Mobile speed cameras (which have human, but non-police operators) are already being used to catch drivers using mobile phones or driving without seat-belts and have been for some time. I see a lot more money making “road safety partnership” vans than police cars.

Currently in the UK if you receive a fixed penalty notice for using your mobile phone while driving then the fine is £100 (~$125) and 3 Penalty points on your licence (each 12 points is a disqualification from driving, points last 3 years the sequence is usually 6 months ban for the first 12 pointer, 1 year for the…

In general if a PM, Monarch or President of a normal country gets killed you can just unpack a new one. You may have to spend a bit on an official period of mourning or a state funeral for Heads of State but essentially we recognise that Heads of State or Government are replaceable parts. Hell the UK has only ever had…

I have a simple process.

Strangely it seems that this problem affects the R-series (just the router) but not the D-series (same router but with an A/VDSL modem built in).

The US price could be pretty much anything but using UK “aim for” (rather than list) prices as a guide.

Excellent necromancy.

Somewhere around 25% of the European population (Sadly I don’t know of data for other ethnic groups) find saccharin salts and acesulfame-k bitter.

It’s worth noting that the rusty flotilla does include an aircraft carrier - however shitty it may be.

Literally it means - there is some minor cosmetic damage, easily resolved using an off-the-shelf product.

If a Brit ever tells you that a problem will “polish out with a bit of T-Cut” then run, do not walk, away.

Not Presidents but Nelson Rockefeller was VP for Gerald Ford and continued to use his own Gulfstream rather than AF2. Allegedly this was because he could avoid taking anyone sent by Rumsfeld (Ford’s Chief of staff) on the smaller plane.

In fairness it is actually pretty insane that the US routinely changes the entire senior levels of it’s civil service when the President of the day changes. Most developed countries don’t do that.

four score = 80

7.4 litre engine?

My experience is that it’s horribly unstable, takes ages to calculate a route, crashes as soon as you get half way through any complicated series of junctions and seems to constantly demand user intervention (less than safe while driving).

I’m surprised to learn that there are places and phones where waze actually works.

It seems self evident that any system that involves a special class of law, that sets the rules for what laws can be made and how to make them, and is itself only changeable under specific circumstances laid out in the special law, must as a matter of course have a system of judicial supremacy. Whatever body…

On the one hand if they had more to do they may start acting like adults - still politicians, but grown up ones.

The imperial PM is something of a myth - certainly the PM often has sweeping powers unavailable to presidents - but they are also more vulnerable to removal. A PM needs to maintain the support of enough of their own party (or in exceptional circumstances other parties) to maintain a majority in the legislative…