Here in Australia and most shops will add 1.5% to your bill if you use a debit or credit card. (Some have different rates depending on the card used so it gets complicated). They set up the payment a… (View Post)

The National Grid network is built to withstand one or two faults/outages not causing a loss of supply however shutting down a whole substation to let the firefighters in counts as more than two! In … (View Post)

I worked on the connection project for Heathrow T4. From what I remember the site was connected to the distribution substation at Slough which was in turn was fed from the 400kV National Grid substat… (View Post)

Well she was born in Toronto, Canada BUT she'll be a Brit again once she starts winning! (It's meant as a parody of how we used to view that Scot Andy Murray on here. I have hopes that she will finis… (View Post)

Malaysia uses FPTP and has an anti-party hopping law. If you leave (or are thrown out) of the party that you stood for in the election then your seat is declared vacant and there is a by-election. Th… (View Post)