Many countries have laws preventing unreasonable contracts, and judges that will often side with the consumer when a contract is intentionally misleading etc. These terms would need to be made very clear, and the price reduced too.

That's centre left, certainly not far left.

Far left is ending personal property etc. There arenewspapers in Europe with that viewpoint.

In between, firmly left publications like http://socialistworker.co.uk/

FT2ndArticle: "We have a fleet of rail-head treatment trains which clean the rails using water jets and then apply a sand-based gel to help trains gain adhesion."

Another page says there are 55 treatment trains. There are something like 4000 "trains", so maybe the point of this system is it can be attached to normal trains, rather than requiring a special train.

The population density of the Outer Hebrides is 9/km^2, about the same as the Scottish Highlands. The Inner Hebrides have 4-5/km^2. I'm pretty sure that will be the least densely populated place in the whole UK.

(However, I live in an out-of-the-way bit of London, and get about 2Mbit/s. That's very unusual though, so unusual that I didn't think to check before renting there.)

Ireland and Scotland have E-numbered roads, but in Scotland there aren't road signs with the numbers on (the UK doesn't sign E roads).

See http://commons.wikimedia.org/w... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... for more information.

That phrasing sounds like you rarely buy chicken. Is that normal in the US? I'm surprised the sibling post says you'd need an "odd market in a poorer part of town".

In the UK, 800 million chickens are slaughtered each year, about 14 each, but lots are also imported. British people eat more chicken than anything else.

A 1.6kg chicken is £5 ($8), which is really cheap compared to buying cut-up chicken. It's not too difficult to cut off the majority of the meat to cook as you wish. Make a soup from the carcass by dumping it in a large pan with water, some roughly chopped veg (onion, garlic, carrot, potato) and seasoning, then leaving it to simmer for an hour. Most of the meat falls off the bones.

Alternatively, roast the whole bird, eat what you like, save any big bits for sandwiches/etc, then make soup from the leftovers the next day.

Thumbprint, perhaps?

Since September you can pay for transport in London with a contactless credit or debit card. (There's no need to pre-register or anything, but foreigners should check their bank won't charge an unreasonable fee on a £1.45 transaction). They claimed to be first to set this up, including some new special kinds of keep-people-moving-and-deal-with-the-fraud-later transaction, so I expect it will catch on elsewhere in the next year or two.

The E-numbered roads aren't motorways for their whole length, especially at the edges (i.e. Scotland, Ireland, northern Sweden etc.)

It's an interview, so I'd take "favourite" to mean "interesting".

And if someone can tell me how to implement a linked list that's a good start. Even better if they can use that to tell me when using a linked list is worse than using an array list, and vice-versa.

In Britain, if your house is connected by an above-ground electricity cable I'd estimate less than 20 families live in the settlement.

(No evidence for that, but it's only tiny places that have above ground electricity. Above-ground telephone is more common, that could be small or old.)

The European countries have connections between them -- mine (UK) imports/exports power from Ireland, France and the Netherlands. There are plans to connect to Norway and Iceland (not in the EU).

http://rrc-energy.com/electric... shows most other countries have many more connections (since they're not going across water).

Something like a railway cable trough, typically concrete, is common in Britain at the side of most railway track.

But it's a criminal offence to trespass on the railway.

Better example: buried cables along canals in London. Only pedestrians and cyclists (and horses) can use that path, could it stand up to cars and lorries?

(I'm pretty sure the electricity company will use boats and barges to maintain the cables, which is probably a lot easier than having to divert road traffic etc, and earns them eco-points.)

A steam locomotive. When it runs out of steam, it stops. (Wording chosen for the pun with Rails.)

I switched banks a couple of months ago, and it's just occured to me that I didn't receive a chequebook. Perhaps I would need to request it. The previous account (opened ~6 years ago) sent me one automatically, though I only used three of them. This time, all my direct debits, saved accouts (mostly friends I've sent money to) were transferred automatically, and a redirect to the new account made for my salary.

I would use a debit card to buy a car. It's far more secure for both me and the vendor. It's less clear what the best way to buy a used card from an individual is.

Rent is paid electronically, set up either online or by filling in a form at a bank.

There are plenty of photos on Tripadvisor, and they're not nice. (e.g. mouldy socks left in a drawer, chunks of damp plaster falling off walls.)