ninalanyon

3 million of what?

Is it? What does that one dimensional measure even mean in today's world?

> academic can be bookish, shy or haughty.

There's no shortage of haughty politicians either.

Understanding something intellectually is not quite the same as appreciating it viscerally because you have done something similar.

Also road accidents.

Not much use at 60 degrees and more away from the equator.

Sunrise today was 07:31, sunset will be at 16:32 here.

On 22nd December it will be 09:17 and 15:16.

But not everyone does start working at the same hour. I went to a supermarket today that opens at 07:00 and closes at 23:00, a cafe that opened at 10:00 and closes at 18:00, and a charity shop that opened at 12:00 and closes at 16:00.

When I was working I worked from 08:00 to 16:00 with a half hour break for lunch. But several of my colleagues in the same office worked 07:00 to 15:00. All of us worked with other engineers in countries across the world. My children went to school at 08:30 until 13:30 until they were in senior high school when it was 08:00 to 15:30

The local buses start running at 05:30 and stop at 22:30.

The sun rises when it rises, it has nothing to do with the clock. How does what the clock say take an hour of sunlight away from you? It is surely your employer doing that not the clock.

> Scotland has to have GMT in the winter so that school children don't have to walk to school in the dark.

This gets brought up every time the discussion happens, yet we manage perfectly well even further north here in Norway.

Also why should people need government permission to vary the time at which they do things?

As far as I'm concerned I just want the clock to not change every spring and autumn. Institutions can surely be left to decide for themselves what working hours they have? After all shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, etc., already do that.

One of the interpretations of the poem is that it criticises organised religion and that the mills in question are the church as an organisation represented in concrete terms by the church buildings.

What's the advantage over a catamaran or hydrofoil ferry?

> the test for whether a donation is a bribe.

Donations are always bribes.

> Donations to a politician are to the person.

Isn't that how bribery is normally done?

> It’s not a proxy for buying an outcome.

Perhaps not precisely, but it is a proxy for attempting to influence an outcome.

> under the law, a politician can’t rip you off by taking your money and then voting contrary to your desires.

Isn't that in conflict with:

> it is illegal to tie a donation to a particular position, vote, or action by the politician.

Are you saying that if I give a politician money and express my desire that they are then legally bound to vote according to my desire? Sounds like buying votes; I'm pretty sure that's not condoned by the law.

Not where I come from.

So how will you render and pronounce castle and bath? Short or long and what is the reasoning that will make you prefer one over the other?