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Post by adrianc on Aug 29, 2023 16:31:27 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Aug 29, 2023 15:10:52 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Aug 29, 2023 7:32:37 GMT
But that is flying time only. I doubt any of us want a pilot rocking up to the aircraft with no preparation, jumping into the pilots seat and taking off. Might it not be a a silly trivialisation to equate working hours and workload with only "flying hours" ? Do you agree with Adrian and would have the trolly dollies cabin crew fatigue tests as strict as the pilots' ? Perhaps you could show me where I said that...?
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Post by adrianc on Aug 29, 2023 7:32:09 GMT
I've told her she needs to ask for her costs in getting to the airport and home, kennel fees, money they spent in the airport on food etc. The airline simply isn't liable for that, as it's a situation outside their control. But her travel insurance may cover it.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 28, 2023 16:27:31 GMT
Quote on the BBC today: Fatigue is a big concern in aviation, so the hours pilots and cabin crew work are strictly regulated.Is the person serving my drink required to stay as alert as the pilot I wonder ? Cabin crew aren't just there for serving drinks. They have vital safety roles in the event of problems.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 28, 2023 13:20:34 GMT
"Noel Willcox, from Hertfordshire, who runs a scaffolding company, was hit with £11,500 in fines under the existing Low Emissions Zone (Lez) for driving a truck to and from a depot in North West London."The case is not even about the ULEZ. It's about the LEZ, which has been in place since 2008 with boundaries unchanged - the outer edges of the boroughs... "TfL said the Lez signs were deemed lawful by the Department of Transport in 2008. “We are investigating why the correct evidence was not submitted,” it added."
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Post by adrianc on Aug 28, 2023 13:17:11 GMT
...for these really good p2p investments you have (photo's optional )
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Post by adrianc on Aug 27, 2023 7:26:35 GMT
Nadine Dorries accusing Rishi Sunak of “demeaning his office”. Pot/kettle. Well she has resigned now so i guess she can say whatever comes into her head! Hold your horses... Not actually effective until 4th Sept! "I shall today inform the chancellor of my intention to take the Chiltern Hundreds, enabling the writ to be moved on 4 September for the by-election you are so desperately seeking to take place."Note the "I shall" - so even that may not yet happen. That's the final para of the full resignation letter: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66631019She's been there...
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Post by adrianc on Aug 27, 2023 7:22:12 GMT
...this morning she called me "a useless waste of space" Probably the same end result if the Dublin weekend had happened...
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Post by adrianc on Aug 26, 2023 9:21:44 GMT
Swollen batteries aren't unique to lithium - they've been doing it since at least the days of NiMH.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 26, 2023 8:28:40 GMT
Cheap and nasty charge management seems to be the root cause there. Remember, every laptop and every mobile phone made over the last decade or so has lithium batteries inside. So do toothbrushes, torches, mice and keyboards, vapes, handsfrees - basically, if it's vaguely recent and has a USB charging port, it's almost certainly lithium cells inside... About a quarter of the world's production goes into BEV and HEV vehicles - and that isn't just cars, it's ebikes and all the toot like hoverboards. What proportion catch fire charging? Absolutely minimal [...] Not that rare, unfortunately, see eg www.london-fire.gov.uk/safety/lithium-batteries/charging-electric-bike-and-electric-scooter-lithium-batteries/120-180 fires annually in a city of 9m population (plus however many million commuters), with how many lithium battery devices...? And that's out of about 20,000 fires the LFB respond to annually... Indeed. Remember that all eScooters are illegal (except for private land use) in the UK, except for the official rental fleets - yet that link points to them being a quarter of all the London fires last year. Oh, absolutely. But I rather suspect that most of those failures are exacerbated by poor charge management.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 26, 2023 7:55:07 GMT
Isn't it lithium batteries that have been in the news recently because of their tendency to burst into flames? If lithium batteries are the future, it sounds like there's quite a way to go yet. Cheap and nasty charge management seems to be the root cause there. Remember, every laptop and every mobile phone made over the last decade or so has lithium batteries inside. So do toothbrushes, torches, mice and keyboards, vapes, handsfrees - basically, if it's vaguely recent and has a USB charging port, it's almost certainly lithium cells inside... About a quarter of the world's production goes into BEV and HEV vehicles - and that isn't just cars, it's ebikes and all the toot like hoverboards. What proportion catch fire charging? Absolutely minimal. How many lithium battery devices do you have in your house...?
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Post by adrianc on Aug 25, 2023 19:18:13 GMT
Thank you, a word new to me! We all know the difference between factions and fractions, right? So it doesn't take a genius to figure the difference between factious and fractious...
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Post by adrianc on Aug 25, 2023 6:53:35 GMT
Ha! If you don't know how to debate someone tell them they don't understand. <cough> "nonsense graph"? Perhaps you ought to take that up with the actual measurements, as taken by nsidc.org/homeQuick question for you, michaelc - in your opinion, is anthropogenic climate change... a: real and b: a threat to the planet and all those living on it?
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Post by adrianc on Aug 24, 2023 17:18:23 GMT
Or, just perhaps, the actual story there is that the Antarctic ice shelf is breaking up at an unprecedented rate, with catastrophic effects on wildlife? "More than 90% of emperor penguin colonies are predicted to be all but extinct by the end of the century, as the continent's seasonal sea-ice withers in an ever-warming world." "What we're seeing right now is so far outside what we've observed previously. We expected change but I don't think we expected so much change so rapidly"
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