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Most regions have prescribed safety standards to meet, for instance the kitemark or the CE mark (http://www.safekids.co.uk/toysafetymarks.html)[http://www.sa... show an item meets the regulatory safety requirements - these aren't added by stores, they are obtained by the manufacturer so that its products can be sold in stores across Britain and Europe.

Saying that the onus should be on stores is crazy, unless you accept that a company should have exclusive rights to your product at which point it become a licensed product and would probably be branded as such.

I've been to a few pick your own farms in Staffordshire, but these have been secondary businesses to farm shops or petting zoos.

I think strawberry farms have got technology down to a point where having people (especially children) ambling around is invasive. I see a lot of polysterene covered tunnels in fields which I've seen strawberries grown in. As we rely more on technology, the more it distances us from the process.

My father had Muscular Dystrophy and enjoyed computer games that allowed him to do things he could never do. He was a particular fan of Microsoft Flight Simulator and we would spread out the big maps of airfields and plot courses and enjoy the virtual freedom of a city or country with the expansion packs.

I think if he were alive today, he'd probably have a VR headset.

Looking back I regret the times that I, in my ignorance, nagged him about still being on the computer and just gliding along the sky.

A caloric deficit is the only way to lose weight. You can burn off the calories that you eat, if you have the time and the energy; but the most efficient way is not to eat those calories in the first place and then exercise to improve your strength, cardio-vascualar stamina and flexibility.

These are enforced on a national level though aren't they, in the UK ICO doesn't have the resources to hunt people down and are probably only going to enforce action against major players in the market as they are under the most scrutiny.

The problem comes when a nation decides to use those rules in a way that is detrimental to the populace or a service they see as troublesome.

Web.dev by Google 8 years ago

This, so much this.

The skew to web applications rather than websites for tooling has been very disappointin and myopic view of what a 'website' is.

It would make sense if I could give it a root URL and then a robot progressively ran tests over a month and then reported back, but one URL is a drop in a vast ocean for most of us.

I made a very rudimentary lottery machine in JS as some practice. It is astonishing how much money you can put in and get nothing out - even if you hit the upper brackets.