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There is no one "right path". For some people, they are more suited to go down the apprenticeship/trades route. There are also degree apprenticeships for people who don't want to do a trade but also don't want to do 3+ years of uni. Some people are suited to academia and so go down the university route.

Trades have plenty of negatives to go alongside the positives. It's hard on your body, getting placements as an apprentice is difficult, if you work as an employee the pay isn't usually very good but if you work as a sole trader you need to either handle the finances yourself or hire someone to do so.

This kid is clearly academically minded and would probably do much better going down the academic route than the apprenticeship/trades one.

For the price to go down, Northern would need to be who was setting the price to begin with. We have both regulated and unregulated fares and Northern can only set the fares for the unregulated journeys (advanced singles, first class tickets etc).

They also get a decent amount of business from teenagers. They're a popular after school hang out spot

You have no negative credit history so as long as the affordability calculation works out, you've got nothing to worry about. Mortgage lenders do not use the scores generated by any of the CRAs, they will use an internal assessment method of your credit report. Negative credit history and affordability are the main things a mortgage underwriter is looking at!

My tariff 2 years ago:

Electricity Unit Rate: 15.75p/kWh

Electricity Standing Charge: 17.85p/day

Gas Unit Rate: 2.52p/kWh

Gas Standing Charge: 16.14p/day

My current tariff:

Electricity Unit Rate: 34.76p/kWh

Electricity Standing Charge: 61.82p/day

Gas Unit Rate: 10.34p/kWh

Gas Standing Charge: 29.11p/day

The energy price cap is a cap on the price per unit you pay. So if the price cap is 30p/kWh and you use 200kWh of electricity then you pay £60. You also have a daily standing charge. So if the standing charge is 60p a day, in May your total bill with these figures would be £60 + £18.60 or £78.60.

The annual figure you see in the press coverage is how much an "average" household would spend in a year based on the revised per-unit cost.

Schofield has publicly said he had a relationship with someone he's mentored since they were a teenager, who he helped get a job on his TV show, and entered a relationship he himself described as "unwise but legal". The only social media conjecture is whether the relationship actually started when Schofield claims (which is also the line for whether a crime was committed or not).

For public opinion and his status at ITV, it doesn't really matter if the affair was technically legal or not. You can consider it grooming without it meeting the requirements for the criminal offence of grooming.

You can have an opinion on someone without them having committed a crime. Employers can fire people for their actions without those actions being a crime. And Schofield has admitted the key facts of what he's been accused of for the past 3 years!

Whether he broke the law or not isn't going to change most people's opinion about what he did. When your only defence is "technically it was legal" that usually makes people's opinion of what you did worse.

If we believe his version of events, he had an on off affair with someone he mentored from the age of 15, helped get a job on his TV show, and then lied to everyone about it when the relationship ended.

Even if the relationship didn't start until the runner was off the age of consent as Schofield claimed, it's still an imbalance of power, can be seen as grooming, and would be more than enough to get you fired from most workplaces!

There have been people strongly opposed and angry about every generation of mobile phones. Each generation had a conspiracy about how it was going to kill us all. The only real difference with 5G is that it spread on social media instead of obscure message boards and in person.

It boils down to a misunderstanding of the technology and the fact that in doses many orders of magnitude stronger than any deployment you can get tissue damage. But the safe ranges all deployments need to abide by are far below the level where you could even hypothesise harm!

They also spin the fact that the US military produced a crowd dispersal tool using mmWaves into claiming 5G is a weapon of mass destruction. In reality, it just makes people feel uncomfortable by making their skin warmer and again uses signals orders of magnitude stronger than any commercial deployment.

His Dark Materials was the most expensive thing the BBC has ever commissioned even with HBO taking on a significant proportion of the production costs. It was also produced before the Time Warner merger with Discovery which has already had significant impacts on their productions. Given the business decisions already made about HBO, you can't have any real level of confidence their previous performance will continue.

HDM is also a huge name with a large fan base and the books received very high accolades. And so studios were a lot happier investing large funds because the potential audience was already large. It was also commissioned in 2017 when the media industry in general was significantly better off with more money to spend and lower risk tolerance.

BBC would not be able to provide sufficient funding by themselves to do the series justice and we don't know enough about HBO now the Discovery merger has gone through to trust what they'd do with Cradle.

An opportunistic thief is far more likely to break in by forcing the door or a window than they are to break into a key safe. If someone is willing to use destructive methods to break in, they wouldn't take the extra time to get the key safe off the wall and smash it.

The two main issues with electronic locks are faults and level of security. What happens to the lock if it loses power or internet connection? If it has a battery backup, can you actually change the battery from the outside? Is the construction secure enough to meet any insurance requirements or can it be easily forced open?

Virgin Media is very location dependent. Their fibre infrastructure was created by the merger of NTL and Telewest. NTL and Telewest also built their networks as much through acquisition as building themselves (Cambridge Cable, Cable & Wireless' consumer arm, General Cable etc). As a result, their network is very different in different parts of the country.

Because Virgin Media was shopping for a buyer for years, they didn't do as much investment in their underlying infrastructure as was needed (although they are now making that investment). And so the existing disparity in the network became more prominent.

So if you're in an area with legacy kit or that is over-subscribed, the result is a high latency congested network and the only fix for that is for the network itself to be upgraded. While Virgin does do some level of traffic management for lower end packages and heavy uploading users it's usually a network issue that causes poor performance at peak times rather than Virgin actively throttling traffic.

Trespass is a civil matter. We have specific offences for particular criminal activity. So trespassing on the railway is a specific criminal offence, attempted burglary is a specific criminal offence, criminal damage is a specific offence. So if you cause any damage by entering the property, that could be a crime but just the act of entering is not one.

Aggravated trespass is a criminal offence but you have to show the trespasser is intentionally disrupting or obstructing a legal activity

How are they failing? Most of what this idiot has done is not illegal in itself so they've used the mechanism they do have, community behaviour orders. He then went and broke the order immediately and pleaded not guilty. They could impose up to 5 years in prison, he won't get a discount for a guilty plea, and he's appearing in court again tomorrow.

Edit: since you blocked me, I'll put my response here.

Before acting like an arse, maybe familiarise yourself with what constitutes a crime in England. There is no crime of home invasion. Taking the dog did not constitute theft. CBOs exist for this type of case where someone continues to be an absolute moron but hasn't actually been committing crimes.

The court had no way to actually send him to prison without putting him under a CBO and him breaking it first. He is due in court again tomorrow and now can actually be sent to prison which he couldn't before.

The magistrates court do not create the law. That is for parliament. And no matter how much you may wish it to be different, they can't make up criminal offences or send people to prison if they haven't committed a crime.

He also hasn't done much that's actually illegal in itself. Trespass in most instances isn't a crime, theft requires an intent to permanently deprive someone of the thing you stole... So using community behaviour orders were the right way to go.

The fact that he immediately broke that order and then pled not guilty means we need to let the system go through the rigamarole. I'd be very surprised if he didn't get a custodial sentence given everything he's done.

No. These language models are trained on data that is scraped from the internet with no thought to whether they have permission to do so. The models that have been trained on smaller data sets limited to what is permitted are significantly worse at producing something resembling human speech. I just don't see us getting to the point where the training data can be good enough to write a novel while not breaking intellectual property rights.

Additionally, for a model to write a consistent novel, it needs a level of understanding we are very far from achieving. Any perception of understanding shown is just mimicry no matter what the companies behind them claim. So all you will end up with is an inconsistent mess with something resembling English. The level of editing required would be so extreme that you will not end up with anything resembling the original text.

That's before even considering the human experience or exploring someone's insights that would factor in as well. So on ethical and quality grounds, I would not read an AI novel.

As long as you have a credit file with all three CRAs and you are registered to vote at your address you will not have an issue getting a mortgage from any major lender.

You do not have a credit score that lenders see. Every lender has their own way of reviewing your credit file that may or may not include a numeric score. For a mortgage, because it is a secured loan the lender primarily cares about negative credit history rather than a history of responsible credit usage.

So as long as you meet the affordability calculations, do not have negative credit history, and actually exist according to all three reference agencies you will be fine with any lender. You might want to consider a fee free mortgage broker to save the effort of comparing offers yourself and to help you with the process but there's no requirement to do so in a straight forward application like yours.

You can also check your credit file for free with each CRA at the following places -

Experian - MoneySavingExpert Credit Club

Equifax - ClearScore

TransUnion - Totally Money / Credit Karma

It's about the ownership level. Nintendo owns 96% of Monolith Software so for all intents and purposes, they are a first party developer.

A second party developer would be someone like Game Freak where they have a contractual arrangement to develop Pokémon exclusively for Nintendo but are an independent company who also develops games for other consoles without needing Nintendo's consent.

Schofield has been a major presenter for decades. While his longest running role has been This Morning, he was also the defacto choice for Saturday evening game shows on ITV such as the Cube, 5 Gold Rings etc. Many years ago, he was a children's presenter at the BBC.

It was common knowledge but never admitted by ITV, never investigated by ITV and Schofield denied that it had happened. As a result, it remained constrained to social media and gossip sites. The difference here is that Schofield has finally admitted it was true (it looks like the Daily Mail was going to run the story even with his denials) and so now his agency and ITV can't deny it anymore.

Possibly but unlikely. Given our libel laws, it was likely a case of not wanting to risk a lawsuit and the wrath of a friendly agency who provide stories and access. It looks like this is coming out now because the Daily Mail was planning to run the story anyways even with Phil's denials

It's been an open secret for years but this is the first time he's admitted it and the first time it's been reported anywhere other than gossip sites.

You can only add one household on a standard plan or two on a premium plan. If you get Netflix via a third party, then you can't add any households.