Found a letter addressed to my when I got home from work this evening, send from my mp.
Dear ....
New Highway Code
Thank you for you communication.....
My Liberal Democrats colleagues and I are great supporters of cycling.......
Although on the face of it, the draft ....
My colleague Tom Brake MP, The former Liberal Democrat Transport Spokesman and a regular cyclist, has echoed cyclists' concerns. He recently wrote to the Department for Transport to confirm that these rules are solely advisory and , if they were not observed by cyclists, would not lead to claims of cyclists' "contributory negligence". I know from my dealing with Sustrans and other Bristol based cycling groups that there are mixec views on helmets and I mudy admit that whenever I use my own bike I choose not to wear one.
"Tom Brake MP.... regular cyclist"...along with his colleagues John Wheels & Martin Bottom-Bracket...
I'll get me coat... "Martin Dann" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Found a letter addressed to my when I got home from work this evening, send from my mp.
Dear ....
New Highway Code
Thank you for you communication.....
My Liberal Democrats colleagues and I are great supporters of cycling.......
Although on the face of it, the draft ....
My colleague Tom Brake MP, The former Liberal Democrat Transport Spokesman and a regular cyclist, has echoed cyclists' concerns. He recently wrote to the Department for Transport to confirm that these rules are solely advisory and , if they were not observed by cyclists, would not lead to claims of cyclists' "contributory negligence". I know from my dealing with Sustrans and other Bristol based cycling groups that there are mixec views on helmets and I mudy admit that whenever I use my own bike I choose not to wear one.
The New Scientist used to (may still do) write about the amount of people whose names related to their jobs. e.g. When I broke my arm and wrist a few years ago, the broken bone doctor's name was Mr Hand
The New Scientist used to (may still do) write about the amount of people whose names related to their jobs. e.g. When I broke my arm and wrist a few years ago, the broken bone doctor's name was Mr Hand
A computer company I once worked for had a lot of trouble with a secret government research centre which used our computers to simulate the performance of secret new warplane designs. One of their new designs kept getting shot down despite there being nothing else around doing any shooting at the time. Because it was top secret national security stuff the core dumps they sent us had all the secret bits relating to the plane's performance cut out of them with scissors. We could never find anything wrong.
So we had to visit the site to find out what was going on. Turned out to be very simple. After takeoff, and before ramping up to its terrific supersonic speeds, this plane fired a quick burst from its guns just to check them out. Then the pilot opened up the engines and ran into his own bullets from behind.
While we were there we met the nice man in charge of this secret government research centre, Dr Nutter.
-- Chris Malcolm [email hidden] DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
So we had to visit the site to find out what was going on. Turned out to be very simple. After takeoff, and before ramping up to its terrific supersonic speeds, this plane fired a quick burst from its guns just to check them out. Then the pilot opened up the engines and ran into his own bullets from behind.
Many years ago I was asked to tender for some MoD work but declined as what they wanted done needed the laws of physics rewriting if it was to work - which we told them. Two years later I was contacted again and told they were re-letting the contract and they had been specifically told to get us to bid. I told them we had no bid then and would no bid now because it broke the laws of physics and asked why they had bothered asking us. The man on the phone explained that the group they had let the contract to had got nowhere. Because we had no bid last time and explained the problems it was clear that we understood them and the other bidders didn't so they would like us to take over the work. We no bid much to their disappointment! Which was a pity as it would have been a big contract.
-- Tony
"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell
On Fri, 25 May 2007 21:31:57 GMT, Martin Dann <[email hidden]>
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Found a letter addressed to my when I got home from work this evening, send from my mp.
Got my reply tonight. I was expecting a form letter. I was pleased that mine had (1) a grammatical error and (2) a reference to a remark I'd made inmy letter about an occasion when we'd been at the same function.
She also said there was a real debate going on and she'd pasedmy letter onto the DfT and will contact me when she'sgot a response.
