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General Discussion Area / Re: Jeffrey Epstein......

« on: 10 August 2019, 20:55:17 »

The will be many very relieved Presidents, prime ministers, princes & high net worth people with that news, where they will no longer be named in any court proceedings.

Where he was on suicide watch I thought that was meant to prevent them.

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General Discussion Area / Re: HSBC online

« on: 10 August 2019, 20:50:09 »

UK government & banks want to get rid of physical money, so we only have electronic currencies. I can't see any flaws in that, what could possibly go wrong?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Probable outage soon

« on: 10 August 2019, 20:22:04 »

This affected 500,000 people in London, Midlands & Wales where there was an offshore bird slaughterers farm issue & it's backup fossil fuel power station not kicking in due to problems & resultant grid collapse. It is why the Australian government is building a vast new range of next generation power stations, where South Australia has had several total grid collapses along with the privilege of having the world's most expensive electricity from their bird slaughterers. In their last GE Labour promised to reverse this decision & lost where Australians have had enough of rare expensive electricity! Germany is doing the same to stop the continued offshoring of companies for cheap reliable electricity from Polish coal fired power stations. German YOY industrial production figures last month show it was down 3.7%.

Windmills in the 18th century & cargo sailing ships in the 19th century have been abandoned as such intermittent power sources are not practical ways of running industrialised societies. Where our MPs are determined to wind the clock back in this country to the pre-industrial revolution one, expect to have the same standards of living again. Swell.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Gay of E

« on: 10 August 2019, 01:31:47 »

The good thing about TB buying ALL of the duff stuff of Egay is that the rest of us very rarely have any problems. Once TB decides he is no longer going to buy all the duff stuff I will have to be a bit more wary. I typically buy at least one or more item every week as they are faster, more reliable & have cheaper postage rates than Amazon & a much better, stricter feedback system. I normally only order from Amazon once a month or so with maybe an item or two tacked on to my monthly book order, saved from not paying the TV tax or any subscription to any of the mind numbing, time waster, TV subscription channels.

Week before last it was a video door bell & bluetooth chime unit for ~£30 which works really well where I can remotely talk & view anybody anywhere on my iPhone. A USB lithium battery charger, two lithium batteries from a UK distributor, to replace the batteries in two 'sealed' Aldi rechargeable torches, where the batteries had failed. Brute force & two stilsons broke the Locktighted threaded joints. Two decent USB rechargeable aluminum torches on a £6 bid (I was the only bidder) where I think he bought them for a holiday & they didn't turn up in time, so I got them at about 1/2 price. This week a plant LED light as I didn't buy & plant my Carolina Reaper chilli seeds until March, so I think I will need to bring them inside & bring on in the autumn. Next year I will start the seeds, with other chilli & sweet peppers, as normal, at the end of January, inside in an electric propagator & use the lamp to bring them on until it it warm enough in May to put them in my greenhouse.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade deals

« on: 07 August 2019, 21:54:58 »

If you need to avoid chlorine then don't ever use tap water for cooking or drinks as it is used to purify the water. US & EU have different standards, some like a ban on trans fats are better in the US & others better in the EU, but neither are much worse than each other.

The problem with the current wave of identity & virtual signalling politics is that they are generally nothing more than useless sound bites & those using them generally know next to nothing of any use on the subject they are spouting on about, which is why the current crop of career politicians are appalling & useless with only a few exceptions.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Excel gone bozwonk!

« on: 07 August 2019, 21:41:51 »

Assume you have got the column headings along the lines of: Date, Stone, Lbs, Kg in row one, put the lbs to kg conversion value of 0.453592 in cell D2 then set your dates up 1 to 31 in A3-A33 put into cell D3: =((B3 * 14) + C3) * D$2. The $ fixes that that cell to row 2. Copy cell D3. highlight cells D4 to D33 and paste the formula into these.

Save it as your "Rons_monthly_weight_chart_master.xls" spreadsheet so you can load it into excel, and save a copy by replacing master with the current month's date each month. Using a file name along the lines of "Rons_monthly_weight_chart_YYYY-mm.xls" it will then automatically sort in the directory by month. I always use the format "YYYY-mm-dd_HH:mm:ss" or part of it depending on the resolution I need with a common filenames like 'Backup_' as they automatically date & time sort. HH is a 24 hour clock.

Sorry to hear about you prognosis & hope you prove them wrong by living for another 20+ years.

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General Discussion Area / Re: British airways

« on: 07 August 2019, 20:26:33 »

With these low cost countries you do get optional extras from your data being there, like they can 'fix' your PC, Mobile or tablet with these simple steps over the phone, send you lots of malware in our emails etc. If you are paid a few dollars a day it would be 'criminal' not to use the data for 'profitable' activities.

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General Car Chat / Re: Urgent Help needed - Vauxhall Zafira

« on: 06 August 2019, 19:30:02 »

Fob is not the Omega fob. I presume the gold coloured piece is the chip.

the newer fobs for astra H have the transponder soldered to the board but there are 2 types valeo OR delphi(needs to match orgiginal)
I've not tried,but internet land says you need a virgin ,un-programmed board , NOT a second hand one

Zafira A and satra H and Omega  just has a little black wedge ID40 chip

Sorry that should read astra G , NOT astra H 

That's ok, it didn't read either of those. 

I imagine your only interested in the alloy wheels and easy to fence personal belongings Uncle Stemo 

Where is is all heart I think another of STEMO's hobbies is rescuing cats from underneath cars & these aren't the furry kind.

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General Car Chat / Re: Car insurance grrr.

« on: 06 August 2019, 09:02:37 »

It is already highly regulated by the FCA. If by regulation you mean to force the underwriters to make massive losses with price capping so insurance is as easy to find as food & toilet paper in Venezuela, then how will you drive it when there are no vehicle insurers?

Car insurance is a very difficult market for underwriters to make any money, hence all the extra charges like for policy changes.

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General Car Chat / Re: Bigger Horn? (Zafira)

« on: 06 August 2019, 03:46:05 »

My 1975 T150V Triumph Trident had a very quiet horn & after a couple of near misses I replaced it with an air horn compressor (about 2/3 diameter of an oil filter cartridge & the same depth) a couple of air pipes & the horns. Disadvantage is the compressor took 0.5seconds to spin up but when it did everybody within a half mile radius heard you, so recommended if you want to be heard & noticed.

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General Discussion Area / Re: By-Election

« on: 05 August 2019, 23:02:29 »

But.... is it not in both Russia and the USA to have a disruption to a nuclear pact.?

They both get to spend big and look good, Then they look even better when in a few months/ years get together and magically agree a new deal.

Where’s Rods2?

INF treaty for a ban on short to medium range nukes was agreed & signed in 1987 to make Europe safer due to the short decision times from a launch to retaliation, so it makes it a more dangerous place in theory, but in reality it makes no difference where Putin's missiles have broken the treaty with their land based systems that cover all of Western Europe.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/ssc-8.htm

IMO what is now of a much greater concern is where the EU duplicated & have probably fatally undermined NATO & IMO it makes more sense for a new Atlantic-Pacific pact between USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea & Taiwan where the two major threats to Western interests are now China & Russia. Germany has just refused to join the EU task force to protect commercial shipping in The Strait of Hormuz, the final PM May SNFU before she left office was turning down immediate USN help in favour of the non-existent/unreliable* EU one for protecting UK interests. *delete as appropriate.

We can then let the EU Army play at being chocolate soldiers & poke the Russian Bear with their EU Empire Eastern expansion as often as they feel they must. What can possibly go wrong as I'm sure the cheese eating surrender nation France as their only nuclear power would credibly threaten Moscow & be prepared to sacrifice Paris to save Berlin.

I think the NATO countries that spend 2% or more of defence have had enough of the back sliding EU countries especially Germany who continue to cut their defence budget after promising to increase it where they want NATO Article 5 security on the cheap. Weak defences invite trouble & Putin has stated on several occasions, that countries that can't be bothered to defend themselves, shouldn't survive as countries. Germany relying on the Baltic-Polish-Ukrainian buffer to protect them on the cheap will probably not be enough when the two EU-Russian empires geopolitically collide. Personally I think the UK, our former Empire & the US made enough sacrifices in the 20th century sorting out Europe with no thanks whatsoever, so if they want to create more as One-Euro Plastic Napoleons in Berlin, Brussels & Paris then let them, while we sit it out.

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General Discussion Area / Re: By-Election

« on: 05 August 2019, 21:44:21 »

Apparently Poison May made the decision for him to stand again to try & make Borises life as difficult as possible with one less MP. As long as Boris doesn't try to revive May's Dodo  treaty he should be okay with DUP support.

Dominic Cummings has pointed out that it is now too late for remain MPs to stop Brexit as by the time Parliament reconvenes after the summer holidays in September & call a vote of no confidence & it has been made & lost to stop Brexit or leaving on WTO terms, the General Election won't be until November when we have already left the EU. May turning down Tusk's offer of a Canada++ deal would have been better solution but May's WA would have turned us into the EU's first colony & been a disaster for all of us as the EU stripped us of all of our wealth like imperial rulers always do, so WTO terms is now the best option & we do save £39bn for receiving nothing from the EU. I just hope we leave before Deutsche Bank goes bust having liabilities which are the equivalent of $7000 for every person on this planet & will make the PIIGS Euro storm look like a ripple on a pond in comparison & the UK still with considerable Euro bailout liabilities until 31/10.

7:55 the morning Dominic Cummings had a meeting with all department SpAds & laid down the law on no further Phillip Hammond & Chris Grey style obstruction of no deal government preparations & no further press leaks as that is now an instant sacking offence with no right of appeal & he will find out from the journalists who the leaker was as he always has even bigger stories to offer them. He is not known as Dominic 'Irascible' Cummings for nothing, particularly when it comes to civil servants.

Sorry remainers, but that battle is now lost. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

It has also been reported today that FTA talks are now ongoing with USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand & others with many of them expected to be concluded before the end of the year. You now won't have to go to EU countries to get your growth hormone American Beef where the EU have agreed to increase their exports quotas & if you are worried about a chlorine deficiency, you can always buy a bag of prepared salad from your local supermarket as they are always chlorine washed as it makes them last longer.

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General Discussion Area / Re: In it big time again !!!

« on: 05 August 2019, 19:10:34 »

It would have been cheaper to order a takeaway every evening. I think your near neighbour TB recommends the Lamb Naga.

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General Discussion Area / Re: house wiring gone bozwonk!!

« on: 05 August 2019, 19:04:03 »

Anyone with an idea how to diagnose faults would have broken the ring at each socket and determined what section had the fault before ripping the house apart.

Did the sparky used to be a technician for a main dealer?

If he is ex-Sh*tfit fitter it should be interesting watching him do the rewire with an air impact driver & length of scaffold pole.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dave the Builder

« on: 05 August 2019, 09:23:56 »

It must be a bit of a shock for the RAF, being brought in to stop the breaching of a dam instead of creating them.