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  • in reply to: Car question #2702
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      Ill get Vauxhall to pay for it , so it doesn’t matter. Not been though any water. But my first thought was the cold, (even though it hasn’t been that cold), that’s why I just monitored it for the first few weeks.

       

      in reply to: Car question #2695
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        It’s just approching 20k , has the car isnce sept 14.

        It does sound like a small lightweight stone. I’m going to sign the garage and get them to look at it. Or at least ring them and get an opinion off them as I need my car unitl about the second week of April .

        in reply to: Trump Inaugeration #2691
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          I’m not so sure bob, I think short term we are in a better places , up untill the ceremony the previous ragime was srill goading Russia, at least for now we have a lul in that.  the future is unknown for now, however the future was nailed on under Hillary.

          Now what the side effects are coming closer to Russia I don’t know, it may be great, or it may blow up in a very nasty devorce , if it doesn’t  as you say, china won’t be best pleased.

          But for me atleast we missed a big bullet them not choosing Clinton. I don’t care what policies he has for America, that’s their business, I actually like a leader saying “our country first ” but I mainly wanted him to win, as Hillary was matching us into a war with Russia, and being on their door step that trully scared me.

          I don’t think  problems will come form Russia or China now. If trump does a deal with Russia to sort sryia out and not demand a pipeline for Saudi into EU , I can see the Saudi going all out on the terror side of things. After all it was Saudi nationals that done 9/11. That is no secret now, but no one ever explained why we chouse Afghan, when it was obviously OPEC land that we [nato] should of been visiting, not terrorising a load of opium growers.

          Problem is Saudi are to rich and powerful to invade. America has to much to loose.

          Tangent lol.

          But one thing is for sure, it’s going to be an intestinal few years. I am sick to death of American democrat left wing new, for progressives, they sent half nasty people.

          Did you real yesterday that the lovely George Soros, the destroyer of the Sterling and the yen, the jew that repo’d Jews belongings in the 30s and the main financial  backer of Hillary, is connected to over 50 organisations that was organising the women’s rights marches around the globe. Rediculous, he is playing this women like Stromboli. He doesn’t care about women’s rights, he cares for nothing .

          in reply to: Pick Me Up! #2690
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            Richard Sad can’t be an issue, he live in North yourshire, the weather is always Sh*ite?.

            Nothing against Yorkshire, i could of used any region north of Nice ?

            But regarding depression, that’s why I mentioned going out, breaking your “comfortable” routeen can do wonders. With my wife being ill, she dips in and out of depression, and if you don’t catch it early, it’s not very nice, and slot of people don’t refard it as an illness, luckily it’s gaining more exceptance as the years roll by.

            Also I think depression though caused by situation, I think it’s in the genes so to speak, it’s not something your fully every rid off. It’s all about management. And one way is to not to flget stuck in ruts, both a bad rut and a good rut funny enough is bad. Though changing it up is hard, even when your not depressesed and in good health.

            in reply to: hdd/win upgrade #2678
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              If you have a series 1 ocz ssd it will be fine, the bad ones was the series/gen 2or3, that gave alot of issues . My gen 1 30gb ssd now lives iny lads pc as a scratch disk, he is constantly recording live gameplay footage to it. By far the best way to kill a ssd, and it’s still going strong, getting more use than ever did, at 10 years old.

              The 2nd or 3rd gen is what killed ocz.

              30gb is only a couple of hours of captured  gameplay at 1080p 30fps

              in reply to: One for the Home Automaters. #2677
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                I bet it’s cheaper than marriage , and it won’t answer back. Well not  untill  the AI really kicks in!

                in reply to: Pick Me Up! #2676
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                  Do something away for the PC? You was saying you wanted a hobby, try joining a club of some sort. Maybe the institute of North Yorkshire pornstars may have an uplifting effect. failing that a local RC car club or even a ‘maker space’.I’d imagine them not as pretty but could be more interesting . Maybe not, but prior could potentially have the added effect of exercise.

                  :good:

                  in reply to: The future for F1 now Bernie's "gone". #2662
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                    It will be interesting to see which way it goes. I’d like them to have saftey standards, and let the engineering run wild, but share the money out in a fair , not fairer , fashion .ATM it’s so set up to screw the small teams it’s a joke.

                    With Eddie gone, at leastwice we will see change. Tbh I didn’t even know he had gone.

                    in reply to: The future for F1 now Bernie's "gone". #2658
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                      Richard if you have zero interest in it, why you even commenting?

                      £40 a month for sport, isn’t really £40, as sky bace rate is (or was 21), then if wanted bace o)us movies or sport it was £35. So I’m reality the sport come to an extra £14 .

                      However taking the £40 price as a whole, is cheaper than attending one football match, so let I say it’s all relative. But to a football fan or an F1, rugnly league or union , it’s a good deal.

                      An afternoon at the football for a couple and a child, wihic is how I go about twice a month, cost between 150 and 300, for the day. Gate  rices vary, food prices, and fuel . The prices for rugby are similar and for f1 the entry ticket alone starts at about £200- £10k , so when you take all that into account, your £40, or rather £14 is very good value.

                      If you have not intest in sports it’s obviously going to have zero before to you, so it’s a waste . That want I mean by YOU are in no position to decide its a rip off. You obviously don’t see value others do.

                      I personally don’t no more, as I go games and don’t want the monthly bill, so pay £6 to watch a home via Sky’s  now TV, subscription free.

                      Also I do sun to now TV entertainment package, simpler because it’s £7 for want sky charge £21, who then give £5 of that to prop up sky sports.

                      It’s good to look at things obectivley, I don’t like sky, but I can put that to one side and look at some of the good it does and can understand why some would want to add sports.

                      Personally, I don’t get the movies package, that’s the same price as sports. But I don’t watch films, many do, but I’m not going to bash on them for enjoying entertainment I don’t like.

                      If I was them, andcopeted for the movie pagacke minus the sport package to save £7 ,  I’d be pissed though that over over £5 of the £35 I’m paying is going to sky sports.

                      The prices are probaly higher today, I’m going of my origanal research on sky on 2004 when I moved into our on freview signal home. The stats on the about of cash the non sports subs inadvertently pay to support the spots channels come from the American fox model, which is what is repeated here.

                      in reply to: Amazon – how do they do it? #2657
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                        Argos does the same if you pay and collect. The first to do this , or the first I come across was cinimas over 20 years ago. You could pre pay and book, but you needed to show your card on pick up of tickets.

                        Concerts do this, but go one stage further wanting a photo ID too, but this is to stop toutes buying up stock.

                        In most cases it’s just an anyance, and always try to see how close to their policy they [don’t] stick, most places , will just accept the email. I’ll always show the email with the reference code, before my card , just to see .cmost places, Argos not one,will just take the email. The cinima won’t either as usually it’s a machine that issues you the to ticket so you have to incert the card.

                         

                        PM tesco have never asked to see my card. The email ony phone had always been enough. I got a few huddles and a win tabletandcphme over the last few years that way.

                        in reply to: Trump Inaugeration #2656
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                          It doesn’t matter if he does something stupid. As if the last administration had its way we’d already be in a war we can’t win with russia. Find each and everyday as a blessing, but keep your family close as it won’t be long before it all goes TU. the way the world’s been heading, if it isn’t  trump, some others nutcase will start a confilict of doom.

                          We have had it easiy the last 20 years, or more, think of this as our ‘boer war’ period, you know fighting defenceless men with sticks, our world war phase is just around the corner.

                          There is so much politicsl upheavel, religious and race  hate around ATM , it’s not going to take much to kick it off. Especially when the men pulling the strings for profit have no conscience .

                          in reply to: The future for F1 now Bernie's "gone". #2647
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                            I’m not a sky subscriber. But Richard it’s not for you to Decide it one person’s £40 sports package is a rip off for them or not. If they feel they get adequate benifites they they are not ripped off. In my younger days, I’d watch about 10 football games a week, across all leagues , so £40 is a bargain . Now I’d likely watch 4 a month.

                            But years back when I did have sky I always thought the argument, ”i pay a subsribtion therefore there shouldt be adds childish ” as if there wasn’t adds your subs would me alot more. And and with no subs you would have a USstyle  6.5minute add schedule.

                            One thing that that would annoy me if I was a sky subscriber and not a sports subscriber, is the amount you pay towards  sky sports. Every sky account holder pays about £5 per month in to the premier league kitty.

                            That would annoy me if I was a sky subscriber alot.

                            Now if you primarily had sky just to watch sports you don’t mind the adds as sport lends itself to adverts, given it has naterial breaks built in.

                            Now this is where itv and C4  EF it up, as they don’t use the natural breaks sports have and just stick to the 15m break scedual, which put adds over the sport coverage ( excluding football), sky don’t do that. Even in cricket they wait to between overs and squeez in shorter ad breaks.

                            I’ve said it before i, I hate sky co for many things, but their coverage of sport is second to non.

                            in reply to: Amazon – how do they do it? #2632
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                              You find alot of stuff is more expensive on ebau than Amazon , bit people don’t cross check prices and just take it a giving it’s cheaper.

                              Also you see alot of pound and bargain shops stuff on eBay at twice to cost, Amazon too intact. Sometimes that cheap x , is actually way more that you should be paying.

                              in reply to: Arthritis? #2631
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                                disk pain is similar, you can manage the situation by having a stonger core, but once it paly’s up there is no managing it .

                                in reply to: The future for F1 now Bernie's "gone". #2630
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                                  As to changes , an equal spilt of the money . The spoet has been rigged for to long. That ome change would fix alot .

                                  Also I’d like to see, it won’t happen , bit a total lift on testing, and most of the build rule thrown out, make them have a standard safety cell even closed top, I don’t care, then let the teams build what they like. Any aero, any engine the lot.

                                  Also Burnie wanted to have two races a weekend, starting race two in the oppersite order to you finish in race one. Then you get twi lots of pints a weekend, he got laughed out the place. I loved that idea.

                                  Imagine all the big hitters would win, than have to battle right through past the field to collect more points. I think it would be great .

                                  in reply to: The future for F1 now Bernie's "gone". #2628
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                                    Sky sports f1 has less adverse than itv ever had, and less than channel 4 does today.

                                    BBC killed f1 In Britain , taking it off itv, f1 needs to shoulder some of that responsibly. But it tools the Beebs money out of greed. The beeb couldn’t afford it and sky bailed them out.

                                    And as much as I don’t like sky, f1 coverage has never been better in this country. Sky do sports very well, they spend alot of money and do it right. Though I would like it back on free TV, I have not issues with how sky has run its coverage.

                                    BBC’s coverage was terrible. Itv and c4 have adds in the race. Sky have a great team, and no adds to miss and ruin potential major points in a race.

                                    This is not something I’ve not said before, sky co deserve alot of stick sometimes, but they do sport well.

                                    in reply to: Cross Platform VPN #2627
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                                      I started using hotspot shield to get hulu from America 10 years ago , and just stick with it as it served me well.

                                      I just ran the tests linked to above and it seemed it is rather leak free, though I’m no expert. The info that came back was I was using a PC in America on a 800 x400 CRT , that’s some leakage .

                                      The one thing we can’t know untill to late is what the VPN service is capturing. But I’d rather some company was capturing my behaviour than the gov, especially as I’m not viewing anything that is deemed illegal or embarrassing. But could be used by the government to profile me. No one knows who or what the current or next administion will do with said data.

                                      If the gov was to offer me services I’m exchange for the data I deem a good deal, I may be a bit more on board. But the thing I hate the most is the government having control to block things that are totally legal but it [the gov] seems unfit for UK citizens.

                                      I said it when the porn filter was put in place, don’t accept it, so “I want the porn” when BT or TT etc, ask you on behalf of the gov. If you have kids it’s easy to lock it down to make safe. Safer than the gov can to aswell. The British firewall as it’s dubed had nothing to do with porn (which is legal content btw) and a) to do with imformation control, (slippery slope) sold in the grand old “think of the children” way.

                                      Opendns will sort for filters out and give you full control of what you have access to. It’s a Shane we are getting to this point , where we are actively needing to figure out ways of superseding the government. We mock china and NKorea, while the rest of the world now see us in the same bracket .

                                      in reply to: Talk Talk down. #2609
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                                        Mine come back on at 03.10, but yes still not looking great in the map, a little less red.

                                        Looking forward to hearing the press today.

                                        in reply to: Cross Platform VPN #2598
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                                          10 devices is news to me. I’ll check .

                                          I can’t screen shot my account page, to much info, Mine say 5/5 in use. If it’s now offering 10 I will be getting in touch as my yearly sub only come out a few weeks ago.

                                          Lol week means months I’m my world. Nov 17 in was re subbed, only feels like a few weeks

                                          in reply to: Cross Platform VPN #2595
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                                            Yes the 5 devices is a pain. That’s why I was thinking of setting up a dedicated vpn box so all my device could jump on that as and when needed, them back no the normal router  when not.

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