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When merging with a 70 mph road I'll be heading for 70 (assuming the road I'm joining is free-flowing), but trying to spot gaps well before I reach the dashed line, which may well entail easing off before I reach 70. It's obviously a bit easier if you're descending rather than going uphill (where you can see the main road earlier), but there's usually plenty of time at most junctions whichever way they go. People who expect others to pull over does annoy me. I'm happy to pull over if there's easy space to do so but it shouldn't be expected - in the same way as when I'm joining I think it's good practice to see merging traffic approaching well before the merge point.

It says "do not" rather than "must not" (rule 243), which suggests it's bad practice rather than strictly banned. Failing to follow what's in the Highway Code when it doesn't say must or must not could be interpreted as something along the lines of careless driving, but isn't a specific offence. Any time it uses "must" it's referring to the law, anything else is describing good practice, but the Highway Code isn't the law in its own right.

At least it's got more paint on it than some. I would've quite liked that if there wasn't so much black on the grid otherwise.

The OS has staff and does things other than reissue the same software, so it'll all be part of that - the same reason everything's shot up. Although anything above inflation (even allowing for that being high) seems excessive.

Last summer was the last time for me, but I wasn't sure how much of it was due to price hikes and how much due to changing cars.

DItto. The only thing I've got connected to the internet are a couple of computers (if you don't count the router). Haven't found any need or desire for anything else.

The first one is ambiguous, so they could be the same. Come to think of it the second one could still mean either modelling any and all railways in Britain, or modelling just BR. Anyway, back to the topic when I see foreign layouts listed I skip over them in terms of judging whether or not I'm interested in visiting (unless it's one of the very limited selection of prototypes I've got a slight knowledge of, which even then is no more than "I've been in the area.") But when I get to the show I often find they can capture my interest anyway, at least as much as any other. Not all will - a bunch of modern containers moving very slowly in front of a line of tin shed industrial units doesn't do it for me no matter where it's supposed to be, but I've often surprised myself at just what has interested me. The same's true of British ones mind you. I don't like the current full sized scene in the slightest, but I can get engrossed in a good model of it.

When it comes to things like diversion signs they're damned if they do, damned if they don't. "Road closed at ..." is always going to have to rely on some sort of knowledge of the road network or area, especially in order to make the sign simple enough to be read when passing (unlike the example above, which would be better on a series of signs, and leaving out the "for resurfacing" part).

There would be no guarantee about how long they'd have the franchise for, which is probably why rolling stock ownership and operator are separate.

10 million public shorts views? Who actually watches those?

Probably already working on ways to add liveries live to the broadcast so they don't have to bother putting them on the car.

They want their cars to be at that minimum weight limit anyway, so they'll still skimp on the paint. Perhaps an approach that would work would be to say that all exposed bodywork has to be painted.

Reversed sets? Sounds like we need to bring turntables back. Admittedly one big enough to fit an entire train on to it would be a rather large turntable...

Groan!

The street racing idiots are more likely to be in souped up cars with a greater top speed than your average commuter car but they're a long way off the fastest road legal cars (the ones you have to be extremely wealthy to have). And in any case you can still race extremely dangerously with your bog standard commuter box.

If the problem is mostly people in their own cars (as opposed to stolen ones) the best approach might simply be to gather the evidence of them racing and deal with them once they've stopped. Any fixed barriers are quite likely to be a problem for legitimate, sensible traffic, and the racers will just move elsewhere.

Hmm, surely bringing a big knife in to a football stadium is a big no-no!

Ah, being caught out by curved points I see!

Any military spending is a complete waste of time that doesn't make sense until you actually need it.

They're cheap to use, not cheap to intercept. The idea that war is now a remote thing has been thrown up numerous times over the years but whilst you can lay waste remotely, or be a constant thorn in the side, you can't control. The Houthi's would've been gone before this began if that wasn't the case. Also look at what's going on in Ukraine. There's all this stuff there too, both cheap drones and modern high tech, but it's as well as, not instead of.

Depends on how quickly Russia can rebuild, it's burned through a hell of a lot.

Which is why I view it all as a wakeup call against complacency rather than a claim that WWIII is imminent, or, even more absurdly, politicians and military chiefs are trying to make it happen.

I believe they've also made use of it to do some paying testing.

Which might be confused with "small signal." :D

The genuine ones pay attention to the TPS but there are enough outright scammers that unfortunately some appear. It's not every day, can often not get any for weeks or months and then the same one tries several times in a short period. Didn't think there was any directory for mobiles to go ex-directory from.