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> Where is the exchange located exactly? Which bit of Lordship Lane? Thanks. This checker shows it on a map, and gives your distance from it. http://kitz.co.uk/adsl/adslchecker.php

>It's safe to assume that the brief was to show that interparcel.com offers a web-based door to >door parcel delivery service which is more convenient than going to the post office. >So they film a bloke going to the post office in the rain. Then they cut to a bloke in the warm >indoors who does the same job with his laptop using interparcel.com. If they'll give me a consultancy fee -- I assume a few thousand will be the norm -- I'll tell them not to be so daft as to force potential customers to go through several passes of a quotation-getting routine to get any idea of their price structure.

>then he starts talking about Southern Electric, Did he get a chance to say he was the area manager?

binary_star Wrote: > I actually emailed The Tree of Hope because I thought the flyer looked a bit DIY (the logos were > badly pixellated), no bags were provided, and the web address provided for SOS Clothes Ltd (who are > collecting the clothes on behalf of the charity) didn't check out. But a contact at the Charity > confirmed this is a legitimate collection. Good job as we've donated clothes to them! Just to provide a link to a post I've just made to the lounge about a similar kind of arrangement: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,558283,584479#msg-584479 where A.N.Y.A.Ltd say they are collecting for a Lithuanian charity. It is interesting, btw, that as one delves into the different companies and arrangements, one does notice some recurring names. I suppose the acid test is to look at the collecting companies' accounts and to find out from the charities what they received.

The latest one through the door, collecting this Friday "in support of the STOP INDIFFERENCE project of the Lithuanian Orphan Fellowship", says they're a company called A.N.Y.A. Ltd. A quick check at Companies House shows that the company was dissolved in March 2010, and had not filed any accounts since its incorporation in March 2007. The address shown on the leaflet hasn't been the company's registered address since November 2007. The website they name in connection with the project, www.stopindifference.org is not to be found, and the domain stopindifference.org is not currently registered to anyone. A search on the phone number given, 07902213700, brings up this site, a compendium of similar clothing collections: http://www.charitybags.org.uk/clothing_collectors_selection.shtml . There the company is said, in a January 2008 leaflet, to be associated with www.lithuanianorphanfellowship.org. That domain too is currently available to buy. The current leaflet says that "the company will donate 100% of our monthly profits (after the deduction of salaries and operating costs) to this charity [Lithuanian Orphan Fellowship]"). In the absence of any accounts, it's difficult to know if there were any profits.

I've been in there a few times since the re-opening, mainly for books. Haven't found it uncomfortable, so ignore what I said above. Have you seen the Mind Christmas cards? I don't think I remember cats on them before, but there seem to be as many now as there are robins. Real cats, too, that is, and out in the snow (but not afaics assaulting robins). Is this a trend, and what does it mean?

>The festive season is hotting up as it took 20 minutes to send a recorded envelope, It took twenty minutes to queue for a certificate of posting at about 3pm on November 1. When I walked past the PO half an hour ago, the queue went right out onto the street; six to eight places before you even got inside the place. And they shut down the Melbourne Grove sub-office.

The three bike signs have now been close to erased. I don't know what that signifies, but I think it at least removes any worry that Southwark might find themselves having to pay a million or two in damages to an injured cyclist.

>Yes, the /tmp folder on the server was full up again which stopped the search from working. Should be fine now. If it's going to be a recurring problem, run a cron job to regularly purge it of all but the freshest stuff and email the admins of any impending space problems.

I'm on what Virgin National (which is what they now call their ADSL phone-line broadband). I wouldn't advise switching to it. If anyone is thinking of doing so, have a look at the forum page http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Broadband-down-your-phone-line/bd-p/national. At present it seems fairly typical, with a fair proportion of gripes about low speeds. No saying how representative this is, I suppose: happy bunnies don't gripe. Nevertheless, not all bunnies appear happy.

I've seen a northbound train at 11.44, and a southbound one at 11.55, which was in accord with the NR live departures page (though that was a bit slow in upddating the latter from 5 min late to 10 min late). It's currently, in its window to 13.45, showing departures at 14/15 and 44/45 min past the thour, all 'On time'.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks - I'm getting 8Mb today Over the BT telephone line, from Virgin?

> Handy way to get rid of things that are too good to throw away but that you don't want (and if you have no luck with Freecycle). Don't forget Freegle.

From the letters page of the latest Private Eye (No.1276): "PPS The police have just issued pictures of the most wanted students in the UK in connection with the riot. Unfortunately, two of them are architects from our office which was under siege at the time in 30 Millbank. We have had a great deal of fun today at their expense. One of them was heard to comment, "How can I be a violent student? I'm wearing a pullover"." (If anyone would like to discuss the propriety of clue 12 across in the PE crossword, please PM me.) Cf also, re vigilantism

> They have also worked out that SpaceyCat, sitting at the window watching them, is completely harmless. Or they're playing chicken? It's always blue tits, innit. I think I heard something on the radio last week about ?blackbirds learning new behaviours so as to use the feeders. Any pioneers sighted locally?

Heard on Radio 4 this morning -- an allegation of corruption against Fifa officials, an allegation of perjury against the main prosecution witness in the Ali Dizaei case, all against people who've not been convicted. Why don't the BBC just stop this vigilantism and witch-hunting, respect people's human rights, and leave this stuff to the police to deal with?

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The shopkeeper has the right to report the matter to the police. They can also ban the person from entering their >shop. What other rights would you give them? PACE 1984 s24A, as amended: "Arrest without warrant: other persons (1) A person other than a constable may arrest without a warrant? (a) anyone who is in the act of committing an indictable offence; (b) anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing an indictable offence. (2) Where an indictable offence has been committed, a person other than a constable may arrest without a warrant? (a)anyone who is guilty of the offence; (b) anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be guilty of it. (3) But the power of summary arrest conferred by subsection (1) or (2) is exercisable only if? (a) the person making the arrest has reasonable grounds for believing that for any of the reasons mentioned in subsection (4) it is necessary to arrest the person in question; and (b) it appears to the person making the arrest that it is not reasonably practicable for a constable to make it instead. (4) The reasons are to prevent the person in question? (a) causing physical injury to himself or any other person; (b) suffering physical injury; © causing loss of or damage to property; or (d) making off before a constable can assume responsibility for him."

Here you go: whisky mac for the incapable: http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_16460.htm

binary_star Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Huguenot Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I wonder what the keyboard version is? > > > : D > without the spaces. In the Phorum file smileyslib.php, which contains the default set of smileys in the package, that is given as the text version of "smiley14.gif the finger smiley."

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That's the National Rail Anytime day return fare using a paper ticket. The singles would have been ?2.40 each. NR off-peak is no longer available in London now you can use Oystercards. The structure encourages the use of Oyster PAYG, which would be ?1.70 each way off-peak. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14414.aspx

A dalek "in full working order", allowing itself to be detained and carted back to the nick?

>I'm not unduly bothered about the tree, just concerned that these men are up to no good. Indeed. If they are stealing, which is quite presumable. they could have been at it for months. Do tell the police. They like information, and suspects in possession of evidence. [Added] OTOH, they might just have been assuming it was rubbish. That might still amount to theft, though in that case you might well not want to assist a prosecution (I doubt the police would act anyway). I think on balance I'd still at least pass on the information to the police, on the basis of its being possibly very useful.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not grey at all....they have to absolutely sure you are linked to terrorist activity if they > want to confiscate photos. So ultimately a totally unworkable law. "s.45(2) A constable may seize and retain an article which he discovers in the course of a search by virtue of section 44(1) or (2) and which he reasonably suspects is intended to be used in connection with terrorism." [My emphasis] Section 44 authorises only the exercise of stop and search, and gives no powers concerning photography. Section 45 similarly says nothing about photography, or the destruction of property.