Kg v pound

[Jim Stewart ...]

mmmmm 5 boys

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

Tim Lamb used his keyboard to write :

I think I remember sweets coming off ration, was that the same?

[Jim Stewart ...]

why do we not use metric time?

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Jim Stewart ...]

1953

[The Natural Philosopher]

Centimetres are not used in the building trade. Much.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Oh that's standard collision detection as practised on coaxial ethernet, wifi and pretty much all 'shared medium' communication protocols that don't use strict TD multiplexing - the equivalent of which in transport terms are traffic lights.

It could be made far better by driverless cars requesting a 'token' for a junction via wifi, and then getting one issued on a first come first served basis.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not if the free bus requires a massive taxi ride at each end.

[Tim Lamb]

In message <t9u31g$3am69$ [e-mail], Harry Bloomfield Esq [e-mail]> writes

Yes. 1953. I bought a bar of Cadburys milk chocolate. Probably 6d.

Sugar was still rationed although I think there were concessions for WI jam making.

[Fredxx]

A taxi service might be more fuel efficient at certain times of the day rather than a big bus.

Quite.

[Fredxx]

Don't see how if you elect to cost out the real cost of subsidies.

It gives a greater independence than relying on a third party.

[Bev]

Not French, try again - its a bit older than you are.

You are too young to post here.

[Colin Bignell]

Those were the symbols used for pounds, shillings and pence before we decimalised the currency in 1971. The L had a cross-bar and a curl at the top, to make the pound symbol you will find on an English computer keyboard, but that doesn't work well on all newsreaders. A shilling was

12 pence and 20 shillings were one pound.

[charles]

why a "big bus"? Why not a smaller one?

[Tim Lamb]

Hmm. So now consider the situation of a driverless vehicle meeting a human driver at the same crossing.

The current life of road vehicles is likely to lead to an overlap of some 20 years unless road users are segregated. I suppose the driverless vehicle could be allocated a priority but I don't see that being popular.

[zaq]

No reason why the vehicle with the human driver can't be given priority, just like a human or kid or dog running across the road in front of a driverless car is.

[JNugent]

The French tried a metric calendar during the Revolution.

[JNugent]

It managed to stay at that price until 1962, when Purchase Tax was added to its price.

[Robin]

On 04/07/2022 11:10, Tim Lamb wrote: <snip>

Driverless cars will be programmed to play safe so will stop if the human driver starts to move so as to risk a collision. That may of course lead to problems when some humans decide to ignore the usual rules about who goes first only to find daft humans are also driving the other car(s). But then I suspect many of those will already be doing that.

[Colin Bignell]

To be fair, the Livre is French and all three languages are older than anybody on this newsgroup, unless we have some undead posting.