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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

One would expect to receive some kind of purchasing allowance calculated that’s then tied to income. But things aren’t quite as simple as that in the United Kingdom. However, they’re currently subjected to a 2 percent tax which isn’t even enough to offset the purchasing subsidies being offered by the government in most cases.

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The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

Cars That Think

In the 18th century, the United Kingdom built a network of canals that enabled, rather suddenly, the delivery of raw materials, coal for power, and access to ports for the finished goods. Fast-forward roughly 250 years, to the 1980s, in the United States. It would be a revolution on a grand scale.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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