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You can't claim to be an environmentalist and be anti-nuclear energy at the same time
  • what good things for the environment happened around chernobyl when the nuclear reactor there overheated? An area of 20 miles in any direction of the power station will be uninhabitable for at least 300 years, and potentially much longer.

  • Why do British people have such a dim view of Automatic cars?
  • For the same reason that cars with engine sizes above 2-litres are rare, and always have been rare - petrol is more expensive. Automatics used more fuel, so they were only standard on high-end jaguars, mercedes, etc. Simple as that.

  • What to know about overdraft fees as the White House cracks down on them
  • We've had this system in the uk for a few years now and it's excellent. You can set up an overdraft amount with the bank. If it's nil, all transactions that would send you overdrawn would not be paid. Payments that take you below zero but within the agreed amount cost interest of 40% (so it would cost 400pounds to borrow 1000 for a year). That's a steep rate of interest, but there are no fees. If i borrow 1000 pounds for a day, the cost is 1pounds10p. I can take 100 pounds out 10 times in a day, pay it all back the next day, 1.10 in interest. I've no argument with that!

  • Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely?
  • It'd be called 'obstructing traffic'. Police sometimes grab boy-racers along the sea-front near my home for it. There's no specific law saying you can't wait at a T-junction indefinitely, and i usually get stuck behind the ones that do. :-(

  • Photographing the unphotographable
  • See, you may laugh but the landlord now knows that the water is still flowing, so the cause isn't an area-wide outage or a burst pipe, but instead there's a fault in the system that heats the water.

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  • Smartaudiobook player is brilliant, free, and will remember your place in the story. To download, choose 'desktop mode' in your android browser then click where it says '310 files' to download it all in one go. Took me 30-45 minutes, it's about 1.3Gb in size.

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