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Comment Re:One disturbing bit: (Score 1) 484

Then all Aereo need to do is statically assign aerials to individual customers. Sure it will put their costs up a bit but it would side step the current judgement.

Personally I think they where daft thinking they could get away with dynamically assigning the aerials and had always presumed that you got your own personal aerial.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 187

You need temporary classrooms because something is going on in the school that puts existing permanent classrooms out of action for a "short" period. That might be for example refurbishment of an existing classrooms or even something far more dramatic such as a fire. In these scenarios the construction of permanent classrooms would be stupid.

Comment Re:That sounds like great news (Score 1) 626

Two things. Firstly a collision with a pedestrian at 30mph rather than 25mph has a huge increase in fatalities. Secondly at least here in the U.K. the physical road structures are designed around a maximum speed of 70mph. Do 100mph and those crash barriers will no longer stop a car crossing the central reservation for example. So without billions of investment in upgrading all that infrastructure it is simply not safe to do 100mph.

A third none safety factor is that road carrying capacity drops dramatically if everyone is doing 100mph.

Another none safety related element is that fuel consumption and pollution will rise dramatically if everyone is doing 100mph. Heck if I have time to spare I will drop back from 70mph to 60mph and save the money.

Comment Re:Why are they in the EU again? (Score 2) 341

Did nobody read the Treaty of Rome? The very first sentence is

DETERMINED to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the peoples of
Europe,

The point is that you cannot have a common market without common rules, which by definition necessitates that we devolve some of our laws to being made in common with other members of the club.

From a U.K. perspective the only real issue was the failure of the last government to introduce transitional rules on movement of people for the 2004 entrants.

Comment Re:Africa (Score 1) 234

That because they use a projection where you can draw straight lines on the map and use it for navigation. Yes this distorts sizes but lets be honest here the reason for the popularity of the Mercator projection is that maps are mostly used for navigation.

If you want to get a real feel for what the world looks like get a globe. I hear they are popular presents for children.

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