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Yes about a week for me too. According to Mr AI it was working in America and the problem was in some intermediate link between Europe and America.

Yes, of course the study did not include London cabbies. My oversight. I do note however in the study period 2020 - 2022 there were approximately 10 million deaths in the USA of which the study considered 8.9 million deaths and that there were approximately 1 million Covid deaths in that same period

In doing some research around the paper I found out that in London uber drivers are not cabbies. The London licencing authority regards them as private hire drivers, so they fall under different regulations and do not require the exam commonly known as 'the knowledge'. Furthermore the payment regulations are different as well. Cabbies are paid on a mileage and time basis to a formula, so the exact fare will not be known until the end of the journey. On the other hand uber drivers must only be engaged through an app and must quote a fixed fare for the journey beforehand. A good question I did not find the answer to is 'did the study include uber drivers under cabbies ?' Bear in mind that ubers were popular but then banned during the early part of the study.

The issue presented raises moral and legal questions about the training of AI BBC NewsSecondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.I wonder also what Ray Bradbury would have made of it (Fahrenheit 451) ?

Interesting video. Strange combination of accent, and units.

Did you read the actual study ? I see that it simply stated that the taxi (and ambulance) drivers it studied were found to be the least likely to contract the condition. A good and correct report, too often omitted these days. But as I already noted there is plenty of statistical data to consider.

Yes indeed there is much to be gained by reading the statistics in the original British Medical Journal article properly. The data in the original article is freely available, so amenable to more detailed questioning/analysis. In my time I have noted a definite skew in the populations of taxi drivers towards men as prepared to the population at large or the population of drivers, or the population of professional drivers.

Yes agreed, but £200.000 is less than many a replaced set of traffic lights in the shilly-shallying period. A true bascule bridge is counterweighted so the effort to lift it is actually quite small compared to its weight. Perhaps that is why the hydraulic ram looked weedy. But lack of maintenance may well have caused large stiction forces to operate.

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I've not seen the Gateshead one, but I walked over the Pero a couple of years ago. My daughter was staying at the YHA, seeing the sights of Bristol So I drove up for the day and we went round the amazing Brunel permanent exhibition and Cabot's ship. Pero's bridge closed and the waterway was open in the morning but that was changed later in the day. The much older swing bridge carrying the main road across the Cumberland Basin has been operating for a very long time.

Posted 14/08/2026 but the incident actually occurred the previous day. Pero's footbridge lead across an side leg of the old harbour from the Youth Hostel to some a plaza spectacular with fountains, but in my opinion is particularly ugly. Interestingly it is very close to the dry dock with Brunel's famous steamship, he must be shuddering in his grave at the poor engineering. Far more interesting and better engineered millennium bridges are Miller's Crossing in Exeter, nearby and the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland.

If you read the article you might have noticed that the money is going on - Data Centres - amongst other thins. So we, the public are funding yet another soak the public scheme and we have a Prime Minister wringing his hands and crying crocodile tears, but doing nothing. I have no interest in Reform, or any party as I do not support the party system. Underneath it is part of the overall problem. They are all "say-one-thing-whilst-doing-another" outfits. And everybody these days seems to have "sloping shoulders".

I particularly like that catch. +1 Here's a prime example of the sort of shenanigans I am referring to. £3.4 billion rise quoted. BBC NewsWater bills set to rise for many after firms permitted ex...Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.

Well spotted. But we have been at the game centuries longer.

Having read through the overhyped blathe r from your Luddite friend, which is every bit the equal to that of Farage employing many of the same rhetorical tricks, I accept that over use of AI may well lead to the loss of some traditional jobs. Of course Trump and the American legal system have nothing to do with the topic, being non British. Only someone without knowledge of the British legal system would make the claims he has. Did you not read my comment about the lower birth rate being due to to later, fewer or even no babies by choice as a direct result of economic circumstance ? This thread is about Britain. We do not have a construction crisis, although it would be far better if we stopped building rubbish structures that have to be pulled down prematurely. Most of the great names in UK construction have gone to the wall or left the sector. What's left are a few foreign owned firms cutting corners left, right and centre and clamping down on workers so no one works for them unless they have to. I keep saying that the UK is different from America and those differences are significant. @Phi for All keeps pointing out the practice of greed that allows a few to benefit at the expense of the many. Sadly I have to observe that the British are the world's greatest experts in this practice.