Alternatively (for car drivers only): watch your wing mirror throughout the 'park, switch off, unbelt, open door' process. Develop "situational awareness", or in English, know what's going on around you. Not just when parking.

I've been doored as a pedestrian. The council did some alterations to pavements. It meant we lost up to half their original width - evidently so that cars could park further left and still drive reduced to one-way-at-a-time-or-reverse-back-if-you-suddenly-find-you-can't-and-can-traffic. It's fine if you're shopping and/or elderly-relative-free and always know the right moment to fall into a hedge or paste yourself against a brick wall. It's when the hood of your coat snares itself on the top of pointy railings that things get ridiculous.

I've forgotten my point now.

Oh yes. I have noticed us pedestrians aren't the most respectful of cycle lanes. Some of us kind of treat them like it's an optional space to stand our feet in whilst waiting for a green man to beep, or overtake one another in in a slow/fast lane situation. What is actually really difficult though when pavements are busy, is determining what is pedestrian, and what is cyclist at that precise distance away when you really will be cutting it fine not to upend one another if you do scamper across the road and it wasn't a pedestrian after all.

But none of that is why I came in here.

I came in here to say - what I've now forgotten.

doored. In places here it isn't a bicycle that will get the door. The door will be a ways down the street after it is violently ripped from its hinges by a passing vehicle.

Cyclists need to ride where they can be seen in the wing mirrors. If they aren't in line where they need to be to pass with the car but behind it, they are in the blind spot of the wing mirror and deserve what they get when they dart out to go around.

I guess you'll have to go look for a real cab again in London, or else use the public transport: Uber London loses licence to operate

Oh, groan. Everybody has been jumping on either side of this story, depending on their political slant. The choice isn't between Uber and black cabs: London has had what they call minicabs, and the rest of the country calls private hire, for about 50 years. All that will happen on the 30th (extended by however long the appeal takes) is that minicab offices will get busy, minicab owners will start hiring drivers, and Uber drivers will start applying for the jobs.

There'll be an opening for programmers to integrate smartphone booking apps into the minicab offices' existing booking systems, that's all. Life will go on - unless it's come to a halt for other reasons, of course.

What the European Commission found out about copyright infringement but ‘forgot’ to tell us
Does copyright infringement negatively affect legal sales? This is a fundamental question with profound implications on the way copyright and copyright enforcement policy should work.

In January 2014, the European Commission awarded the Dutch company Ecorys a contract worth €360.000 to conduct a study on the question.

The 300-page study was delivered to the Commission in May 2015, but was never published. Until today – I have managed to get access to a copy: Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU (PDF)

The study’s conclusion: With the exception of recently released blockbusters, there is no evidence to support the idea that online copyright infringement displaces sales. While this result is not unique, but consistent with previous studies, it begs the question:

Why did the Commission, after having spent a significant amount of money on it, choose not to publish this study for almost two years?

/me looks for a good VPN nonetheless.
Edit: and no, that's not reason enough for any of you to link me to them. I have Google, I can find my own way across the interwebs.

I haven't got an opinion* because I got bogged down by a side issue. How many black cabs after 1947 flouted the bale of hay and a sack of oats laws until drastic action was taken to eliminate that criminal element off our streets...? ;) I've had bad "good taxi's" and good "bad taxi's" and one utterly crazed one that my other half drove insane at the wheel whilst me and my most fragile cake were inside - and one who was given a guitar, and taught how to play it, by Marc Bolan while Mambo Sun was being written :) which was nice because he kept it in his cab for between jobs jams... jams between jobs and I got to make a splendidly discordant din with it. . *emerge from long-term memory retrieval*

Why did the Commission, after having spent a significant amount of money on it, choose not to publish this study for almost two years?

Because it would seem less expensive when they "lost it" later and had to commission another one that would actually say what they wanted it to say in the first place to support the fact that they'd already begun doing what they couldn't actually justify doing when they were without it but had that instead I expect.

[emergency punctuation] , , , . . . ; [/emergency]*

*also suitable for decorative use

*edit: as can be seen by the lack of a point

Animal husbandry practises are not my only interest in wishing the region well.

Catalonia

Teachers and students at some schools in Catalonia are organising to keep schools open to serve as polling stations for Sunday's outlawed referendum on independence from Spain.

Coded messages are being sent on social media to make arrangements, La Vanguardia newspaper reports.

Hundreds of teachers gathered at the regional government's headquarters on Thursday, chanting "we will open" and "we will vote".

Madrid vows to prevent the poll

I trust events around Sunday will not become ugly.

Another way to look at things there:

The lies of the Catalan regional premier
In a democracy, leaders cannot tell untruths with impunity

(Yes, that may be ElPais, but the arguments in the article are good ones.)

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In a democracy, leaders cannot tell untruths with impunity

I'm sure ours do.

Not enough information to justify doubling the budget.

They don't give a shi#e coz ain't their money , the costs WILL come out of the purse meaning ALL the taxpayers in the country OBVIOUS !!!!

How do they know what you watch online and how long you do so?
Time for a VPN?

Too much reliance on technology which will come back to bite their asses.

The clear intent behind this change is to avoid where possible details of bomb making being seen or passed around. Whilst of course a family of 4 losing their lives is terrible, some religious maniac wiping out a hundred people with a bomb is even worse.

Ain't technology, libraries & bookshops wonderful. :-)

For example, TV shows on the early days of the SAS, which go into details on how they had to improvise & the details on how "sticky bombs" were made.

Books on the history of warfare with many showing the breakdown of various bombs & their ingredients.

As for banning the sale of acids to those under the age of 18...

...hmm, so those over 18 are mature & responsible :-)

Next they'll be banning the hiring/hijacking of trucks :-)

Oh & let's not forget Hollywood, mustn't stop the profits rolling in :-)

How do they know what you watch online and how long you do so?
Time for a VPN?

The Great Firewall knows everything.

People, please stop posting how to make explosives on these forums.

The whole idea is to reduce the risk of terrorism as far as possible and is practicable to do so.

Make sheeple. Got it!

Books on the history of warfare with many showing the breakdown of various bombs & their ingredients.

What most don't do is fully explain in detail how to make them in safety to the maker.

Maker being the operative word. For example, the S.O.E. agent's "handbook" on "How to improvise".

Also, before the Internet arrived & also in use worldwide today is a "little known" thing called an I.E.D.

Care to take a guess at what those initials mean?

The Chinese opened Pandora's Box when they invented gunpowder.

Alfred Nobel widened that box even further when he invented explosives.

There is no Politician/Police Officer/Soldier/Bureaucrat alive, dead or born that will ever close that box.

@Ageless, point noted. Just to comment, that post only gave ingredients. For the making, that is another of Google's chapters :-)