Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

[Nimby]

Ayahuasca said:

If you were stuck in a normal sized lift, and there was no ventilation due to a power cut, how long would it take you to die of carbon dioxide poisoning. / asphyxia?

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/25...
Just plug in the size of the lift. CO2 poisoning gets you before lack of oxygen(cf Apollo 13)

[Halmyre]

Nimby said:

Ayahuasca said:

If you were stuck in a normal sized lift, and there was no ventilation due to a power cut, how long would it take you to die of carbon dioxide poisoning. / asphyxia?

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/25...
Just plug in the size of the lift. CO2 poisoning gets you before lack of oxygen(cf Apollo 13)

But lifts aren't hermetically sealed. You'd die of starvation* (or dehydration) before you died of anything else.

* depending on how many others are in the lift...

[Nimby]

Halmyre said:

But lifts aren't hermetically sealed. You'd die of starvation* (or dehydration) before you died of anything else.

* depending on how many others are in the lift...

The OP later added "In my question, there is no ventilation"

[FlyingMeeces]

Nimby said:

Halmyre said:

But lifts aren't hermetically sealed. You'd die of starvation* (or dehydration) before you died of anything else.

* depending on how many others are in the lift...

The OP later added "In my question, there is no ventilation"

He (?) said 'there is no ventilation due to a powercut' eg no air con, fans etc - so Nimby is right. Normal lifts aren't airtight, so you'd definitely be uncomfortable stuck in one potentially for heat etc reasons in a power cut, but you wouldn't have a life-threatening air supply problem.

[Shakermaker]

Borroxs said:

David87 said:

I appreciate this is an unlikely situation, but what if you were a Domino's Pizza delivery driver and wanted to use something such as an E46 M3 CSL to do your deliveries? Where would you attach the magnetic light-up sign? It wouldn't stick to the carbon fibre roof, nor the plastic (?) boot lid. Would you not be able to do the job?

Guess what we've just had delivered.

You can easily stick a magnetic sign to a carbon fibre roof. All you need is an attracting magnet on the inside if he car against the inside of the roof.

But I suspect it's not something that anyone would do.

when I went off on a banger rally a few years ago with a couple of mates, we were swapping items over from our old Vauxhall Carlton which had finally failed its MOT to a substantial amount of rust, and were transferring everything over to the cheap Renault Espace we bought to replace it.

The CB radio aerial wouldn't stick to the plastic roof of the Espace, so we cut out a panel of the roof from the Carlton before scrapping it, and bolted that to the roof of the Espace and earthed it. So I guess you could do similar with your M3 CSL?

[227bhp]

Has anyone ever used a recorded customer phone call for 'training purposes'?

[Tango13]

Do Film4 check the content of a film before broadcast?

Airplane has just been on containing class A drug usage, female nudity, various religious jokes, physical violence against women, Nun jokes, racial stereotyping and a bit of swearing...

All before 9pm!

[anonymous-user]

227bhp said:

Has anyone ever used a recorded customer phone call for 'training purposes'?

Yes, last place I worked they would on their training days.

[deeen]

Tango13 said:

Do Film4 check the content of a film before broadcast?

Airplane has just been on containing class A drug usage, female nudity, various religious jokes, physical violence against women, Nun jokes, racial stereotyping and a bit of swearing...

All before 9pm!

Did they do the message before it? "WARNING: This film contains mild drug use, swearing, violence, nudity and inflatable doll"

[Astacus]

Tango13 said:

Do Film4 check the content of a film before broadcast?

Airplane has just been on containing class A drug usage, female nudity, various religious jokes, physical violence against women, Nun jokes, racial stereotyping and a bit of swearing...

All before 9pm!

Surely not



10


9



8.....

[talksthetorque]

Tango13 said:

Do Film4 check the content of a film before broadcast?

Airplane has just been on containing class A drug usage,

Yes, I bet it glamorised it

Tango13 said:

female nudity,

Ooh Matron ( Sure I've seen Carry On Camping on itv/CH4 on a Bank holiday afternoon)

Tango13 said:

various religious jokes,

Which are watershed sensitive?

Tango13 said:

physical violence against women,

As opposed to physical violence against men, which would be ok at what time of the day?

Tango13 said:

Nun jokes,

I din't 'ear nun

Tango13 said:

racial stereotyping

Well, That's Yank films for yer

Tango13 said:

and a bit of swearing...

What! The bds.
There were three bleedings a bugger and four bloodys ( or something) on Endeavour last night in the first ten minutes I'll have you know. And it was a proper god fearing female character that said them

Tango13 said:

All before 9pm!

Go to bed earlier.
And take your notepad with you.

Edited by talksthetorque on Monday 16th January 21:40

[Tango13]

deeen said:

Tango13 said:

Do Film4 check the content of a film before broadcast?

Airplane has just been on containing class A drug usage, female nudity, various religious jokes, physical violence against women, Nun jokes, racial stereotyping and a bit of swearing...

All before 9pm!

Did they do the message before it? "WARNING: This film contains mild drug use, swearing, violence, nudity and inflatable doll"

I missed the first half hour or so but they didn't have any spoilers after the advert breaks and stop calling me Shirley...

[Astacus]

Tango13 said:

I missed the first half hour or so but they didn't have any spoilers after the advert breaks and stop calling me Shirley...

Huzah

[Borroxs]

227bhp said:

Has anyone ever used a recorded customer phone call for 'training purposes'?

My insurance company did. To check what mods I had (hadn't) told them about.

Still paid out, despite them having suitable evidence, but said I'd have to pay an adjusted premium, which they never charged back.

[popeyewhite]

227bhp said:

Has anyone ever used a recorded customer phone call for 'training purposes'?

My insurance company said they did, but when I requested proof of such to show I'd asked for protected no claims they mysteriously couldn't find it, back-pedalled, and added protected no claims bonus to my policy FOC. Lying parasites.

[Shakermaker]

AVV EM said:

227bhp said:

Has anyone ever used a recorded customer phone call for 'training purposes'?

Yes, last place I worked they would on their training days.

Yes, we too have used them for training of both the right/wrong things to say, as well as for giving people advice on what kinds of things they might hear when taking calls.

[anonymous-user]

The aurora borealis.

Are all the videos you ever see on the news etc sped up to appear more "fluid"? Or does it really ripple like that in real time?

[P-Jay]

Watching Police Interceptors last night.

They're busting a Cannabis factory - every time they do this they always make a point to say the growers has bypassed the meter and how dangerous it is.

He says they do it to avoid the electricity company alerting the police.

Firstly - do the utilities providers really grass up their own customers like that, I would imagine it would require a specific law to be passed to circumvent the DPA without a warrant etc.

Secondly - AFAIK all but very new smart meters are 'dumb' they record usage, but they don't broadcast the information, it requires either the customer to give the reading or someone coming around to read it. Given it's unlikely they're going to allow the meter man in to have a look at their bypassed meter and "oh don't mind the smell, erm the kids are burning incense again".

[P-Jay]

227bhp said:

Has anyone ever used a recorded customer phone call for 'training purposes'?

I client of ours listens into 10-20 calls their staff made / took a day looking for issues to address, it's not a call centre either - Finance Company, to make sure their guys are looking for the right opportunities and portraying the values or something.

Yeah, it's there to settle arguments between their customers and their staff as well.

[Europa1]

P-Jay said:

Watching Police Interceptors last night.

They're busting a Cannabis factory - every time they do this they always make a point to say the growers has bypassed the meter and how dangerous it is.

He says they do it to avoid the electricity company alerting the police.

Firstly - do the utilities providers really grass up their own customers like that, I would imagine it would require a specific law to be passed to circumvent the DPA without a warrant etc.

Secondly - AFAIK all but very new smart meters are 'dumb' they record usage, but they don't broadcast the information, it requires either the customer to give the reading or someone coming around to read it. Given it's unlikely they're going to allow the meter man in to have a look at their bypassed meter and "oh don't mind the smell, erm the kids are burning incense again".

The DPA contains exemptions around the detection and prevention of crime, but not sure off the top of my head if they would cover the electicity supplier whistleblowing or if they only apply when the Police come asking for records/information.