Recent content by najaB

No, infinitely better for the economy to spend the money to improve road and rail connections to the point that they can offer viable journey times.

There is a little bit of truth to it - knowing how maths works helps you get a feel for if the answer is "about right" - which helps you avoid orders of magnitude mistakes. But doing it by hand makes it more likely that you'll make small mistakes.

Then hope that our elected officials stop hindering the passage of right to die legislation.

Such as the UK, in my experience.

Yes. Everyone who lives will die. However spending on the NHS (or any health spending) is intended to ensure that people have the greatest number of quality days before they die, not just to extend life at all costs.

That's assuming that the messages are even being sent from Google in the first place. Spammers often use a network of compromised computers to send messages that have a faked sender address. Google would only be seeing the replies coming in, not the original emails going out.

Per capita, until fairly recently the UK was one of the worst offenders. Every country has a role to play.

It does. Though they're pretty rare over here, slightly more common in the US. Edit: Just reading up on it, Diners Club America is basically MasterCard now.

It may be widely accepted, but I have never come across anywhere that accepts Amex that doesn't accept Visa/Mastercard but have come across plenty the other way around.

Yes (though around age 13), and no. Not even once.

Based on this post in another thread: Given the number of places that don't accept Amex what, in this day and age, is the appeal of Amex? Why would anyone prefer to use Amex rather than Visa or Mastercard branded cards?

Looks like that was made up by an quicker than usual split at Edinburgh though. Whatever went wrong was between Larbert and Perth.

I agree. It is doing the OP a disservice to suggest otherwise.

You've read it wrong. The OP said: Important point is that the message on the machine doesn't say that it will never accept cash, just that it has displayed that message when the OP has tried to use it. Further, the fact that they say: indicates that they know it is possible to pay using...

Which is why south-facing washing machines rock more than north-facing ones.