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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The zx81 was never great, it was an interesting diversion, less power and useful than a pic let alone an arduino The spectrum was a workable machine. On the other hand, and it is before my time, the model T was great
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    Are there any British manufacturers?

    You may laugh .but true story.... My elder sister was given a black bike for the about 1 mile trip up to the secondary school , in the early 1960s when she started big school. . The bike was a hand me down from an aunt who was about 10 years older... On the first day she arrived , parked the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Even a day or two can make a huge difference when in a critical care centre. Note that the NHS statement was later and directly linked with the hospital in question. Whereas the previous day's message had come from a lay person in Russia , had presumably had delays in coming and going and might...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I have attempted to read the said article and eventually gave up. It is stating a number of conflicting arguements and therefore strikes me as propaganda..or deliberate misinformation. It asserts that the chemicals used are well known and the formula published, it then asserts that they don't...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Of course i don't know .. if i knew i would have been the perpetrator. But there is a high probability. Was it also designed to main the policeman?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I would accept the us statement as accurate in respect to the use of the verb "to murder. " That they ,the agent who attempted it failed was not presumably due to lack of intent. The other point as to who the agent was is slightly more problematic. Russian state actors were involved, either in...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There is an interesting essay in the current issue of Time. Basically saying that Putin is an excellent tactican but a poor strategist..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Which is why the chief civil servant dealing with that topic has moved over to the personal staff of one of your royals...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wow all of Platos republic reduced to a single sentence.
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    Are lithium pencil batteries overpriced and overhyped?

    You can often recharge to a limited extent primary cells . The fundemental chemical reaction is reversible but if any of the chemicals evaporate or soak away then they are not available
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    Shaft drive Ebikes?

    Naughty!!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Protecting is a weasel word. It is not as definite as maintaining, ringfenicng , increasing etc...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Probably a fair comparison. Not aware what the percentage of Germans were in the Sudetenland, but if where 80% to 90% then it is a close comparison.
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    Redundancy

    If I were the person being called into a such a meeting, I would ,if I suspected an ambush, go in with a recording device operational. There would be no reason to publise that fact and if all the treatment was fair ,it would never see the light of day. I would not volunteer the information...
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    Caravan/leisure battery drain testing

    Switch off the fridge if the problem is superfast even an internal lamp will discharge it... Or just disconnect the battery live if it is slower and just irritating.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Cant Agree with your terminology that nuclear is a low grade fuel. Using it to heat water is probably the worst thermodynamic thing you can do with it.But in energetic terms and physics it is the highest form we have.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Tommie, i am afraid I am with flecc on this one. The Crimea was from time immemorial, linked with the Russian people. It was provocative of the West to try and shut them off. The rest of the Ukraine should have acknowledged that. When the Ukraine was put together as an national entity, it was...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Correction .. the UK only started doing that in 1802. The franchise was transferred from an older entity GB after Scotland was annexed in 1707 ,but it took Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, to make the current. UK.. Which begs the question before 1707 was it lesser great Britain ie LGB?.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. you will note that in my previous posts on this topic I used the word Russian interests. It seems unlikely but he could be a strawman.
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    18650 cell question

    Where do these cells come from. ? There will be a limited number of lithium cell manufacturers, with chemical laboratories and QC facilities. They produce cells. As with all manufacture products there will be a distribution curve of performance. .. perhaps when the machine was started in the...