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@LeGIt wrote:
Bleh easier said than done when I’m paying £800 a year for Third Party Alone… Won’t even entertain paying £2k a year fully comp –
Well, you pay’s your money and you takes your choice. It’s false economy at best and a gamble at worst.
In your position 3rd party is actually a waste of time, other than to make you legal. What you are really saying is you don’t think a crash would ever be your fault, so you are not going to insure your own bike against damage caused by yourself. It’s fine to have confidence in your own abilities. However, other than to be legal, you are just giving £800 to the insurance company each year for something you will never ever claim on.
And you are still fucked if someone with no insurance screws you up.
And finally, given what you have said, if anyone needs fully comp, its you mate 😉
Anyway – genuinely sorry to hear about the crash. It’s a real pisser.
Here’s a third:- don’t eff about with 3rd party insurance. Always go fully comp. If you can’t afford the insurance, you can’t afford a crash – even if it is not your fault. You still end up shelling out.
That explains this screenshot I took the other day as I thought it looked odd:
This is post-patch, so at least the supply crate hack is still available.
Commander’s name is just visible in the screenshot – [EA]BradyUK
@=XDC= MadHippy wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to reply – I know doctors are very busy people
…it’s all that time on the gold course 😛
There’s a couple of choices, assuming you have a router between your PC and t’internet:-
1. Change the DHCP lease timeout settings in your router’s config to be a very long time. However, at somepoint you may still get a different IP assigned to your PC.
2. The most surefire method is to change your network card to a static IP address rather than DHCP. First, find out your current IP – one that has Azureus etc all working fine. Then get the properties up for your network connection, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), select Properties, and then “Use the following IP address”. Enter the address you had above. You’ll need the subnet mask and gateway addresses too – get these by doing “IPConfig” from a command prompt. The final step to set your primary DNS server address – this will be the local address of your router (i.e. the gateway address).
#2 sounds harder than it is.
If you do have a router, then it does not matter if your ISP gives you a static IP or not.
If you don’t have a router then I would have to do some research to find an alternative. You can probably do what you need via a network bridge – it’s a software thing in XP. But I’m not too familiar with the details.
@VicJameson wrote:
He won’t go south of the Po, not this time of night 😆
What about Dipsy, Lala and Tinki-Winki ? 😛
@TurksMeister wrote:
I think hes in Italy isnt he?
are you in Italy?
I thought cabbies never went South of the river ? 😕
Tiscali are indeed completely shit. I’ve ranted about them before.
I’m now with a local outfit called Griffin Internet (http://www.griffin.co.uk). While quite expensive, they are very reliable and have a fantastic contention ratio so I always get close to the maximum speeds for my line. Customer service is good too.
One thing to check is whether the ISP throttles bandwidth at peak times. My biggest bitch about Tiscali was that between about 7pm & 11pm most evenings they restricted bandwidth and response times enormously. I would be lucky to get pings of less that 100-150 when playing games at this time.
I doubt they are the only ISP that does this, so worth asking the question.
ROFL!
Personally I don’t have a problem with people who buy to sell on. It’s only the suckers who are willing to pay over the odds to get something a few weeks earlier than normal who are to blame.
Corporations, not just individuals, also cash in on the premium early-adopters are willing to pay. PS3’s will retail for $100 less than they do now in a few months time, after the initial rush has died down.
You bloody civil servants should be working, not surfing the net! 🙂 I pay my taxes 😛
I know many bigger companies are doing now what Legit says – blocking the whole internet by default, and only unblocking certain sites as needed.
For example, Rolls Royce opens up the BBC & Sky News sites as they think it reasonable people can read the news & sport in their breaks and occasionally during the day. But that it’s taking the piss to be ebaying and doing forums during work hours.
It’s not too hard to argue with that. As someone who’s working life has bracketed the before & after of email and internet, I can vouch for the real risk in productivity that these tools raise.
@=XDC=OldPhart wrote:
Edit, Sorry Lensy, I ws in my cups, this was not aimed at you, just all the tree-huggers 😉 I meant no disrespect
No worries. I guessed you had had a Merlot or three 🙂 That’s why I didn’t reply. At the end of the day it’s just opinions – nothing to get upset about.
“Tree Hugger”??!!! How very dare you, sir! 😛
I’m not a veggie. I like a good steak and a bacon buttie as much as anyone.
Hunting and killing wild animals for fun is a completely different argument to the raising and slaughtering of farm animals.
I see you got my point about hunting a bear. There’s no “sport” in killing an animal that is no threat to you. You + long rifle vs. a deer is purely about waving your willy in the air and saying what a good shot you are, and aren’t you great.
I’m not namby pamby or naive enough to say that no animals should be killed. There is often justification for even wholesale slaughter of wild animals in order to protect something or restore a balance that was screwed in some way.
Take, for example, the possum. Ahhh…how cute. And in Australia pretty rare and some species are endangered. But a few hundred miles away in New Zealand they’re a threat to the environment and mass killings go on all the time. Rangitoto Island near Auckland was the scene of thousands of the things being killed in order to protect the natural habitat of the original flora and fauna.
That is hunting for a purpose. Not for leisure.
Man hunting to pick up the odd dear to feed on for a while – well, fair enough, but its not like there aren’t alternatives down the supermarket. Lets face it, if hunter boy – who justifies hunting by saying he eats the animal – ran out of prey (they were extinct), he wouldn’t starve would he? A quick run down to Tescos and he’s got all the burgers he wants. So this hunting-for-food is not about survival – as Spunks said, its about trophies.
One of the issues lies in the manner of sport hunting animals like deer and elk. In the wild, the old, sick, and infirm animals are generally victims of the predators. But when good-old-boy (no disrespect Queeks :)) – or even city slicker (no disrespect Pharty :)) – jumps into his pickup with a big fuck-off gun, the last animal he is going to kill will be the knackered one. Oh no – he wants the biggest rack he can see, on the biggest finest animal he can, so he can kill it, charge off home, and wave his willy in the air going “look at me! I shot that! What a man I am!”.
