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  2. Possibly, but if someone has made a good post with sound technical judgement then it helps others to see who may not understand. Often on here people spout a load of carp as though they are the expert in a particular field when they aren't.
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  13. So does that make older boats (most?) more dangerous? Am I at all likely to suffer injury or damage from a properly fused low voltage cable loose for a metre or so behind linings? Or are these more regulations for their own sake? I can say that the same regulatory perfection doesn't seem to apply at my place of work; a complete rat's nest of mains voltage and data wiring trailing loose in walls and roof space, all installed by certified electricians.
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  14. Chocolate /marble for me.........but I do like cake
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  15. Yes, Lime and Leaf is quite restful.
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  16. Which must make CRTs financial negotiations about the takeover of the EA a bit worrying.
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  17. Note that, in common with many charities, RSPCA does have a number of trading companies, each of which is a registered company and its accounts are available from Companies House. They will be expected to operate within the usual rules applying to companies law, the principal one of which is to trade legally, ie not trading when knowingly insolvent or about to be. That is, they have to maintain the same balance between income and expenditure. The distinction between CaRT and RSPCA is wholly false.
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  18. All fair points; I certainly don't want to claim judges can eradicate the drugs market with a few whacks of their gavels. But it's still the case that a judge is intervening in that market when she locks up a dealer; 'overriding' the forces that provided him with that source of income. If prices rise in the way you suggest, again, that's an example of judges having intervened in and reshaped the market. Firstly, if prejudice affects demand in the labour market (e.g. because employers regard members of some group as being less capable, more expensive to employ, or whatever), then yes, I'd say judicial action to correct the results of that prejudice does come under the heading of (overriding) market forces. On the specific point about pregnancy: if an employer looks at the labour market and decides that over the next 12 months, he can get more labour out of a non-pregnant employee than a pregnant one on the same wage, and so decides to sack his pregnant employee and hire a non-pregnant replacement, that has everything to do with 'market forces' and a judge taking action against that employer is very much in the business of overriding those forces. I really don't see that I'm claiming anything controversial here. The law/judges intervening in markets is an everyday thing. If market forces decree that a garden shed in London is worth £500 a month as living accommodation and a judge decrees that nonetheless, it can't be rented out as such, he's overriding those forces. Any market you could name is shaped by the law/judges one way or another: the market in weapons, in food, in labour, in toys, etc. etc. When right-wingers complain that markets aren't 'free' enough, what are they complaining about if not the law's interference with the operation of market forces?
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