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You don't need to start with a 10 metre square sheet. You can start with a 1 metre sheet and the final area will still be 8.8817841970013e-10 square millimetres. Easy.

Yes correct, but I meant a total of 50 repetitions of ripping the paper in half. I probably worded the question ambiguously causing you to calculate the answer based on a further 50 on top of my 2, making 52 in total. If you repeat the exercise 50 times, the stack will be 168 884 986 kilometres or nearly 105 million miles high. My first instinctive guess was around 200 feet.

Cheers for that. Here was me thinking that eBay had a giant Aladdin's Cave type warehouse packed with every conceivable item from rubber johnnies to luxury cars. Now that I understand the eBay trading model that misconception has been dispelled.

So, this would mean that all of the Chinese sellers on eBay offering non-compliant batteries to Europe are breaking this legislation. Would eBay be committing the offence by facilitating the importation? I bet they are $hi!!ing themselves, look how robustly the authorities have gone after Google, Amazon and all of the other corporate giants. This could be a game changer for eBay, or maybe it's just ill thought out pooh from the Brussels pooh factory.

What does, "to import" mean? If I order one off eBay, am I importing?" Or do I have to physically bring the battery into the country myself to import?

If I were to take a sheet of paper 0.15 mm thick, rip it in two and put one half on top of the other, the stack would be 0.3 mm high. If I were to rip the stack in two and place the two halves on top of each other again, I'd have a stack 0.6 mm high (4 x 0.15 mm). If I were to repeat the process 50 times, how high will the stack of paper be? (I know it's not possible to do this due to the decreasing area of the stack, but pretend for a moment that you can. Answer tomorrow. ( I read this in a book and it surprised me, but I've now done the sums and its true. )

I had posted a link to an ePetition which was calls for the government to reverse the decision to fine parents £60 if they take their children out of school during term time for the purpose of a cheap holiday. I thought that if enough people signed it, the government would look again at the proposal, decide that it was too lenient and increase the penalty to £1000 per child and 6 months in prison. Then I saw Cameron on the TV and realised that my plan would back-fire and decided to remove / delete the post. But I couldn't do that, so I deleted the text of the original message.

Thought better of it.

I'm still with them, although it's Vagina Media now. Once everything is set up and working and if you manage to avoid calling, thinking about calling or having any correspondence whatsoever with the company, they aren't bad. But the same goes for many organisations these days.

Actually, he was forced to take part. If he didn't do it, Donald Trump said that he would tie Nick Hewer to a burning toboggan, coax a rabid squirrel to mount his face and catapult the whole sorry mess into an aeroplane propellor. So he didn't have much choice in the matter.

I had a problem with NTL (now Virgin Media) many years ago: * ******** **** ******** ********** *** *** Dear Cretins, Installation at * ******** **** I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office. My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat @rse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW? I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme. Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue. I thought BT were w@nekrs, that they had attained the holy pi$$-pot of god-awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom - w@nekers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees. Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of t@wts. Yours sincerely ***

It's the character that he has been given to play in the game show which is, The Apprentice.

I will look forward to tomorrow evening to see what they think of electric bikes. It's been quite an entertaining series this year with the producers choosing a mixed bunch of comedy characters to throw into the ring so that they can fight each other. I'm quite excited about the forthcoming Episode 10. This is the one where Lord Sugar fights the evil Professor Insulin.

It could have been one of these If it was, it would almost certainly be illegal and the rider would be committing all of the offences which are well documented in other threads on here.

I expect that the range is greater than 10 miles, but having never owned one, I wouldn't like to predict what the figure might be. You don't have to run them at the highest power setting all of the time, so it would help extend the range if you could manage at a more conventional power level. As far as legality is concerned, there is no grey area, they are ilegal to use anywhere in the UK except on private land and that land must not allow public access. This is a concern to some people and they choose not to buy such a bike. Others are not so concerned and are quite comfortable using them on roads. I think you would find the Endeavour BS10 a very practical, well built bike bike which is nice to own. But the S class and decision whether to use one on a road is yours.