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General Discussion Area / Re: Can't get a console when you want one
« on: 20 November 2007, 19:35:26 »
Ahh, so not a console as in c:\> then. Or even kevin_wood@Kevin:~>.

Can't help in that case   ;)

Kevin

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I find blaming it on the dog doesn't work.

Then again, we haven't got a dog.  ;D

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Printer Buying Advice
« on: 21 November 2007, 17:23:18 »
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many dont come with cables Sad

... and then PC world will try to sell you a gold plated USB cable (improves print quality, no doubt ::)) for 10 times the going rate.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: here we go again
« on: 23 November 2007, 01:35:41 »
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you know something this is getting beyond a joke we should start a campain to kill anyone that moans about all these type of things.yeah lets sloter all the cows pigs ect and become veges do they how much eating veg makes us lot fart and there is a lot of waste on veg that will rot more gas so lets kill all the plants and eat each other...these people need to get a life and get there facts right.the planet earth has never been a constant tempature and never will as i said before on here us brits is just a dot on the world and what we do will make difrance when china the US and the rest of them just do what they want. so lets take all our meegas to Africa and shoot all the byson elephants lions ect ect that will earn us lots of carbon points should more than cover all the fuel we use.the world was once full of life now we know why the dinosors died they all farted to much so the air was full of methane then a volcano erupted and bang ,gone in a flash .so we are all doomed ah i am away to make a start and shoot my dog............. >:(


and... relax.  ;D

Heard some breakwit today claiming that the 3rd runway at Heathrow will be good for the environment because it'll stop aircraft having to hold for as long. So, they're not going to up the number of flights, then?

.. and the traffic around Heathrow won't get any worse when they do, either?  ::)

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: here we go again
« on: 22 November 2007, 19:37:56 »
Wasn't that Linda McCartney?

Anyway, apparently obesity is just as big a threat as climate change. That bad, eh?

Still, it's got a bit of catching up to do on the bull5h!t stakes.

(reaches for another pie)

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dont go out in you car....
« on: 22 November 2007, 14:39:53 »
.. and that's the AVERAGE?

Granted, it's a long slog to get qualified, and you do need a lot of skills outside medical knowledge. Not sure how I could cope with consulting with maybe a dozen people who are a pain in the @rse, a dozen who are convinced they are dying when perfectly OK, and then maybe one who really is dying.

.. but that is a lot of money from the public purse. On a par with most senior ministers I guess (although they've got their fingers in all sorts of other tills).

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dont go out in you car....
« on: 22 November 2007, 14:14:34 »
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No doubt we will all be paying in a few years when the NHS goes to private, and it will happen, they cannot keep pouring money into it.

 :y :y :y


Don't! The one thing I despise more than paying taxes. Paying insurance companies >:(

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dont go out in you car....
« on: 22 November 2007, 14:06:15 »
I'm not sure I object to the cost. I personally probably don't get value for money out of the NHS but there are others who are much more expensive to keep healthy than I, and I like to live in a society where they get the basics of what they need rather than get left to rot because they can't pay the insurance premiums or are simply uninsurable.

The problem I have is that the rate of change of cost is currently a positive number and the rate of change of quality is a negative number.  That rings alarm bells with me - as an unsustainable situation and something that will eventually implode. And yet the government pour more money in and meddle with insignificant details, hoping for a result...

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dont go out in you car....
« on: 22 November 2007, 10:13:32 »
 ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dont go out in you car....
« on: 22 November 2007, 09:52:47 »
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Unbelievable. >:(

Where have all the billions upon billions that have been thrown into the NHS gone?  :o :o >:( >:(


Massive pay rises, new buildings, company cars (my neighbour has an A4 convertible on the NHS).........nothing on the care though.

I always said, you do NOT pile money into an in-efficient setup because it will just absorb it and become more in-efficient, you have to get it working effectively before you invest.

Why don't they improve efficiency then?

Once you've put in place your huge management structure they get uncomfortable because they don't understand the work that the organisation does so they employ all the nurses, doctors and surgeons in generating pretty graphs and statistics that they can understand and, more importantly, they can manipulate to prove that everything smells of roses. So, efficiency is improved. Just look at the statistics! People don't seem to be getting better but we'll brush that inconvenient truth under the carpet.  >:(

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Where is the price comparison??
« on: 22 November 2007, 11:46:03 »
It's the same when you get to Europe too, though. I had a very nice, comfy journey down to Italy with my parents a good few years ago where we put the car on the Motorail at Boulogne, slept on the train and woke up in Milan.

I looked into doing that this year. 1000 quid! Who do they expect to pay that sort of money? A day and a half sitting on cruise control on deserted French motorways,  a few motorway tolls, couple of tanks of petrol, a cheap hotel and nice dinner in a French restaurant. Came no where near the cost of the train!

Kevin



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General Discussion Area / Re: Where is the price comparison??
« on: 22 November 2007, 11:40:04 »
Mad, isn't it?

I don't know how many vehicles one of those ferries holds but how can driving the whole lot down the Uk motorway network work out cheaper than running the ferry for a few more hours (assuming the overheads of loading, unloading, crewing, etc. are of the same order of magnitude)?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Where is the price comparison??
« on: 22 November 2007, 10:07:50 »
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Your brave doing that speed on Belgium roads....they certainly dont maintain them very well.


dosnt stop the Natives of Bruxelles hamering up behind you at 100mph and flashing you out the way.....in vans  :-/

Damn right. They drive like lunatics. Make the Italians seem patient and courteous behind the wheel.

Kevin



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General Discussion Area / Re: Where is the price comparison??
« on: 22 November 2007, 09:40:31 »
True. Could do a lot more with £600 than spend a night on a boat. It's something that sometimes makes me cough up the extra 200 quid or so to go from Portsmouth. That and the fact that an extra 120 miles of UK motorways and 200 miles of French motorways to get to Le Mans is tedious, especially in the Westfield (and puts a big dent in your 200 quid anyway).

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....and i do recall you like Belgium

Belgium is lovely. With the cruise set to 90 or above  [smiley=evil.gif]

Actually been there twice other than  passing through. Day trip to Oostende whereby we spent the whole day (as far as I can remember) sitting in a bar getting mullered on Kriek and Duvel.

SWMBO bought me a surprise weekend in Brussels once. I was not surprised in the slightest that eurofarcestar services were cancelled and we had to shell out for 2 business class air tickets. On the way back they wouldn't take our return train tickets because we hadn't travelled out on them (because the tunnel was closed). >:(

I will NEVER use the tunnel again. Use it as a landfill site, I say >:(

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Where is the price comparison??
« on: 22 November 2007, 09:20:41 »
The one consolation is that you can get on the boat, have a meal, get bladdered, sleep it off, have breakfast and then you're there. It does beat trudging along UK motorways but it's a real price to pay...

Kevin

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