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Cox will go when Boris goes. (make it so, captain!) Just like his Transatlantic hero, tried to surround himself with people that agree with him. That’s coming apart at the seams as people leave him when they find out that his position weakens to the point that there is nothing more in supporting Boris for them. What a heap of stinking ordure this government has become: I begin to think that I am living in a parallel universe. Lies, half-truths and Borisms.
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I'm out.The mess just gets messier Boris, and you have not a clue how to clean it up. If ever this idiot had any plan of action, it has almost reached Plan Z by now. Thank you very much, Supreme Court, especially for the strength of the rebuke, which I don’t think anyone expected. That was more than a slap on the wrist, it was a hard punch to a monster ego. Another reminder to those who believe that we “lost our sovereignty” that no such loss has occurred at any point during our membership of the EU.
Her Majesty and her team will have a very jaundiced view of BoJo now. The way it is being presented in some quarters may wake him up to the fact that the Queen has been regarded with huge respect and love as a national treasure by the British public for many decades, whilst Boris may not retain any public respect past the end of this current year. Just two months in power, you offend Parliament, the monarchy and are judged guilty of misusing your position by the highest court in the land. Nice one, BoJo! 😣😡 What’s your next trick?
As a Republican I find it initially amusing, then frankly, sickening, especially the view from New York of two national leaders, neither of whom are fit for purpose.
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I'm out.Thanks Dave that looks good, but son’s build has now reached the point where I have it all working and have spent quite a bit on it. A 1TB Seagate spinner and a 4 port front USB panel comes Friday. If he wants an SSD he can buy one, I’ll give him the link you gave here. Grandson actually gave me a mild b****cking for not asking him sooner. 😚 I tend to forget that I have been there for him all the years and his dad has been missing since he was a toddler. Seeing him tomorrow, he has actually taken a day off work and I have yet another parcel for him.
As you probably know from your son, Aspergers takes anything they get involved in right down to nuts and bolts. Well, gson has taken to cooking at home. With Japanese and Korean ingredients, recipes and sauces. That’s why parcels for him with kanji and hanja scripts*, are delivered here in numbers every time he gets another recipe. The power of Gaming contacts: this came about after he was playing online a couple of years ago with some Koreans. This year they started contacting each other in other ways and now he gets recipes from them. Family are all guinea pigs, he invites us over for a meal. Grandma grins and bears it, granddad is learning new tastes and liking (most) of it.🤔😎
He never ceases to confound me nowadays, it’s as if he has matured slowly to one stage and now is opening up to different interests very quickly. At 25.
*Had to look that up!
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I'm out.I was scrolling through Gumtree when I saw this John, £30 and looks ideal for you. See if she will post if you want it.
These are factory specs, it has an 8″ screen, 1280 x 800 resolution, 2GB RAM, Android 7.0.
The only drawback I see is that it has 16GB onboard, but not expandable.
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I'm out.Inserting a chuckle at this point. The really, really dumb neighbour who always comes up with the really, really dumb comments told me once that the way to settle the National Debt was to “Print the same amount of money as the total national Debt, and pay it off.” The 3 others listening to these pearls of wisdom were still looking at one another as Mr. Dumb walked away, a pleased smile on his face. One of the listeners was a retired chartered accountant and he was first to start laughing, which set us all off. It is sometimes a bit refreshing to know that such people exist.
I recall the wonderful Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan once describing National Debts. UK National debt as ” a billion, billion, zillion pounds.” US National debt was just a scream: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH” Irish ND was “Someone must know!”
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I'm out.Points taken Dave, thank you. Win 10 ASAP.
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I'm out.I thought that SO2 also set up the conditions in the stratosphere for the formation of acid rain, Ed.
Les, that encounter with your gym teacher is almost entirely opposite to my own experience with our Psycho gym teacher, an ex-Army lunatic. Background: Ours was a Technical Secondary opposite a huge reservoir between Mansfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield. The track around the “Reser” was over 7 miles long and used by the school for cross-country races, including the annual whole school race in which all pupils from 11 to 18 took part, 4 Houses competing. During the summer with no football (Boo!) on Sports Day Wednesday afternoon, we could choose to run in small groups. My little group of 5 were recent nicotine addicts at 13 and we each took turns to carry 5 ciggies and a few matches, so that only one of us would have responsibility. This particular day was my turn, the Psycho PT master watching us run down the long drive clocked me trying to stop the contraband sliding out of my baggy running shirt (I was a small kid) and ran me down. Pulling my shirt out, he found the offending materials and marched me to the changing rooms. He gave me 6 whacks – with a wooden relay baton! You can imagine the pain. Then he marched me to the headmaster and he gave me 6 more with the cane
My dad saw the welts on my backside as I limped off the bus home, having had to leave my bike at school because I could not ride it for pain. The result of that was ex-amateur boxer dad going to school with me next day, chinning the PT lunatic and reading the Riot Act to the Head, informing him that if any action was taken against dad for assault, he would use photos and the GP’s report of my damaged posterior to sue the school. No more was heard, but the sight of my 5’2″ dad knocking out the 6′ PT nutter will always be in my head!
Now, had we had the sort of PT teacher you had Les, I might have used a good lecture like that as an incentive to give up the weed. As it is, I smoked until I was 32.
Recycling: this is our ELDC collection service, they have a very good record and there are local sites nearby which take everything else, from rubble, metal, wood, rigid and other recyclable plastics, to oils, ink cartridges, batteries and WEEE stuff. These are open Friday to Monday inclusive.
ELDC Waste site: https://tinyurl.com/yyh95bh9
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I'm out.There is a reason for the massive number of young and very young people at these protests. It is their future on the planet they are concerned about. Look at the ages of all the leaders of those nations that have the worst, highest polluting emissions. They don’t give a toss about 20 or 30 years’ time, they will be long gone. Affluent deniers like Trump just want to make as much money and retain as much power as they can, before they die. They don’t even consider their own descendants, believing that they will face a different outcome. Well I have news for them: it’s the same ball of rock and you have nowhere else to go. Until the billions of desperate, starving people start to come for whatever you have.
China, India and the USA emit more pollution than the rest of the world put together. Even the Germans burn brown coal, one of the worst emitters. The UK has set targets that we may or may not achieve, but even today we are only responsible for a little less than 1% of total world emissions. When a prominent scientist such as Professor Sir David King says the speed of climate change scares him, the whole world should listen.
And no, VFM, it’s not a ” small global warming trend ” It’s also not simply ” the natural cyclical pattern of climate change seen for millions of years ” Partially, it may be, but how much more proof do you need that man’s activities are to blame for most of it? I have seen reports that, without the current warming cycle, we would be in a cooling cycle. Sticking your head in the sand hides the truth of course.
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I'm out.Thanks Dave, I take all that onboard as great advice and information. I fully intend to go to 10, just not yet. I did find something similar to your link and I put his Hdd in my desktop, used diskpart in command prompt to convert the disk to GPT, reinstalled his Hdd to the new build.. When I finish using my own desktop, I will have another bash at son’s. Problem in this room is that it is still mostly a spare bedroom and I have so little space that I have to disconnect, swap over machines and reconnect. I will be very glad when it’s all done and I can switch to 10. Son does not want 10 yet, he is afraid of it I think.
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I'm out.JayCeeDee: I should have said that I made my own A5 book. It started as an A to Z WHS book and got so badly scribbled over that it became illegible in parts, as I change some passwords regularly. So I used Open Office to make my own template of A5 pages (actually A4 pages, split horizontally) and bought a cheap plastic A5 ring binder. A to Z is set up as individual text boxes and I just retype one page, print and change it in the folder. A lot of work to start with, but once the system is working, it’s easy to keep it up.
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I'm out.My eldest Gdaughter still has the HP Pavillion d7 that was ours, at least 10 years old now. She has had it about 5 years and you could grow stuff on it! She used it when she was a chef and it really needs degreasing; now she works in a Barclays bank and still uses it for work appointments, etc. I put in another 2GB Ram and an SSD in the DVDRW bay. It is still solid as a rock, quite heavy compared to today’s lappies, gets hammered by her and truck owner/driver BF. They are about to move into their first home together and I jokingly suggested she should pass it to the firstborn. “Of course granddad: it’s a family heirloom now!”
I think the old HP will have to be shot at some point. It just won’t die from natural causes. They don’t make ’em like that any more!
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I'm out.Have to return to this because I am having problems with the Hdd. The Gigabyte PDF manual I downloaded states that Windows must be installed before any Giga drivers are installed, which is not what I have ever done before. So I booted and all lights lit, fans worked (hurrah!) CPU fan and VGA card spinning. Started installing Win 7/64, got to the point of changing “US” settings, KB & mouse stopped working. Couldn’t proceed with installation. “Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to start” which I did. “Boot Mgr Missing”. Oh sh!t.
Removed Hdd and installed to my good old ICYBOX Ext. case, used CPanel-Admin Tools to check. No MBR. Does that mean same, or function same, as Boot Mgr? I formatted the Hdd again, switched off Ext. case and gave it 30 sec’s or so, restarted it. Checked Admin Tools – Disk Management and there is now a small partition containing the MBR, which I must have missed at previous format.
Problem with this build, or any such process in this tiny spare room, is limitations of space. I have to remove one system box in order to test another, and vice-versa when I need to find stuff to apply to the build. Questions: 1 – should I have ignored the Giga manual and installed the mobo drivers before installing Windows? 2 – Now that the MBR is present, can I expect to successfully install Windows?
Driving me mad: fortunately this is my son’s build and he is not worried about time. I think that the Win install fail was down to the missing MBR, but I have searched so many sources that I am now confused by MBR and Boot Mgr. Any advice is welcomed, TY guys.
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I'm out.BoJo renounced US citizenship in 2016: https://tinyurl.com/haev825
More’s the pity, perhaps he could have been stripped of UK citizenship and sent back to face a big US tax bill, as in the above link.
Damn it, do it anyway.
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I'm out.Thanks Dave, getting on with it now.
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I'm out.September 19, 2019 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Crossrail Delays or Why Politicians should be excluded from projects #36786Apply that to BoJo, but insert an “i” between ‘u’ and ‘n’.
On second thoughts. apply it to most of the feckwits in Westminster.
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I'm out.Cue the companies producing the next “WiFi 6” routers and selling at high prices, employing the Hard Sell to tell us how much we NEED the ‘latest model’.
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I'm out.September 18, 2019 at 9:18 pm in reply to: Crossrail Delays or Why Politicians should be excluded from projects #36770I do not have much to add to the last two posts in answer to yours Graham. Except to say, no, the UK is NOT a massive island. It is a relatively small and overcrowded place. Many of the skills you speak of, are either being eroded by skilled workers leaving, or being made redundant thanks to the effect of Brexit. Only today one of the largest car retail businesses, based in my birth county of Nottinghamshire, plans a “restructure” and 1,300 redundancies. These events will continue and it is due to this government’s non-existent Brexit ‘plans’ causing loss of sales and loss of business investment confidence. You can stick your head in the sand and tell us everything will be OK, right up to the point of economic collapse.
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I'm out.All my passwords are saved twice: initially by Firefox, which I can access and find via Tools – Options – etc, and always recorded in an A5 folder, the pages of which I set up as a small programme using OpenOffice. I can delete, renew, insert new and print new pages whenever I wish. The A5 folder is of course stored away safely in a hideaway. I have the same misgivings about Lastpass and other such programmes, as Ed.
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I'm out.September 18, 2019 at 4:04 pm in reply to: Crossrail Delays or Why Politicians should be excluded from projects #36756Ed does that mean single generator of Wealth? Then you do not take into account contributions such as farming and food production, without which the nation could never import enough to feed us. Lincolnshire alone produces 25% of vegetable production, 21% of ornamental crops, 19% of sugar beet, 17% of meat chickens, 18% of duck and 21% of turkey production. and that does not include the rest of East Anglia and other food growing areas of the UK.
You also ignore the value of UK Tourism, which is growing exponentially:
Even my own county now has a tourism value to the UK of 1.37 billion over 5 years to 2016. And that is also rising exponentially:
How long can the UK continue to rely on the finance industry (centred upon a small area of the capital) before Brexit takes at least some international finance and investment away from the country? This is a precarious industry which relies upon international confidence to prosper. My point is still correct: a disproportionate amount of the national budget goes to London. Infrastructure in the rest of the UK suffers from lack of investment. These are facts.
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I'm out.September 17, 2019 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Crossrail Delays or Why Politicians should be excluded from projects #36731And there is still HS2 to come, unless Brexit bankruptcy forces the government’s hand in stopping it. Meanwhile, in Lincolnshire we struggle on with insufficient, slow public transport, disintegrating road surfaces, too many single lane carriageways and insufficient, outmoded infrastructure. Something shared with the rest of the country outside London and the South East I believe. Look at the nation with the eyes of those from outside these areas and realise that our impressions are that London & SE England gets the Lion’s share of the national budget. Which would be viewed with less critical eyes, if that budget was not wasted in so many ways.
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