It means that for every time you were going to the store anyway (but get a DVD too), you go to the store only for the DVD.

They assume a purchased DVD will be watched five times, based on a cited study.

They accounted for that, only 50% of the trip is assumed to be for the DVD.

You could cycle or walk to the store.

There are probably fewer legal requirements -- the car might count as a four-wheeled low-powered motorcycle, for example. (This could be the case in the UK.)

Then they should look to other countries. At the appropriate time more than half a local bus or train carriage here can be children. I used to live near a large, private religious school. The train I got to work would disgorge ~300 children, as young as 5, at the time I used to get on. For the first week or so of the school year the youngest children would be accompanied by a parent.

In London, travel by bus is free for 5-16 year olds, whether accompanied or not. (Under 5s must be accompanied; travel by train isn't free.)

In which case, the age in the UK is 4, when a special needs child would start school and could be taken alone in a taxi. (Though it's likely to pick up more than one child along the way, and if the area is large enough be a minibus.)

Don't young children in the US use school buses? (In the UK they also use school buses, but are as likely to use normal public buses and trains.)

If using Git (or similar), perhaps the IDE can commit regularly, and afterwards the many commits can be turned into a single commit, with a commit message.

(I don't know if this exists or not.)

I was initially surprised when I saw a health rating on the wall, reasonably prominently, in a cheap Chinese restaurant in Nanjing. The rating was sad-face, blank-face or happy-face, and this place had blank-face.

Then I remembered China had a few food scares recently, which makes it less surprising.

The rules in the UK are probably still the same, not requiring gloves.

(Judging by the example poster the government provides: http://multimedia.food.gov.uk/... -- I don't care to find the actual regulations.)

My thoughts too.

When I worked in a food factory in the UK (summer job when I was 18) I handled food bare-handed, after it had been cooked. Assuming that was allowed (the factory had recently been inspected), why is it different in the USA? Or has the UK changed its rules in the last 10 years?

Possibly he's mistaken regenerative brakes for resistive/rheostatic brakes. On diesel-powered railway locomotives (which are almost always electric motors powered by a diesel generator) there's a bank of resistors. The motors are run as generators, the electricity put through the resistors and lost as heat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

However, this vehicle doesn't have electric motors, so it's not applicable.

What makes you think children don't already do this with buses and trains?

I wasn't quite confident enough to join in, but some of my friends travelled 150 miles / 250km to London a few times (without parents knowing) when they were 13-14. (Nothing went wrong.)

It might be a bit easier -- no ticket / money needed -- but for the same reason it's also easier to get home.

There's quite a lot of us (all my friends, probably all or almost all my colleagues) who want to remain in the EU.

If I didn't enjoy my job here, I'd already have emigrated. Depending on the result of the EU election I may have to reconsider which country deserves my work.

I pay £6/month for roughly that deal (250m, unlimited texts, 500MB.)

Phone up pretending to switch and they'll half your price.

I work in England, so our "HVAC" is more accurately called "the window". The person who sits nearest controls it, we generally have consensus on how much it should be opened.

During winter we have heating. I think it's "on" or "off", it's rarely a problem.

(Current outside temperature: 18C.)