London Hotels
Aug 14th 2004, 6:53 am
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Re: London Hotels
"devil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
> > But so easy to make a pig's ear of when the decimal point slips. The
> > advantage of the Imperial system is the unit of measurement changes, keeping
> > the numbers small.
> >
> > An area 2 ft x 2 ft is 4 sq ft. The same area in either millimetres or
> > metres is 600 x 600 or 0.6 x 0.6. Schools use the bastard unit of centimetre
> > because children can't cope with measuring to exact mm, or multiplying the
> > figures involved, and a metre rule would poke someone's eye out. Inches and
> > ft are nice and easy for children.
> >
> > At least the Brits don't measure everything in cupsful.
> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
> water from a full reservoir?
Does this assume that it won't rain at all whilst you didpose of your 100
gallons/minute pump?
JohnT
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> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
> > But so easy to make a pig's ear of when the decimal point slips. The
> > advantage of the Imperial system is the unit of measurement changes, keeping
> > the numbers small.
> >
> > An area 2 ft x 2 ft is 4 sq ft. The same area in either millimetres or
> > metres is 600 x 600 or 0.6 x 0.6. Schools use the bastard unit of centimetre
> > because children can't cope with measuring to exact mm, or multiplying the
> > figures involved, and a metre rule would poke someone's eye out. Inches and
> > ft are nice and easy for children.
> >
> > At least the Brits don't measure everything in cupsful.
> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
> water from a full reservoir?
Does this assume that it won't rain at all whilst you didpose of your 100
gallons/minute pump?
JohnT
Aug 14th 2004, 7:37 am
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Re: London Hotels
"JohnT" wrote
| "devil" wrote
| > Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet,
| > and I didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to
| > pump out all the water from a full reservoir?
Acre-ft isn't a proper Imperial measure. But actually I think it's quite
easy.
10 acre = 48400 yard^2 = 435600 foot^2. As depth is 1 ft, volume is 435600
cu ft.
= 3258514 gallons US or 2669208 gallons UK.
Therefore about 22 days.
I confess I used an online converter to change acre > yd^2, ft^3 > gall etc.
But I didn't change to metric or decimals.
Owain
| "devil" wrote
| > Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet,
| > and I didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to
| > pump out all the water from a full reservoir?
Acre-ft isn't a proper Imperial measure. But actually I think it's quite
easy.
10 acre = 48400 yard^2 = 435600 foot^2. As depth is 1 ft, volume is 435600
cu ft.
= 3258514 gallons US or 2669208 gallons UK.
Therefore about 22 days.
I confess I used an online converter to change acre > yd^2, ft^3 > gall etc.
But I didn't change to metric or decimals.
Owain
Aug 14th 2004, 9:26 am
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Re: London Hotels
You might also want to determine whether or not it includes taxes.
VAT in england is 20 something% as I recall.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:17:33 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
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>uke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> > Hello, I am hoping to go to London in a few weeks time. I've never
>> > been in
>> > that many hotels in my life, I'm looking at the website
>> > www.londontown.com
>> > which is very useful, however, I can't quite figure out whether the
>> > Hotel
>> > prices per night include breakfast or not? or does it depend on the
>> > hotel?
>> > is there a general rule regarding hotel meals?
>> >
VAT in england is 20 something% as I recall.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:17:33 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
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>uke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > Hello, I am hoping to go to London in a few weeks time. I've never
>> > been in
>> > that many hotels in my life, I'm looking at the website
>> > www.londontown.com
>> > which is very useful, however, I can't quite figure out whether the
>> > Hotel
>> > prices per night include breakfast or not? or does it depend on the
>> > hotel?
>> > is there a general rule regarding hotel meals?
>> >
Aug 14th 2004, 9:37 am
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"gerald" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> You might also want to determine whether or not it includes taxes.
> VAT in england is 20 something% as I recall.
londontown doesn't include VAT - see earlier posts. It's 17.5%.
Regards
David Bennetts
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> You might also want to determine whether or not it includes taxes.
> VAT in england is 20 something% as I recall.
londontown doesn't include VAT - see earlier posts. It's 17.5%.
Regards
David Bennetts
Aug 14th 2004, 10:06 am
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"devil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
> water from a full reservoir?
An infinite period unless you manage to stop it raining :)
Keith
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> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
> water from a full reservoir?
An infinite period unless you manage to stop it raining :)
Keith
Aug 14th 2004, 8:49 pm
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 07:37:27 +1000, "David Bennetts"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>"gerald" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> You might also want to determine whether or not it includes taxes.
>> VAT in england is 20 something% as I recall.
>londontown doesn't include VAT - see earlier posts. It's 17.5%.
I noticed that when looking for a hotel in York, hotels offered by US
websites were up to twice the price of the same hotel offered on
European websites. For the same hotels the cheapest were offered by a
French website
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>"gerald" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> You might also want to determine whether or not it includes taxes.
>> VAT in england is 20 something% as I recall.
>londontown doesn't include VAT - see earlier posts. It's 17.5%.
I noticed that when looking for a hotel in York, hotels offered by US
websites were up to twice the price of the same hotel offered on
European websites. For the same hotels the cheapest were offered by a
French website
Aug 14th 2004, 8:50 pm
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:06:12 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
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>"devil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
>> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
>> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
>> water from a full reservoir?
>An infinite period unless you manage to stop it raining :)
Did somebody mention that acre/feet is the standard non metric measure
for reservoir capacity?
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>"devil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
>> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
>> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
>> water from a full reservoir?
>An infinite period unless you manage to stop it raining :)
Did somebody mention that acre/feet is the standard non metric measure
for reservoir capacity?
Aug 14th 2004, 10:12 pm
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<[email protected]> wrote
| Did somebody mention that acre/feet is the standard non metric
| measure for reservoir capacity?
Rather limited in usefulness unless your reservoir has vertical walls.
Owain
| Did somebody mention that acre/feet is the standard non metric
| measure for reservoir capacity?
Rather limited in usefulness unless your reservoir has vertical walls.
Owain
Aug 15th 2004, 3:05 am
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:50:46 +0200, nitram wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:06:12 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"devil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
>>> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
>>> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
>>> water from a full reservoir?
>>An infinite period unless you manage to stop it raining :)
>
> Did somebody mention that acre/feet is the standard non metric measure
> for reservoir capacity?
Not acre/feet, but acre (times) feet.
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:06:12 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"devil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected] t...
>>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:11:52 +0100, Owain wrote:
>>> Small test for you. If my reservoir has a capacity of 10 acre-feet, and I
>>> didpose of a 100 gpm pump, how many years will it take to pump out all the
>>> water from a full reservoir?
>>An infinite period unless you manage to stop it raining :)
>
> Did somebody mention that acre/feet is the standard non metric measure
> for reservoir capacity?
Not acre/feet, but acre (times) feet.
Aug 19th 2004, 4:55 am
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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] () wrote:
> I noticed that when looking for a hotel in York, hotels offered by US
> websites were up to twice the price of the same hotel offered on
> European websites. For the same hotels the cheapest were offered by a
> French website
Try shopping online to get flowers delivered in the UK - the difference
between US- and locally-targeted sites is astonishing! (I ended up paying
GBP35 for more or less the same arrangement as another site quoted at
USD200, IIRC.)
[email protected] () wrote:
> I noticed that when looking for a hotel in York, hotels offered by US
> websites were up to twice the price of the same hotel offered on
> European websites. For the same hotels the cheapest were offered by a
> French website
Try shopping online to get flowers delivered in the UK - the difference
between US- and locally-targeted sites is astonishing! (I ended up paying
GBP35 for more or less the same arrangement as another site quoted at
USD200, IIRC.)
Aug 19th 2004, 6:39 am
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:55:05 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] () wrote:
>> I noticed that when looking for a hotel in York, hotels offered by US
>> websites were up to twice the price of the same hotel offered on
>> European websites. For the same hotels the cheapest were offered by a
>> French website
>Try shopping online to get flowers delivered in the UK - the difference
>between US- and locally-targeted sites is astonishing! (I ended up paying
>GBP35 for more or less the same arrangement as another site quoted at
>USD200, IIRC.)
I forgot to mention that the 90 room hotel that I stayed in that had
silly prices on many sites had only 5 rooms occupied.
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] () wrote:
>> I noticed that when looking for a hotel in York, hotels offered by US
>> websites were up to twice the price of the same hotel offered on
>> European websites. For the same hotels the cheapest were offered by a
>> French website
>Try shopping online to get flowers delivered in the UK - the difference
>between US- and locally-targeted sites is astonishing! (I ended up paying
>GBP35 for more or less the same arrangement as another site quoted at
>USD200, IIRC.)
I forgot to mention that the 90 room hotel that I stayed in that had
silly prices on many sites had only 5 rooms occupied.
Aug 19th 2004, 6:59 am
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Re: London Hotels
Originally Posted by David Bennetts
"S Viemeister" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> David Bennetts wrote:
> > In Australia we basically follow the same practice as Britain in that
the
> > quoted price always includes tax (GST) which is currently 10%. I always
> > feel stung when I travel to the USA and have to pay taxes (and often
> > gratuities) on top of their quoted price, perhaps Americans may realise
one
> > day their non-conformist trading policies don't encourage tourism.
> > (As with their dogged determination to retain imperial measurements)
> >
> Ahem - US standard measurements are not exactly the same as Imperial
> measurements. Some are quite different.
Perhaps I used the term loosely. Gas (or should I say petrol) is of course
by US gallon, somewhat less than an imperial.
But they've got the same inches, feet, yards, miles, and nautical miles as
Imperial. It's still an antiquated and un-necessarily complex measuring
system, if you for example want the area of a rectangle 5 miles, 530 feet,
seven and one quarter inches by 3 miles, 4320 feet, 4 and one eighth inches
how on earth do you put that in your calculator? Metrics by comparison is
so simple.
Also one of my pet hates is US currency notes - a complete lack of
imagination in having them all the same size and same dull colour, with
dreary antideluvian design, they're supposed to be a vibrant modern country,
why not design something more appropriate to the 21st century rather than
the 19th?
I won't mention their immigration forms, which look as though they were
printed on a 17th century printing press, with the form design done by the
janitor!
Regards
David Bennetts
Australia
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> David Bennetts wrote:
> > In Australia we basically follow the same practice as Britain in that
the
> > quoted price always includes tax (GST) which is currently 10%. I always
> > feel stung when I travel to the USA and have to pay taxes (and often
> > gratuities) on top of their quoted price, perhaps Americans may realise
one
> > day their non-conformist trading policies don't encourage tourism.
> > (As with their dogged determination to retain imperial measurements)
> >
> Ahem - US standard measurements are not exactly the same as Imperial
> measurements. Some are quite different.
Perhaps I used the term loosely. Gas (or should I say petrol) is of course
by US gallon, somewhat less than an imperial.
But they've got the same inches, feet, yards, miles, and nautical miles as
Imperial. It's still an antiquated and un-necessarily complex measuring
system, if you for example want the area of a rectangle 5 miles, 530 feet,
seven and one quarter inches by 3 miles, 4320 feet, 4 and one eighth inches
how on earth do you put that in your calculator? Metrics by comparison is
so simple.
Also one of my pet hates is US currency notes - a complete lack of
imagination in having them all the same size and same dull colour, with
dreary antideluvian design, they're supposed to be a vibrant modern country,
why not design something more appropriate to the 21st century rather than
the 19th?
I won't mention their immigration forms, which look as though they were
printed on a 17th century printing press, with the form design done by the
janitor!
Regards
David Bennetts
Australia
