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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Don't you think that there are plenty of people in those zones who see that as their only hope?. The history of that region shows that sometimes PR is the only weapon
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A number of years ago, I was visiting my house in france where the temperature internally was -5 centigrade, Probably -10 outside. . It rarely snows , but it can get pretty cold in the west ,. I had not got to the stage of putting the gas cylinder outside, and the only heating in the house...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My experience is with butane only.... So could be different on propane systems.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. been there done that and in the rain...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The calor type, which we also use in Ireland, and I use for our domestic hob cooking has a spring loaded flange which allows ball bearings to ride over a groove and the regulator is affixed to the top. The French bottle has a tap and a screw thread of a corse thread pitch to which the regulator...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The essential difference is that the UK type connection is a clip on bayonet type at the high pressure end ,and pressure reduced at the cylnder . The french style uses a screw connection so that the high pressure butane can be piped longer distances and only reduced in pressure close to the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The notion of toothy organisations, willing to bare their teeth is what is creating this mess. Unless we have and continue to have international parliaments, such as the UN which are capable of at a minimum of criticism of warring factions, the situation will be worse.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well they gave you a nicer name for your island... Calling us Hibernia or the land of winter was a rather chilly thing to do... Not the kind of thing a good estate agent would do....
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Any now it all makes sense!!! With BREXIt you can keep them at arms length, clever, and there we were thinking there was madness in your method.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And your better alternative is?... The problem with the UN is that any of a select band, can veto anything. As regarding NATO, be grateful that it no action, ... If it were it means western Europe is minutes away from annihilation.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Your last sentence is the giveaway... There are plenty of things we would never know or fully experience until we try them... Putting ones hand in a fire is one of them. But more accurately, the UK did have plenty of experience of life being outside the EEC , and in more favourable...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That misses the essential point about evolution.. that it is blind. Variant s appear, some hinder, some support , some do neither. Those that hinder tend not to persist beyond a generation, those that may assist will continue indefinitely , or until they no longer assist..
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    Powabyke Ebike Fuse Keeps Blowing

    Ok that makes it easier, again it is probably still a short circuit. .. my next suggestion is an old troubleshooting trick... Replace the fuse with a car headlight bulb. If there is no short in the wiring the bulb will only glow dull red at best. Manipulating all the wiring harness and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Surely the Crown does not pay tax?. It seems illogical that it would. If the Crown owns everything then it is the little people who would give money to the Crown for existing, not the other way around?. As a citizen of a republic, i find this cult of celebrity impossible to understand. , Not...
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    Powabyke Ebike Fuse Keeps Blowing

    As an electronics student I would be tempted to ask what year... . . Now the calculation you are making say that the current will be 14 amps is not necessarily true... A motor not rotating presents as a short circuit, and the current which flows will be limited by whatever other resistance is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The NI situation is more convoluted than that. On one level there were the landowning factory ownibg class ..the official unionist grouping who expected their protestant workers to vote with them. Many with double barrelled names... ... which they did, until they got a champion in the form of...
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    Battery question

    Just to amplify d8veh comments. .. whether the battery will store more energy after a few cycles is uncertain. In some cases the charging circuits can include intelligence in the form of a microcontroller and memory and may nudge a few more columbs of charge.. But and this bit is real, the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The software and engineering markets is an area in which I have extensive experience and contacts. At no stage have i ever suggested that a no customs union BREXIt will be other than painful and expensive for the RoI as indeed it will be for the UK and more particularly NI. It is prudent...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not Irish companies jumping ship, you need to see the backstory... . There are capable software graduates in the NI colleges, underemployed, so the comment "great talent pool .", is valid .. . Cork is saturated , the Apple company for instance with its 5.5K staff , has absorbed all the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I would much prefer to call it Islands of the North Atlantic.. or IONA for short... It should appeal to both us, yourselves, as you can justly claim Colmcille, and the Scots..