Recent content by antipodean

Only if they had another mass to cause some force to be generated. But it wouldn't matter if it was on earth or the moon (whose gravity is around 1/10 of earth), it would still balance.

Well, tier is a level of seating (among other things that use the same word) pronounced differently to tire. Maybe you should write to Susie Dent in the Radio Times, her little column there seems to dig into vague historical meanings and origins.

I haven't done the figures to convert it to tons, but my understanding is each bomb is 30000 lb, at least that is about the heaviest figure I have seen specified for them, without going through the conversions. So these are the US equivalent of Barnes-Wallaces Grand Slam with some extra smarts...

My understanding is that 2000ib is what is referred to as a 'short ton'. Maybe the Imperialists think those in the US are a bit short ....

I would insist that using "proper" English, the headline would mean I would get the item for less than half price.

I have one where this has happened to the front USB port. My suspicion is that there is a regulator with a faulty cap similar to the problem that stops hard disks from operating. I suspect that they have used an identical circuit block in several places (HD, front USB, rear USB) so that they can...

I also get 0 length recordings periodically, and haven't been able to ascertain a reason. It happens on both TV and radio. It is not associated with having a program recorded immediately before or after (one of the regular 0 length recordings is "Life Scientific" with Jim Al-kalili on radio 4 in...

Ah, another Framework user. I have a Framework 16. For those not familiar with them, they live here ... (has proper link to URL mentioned above).

You will not get a full copy overnight. The transfer through the USB interface is quite slow. As others said, how many full copies do you really need? The other thing is that as you are backing up HD files they will not be decrypted as you are not using the CF. So once they are copied off to...

Well, my boss when I was an apprentice had lived in Australia for a handful of years, and told me that they get a lot of spoiled papers. Your story wouldn't work in Aus as they have proportional voting where you need to rank the candidates in your order of preference, so every box needs a...

In Australia, where voting is compulsory, I understand that there is a high rejection of voting slips because people show their disdain for the candidates by spoiling their voting paper. Easiest way to do this is to select every candidate.

I think you will find that those whom you have elected have abrogated the responsibility to the planning department.

There have been plans to have an F1 street race in London, and also the Formula E series was looking at having a street race near Buckingham Palace.

I have more problem with the sun in side mirrors when it is behind me.

I much prefer the interior mirrors where you flip a little lever to tilt the mirror and leave a plain glass at the angle that lets you look out the rear. I find the "automatic dipping" mirror in my Mondeo never seems to dip at the right time.