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The UK constitution is a mess of precedent, procedure, conflicting laws and assumptions, many of which are along the lines of "you can keep the power to do this, as long as you never ever use it". Haven't had time to read the 150 pages of this, but it should be both interesting and useful
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Describing this sign would ruin the effect. Trespassers will be...
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I did done learn something! I had heard references to the Galactic Halo, but had no clue what it was. I find astrophysics fascinating, and utterly baffling. Having friends doing PhDs in it and blogging about it is useful though.
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Unity, in typically forthwright style goes through some of those "padded bras sold to kids" stories and debunks or explains most of them. Sarah? Unity's a Labour member, when you're being out-liberaled by a Labour activist, time for a reality check?
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OK, one patient. And a treatment so nasty it might be better to no go through it. But that one treatment appears to have worked is a good sign that it can be built on, right?
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And just a few days after I linked to photos of the place, the UKR govt announces they're going to open it to tourism. Concerns I've seen are about the impact on what has become a de facto nature reserve, will the Govt there use that as a selling point, or let it get trashed?
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WTF? Stop Signs get put up by officialdom. Appears in the US that different branches of Govt can sometimes put them up independently. But to have 700 signs that no one knows about is, well, a bit weird. Surely someone paid for them?
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Date: 2010-Dec-14, Tuesday 21:24 (UTC)There was a neighboring town that for years were getting extra revenue by tricking people until someone finally put a stop to it. It's a blip on the map and yet has three stop lights. However the most used traffic light also had a stop sign, so even if your light was green, if you didn't stop for the sign, the police would pull you over and ticket you for it. Totally illegal but they got away with it for ages somehow.
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Date: 2010-Dec-14, Tuesday 23:42 (UTC)That said, a funny one's appeared near one of the roundabouts in Stevenage. It's your normal yellow and black, with a diagram of the roundabout. But the text says 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'.
I'd assume it was a bit of guerrilla marketing, except that I have absolutely no idea what it could be advertising! It's very strange.