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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Clarification accepted, I had made the assumption you were referring only to the UK parliament. Peace
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... You are missing the important bit Decision by EU parliament on whether to accept or reject council negotiator recommendations. I see it as at most a four stage process.. the ones where actual decisions are made. 1. UK parliament authorising. A50 declaration. Document sent. 2. Negotiating...
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    BMS Battery 400w charger help

    Fan present or not does not matter. I prefer fanless finding the frequency really annoying. Electronic components can fail silently and with no external physical damage, so absence of damage is not evidence of no damage. If you get it working you can locate it at the other end of your...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Actually nothing in a legal sense has happened to progress the brexit agenda. Your parliament is faffing about the rules of engagement, and has not yet entered the ring. The brexit process commences the day after a certain letter is in the postbox of Brussels. The brexit process terminates...
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    Advice please for a "commuter bike"

    We basically agree. 10/12 x 60 would give a time of 50 minutes . Not far off my estimate . An electric bike would be slightly quicker off the mark than a conventional bike . Will of course depend on the number of roundabouts and traffic lights, depending on the topography, might well beat a...
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    BMS Battery 400w charger help

    .... The potential good news is that there was life after death in a manner of speaking... That you did get it to momentary charge after jiggling connections. That would suggest an electrical rather than electronic fault. . A loose connection, dry solder joint. There would typically be 100 or...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Insanity ... ??? Windscale is just a severe accident or otherwise away from making a significant fraction of Wales and Ireland uninhabitable. Spending billions on a product you cannot use , because if you do you will doom yourself Politically unwise , to have stated it in those terms...
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    Plug-in Motorcycle grant

    .. your government should look at their spelling checker. Silicones agree a form of organic compounds, in some cases used in polishing not an element in the periodic table
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ...... I am becoming resigned to the fact that A50 will happen, that the very hard to hard brexit will occur, the only possibility for sanity to remerge would be for Labour to realise that appeasement was futile and as we might say grow a pair. Perhaps your by election result could be that catalyst.
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    BMS Battery 400w charger help

    Obviously it's not charging. How many pins are there on the output lead from the charger to the battery pack?. Is there a DC voltage on these when disconnected from the battery pack but also connected to the mains? You indicated that you checked voltages around the charger...How? Many of these...
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    Interpretation of a display item on the Bosch Intuvia

    It's a measure of the power coming from the battery. I think there is about 20 rectangles making up bar graph. When none are black you are using no battery power when all are black you are using max battery power. When you are in the high power modes eg. Turbo or sport , the display is very...
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    Camera in your pocket thread.

    ... Someone who likes to live dangerously...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. good on you. 500 in 1980 was not an inconsiderable sum. A good make of car eg Toyota collora could be purchased new for less than 5 times that.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "All men kill the thing they love..." Killing of other humans is a valued profession. Look at the monuments in any Imperial city. Look at the amounts of money spent on arms . Killing is a part of life, without life there would be none. What you are referring to is unjustified, or unlawful or...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ...... Spoken by a true dog walker. No they do so as a perceived freedom, to impress other women , to attract potential mates , to make themselves feel good. And for a myriad of other reasons I cannot begin to fanthom Some of them even study!!!, Attain degrees!!, Get jobs, Walk dogs, and I...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    . The number of jobs available availability ,for untrained young males is decreasing. You cannot even be on a building site, the old GOTO location for untrained youths without a safety certificate. 17 year olds deserve to be in school or training centres.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... I had an electric apprentice in, college for training who looked just like this guy. Immediately I knew he was trouble.. however he turned out to one of the most appreciative, gentleman I had. So don't judge by appearances.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Look I also come from the same liberal western background as yourself and would share the same values. But there are other values and other societies which value other attributes and it is an arrogance to believe that ours is the only true way.....And that we are the enlightened ones This has...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... My red line issue is mutilation. However you are looking to religion as a lifestyle choice.. whether to go with the boho style or late hippie . I t it is not. To a believer religion is the reason why they are on the earth. If you truely believe that the God who made the entire universe has...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A western woman visiting a cleric in a Muslim dominated community choose not to wear a veil. She knew or should have known that it would cause dissent. There was a cultural norm at stake. The cleric would probably be distracted by what would have been perceived as a slight or insult. Western...