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Well, there's being impoverished or in debt, which forces a whole bunch of people to operate cash-in-hand or not at all. And then there's reducing...

We once had a bit of struggle getting our bank to transfer a fairly large sum to a company based in New Zealand, specifically because NZ doesn't use...

Yes, it's all going to be fixed Real Soon Now. The story is doubly interesting for me, since I recently had a not-insignificant insurance pay-out,...

No, in the phone scenario, I was describing the process of sending money to another person - calling our bank and authorizing a bank transfer to the...

Yes, there are risks with all payment methods, and things you can do to limit your exposure. Signed-for delivery or collecting personally from a...

I don't know how Netflix works. Is this a ploy to encourage people to sign up for the streaming service? Streaming companies seem to be slow,...

I must say I have the reverse experience - sending cheque, easy; paying on-line, annoying. A few years ago, my bank suddenly decided it was going...

If human space travel ever stops being a matter of national pride, I'm sure they will. Grant Hutchison

Live From The Moon reports that many astronauts, and some other NASA personnel, were resistant to including TV cameras in the Apollo missions on the...

No, because length contraction does not occur in the rest frame of your spacecraft. So your shield would retain its shape and size, as far as the...

As I say, I'm not asking about this because I'm frightened of being scammed myself. I'm asking because scamming causes anguish to its victims, some ...

Not in the slightest. On the contrary, I'm reassured that I'm dealing with a responsible organization. And given that major UK banks are at present...

I think people who impulse-buy will find ways to impulse-buy. (A concept so foreign to my nature that I'd never even thought of it as a potential...

Yes, I understand the convenience of on-line banking. But I'm someone who is prepared to put up with considerable inconvenience in order to avoid...

Anyone who steals my phone is in for profound disappointment, unless they steal it to make phone calls. As a friend recently remarked: "It looks like...

Yes, it was a surprise to this ex-boy to learn that boys don't like reading books written by women. Must be a new policy of some kind, or perhaps my...

You don't even need to lose your phone. Mobile phone companies can sometimes be scammed into authorizing a new sim for your account, particularly if...

Please forgive me if you felt insulted by my post. I interpreted "I just can not get my brain to perceive the lighting correctly" as an invitation to...

The light is coming from the bottom of both images. Turn them upside down. Or put a light source below your computer monitor, to give your brain a...

That hare was just ambling along, to judge from the way it had its forefeet tucked together side by side. Grant Hutchison

The use of initials, rather than by-lining herself "Dorothy", was one way of getting the talent to shine past the preconceptions. (See also C.L....

For anyone interested in how it was done, I heartily recommend Spacecraft Films' Live From The Moon documentary, which explains things in detail,...

OK. So in the UK that job would be divided between a diabetes nurse and a dietician. (But in British English that would have no relationship at all...

You'd think. But reading extracts and summaries of "Scenes From The Heart" (no full English translation available until next year, last time I...

I believe we might reach "peak Greta" fairly soon. She's essentially unassailable - no interviewer (at least, not one who wants to stay in a job) is...

The time used in these discussions is called cosmic time - the time that would be recorded by clocks at rest in the Hubble flow in a homogeneous...

I'd suggest the crystallization story arises from what Ioannidis calls the "Proteus phenomenon" in the medical literature - that later published...

The Two Popes. Basically just two hours of two old guys talking. Best thing I've seen in the cinema for easily a decade. Grant Hutchison

Small. See Item 9 in Table 1 of the Cosmic Energy Inventory. Grant Hutchison