coldel

Exactly, who you believe, but this is not a religion, it's a simple tech fact. There are quite a few distinguish members here on the forum with serious IT background I'm one of them. One of my friends is a well known black hat, I personally am on the white side more (security), but this guy is good, really good. The fact of the matter is if they want you, they'll get you and it has nothing to do with encryption being difficult to crack (a supercomputer can crack 128 bit encryption in a few weeks if needed, by the way, sometimes sooner, it's a matter of luck). Since computers became more secure, hacking methods became more mechanical. Finding the weak link in the organisation whose password is 'manuforever', or 'iamgod', or the guy who opens emails without checking them, installing a silent keystroke recorder, etc etc. It only takes one guy on the network to screw up and everyone is exposed. The bottom line is this... If you aren't doing anything serious, or aren't a person of note, nobody wants you and you don't really have to worry too much about security beyond making sure you're using malwarebytes, adblock and a decent antivirus. If they want you though, there is nothing whatsoever you can do. That's it, nothing more. If my mate wants into your bank accounts, he'll do it, and you'd have to be following the NSA's best practice book to the absolute letter if you want to stand a chance of protecting yourself from him, and even then... Those who do it for love will always do it better than those who do it for money. So the truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle. Shame they cannot spend some time catching the buggers who set up ransomeware and the like that wipes out A&E wards...or I suspect, they cannot find them at all.

I bought a Stillen front splitter and these side steps, I didnt have any body kit modifications i.e. spats or the like and felt it worked quite nicely and didn't stick out that much compared to the rest of the car?

From what I remember when fitting mine there is a fair bit of curve and bend horizontally and vertically, its not going to be a case of buying something flat and just cutting around the edge as far as I remember?

Actually an interesting question. Religion makes us feel like its something very old and has been around forever. In actual fact its relatively new. Bizarrely it may seem but I remember reading an article when debates about brexit and locking our borders was up as to where we all came from, we are all African in descent you know Anyway, something like 200,000 years ago Homosapien evolved which is effectively us, it wasn't until 198,000 years later we invented something called Christianity. It took 195,000 years or there or there about for Hinduism to appear and so on. So relatively modern religions like this are fairly new invention. There are also something like 4000 religions in the world. (all numbers from memory so don't quote me!) Funny what you end up digressing onto in terms of reading when thinking about borders and brexit

Unless the rest of the car is set up and styled to look low and uber aggressive they don't tend to work that well in my opinion...

I think most Youtube vids never really give you a proper feel for exhaust sounds. As for HFCs, on most cars I have owned the general consensus is that the cats are big restrictors on power increases. HFCs offer a nice midway point between cats and decats where you can put it through an MoT but see gains over a cat.

Nice one mate, looking forwards to the car making it to a meet soon

I deliberately make sure my wife is not on my policy...I don't care if it reduces the premium, any reason to prevent her climbing behind the wheel of my P&J

...twice the price he sold it to us for?

Aye he was a lot better than given credit for - certainly brought the 'suave' to the Bond character.

On average counter terrorism make one arrest a day, there are millions of people in the UK 'known to police' due to their criminal records. There is nothing in that article that says the police knew him as a very likely terrorist and you are jumping to conclusions based on a newspaper desperately printing anything that will get itself readership than printing anything meaningful. If we go completely knee jerk here and extend our already very heavy counter-terrorist laws (as I say already some of the toughest in the world) and say ok, here's 200,000 islamic people who we think might commit terror offences because they googled 'how to make a bomb' and go to a mosque that was once frequented by a hate preacher - lets ship em out (where?) based on a guess they might do something. You couldn't give that sort of golden propaganda to IS to recruit and commit more atrocities any easier if you handed it to them on a silver platter. There is no high horse here, its a sad sad day and being the father of a 5 year old boy I cannot even imagine what families are going through. However the response is not to just 'kick em out' whatever that means - it is this sort of response that is the ultimate goal of IS.

Nope as above its a personal thing. Difference is now you have the internet and unlimited information (true or otherwise) telling you the world is terrible. In the last century we had two world wars, atomic detonations over civilian populous, millions in genocide in Africa and southern Europe, the IRA where over the course of 30 years some 700 civilians and something like 650 armed forces personnel were killed - many more not listed. To me it feels like there are many fewer 'lunatics' if you like out there who can have macro effects on the world, I think the world is generally a bit more sensible, and as far as voting - if you do not vote, you do not count.

First thing you should do is stick it on the dyno for a power run (thirty or forty quid) and see what the power output looks like, should be nice and linear. If you can see any flat spots then an uprev (the Nissan version of a personalised remap) will create a better drive for you. Breathing mods will always help in that respect - but I would advise you aim for a better drive as your motivation over bhp increases as you will be slightly disappointed with the latter.

I am worried about hate preachers at no point above did I say I wasn't, and the guy in question spent years behind bars and was deported as soon as the UK negotiated a fair trial in the country he was being deported to, I am not sure what more could have been done by government apart from getting their paperwork in order and losing a couple of years in terms of the deportation date. It wasn't the EU blocking deportation it was the European Court of Human Rights which is independent of the EU. Unfortunately so much of cases like this are misreported by the press which leads to the views expressed by Olly (and thats not your fault either) Just 'getting rid' is not legitimate. If we act in an irrational way ignoring international law that makes us as bad as them. In fact it plays straight into the hands of these people who then hold the UK up as anti-islamic and an enemy of the religion. We have to do it right, and as said we have some of the toughest laws in the world on this.

Completely different scenarios though - Abu Hamza couldnt be deported not because of our deportation laws but because he would in effect be sent to a country that would likely run a false trial and lead to execution. That is against human rights (putting aside what a hateful person he was) and what was restricting the UKs pursuit of a deportation for so long along with the mistakes made by our then Home Secretary a certain TM. He spent a long time in prison whilst that process was going through the motions. The anti-terrorism act was copied by both the US and Australia and has been criticised for being too draconian by many areas.

I would be surprised if it was a fueling problem, BP Ultimate is absolutely fine with your Zed.

My personal thoughts Olly are that you shouldn't not vote for a political party due to these sorts of acts. Unfortunately the reality of the world as we know it is that as much is spent on intelligence gathering and implementation, it's simply impossible to stop some of these acts of murder and has nothing to do with inaction due to human rights, in fact the law in the UK allows for pre-charge detention which can be extended based on judges approval. All this is relatively new law passed by governments implementing change in the last decade as a response to the growing new threat of home-grown terrorism. But I am with you on a humanitarian point, that I just despair at the human race's constant need to wipe ourselves out in the name of gain - whether its political, financial or otherwise.

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You should be all reading up on the Japanese Long Term National Health Care Insurance approach - they have the oldest population in the world, but they saw it coming and put policies in place decades ago. The Tories idea looks to me just another plaster on a problem that is just going to grow and pop that plaster off sometime in the future.

Japspeed are known for poor fitment on 350z's - you are better off going for Cobra as above. Forget about gains, seriously, unless you got deep pockets. I got a milltek exhaust, motordyne plenum spacer, berks sports cats, encolsed stillen CAI and a remap and made barely 20bhp after the remap. Thats not the point though (peak gains is a pointless figure and generally means nothing in terms of actually driving the car) you need to look at area under the graph across the full rev range. The 350z is not a numbers chasing car in terms of BHP, unless you go forced induction. I got more peak gain on my R33 Skyline by replacing the turbo actuator with a £120 HKS replacement than I did spending nigh on £1500-£2000 on parts for the Zed.

But you do just need to press the throttle a bit harder to get the same effect for £100 less? But fair enough, having the gadgets is for some people.

Arrogance leads to incompetence though

My Flux quote was much better than other companies and switched to them this year.

Im not sure, but I read about that and that lead me to the throttle controller. I'm not 100percent sure if the controller overrides the restriction in the lower gears or if it can only be done by a remap. I am pretty sure all the throttle controller does is exactly as in the title, increase the signal that the throttle is pushed down more than it actually is giving the feeling of 'response' - which is the same as just stamping on the throttle pedal. The restriction is built into the ECU which the controller cannot over-ride?

Its worth what someone will pay for it - individual modifications (colours/look/feel) etc generally add no value at all as people have personal preferences. You could argue you can add value to the base value of the car though through changes such as brake upgrades, recent clutch change, new tyres, OEM respray etc. where it means future costs in this area are offset into the sale price. If you look on all the for sale sites and get a view on the base value compared to yours and then think about things like brakes and clutches and add on a few hundred quid each time you are in the ballpark.