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[Trevor Wilson]

On 1/31/2012 4:50 AM, Don Pearce wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:45:02 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller<miller@yoyRG
wrote:

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 11:24:28h -0500, Arny Krueger declared:

After all, the Right side is the right side...

Will somebody not think of the bus drivers?

Is it easier for bus drivers to take fares and issue tickets
to people boarding the bus from the left hand side or the
right hand side when usually most bus drivers are right handed?

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

d

**Yes, they do.

--
Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au

 

[S Viemeister]

On 1/30/2012 2:56 PM, Andy Champ wrote:

On 29/01/2012 18:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
... except pints and gallons of course. The US "English" system has
never been used in England.
IIRC, it has. The UK one was changed sometime after US independence. They
stuck to the old units, understandably.

I'm prepared to be proved wrong, but a little rummage suggest the US
gallon is based on the English Gallon as used for Wine, and there was no
unified English Gallon.

There were a number of different gallons, used for different things, in

different places. And yes, I believe it was the wine gallon.

I'm also quite prepared for someone to say British not English...

 

[UnsteadyKen]

Trevor Wilson wrote...

I would posit that, when driving an automobile with a manual
gearbox, using one's right hand to control the wheel (assuming one is
right handed), with the other hand using the gear change, is a better idea.

I'm right handed and learnt to drive in Germany and found that using

the right hand to manipulate the gear lever and handbrake felt natural
and controlled. It seemed awkward when I first drove in the UK and it
took a while to adjust.

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

 

[J G Miller]

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 18:20:14h +0000, Don Pearce wrote:

No idea what you are talking about, I'm afraid. I get on the bus, swipe
my card then get off when I'm there.

Well that is probably what all bus companies would like everybody to do
and do away with cash fares entirely.

They have you money before you use any of their services and they
can keep track of where you have been traveling, which they can
cross-reference with the on board video surveillance camera tapes.

 

[Trevor Wilson]

On 1/31/2012 8:14 AM, UnsteadyKen wrote:

Trevor Wilson wrote...

I would posit that, when driving an automobile with a manual
gearbox, using one's right hand to control the wheel (assuming one is
right handed), with the other hand using the gear change, is a better idea.

I'm right handed and learnt to drive in Germany and found that using
the right hand to manipulate the gear lever and handbrake felt natural
and controlled. It seemed awkward when I first drove in the UK and it
took a while to adjust.

**I'm sure that would be the case. I learned to drive in Australia,
using a 'three on the tree' and later a four speed, floor mounted manual
gearbox. I now drive a five speed manual gearbox car. I've driven auto
gearbox cars in the US and elsewhere. I reckon that trying to drive a
manual gearbox in the US would be a difficult adjustment to make, though
using an auto box was easy enough.

--
Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <5259a91383dave@davenoise.co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)"
<dave@davenoise.co.uk> writes:

In article <HpfBnYNnCbJPFw8T@soft255.demon.co.uk>,
J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Thanks for confirming we can add flex ratings to the things you know
nothing about.

Conductors rated at only 1A are very thin - sufficiently so that they do
not have great mechanical strength.

Where will you find an appliance sold fitted with 1A flex and a 13 amp
plug?

That was exactly my point: 1A leads (flex) are virtually non-existent
now, even if captive and the appliance draws 1A or less. Whatever the
consumption, if sold for use in UK, it will now have a "13A" plug, as
that is the only type of socket in the majority of homes and workplaces.
(Strictly a "BS1363" plug - many variants aren't actually capable of
carrying 13A continuously, especially the ones where the pins are made
of folded metal.)

Therefore Jerry's statement that
mains leads (in US: line cords) are likely to have a higher rating than
absolutely necessary is valid.

All appliances now sold in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe) are capable of
blowing a 13 amp fuse in event of a fault on the line chord.

Confirming what I said above. (The flex rather than the appliance, but
I'm sure that's what you meant.) [Major or minor chord (-:?]
[]

Final ring circuits are for domestic premises only. For workshops or
offices where you have known fixed loads you'd stick to radials. As you'd
do for fixed heating in a domestic scenario.

I was decidedly surprised to find a fan heater - fixed - in the lighting

circuit in this home (assembled 1999), in the shower room. (Not sure if
this home has ring circuits or not: it's a prefabricated building. I
haven't had any reason to investigate. It has a fairly
conventional-looking distribution unit.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in
many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the
"Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. -Heard in a neuropsychology
classroom

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <4f26d834.3680515@news.eternal-september.org>, Don Pearce
<spam@spam.com> writes:
[]

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

d

(And Dave Plowman.)

I had occasion to use buses several times in Newcastle (upon Tyne, north
England), earlier this month; I would say that the majority of
passengers were paying cash, or using free (disabled, age, or
schoolchildren) passes. I don't think they even _had_ any form of swipe
reader or similar. I would venture that the same applies in a lot of
England, probably Britain.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of
Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in
Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003.

 

[m]

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article <jg3h6t$a7g$1@dont-email.me>,
Jerry <mapson.scarts@btinternet.INVALID> wrote:

The great advantage of radial circuits is that idiots find it a
little more difficult to bridge out the breaker in the panel,
unlike the silly fuse fitted in BS1363 plugs (which for some
silly reason is the same shape and diameter as many screws, bolts
and any other round bar)


Wonder how you know all this? Just who ever wants to draw more than 13
amps from a socket anyway?

Oh yes - I remember. You used to work in a garage and probably did just
that since because it didn't have the correct wiring installed.

Not everyone is as stupid as you Jerry.

You just need 2 13A plugs on wires leading to a choc block where they
are connected in parallel - gives 32A then.
Just like we had avaialble in our test room at work to power the
satellite uplink.

And while we are on it, nothing like the VERY nasty UK sockets etc which
have stared to appear with Insulation displacement type connections
(like Krone/BT sockets but a tiny bit bigger)

Keep to a proper nice strong screw on terminal (and with a real slot so
any screwdriver works instead of these cra**y phirrips type heads that
just turn into a round groove when tightened!)

And of course the trend for screws that have cut threads and don't taper
so are useless for fixing into wallplugs as they don't expand them

And the nasty cup hooks I got the other day with no real points on the
thread (health and safety?) so won't screw in without pre-drilling and
are made of aluminium (aluminum for you US wrong-spellers) so shear off
when finally tightened

Mike
(grumpy old man)

 

[m]

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article <jg6hee$sc2$2@dont-email.me>,
J G Miller <miller@yoyRG> wrote:

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 11:24:28h -0500, Arny Krueger declared:


After all, the Right side is the right side...


Will somebody not think of the bus drivers?


Is it easier for bus drivers to take fares and issue tickets
to people boarding the bus from the left hand side or the
right hand side when usually most bus drivers are right handed?


Take fares? When last were you on a bus? ;-)

I hear the second person on the new "Boris bus" in london is
re-christened a CCA (Customer Care Assistant) and is primarily
responsible for stopping inexperienced tourists stepping off the rear
open step like proer Londoners do at traffic lights!

Hang on, there will be door at the rear and it will only be opened in
peak traffic areas

Mike

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article <9ooavlF32gU1@mid.individual.net>,
Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> wrote:

HOWEVER, I would posit that, when driving an automobile with a manual
gearbox, using one's right hand to control the wheel (assuming one is
right handed), with the other hand using the gear change, is a better
idea.

I had a Riley Pathfinder. With a right hand floor change. Allowed a bench
front seat. ;-)

--
*Confession is good for the soul, but bad for your career.

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article <4F2724CB.1070400@tiscali.co.uk>,
m <mikej@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

You just need 2 13A plugs on wires leading to a choc block where they
are connected in parallel - gives 32A then.
Just like we had avaialble in our test room at work to power the
satellite uplink.

Obviously no H&S rep in those days then. ;-)

--
*Indian Driver - Smoke signals only*

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article <slrnjie1ll.72u.abuse@news.pr.network>,
Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:54:08 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News)
dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

Take fares? When last were you on a bus? ;-)

There are buses in places other than Landun you know. They don't have
Oyster.

Neither do I. But don't pay cash on the bus.

--
*It is wrong to ever split an infinitive *

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
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[David Looser]

"John Williamson" <johnwilliamson@oysterbroadcast.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9okck8Fcf0U1@mid.individual.net...

UK, Australia, New Zealand, India. All left side (proper side)
drivers.

Add Japan and most of Africa (Where the drivers don't just stick to the
ruts, which normally match the track of a Land Rover.

Add Thailand as well.

Currently, the split is about 50/50 in terms of the number of countries
which drive on which side.

David.

 

[David Looser]

"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@cocmast.net> wrote in message
news:ndydnYh855BfVbvSnZ2dnUVZ5rudnZ2d@giganews.com...

After all, the Right side is the right side...



You mean the French side

and German and...

The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or

more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic on
the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still followed the
old Roman rule of passing on the left.

The good news is that most of the major car manufacturers have figured out
to make cars of either format on the same production line, etc.

Yes, its not a big deal. Although I have never driven across a land border
between left and right passing countries myself (its hard to drive across
the English Channel!) I have watched traffic crossing the border between
Thailand (drives on the left) and Burma (drives on the right). It all seemed
to work very smoothly.

David.

 

[Roderick Stewart]

In article <jg6u6h$bpj$3@dont-email.me>, J G Miller wrote:

No idea what you are talking about, I'm afraid. I get on the bus, swipe
my card then get off when I'm there.

Well that is probably what all bus companies would like everybody to do
and do away with cash fares entirely.

They have you money before you use any of their services and they
can keep track of where you have been traveling, which they can
cross-reference with the on board video surveillance camera tapes.

And there won't be large amounts of cash carried on board. Perhaps this
could make the bus companies less reluctant to provide services late at
night when they would otherwise be vulnerable to theft.

Rod.
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[Roderick Stewart]

In article <SjIkVZP53xJPFw+9@soft255.demon.co.uk>, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

d

(And Dave Plowman.)

I had occasion to use buses several times in Newcastle (upon Tyne, north
England), earlier this month; I would say that the majority of
passengers were paying cash, or using free (disabled, age, or
schoolchildren) passes. I don't think they even _had_ any form of swipe
reader or similar. I would venture that the same applies in a lot of
England, probably Britain.

It can only be a matter of time though. Merseyrail has some kind of
electronic sensing system at Central Station that will accept my old fogey
pass if it's just waved in the general vicinity of the ticket slot on one
of the exit barriers. Evidently the start of some master plan. I had no
idea my pass had any electronics in it, as it just looks like a piece of
printed plastic.

Rod.
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[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Roderick Stewart wrote:

It can only be a matter of time though. Merseyrail has some kind of
electronic sensing system at Central Station that will accept my old fogey
pass if it's just waved in the general vicinity of the ticket slot on one
of the exit barriers. Evidently the start of some master plan. I had no
idea my pass had any electronics in it, as it just looks like a piece of
printed plastic.

It's a RIFID (pronounced like the three legged plant) chip. They are in
everything these days. If you search youtube you can find some interesting
videos about them, including one of a person who put a 900mHz reader in his
car with an antenna covering a side window. He was able to read the information
on credit cards, driver's licenses, passports etc of people passing him in
other cars and on the street as he drove by.

The Mythbusters were going to do a show about them, and were told by the
credit card companies not to do it. Discovery Network agreed so they are
never going to do one.

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM
My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(

 

[Dave Liquorice]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:02:25 -0000, David Looser wrote:

The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or
more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic
on the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still
followed the old Roman rule of passing on the left.

Hum, I wonder of that has anything to do with which hand one would
have ones sword in? Most people are right handed so being on the
right makes it harder to take a swipe at some one passing.

--
Cheers
Dave.

 

[Ron]

On 31/01/2012 10:22, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:02:25 -0000, David Looser wrote:

The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or
more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic
on the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still
followed the old Roman rule of passing on the left.

Hum, I wonder of that has anything to do with which hand one would
have ones sword in? Most people are right handed so being on the
right makes it harder to take a swipe at some one passing.

That's the usual explanation for driving on the left in Roman times.
Some say it was Napoleon who decreed driving on the right, some say it
was the Pope.

Incidentally, I was at a presentation about Barbados the other day, and
was told that it's not possible to hire a car in Barbados due to the
previous amount of traffic accidents involving hire cars. They drive on
the left, and the majority of tourists are American and can't get used
to driving on that side. I myself prefer to drive down the middle

Ron

 

[David Looser]

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:kql5HK8P1UJPFwpJ@soft255.demon.co.uk...

In message <4f24f52a.5156238@news.eternal-september.org>, Don Pearce
spam@spam.com> writes:
[]
We mix our units much more than that. Take temperatures - if it is
near freezing we use Centigrade, when it is hot we use Fahrenheit.
[]
I suspect that for a lot of us, it's only the media - in fact, only the
print media - who do this. I think in Celsius for both:

Likewise. The first time I was ever interested in air temperatures was on
holiday in 1960 in Switzerland where, naturally, they have used Celcius for
centuries. Then, since school physics used SI units, where was the point in
bothering with Farenheit?

thirtysomething is too hot for me, much below twenty (unless there's
absolutely no wind) too cold.

Below zero: freezing (literaly)
0 - 10: cold
10- 20: mild
20 - 30: pleasant
30 - 40: hot
40+ too hot

Seems simple enough to me!

Our weather forecasts have been in C for some decades, albeit with the
forecaster giving the F equivalent verbally (but not visually).

Indeed.

David.

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