Ukraine would never have been a threat to Russia; to Russian influence, yes, but to Russia itself, no. It's like we say in the UK, "Good fences make for Good neighbours". Putin massively underestimated the risks to the Russian economy. He beleived his own world view, rather than asking others how the West would react. He has surrounded himself with "Yes" men who think like he does, and hence who don't understand the West at all. I do however agree that in 2014 the Ukrainian government did send the Ukrainian army to suppress the dissent in Donbas, and to do so violently. This was wrong, but I think Russia made a mistake by both arming the seperatists and encouraging them to become seperatists. If Russia had stayed out of Ukraine in 2014, the dissent in the Donbass would have been ended, unfairly, but many lives would have been saved. I think the Ukrainians in the Donbass that have stood up against the Ukrainian army in the past 8 years showed the same spirit that other Ukrainians have in fighting the Russian army. If the occupation of Ukraine by Russia continues for another 8 years, the death toll with be much worse than it is now, and it is already too much.
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  1182.  @monaliza3334  Those "Russians" were all Ukrainian citizens killed in the civil war in Donbas. Many of the casualties were cause by the heavy weapons that Russia supplied to the seperatists so that they could inflict more casualties on their countrymen.
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  1183. As per the Neale vs. DPP case, the young man would seem to be on solid ground to not be prosecuted for wilfully obstructing the police, but the policeman can arrest him if he doesn't relay his details slowly, as the law requires these details for the purpose of identification.
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  1184. While on the face of it, it seems an easy problem to solve, I would argue that we should allow the stakeholders time to make a case for how to improve the system. Still, the end result has to be that generators are not paid based on the cost of producing electricity using gas, but on either a market price or a Cost-Plus basis
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  1185. Tier 3 lockdown is not really enough to slow the virus transmission - it didn't work when it was implemented because the virus transmission rates were already too high. Even "Tier 3" won't work until the transmission rate has fallen some more. Please don't fall into the trap of thinking that "Tier 3" is a high level of lockdown. It's a Conservative lockdown which means that all the activities that are interests of the Conservative party are allowed to operate.
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  1186. No, the definition of false imprisonment is as shown in the video at 0:16. Stopping someone from walking off a cliff (in an attempt at suicide) would not be false imprisonment, because you would not be stopping them from moving away from the cliff top - you would be stoping them from moving closer to the edge, but this would not amount to false imprisonment because they could turn around and walk off in the opposite direction. If you stopped them leaving the scene, this probably would be false imprisonment, as suicide is no longer a crime (indictable or otherwise).
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  1187. Россия могла бы обыскивать гуманитарные конвои и пропускать только еду и воду, но они никогда этого не сделают, потому что не хотят, чтобы мирные жители выжили. Россия совершает военное преступление, не пропуская помощь в Мауриполь. (Translation: Russia could search the humanitarian convoys and only allow food and water in, but they will never do this because they don't want the civilians to survive. Russia is commiting a war crime by not allowing aid into Mauripol.)
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  1188. The DPR and LPR "patriots" are traitors. They are Ukrainian, and yet they have picked up weapons and fought against fellow Ukrainians.
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  1189. All the new Data Centre space creates opportunities for a green transition for heating. They reject a lot of heat (I used to fit-out build data centres for a living). The government could mandate that you can't build a data centre unless the heat is supplied to homes and not rejected into the environment.
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  1190. The buyer will still rent the land to the tenants.
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  1191. The role of the Monitoring Pilot is not only to monitor the flight but also the Pilot Flying. While this incapacitation was subtle, it was the captain's job as Pilot Monitoring to spot this and intervene effectively.
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  1192. No, they are not going to release violent offenders.
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  1193. ESCROW. There are some specialist providers springing up to help the construction industry and their clients use ESCROW services. As BBB says, if you get full documentation for the proposed job (so a contract and plans & specifications), there should be little or no argument as to whether the contract has been performed or not.
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  1194. Belgians are happy to be in a political union with other countries because that union allows local laws to be made and enforced. If that was not your experience while the UK was a member of the EU, the problem wasn’t the EU rules, but British politicians.
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  1195. He's a better puppy than the Putin puppy.
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  1196. Trump's evidence was trumped up.
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  1197. Another great idea would be how litigants in person can lose their cases. I expect BBB has some experience of facing such litigants and wishes they did a better job against him.
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  1198. What deals have Ukraine broken? I'm curious.
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  1199. Good spot, but unlikely. A handgrenade thrown at Putin might damage the nuclear suitcase. The suitcase is likley to be further away from Putin.
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  1200. You can't negotiate with a sign, but a contract can be formed if there is an offer, acceptance of the offer, consideration (e.g. money) being paid, and an intention to create a contract. I think that whoever told you that a contract would not be valid if both parties weren't able to negotiate on the terms was wrong, and that they were perhaps misundertanding the requirement that the offer should be for a contact on specific terms - which is not to say that the party that receives the offer can negotiate on the terms, but the can certain not accept the offer if they don't like the terms being offered. (You can drive out of the car park having had time to read the terms being offered).
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  1201. У НАТО уже достаточно ракет, нацеленных на Россию. Ракеты НАТО есть в Румынии, Польше, Венгрии, Словакии, Эстонии, Латвии и т.д. Какая разница, что на Украине ракет больше?
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  1202. When you need to understand the law.
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  1203. As per my reply to Angus mecoatup, kettleing per se is not likely to be false imprisonment, if the police can justify the length of the kettleing being necessary to prevent a breach of the peace. But detaining someone until they provide their name and address would be false imprisonment unless there was a specific legal obligation for them to provide these details. You can survive without water for a number of days, so assuming the police allow the protestors to disperse that day, the lack of water is not an issue. Toileting however, is more problematic. My own feeling is that the police should allow protestors to leave the kettle to use the nearest toilet, and the protestor should be escorted (to ensure they return) if the police are not willing to let protesters leave the kettle generally for reasons of public order. A German Court has upheld that the German police acted inhumanely, and therefore illegally, in not allowing a protestor to go to the toilet. The UK courts have ruled differently, although the UK case cited the denial of food, water and toilet facilities. I would hope that a case in the UK, where the only issue was access to a toilet, would succeed. Have a read of the Wikipedia page on "kettling" if you have more interest in this subject.
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  1204. Yes, most UK houses have very poor thermal insulation. This form of foundation would be a great improvement.
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  1205. While I agree that you cannot trust Lavrov, if the Ukrainians say that they will agree to someothing one day, and then change their position, it might indicate that some outside influence is occuring. Lavrov doesn't know that it is, and I hope that it is not. It's almost certainly another Lavrov lie, but if not, Ukraine is a free country. It should make its mind up itself.
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  1206. It is entirely legitimate. A person’s vaccine status is not a protected characteristic, so it is entirely legal to discriminate against people on the basis of it, and against people who will not reveal it.
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  1207. It's not just about Donbass. It's about rebuilding the Soviet Union. If Putin subjugates Ukraine, and takes control of its natural resources (including its vast tracts of rich agricultural land), other previous Soviet states might see some value in allying with Russia. It is not about protecting Russia from NATO. A) NATO is a defensive alliance B) lots of NATO members already border Russia.
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  1208.  @keithmorgan3295  Russians are not monolithic either. There are many different views of the war in Russia, and we need this to be the case if Putin is to get replaced.
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  1209.  @sirbillthegreat8871  Only if it continues for a long-time. A short burst of deflation might be a good thing.
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  1210. The new legislation won't prevent you evicting a tenant if you want to sell the property, but perhaps it should. I think the concept of a private landlord is not a good one, as it leads to a situation where the tenant has very little security. With a private landlord, they are going to have to move sooner or later. Contrast this with the situation if we only allowed incorporated entites to rent residential homes; tenants could be sure that they could stay in the property as such incorporated entities are in the business of being landlords from day 1 until they cease trading.
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  1211. I think we have to differentiate between someone leaving a negative comment and someone just having a different opinion. But some opinions are very negative and suggest that the person isn't happy and has had some very bad experiences in their life.
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  1212. Well, you shouldn't. There was no evidence presented in the video, just some statement by Russia that tell the propaganda they want to be told. Where is the Russian drone footage showing Ukrainian forces shooting from the theatre? Where is the CCTV footage from inside the theatre showing Ukrainian forces inside? Where is the footage taken from people's phones of Ukrainian forces? Without this evidence, there is just propaganda from Russia.
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  1213. Patrick is certainly showing us the truth about the Russians, how they lie and distort the statements of civilians for their own policitical ends.
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  1214.  @JoJo-dh4xg  Russia can't afford the war it is currently fighting with Ukraine.
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  1215. There would be little point bankrupting the owner of the car; it might only result in an extra £100 for each car owner; not enough to put someone through the hassle of bankruptcy.
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  1216. Don't you mean Steppe?
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  1217. I don't think it would create any efficiency gains. It's cheaper to only have to vary the field in one set of windings. It might give some extra fine control at very lower speed, but I doubt it.
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  1218. Why does the audio cut out when you say what Zelenskky went to do the American present publically? What did you say?
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  1219. The Pound isn't good enough for Reform.
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  1220. I think Starmer is just rying to offer a crumb of comfort to Zelenskyy, but it can only be a crumb, as the US has the power to make a real difference. Europe might not be able to give enough to really help Ukraine, but it will try, and it is very resourceful.
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  1221. Tim, you've been brainwashed.
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  1222. No, we don't believe Patrick's propaganda.
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  1223. This is an aspect of the accident that Petter didn't give an opinion on, but I can understand the airline's difficultly in dismissing a captain that kept scrapping through their mandated checks. Normal HR procedures would require an employee to be given informal, and then formal warnings that their performance was not acceptable, before they could be dismissed. It's difficult to prove that the captain's performance is not adequate if they ultimately pass their checks! However, to protect the fare-paying passengers I think that ALL airlines and pilots need to accept that HR for pilots has to be a bit different. (Petter's video on Atlas Air Flight 3591 and the PRIA Act in the USA indicates that the law makers in the USA agree with this view). I think that it must become possible for an airline to dismiss a pilot if they keep slipping back into their old habits. As employees, pilots deserve to be told when their lack of improvement is going to result in them being dismissed, so warnings would still have to be given, but they could be given as a result of slipping back to often, even if they are able to pass a check at a point in time.
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  1224. Having a signature on you emails would seem to offer some protection. If the scammers want to fake an email to show you accepted a quote or agreed to them doing work, they can’t do so unless they know what your signature says. You need to protect this information until the scammer provides the court with a fake email, at which point you can provide evidence that shows it is a forgery and ask for the case to be dismissed and the claimant to be referred to the prosecuting authorities.
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  1225. Я также пишу через переводчика, потому что хочу сказать вам, что вы ошибаетесь в некоторых вещах. Зеленский не наркоман. Это видно по тому, как он себя ведет. Он порядочный человек. Он не контролируется США. Он не марионетка. Он и большинство украинцев хотят, чтобы Украина была больше связана с Россией. Украинцы не Россия. Они были порабощены Россией и вынуждены говорить по-русски. Они теперь хотят быть более европейскими и говорить по-украински. Это их выбор. Это не решение, в котором принимают участие Россия, США или ЕС. Это правда на большей части Украины, но не на Донбассе. В Донбассе около 50% населения хотят оставаться тесно связанными с Россией, а 50% - нет. Ни России, ни Зеленскому не удалось решить эту проблему. Это трудно. Никто не должен покидать свой дом или говорить на чем-то другом, кроме своего родного языка. Они также не должны подвергаться бомбардировке своего дома сепаратистами или собственной армией. Война должна прекратиться, российская армия должна вернуться в Россию, и должен быть найден способ, позволяющий всем украинцам жить в мире. Молодцы, что воспользовались переводчиком. (Translation: I am also writing through a translator, because I want to tell you that you are wrong about certain things. Zelensky is not a drug addict. You can see this from the way he behaves. He is a decent man. He is not controlled by the USA. He is no puppet. He and most Ukrainians want Ukraine to be more aligned with Russia. Ukrainians are not Russia. They were subjugated by Russia and forced to speak Russian. They now want to be more European and to speak Ukrainian. This is their choice. It is not a decision Russia, the USA or EU has any part in. This is the truth in most of Ukraine, but not in Donbass. In Donbass about 50% of the population want to remain closely linked to Russia, but 50% do not. Neither Russia nor Zelensky have managed to solve this problem. It is difficult. No-one should have to leave their home, or speak anything other than their mother language. Neither should they have their home bombed by seperatists or by their own army. The war must stop, the Russian army must go back to Russia, and a way to allow all Ukrainians to live in peace must be found. Well done for using the translator. )
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  1226. Save first, spend second. Don't spend anything until you have saved something. Save a pound a week if that's all you can afford. After a year you will have more than £50.
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  1227. Pity them.
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  1228. It's a personal choice for each citizen whether they wish to die to defend their country. The Netherland's capitulation didn't save many Dutch jews, did it? Giving up is rational, but not always the correct course.
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  1229. Out of politeness, the Highway Code does not mention the very special needs of Audi drivers.
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  1230. Trump's fealty to Putin will have a great impact on UK economics.
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  1231. You end up with a car that would have cost $50,000 from Germany costing $70,000, and Americans building the same car for $70,000 because they can now charge $70,000 for it.
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  1232. @ Who charges the customer.
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  1233. Praise to the Ukrainian forces for using a week's worth of ammunition in 20 hours! We should send them more than they can possibly use!
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  1234. That's why owner-built homes are often built to much better energy standards and much better quality. Builders need a return on investment over the 6 months it takes to build the home, owner's only need the return on investment over their lifetime, and even then they might not be bothered about the rate of return as they have had a super-comfortable home to live in.
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  1235. Battery storage. Coal-fired power stations also have to store their fuel to cope with intermittent deliveries. Have a look at the Redflow battery to get an idea of one clean, cheap battery technology that is available. There are some good videos on YouTube about this.
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  1236. Thanks for that information.
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  1237. In Denmark, their MOTs last for 3 years, but they are a much richer country than the UK so cars are better maintained.
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  1238.  @EngineeringwithRosie  Lower to the ground will definitely help, but the rotor diameter tends to be lower, so the force at the tips is lower. VAWT tip speeds never reach the supersonic!
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  1239. Unfortunately it takes a long time to get out of prison for murder, and just a few years to vote a government out of office. It's perhaps not surprising that those with murderous intent decide the wield the knife in the ballot box and not elsewhere. The Irish tried killing each other to make political changes, and yet it was diplomacy and discussion that worked on the island.
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  1240. Farmer vs. Agricultural Land Owner
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  1241. No, if the law allows you to be stopped, it also allows the person stopping you a reasonable amount of time to deal with the reason for the stop. What is reasonable is open to debate.
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  1242. If the Russians didn't want weapons smuggled in, they could search the convoys. Simple solution to Russian paranoia.
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  1243. No, they commit the act of tresspass just by entering property that they have not right to access, however, not all tresspass is a criminal matter. You would not be able to call the police to have them evict them just for tresspassing from your garden. You have to ask them to leave, and if they don't leave after a moment or two to consider their situation, you can use reasonable force to remove them. A gentle push in the direction of public road making sure that you don't catch them unaware and push them over should be fine. If they become violent, you can call the police then. Your sign can be very specific, e.g. "No agent of the BBC or TV Licensing has an implied right of access onto this property." - this means that your postman and window cleaner still have an implied right of access.
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  1244. I disagree. I think we have the law about right in the UK
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  1245. And also how we generate power. The cycloidal propeller would also function as a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. The Vertical Power A32 is just such a machine.
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  1246. The economic principles are sound, but Richard, like most YouTubers finds it difficult to be impartial. His views are biases, just like mine and yours are.
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  1247. They are not "Far Right". This is part of Putin's narrative to justify seizing the Donbass for its gas reserves. The origin of the Azov battalion was rooted in the far right, but it has changed so that it is no longer a far right militia. Russia will not accept this though. The Azov battalion in Azovstal are part of the Ukrainian National Guard and adhere to all the requirements of Ukrainian National Guard units about political affiliations and fight as the Ukrainian government instructs them to fight. They should all be treated as Prisoners of War by Russia.
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  1248. I think your decision to go with two heat pumps, one for heating your home, and one for heating water, is a very sensible. Using one system for both functions involves quite a bit of compromise, which ends up costing a more in energy. With two system, each can be tuned very precisiely for efficiency. I hope you enjoy your home.
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  1249. The thousands dead or captured are blood on the hands of Russia. Ukraine, and the world, will never forget the brave defenders of Mariupol.
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  1250. Actually Aiden was in Ukraine since 2018. He speaks Ukrainian, has a Ukrainian fiancée and dual citizenship of Ukraine and the UK. He should be treated as any other prisoner of war, by the Russia and the Chechens. He is not a 'foreign' mercenary, but a paid solider in the Ukrainian marines. If he is murdered because he used to live in the UK, then Putin has shown us again of the depth that Russia will sink to.
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  1251. This is part of the role of the civil service; to educate the elected politicans on what the numbers mean, and how their decisions will come out in the numbers and make them look like amateurs or sages, depending on what they decide to do.
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  1252. If you did leave, you would want to come back here very quickly. You have no idea how lucky we are in the UK.
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  1253. Well done Sasha! You both did very well. Great video.
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  1254.  @johnl.7754  Unless all the nations can agree on regulations.
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  1255. Part of the issue here is that the only leverage other countries have on the countries that are not making an effort to reduce flaring is not to buy the product, and if you don't buy the product, you can't have a say in how it is produced.
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  1256. The other insurers don't get all their money back. Effectively the £5m is shared between the insurnance companies, who then have to cover themselves anything that isn't covered by their share of the £5m.
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  1257. They are being converted to Electric Arc. The UK Government should be looking accelerate this in exchange for a stake in the company.
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  1258.  @craigburton4447  While I agree that generally, people don't make up their mental health issues, access to the Internet does allow people to review their symptoms and potentially self-diagnose the illness they have, but this is different from a clinical diagnosis. Someone may have many traits of autism, but still be capable of functioning at a very high level in the workplace - the risk is that by self-diagnosing they give themselves permission to fail or to take it easy. This is something that you hear from my parent's generation - that their generation could not take it easy. They had to go to work, otherwise they or their siblings didn't eat! So despite whatever mental health problems they had, they went to work and earned a living. They quite reasonably ask, if they could do it, why can't the current generation? This should drive the need for a proper clinical diagnosis of the problems people are having with their mental health, and a proper review of the support that they need to work AND live and fulfilling life. We have to do better than previous generations - just making it as bad as it was in the 'old days' is not a solution.
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  1259. This will come down to whether the police have lawful authority, and given that one of their roles is to prevent breaches of the peace, it is very likely that they have lawful authority.
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  1260. If you have taken a decision to do something you know is wrong and are caught out, the only defence likely to have any success is to reflect on why you made the decision; by being honest that it was misconduct, showing that you know how you made the bad decision (what factors you were influenced by), have learned how to handle these factors better, and are sincere about never doing it again, you may survive. This is an example of a situation where one event might be forgiven, but two events starts to look like a pattern...
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  1261.  @grahamlees4394  Your mistake was in contacting the police or the council.
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  1262. American Troops could find a ready employer in the armies of Europe, who need trained personnel. They already know the equipment and the tactics, and not having to fight Denmark in Greenland, Hamas in Gaza or Panama will avoid making them look like Trumps's bully boys. It would be a way for the European countries to increase their defence spending and close their recruitment gaps very quickly.
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  1263. That's interesting. It is difficult to see how merely collecting arms would be treason. If his aim was to keep those arms for himself, he may have broken the criminal code, or if he was intending on passing those arms to the invaders, then he has committed tresaon, but if he intended using them to defend Ukraine or to pass them to others who were doing so, then he is not a traitor.
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  1264. It seems odd that Parliament think that registration will provide a clear trace of ownership, when the registration scheme for cars, lorries, buses etc. only records the registered keeper. To my mind, the registration scheme for cars, lorries and busses needed extending so that beneficial ownership must also be registered. Then it will be possible to see which Maybach's are owned by Russian Oligarchs.
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  1265. Russia agreed it was Ukrainian in 1990. Only thing that has changed is Putin's mental health.
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  1266.  @westy25uk  Please don't just think that they are unlucky. The system is broken, and only ordinary people demanding that it is fixed will get it fixed. So kick up a fuss. Write to you MP and the chairman of your bank. (Buy shares in your bank as well - if they are going to make a profit from you, you should get some of that back via dividends.)
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  1267. Has he seen how much of Florida will be under water with a 4 degree rise in average global temperatures?
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  1268. Said the person who knows nothing about the prisons system. If you did know anything about it, you would have made a more insightful comment.
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  1269. Нет
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  1270.  @Froggability  While it's true that the marine industry has solved all the issues, but the solutions are all very expensive compared to those that can be deployed inland.
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  1271.  @paulmorgan62  Well, they retreated because they couldn't move forward.
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  1272. Ultimately the question of who goes to prison and who suffers a different form of punishment is one for the government of the day. The Tories had their theories, Labour have theirs. They were elected to implement their theories, and anyone rioting against their implementation is as guilty of trying to subvert the election as Donald Trump was in the USA.
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  1273. Great theory, but there is plenty of fuel for a fire in a car besides the petrol and diesel.
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  1274.  @JohnSmith-uf8qi  All of Eastern Europe for sure. In his eyes, any European country that is north, south or east of Austria should be a Russian satellite state and answer to Moscow.
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  1275. If you want Glory, you have to do glorious things. Invading a free country, and killing and starving civilians is not glorious. Russia will not have the glory you seek while Putin is in power.
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  1276. So not someone who needs to go to jail?
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  1277. I don't know for sure, but I tend to agree that the reason that is given on Wikipedia, which is that it is aimed at situations where the defendant refuses to reveal a defence they have at the time they were questioned in order to blind-side the prosecution. I don't think it can be for the reason you suggest becase any alibi or story would tested in court and the witnesses truthfulness tested if the prosecution had a concern about it. That option would always be open to the prosecution, even if the defendant had originally mentioned their defence/alibi/story when questioned.
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  1278.  @zarakichigo  That's a scary thought. DT has been very clear on his aims for a long time. Most people dismiss them as pie-in-the-sky, but your comment offers a real possibility that DT might be aiming for regime change in Canada as well as Ukraine.
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  1279. It happened in Belgium.
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  1280.  @dannychong7842  Russia should get out of Ukraine before it starts losing territory to the Ukrainians.
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  1281. If you want glory for Mother Russia, you need to pray that Tsar Putin knows how to make glory out of dead Russian soldiers.
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  1282. He's probably been smoking too much canabis. It's well know for making you paranoid.
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  1283. The easiest way to bruse a cop's ego is to suggest that they are not an ordinary person, and that you are not going to talk to them as you would an ordinary person. A polite question deserves a polite answer, even if the answer does not answer the question.
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  1284. In theory, yes, but in practice you would have to show you were an adherent of an organised religion, that the historic customs and practises of the religion required the dodgy knife, and that you were travelling to and from a religious event. I think Satan worshipers might be able to make a case for needing a long enough knife to sacrifice a goat, but any religious event would only need one to have such a knife present - this would perhaps be carried by the high priest. As you have spotted, you don’t need a good reason in law to carry a dodgy knife if you have a valid religious reason!
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  1285. Perhaps Russia can only be governed by a dictator, but even a dictator can govern in ways that improve his people's quality of life. The challenge for the West is how to engage with dictators. Making the dictator rich, like we did with Putin, merely serves to make them more distant from the people they rule.
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  1286. Hardly; the requirements aren't new, and Andy doesn't have the stats from previous years to backup any claim that MORE cars are being refused tests. And there is no evidence that the cars are being refused tests for invalid reasons - there are enough testers commenting on this video for all motorists to appreciate that there are plenty of valid reasons to refuse a test.
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  1287. I'm not sure this is such a good idea, as the pet probably doesn't know who has been paying for their food and vets bills. The pet could make a very bad decision.
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  1288. There is a need for a lockdown. It is the only scientifically proven response to a pandemic where a new pathogen is transmitted by social contact.
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  1289. It may not be the only thing ruining the climate, but using this as an argument not to stop polluting the atmosphere is daft.
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  1290. It's conceivable that there are a few cases when regulations are no longer required. e.g. the regulation requiring a man to walk carrying a red flag in front of a self-propelled vehicle, but in these cases, removing these regulations does neither good nor harm. Rescinding regulations also creates a changing landscape for businesses, and that is not good. They have to employ consultants and lawyers, change processes and systems, etc. and all because the government doesn't want to cost of enforcement. The cost of enforcement should have been factored into the passing of the laws that established the regulation in the first place, and the basis for judging the costs should be long-term sustainability. If we can only afford to enforce the regulation for one year, is it really worthwhile?
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  1291. This seems to be both necessary and achievable. Conscription might be tolerable to the young if it came with guarantees about treatment and training in a trade of your choice.
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  1292. That or having communications to the Ukraine military command, who are certainly receiving satellite imagery from the USA and other nations.
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  1293.  @tracy419  I think there is a clear risk that we might create something that is capable of wanting to destroy us. My feeling is that we have to build in safeguards to try to avoid this and to shutdown the system if necessary - an 'Off' switch, if you will.
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  1294.  @justwords3882  And yet the science says it works. Who are you going to beleive? Scientists or a randomly generated user name on the internet?
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  1295. Yes, if she was in such fear, pushing the cyclist away would have been a defence had it been done propoprtionately.
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  1296. In UK law, a "Traffic Officer" is one of the individuals in 4x4s who close off 2 lanes of the motorway when there is debris on the carriageway. It used to be police office slang to refers to a "Traffic Officer" as meaning a policeman who was assigned to the traffic division, but with the introduction of the "Traffice Officers" and the recognition of this role in the law, I am sure that the police will now be reserving the moniker of "Traffic Officer" to those legally entitled to call themsleves such, in order to avoid confusion.
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  1297. Yes. There are lessons for all that government intervention can be strategically useful.
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  1298. Furnishing the identify of the driver is not self-incriminating, even if you were the driver. There still has to be evidence that an offence was committed to prosecute you for that offence.
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  1299. If you think the government isn't in charge, you are deluded. That is what Brexit was all about, to put the government back in charge. Perhaps it is the European's who are calling the shots still?
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  1300. He can't afford it, just like America can't afford to buy Greenland.
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  1301. The Donbas is important to Ukraine because of the gas gas reserves that lie beneath it and Mariupol is importnat for the Azovstal steel works and the port, but Ukraine could survive and prosper if Donbas (and Crimea) was seeded to Russia. It would be a hard decision for President Zelensky to make, but he might do so if he felt it was the only way to create a lasting peace with Russia. If the Ukrainians decide that a lasting peace with Russia is never going to be a reality, they will retake Mariupol. It might take a year, ten years or a century, but they will retake it while they remain at war with Russia. The Russia economy will be crippled if they can't either take over the whole of Ukraine or agree a lasting peace with it.
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  1302. It depends on what you mean by "resource". Richard's point is that we have precious little human resource. Using it for defence will divert it from the economic activity that might pay for the increased defence spending.
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  1303.  @lukebignell7846  Can’t expect migrants to fight for the UK, although citizenship might be a reward for doing so.
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  1304.  @Cx10110100  Путин - глюк. (Putin is the glitch)
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  1305. Very interest comments. Can you explain any more about how the energy in the tip vortices was harvested as thrust for the turbine?
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  1306.  @GarretKrampe  Thank you.
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  1307. Everyone is allowed an opinion (but not all opinions are equally valid).
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  1308.  @vanpallandt5799  You will appreciate that for the police to acknowledge that you have produced 'your' driving licence they need to be certain about who you are, and they need to be able to see the details on the driving licence; just producing a licence isn't quite sufficient.
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  1309. Unfortunately, the Russians will have retreated with any armour was fully working.
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  1310. Most of the comments are about the double standards that seem to exist. As BBB says, we don’t know the details of this particular case, so we can’t know if this civil matter became a criminal matter. I would urge anyone who has been told by the police that their case is only a civil matter to take professional legal advice to see if this is correct. Too often the police seem to overlook the criminal aspects of a case when it suits them to do so, e.g. they know the case will be difficult.
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  1311.  @mda5003  Armin is correct, you don't go the wrong way around the middle one because the middle one isn't a roundabout, it's a bit of green space surrounded by 5 mini-roundabouts.
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  1312. Dyson is playing the system AND trying to rig it.
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  1313. They are almost certainly too heavy (weight vs. energy density) for mobile applications.
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  1314. Even if we were certain that Ukraine would lose we would have still done as much. You cannot stand by and let a despot like Putin think that starting a war is acceptable.
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  1315. If you read the science you would realise that 1.5C is a calamity. Don’t be fooled by the small percentage rise that this represents - the climate is not a linear system. There are factors that work to stabilise the climate but also some that only need a small nudge to make a massive difference. Do you really want to take the chance of global catastrophe when the fix is easy to implement? No one is being crippled by the expense of the change. My family’s energy bill is about a quarter of what we spend on food.
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  1316. It ceratinly hints at the range of knowledge that pilots need to arrive in the cockpit with to begin learning what is being taught and practiced.
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  1317. I can't believe one person voted for him. Even his wife wouldn't vote for him.
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  1318. You mean uncontrolled gun ownership (gun ownership is allowed in the UK, but it's controlled). Uncontrolled gun ownership is a really bad idea, as you can see in America when there is ample evidence that it is not safe to allow members of the general public own a gun. Some control is necessary, and it's not defending criminals, but protecting everyone in society.
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  1319. This is exactly what Daniel is suggesting, and unfortunately I have experience of the financial services industry that suggests that they can be both incompetent and negligent. They do need the book to be thrown at them, because ONLY extensive fines will cause them to change their behavoir.
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  1320. And that is exactly the reaction the Ukrainians wanted! Hopefully Putin will sack the General in charge of the air defence of Russia, and put someone more inept in charge!
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  1321. Zelenskyy didn't investigate Hunter Biden, which caused Trump's no end of problems, including getting him impeached.
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  1322. I think there is plenty of evidence that the police do fish for evidence that might exist. They know that without evidence, prosecution is too hard, so they fish for it. Over time, they get very good at fishing for it, and reeling in people who happily give them the evidence they need. They also know quite quickly when they are not going to find any evidence, so move onto the next option or "customer".
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  1323.  @billB101  This Labour government seems to be quite poor at communicating and engaging the public. The Tories were worse, because they were autocrats, but Labour appear to be working in the same way.
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  1324.  @billB101  No. I accept that, but I do wish they would do more to communicate, and try to engage with people that have the sorts of skills Richard has. People are inclined to assume the worst if there doesn't appear to be aything happening.
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  1325. @ Perhaps none, but the government is not doing a good job of telling us who is advising them.
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  1326. I don't care. I want Russia to understand that they are warmongers and this will not be tolerated.
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  1327. The whole process for integrating fighters who don't speak your language into your army at very short notice is a very interesting problem. It would seem sensible to collect small groups of volunteers who all speak one language, and team them up with a couple of Ukranians, perhaps an NCO and one infantry fighter, and then given them some training, both in Ukranian and in Ukraine's tactics/signals etc. I'm not sure having non-native speakers on the front-line is a good idea though. There seems to be just too much risk of mis-communication. Perhaps the foreign volunteers should be limited to guarding prisoners of war, to release able-bodied Ukranians to fight on the front line.
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  1328. Logically, if you are going to have a generator to run the heat pump, you would benefit from having a heat exchanger between the generator's cooling system and the home heating system to collect all the waste heat. The result should be a smaller generator is needed, as the heat pump will only be working half as hard. I know that it's a bit more complicated than that as you have to be able to provide the high current needed at startup for the compressor, but this is a relatively easy job for the battery bank+inverter that is likely to be present in a home with a new heat pump, along with solar panels.
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  1329. The self-isolation rules could amount to false imprisonment, if there was no lawful authority to force someone to remain at home, but as there was legislation passed in parliament to grant this authority, I can't see that there is much that could be argued on this.
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  1330. Russia should pay raparations that include the cost of de-mining the country.
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  1331. When the captain called "My aircraft" and didn't get a response from the First Officer, this should have prompted him to hit the red button. I'm suprised that this experienced captain did not do this.
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  1332. The Russian army has paid a heavy price for being so useless.
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  1333. Finally, a funny comment!
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  1334. When will Russia accept that they are wrong about the Azov Battalion?
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  1335. I think many will agree with you, and even Donald Trump, that Europe needs to spend more on defence. In the UK, our armed forces have been pared back and reduced to the point where they would struggle to be a defensive force in the face of any real aggression. But this will take time, Trump, if he were a good an wise president would have caused Europe to make these changes, but then not pulled troops out until Europe had clearly increased their spending and military capabilities. As it is, we don't really know what he will do, but he is staying he won't support Europe militarily. What will he do if Ukraine accepts his minerals deal? Will he support Ukraine, or will he just run away knowing that he has already made the same deal with Putin?
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  1336. I thought Moldova might be next on Putin's list, but Moldova doesn't have the natural resources that Ukraine has. I think Putin will take over the Transnistria region (east of the Dniester River) for sure, but will not bother will Moldova. Ukraine will wage a insurgent war against the Russian army for many years, and so the Russian Army will not have the capacity to fight in Moldova, but might offer so much financial support that Moldovans might accept becoming a puppet state.
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  1337. BBB is a practicing barrister and I have found his videos to be very useful, and while they contain legal discussion, they do not purport to be legal advice. Neither do the comments that are made. Legal advice is something that you should pay for, so that you have some recourse if it turns out to be bad.
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  1338. Ukraine won this war on 24th February 2022 when Russia lauched its illegal invasion.
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  1339. You mean Putin is adopting a Ukrainian lie as his own?
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  1340. You have to actually be rich! Acting rich when you can't afford to pay the wages of the people who will do work for you is going to end in tears.
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  1341.  @Gnosticware  By baiting Trump, you mean that he called Trump out for lying. The alternative would seem to be ignore the lies, but ignoring them does more harm. Zelenskyy was right to call Trump out on his lies, but cannot expect Trump to thank or respect him for this. Putin doesn't call out Trump on his lies, because (at present) those lies don't affect him. If Trump ever shifts his position, Putin will call him out, and the all the Russia bots will do so - I predict a storm of responses from Russia if Trump takes against them! But if Zelenskyy accepts a minerals deal, Trump will switch sides in an instant (actually I suspect Trump has already made the same deal with Putin, so that Trump wins regardless of how the war in Ukraine is resolved).
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  1342. Vertogen have been working on this for a number of years.
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  1343. I do feel slightly sorry for any artist whose work will be hung on the walls in future...
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  1344. Trump's stupidity means that he cannot conceive of how quickly this climate emergency will affect the rich. He is in denial.
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  1345. The daft thing is that Ukraine WILL repay the USA for the aid they received. There was never any suggestion that they would not do so. The first person to raise the propspect of them not doing so, and asking the, to agree when they would make a repayment was Donald Trump! And, of course, he only did this because he thinks it makes him look good if he signs the deal during his term of office.
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  1346. When your friend asks for rockets, you don't ask "What for?" you ask "How many do you want?"
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  1347. Putin doesn't want NATO to fight, he wants to keep Ukraine without any military aid. He is looking to close down any corridors by which weapons can reach Ukraine, but he knows he can't fire on NATO planes if they are outside of Ukraine. The one thing that would bring NATO into the war is to allow any nuclear power plant, including Chernobyl to start leaking radiation. He can use chemical weapons and thermobaric weapons with impunity. NATO will not defend Ukraine, but it will defend Europe for nuclear pollution.
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  1348.  @ДэнКошман  HAWTs and VAWTs place a great deal of cyclical stress on the components of the machines, so both are subject to failure due to fatigue. I don't think you can say that only people who don't know much about aerodynamics are engaged in VAWT research; I tend to agree than many people tend to ignore the fundamental aerodynamic issue with VAWTs - that the blades experience a variable local airflow as they rotate, but there are aerodynamicists working on variable pitch VAWTs specifically to reduce the effect of this variable airflow. Whether the complexity of the variable pitch mechanism provides a useful degree of additional energy extraction is still to be seen, but these are aerodynamic experts who are working with VAWTs.
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  1349. Always two there are.
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  1350. The UK Human Rights Act contains no such right, but I do agree that drawing an adverse reference from some information that you initially withheld but then reveal in court does mean that you have no right not to incriminate yourself. Your defence to the crime you are being prosecuted for could be that you were in another place comitting a different, lesser, crime. If you cannot reveal this information without the likelihood of being prosecuted for the lesser offence, you cannot defend yourself against the more serious charge without incriminating yourself on the lesser charge. You have the choice as to whether to use the defence that you have available, knowing that it is likely to lead to a prosecution, or to remain silent.
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  1351.  @limmywriter2334  Yes, they can, but the legal advice should have included this fact.
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  1352. That could work, e.g. installing them in a chimney, but you have to be careful you don't impede the primary function of the chimney which is to allow the poisonous combustion products to be dumped into the fresh air.
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  1353. There will be an Award, and it will take the form of a Golden model of Patrick sheltering behind a Hammer and Sickle, and we will laugh at anyone who wins it.
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  1354. So basically the Russians are reducing their aspirations because their military is not capable.
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  1355. The decision makers aren't ordinary people. It is the excutive teams at companies that innovate that are driving the additional capacity demands. If the want the power, let them pay the true cost of generating and distributing it.
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  1356.  @Abby-yc7tt  This is against the Geneva Convention, so it can't be done. Using trained professionals is the only way to do it, and hence why Ukraine needs help as the Russians have left so much behind them.
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  1357. You get what you vote for. The USA should remember that in November when it is time to elect a new President.
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  1358.  @duncanmckechnie4468  Well said.
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  1359.  @Java-nese  I hope Putin gone.
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  1360.  @Tismesue  Yes, the war is about land and the gas under it.
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  1361.  @unwantedvoid1678  One man's demagogic nonsense is another man's common sense.
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  1362. The disappointing thing is that we have the technology to do everything we need to do, but government aren't driving us to change our habits.
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  1363. @Level 70 A single use, disposable weapon costing $40,000 that can destroy a $1,000,000 Russian tank is more than useful.
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  1364. You are correct that the bank is badly organised. The Bank should have a team that oversees the effectiveness of their processes and of the customer experience. This team would be very interested to hear how long it took BBB to try to answer their bank's routine questions. If a bank is going to waste so much time dealing with routine stuff, how on earth will they cope with difficult stuff?
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  1365. Chemical weapons might work well, but they won't kill any NATO troops. There are no NATO troops in Ukraine.
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  1366.  @george11419  I think there is something to be said for teaching children in stages that are adjusted to their ability to cope what they are taught. The problem is that the adults are worried. I'm not worried that oil will run out, it won't (unless we can carry on burning most it), but I am worried about climate change and what work will look like when machines can learn more efficiently than a human. I think we have to accept that adult insecurities are feeding the insecurities of our children and that we need to change our societies to make everyone feel safer.
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  1367.  @SG-ur8gn  So Russia gave it to Ukraine and stole it back because they don't understand the word "давать"?
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  1368. There has to be some standard in parliamentary language, if only so that the transcribers aren't exposed to the worst of it. I do agree with your comment though - I was surprised that the meeting wasn't upset with what Martin was saying. It really is shocking how little the Conservative government has done to protect vulnerable people.
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  1369. The current Ukrainian government has only been in power for three years. God protect the Russian people from its despotic leader.
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  1370. I like the title of the video.
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  1371. Russia felt threatened by a neighbour that did not want to be controlled by them in the way they control Belarus. Russia felt threatened before any weapons were sent.
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  1372. Zelensky has suggested that he will ask the Ukrainian people to vote on whether to surrender. Some might see this as weak, some might see it as democratic. My view is that a great leader would take the decision in consultation with his government and the political opposition, and then let his citizens decide whether he did the right thing at the ballot box (if they survive!). But a referendum could work very well if Russia agrees to a truce while a referendum is conducted. It would allow Ukraine to regroup, more supplies to be sent to them, and for sanctions to bite harder.
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  1373.  @candysmith485  Because NATO doesn't help people based on their bravery. It is a Treaty organisation, so can only do what the treaty allows it to do.
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  1374. Sand doesn't go through a phase change so it can't absorb as much heat. This means that the specific heat capacity (the measure of how much heat a material can store) of the blocks is about twice as high as sand.
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  1375. Richard's point is that it is not really about the money. It's about the people. Do we have enough people who will work in the military, especially if the risk of conflict has increased due to Russian aggression?
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  1376. A car being dirty inside should not automatically mean that it can't be tested. Most workshops will have disposable seat covers and gloves for the testers, but if the seats are sopping wet with urine or have faeces on them because the owner is incontinent (as has been mentioned in a previous comment), then I don't think we can reasonably expect any tester to test the car. A call to the owner to agree a charge to clean the car would not be inappropriate if the workshop has someone that is prepared to clean it.
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  1377.  @schrodingerscat1863  I'm not saying that a refusal isn't warranted, just that testing stations can offer a cleaning service as an extra chargable item if the customer is prepared to pay a fair price for it.
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  1378.  @j.j.1064  A counter-claim would have made the trip to court more interesting.
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  1379. Sorry, but you have been mislead by Patrick and others who are pushing Russian propaganda. Russia will not emerge victorious, and if India supports Russia when Russia is commiting war crimes, India deserves to be sanctioned to the same extent as Russia.
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  1380. Great analysis, but Russia will always be able to supply their troops in Ukraine with fuel; it's just a question as to how expensive the Ukrainians can make it to do so. It would be great if Ukraine could fly missions further into Russia to hit the fuel supply lines at random points.
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  1381. We need to be very careful that the chaos caused by Trump doesn't allow Putin to attempt to rejoin the fold. Even if Putin offers to help agains Trump, we must turn down his offer. He needs to know that his bridges are burnt and that no-one is going to help rebuild them.
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  1382. You can't do so easily. Finding where there is a leak is difficult - you have to start at the damp patch you can find and dig along the pipe until you find the leak, whch might be at the opposite side of the slab! Pressure testing and designing so that there are no connections within the slab is about all you can do to avoid leaks, but the PEX pipes might be worn through after 100 years or so, so I would install the underfloor heating pipes in a floating screed over the slab, and drop the hot and cold water from the upper storey.
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  1383.  @OneAndOnlyMe  I think this is Richard's fundamental point - there is value to some people in the activity of the city, but there is part of this activity that is not valuable to society. I think he is implicitly asking the question "Should we allow this activity to continue, or should we regulate so that it does not?" To my mind, any discussion has to engage the people who 'require' the services - if society doesn't persuade them that they should not 'require' these services, if they cannot buy them in London, they will buy them in New York, or Frankfurt or Tokyo.
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  1384. Just having part of your body in contact with someone else's body is not a sexual assault, but it makes the likelihood of being accused of inappropriate behaviour more likley for both parties, which isn't fair.
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  1385. I would agree that we don't know enough to determine whether a fraud was perpertrated or not. And I suspect that Daniel does not know enough to determine this either, BUT the fact remains that the existing safeguards are flimsy, at best. There really should be a right of appeal, where the evidence can be reviewed by someone other than the bank concerned. There should also be a requirement for disclosure of evidence, as I would pretty sure that this person's bank had evidence that would have shown that at least until the event in question, all prior use of the bank account had been legitimate. Someone who is a sole trader is taking a very big risk if they perpetrate a fraud when they have been operating a business that has been paying their mortgage for the last n years.
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  1386.  @innamoratopazzo25  You can send your dollars to me, I will exchange them for good quality toilet paper.
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  1387. Russia cannot 'win' this war, so there is no point being please that Mariupol has fallen.
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  1388. Yet, Musk, Trump and others in the USA believe their wealth with protect them. We have to ensure that they learn that it will not.
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  1389.  @RichO1701e  No, you commit an offence if you do not stop when ordered to do so by a policeman in uniform. You do not have a "right" to drive to a place that you chose to be stopped - you could be drunk as a skunk and kill someone. You have the right to choose to carry on driving, but this there is no defence of feeling unsafe or being scared of a police office.
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  1390. Er, there were mostly Ukrainians living in Mariupol. Hopefull now the Russian army will not butcher them.
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  1391. There is always more than can be seen on the video. But without knowing all the facts, only a very limited analysis is possible.
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  1392. and a sausage factory in Tanganyika!
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  1393. Er, no it won't.
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  1394. An extra 1.2% on NI shouldn't break the bank, but the fact it might be doing so just goes to show that the cost of living crisis is really stretching manager's abilities.
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  1395. In a perfect world, his solicitor would have spotted the potential for his good reason to be ruled out by the judge and cautioned about the risk of using that defence - perhaps they did and the client went ahead with it anyway?
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  1396. Even positive feedback given at the wrong time (when someone cannot use it) can be a turn off. Ideally, you would give people constructive critisim exactly at the time when they need it.
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  1397. While I agree that we can afford the welfare state now, I wondered about the effect of inflation, because the tax revenues don't rise as quickly as inflation pushes prices up. So as prices increase, tax rates have to increase to pay for higher wages and the goods and services used in the welfare state. If the tax rates were ever to reach 100% of GDP, then we have reached the point where we can't afford the welfare state. But, the answer is not, as Steve Baker wants to do, to start to dismantle the welfare state, but to limit borrowing and clamp down on inflation so that the welfare state remains infinitely affordable.
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  1398. So clearly, we have to increase our defence spending in ways that protect us from the obvious threats we face - cyber attacks on industry and infrastructure, and on physical attacks that can be conducted at long-range, such as attacks on undersea cables. But we also have to consider whether we want to contribute to the physical defence of Europe or are we going to turn our backs on Europe completely? I voted to remain in the EU, but accept that the vote was narrowly won by those who wanted to leave the EU to reclaim our sovereignty. We can be a sovereign nation and still co-operate with our neighbours to put down mad dogs like Putin, but is this something we want to do? It seems to be a discussion for Parliament, but one that needs to happen very quickly as Putin is emboldened by the support he is receiving from the USA.
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  1399. Ukraine will seize Rostov-on-Don and hold it to ranson until reparations are paid.
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  1400. Vertogen are working on just such a system.
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  1401. ​ @jasip1000  Many people in the Donbas were armed with heavy artillery supplied by Russia. Anyone that knows what has been occurin in Donbas knows that there were civilians who died who should not have, targetted by one side or other. It is wrong that civilians were killed in Donbas, and it is wrong that civilians were killed in Russian's invasion of Ukraine.
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  1402. All the banking apps have a secondary pin.
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  1403. While CRM is enormously important, this incident isn't principally an issue of CRM. It is an issue with the Monitoring Pilot not effectively assessing that the Pilot Flying has become incapacitated. The speed at which this incapacitation happened clearly caught the Monitoring Pilot by surprise.
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  1404.  @johnspartan98  Vlodomir Zelensky is not a nazi.
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  1405.  @johnspartan98  Putin can't decide which neighboring countries of Russia can have a military and which cannot. He is not the elected President of Ukraine, Zelensky is. Putin is cleaning his neighbour's prorch by raising it to the ground! Zelenksy has only been in power for three years. The civil war in the Donbas has been raging for 8 years. It takes time to bring peace - Putin's excuse for invading was to bring peace, but you cannot bring peace through war. Putin should have used his influence in Donbas to get the fighting stopped.
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  1406.  @freddiecruz4131  The DPR and LPR shelled their fellow Ukrainians for 8 years as well. Putin is also crying like a puppy because of sanctions and "unfair" critisism.
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  1407.  @mattchew4161  I'm afraid that is Russian propaganda. The Ukrainian army, of whom the Azov Battalion is part, were not killing civillians. Nor were they preventing them from leaving Mariupol. It was the Russians who were preventing this.
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  1408.  @briantyler1562  It's difficult to know whether Russia has had boots on the ground in Donetsk and Luhansk. While they clearly did provide trainers for the miliatary hardware that Russia supplied to the seperatists, I've not previously heard of evidence that they had troop fighting. You are correct that in Donetsk and Luhansk about 50% of the population is pro-Russia and 50% is pro-Ukraine. This is really the source of the dispute. in that region. The Euromaiden protests were all about whether Ukraine should be more aligned with Europe or with Russia. In Donetsk and Luhansk, the views were much more evenly split than in the rest of Ukraine. So a civil war broke out, with Russia giving the seperatists heavy weapons to fight with the rest of Ukraine. The war has been bloody and as far as I can make out, both sides have killed far more civilians that you would expect. (The UN thinks civil casualties in DPR/LRP were abour 3,500 prior to Feb 2022). This suggest both sides have at times directly targeted civilians. The USA has played no part in this conflict, other than perhaps gving the Ukrainian army the training to use the weapons supplied by american firm, just like Russia was doing with the seperatists.
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  1409.  @a.m.armstrong8354  I would like to know more about how Ukraine was enforcing a "No Russian Language" rule. Apparently a law was passed in the Ukrainian parliament prompting a greater use of Ukrainian, but does it forbid the use of Russian and in what situations was Russian forbidden? I think the answer to these questions will help people understand the degree to which Ukraine was racist. Not allowing native speakers of a language to converse in that language at home or in a small business they run is to my mind racist. Requiring official forms be completed in Ukrainian, e.g. when paying tax, is not racist to my mind. Putin's view is that Ukraine and Russia is one country (he wrote an essay on this last year), and it is also Putin's view is that all Ukrainians should speak only Russian. This is racist.
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  1410. It's not a crime to hate somone or something, but it is a crime to discriminate or to threaten or incite violence because you hate certain things. You are free to hate in your own head.
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  1411. Very much so. The disclaimer (if you are thinking of Confirmation of Payee) asks people to consider whether the transaction is suspicious, but the banks will still let you later claim that you have been defrauded even if you have seen the disclaimer and said you are happy for them to make the payment.
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  1412. Medal hunters.
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  1413. You instantly loose the benefit that the turbine is omnidirectional when it is vertical. It's not when it is turned on its side.
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  1414. The things we know but have forgotten that we know them!
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  1415. Only because of people like you inciting the hatred. If you actually looked at why the science, you would see why your MPs were voting as they have done.
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  1416. Russia is probably diverting 25% of its GDP to war, while its allies are only spending a tiny fraction more than what they would have spent on their military anyway - none of Russia's allies are diverting more than 0.2% of GDP to help Russia. Similarly, Ukraine is probably diverting 50% of its GDP to its war effort, but it has lost significant production capacity from the territories it no longer controls. Ukraine's allies are spending less than 0.2% of GDP. On this basis, Russia is stronger than Ukraine.
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  1417. Was fascinated to see that the First Officer had time on a HAL Pushpak. This is an aircraft type that I also have time on. 😀
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  1418. Tax inspectors walking around the streets to see which businesses are operating and checking out traders on Chekatrade and Facebook would be a start. We also have to give a clear signal about the state pension continuing forever and not becoming means-tested so that business people and employees understand when they pay NI they are getting something valuable in return. So many people will be poor in their old age because they didn't pay NI as they should.
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  1419. Don't tell the Russians about their strategic mistakes! Never interrupt your enemy when they are making mistakes.
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  1420.  @mrjerzheel  Not many if the USA pitch in with their electronics warfare capabilites, but if the American's stand back, it could be quite a few.
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  1421. I have the same Stanley version; it is a favourite tool of mine.
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  1422. Fortunately, this Labour governments instinct is to do the opposite of what America does.
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  1423.  @unhingedbracket121  I too was wondering why this was different to with cars.
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  1424.  @spamfritters1  This is certainly part of the reason. You don't want the general population to be better armed than the police as this just leads to the police getting jumpy - they tend to fire first, then ask questions in countries where the general population are allowed to carry weapons! You can always defend yourself, but I would say that if the police have decided you need to be beaten up, you are not going to come out of it well even if you have a gun.
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  1425. If Ukraine have Neptune missiles, they might not even need subs to destroy all of the Russian Black Sea fleet. The bill for Putin's war is heading to the stratosphere.
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  1426.  @normanrichardson2314  The Russian economy is still doing ok, but this is because Russians need to eat and buy things that are made in Russian. The sanctions that the world has imposed on Russian don’t affect food, agriculture, and health directly, they do target import and exports, and anything that might be used for military purposes. The currency isn’t strong because no one wants or needs Rubles (unless they live in Russia). Imports and exports are down generally because Russia has shown it cannot be trusted.
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  1427. I don't think so.
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  1428. The technology has potential to be very cost effective, so it's good that there are some grid-scale implementations where there will be enough investment put into it to really see if it can live up to its promise. I think it's a bit early to say that it is DoA.
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  1429.  @eugeneputin1858  Most if the weight of the Redflow battery is water, which can be added by the local distributor once the battery is on site.
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  1430. The evil that wants to prevail is Putin, and you are correct that all the good people of the world will take action against Russia to stop this happening. Prepare to be beaten and have some of Mother Russia taken from you in reparation for the vile war crimes.
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  1431. If they learn from the human race, they will learn to be narcissists UNLESS we ensure that they cannot do this.
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  1432. I think that is probably a little too far from the truth. He's a politician, a millionaire, and has been grappling with Ukraine's corruption and "right wing" elements since being elected . He's tough, brave, articulate and resourceful, a great war leader, for sure, but a saint? No.
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  1433. Putin has exchanged prisoners of war, so why not power stations?
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  1434. I agree with your essential premise, but I would argue that not allowing Housing Associations to unnecessary. I think that, providing Housing Associations have to be a charity, have to be non-profit making and have to have the aim of providing affordable housing enshrined in its constitution, then they are an acceptable alternative and allow for some innovation in housing provision, e.g. shared ownership arrangements where capital returned to HA by the purchaser is used to build more affordable housing.
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  1435. My daughter order two big tubs of contact adhesive by mail order, and one of the tubs lost its lid in the back of the postie's van! The postman was not happy, but to the credit of the supplier they sent her another two tubs straight away. The postie wouldn't deliver the undamaged tub as it too was covered by the adhesive, just like the back of his van. Luckily, the next two arrived safely.
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  1436. Agreed, but you have to give the CFO the resources to properly manage the production of the accounts, and support the auditors while they check them. I suspect many publically employed CFOs feel their hands are tied by a lack of resource and are aways considering whether it has gotten so bad that they can not longer take responsibility for the accounts.The messengers tend to get shot when bringing bad news.
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  1437. Russia is crying that the Ukrainian film industry is better than theirs. Come on Russia, you can produce better lies than you have been doing.
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  1438. And yet the statistics show that more replanting does occur.
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  1439.  @jessh5310  Another symptom of the sort that the BlackBeltLawyer was describing! Did you complain?
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  1440. The only problem is that the official position is going to be proven correct, and the Russians are going to be proven to be murdering Ukrainian civilians. Will Patrick stil be your hearo when you realise that he has been misleading you?
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  1441. I think you mean the Dark Ages!
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  1442. Pilots can get quite a bit of rest between duties. Petter's situation is different though as he has plenty of other responsibilties at work. It is amazing how he fits in the work of making his excellent content.
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  1443. I agree that honesty needs to be instilled in children when they are young, and as they become young adults they need this to be reinforced so that they will become honest members of society. Part of this si that they need to see people who are dishonest suffering as a result. If they see that dishonesty pays handsomely, then they are likley to be drawn into being dishonest.
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  1444. The lawful authority to imprison people in their own homes was granted by parliament, so it would not be false imprisonment.
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  1445.  @seanroberts2404  There is nothing inherent in the production process for building material that requiring more of them would increase the unit cost. Equally, there is no reason why other countries need to increase their pricess. 10% profit on 2million bricks is more than 10% profit on 1million bricks.
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  1446. On what basis do you say that all courts have been operating under Admiralty laws since 1890?
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  1447. The government should be investing in anything that actually helps avoid global warming; selling more EVs and building a sustainable energy grid in the UK isn't going to do this. We are going to have to invent revolutionary technologies and then not only give them away, but pay to encourage their global takeup at the fastest possible rate. Can we do it? Yes, of course we can, we are Great Britain.
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  1448. We need to improve the EPC system so that it better reflects what is actually energy efficient . A new regulation making it a requirement that homes with an EPC band D or lower have to be upgraded by the purchaser with 2 years of the purchase would drive down property prices to levels that actually reflect the energy efficiency of the home - a change to the mortgage market so that lenders have to keep back some of the mortgage being advanced to pay for this work would be ideal.
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  1449.  @lesliewelch6551  If they do carry a gun, the sentences are much harsher.
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  1450. It would be if the signs weren't there, but as Daniel points out it is your job to provide evidence that the signs were not there, or were obscured. Unfortunately you will struggle to do this as the signs were there and are very clear.
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  1451.  @johnpm1605  That is a risky defence,
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  1452. That's the nub of the argument! What is fair? And is it fair to give some money to people who need it, but haven't 'earned' it? Perhaps it isn't fair to give money to people who need it, but haven't or can't earn it, but perhaps we should do it anyway so that they have a good life and can contribute to society, rather than having to remain locked away, unsee and unheard.
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  1453.  @benjerryhaagendaz  These Ukrainians are not Russian citizens yet, and many will never accept that indignity.
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  1454. The problem is that the police have to be physically present in a position where they can stop a traveller's vehicle from crossing the pavement. The chance of a policeman being in the right place at the right time to do this is virtually non-existant.
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  1455. But will they ever forgive Putin?
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  1456. Russia will also be in stone age after the war.
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  1457. This government has lots of ideas, a very different vision to the Conservatives and is full of hope - you just can't see it.
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  1458.  @Jmcg1959  Glad you agree. I've just got to convince another 40million or so and I'm done.
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  1459. Most UK homes have hydronic heating systems, and these were designed to run with the hot water at 70C. The pipe work and radiators can be too small for heatpumps to operate effectively. More modern hydronic system are designed for lower temperature flows to take advantage of condensing the exhausts gases, such systems are happy with flow temperatures of 45C, which is also fine for hot water if you have a large storage cylinder. Legionnella is generally not an issue in domestic properties, even if water is stored at 45C.
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  1460. The younger generation is not being taught to do the things that AI will find difficult, such as how to paint their front door to stop it rotting, or trace the source of damp coming into their house. Part of a coordinated response to AI is to look at what it and robotics cannot do and make sure that schools are preparing people to do those jobs. Caring for people is a prime example.
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  1461.  @HowdyJJE  An offence is a crime if you can be punished for it by a criminal court, e.g. a magistrate's court. So if you don't provide your insurnance documents, you can be arrested for not doing so, but you cannot be punished for the offence if you provide your insurance documents at a police station within 7 days. That said, it is very, very unlikely that you will be arrested just for not having insurance. The police will only arrest you on this charge, if they think you have given them false information to try to convince them you are insured when you are not. Most motorists with insurance will appear on the database that the Police ANPR cameras have access to, and the Police will know if you are insured and if you are a named driver or the policy holder. If you took out insurance in the last 48-72 hours, you might not be on the database yet, but most people will have an email confirming that payment has been taken by their insurance company even if they have't yet received the policy via email, and this will be enough to avoid arrest.
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  1462. I hope that all the war crimes in Ukraine are investigated, but many so called perpetrators will escape justice because they were fighting an urban war. In urban warfare, the defenders have to take cover in civilian buildings. That is all that there is in cities. There are no forts or gun emplacements in cities, so naturally troops take cover in whatever there is, which is apartment and office blocks, houses, stores and factories. The attackers cannot take fire from these positions without returning fire and so civilan property is destroyed.
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  1463. Don;t forget the Russian armed forces have commited at least as many war crimes as the Ukrainians.
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  1464. That's true, but it takes some knowledge to understand how it benefits Trump to crash the world economy.
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  1465. Very good advice, on both counts.
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  1466. That's a fair question. In previous times, even children could manage money when there was not much of it around. Perhaps the issue is that there has been no incentive to become good with money.
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  1467.  @yuririakhovskaia2913  Azov isn't nazi. That's just Kremlin propaganda. The West knows the truth better than Russia does because the Western journalists are not controlled by their governments. The truth lies somewhere in the middle of the Western and the Russian propaganda. Winning a war of propaganda isn't going to help the citizens of Donbas.
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  1468.  @harrybalanovsky2169  Such text messages should be passed to Ukrainian authorities for investigation. The Ukrainian government will never be trusted by its citizens unless it shows that it can investigate and prosecute the war crimes perpetrated by its own forces. If Ukraine wants to become a European country, it needs to show this, and so these messages need to be reported.
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  1469.  @nowillnoway  Unmarked car + police officer not in uniform = no power to stop under RTA 1988 S163. Unmarked car + police officer in uniform = power to stop. You could ask to see the officer's warrant card, or for their number and station if their uniform is heavily obscured by equipment.
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  1470.  @rklauco  It does make a lot of sense for distributed heat storage in cities.
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  1471. Inside a car is regarded as a public place when the car is not on private land. You would have had a lawful reason for having the steak knife if your were on your way to or from a job, e.g. your were a mobile mechanic and you were stopped during the working day. But not if you were an ordinary motorist, or stopped at the weekend or at night. If you were in a van, the answer would be different again (a car is not a normal working vehicle for a mobile motor mechanic).
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  1472. It will be while before it scales more cheaply than a Telsa battery.
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  1473. They stole the properties, but I expect they have been paid in Roubles! Who will want Roubles after this war has ended and Russia has been beaten?
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  1474. @Georgian Georgian I care. Russia will be repaid for its crimes in all countries.
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  1475. Zelensky has not armed all civilians, he doesn't have enough guns to do so. He has guns for about 900,000 civilians sat most. This is about 2.5% of the remaining population in Ukraine. So just 2.5% of the population are legitimate targets because they are fighting Russia.
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  1476. "Slava Ukraini" has fewer words.
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  1477. The Tories had their regime. This government should be allowed to have theirs and they were elected, and their policies make sense.
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  1478.  @Ceezy_yt  So Trump is the candidate you picked to inflact maximum pain on your fellow Americans? He's not the President you wanted, just the worst one you could find? I'm beginning to think there is something in this idea that MAGA are nuts.
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  1479. Hopefully it will take about 10 years or so.
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  1480.  @billB101  I think Richard's idea is to accelerate this. If 25% of all pension investments were made into the UK HOusing Stock, we would have the problem fixed by 2030!
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  1481. In some cases, his lies are proposing an alternative view. If he were trustworthy, this alternative view might have merit, but he has lied so often that even if he is right, no one will believe him. We need Lavrov to remain as Russia's Foreign Minister for as long as possible. With Lavrov on the stage, we all know that he is lying. A new Putin mouthpeice might be beleived for a few weeks.
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  1482. Making the director liable for all the debts of the business (not just the tax debts) would be a better arrangement.
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  1483.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  While making the directors personally liable would defeat the purpose of limited liability companies, I envisaged that they would be liable for the debts when they were culpable, and not if the failure was caused by something beyond their control. If directors are allowed to behave in a reckless, cavalier fashion they will do so. There has to be a sanction.
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  1484. The more desperate Putin becomes, the more likely he is to make another error. He cannot bomb or poison Ukraine into submission. It is a country of 44 million people!
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  1485. In many ways, you are not wrong. But harsh realism is just likely to scare them more than they are already scared. I would argue that they need to be exposed to the real world in a kindly manner. They need to be drip-fed the harsh realities at a rate that they can cope with. I didn't have to go to work at 15 years of age like my dad, and I'm very grateful for that. I was allowed (by virtue of my parents and my society's wealth) to put off having to work for a living until I graduated at 23.
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  1486. Vertogen are working on just such a system.
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  1487. Putin is the biggest clown.
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  1488. Starmer isn't trying to destroy anything. He is having to raise tax because the Tories defunded everything while they were in power and look where that got us!
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  1489. Don't forget the Putin is the comedian in this conflict. He has made all the mistakes.
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  1490. We will have to be careful that such body-cameras do not record all our indiscretions...
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  1491. I learned that the profit a company made was a management decision, not a number, when I started to work in Group Consolidation. From that point onwards, I've always understood that a number is only ever correct if two accountants agree it is!
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  1492. House prices are very high in relation to wages, especially for the young, but it's not an unattainable goal. Even with a student loan to pay off over their working life, they will still earn enough to pay off a mortgage, it just might take 30 years rather than the 25 that it took our generation. I bought my first house with two friends. When it sold, it sold for the same price we had bought it for because we bought during a boom and sold in a doldrum. That didn't matter, I had saved money over renting.
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  1493. This is a good idea, and is one advantage of CCTV or a doorbell with in-built camera as sich footage can be captured automatically without having to worry the delivery driver.
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  1494. It's almost like the understand that the virus is deadly and that long-Covid is particularly unpleasant.
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  1495.  @joshb7415  Read a book, listen to podcasts you have downloaded, read work reports that you have downloaded, make notes on your work, think about how to improve your life, etc. I used to commute. 50 minutes on the train each way and 20 minutes walk at the office end, I would usually work on the train on the way in (being careful not to look at anything that was commercially sensitive) and then relax with a book on the way home.
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  1496.  @jarivuorinen3878  Thank you for your reply. This is the real explanation.
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  1497. Russians seem to only know how to destroy. 😪
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  1498. We'll come back to you in four years on this.
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  1499.  @Hope-dp8qz  Correct.
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  1500. No court can take an adverse inference from something is not said in court. If you remain silent in court, the court does not know what you have not said.
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  1501. Украинский солдат хочет бросить свою семью, чтобы помешать Путину завоевать Украину, чтобы русские не бомбили его мать и бабушку. Я буду кормить семью украинского солдата, пока Россия восстанавливает его дом, школу, где учились его дети, и аэропорт, где работала его жена. Его жене никогда не придется продавать себя, чтобы прокормить детей. Я позабочусь об этом. Будьте сильными, украинские бойцы, мир и я обнимаю вас. Вам вернут вашу страну захватчики.
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  1502. This is certainly possible, but if the person had bought the bag from an authorised wholesaler and had a receipt from the wholesaler and had other items bought at the same time that were not fake, it would seem that they might have had evidence that their bank did not accept or even consider. We just don't know.
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  1503. Perhaps we should ban all aircraft from runways because they are too heavy?
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  1504. In the case outlined, I don't think so. The car was uninsured, therefore anyone who tries to drive it is committing an offence. The mother was reasonably being stopped by the police officer, but screamed anyway. Such action was designed to bring either her son, or other bystanders to her defence, in spite of the police officer's actions being lawful and in accordance with his duties.
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  1505. People are good at what they enjoy and they enjoy what they are good at.
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  1506. Мудрые слова.
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  1507. Putin represents Putin, nothing else.
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  1508. Step away from the wall. Your government is not after your freedoms. They just want your money. Pay your taxes and everything will be ok. You can relax now.
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  1509. So because he upholds the law he is an accomplice? The law doesn't allow you to incite racial hatred, and if you want to flout that law, you have to expect consequences.
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  1510. If people want to get closer to their savings, and have a better (but still not perfect) understanding of the benefit and harm their pension savings create, I would recommend moving their pension to a SIPP and investing in Investment Trusts. Investment Trusts are companies and have to publish annual accounts. They generally publish an annual report where the Board explains the reasons for the Trust's performance. This gives much greater transparency. However, the reality of pensions saving is that most ordinary people do not want to have to take that detailed an interest in where their money is. That the money is safe is the end of most people's concerns. This means that government must legislate to ensure that pension funds invest responsibly, but we have to accept that there is a great range of opinions as to why an investment might be good or bad in terms of its impact. If the goverment tries to decide what it good and bad, it will get it wrong as often as it gets it right.
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  1511. Only a clown like you thinks Zelensky is the clown.
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  1512. Really interesting video and comments. I think this technology could have an application in relatively small scale residential set-ups. The ability to change the rate of heat extraction using simple modulation of the pump that is pumping the inert gas around the heat store is very useful as it allows for the production of low levels of heat for heating efficient buildings, that might only need flow temperatures of 27C even on the coldest winter days, and producting lots of hot water on demand at 50C+, something that Heat Pumps struggle with. In communal installations, it could be used just for hot water production, with space heating being done via heat pumps.Clearly large scale installations can be more efficient due to the greater relative surface area of a small cube of material.
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  1513. It is much easier to spot scam ads that Facebook make out. When you accept a payment for advertising, you need to check whether the company is real and whether the product or service is real. Try ordering the product, try calling the contact centre, try visiting the company's website, check how long the company has been operating for, and whether its accounts make sense, check where its offices are, check who the directors are and that you can see their home address on Google maps, perhaps most importantly, meet with the marketing director and get them on CCTV. How about making them use a payment service that has a dispute process so that the customer either gets what they have paid for or their money back? There is so much more that tech companies can do, but they just more profit.
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  1514.  @olivieryeung398  Zelensky is human. Putin never shows emotion, because he has none.
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  1515.  @hazelnut975 Great conspiracy theory; as plausable as all the others!
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  1516. The prices will fall as they scale up their production, and figure out how to supply the residential market without incurring significant additional costs.
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  1517.  @worskaas  I'm not aware of the needing maintenance checks on a regular basis. They just need repairing when they go wrong.
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  1518. That's not a well supported argument, is it?
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  1519. The people are not exactly innocent. They voted to leave Ukraine' and become independent. When you do this, you can't expect that the country you are leaving will remain friends. They might, but it can't be expected. It has to be negotiated, and Crimea didn't do this.
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  1520.  @n.v.z.1950  And yet the Ukrainian forces are the ones who are fighting the troops who have invaded the local people's town. The Azov troops occupying the school were doing so to defend Mariupol. If there had been no Russian troops attacking Mariupol, there woild have been no need to occupy the school, and there would have bene no Russian forces who could have targeted the school in the evening. This is looking increasingly like Patrick Lancaster is a Russian stooge. No wonder he can access Russian controlled areas.
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  1521.  @annleo  I understand that that is why the Russian shell the civilian buildings, but the Russians shouldn’t even be in Ukraine.
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  1522. Yes, the possibility of polluting the Earth is endless! Until there is no one left to consume the oil and gas.
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  1523. I don't think it has ever been calculated into the US Aid figures, as the cost is just manpower within the US Military. The military are probably quite glad to have this work as it is good preparation for a real war. It saves having to setup exercises all the while. While the fighter pilots got to Red Flag, the intelligence guys and gals are doing it for real. Europe can't fill the gap because the USA have always taken the lead on providing certain sorts of intelligence. Europe's capabilities are small compared to the USA.
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