It’s a well-known tune.

“How much will it cost to do this internally?”
‘£50 million, and we’d need to commit to staff to maintain it. But then we’d own it, and it would be about as financially efficient as possible’
“OK, this big company says they can do a basic version for £49m, and with the first year of support for free”
‘That won’t even do half of it. And they’ll just ramp the cost up later’
“No, this is a good plan, we should use the free market to efficiently do these things”

The project then becomes £330m once the private company quotes up including all the essentials that weren’t in the original quote, but the wheels are already turning, so it happens

This was my query: Are these meetings butter-up luncheons?
Or simply a minister attending meetings that are part of their job.

The monarch has power to do a lot of things. In practice, that power would get removed the instant they deviated from the script.

Sorry for the slow reply. I’m not sure if you’re even still trying to sell!
Yes, selling posts might be a little problematic.
As if we let one usual member who happens to be selling something to advertise, I’ll probably end up with a modqueue full of adverts from people running a drop-shipping operation, and people saying “but you let that guy do it”.

Lets maybe have a little trial: As you’ve got a sensible reason for selling, I wouldn’t object to a one-off post with details, your region, and maybe a link to whatever ebay sale you do.

I will second OsmAnd. You need to use the paid version from the app store to use CarPlay, but personally I really like it, and use it regularly.

Offline maps are important to me, and it’ll happily route me even when there is no signal.

The only downside is, it’s only as detailed as OSM (which in all honesty, is often better than gmaps. Plus you can easily contribute things that are missing)

£10/y or £40/perpetual for the version that activates CarPlay (and gives you regular offline map downloads, as the free version only gives you 8 before you have to either pay or side load).

And honestly, I’m not that mad that it’s chargeable. They make a good free product based on OSM, I don’t mind chipping them a tenner.

In that vein, I’d be interested to see if someone could Inkscape it into an SVG with embedded text.

Though I have no idea how many vectors would be needed to make the image similar enough.

With the right investment into production automation, and classifying energy generation as a national security factor, I could see us building our own at prices that make sense.
The real kicker I guess is going to be the supply of rare earths required.

not flash enough to make their Instagram account about renovating the house which I have been advised not to read as they are horrible people with bad taste

I’ll take “slapping grey paint on every surface, then fitting grey laminate flooring and black gloss worktops” for $500, Alex.

That, and painting over every patch of damp with tanking rather than actually fixing it.

That’s a reassuring bit of info. If the in-universe explanation is that he isn’t the best captain, I might give it another shot.
As my initial reaction was “has McFarlane just made himself kirk?”

I like to rant about this, but it is possible to insulate old properties without causing damp and mould.
It requires understanding of how the materials work (breathability, etc), and more expensive materials, so it’s often difficult to get it done for a reasonable price.

I tried The Orville, but got a little put off by McFarlane as the captain.
Does this improve as the series goes on?
As I might give it another shot.

‘You’ll need new radiators, and ideally more insulation’
“Utterly unworkable, now fit me a new gas boiler”

(Imo, the thing really holding ashps back is the costs. Companies treating installation like a dark art, and using the government grants to print money)

The price drop recently is making me suspicious.
Though it’s still a good deal, so I may get a 5 anyway on payday.

I’ve genuinely considered moving there.

They have a radio station, and it’s run by the chillest guy ever. Just playing tunes, and chatting between.

Snip, Snap, Snip, Snap.

ICE can be a lot cheaper if you book ahead.
Non-ICE on the Deutschlandticket is a goddamned bargain, so long as you navigate the gotchas on the payment and recurring.

That’s really interesting. So what you’re saying is, Germany sold more to the states than they bought, but the states were able to “keep” the money by marking off that Germany had so much gold.

And I guess now, Germany is concerned that the states may no longer honour that ledger.

I love pom-bears, but love Lidl’s Teddy’s Hit even more.
Unfortunately, I’ve never seen them for sale in the UK.

North Taytos, or South Taytos?
A very important question.

I quite like the tesco finest crinkle cut ready salted.
150g bag for £1.25 or so. The only downside is, the flavour varies (I think it’s the freshness of the oil for that batch).