Stutopia

Give how many cars he's driven I think he must be a Gone In 60 Seconds style professional car booster! He's a threat to us all. Strong views with sound reasoning often upsets people (talking generally here not about posters here), the kind who switch to name calling when they've been disproven. They exist almost EVERYWHERE.

The point above about "green" being an industry we can't afford to upset, is frankly insane, when you compare it against the industries dependent on fossil fuel consumption or carbon production or carbon absorption reduction. Which are far wider ranging than the impact green has on consumers. Aside from power and it's main consumption being industry not consumers, or aviation, you could stretch it is far as deforestation to create space for soya bean crops in Brasil. Green industry is so much smaller than carbon industry it is crazy to even draw such a conclusion.

If you get a chance, jump on it. Hugely interesting even for an amateur like me. Also Switzerland has the best virtually empty roads!

If I had 50k burning a hole I'd take three years off work and see some more of the world!

PM your address and stick a tenner in the forum donate and it's yours.

We don't always agree Ekona but I'm with you one hundred percent on that. I am sick to death of people (unemployed or otherwise) moaning about the cost of having kids. Can't afford em, don't have em! If only there was a system where you could have a Zed by accident and then get state funding to subsidise the cost. I have to put my hands up and say I am guilty of taking the free car tax on offer for 1 car per disabled person. And I stick it on my Zed. Now that's the kind of system I rate. Wasting it on kids is beyond me

you wana sell it lol? Did you not get your order in or has it just not arrived yet?

Few more from the geek fest. If in doubt, cable tie. An actual black hole. Errrr, is it meant to bed red light on whilst were in here? Goodies from NASA. Something gold. Scientists like cars too. The whole place runs off one mac mini since they got rid of the 20,000 PCs First ever walkman prototype tape. Old skool tech. More apple goodies. One of the many corridors in the data centre, with links to others around the globe. Just because you understand physics doesn't mean you can brew up.

Just a few snaps from CERN, I'll post some up of the road trip round Switzerland when I get through them. CERN was super geeky but also really cool, the stuff on show was incredible and the sheer coordination to make it all happen every day is astonishing when you look at how many bits and pieces make the whole thing tick over. It was all about getting one of these. Not many get to go underground, even fewer get to go in the tunnel due to the radiation normally present. What's there. Going underground - 100m down The tunnel. More explanation. No idea, cool hardware though. More science. Safety procedures. More beam stuff. Loads of robots. Nothing is wasted. Prototype Zed radiator. Metals you can see through. Tooling around

Vouchers would just end up being sold on a black market to unscrupulous types for less than their face value so people could have cash instead. Then you're back with people having less money and having to go extra curricular for their spending. It's so tough to balance carrot and stick, I truly believe the majority of people want to earn a living, doing something they like, or if need be, something they don't, to make ends meet. I think the size of this problem is massively over stated by politicians looking to be populist, not people who want to try and increase social mobility. It's relatively insignificant sums when compared to the millions we pi**ed away in Afghanistan or Iraq or Libya or we will on replacing Trident.

We don't always agree Ekona but I'm with you one hundred percent on that. I am sick to death of people (unemployed or otherwise) moaning about the cost of having kids. Can't afford em, don't have em! If only there was a system where you could have a Zed by accident and then get state funding to subsidise the cost.

I got double boxed again! Depending on how busy I am I may write another email to let them know.

Non-compliance = benefits suspended = where do I get money from without working as I'm totally unemployable? = a bit of light robbing and low level crime = spell in court then prison for free and an ankle tag to monitor = actual cost to taxpayer > than paying the benefit in the first place There has been and always will be an unemployable percent of society who refuse to engage, keeping them out of everyone's way on the bare minimum of cost is as good as you can hope for. Dole is cheaper to us all than prison and associated costs of going in and coming out. The only way to really save on the terminally unemployable is summary execution outside jobcentres, which I imagine the Tories will wheel out as a policy just before the next election so they can shift another few pence off the top rate of tax.

The frustrating thing with anything you read or see around global warming and climate change is you simply can't peruse it in the press/news and expect a balanced viewpoint. For whatever reasons, there's the Guardian type on one side trying to push a green agenda then the Mail/Murdoch Group trying to push the other side, most of the stuff you do read cites only the research which supports the specific journo's angle. Most of the press couldn't give a @*!# about being right or wrong, just sensational. Then you throw in your average bellend saying, "well it snowed more last year in my postcode area than ever before, so that proves the world isn't warming all over, given a multi-thousand year timescale". That leaves you with having to go through peer reviewed material yourself and most of that will be impenetrable. It's an extremely tricky one to weigh up, but science doesn't need to be right, it just needs to keep posing, testing and refining theories. There are no absolutes. Sadly the people who have the loudest views on it in either the media or press, seem to be only interested in absolutes. The use of the word theory doesn't mean something is not correct, it's just the approach. Equally just because Newton had Laws of Thermodynamics, does mean they can't be disproven tomorrow.

Blade silver in tidy condition, I waved but I was in a Black Audi not The Shark. Zed looked good on the cosmopolitan streets of Switzerland. Any of our international brothers?

My mate nearly pi**ed himself laughing the other week when I waved a random Zedder in Leeds and got a wave back, it blew his tiny Peugeot driving mind.

Nice work, like the purple in the bay. Keep em coming!

Flying out tomorrow for a few days touring before the weekend. Getting the world's fastest car, don't know make & model yet, but rental with damage waiver You still driving down Octet?

Another one cured by the Zman kit. Refused to come back up after spells sat in traffic, in the heat. All good since and my super techs had it done in double quick time, though the bleed was slightly tricky - until you read the workshop manual that is!

Yup, agree.... I'm not trying to upset anyone here, but when I use the word 'magnet' I'm talking about someone turning their head and going 'Wow' because they really like the looks of the car, not someone being attracted to draping themselves over it (and potentially causing significant paint damage) because they are being paid to do it. I feel there is a significant difference between the two. Personally, I'd drape myself over a Fiat Multipla if you paid me a bit - and lent me a step ladder. ps - don't bother googling 'Fiat Multipla babe' - I tried it and nothing comes up. How much would we need to raise, as a forum, for this shoot to happen?

Meg's endurance and applicator works nicely for me.

This might be the best comment I've ever read.

Non-symmetrical things freak me out, please put it back in the middle where it belongs Other than that, beautiful zed, I'd be severely tempted not to change a single thing.

What kind of rat b@stard psychotic would make that song. The possibility... of physical and mental collapse... is now very real. No sympathy for the devil. Keep that in mind.

You're welcome to my old one if you want it. Worked when it came out 6 months ago, wrapped it up in bubble wrap and not touched it since. I believe they are married to the ECU so you'll need a code from a dealer(?) to make it work - no idea what that would cost. All I'd want is postage (unless your in North West) and you to donate a modest fee to the forum. It's not had iPod hack, or channel fix, it was literally in there working for about 3 days after I bought The Shark before I went for an upgrade - i.e. any other HU since 2010. At the risk of doing myself out of a sale, almost anything you're willing to pick up from Halfrauds will be better and have bluetooth, proper sized screen, AUX in, lesss chance of devlepoing some of the Bose "features", warranty etc......