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08.07.08
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...a great post on the Libertarian Party blog today should help get you over your myopia, with a smile at least:
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UK Libertarian Party: A day in the life of Old Holborn Thursday 7th July 2011
07:00. Radio Four woke me up with
07:30 Since butter was banned, I |
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08.07.07
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Eaten by missionaries
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03.01.08
at 16:04
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I had a conversation about this at lunchtime, so interesting to see this posted up on the BBC website. I had no idea that's what those discs enbedded in the road and little grey boxes were for:
When snow is forecast, local councils send out the gritters. Trouble spots are identified by networks of sensors embedded in the asphalt. How does this early warning system work?
On roads and highways across the UK, discs are embedded in the road surface to measure climatic conditions. Each is connected by cable or mobile phone technology to an automatic weather station, an unassuming grey box by the roadside.
It's a system developed in the 1970 and 80s and now widely used across the country to track and predict road conditions throughout inclement months. To have accurate information about driving conditions is invaluable to road authorities and local councils to decide when - and where - to send out the gritters.
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16.07.07
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From ConservativeHome - an update on those grassroots surveys of the social policy paper:
Members divided on tax allowance for same sex couples:
"Only 564 members answered this question compared to the 1,417 who answered the questions highlighted earlier today. The question was added to the survey a number of hours after the survey had gone live - following David Cameron's suggestion on Channel 4 News that any married couples' allowance would also benefit same sex couples who had entered civil partnerships.
"37% of the respondents agreed with David Cameron that any allowance should benefit such same sex couples but 49% did not agree that gay couples should receive the allowance. A further 10% of this population of 564 disagreed with any tax allowance for married or same sex couples."
Unless, of course, these are the Tories that wanted to have full-blown marriage for same sex couples as well instead of civil partnerships. But somehow, methinks it's the old majors and blue stockings choking on their Cornflakes at the thought of those queers getting the same treatment as married couples.
I wonder if the answers would be any different if, say, the proposed allowance were only available for couples, of any gender, raising children?
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05.10.07
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Bryony is also a vice-president of OBSU, this time for academic affairs, which includes things like student representation on university overseeing committees.
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