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Woah – places looks awesome! I was surprised to see you can actually surf there..
http://www.surfing-waves.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8944
Get yourself a board m8 and give it a go… you will love it.
@=XDC=JuDgE-MenTaL wrote:
Doh my reply to Doc was a tad big and I got this error. No quotes, no pound signs. Hmmmm
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1245184 bytes) in /usr/local/www/xdcuk.co.uk/public_html/forums/includes/utf/data/utf_nfkc_qc.php on line 2
Doh! Thats annoying. Lets just take it as red that the post was filled with effusive praise for myself… and a statement that all your kids were getting vaccinated tomorrow! 😀 Job done.
You only take it every 12 weeks? I am genuinely confused… what the hell is it? (Dont say if its confidential of course.)
First of I aint gonna argue with you Judge… strongly held health beliefs (like any other beliefs) are rarely changed by someone jawjawing away…. medically qualified or not. I feel duty bound to put the other side of the story so people can have a starting point to think on regarding their own kids. And I agree with you 100% re GPing in NZ – they are good quality doctors… but my god we are lucky to have the NHS here… money always corrupts things.
Anyways… 1) Vaccines are VERY effective in kids. Theres misinformation here because some vaccines (yellow fever/ japanese encephalitis etc) have low success rates. But trust me on this – the efficacy of measles vacs is over 95% after the booster, Mumps – Over 95%, Rubella – likely 90% or more. That is bloody good.
2) People forget how horrific these diseases are. Measles kills 2 in a 1000 kids, 1 in a 1000 get encephalitis (inflammation of the brain which can cause long term disability.) So every time i hear a mum say “such and such got measles and they were fine” it makes me want to scream. So your friend was one of the 997 kids who got away scot free? Good for you…. I aint playing dice with my kids thank you very much.
Mumps causes (usually mild but not always) encephalitis in 5 in a 100 kids… not to mention infertility from orchitis in males.
Rubella? I just looked up the figures for this… in the 60’s in the states 20000 cases of congenital rubella syndrome were diagnosed every year. Thats 20000 kids with varying degrees of being blind and deaf…. the number of miscarriages are not clearly known…. but would be massive.
3) Single vacines are not discounted on cost grounds alone… if the NHS wanted to use them i doubt it would cost that much more as we buy in bulk. Theres good reasons for doing all the vaccines at the same time – mainly to do with the unacceptable delay in having to spread them out over a long period of time.
4) Your point about rubella vaccination is an interesting one…. ‘why the hell do we vaccinate young boys against a disease that will never harm them’ would be a better way of putting it. Well…. if you dont vaccinate your kids against rubella…. and my wife is in the 10% of vaccinated women who have no protection to it… we end up with a deaf blind kid. Is that important to you? At the end of the day public health is in many cases an altruistic thing. if we vaccinate enough people we get ‘herd immunity’ and everyone is happy. if you dont vaccinate your kids they may well be fine… “Im alright Jack” as long as everyone else gives their kids the jab. Sometimes its better to do what is right for society than what the Daily Mail tells you is right because of a crackpot Doctor (who is about to be struck off for unprofessional practice) and his crackpot ideas about MMR and autism.
Here endeth the lesson.
I always dismissed his stuff as being utter trash… without ever actually reading any of his books however.
Are you serious… is this guy actually a good writer?
yeah – that is bullshit. Though you are technically able to go to a specialist travel clinic… but they are likely to charge just as much if not more.
BTW – we dont charge any fee here in the outer hebrides… even for the jabs! 🙂 Dont know how we get away with it but its true! Probably would have to pass on the cost for japanese encephalitis though… thats an expensive one.
Its true Munkee – the cost is high… but a few things to think about.
1) People will pay 2-3 grand on the holiday of a lifetime… but skimp on the 200 squid for some vaccinations that might save them a slow painful lingering death or a lifetime of disability from encephalitis etc etc… go figure.
2) Brings home the true costs of drugs doesent it? People whine about the NHS day in day out… but a lot of my old patients regularly walk out of here with a stash of drugs from the pharmacy worth 2-300 pounds EVERY 2-3 MONTHS. Cost to them? zero. Its incredible really. Especially when you find self same drugs stuffed in cupboards in the kitchen when you do a house visit cause they didnt actually want to take them!
3) Dont know what you are talking about Judge…. if you have to start seeing your GP regular in NZ you will learn about being fleeced in a far more thorough fashion 🙂
I still remember the special kind of feeling that the colour of magic represented for me as a teenager… but I have to say I lost my faith in pratchet a long tme ago. I stated to get the uncomfortable feelng that every single book had exactly the same structure as the one before… and that he had used up his store of jokes by the end of light fantastic.
I guess its too much for one guy to be able to wite the sheer number of books that he has and keep the level of quality up.
To you hardcore pratchet fans – what’s the best of his last 5 novels say? I feel like checking one out for old times sake.
mem test gave the ram the all clear… I’m not sure if I should be happy or sad 🙁
so….. backing up service packs/hotfixes… possible?
I noticed that the error message could indicate a RAM problem wips – but kind of discounted it as a possibility given the fact my other games worked fine.
You are right though… these 2 games may be putting more pressure on the memory than the others so I was maybe a bit hasty to reject the idea. Will run memtest tonight!
My last ditch efforts have failed… I even did a bios update last night as a final try.
Come on guys – help us out!
Quite an imaginative gift… and if you can track a copy down it will show how much effort you have gone to… good one!
Thanks for that – theres one suggestion there i havent tried – will give it a go. Failing that it looks like a complete reinstall is the only possibility! I hate f’ing PC’s!
Now…. if I do a complete reinstall… and I dont have broadband… is there anyway to avoid having to download all the microsoft hotfixes from the internet on reinstall? They must all be on the computer somewhere… but Im buggered if i can find a way to track them down so that i can save them and install them once i am all booted up again.
Cheers dudes.
Reinstalled Dx 9 – no help. I havent downloaded that large patch yet Insane – i was kind of working on the basis that the game should have still worked pre patch anyway.. and the fact it affects two games was suspicious. You are right though… its worth a try – I will try and get it.
I have tried two different revisions of my creative and ati drivers – no help.
I was especially suspicious of creative – seeing as every driver they have ever given me has been a buggy pile of shite… but its not clear cut in this instance.
I can play all my other games fine – bioshock/ World in crisis etc 🙁
@Alzir wrote:
cheers Doc 😉
Bastard 🙂
100k a year? fuck off – not even in the right ballpark. Theres big discrepancies between english and scottish gp’s salary and more importantly between salaried GPs (like myself) and GP partners. don’t believe everything you read In the red tops! most london plumbers/leccies will earn more than your gp – go figure.
