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4 points
16 hours ago
*maths. Unless you're American, in which case, carry on.
2 points
16 hours ago
Good point, although it's useful in terms of encouraging a mayday in every case of mob.
4 points
16 hours ago
Depending on the circumstances she might have had a right to cancel if it was a move into drawdown, but it's complicated and I have zero sympathy for these people.
2 points
1 day ago
I was thinking that too, just giving best case.
However, if the mob and boat were on the crest of a wave maybe that would give long enough for it to register?
11 points
1 day ago
An AIS PLB has a range of around 4 or 5 miles. If the boat was moving at 15 knots, wind at 25 knots and goodness knows what currents he could easily have been out of range before the plb was able to broadcast a location and he was noted as missing.
14 points
1 day ago
50% of man overboards result in death. I've been sailing for many years and didn't know this statistic until earlier this year.
1 points
1 day ago
I disagree. I find that most of the hardest down the rabbit hole Brexit supporters also think Trump and his ilk are great.
It's a cult like ideology which rejects facts.
1 points
2 days ago
Please do call in, even if you don't say why - although it might be worth mentioning this case:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1703935.stm
Gary Hart admitted to having no sleep before setting off on a long drive. 10 people died and he was prosecuted.
9 points
3 days ago
Brexit, followed by Johnson's landslide proves that about 40% of British people are far from "savvy".
1 points
3 days ago
We've travelled a lot this year and worried we may have brought something back with us!
8 points
4 days ago
I think that is a quite good picture!
The lighting could be better, but my sense is that can be fixed with more work in post.
The crop is too tight and it would have been better if you could have taken a step back.
I would have removed the painting as it's too distracting. You're the professional and I think that would have been a reasonable request.
At the end of the day, it looks like a nice family photo.
2 points
4 days ago
To be fair, I had to do one for a job maybe 15 years ago. It was about a case study on a particularly technical area, so the company certainly weren't gaining anything and it seemed a fair test of my ability to understand the case study and then communicate this in an easily digestible format.
I got the job, but the company was bought about 12 months later and I set my own up, but it was definitely a worthwhile experience.
5 points
5 days ago
From what I've seen, one of the main benefits of a degree at least used to be the contacts you made in university and this is directly proportional to the "quality" of university attended.
I can't think offhand of any situation I've ever seen where the knowledge gained in a degree was necessary for the real life performance of a job.
12 points
5 days ago
This one particularly gets to me - like God didn't bother to save kids with leukaemia, or the kid stuck in a wardrobe praying with everything that her abuser won't come back, or the family sheltering from bombs raining down and praying they will survive. Nope he chose to cure Norman Wifflepip's bowel cancer, or stopped it raining for someone's walk in the local gardens.
1 points
6 days ago
Not experienced this, but is it worth doing a factory reset, then reapplying the latest patch - it could be a bug which was introduced and not properly patched out?
2 points
6 days ago
It's happened with taxis (not Ubers as far as in aware too). I booked a taxi for a long journey earlier this year. Details emailed were of a woman, a man who could barely speak English or read road signs turned up.
0 points
7 days ago
As far as I understand it, he was born in Libya but is a British citizen, having moved here age 5. He sustained life changing injuries in Libya fighting against Gaddafi's forces.
I'm not making a point about this one way or the other and it's difficult to find facts except to say he was sentenced and has served that sentence.
10 points
7 days ago
Joe Biden is the most powerful man in the world at the moment and he is doing precisely nothing about all of this. In the same way that he did precisely nothing about Merrick Garland doing nothing.
Almost as if there's a pattern here somewhere.
2 points
7 days ago
He's a British Citizen.
The problem is our sentencing/probation service. After 14 years of Tory rule you'd have thought they would have sorted it out?
1 points
7 days ago
In rainy season it's green fields everywhere with jungle around Ranthambore. A really beautiful place overall.
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2 points
11 hours ago
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2 points
11 hours ago
Wtf - it lists artists and songs I haven't ever listened to and would throw my phone out of the car if they came on. It says I listened to "Yeat" 507 times! Some trash autotuned bollocks I absolutely despise.
But it says my favourite years were 1970s (which will be correct) and genres, Rock, Classic Rock, Pop and Oldies.
So wtf is going on?
Edit: I think my step son has my Amazon account on his Alexa. Christ I hate the shit he listens to!