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Jax

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  1. Not really, I am up at 5am in summertime, out with the dog or at the stables seeing to the horse, a surprising number of folks are out and about early before work.

    Staying light until 11.30 would be a waste and an annoyance as I try to get to sleep. I know we can't have it all ways but staying light until 11.30pm would be more conducive to anti social behaviour such as the boorish drunks who live near here who insist on preventing anyone who needs to get a good nights sleep from doing so. The people who start their day early tend to have a little more respect for those who like to stay in bed a little longer and no I'm not a miserable old curmudgeon, I like a drink as much as the next man but I also have respect for my fellow man/neighbour.

    totally agree and yes I am an early starter (used to have horses, ducks, chickens, sheep etc)

  2. it is all bullocks anyway, changing the clocks does not change the amount of light, I would like to stick with GMT and be done with it.  Plenty of jobs now on varied hours, get one of those if 9-5 is not good for you.

     

    When one time works for you it does not for another, we get this every year and you just have to adapt and deal with it because nothing you can do about the amount of light and for how long.

     

    I do shifts so it means some weeks I get light at the start not the end of my day and switches the next.

     

    Unless we get everyone onto the same exact hours and fix that then this will never change.

     

    Only way *you* can change it is to get a job and live in a location that offers what you want, this pesky earth keeps spinning, rotating and tilting round the the big round warm glowy thing and not sure there are any plans to change that any time soon.

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  3. Amazing how the Express take quotes that, if you read them carefully, don't back their sensationalist story and use them to try to back their sensationalist story. For example,

     

    Met Office - “If it does have an influence on the UK it will brush past the northwest of the country,"

     

    Express - Run for your lives!!!!

    Spot on, why I have not wasted a penny on any of these rags for nearly two decades now.

     

    And they wonder why sales are falling? go figure.

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  4. Maybe but then again we used to burn coal and wood enmasse until the smogs killed many, so that was regulated to clean the air up, motorised carriges replaced horses, it cleaned up the streets but then polluted the air, we used lead in pipes, paint, petrol and childrens figures, then we found out that was bad and lets not forget how 'great' asbestos was until the 80's

     

    All in the recent time frame, think the original excitement of diesel like nuclear being the wonder fuel of the future was thought to be great until the actual problems came to light which only tend to when they get used by many in real world situations, you can test away in the lab but the real world has a habit of only finding the unthought, unseen problems someone in a white coat had not.

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    "The overarching aim for us is to maintain and enhance our position as the leading destination for weather information[...]"

     

    What the fook is that load of corporate BS supposed to mean? :cc_confused: 

     

    If you see the BBC online I see at work (which is the global version) it is now very similar to the UK version, it never used to be, my guess is they are merging into just one single entity, this includes source information at a guess.

     

    Also regular viewers of BBC news channel can not have noticed the extra global content now being shown, it used to be UK version and the RotW, Open Source for example.  The global version used to be blocked by them in the UK, it is not any more so WWW.BBC.COM/capital WWW.BBC.COM/future WWW.BBC.COM/culture WWW.BBC.COM/autos etc all now work in the UK.

     

    They are changing their model and going global IMHO with a single thrust.

  6. Could have been a middle part of a backbone network some users were crossing that was slow, that tends to play havoc with java based net applications, doing forced refreshes then restarts a new instance but often leaves the old one running (hence the post duplication).

     

    Next time it happens try a trace route from a command shell/prompt depending on your operating system to see where the bottle neck is.

     

    example traceroute to netweather.tv (104.20.21.79) you can see the jump times in bold below (if one is high there is the possible problem)

     

    4  * * *
     5  * * *
     6  nrth-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.254.42.130)  30.018 ms  32.190 ms  22.427 ms
     7  tele-ic-4-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.18)  22.072 ms  21.447 ms  26.395 ms
     8  linx-juniper.as13335.net (195.66.225.179)  41.875 ms  42.349 ms  42.647 ms
     9  104.20.21.79 (104.20.21.79)  34.680 ms  34.213 ms  39.620 ms
     

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