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General Discussion Area / Re: Albs
« on: 13 August 2019, 22:39:24 »
If he's on holiday in France you could meed him out there for a cambelt party. 
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General Car Chat / Re: Christmas prezzie list..
« on: 13 August 2019, 21:01:09 »
Good timing somebody mentioning Christmas where it is only just over 2 weeks to the 1st September & most high street shops will be full of Christmas displays, Christmas fare with Christmas carols playing in the background & you will only be days away from the first Christmas TV adverts, which might have got a bit tired as you watch it for the 573rd time on Christmas Eve. 
Anybody ready for a mince pie?
Anybody ready for a mince pie?
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General Discussion Area / Re: I do like Albs' new username
« on: 13 August 2019, 20:48:56 »
He will adding the hard core remainer #FBPB to his username next, where he wants to be awarded the French Legion d'honneur like his best buddy Dominic Grieve. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: The T-Sock
« on: 13 August 2019, 20:15:05 »
ROI is also going to have to deal with the EU's common tax policy to eliminate 'unfair'* tax rates with corporation tax at the top of the pile. Lose their 12.5% to become the 30-33% where this fits the range for Germany's consolidated Trade & CT rates and 31% in France & the ROI companies will move to the nearest lowest CT rate which post-Brexit is the UK.
Reading a report by a UK company that specialize in EU companies relocating to the UK & they report brisk business with offshoring especially from France including an unnamed French manufacturing company in the process of relocating to Hull & creating 5000 new jobs. Although we might lose one or two individual from the UK where I expect MigV6 will be moving to France soon.
*Unfair tax rates are any that Germany thinks are bad for their economy with the French poodle joining them, where at 57% of GDP they have the highest & the most uncompetitive tax rates in the EU.
Reading a report by a UK company that specialize in EU companies relocating to the UK & they report brisk business with offshoring especially from France including an unnamed French manufacturing company in the process of relocating to Hull & creating 5000 new jobs.
Although we might lose one or two individual from the UK where I expect MigV6 will be moving to France soon. *Unfair tax rates are any that Germany thinks are bad for their economy with the French poodle joining them, where at 57% of GDP they have the highest & the most uncompetitive tax rates in the EU.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident prone Russian military
« on: 13 August 2019, 13:42:59 »
If you are not in the immediate blast radius on a strategic target you have a good chance of survival if you are in a suitable bomb shelter. The immediate blast area can vary from 0.5miles to several miles for the larger nukes with unsurvivable temperatures unless you are in a decent nuke shelter, but beyond that it is the high fast pressure changes from the shock wave & wind speeds that flatten all the buildings that kill people in the open or in buildings.
For the first 30 days or so you wouldn't want to leave your shelter while the shorter half-life nuclear particles decay & then you've got the nuclear winter to contend with, if enough nukes have been used. Chernobyl has shown that animal & plant life are more resilient than the 1950s-60s doomsday nuke forecasts expected. Life is reasonably nuclear hard due to natural background radiation & cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays hitting the earth are at a peak at the moment where we are at the end of the current 11 year solar cycle number 24 with very low sunspot activity. At the end of solar cycle 23 we have a cold spell & snow at the end of October 2008 & likewise in 2009 with snow in late November, so we may have a slightly longer & colder winter than is average this year.
For the first 30 days or so you wouldn't want to leave your shelter while the shorter half-life nuclear particles decay & then you've got the nuclear winter to contend with, if enough nukes have been used. Chernobyl has shown that animal & plant life are more resilient than the 1950s-60s doomsday nuke forecasts expected. Life is reasonably nuclear hard due to natural background radiation & cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays hitting the earth are at a peak at the moment where we are at the end of the current 11 year solar cycle number 24 with very low sunspot activity. At the end of solar cycle 23 we have a cold spell & snow at the end of October 2008 & likewise in 2009 with snow in late November, so we may have a slightly longer & colder winter than is average this year.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brexit, power cuts, Hong Kong, Trump, knife crime, etc, etc
« on: 13 August 2019, 01:42:16 »
No, Lucas makes Office Junior May look like a PM & Boris like Churchill++, where we know since 1991 that no Tory leader (but Boris semi-might) were anywhere near good enough to be Mrs T's semi-qualified butt wiper.
Current generation of popinjay politicians act like they are world class premier league football players where we all know they couldn't hack it in the Ryman league.
We all know that Lucus, Swinton, Corbyn et al are life's failures & misfits, which is where The Brexit Party score & will win against them as real candidates, real people whom have had real careers in real jobs.
Current generation of popinjay politicians act like they are world class premier league football players where we all know they couldn't hack it in the Ryman league.
We all know that Lucus, Swinton, Corbyn et al are life's failures & misfits, which is where The Brexit Party score & will win against them as real candidates, real people whom have had real careers in real jobs.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brexit, power cuts, Hong Kong, Trump, knife crime, etc, etc
« on: 12 August 2019, 21:30:55 »
We'll all be okay TB's Green bint with her cabal of rug munchers are planning a political coup & are going to save us all, apparently.
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General Discussion Area / Accident prone Russian military
« on: 12 August 2019, 21:09:04 »
In the last two weeks there have been two spectacular ammo dump explosions, one through unknown causes & the other by a lightning strike & the failure of a missile test with an explosion & radiation leak that killed 5 scientists & 2 military observers with rumours there it was a failure of its lightweight nuclear reactor where it is the nuclear powered cruise missile that Putin has been recently bragging about.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Albs
« on: 12 August 2019, 20:54:54 »
I'm sure this is the sort of cunning plan that Baldrick would be proud of where it's holiday season, so Albs blends in with the locals while touring France. Do you need any help choosing the best tourist guides & language courses so you can fit & talk like the locals?
This should help to get you in the holiday mood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKfxtYAt0s
Do you need any help choosing the best tourist guides & language courses so you can fit & talk like the locals? This should help to get you in the holiday mood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKfxtYAt0s
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General Discussion Area / Re: Wonder USB stick or Useless?
« on: 12 August 2019, 20:35:26 »
I use Linux as a web server for my local LAMPS development. Documentation is really aimed at administrators, so IMO you need a reasonably good knowledge of computers to feel comfortable working with it. My local systems just have a CLI interface but the live cloud servers & I do most of the day-to-day administration on, using mainly Cpanel.
If there is some affordable software only available on Linux or you want to setup a local intranet & storage server or play around creating your own smart devices using programmable microcontrollers, Raspberry PIs or one of the alternatives then it is probably for you otherwise I would suggest just sticking to your Windows PC.
If there is some affordable software only available on Linux or you want to setup a local intranet & storage server or play around creating your own smart devices using programmable microcontrollers, Raspberry PIs or one of the alternatives then it is probably for you otherwise I would suggest just sticking to your Windows PC.
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General Car Chat / Re: Don't think I'd try this
« on: 11 August 2019, 00:32:23 »
Unlike a fatal Tesla crash in Ukraine a few weeks a go on the Kiev-Odessa motorway. Early morning with a low sun angle in their driving assist mode & it didn't see or react to a clear lane closed lorry with chevrons on the back for moving across a lane.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Jeffrey Epstein......
« on: 10 August 2019, 23:59:46 »
This US v Jeffrey Epstein bail affidavit is interesting where so much photographic evidence he had taken of some of the abuse of minors was found when police arrested him. Where this will corroborate what the molested girls have said & will probably lead to them saying who else was at the parties. Epstein at 66yo on conviction & a prison sentence of up to 45 years was in all probability going to die in jail anyway.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6184559-U-S-v-Jeffrey-Epstein-19-Cr-490-RMB-Government.html
I would think there are quite a few people in high places with twitchy sphincters at the moment awaiting a visit from the FBI.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6184559-U-S-v-Jeffrey-Epstein-19-Cr-490-RMB-Government.html
I would think there are quite a few people in high places with twitchy sphincters at the moment awaiting a visit from the FBI.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brexit Explained
« on: 10 August 2019, 21:42:07 »
EU latest threat & scam is saying that VAT should have been charged on derivatives issued by the City & the UK owes the commission £1 trillion. 
I think it will get very nasty for us with the EU, Merkel & Macron all trying to punish us. Saw a similar situation with Russian trade war with Ukraine which saw Russian balance of payments surplus disappear fast & Ukraine getting much good will & trade from other countries around the world, while Russia had sanctions & were largely shunned. Ukraine boycott of Russian good by checking barcode was very effective to the point the Russian companies tried to get away with it by using Austrian registered barcodes.
Many leave voters are already boycotting EU fresh produce & goods where possible. Wetherspoons now source all of the EU products from alternative ROW sources.
I think it will get very nasty for us with the EU, Merkel & Macron all trying to punish us. Saw a similar situation with Russian trade war with Ukraine which saw Russian balance of payments surplus disappear fast & Ukraine getting much good will & trade from other countries around the world, while Russia had sanctions & were largely shunned. Ukraine boycott of Russian good by checking barcode was very effective to the point the Russian companies tried to get away with it by using Austrian registered barcodes.
Many leave voters are already boycotting EU fresh produce & goods where possible. Wetherspoons now source all of the EU products from alternative ROW sources.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Probable outage soon
« on: 10 August 2019, 21:18:54 »
The glass fibre resin blades only have about a 20 year life & can't be recycled & the same applies to solar panels which have several nasty chemicals in them.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Policing the British seas post Brexit
« on: 10 August 2019, 21:14:55 »
Office Junior May's 6 years as Home Secretary torpedoed our border force & well as destroying our now dysfunctional justice system.