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  • in reply to: General Discussion #313686
    PeeDee
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    After much advice from peeps who are “Sure”…I’m going to remove Mobo, removing minimum of cards etc. to assist its exit.
    Replace fan with new one, or the equiv. availavble to me.
    Returning all the same kits into all the same slots. It should then boot up as if nothing had been touched.

    Due to being in China next week, followed by a weekend involving a 750 mile drive…..It won’t be until nearer Christmas, but I will update the thread just for closure. Maybe with photo’s.

    in reply to: PC. Motherboard Fan #1899179
    PeeDee
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    After much advice from peeps who are “Sure”…I’m going to remove Mobo, removing minimum of cards etc. to assist its exit.
    Replace fan with new one, or the equiv. availavble to me.
    Returning all the same kits into all the same slots. It should then boot up as if nothing had been touched.

    Due to being in China next week, followed by a weekend involving a 750 mile drive…..It won’t be until nearer Christmas, but I will update the thread just for closure. Maybe with photo’s.

    in reply to: DC-3 Barrel rolling #1122614
    PeeDee
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    I think I’m right in saying, that a common mistake is for people to confuse “Lift” as being the opposite of gravity.
    Lift is the force which is perpendicular to the airflow over the wing. If the wing is upside down, lift is still acting on the wing so long as A-o-A and speed is correct.
    If a wing loses lift, due to the A-o-A being wrong, we have a stall.

    in reply to: Woman Strips To Bra And Panties For Airport Security #518125
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    I reckon the dog was hiding something….

    Blubber, by the look of it.

    In the UK, is it illegal to film/snap the customs areas and security areas and said staff?

    in reply to: Plane finder app #518130
    PeeDee
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    Mmmmm. So if you strapped said phone to a missile……..
    Rgds Cking

    Oh No!!!!
    The WapStrappedapptrap.

    I think the phone just reads the transponder doesn’t it?
    Does it work on the Flyovers at 35k?

    in reply to: General Discussion #313816
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    Sometimes though, matters of principle mean more than you throwing yourself on your sword and moving on. In situations where there is a culture of bad practice and maybe even corruption, one resignation is hardly going to rock the world of those guilty of carrying out bad practice or their management who like the savings bad practice leads to. Sometimes more is necessary, much more than one person’s complaint could provide.

    An example. In another lifetime I worked for two and a half shifts at an unnamed nursing home. The first shift I was wary of the practices going on there. I spoke to a superior at the start of my second shift but was told to mind my own business and just get on with the job. I walked out in the middle of my third shift because a man was clearly dying, unnecessarily, and the senior staff would not call an ambulance. Would it have been right for me to just walk away and leave that man to die? This man, and others, were suffering because of a culture of bad practice not only condoned but actively supported by senior management.

    I did walk out in the middle of my shift. And at the first phone box I came to I dialled 999 and requested an ambulance. I then informed the local authority of all that I had witnessed and the reasoning behind the actions I had taken. These things I did not do anonymously. Was it the right thing to do? I have never regretted it. I later learned that the client had survived, but only by the skin of his teeth.

    What I am trying clumsily to say is that sometimes, just sometimes, you have to make a stand. Sometimes it’s not about the tenets of something like the Official Secrets Act, or loyalty to an employer, or even the simple self interest of keeping a job. Sometimes it’s simply about doing the right thing.

    Regards,

    kev35

    Ah, but in this case, you were 100% right, you know you were, we know you were. Normal human decency prevails. But most people cannot walk out of a job on principle, there isn’t another job to walk into. I am prepared (Physically) to walk out of my job. Desk/office is now void of personal gear and has been for 3 months. I’m gonna blow I tell ya! Emotionally prepared also. I detest the place and hold zero loyalty thoughts.
    Back on….
    If you found top secret MoD/DoD papers, even if they describe something you totally disagree with……I’m sure you wouldn’t sell them to the highest bidder or even post them to the newspapers? Would you?
    I wouldn’t.

    in reply to: WikiLeaks #1899238
    PeeDee
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    Sometimes though, matters of principle mean more than you throwing yourself on your sword and moving on. In situations where there is a culture of bad practice and maybe even corruption, one resignation is hardly going to rock the world of those guilty of carrying out bad practice or their management who like the savings bad practice leads to. Sometimes more is necessary, much more than one person’s complaint could provide.

    An example. In another lifetime I worked for two and a half shifts at an unnamed nursing home. The first shift I was wary of the practices going on there. I spoke to a superior at the start of my second shift but was told to mind my own business and just get on with the job. I walked out in the middle of my third shift because a man was clearly dying, unnecessarily, and the senior staff would not call an ambulance. Would it have been right for me to just walk away and leave that man to die? This man, and others, were suffering because of a culture of bad practice not only condoned but actively supported by senior management.

    I did walk out in the middle of my shift. And at the first phone box I came to I dialled 999 and requested an ambulance. I then informed the local authority of all that I had witnessed and the reasoning behind the actions I had taken. These things I did not do anonymously. Was it the right thing to do? I have never regretted it. I later learned that the client had survived, but only by the skin of his teeth.

    What I am trying clumsily to say is that sometimes, just sometimes, you have to make a stand. Sometimes it’s not about the tenets of something like the Official Secrets Act, or loyalty to an employer, or even the simple self interest of keeping a job. Sometimes it’s simply about doing the right thing.

    Regards,

    kev35

    Ah, but in this case, you were 100% right, you know you were, we know you were. Normal human decency prevails. But most people cannot walk out of a job on principle, there isn’t another job to walk into. I am prepared (Physically) to walk out of my job. Desk/office is now void of personal gear and has been for 3 months. I’m gonna blow I tell ya! Emotionally prepared also. I detest the place and hold zero loyalty thoughts.
    Back on….
    If you found top secret MoD/DoD papers, even if they describe something you totally disagree with……I’m sure you wouldn’t sell them to the highest bidder or even post them to the newspapers? Would you?
    I wouldn’t.

    in reply to: General Discussion #313818
    PeeDee
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    12 aeroplanes.
    You can sort out the Cessnas.

    I’ve downed the picture on looked closely at it with Photoshop. I now agree, there is 13 aeroplanes. 10 of which are Beavers.

    in reply to: how many beavers in this picture… #1899242
    PeeDee
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    12 aeroplanes.
    You can sort out the Cessnas.

    I’ve downed the picture on looked closely at it with Photoshop. I now agree, there is 13 aeroplanes. 10 of which are Beavers.

    in reply to: General Discussion #313821
    PeeDee
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    Ah, but no!

    In my part of England – the bit wedged between Wales and the Lake District – “tea” is the evening meal, as well as a beverage.

    In this particular instance a rather tasty chicken in white wine sauce pie topped with a tarragon scone, washed down with a nicely-chilled Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. 🙂

    My part of the World too. But I was brung up proppa.
    Breakfast.
    11’s ‘s
    Lunch
    Tiffins
    Tea
    Dinner
    Supper

    Today….in the order above: –
    A smoked Kipper, a cream cake (Birthday at work), Portion of Chips (No cheese today), Bacon and Brie with Chilli jam roll, I missed Tea, Dinner was Roast Beef and 7 veg plus spuds.
    Tonights supper (This minute) is a Packet of jaffa cakes (Cheap copies not originals – but still only 12 off) and a pint of Yorkshire tea.

    in reply to: WikiLeaks #1899254
    PeeDee
    Participant

    Ah, but no!

    In my part of England – the bit wedged between Wales and the Lake District – “tea” is the evening meal, as well as a beverage.

    In this particular instance a rather tasty chicken in white wine sauce pie topped with a tarragon scone, washed down with a nicely-chilled Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. 🙂

    My part of the World too. But I was brung up proppa.
    Breakfast.
    11’s ‘s
    Lunch
    Tiffins
    Tea
    Dinner
    Supper

    Today….in the order above: –
    A smoked Kipper, a cream cake (Birthday at work), Portion of Chips (No cheese today), Bacon and Brie with Chilli jam roll, I missed Tea, Dinner was Roast Beef and 7 veg plus spuds.
    Tonights supper (This minute) is a Packet of jaffa cakes (Cheap copies not originals – but still only 12 off) and a pint of Yorkshire tea.

    in reply to: General Discussion #313822
    PeeDee
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    I understand so. Apparently her name is Carol Hersee, now in her 50s and working in the costume dept. at the BBC. She holds the official world record for the face most seen on TV. Her father, who was a senior engineer at the BBC, designed the pattern. Rumour has it that she still possesses the toy! Please believe me I’m not an ‘anorak, but once I started searching on this I couldn’t stop!;)

    I also remember that the test card was the only way to tune the telly! “Set” as it was called. Remember trying to get the Horizontal and Vertical hold right LoL!! You could also get the colour perfect by using BBC news, the newsreader was perfectly lit. If you had colour that is!

    in reply to: 'In vision' Continuity announcers. #1899258
    PeeDee
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    I understand so. Apparently her name is Carol Hersee, now in her 50s and working in the costume dept. at the BBC. She holds the official world record for the face most seen on TV. Her father, who was a senior engineer at the BBC, designed the pattern. Rumour has it that she still possesses the toy! Please believe me I’m not an ‘anorak, but once I started searching on this I couldn’t stop!;)

    I also remember that the test card was the only way to tune the telly! “Set” as it was called. Remember trying to get the Horizontal and Vertical hold right LoL!! You could also get the colour perfect by using BBC news, the newsreader was perfectly lit. If you had colour that is!

    in reply to: General Discussion #313823
    PeeDee
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    Perhaps someone will give the correct reason for the shrinking of the credits to advertise the next programme, but I think it is because of the remote control and so many channels to change to that the BBC/ITV wants to beat the channel flicker and let them know whats on next before they flick channels.
    It does not make it good practice though.

    This makes a lot of sense.
    A lot of the time, no point flicking these days, most of the programmes on Sky have ads at the same time. Especially the sky stuff I watch……Discovery/History/Eden…all that lot up there past 520. And NOT the GodSquad terrorist Church stuff from America.

    in reply to: 'In vision' Continuity announcers. #1899260
    PeeDee
    Participant

    Perhaps someone will give the correct reason for the shrinking of the credits to advertise the next programme, but I think it is because of the remote control and so many channels to change to that the BBC/ITV wants to beat the channel flicker and let them know whats on next before they flick channels.
    It does not make it good practice though.

    This makes a lot of sense.
    A lot of the time, no point flicking these days, most of the programmes on Sky have ads at the same time. Especially the sky stuff I watch……Discovery/History/Eden…all that lot up there past 520. And NOT the GodSquad terrorist Church stuff from America.

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