Hmmmm. Something looks wrong there. I'll have to work out what's going on there... I suspect Delicious have changed the way they store the "description" in their RSS feed again.
In case anyone is wondering, FTTC is Fibre To The Cabinet, where BT run fibre-optic cable to your local telecoms cabinet, and then it's copper the last bit to your home. This is mostly going to be a lot faster than running copper all the way from the exchange to your home, but not as fast as running fibre optic from the cabinet to your front door. A hell of a lot cheaper though.
Yup. If they were laying new lines then it would be worth it. But the cost of digging up miles of cable out to remote places is just far more than it's worth when FTTC will provide speeds of up to 100MB/s (depending on distance to the cabinet).
The Prince Charles thing is pretty outrageous. I'm in favour of the current constitutional monarchy setup (where the monarch technically has the right of veto, but hasn't actually done it for over three hundred years now, and didn't do it very often even before then) and, as you know, I'm opposed to an elected House of Lords. But Prince Charles regularly oversteps reasonable constitutional boundaries in order to promote either his own commercial or aesthetic interests, or whatever ridiculous quackery he's into this week. And it's really long past time he stopped.
The law in originates from a Royal Charter drawn up in 1337. It's one of any number of quirks of our laws, and whilst it should be amended, there is at lease a reason why it exists.
The title and property of the Duchy of Cornwall were created in 1337 by Edward III, and were given by royal charter to his son, the Prince of Wales also known as the Black Prince
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I’m assuming in this that Charlie can only (or has only) apply his veto to the effect of legislation to his own personal business concerns. I think if he could (or had) struck down bits of legislation in their entirety we’d have noticed.
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Fixed that for you.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/prince-charles-ancient-charter-consent
The title and property of the Duchy of Cornwall were created in 1337 by Edward III, and were given by royal charter to his son, the Prince of Wales also known as the Black Prince ( ... )
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