The wireless I had (Microsoft) had this really neat feature of turning itself off when you stopped moving it. "Makes batteries last ten times as long!!!" said the advert. The split second it took to turn back on made it useless for playing games. Even strategy games were hard work.
That's not true. My old landlord would be in the shit every other week in regards to watching VHS only on his TV. He had no aerial but the tuner was capable of picking up signals so he had to pay - so they kept telling him. He had the option to remove the tuner (not practical) or pay the tax.
He paid because the hassle was not worth the £100+ licence fee he might have saved.
I forget which models (Belmont rings a bell) but old Vauxhalls with automatic transmition tuned the engine inbetween gear changes to prevent that horrible lag.
I suspect the majority of automatic cars do it these days.
Do people in the USA honestly flee to Mexico when they are bankrupt? Do people in the USA go to jail when they fail to pay money they own?
This doesn't happen in the UK. I am curious.
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Not all fuels are the same, not all air filters are made the same, not all engine blocks are cast the same, not everyone gets their car serviced at the same intervals...
These are the main reasons manufactures de-tune their engines.
If Joe Bloggs chips his car, services his engine every few thousand mile and puts in high quality fuel, the engine will last just as long as someone who abuses his motor.
Most street crime is still caused by drunken men. The Friday and Saturday nights are not compete without some violence. It is the police's busiest time.
Muggings and shop robberies are rare in my area - mountain bikes are regularly stolen though. Burgularies are expected but they are on the decline because of modern double-glazing and secure doors. Vandalism is quiet high.
We have almost zero unemployment here. I think that says a lot.
Why not push it out the window when you are halfway down? Two parachutes (one red, one green) could slow it down just enough so that landing on a stack of cardboard boxes would be possible.
BBC Radio 1 reported this earlier. One of the final comments was that the operators were concerned about kids telling fibs about their age to get around the censorship.
Any kid who listened to this now knows they can lie about their age and probably get away with it.
I lived in a village of 100 houses for the first 18 years of my life. I can picture many streetlamps in my village plus the surrounding villages. Nearest town was 4 miles away. How rural are you talking?
Being hit on the head with the same stick you were using to knock the biggest Conkers down. Ouch!
My personnal favourite: Hitting your enemies knuckles repeatedly with the biggest Conker in your collection. Ooops I'm sorry. Ooops I'm sorry again. So, so sorry. Ooops again. The BBC said a little about this.
You sound so much like me when I get modded as a Troll but still, nevermind.
I've had 50 today so far and it is only 10:30am...
I've had this email address ~5 years and in that time:
*I had a homepage with my address on. This didn't show up on any search engines though as my dial-up ISP hosted it. You never know though.
*I posted a script to a JavaScript website. Then someone copied it over to Usenet for me (Thanks!!! You left all my details in there!!! Google mirrored it too!!! Thanks!!!). Lesson learnt there - bit late really.
*I have posted it on message boards like this one because I wanted friends to email me.
*It's been sold. When I was only getting 10 a week it was not a problem giving out my address to every website going.
*I have unsubscribed in the past before I knew that this was probably a bad thing.
I expect I'll get another 100 as the day goes on. Many of those will duplicates sent to the same address.
The bit that annoys me most is all the CC addresses. I'm sure these help viruses to spread. I'll get 10-15 of those today too.
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I think you are right about the 'idiots' statement. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Aleverage
I would never use the word either but I take it to mean something like "making your money go further"
The wireless I had (Microsoft) had this really neat feature of turning itself off when you stopped moving it. "Makes batteries last ten times as long!!!" said the advert. The split second it took to turn back on made it useless for playing games. Even strategy games were hard work.
First and last time I'll ever go wireless.
Big Cars.
:)
Big Guns.
Big...um...Apple.
It's all beginning to make sense.
That's not true. My old landlord would be in the shit every other week in regards to watching VHS only on his TV. He had no aerial but the tuner was capable of picking up signals so he had to pay - so they kept telling him. He had the option to remove the tuner (not practical) or pay the tax.
He paid because the hassle was not worth the £100+ licence fee he might have saved.
It is a tax, not a service.
The majority of people are greedy. Fear of getting caught stops them from stealing.
It helped for a while but I think you should take a step back and look at the figures again.
There has been a rise since around the year 2000.
There are no good site refernces that I could find quickly. The BBC, and the various government sites comfirm this but 2003 is missing from them all.
Modded up and down so quickly...
I forget which models (Belmont rings a bell) but old Vauxhalls with automatic transmition tuned the engine inbetween gear changes to prevent that horrible lag.
I suspect the majority of automatic cars do it these days.
Do people in the USA honestly flee to Mexico when they are bankrupt? Do people in the USA go to jail when they fail to pay money they own?
This doesn't happen in the UK. I am curious.
Not all fuels are the same, not all air filters are made the same, not all engine blocks are cast the same, not everyone gets their car serviced at the same intervals...
These are the main reasons manufactures de-tune their engines.
If Joe Bloggs chips his car, services his engine every few thousand mile and puts in high quality fuel, the engine will last just as long as someone who abuses his motor.
lol@documentary. :)
It was a British film and the scam is ages older than that (if it ever existed at all).
Most street crime is still caused by drunken men. The Friday and Saturday nights are not compete without some violence. It is the police's busiest time.
Muggings and shop robberies are rare in my area - mountain bikes are regularly stolen though. Burgularies are expected but they are on the decline because of modern double-glazing and secure doors. Vandalism is quiet high.
We have almost zero unemployment here. I think that says a lot.
Cambodia.
A poverty sticken country that is slowly destroying itself with logging and mining.
The amount of drugs they produce for the western world has to be their main plus point. Can I go with too?
Why not push it out the window when you are halfway down? Two parachutes (one red, one green) could slow it down just enough so that landing on a stack of cardboard boxes would be possible.
:p
Simple? huh?
For that last 1% use Avant Browser.
It embedds IE and expands it functionallity. All the good bits from the other browsers are there:
Pop-up blocking, Flash blocking, Java blocking, Active-X bl...
Tabbed windows, mouse gestures, google search etc etc etc.
Tis free too. Free as in find 5 GBP on the floor and put it in your pocket.
And which games would these be?
The online games I play send and recieve mouse movements and keypresses. It's not like we send movies back and forth...
DU Meter hardly shows a mark on the bandwidth graph. I'm lucky if a few megabytes pass through in an hour.
The 56k manage. You lie.
Monday 22
Tuesday 82
Wednesday 79
I know I should get a new address but I've had this one a long time.
This mass mailer definately beats all the other viruses in terms of numbers in my inbox.
Colour changing cars? First step? Pearlescent paint?
Actually, you're an idiot.
After calling his mom a fag you would put a cap in his ass..?
BBC Radio 1 reported this earlier. One of the final comments was that the operators were concerned about kids telling fibs about their age to get around the censorship.
Any kid who listened to this now knows they can lie about their age and probably get away with it.
Well done Radio 1.
Pig latin?
Dude, people haven't done that since Napster started filtering.
Searching for music is easier than you make out. If it ain't spelt correctly then it ain't worth getting.
I lived in a village of 100 houses for the first 18 years of my life. I can picture many streetlamps in my village plus the surrounding villages. Nearest town was 4 miles away. How rural are you talking?
It doesn't mean shite. They asked me to join when I was a teenager. My grasp of English was far more worser than it is now.
Seriously, it was poor.
We have found that method to be unrealiable. Too many people tailgate others into and out of the building.
There has even been an incident of two people cramming into a revolving door so that one person (me) could get a discounted lunch.
Ah the joys of Conkers.
Being hit on the head with the same stick you were using to knock the biggest Conkers down. Ouch!
My personnal favourite: Hitting your enemies knuckles repeatedly with the biggest Conker in your collection. Ooops I'm sorry. Ooops I'm sorry again. So, so sorry. Ooops again. The BBC said a little about this.
Excelent.
You sound so much like me when I get modded as a Troll but still, nevermind.
I've had 50 today so far and it is only 10:30am...
I've had this email address ~5 years and in that time:
*I had a homepage with my address on. This didn't show up on any search engines though as my dial-up ISP hosted it. You never know though.
*I posted a script to a JavaScript website. Then someone copied it over to Usenet for me (Thanks!!! You left all my details in there!!! Google mirrored it too!!! Thanks!!!). Lesson learnt there - bit late really.
*I have posted it on message boards like this one because I wanted friends to email me.
*It's been sold. When I was only getting 10 a week it was not a problem giving out my address to every website going.
*I have unsubscribed in the past before I knew that this was probably a bad thing.
I expect I'll get another 100 as the day goes on. Many of those will duplicates sent to the same address.
The bit that annoys me most is all the CC addresses. I'm sure these help viruses to spread. I'll get 10-15 of those today too.