"Jerry" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in message
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: "Jerry" wrote
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: Anything, it doesn't have to be in excess of 13amps, that is
the
: ****ing point,
:
: You do not advance your argument by the use of foul language.

Poor diddums, news:alt.moderated.nursery-rhymes is that away
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You mistake. Its not that I'm offended by your foul language, its that your
use of foul languge shows up the weakness of your character as you think you
can bolster your argument by using such language.
:
: just the non availability of a replacement
: fuse -*as others have pointed out also*.
:
: No, "others" were refering to internal equipment fuses.

Angles dancing on pinheads, if an internal fuse can be bridged
there is nothing what so ever to stop the same happening with
fuses fitted into BS1363 plugs (or even FCUs).

Except that nobody does it because there is no cause to do so. Plug top
fuses hardly ever blow unless the appliance is faulty and needs repair
before it can be used again, or replacement, and in any case BS1362 fuses
are as common as anything and its simply a damned sight easier to fit a fuse
than to mess around trying to find something else to bridge the fuse


Only in that mythical land called Utopia, in the rest of the UK
it is terrifyingly easy, as you and others have admitted above,
but you are so far up your BBC theory books that you can't see
the daylight anymore.

What "BBC theory books"? I have never had any connection with the BBC. The
only "theory book" I refer to to is called "Requirements for Electrical
Installations" (BS7671) and is jointly published by the British Standards
Institute and the IET. You ought to try reading it some time.


Well yes, and as I said way up, an idiot could indeed hard wire a
table light into a special, dedicated (such as cooker), radial
circuit but that is hardly the designed for easy access that a
BS1363 plug has been designed to allow -people don't even need
any (proper) tools these days due to those horrid moulded on
plugs with externally accessible push-in/pull-out fuse
holders....

I'm not talking about special dedicated radial circuits. BS7671 permits
radial circuits *feeding standard BS1363 sockets* protected by 32A MCBs. As
I said you should try reading BS7671 some time.

David.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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and possibly one or two for the state owned
commercial tv network Channel 4.

Channel 4 isn't state owned.

David.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 14:49:39h +0000, David Looser wrote:

The response was "try PBS" which I did,

Rather difficult since there are no PBS *radio* stations.
PBS is a *television* network.

and found that about 50% of the output was simply a relay of the BBC
world service.

A typical sign of an Public Radio International affiliate station
(previously known as American Public Radio, the smaller rival
to NPR).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Radio_International

Well OK, I'm not familiar with the organisations that supply American public
radio.

Carrying a PRI relay of BBC World Service is far cheaper than
paying for NPR programming, so many smaller public radio
stations prefer this option for obvious reasons.

I imagine it is. But I thought it sad that in wealthy California the
listening choice seemed to be between an array of utterly dreadfull
commercial radio stations that all seemed to broadcast nothing but the same
few adverts repeated over and over again (with the occasional pop record in
between) and one public radio station that had to rely on the BBC world
service for much of its output. Where is the US equivalent of Radio 4?

David.

In article ,
David Looser wrote:
Where is the US equivalent of Radio 4?

I don't think R4 could survive in a purely commercial environment. There
was a consortium who said they were going to try and establish a rival in
the UK, but it never got off the ground.

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*When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 06/02/2012 17:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
David wrote:
Where is the US equivalent of Radio 4?

I don't think R4 could survive in a purely commercial environment. There
was a consortium who said they were going to try and establish a rival in
the UK, but it never got off the ground.

Where's the British equivalent of Radio 4?

--
Eiron.

"Eiron" wrote in message
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On 06/02/2012 17:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
David wrote:
Where is the US equivalent of Radio 4?

I don't think R4 could survive in a purely commercial environment. There
was a consortium who said they were going to try and establish a rival in
the UK, but it never got off the ground.

Where's the British equivalent of Radio 4?


I'm guessing that you are trying to make some point by asking this
apparently meaningless question? But without knowing your prejudices or
political/philosophical views I have no way of knowing what it might be.

David.

On 06/02/2012 22:02, David Looser wrote:
wrote in message
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On 06/02/2012 17:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
David wrote:
Where is the US equivalent of Radio 4?

I don't think R4 could survive in a purely commercial environment. There
was a consortium who said they were going to try and establish a rival in
the UK, but it never got off the ground.

Where's the British equivalent of Radio 4?


I'm guessing that you are trying to make some point by asking this
apparently meaningless question? But without knowing your prejudices or
political/philosophical views I have no way of knowing what it might be.



You don't remember the great dumbing down of Radio 4? The way Radio 3 is
going?


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Eiron.

"Eiron" wrote

You don't remember the great dumbing down of Radio 4? The way Radio 3 is
going?

Oh, *that's* what you are on about. I thought maybe you were trying to make
some comment about "British" vs "English"

Anyway I suggest you take off those rose-tinted specs, there never was a
"Golden Age" of Radio 4. As someone who has listened to the station a lot
over the last 40 years or so I can honestly say that I see no "dumbimg down"
compared to what it was in the past, let alone a "great" dumbing down. There
always has been a mix of great programmes and ones that are less so (and of
course that's a subjective assesment itself), but I think you'll find that
the ratio really hasn't changed much over the years.

David.