Thank you Frank.

The error message is

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.

Runtime error!

Program:C:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

This appears every time I try to access ‘my pictures’. When you close it down and the my pictures page, the whole screen reverts to the saved background image before coming back with all the icons present.

This is way over my head so any advice you can give would be very much appreciated. The only other advice I’ve had is to use the system recovery disk and start all over again.

here’s hoping you can help,

thanks again

kev35

Thanks Snapper. Just testing I can still reply

kev35

Peter,

I’ll see what I can do for you.

Regards,

kev35

Damien.

Isn’t their intention to cover the entire area between the hangars? If that’s right, I’m sure I read it somwhere, that is going to be a massive structure which would encompass the entire row where the Vulcan and Victor stand, the Trident, the Britannia, the Gnat, Hunter and the Bloodhound battery with room to spare! Huge expanse of land which would accommodate a hell of a lot more too. I suppose transferring the Valiant up would complete the trio. So surely the Vulcan and Victor would be cared for inside?

Regards,

kev35

Re: Kev

Steve.

“Nuts….you love it really! :D”

Not sure that I’m loving it at the moment.

“Basically preventing an attack taking place simply means that absolutely nothing untoward occurs – a difficult thing for the media to report in a fashion that sells its publications! Preventing those attacks and disrupting terrorist preparations though, for me anyway, do still fall in the category of “hitting terrorists hard”.”

What I’m saying is all successes against the terrorists should be reported on. All we hear is a successful suicide bombing in this, that or any other country. If the anti-terrorist agencies are having successes report them. It might just be comforting to know that the terrorists aren’t having it all their own way.

“This to me though is the same as empathising with the murderer who was just listening to what “the voices in his head” told him to do or the paedophile who was himself abused as a child.”

No! My comment was a response to your saying who would consider terrorists to be right. I’m just pointing out that there seems to be enough people willing to answer their call. Perhaps if more was seen to be done to stop terrorists they might have greater problems recruiting.

“I believe, firmly, that the greater view would be that these terrorist actions are reprehensible in the extreme. Just like Vortex said therefore the discussion should no longer be as to the legitimacy of what these people are doing, rather, how we can stop them as quickly and finally as possible.”

I agree and have absolutely no problem with that. I am not a supporter of terrorism. Nowhere have I said that the actions of the terrorists have any degree of legitimacy. Perhaps i could have made myself clearer.

“Again I’d dispute that as it lends itself to the argument that all Al Qaeda terrorists are “soldiers” in some fashion.”

They consider themselves to be soldiers. This is what I think we fail to understand. They have resolve, they have determination. That makes them very different. This is a long term problem which might continue for years.

“All of these were hit unconventionally, but, they were politico-military targets and, from a strictly military viewpoint, valid and not acts of real terrorism.”

And by saying that haven’t you just agreed with me?

“My answer to your question would therefore be yes they could, but are choosing the attrocity where they can plan in depth and are settling for simplistic suicide attacks against easy targets now that their command, control and logistics has been so heavily disrupted.”

So make a big deal of it. Show the world that the war against terrorism is at least having some success.

“Well I think intent counts for a lot here especially when you are comparing the defoliation plan to terrorist attrocities. Also it does seem a little weak to compare people who’ve had their crops destroyed to people on a hijacked airliner thats being flown into a building!.”

I’ll give you that. That’s something i should have considered more fully.

“Kev, I’d have no problem with this IF you weren’t trying to establish a parrallel between statisticians inventing body counts to justify collateral damage to the deliberate and callous targetting of civillians by a terrorist organisation.”

Wiping out whole villages was pretty callous by my standards. Equally, for those who were there it is probably an understanadable reaction.

“Forgive me if I think this is a clear contradiction Kev!. You first say that Vortex cant claim the efficacy of American bombing when they resorted to the A-bomb and yet you believe it was an absolutely valid and efficient tactic towards getting the war ended??? Huh? :)”

Vortex was espousing the American policy of pinpoint bombing while criticising the area bombing attacks by the RAF. I just pointed out the discrepancy between his view of pinpoint bombing and the two largest area bombings of the war. I have no problem with the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I just asked him to explain how he reconciles one with the other.

“Comparitive to 9/11 ALL of the above taken together has a very low order of significance. Terrible to put it that way because people have died, but, 9/11 showed an advanced level of C3I which had to be eliminated at the rush because that “intelligence” allows small forces to act in a manner disproportionate to their size. “

That’s probably why we disagree. You and I view death differently, we’ve discussed that before. I do see your point though.

” Its when those people can be trained, focussed, armed and skillfully deployed that the big problems arise. That is not happening anymore!. “

Let’s hope it stays that way.

See, all those words you and I have wrote and not once have we resorted to abusing each other.

Regards,

kev35

Vortex.

I can’t say to you what I’d like to, for the simple reason that I refuse to stoop to your level.

I stand by what I said. America attacks Afghanistan. Fine, if it helps to stop terrorism then I support you 100% But it hasn’t has it? It’s just escalated to the point where soft targets are being hit across the world. None of these attacks have occurred in America have they? Or Britain for that matter. It may only be a matter of time. I know the American people are concerned, just as we are, and I know they are not ‘happy’ about these attacks. But you have to admit you’re grateful it’s not soft targets in Galveston, Phoenix, Sioux City or any one of a thousand other American towns. Like I said, these terrorists have to be stopped. Surely you agree with me on that. When Afghanistan was targeted it hurt al-Qaeda, maybe much more than we thought, so again, why are you surprised by the increase in attacks? al-Qaeda are fighting back in the only way they know how. So discuss things instead of ranting. This is a discussion forum after all…..

As to your personal attacks on people who hold opposing views to you, well, they bring nothing to the forum do they? It shows you to be hot-headed, vindictive, abusive, petty-minded and suffering from a distinct lack of manners. I don’t doubt your intelligence, you often write on matters scientific of which I have absolutely no clue. I just fail to understand your inability to put things in context and debate sensibly. Almost every thread you get involved in turns into an argument in which you vent your spleen. I had several messages from people yesterday advising me to report your post to the Webmaster. But I won’t. The insults you hurl and the comments you make say far more about your personality than mine.

Finally, and just to prove your lack of understanding, I refer you to your comment “just because you have some kind of disability doesn’t mean you’re allowed to claim something that you assumed'”. The mention of my disability was a direct response to your calling me ‘sick’. It is what is known as self-deprecating humour. Ever heard of it?

I look forward to debating sensibly with you in future, however, I won’t hold my breath.

Regards,

kev35

Re: Interesting responses 🙂

Ant.

“Even the wreckage of a P40 and a He111 were ‘coldly’ displayed,which is the first time I’ve ever viewed a wreck without some sense of loss or sadness.This gave the exhibits little historical or personal impact, and I walked away from the museum with the feeling that I’d simply been looking at bits of metal and rusty rivets.”

Exactly. it is the people that bring them alive, without that link they are just soulless pieces of metal.

“One of my reasons for being so keen on the Swift is that it would once have been flown by the likes of Mike Lithgow or Dave Morgan.Test pilots have as much of my admiration as combat pilots,and many from that era were both.I’ve recently finished reading Mach-1,the biography of Mike Lithgow,and I find it pretty incredible how he so coolly recounts his attack on the Bismarck in a Swordfish,and his brush with death when his Stringbag smacked into the Med on a night flying exercise.About 10 years after writing the book, he was killed in tragic curcumstances testing the first HS Trident airliner.For me,he’s one of the un-sung test pilots,and in a way I see the recovery of the Sheppard’s Swift as a tribute to him as much as anything else.”

Very well put Ant. And for that reason alone If I ever win the lottery you have yourself a Swift.

Regards,

kev35

Arthur.

Thank you.

kev35