SteamyTea

I drive like your Nan. A £270 speeding fine sorted that out. £270, and that was over 10 years ago. £270 to the Norfolk courts, they could a years worth of turnips for that.

To be more correct, I used to make the Marcos GRP panels

That is my experience when using CTs. Though I found, on average over the whole range things tend to sort themselves out. The only large inductive loads I have are the washing machine, vacuum cleaner and the bathroom fan. They are no used that much in the scheme of things.

More a case of the Dismal Science (Economics is not a science).

Um Sounds like he wants out, so be very vigilant about the quality. A few years back I had been complaining to some suppliers about there quality of products. Asked 3 suppliers to provide me with their best. Two then supplied excellent products after sending us rubbish for a few weeks. One, and the one I stuck with, personally came around and said that what we were getting was the best he could supplier at that time. We have stayed with him ever since as he is honest and would not send us rubbish if he could get better (it is fresh vegetables). So I am always very wary of people that can suddenly up their game.

In Economics, there is something called 'competitive advantage'. Basically it is just saying that you should do what you do best, and let others do what they do best. The UK, for some reason, thinks that we can 'do best' in everything. This is total nonsense, but led to the referendum and us voting to leave the EU. Now the general public are starting to understand what CA is about. The USA likes to skew CA with taxes, I suspect that we will follow this, and that has disastrous consequences. There is also a difference between living and working in a fully developed economy and not working in one, but having access to their market. This was very apparent in Brazil in the 1990's. The developed economies wanted timber, Brazil wanted to sell it. Brazil had access to millions of hectares of hardwood forests, cheap labour and a transport infrastructure. Inward investment happened from large US and Canadian logging companies with the consequences being both environmental and social devastation in Brazil. No one can blame an individual for wanting a bit of hardwood furniture, or wanting to work in the best paid jobs at their skill levels, so it has been down to the non-governmental organisations to highlight the issues and how national governments need to work together to change working practices. Thankfully this is happening and there are schemes in place to change logging and farming to tourism (it is easier to point to a fish than catch one). Tourism can only help in some areas though, so other industries will have to be developed, or created, in 'hard to treat' areas. The UK had a stab at this in the post war years with building of new towns with light industrial units built in. This has led us to believe that this 'small is beautiful' model is the way forward. In my opinion, and this is just an opinion, we have gone too far down this road and lost our competitive advantage compared to some existing fully developed economies (Germany, USA, France even) and we need to encourage large, multinational organisation to either move to the UK or develop out own. Not sure the best way to do this, it is usually done with tax breaks, so why not abolish corporation tax (gets rid of the non-payment of CT as well). We would have to tax individual more, which never goes down well, but if more people are working, earning a higher wage, on average, they are all better off (we have cut income taxes too much for low earners that now 40%(ish) of workers are out of the tax system). To conclude and sum up, let the best workers do what they do best, encourage them to work here, then tax them more.

There was a story in the 1960 about the UK trade delegation having a tour of a Russian factory. The Russians were very proud to show how efficient and hard working their staff were. Russian "They start 6AM, work until 12 Noon, 15 minutes break for sandwiches, Russian sandwiches, from the machine. Then start work again on the tractor line until 6PM. The second shift takes over, works until 12 Midnight, 15 minutes break for soup, Russian soup, from the machine, then work until 6AM. They do this 7 days week." Brummie trade delegate "You would not get our lads working like that, they are all communists."

"It's frothy man" Just like my wee in the mornings

Looks like my mates homebrew, probably tastes better.

While on this subject, almost. What is the easy way to sort this out.

Would MAC spoofing get around that?

Can you get another free trial loaded on another computer? Or see if you can open the file in another, properly free, CAD package. Or set the PC clock back a month, it used to work in the olden days when we were all honest.

Think I shall drop into my Count Arthur Strong mode.

enough grammer and spilling nazi really piss me off

I am not going to the GD show, or interested in listening to some experts (x is the unknown, spurt is a drip under pressure), in fact, I am not building a house. So shall go to the beach instead.

I had a run in with Anglian Windows the other day. They broke my guttering while working on the neighbours house. Simple job to put right. After 3 days of not hearing from them, I called again. The woman on the phone was defensive and started arguing. So to get even I am posting up here that their customer relations are rubbish. But my guttering is now back in place and my neighbour has about 10 meters of fascia, 8m of gutter for, and I must have misheard this from him, £6500. I must check that price with him and see if it is correct as I think that is a job for trading standards.

I don't. I may be some time away

I fancy something like that, but notice that it uses the same pins as an RTC on the RPi. I would have thought that it was not too hard to make ones own circuit to use a simple CT clamp and an RPi. Just cobbling together an energy monitor at the moment. These are some of the bits.

Washing machines are pretty nasty. There was a case in Desborough, part of High Wycombe, where a woman had her hand wrenched off at the launderettes. Apparently it was like a horror movie with the woman wandering around the street with blood spurting. I missed it, by seconds, but my work mate saw it in all its gory detail. Now we have to wait a whole minute after the cycle has stopped before we can open the door.

I don't get annoyed, just even

it would make sense, as long as time is not an issue (which normally it won't be). By keeping the supply a bit higher than the return, and both higher than the sink temperature initially, it can run for longer with a lower risk of having to defrost. Makes for a good reason to put in a larger store if you can.

Yes, that is interesting as it could hurt the CoP when the weather is right and the cylinder is cold. But So some homework to do

Never mind the quality, feel the width

An inch too short

When buying cordless tools, is it not best to buy what your workmates use. Then you can borrow a battery, for quite a long time.