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Comment Ask a stupid question (Score 1, Insightful) 11

Why do so few large companies advertise on Google?

Why are AdSense ads 50% and 50% phishing "personality quizzes"? Is it simply that they simply default to that stuff absent anything to personalise the ads?

Why are so many YouTube adverts such obvious scams? Surely the scammers aren't outbidding legitimate businesses. Perhaps there's some truth to my pet theory that Google is intentionally serving the worst ads it can to 'encourage' people to pay for premium.

Comment Re: Speed limits (Score 1) 180

Police don't care about speeding there below about 80mph.

Most likely the 10% + 2 "rule". It's not a rule as such but police guidelines are to not go after someone unless they're going much faster than the limit or doing something else dangerous.
22mph in a 20 area? Fine.
36mph in a 30 area? On with the blues and twos. (That's sirens and flashing lights.)

Comment Re: Public Transit (Score 1) 180

Bald tyres are one of the things least likely to be fiddled, the other main one being the exhaust. The reason is that if you are stopped by the police for any reason, having bald tyres will be very obvious to the officer. The officer checks your MOT (online), sees that the MOT was passed with obvious failures, then questions are asked of the garage that did it.

Comment Re:Sweet! (Score 1) 36

Not if you're Muslim.

Not necessarily. In a situation where a life is at stake that which is normally forbidden may be allowed. I assume the same principle applies to the kashrut. Medical treatments involving pork products (and others involving gelatine, I think) can and have been used by muslims for some time. A muslim may even eat pork, but the general consensus is that this is only acceptable if the alternative is starvation.

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