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  • China raises its retaliatory tariff on US goods from 34% to 84%

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  • So can any nation with its own currency. Its has a cost in the value of the currency though.

  • Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe

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  • Having driven in the US.

    There smaller trucks/lorrys often used for rental etc. Uhual etc.

    We really do not want that shit on our roads.

    And as the same law is what allows many of there huge suvs. Nope def not a good idea.

    Every nation that sells cars. Expects to adjust them to differing standards. Even the US he ce why Vauxhall exists.

    Trump is being his usual cos I say so self with no real merit to his claims.

    At no point should the UK be willing to lower standards to trade. Just as we have to adapt or not sell cars the US wont cert. If the US considers europe ir the UK a worthwhile market. They can continue to adapt.

    They would have some resemblance of a point if we only made rules on their cars. But most cars sold in the UK are imported. Why the hell should the US get discounts our own manufacturers dont.

  • More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space

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  • Those exemption do not currently apply to actual licence to vechle type allocation.

    I do not know about the rest of the EU. But in the UK no class of car only applies to disabled users or actual road access law.

    If I live on a no vechle access road. Being disabled would not allow me to drive a car to my doorstep.

    Same goes for any limitation in the site or weight of vehicles.

    My licence (no longer valid as I now have a disability that bans me from driving.) Was an old one that allows me to drive 3,5t trucks. Newer licences do not let younger drivers do so without passing a different test.

    This is the closest we have ever come to adding a new restriction on the type of car you cab drive. No extra specification for disability has ever existed for the changes you propose. Hence why I included this need to reconsider so Ugh things in my suggestion.

    As for the rest of your response. The comment you responded to was trying to address that exact situation,

  • More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space

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  • We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.

    Ignoring the brexit crap and assuming you ment EU and UK laws.

    I don't think that would help. If we had a new licence class. It would just mean people need to do more tests to drive it.

    Unfortunately licence structure have no when needed requirements. Just the qualification.

    A suggested solution would be a road access class. If vehicles over a certain size (lets just say width. ) had a significant number of roads and villages they were only allowed in for blue badge holders or loading and unloading. No parking.

    For most owners the impractical living with such vehicles would only be tolerable when they have a second transport and a safe storage area that dosent ban parking.

    May also be worth adding a new wheelchair only blue badge class. But that may miss some disabled that genuinly need the extra width im not thinking of. So would need some seriose consideration.

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  • Lobbying to change the copyright to forever is certainly happening in the UK.

    And the current 50 or 70 years is def a move towards it from the original 14 to 21 years created in 1710 when copyright was first created in the UK.

    So yes it is. We are just a slower change then the US

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  • IM0 if that is in good faith. It is YouTube trying to not discorage anti trans b y not taking a public opinion that supports trans rights,

    So IMO they can get funked.

  • Israel's Netanyahu heads to Hungary, defying ICC arrest warrant

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  • Only odd till you remember its isreal.

    Due to history there is an unwillingness to accept any action against isreal.

    Its understandable. Especially for germans. But also very wrong amd needs to be addressed.

    Fuck knows how though.

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  • Terrible.

    Almost as bad as IP firms stripping the whole reason copyright was created. By lobbying to change copyright terms to forever. Locking it out of the public domain.

  • Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer

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  • Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public money.

  • Police launch urgent search after girl, 11, falls into River Thames

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  • Cold flowing water is very very different from a warm swimming pool. Especially when dressed.

    The current in the Thames can get dangerous for strong adult swimmers in certain areas. (Or the whole upper thames at certain times of year)

    Strong adult swimmers dying in parts of the Thames is far from unheard off.

  • Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes

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  • Never let facts get in the way of a good joke.

  • A quarter of Britons now disabled

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  • But just over 7% of brits claiming any disabled benefits.

    Please remember these numbers are in no way backing for the crap the government is doing. Most disabled work.

    Even most on disabled on benifits work. PIP is not about income. It is about covering the difference in cost for disabiled to live anything close to equally in society. Including getting to and fr work.

  • I'm So Proud To Be Deported From The USA - Dorset Eye

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  • Nit a gambler. Bit im seriosly wondering what odds I can get on Trump refusing to step down.

    To much of this is looking like the early moves of a dictator.

    He has already indicated an unconstitutional 3rd term.

  • Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing

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  • Not to mention the vibration of the head caused from a single mount point. The engineerinh to keep anything close to the 0.2mm resolution common on non mobile printers. Will be expensive.

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    Linux is not your Panacea

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  • Nice to meet a fellow old fart linux user.

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    Linux is not your Panacea

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  • Yep, there are ways to do a full installation onto a thumb drive.

    While It's not exactly complex. It does tend to require more understanding of how file system mounting works than the audience OP is indicating would have.

    It is likely time to create a user/id10t friendly app designed to download and fully install any ISO as a live thumb drive.

    That will still need some help for odd hardware. But for most it would be a fair option.

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  • Her basic argument is.

    " whaaa it hard and my funders dont wanna whaaaa waaa. '

    She has privided 0 evidence or even rational to back up her statement.

    Just expressing her personal opinion in contrast to every expert in the field. Claiming it as fact.

  • Government to save £5bn by restricting benefits to 'those with the greatest need'

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  • Yeah this was proven soon after the tories implemented the austerity measures on DWP.

    At no poi t has it saved more then it cost. Even without the court cases they lose 60% off. Adding the cost of that makes it insane.

    Both the number of rejected claims going to court. And the number the court says clearly qualify for PIP under DWP own rulea has gobe uo hugly since DLA was replaced with PIP

  • Government to save £5bn by restricting benefits to 'those with the greatest need'

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  • Exactly the claim made by tories when they invented PIP.

    A reminder for all those not watching. The process for reviewi g claims cost them way way more then they ever saved.

    A huge 60 % of rejected cases were over thrown by courts for failing to follow thier own rules.

    And DWP is still refusing to release their imvestigation into the huge rise in suicides from claiments.

    Anyone who thinks claiming PIP is to easy, is delusional.

    The disabled community as a whole has spent the last 14 years stressed to the point of ill health and suicide through exactly the percecution Labour is planing to contine.

    At some point the government has to actually look at what has happened to the last 40plus years of growth. Because the disabled or poor sure as hell did not get a fair share of it.

    And a reminder to those less informed.

    Most claiming PIP are actually working. PIP and its DLA predecessor are not intended as a income based benifit.

    Their only purpose is to cover the extra costs disabled people must face to interact with the rest of society. Andbin genral do not come close to doing so.