[Malcolm]

Hi Dwynne,

If that doesn’t work (it probably will).

Here’s an oldie but a Goldie, download Ultimate Boot CD link is here:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

It contains F-prot Antivirus and as that runs in ‘Parted Magic’ the infected Windows partition will not even be asked to ‘run’ anything by the mini ‘Parted Magic’ Linux based operating system. Hopefully with a fully slave disc you’ll be able to clear it out.

For any guest readers – always virus check downloads.

[Malcolm]

I can get months of good shaving out of even a cheap Bic razor.

I’ve been able to do that since I was 17 or 18 and I’ve got the kind of face hair growth that produces 5 o’clock shadow by noon.

There is a simple secret to it.

I’ve had a full beard since 1974 or 1975, I’m even now back on trend with the youngsters.

As for betting the nearest I’ve got is the odd go on the National Losery, if you want to know which numbers won’t come up this week just lend me the money to buy a lucky dip ticket (don’t expect to get it back though). For that small investment I will be able to tell you 7 numbers that definitely won’t come up that draw.

I used to win a £1 every week by not playing and I’m pleased to say I’ve doubled my weekly winnings to £2 per week.

[Malcolm]

I understand that the life expectancy of a newborn is actually lower than that of someone who has already reached 65 (79.1 for boys and 82.8 for girls) compared to another 18.5 years for a 65 year old man and 20.9 years for a 65 year old woman.*

Those who don’t live until they’re 65 drags the new born life expectancy down.On the whole the average celebrity seems to pop off earlier.

The ones who seem to last the longest don’t seem to retire. Doddy didn’t and June Brown hasn’t.

Perhaps retirement which equates to loss of fame and (usefulness) is more damaging.

*source https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2014to2016

[Malcolm]

I’m now considering shaving my head as there’s very little hair growing there and it doesn’t look good if over a grade one. It grows so poorly babies hair is much thicker.

I won’t get rid of the beard though, it’s been with me since 1973 except when I once shaved it off I discovered a ‘double chin’ that wasn’t there when I grew it. The wife threatened divorce..

Then again some days I think about shaving it off..

[Malcolm]

When I had a 6 month move I went with my mobile provider and a home Wifi modem/router using a pay as you go Sim Card.

Fortunately for me the rented accommodation was next to a Mobile mast on top of a local government building and the internet was actually faster than that I’d enjoyed(pun) previously on a land line connection.

I sold the modem/router for about £10 less than it had cost me once I’d moved. I even threw in the SIM card.

[Malcolm]

Hi All,

 

Thanks for the saveonlaptops link. That gives me the best base line to start from I’ve seen.

As always when dealing with someone who wants a laptop, and asks for help, my next task will be to steer them away from ‘the nice salesperson’ at their favourite browsing place.

Wish me luck, and thanks for the pointer in the right direction.

[Malcolm]

I looked hard at what I used a TV card for long ago, and switched to a Samsung T24B350 TV/Monitor. I mainly use the screen as a monitor, can use it as a perfectly good 1080p TV and use iPlayer etc for catch up TV.

No driver worries or future obsolete TV cards.

Just a thought that might be worth sharing.

[Malcolm]

This is currently my wife’s favourite joke:

An old man has been married to his wife for 44 years, and he realises he’s been hen pecked for longer than that, so he decides he must get rid of her.

The first thought is a divorce, and then he thinks ‘no, she’d probably find someone else, I can’t inflict her on another.’

So he decides the only solution is to have her killed.

He gets in  touch with a hit man, and says ‘I want you to sort her out but it must be painless.’

The hit man says ‘ It’s no problem one shot, just below her left breast.’

The old man looks horrified and says ‘ No you misunderstand me, I want her killed not knee capped!’

[Malcolm]

Given the way the USA is acting the first we’ll know about it is when South Korea wakes up to find a sea between it and China.

[Malcolm]

Listening to Goldie Lookin’ Chain – Kings of Carleon – Gangsta. It makes me laugh, they’re joy bringers of music. I was listening on Quod Libet using shuffle, but I’ve just swapped to in order to listen to the full album.

I cracked up when one of them asked ‘Siri – Am I Gangsta or what?’ and Siri replies ‘No, you are a prick!’

[Malcolm]

Atypical Actuarial calculus rules for the average being:

Rule 1 – if we’re likely to pay out make it costly

Applications in principle:

You’re young (under 30) and want life insurance from us for a mortgage and to provide for your young family? Refer to Rule 1. Then answer ‘You face many dangers and risks and are young and inexperienced so could die tomorrow, so the life cover won’t be cheap but it will be there for £xxxx’s per year. We know that over the life of the policy the payments you’ll make will exceed the amount insured but my, my the risk of your early death is large, and you did say one of your hobbies was reading..

You’re old (over 65) and want to give us all your capital in return for us paying you it back each month for the rest of your life? Refer to Rule 1. Then answer ‘ My, my haven’t you done well, you’ve successfully negotiated life’s dangers, you’re almost immortal, a born survivor, who’d have guessed? Of course we’ll do it, you give us £100,000 and we’ll give you an income of £3,000 per year increasing by up to 2% per annum to inflation proof you. Yes we’re aware you’ll have to live for a further 33 years to get your capital back, but just look at how good a survivor you are..

:yahoo:

[Malcolm]

The crime stats are interestingly vague unless you already know the area. They’re a bit like a local council ward in the basis of their geographic extent.

So a crime ridden area (or just a bad public house) nearly a mile from the house you’re looking at gets included in the crime stats for the ward your house is in.

In one ward I know locally some of the houses in one end of the ward are all in band H (houses valued at £320,000 plus in 1992) and at the other end of the ward the houses/flats are all in band A (valued at less than £40,001 in 1992). That ward is a political wheeze to hide perhaps the poorest area in the city, and the two distinct areas in the ward don’t receive much in the way of interaction of any kind.

Crime stats are the same, one bad pub in a ward and the amount of violent crime for the whole ward goes up even if the violence always takes place on the same pub car park between the same drunk locals.

With all this talk about Mortgages and how best to pay for them, I’m an advocate of paying off as much over the set monthly payment as you can afford each month. After all every £1 you pay over reduces the capital owed, and next years interest charge. I know people who’ve paid off 25 year mortgages in 15 years. Then they pay cash for their cars/holidays etc and no interest to anyone.

Becoming mortgage free whilst owning a property is a must to achieve early in life. The other must is sell the property and move into rented accommodation whilst you’re still young enough and fit enough to spend it on cruises, fast cars and other diversions once the burden of bringing up a family has passed. That way when you’re finally old enough to need a care home, they won’t be able to take the house off you to pay for it. B-)

[Malcolm]

Oh no we’ve descended into Statistics:

Edp wrote

Not quite the same Richard, The number of homicides is roughly 20% higher, 2010s versus 1960s. (Government stats).

In 1960 the UK population was about 52.4 million, in 2015 the latest estimate is a population of 65.1, a population growth of nearly 25% generating only a 20% increase in the number of homicides, actually means it is getting safer in the UK. A 25% increase would indicate no change.

In fact a study shows violent crime to be reducing in the rich world:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530073-200-why-violent-crime-is-plummeting-in-the-rich-world/

As for immigration the UK has always had an open door policy, even if it’s not an official party line. There used to talk of a ‘brain drain’ of bright Britons moving to the U.S. but never mention of the bright people moving to the UK?

Mindless thugs exist everywhere, but media organisations have to justify their existence by sensationalising news, and sadly the BBC seems to have joined the braying crowd years ago.

Take the almost completely un-noteworthy British temperate climate, in summer when it’s mildly warm the forecast temperature is given in Fahrenheit because the number is bigger and more sensational, in winter when it’s slightly colder the forecast temperature is given in Celsius as it’s sensationally lower.

If the media has taken to sensationalising the British weather anything else will be entirely blown out of proportion.

B-)

 

[Malcolm]

Anarchists have always hidden behind some movement or other, Luddites, Chartists, Socialists, Communists, Religions of all flavours.

[Malcolm]

If you think you’re witnessing in fighting just wait until Article 50 gets near to be triggered.

Thankfully the supreme court can’t overturn the vote, but they’ll do their best to block it.

Hopefully once Article 50 gets triggered there will be a pulling together, unless of course the BEEB actually does want to lose it’s licence fee. :whistle:

[Malcolm]

Trump is a seasoned negotiator.

All negotiations start with tub thumping on both sides.

Just look at the frankly ridiculous exchanges over brexit from some European tub thumpers. :scratch:

That includes the Brits as Europeans..

[Malcolm]

The re-direction worked for me the first time, second look just to make sure and it came up with 404, so I guess it’s a one shot wonder.

Hopefully anyone who has been following this on the old MM forum will find their way here.

A new forum, old problems, new problems air them here and I’m sure I can say this we’ll try to help, in a positive manner.

God bless MM Forums here’s to a long life for the forumite, if we’re half as good at helping those with computing issues as we were in the past.

B-)

[Malcolm]

AI is interesting in that the intelligentsia buy in to the concept, but being members of the intelligentsia, their feet are so far off the ground, they are incapable of carrying out even the most basic reality check.

Some reality checks:-

1. AI costs big time
2. Creating a fully autonomous adaptable functioning intelligent entity was mastered by the human race generations ago, they’re called human beings
3. Only repetitive tasks fall to AI and given the changes in products output the AI costs can’t compete with the existing entities in point 2.
4.  Adoption of AI is therefore likely to lead to lower growth as innovation would have to be stifled in order to pay back the AI costs.

:whistle:

[Malcolm]

Hi Lee, thanks for the home from home.

 

I always thought that ‘The thread’ is a 96 page beast titled ‘Pentium 4 1.5GHz running at 9.5!!!!!!’ :wacko:

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