Stutopia

Indeed. The governments of the day and the toothless, brainless Financial Regulators on both sides of the pond. The amount of pointless crap that came out the FSA, as it was, when I worked in a small finance company back then was amazing, all that time they forgot to lock the big safe and someone ran off with the Crown Jewels! Though you could say catastrophic deregulation of financial markets was kicked off before that... Fortunately, with the Tories in, they can finish off the job of migrating wealth from the bottom up that Thatcher kicked off all those years ago. It's all gonna be different when I'm Supreme Allied Commander, I've already started on a "first against the wall list" and there's gonna have to be a bloody long wall

Paint looks flawless on the back end. Nice.

These Vajazzle ones look really good, not seen them before. When the K pumps its last squirt these are on the list

Who'd take on the IT security contract for that? Get it right and it's a few million quid of business and get it wrong and there's a million people queued up to sue you, not to mention corporate manslaughter charges that could be brought. If one person broke into the technology for one plane, they could concievebly crash all the planes in the air, all at once before anyone knew it had gone turbo. If it turns out that this guy was mentally ill, I find it much more worrying that they either didn't know how seriously ill be was or they disregarded it. That's the sort of thing that normal procedures should pick up, no need for new tech or 12 men in the cockpit or other knee jerk responses.

Missed it sadly. Did Cameron manage to maintain human form for the whole thing? I briefly saw one of his lizard scales come through when he was flustered in PM Questions recently. He's finding it harder and harder to resist licking up small bugs in his vicinity, must be the stress. What happened to proper politicians who aren't 12 years old and look like hey escaped from a Debenhams Formal Wear sales training course and stumbled into politics??? It's a sad day that Milliballs is supposed to be the best of the bunch.

Got a Karcher K2, it works fine. I hear good things about Nilfisk and their brass internals, not plastic. Does this mean they last longer or corrode quicker?? Can't be sure. For a lance, only used a PA, but it's good, fittings for all the big washer brands and nice and easy to clean/service. http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/acatalog/pa-foam-lance-cat2.html

So you're the kind of person who is willing to fly a plane full of people into a mountain, but you wouldn't knock out the stewardess who is in the cockpit with you? Most flights now have at least one steward onboard, the last dozen flights I've been on have had multiple stewards in fact. Pete Well the same principle still applies, just because he's a chap doesn't mean he's automatically capable of restraining a deranged pilot gone crazy strong, does it? Maybe the pilot is a woman and the stewardess is a man??? Some women are harder than some men. What if there's another occurrence, but with two people in the cockpit? Do they then have a new three person minimum rule? But then, what if two of the three are in on it? Better have a 4 person rule! And so on...

There's a simple solution to this photon problem. Watch the screen from behind one of two slits. If you can't sleep, just change slits. How dare you come on here banding around your wave theories on light. It's corpuscularian goddammit.

These "photons" he's on about (clearly a made up thing) it's a bloody good job they only come out of screens and regular light isn't made up of them, otherwise we'd be being bombarded by them all day every day. When I were a lad there were no photons, we lived in a puddle under a cow @*!# in the middle of the M1. And we were lucky.

along!

So you're the kind of person who is willing to fly a plane full of people into a mountain, but you wouldn't knock out the stewardess who is in the cockpit with you? Am I too cynical, or does this feel a bit like an opportunity to get some column inches?

Sad to say but I booked with Air France to Brazil a few days after the 777 went down, the prices were ridiculous cheap - any of these things is just bad luck, the aircraft are massively overengineered and overmaintained, the staff are second to none and flying is statistically safer than putting on your trousers. Maybe, but not when determined killers get round security, as 9/11 (for example) demonstrated. Determined killers can get around any security, nothing is impenetrable.

It's not just altitude, great swathes of South America are above 1000m and mobiles work fine. I had no problems making calls in La Paz at 4000m (though I couldn't talk for being out of breath ). The big problems with planes and mobiles is the handoff between cells as you travel is designed to work at 40-100 mph, once you start hauling ass at 400mph the hand off between cells is much more likely to fail and you are more likely to be impinging on multiple cells at once (assuming there is network coverage on the land beneath).

The weird thing about the possibility of this being deliberate is that assuming it was a terror nutter, it's not very terrifying if they don't take credit for it. There's not much point blowing yourself and a load of other people up in the name of [insert terror cause here] if you don't then got on the youtube and start banging on about it and firing bullets up in the air etc etc People are nowhere near as terrified if these things turn out to be maintenance fails, rather than it if was a [terror group] attack. Even though the end result is much the same and considerably more preventable than the lone nutcase scenario.

There's an informative video about the lock here: https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/world/video/2015/mar/26/airbus-safety-video-shows-cockpit-door-entry-procedure-germanwings-crash It's truly shocking. Who acts that badly?

Before his disciples go mental - it's just a bit of light satire. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/bbc-confident-it-can-find-a-new-prick-2015032696705

It definitely would have been much more interesting had this been the case.

Even ignoring any Telegraph links to Clarkson, it's a strange article. It seems to say that Clarson should remain, despite the assault (which it acknowledges is punishable), becasue he's been controversial before (in the weakest sense controversial, not like Frankie Boyle controversial). Hardly a cast iron defence for punching someone. "What it is boss, is, I think I should get away with a written warning for punching Dave, becasue you know, I've flirted with racial slurs in the past"

But he hasnt gone or lost his job, he just Isnt having his contract renewed. He is still employed by the BBC as we speak. I'm a contractor and as per what was said a few pages back, it's much easier to let a contract lapse, especially for the incredibly short time in question. The effect is much the same, no more money and it's not like he needs references, a future employer knows precisely what they get from him. There's zero legal recourse to not being renewed, as it is an expectation at the start of the contract - there is an end date. Terminate it early, for whatever good reason and you open that up tp legal challenges etc. I'm just surprised they didn't delay the decision to the very last minute.

Have a look on Matt's thread, there's wheel options from post #332 http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/82410-the-ilogikal1-test-thread/page__st__320 Edit: just had a thought. If these have fresh paint on them. Don't yo want to wait a while for it to de-gas before sealing up? Or is that just fresh bodywork?

Doesn't really matter how hurt he was. If someone at work verbally abuses you for half an hour, then hits you, all because the canteen ran out of warm food, you've got every right to have prick's job. TBF to the producer, he didn't even report him to the Beeb, let alone the Feds. Clarkson apparently reported himself, which somewhat undermines his 'woe is me' social media campaign this last week or so.

Go again at $3 mill! More shenanigans now the target has been hit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/super-troopers-2#activity

How do we start a petition to prevent Noel Edmunds? Not coming back to Top Gear, just generally

No. It didn't seem to be a factor. Wicked, cheers. Im gonna go for the $200 then too. However im gonna hang on for an hour and try to be the person that pushes them over the $2million mark... you never know they might throw in a bonus! That's so damn clever, I'm furious I didn't think of it. Mind you, they were on like 1.4 million when I got on board before it went meainstream If you get an all expenses paid trip to the premiere you have to take me, I put this thing together man!!!

That's like £9 per signature - bargain!!!