Recent content by 50 Hertz

You don't need to start with a 10 metre square sheet. You can start with a 1 metre sheet and the final area will still be 8.8817841970013e-10 square millimetres. Easy.

Yes correct, but I meant a total of 50 repetitions of ripping the paper in half. I probably worded the question ambiguously causing you to calculate the answer based on a further 50 on top of my 2, making 52 in total. If you repeat the exercise 50 times, the stack will be 168 884 986...

Cheers for that. Here was me thinking that eBay had a giant Aladdin's Cave type warehouse packed with every conceivable item from rubber johnnies to luxury cars. Now that I understand the eBay trading model that misconception has been dispelled.

So, this would mean that all of the Chinese sellers on eBay offering non-compliant batteries to Europe are breaking this legislation. Would eBay be committing the offence by facilitating the importation? I bet they are $hi!!ing themselves, look how robustly the authorities have gone after...

What does, "to import" mean? If I order one off eBay, am I importing?" Or do I have to physically bring the battery into the country myself to import?

If I were to take a sheet of paper 0.15 mm thick, rip it in two and put one half on top of the other, the stack would be 0.3 mm high. If I were to rip the stack in two and place the two halves on top of each other again, I'd have a stack 0.6 mm high (4 x 0.15 mm). If I were to repeat the...

I had posted a link to an ePetition which was calls for the government to reverse the decision to fine parents £60 if they take their children out of school during term time for the purpose of a cheap holiday. I thought that if enough people signed it, the government would look again at the...

Thought better of it.

I'm still with them, although it's Vagina Media now. Once everything is set up and working and if you manage to avoid calling, thinking about calling or having any correspondence whatsoever with the company, they aren't bad. But the same goes for many organisations these days.

Actually, he was forced to take part. If he didn't do it, Donald Trump said that he would tie Nick Hewer to a burning toboggan, coax a rabid squirrel to mount his face and catapult the whole sorry mess into an aeroplane propellor. So he didn't have much choice in the matter.

I had a problem with NTL (now Virgin Media) many years ago: * ******** **** ******** ********** *** *** Dear Cretins, Installation at * ******** **** I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During...

It's the character that he has been given to play in the game show which is, The Apprentice.

I will look forward to tomorrow evening to see what they think of electric bikes. It's been quite an entertaining series this year with the producers choosing a mixed bunch of comedy characters to throw into the ring so that they can fight each other. I'm quite excited about the forthcoming...

It could have been one of these If it was, it would almost certainly be illegal and the rider would be committing all of the offences which are well documented in other threads on here.

I expect that the range is greater than 10 miles, but having never owned one, I wouldn't like to predict what the figure might be. You don't have to run them at the highest power setting all of the time, so it would help extend the range if you could manage at a more conventional power level...