Whitey Grandad

It's slow to start, slow to run and slow to shut down. Every time I turn on the PC I get a constant stream of updates, then I'm told to restart the PC. I don't like the concept of dlls or the registry, everything should be stored with the program itself. Every few months you have to re-install it and clean out all the sludge. I don't like GUIs, I use the keyboard wherever possible. Later versions of Office have got rid of (or hidden deeply) the keyboard shortcuts. That'll do for now.

I'm looking at this too. I've had 3 iPhones and one is due an upgrade so I can get a new phone just by signing up for another couple of years. An iPhone 4S or an S3 are effectively free. I'm fed up with iTunes and I hate anything Windows with a pathological vengeance. I might go or the S3 and pass one of the iPhones down to one of the grandchildren.

United States is in Philadelphia: http://www.ss-united-states.com/i2.html One of her propellers is in a corner of a yard up a side street opposite the USS Intrepid in Manhattan. The France (later Norway) was eventually scrapped in 2008.

I never did like Starbucks.

Well, that says nothing much other than 'we don't know'. As to the report about reduction in solar activity, of course it would show no cooling because none of the climate models include the effect of high-energy solar output instead concentrating on variations in the sun's brightness. This is not surprising since the science of how the high-energy particles affect our weather is not yet developed. If their estimates are accurate then how do they explain the Little Ice Age during the Maunder Minimum? Some interesting debates here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/06/what-if-the-sun-went-into-a-new-grand-minimum/ http://a-sceptical-mind.com/svensmarks-new-solar-theory-of-climate-change http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/24/breaking-news-cern-experiment-confirms-cosmic-rays-influence-climate-change/ Jasper Kirkby:

I've had two BMW 5s and did over 150k in each at about 18k a year. The last one I kept a year too long. All sorts of bushes and things needed replacement and then it finally had to go. Up to 150k though there were no major problems.

There's VAT for a start.

All hard drives end in failure. Backup, backup, backup. I know a businessman who had his house burgled and yes, laptop and backup both taken.

Yes, it was the culture of the time. It shows how much society's attitudes have changed that this sort of behaviour is now seen as unacceptable.

That will upset some of the bosses. They'll have to cancel all those boats and cars that they've ordered now they won't get their windfalls.

I'm certainly not apologist for him, merely a seeker of truth, but you have to be careful not to read into those reports things that aren't there. (I can't open the second one)

It used to be given as a tax allowance. Then people were complaining that the money was going to the husband who spent it in the pub rather than to the mother so they combined it as child benefit. You can argue separately whether society should subsidise children.

As far as I am concerned everybody is a normal member of the public. Does anybody have a transcript of the caution. According to him, he accepted his guilt in accessing the website, not for downloading anything.

Not necessarily: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19876936 Make of this one what you will: http://www.petetownshendisinnocent.com/essaysf.html

Yes, he was on the radio yesterday and they discussed this. The alternative for him might have been a court case and I think he said that he went for the caution to put and end to things.

I had a haematoma on my calf muscle when I got kicked playing football at school. There was a bulging lump the size of half a tennis ball on the side of my leg. The doctor prescribed soaking it with a bandage soaked in lead and opium solution. I guess he didn't have any leeches available.

He did not look at kiddie porn. Even the police investigating him knew that there was nothing in it. He registered his credit card with a website, and then removed it, nothing more.

Careful! What you're saying is 'give us the money or we'll steal it from you anyway, spend some on drugs and turn your daughters into whores' :-)

If you stopped paying them benefits they'd soon start working.

Then you haven't seen my wife. Oh...

Adkins has white hair, bulging eyes and a silly grin. He keeps giggling all the time and talking to himself muttering 'if only I'd listened to them'. He would have been England's most successful manager ever if he hadn't accidentally left the team sheet on the bus on the way to the World Cup finals in Antarctica 2030. I tried asking him about Saints but all he would say was 'those suntzus never really believed in me'. Then it all went a bit blurry. Sorry, that's all I got.

One who has not had a team relegated from the Premiership?

Well, Pap, I tend to agree with you. Has that got you worried?

I blame that on the substitution in injury time.

Yes, either he's the right man or he isn't.