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  1. flecc

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Michel Barnier has just today made clear that N.I isn't going to get special treatment. He's baldly stated that with our departure, border checks will be in full force. .
  2. flecc

    Where do you charge your battery?

    With speakers I'd say no, there's only a conversion of electrical waveform to mechanical oscillation, with no purpose. However, with a headphone feed to earphones inside a spaceman's helmet the system will work fine of course. .
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    Where do you charge your battery?

    Or into space! Seems Elon Musk has dropped a clanger sending his sports car there. No charging points either. .
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    Use it or lose it.. an interesting read.

    I don't see this model being sufficient for bicycles though. As essential transport for many, a local provision for repairs and instantly needed components will always be necessary and that need will be met. The most likely forms are as I posted, both successful models in the face of intense...
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    Use it or lose it.. an interesting read.

    Getting stroppy with the customers isn't the answer. Bike shops will always be present, but they will be different in at least two ways: First will be banding together in supply groups like Spar groceries for example, giving them large company buying power. The second will be community...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They are single handedly to blame for our low productivity, all this hand crafting stuff using wood. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It was always inevitable, Nissan et al were never going to just be satisfied with Theresa May's vague assurances. I couldn't see BMW maintaining Oxford for the Mini either if there's any cross channel obstruction. Apparently some parts cross the channel four times during manufacturing stages...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not so, it precedes the EU and has no linkage, being originally a geographic competition: The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; French: Union européenne de radio-télévision, UER) is an alliance of public service media organisations, established on 12 February 1950. The organisation is made up...
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    Road and MTB Racing coming for e-bikes

    You've got the national and international HPVAs for that. If the UCI is to adopt recumbents, the HPVAs will have to relinquish any claim to control recumbent sport. .
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    Road and MTB Racing coming for e-bikes

    . Here's the link. .
  11. flecc

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That's Europe too. Just a matter of digging far enough. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Slightly out Tom. Because Liverpool is cash starved and deprived and the Liverpool guy hasn't got any work, the London guy employs him on a zero hours contract to do the job, and any other he wants done. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes, the UK can still enter Eurovision, as could Russia again. It's a geographic European competition with no connection to the EU. .
  14. flecc

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They didn't want him in the first place so I don't think he'd be too welcome. Anyway it's a false title. When King Henry 8th ruled that Wales was a part of England, i.e. a principality, it indeed could have a presiding prince. But once it was later ruled that Wales was a country in it's own...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That's me alright then. :) The amusing thing I find about the governments predictions of the areas that will suffer most, Birmingham and the North East, is that they were the most strongly for Brexit. They are not going to be happy bunnies. Here in firmly Labour and Remainer London, we're...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The Germans resort to violence? Surely not. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Indeed, it we walk out without a deal the Germans will be unhappy. But we'll be financially very much worse off. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    But again I have to repeat what I previously posted some while ago. Germany would be the worst affected but has already stated that the 7% loss to their economy due to losing the UK's custom they can easily withstand. Since that was what they suffered due to the 2008 recession, it's proven...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That once again makes the mistake of comparing the UK to the EU. The correct comparison is 1 country to 27, the total amounts of trading being roughly equal each way. Their loss of the equal trade is divided by 27, ours is wholely borne by us. So crashing out it won't be a disaster for the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There's actually 11 millions of us, 17% of the population, and we're quite smug and arrogant about it too. We get welfare benefits and even get privileged treatment from the government. We call it retirement. :) .