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    sor replied to the thread BBC - are they worried?!.
    As I said in my other post, there are numerous "legal obligations" that apply to many more people in this country, but for which the...
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    sor replied to the thread BBC - are they worried?!.
    Given the way they engage in borderline harassment when you do not have a licence and have not told them that you do not need one (which...
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    sor replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.
    The equivalent Australian alert system didn't exist until fairly recently, with its first public national test conducted only a few...
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    sor replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.
    replying to myself - but from clicking through to "past alerts" you can see the last "real" one was for storms in the south west back in...
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    sor replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.
    a genuinely good thing about the UK system is that the alerts are made available on gov.uk, including when and where. Seems like its...
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    sor replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.
    There is a temporary ban on disposable BBQ sales in England, Scotland and Wales as of today - which is probably what has prompted the...
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    sor replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.
    The alerts can be disabled for that specific reason. The UK implementation of emergency alerts intentionally doesn't use the highest...
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    sor replied to the thread USB tethering question.
    Personally I'd be asking the other people in the "share" if they would consider sharing the cost of a proper internet connection. But...
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    I've never seen a "smart postbox" but RM lockers have label printers (at least the ones here do), and you can optionally ask them to...
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    I think Argos do this, at least around here. If the item is listed as "available from 5pm" and is in stock at a nearby branch, I assume...
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    sor replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.
    I think it's shown a weakness of their system. The 25th amendment requires a majority of the cabinet plus the vice president to agree...
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    I must be one of the few people who like Argos and the convenience of it being in the nearest Sainsbury. I'm not sure they even had an...
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    Openreach is not comparable to the energy sector. There can be and are differences between ISPs using the Openreach network. Maximum...
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    They actually do have electronic voting now, with card readers placed in the lobbies, but I gather that the manual count is still...
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    The Tesco example is probably an indoor femtocell that for some reason has not been upgraded or removed yet (this is the boostbox that...

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