Whippersnapper

Crikey kids, calm down about units. I think that in the UK we have finally got things about right.

* Temp: deg C unless you are aged over 80ish in which case you use witches per log or deg F as desired.
* Time: second
* Length: metre or foot or inch if the centimetre turns out to be too short by 2.54. Kms are fine for Olympics and other oddities but not on the road thank you, unless the distance is convenient rounded.
* Area: acre, hectare (discouraged as a bit odd) or nanowales
* Mass: For people: 1 stone = 14 pounds, if you are younger than about 30 then you will need 1kg = 2.2lbs. For larger stuff 1 ton != 1 tonne.

I've glossed over or omitted the more complex stuff.

Simples.

Call differentiation "quark" instead. The new form for d2y/dx2 could be called a double quark or "fred" for short or f for really short. For really rigorous treatment call it f(x). In the UKoGBnNI it shall be known as noddy on Tuesdays unless the year is 2022.

In the UK, the prescription document is simply a thing to hand over to a pharmacy - mostly vestigial. The prescription itself is transmitted electronically. Nowadays you don't even have to sign a prescription charge waiver form: the machine knows already. To be honest, I haven't actually seen a prescription form for quite a while. It is almost as though at least part of the NHS has noticed that it is 2018 8)

Thank you Roblimo for being you and may you rest in peace.

>> What would Churchill say about this turn of events.

> Winston did have this to say about what his country finds itself up against

I prefer to think that he would deliver a speech more like this:

https://www.winstonchurchill.o...

Skip through to the last para at the bottom, it's quite a long speech being a report back to the House of Commons. The final line includes the phrase "New World" - that's the US and thankfully they did pile on in because we were pretty close to fucked. It is a speech that virtually any Brit would recognise.

The stuff quoted by the Federalist is a bit disingenuous: channelling someone who many in the New World (hah) also regard as a great leader and fixating on some of his ideas that no longer resonate with the vast majority of people who regard liberty and freedom of speech amongst other inalienable rights as paramount to an ordered and civilized society.

"The suppliers are paying people to use electricity in order to keep the grid voltage stable"

Your point is correct but I think you mean "generators". Generator's customers are "suppliers" (which can be the same group/organization) and the supplier's customers are "consumers" - which is you and me etc. Those are probably not industry terms but in essence the wholesale price from some power generators went negative for a while.

I can promise you my 'leccy bills did not go negative for a few hours this week 8)

"I wonder if it would be cost effective for utility companies to get into the cryptocurrency mining business?"

I like your thinking here but mining turns energy into money which is sort of contra to the ideals of employing renewables in the first place. That said it could be a useful additional sink for energy, given that the generating companies have shareholders and expensive boards to maintain.

Incidentally, I thought the whole idea of the grid was to not need to move things around - you *ahem* "simply" rebalance it periodically as supply and demand fluctuates across it. So I don't think you would have to move your containers around which will help to strip costs from your scheme. You could site them as far north and as high as possible to help out with the cooling. Perhaps somewhere in the Cairngorms or if it looks like Scotland is going to Brexit (the name works for both although strictly speaking we should call the present shenanigans - UKxit!) perhaps the Brecon Beacons or the Lake District.

My first distro was Yggdrasil, then Slackware ... RedHat ... Mandrake ... nowadays: Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu and Centos (all at work as well).

Very true. If you are serious about your email then register a "vanity" domain and get it hosted.

Obviously the denizens around here would then fire up a pair of DNS servers at two different locations, a SMTP daemon, IMAP or POP or whatever daemon, sort out auth, SSL/TLS, AV/anti spam, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, backups, DR plan etc etc. Well I did.

Oh and it supports Outlook (spent quite some time with Wireshark to get the auto discover thing working - cheers MS, no need to follow RFCs or say Mozilla's method)

"Even bloated software like Outlook runs fast enough on modern PCs"

Until it goes a bit odd occasionally and locks up. To be fair I think add ons contribute to this feature.

"Perhaps you missed the big news about Thunderbird this past December: " ... and your point is what exactly? Its still working and development is ongoing. I don't really care who develops it provided its looked after. There is also Evolution, Kmail and rather a lot more open source email clients available. All good solid stuff.

Me I use Evo because I can get at the corp Exchange *sigh*