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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. just like an irrelevant comment about southern Europe!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    . There are two responses to that.. either the unemployment benefits are so high that one would be a fool to work, or the wages being offered are insufficient. Now I dont see people on welfare leading a high life. A person working is required to appear on time, wear clothes, not pajamas and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If one simply bans farm machinery, re invests in sickles, reintroduce national service and the good old Lee Enfield 303,. Removes those missile destroyers with their crews of 60 , and replace them with those pretty cruisers with complements of 2000, we can have full employment, rampant poverty...
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    Fly 12 & 6 bike cams half price.

    Well th edit was not much help either, ... However googling on line I find that cams in this context refers to video cameras and Fly is a brand name.... " Cams" in the context of mechanical engineering website.... And pedelecs is such, has other meanings including the quick release fittings...
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    Fly 12 & 6 bike cams half price.

    What does this mean?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Where did you get this fella from? Could you ever see Bertie coming out with such nonsense?..... I would have voted for Coveney, had there been an election... . But that's under bridge water. . Look more closely at the map.(looks like a Ryanair one) Ireland can go west and down to Nantes and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. As a Chartered Engineer, my comment would be along the lines , when your political establishment, and your media extol the benefits of being a banker ,or a lawyer and sneer the actions of those who work with their hands on things, it cannot escape the notice of the young.. they are young not...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not quite in jest, but perhaps you worded the add incorrectly.. something on the lines of... Create the new world, build renewable energy systems for personal transportation.....
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Exasperation more like. . I have not seen the source of your quotation, but I can take it at face value. Unless the UK does make accomodation with other countries air space, the only paths open to them will be very restricted . At present Shannon and Preswick handle all the North Atlantic...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. the only problem with that analysis is that the world has moved on, UK still had the echos of its empire, Australia and NZ still looked to the mother country, the alliances made over the last 50 years have endured and a new order exists, and i had more hair...
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    can your pc/laptop beat a 10 year old server

    .. but which CPU power, as i have said a CUDA programmed application using all the cores in a graphics card can outperform virtually any could. .. that is why those bitcoin miners covet them.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ",And why do they devote such efforts to attacking Britain’s case rather than urging the EU to reform itself?” How off the wall is that comment,? .. the "remainders "with the UK have lost their say in that debate. The only debate where they could have any clout is within the UK itself . Reading...
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    can your pc/laptop beat a 10 year old server

    Seriously Define server, define laptop... Define task, define whether it is computational intensive,I/O intensive, amenable to parallel numerical processing a la Graphics card CUDA , Alternativeky .. define your terms if if beating is the 100metres dash, the 25year old laptop wins hands...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Tommie, not shrill but certainly concerned. The activities in (London)Derry within the past week should fill both of us with foreboding. The young quickly forget the lessons of the past. .. To paraphrase Pearse .. the dead, the dead, they have left us their Fenian fools .. ( you can just as...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The only point i can agree with is that the UK has done this backwards... A more logical way might have to create a royal commission with cross party membership and as a national strategic objective. Then to identify All the problems, the legislation required, the land purchases necessary, and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The tenor of the question, and your answer implies that the irish people , both North and South have no right in this matter and should perhaps be cheering on a Brexit. So lets state facts... 1. Only those resident in NI had a vote as they are still UK subjects.... they voted by a clear...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No can you not see that many ,who had a particular interest were disenfranchised, ..eg the ex pat Brits..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Is that not exactly the problem... there was no clarity as to what was being sought and even worse no clear mandate to so do..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. you can put all the plastic tapes and warning signs around s deep excavation that the H&S people want, but you still cannot stop louts after a nights drinking climbing into it in a feat of bravado... Remind you of something? . Ireland for once has remained sober and has made a reasoned...
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    Loss of function Bosch Vituvia no fault codes

    If it is the intuvia, then a lack of speedometer reading means that the battery is not making contact with the internal wiring loom. .. I recently had that problem when a bump caused a few breaks in the connector in the battery housing on the back carrier. You would need to bring the bike into...