Always wonder why people are so interested into getting into the BA side of things tbh. Doesn't appeal to me at all looking from the QA side of the coin.
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Originally posted by bp_me View PostPretty much all the evidence is that increasing the cycling mode share is tremendously beneficial for the country. The issue is the gains are long term and a little harder to measure."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by Kayroo View PostNot sure it's all been enacted but substantially in force AFAIK. Best of luck to him/her
So an underage punter may be fined up to €500 for setting up a gaming account and placing a bet. This has the potential to turn the tables in relation to compliance, KYC etc.Last edited by iSnow; 01-08-15, 18:15.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostEither of the cash transfers imo, probably the unconditional numero uno.
The most effective there gives 21 years more education per 100e. The second best gives 14 years.
This is why I love looking up effective analysis of things, it's often very counter intuitive.
It's a big part of looking at activism in general or at effective charity and changes to national systems. And really fucks things over like "well this is how you would change things, it's so obvious!"
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostAlways wonder why people are so interested into getting into the BA side of things tbh. Doesn't appeal to me at all looking from the QA side of the coin.
also the hope to end this
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
The expert stuff is somewhat understandable, but you just have to learn to make your case and leave it be I guess."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostWhat does BA mean?
Fascinating stuff. Well, no, not really actually.
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[QUOTE=dobby;913332]For any astro/soccer players here. sports direct have a sale on. I got an email about it being Puma only but there's a few pairs of Adidas there too. I just got my new boots for the season for €35 reduced from €100. Picked up a PSV jersey while I was there. Sure why not.[/QUOT
When i see someone wearing a football jersey i think skanger.
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Originally posted by Sickpuppy View PostOriginally posted by dobby View PostFor any astro/soccer players here. sports direct have a sale on. I got an email about it being Puma only but there's a few pairs of Adidas there too. I just got my new boots for the season for €35 reduced from €100. Picked up a PSV jersey while I was there. Sure why not.
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[QUOTE=Sickpuppy;913333]Originally posted by dobby View PostFor any astro/soccer players here. sports direct have a sale on. I got an email about it being Puma only but there's a few pairs of Adidas there too. I just got my new boots for the season for €35 reduced from €100. Picked up a PSV jersey while I was there. Sure why not.[/QUOT
When i see someone wearing a football jersey i think skanger.
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Originally posted by CourierCollie View PostSo, introducing the second ash-tray seems to have had the desired effect. Though it's just typical that Rothmans went for the Silk Cut one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBTemi9mQo
Bought a couple of these bad boys
and they seem to have fucked right off. Felt like this
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View Post@CHD: Rousey to win?
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Originally posted by CHD View PostHandily. There is always a punchers chance but Rousey will clinch, throw and then finish it with strikes or a submission pretty quickly probably. I hope not but this girl isn't up to much and Rouseys Judo makes her a Lion against Cats.
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Jesus Christ, buying a used car is tilt inducing. Nice car in good shape = scraped (someone was bribed) through NCT and an absolute wreck. A couple of marks, usual wear and tear = attempted break in and about to fall apart.
I'll surely meet this guy next:
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Originally posted by RoadSweeper View PostNot think it's her toughest test to date? Not that that means much as the gap is still huge.
Zingano and Tate are the only two who could land that lucky game changer/finish against her. Holly Holm might be able to jab and dance around her to a decision and take a round or two but she isn't progressing as much as I thought she would. It's a pity Joanna Jedrzejczyk isn't a bigger woman, that's the only kind of style and skill level I see threatening Rousey.
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Looks like BT have now snatched La Liga from Sky.
Sky launched a European Football channel last season and now only have Scottish and Dutch football for it. They throw in MLS too.
BT have CL, EL, Spanish, German, French and Portugese football.
Good old competition, will be great for the consumer...
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Originally posted by CHD View PostLooks like BT have now snatched La Liga from Sky.
Sky launched a European Football channel last season and now only have Scottish and Dutch football for it. They throw in MLS too.
BT have CL, EL, Spanish, German, French and Portugese football.
Good old competition, will be great for the consumer...
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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostYeah its shite isn't it,near 60 quid a month if you go for both. Just signed up for the standard 1 euro deal,1 euro first month but you pay normal price for mandatory second month. Not sure why I did,will only watch a handful of premium games and the 2 UFC pivs.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostTimes publishing stats today on Irish commuting, claiming that a mere 1.6% of all journeys are via cycling. If true, I would suggest any public policy / resource dedicated to improving cycling infrastructure, etc be shelved and the money diverted to public transport investment. The numbers are too small to be worth a government focus.
Been some great improvements over the last few years, always heartening to see the huge volume of cyclists along the grand canal route at rush hour. Very hard to see it and say the money spent hasn't been worthwhile.
Some negatives as well, yesterdays FPN introduction is quite sad - basically the authorities saying that they are going to harshly apply to cyclists a set of traffic regulations that only exist in the first place because of the presence of motorised traffic on our streets. So 'car supremacy' confirmed by the lawmakers.
Would love if a cycling organisation in Dublin organised the protest that took place in SanFran this week where 100 cyclists went single file perfectly obeying every stop sign and red/amber light, didn't shoal or edge past white lines - it brought areas of the city to a standstill within minutes.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostTimes is surprisingly anti-cycling over the last few years, from memory one of their senior contributors had a run-in with a bike and their editorial policy has been wholly negative since. Haven't read the article but '1.6% of all journeys' seems a nonsense metric to apply to cycling. At least narrow it down to journeys where cycling should be a theoretical option and then see what the %s are. So leave out bricklayers vans, 15k+ commutes, commercial deliveries etc. And see if we have a worthwhile percentage to build on.
Been some great improvements over the last few years, always heartening to see the huge volume of cyclists along the grand canal route at rush hour. Very hard to see it and say the money spent hasn't been worthwhile.
Some negatives as well, yesterdays FPN introduction is quite sad - basically the authorities saying that they are going to harshly apply to cyclists a set of traffic regulations that only exist in the first place because of the presence of motorised traffic on our streets. So 'car supremacy' confirmed by the lawmakers.
Would love if a cycling organisation in Dublin organised the protest that took place in SanFran this week where 100 cyclists went single file perfectly obeying every stop sign and red/amber light, didn't shoal or edge past white lines - it brought areas of the city to a standstill within minutes."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostBut they seem to be a tiny minority of the people commuting in total, dwarfed by cars / people walking / packed rush hour public transport. That's where policy and resources needs to be focussed.
Also that 5.9% figure doesn't count anyone like me who part cycles on a DB before finishing the bulk of the commute on a bus as the cso only count primary mode, so the actual figure is likely higher.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostBut they seem to be a tiny minority of the people commuting in total, dwarfed by cars / people walking / packed rush hour public transport. That's where policy and resources needs to be focussed.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostCSO say 5.9% of commuting to work journeys are by bicycle in Dublin, which blows your 1.6% figure clean out of the water. Is 5.9% not something to work with and consider a justifiable basis to increase spending? Clearly the IrishTimes 1.6% figure must have been arrived at by including Ballyshannon to Bundoran type commutes, but no-one is actually proposing spending any money on cycling infrastructure for such journeys - the money is generally on cycling projects in our largest urban areas.
Also that 5.9% figure doesn't count anyone like me who part cycles on a DB before finishing the bulk of the commute on a bus as the cso only count primary mode, so the actual figure is likely higher.
If there are limited resources, they should be focussed on improving the more dominant forms of transport, particularly public transport."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostIt's 6 out of 100. Hence a 'tiny minority'. And if it's 5.9% in Dublin, the figures outside of Dublin must be infestimal when the national figure is 1.6%.
If there are limited resources, they should be focussed on improving the more dominant forms of transport, particularly public transport.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostIt's 6 out of 100. Hence a 'tiny minority'. And if it's 5.9% in Dublin, the figures outside of Dublin must be infestimal when the national figure is 1.6%.
If there are limited resources, they should be focussed on improving the more dominant forms of transport, particularly public transport.
I don't see anything small about the 6% figure btw, to say that nothing more should be spent because the figure is only 6% seems like an anti-cycling bias. Notwithstanding that the actual figure is likely even higher because of the quirks in cso calculations and that they relate to the 2011 census which predates a lot of the urban cycling infrastructure.
How about 'bang for buck' calculations by the way - if cycling in Dublin is 6% and public transport is say 60% then its a simple enough comparision. And I suspect the public transport subsidy + apportioned cost of Luas construction is more than 10x that of yearly cycling spend?
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Originally posted by CHD View PostWhat you at AJ m8
Hows chdworld?
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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostYeah its shite isn't it,near 60 quid a month if you go for both. Just signed up to standard/BT for the standard 1 euro deal,1 euro first month but you pay normal price for mandatory second month. Not sure why I did,will only watch a handful of premium games and the 2 UFC ppvs.
Need to join the 21st century and set up some sort of streaming box
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Originally posted by CHD View PostRousey will be after 6am at this rate. Might go bed and just watch the fight in a gif tomorrow.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Express dedicated bus lanes which are marked with bright bollards. Prirorite at intersections. Luas style ticketing, no interaction with drivers. Three sets of doors on the buses, not stopping every 40 yards. .X can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostX can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
Because X doesn’t roll like that, because X can’t be pinned down!
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Originally posted by CHD View PostYou ok m8
are you?X can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
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feeling class is classPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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it is tbfX can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
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Bit sad about La Liga going to BT. Enjoyed the no-fanfare setup on Sky and will miss Rob Palmer and Gerry Armstrong as commentators. Gerry wasn't technically very good, but it was like watching matches with a cheerful granddad.
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Other half drank till 4am, poor fucker dying and now has to face this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCWhkBfUE0&sns=fbHer sky-ness
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostYes, the figures are infinitesimal in many areas but again no-one is suggesting spending money in these areas, the money is to be spent in urban areas.
I don't see anything small about the 6% figure btw, to say that nothing more should be spent because the figure is only 6% seems like an anti-cycling bias. Notwithstanding that the actual figure is likely even higher because of the quirks in cso calculations and that they relate to the 2011 census which predates a lot of the urban cycling infrastructure.
How about 'bang for buck' calculations by the way - if cycling in Dublin is 6% and public transport is say 60% then its a simple enough comparision. And I suspect the public transport subsidy + apportioned cost of Luas construction is more than 10x that of yearly cycling spend?
With the introduction of cars this is what happened in Amsterdam etc before they built facilities, as facilities got better it shot straight up to now 60-70%:
"The Dutch take this for granted; they even tend to believe these cycle-paths have existed since the beginning of time. But that is certainly not the case. There was a time, in the 1950s and 60s, when cyclists were under severe threat of being expelled from Dutch cities by the growing number of cars. Only thanks to fierce activism and a number of decisive events would Amsterdam succeed in becoming what it is, unquestionably, now: the bicycle capital of the world. Gradually, Dutch politicians became aware of the many advantages of cycling, and their transport policies shifted – maybe the car wasn’t the mode of transport of the future after all. In the 1980s, Dutch towns and cities began introducing measures to make their streets more cycle-friendly. Initially, their aims were far from ambitious; the idea was simply to keep cyclists on their bikes.
The Hague and Tilburg were the first to experiment with special cycle routes through the city. “The bicycle paths were bright red and very visible; this was something completely new,” says Godefrooij. “Cyclists would change their routes to use the paths. It certainly helped to keep people on their bikes, but in the end it turned out that one single bicycle route did not lead to an overall increase in cycling.”
Subsequently, the city of Delft constructed a whole network of cycle paths and it turned out that this did encourage more people to get on their bikes. One by one, other cities followed suit"Last edited by Tar.Aldarion; 02-08-15, 09:53.
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