I was told, the other day, that the reason that a company was pulling out of manufacturing in Aberdeen was energy costs. Like most factories in the U.K., 100% on ‘leccy - even the forklifts. So comme… (View Post)

FPT That is not correct. What OGH does not allow is impinging the motives of BPC pollsters with random allegations. So “XYZ polls are push polls to ramp the Monster Lunt Party for financial gain” is … (View Post)

Among others, the German Short Signal Code of WWII and Enigma fame was a way of compressing location. So that the resultant messages were really short. Which meant that the Germans accidentally advan… (View Post)

If they had realised how unoriginal it was, they would have done it much better. There are a number of codes for easy reporting of positions in lat and long through history. (View Post)

Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start. They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams mor… (View Post)