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Andy_1984

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  1. No need for a magnum, phone. you just get within about 2ft of their rear bumper at 70mph and they soon move over. Might need to flash the lights incase they didnt quite understand.

  2. Been drinking tap water all my life, visited an aunty in preston when i was just a wee lad and she said oh no dont drink that! Too late though. Few hours later i spewed everywhere. ever since ive never drank english tap water. Up here though theres nowt better. Think our supply is from katrine via waterworks in milngavie (sounds like millguy) not that far up the road from here.

  3. Still pop in now and again but my visits are probably months apart. There is nothing compelling enough to want to keep coming back. Ive got tons of photos i could share in the photography section but uploads dont work and i wont use a 3rd party.

     

    I dont think id be too fussed if the site shutdown what would be a tragedy would be losing old information(the sites own search doesnt go bwck any more than 2-4 years which is uselesss).

     

    I planned to try and copy all topics that poach contributed to, to add to a personal kinda wiki/searchable database just incase the site does one day just dissapear. Id even pay elton for a copy of all of those.

     

    The download topic thing doesnt work or id have been slowly doing it since he passed away.

  4. Yes, but has she grasped th implications ? (I doubt that also) - She keeps banging on about Scotland remaining in the EU after independence. Judging by the Eu response to Catalonia, that ain't gonna happen

     

    I doubt there are many politicians who can grasp the implications of their actions, left or right. its all a bit of a shambles at the moment.

     

    your way older than me mate, has politics always been this pathetic ?

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    You bet she is :D If Catalonia gets its' independence, you can be sure the lemon sucker will be banging on about another indyref (if she hasn't started already). It was her harping on about Scottish independence that lost her 1/3 of the seats in the election, will she learn a lesson from that? I doubt it very much.

    Hey! This about catalonia, not Scotland. Can we now lock the topic ?

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  6. A chess game doesnt seem to be a very demanding game with regards to connection speed. Id say 1mps with a latency of 28ms would be plenty. used to play call of duty with ~20 people on 512k (cutting edge at time) with 30ms latency. Even hosted games ourselves!

     

    It could just be the server is running slow not you flyin tench.

     

    There is another posibility. Cheating bastards. Trick called a lag switch. Ive never looked in to how to do it, methods probably vary, but its to purposfuly lag you out to make you lose.

     

    On a shoot'em up everything lags out people warping about all over the place but the perpetrator is fine and has a big advantage.

  7. Huge,

     

    It is being reported, somewhat between the lines, the Scots are becoming snowflakes.

     

    BUT PINK ! - NOOooooo

     

    Phone

    I blame the feckin millenials. Have ye seen how they wear their hair these days. Dont worry though im still rocking the highlander look, ye wouldnt mistake me for a snowflake.

  8. The ipb and the digital economy act all designed to keep joe public under thumb and under control and allow the government and its authorities to use questionable tactics to hinder protest and free speech. The databases will be used against us and they want more and more data merged in to one grand database on you. It is a frightning thought that they could know more about me than anyone and the crazy idea that the food standards agency can have access to that database. Its not unreasonable to think that it could be used against people to censor them too.

     

    They have took all this out of the hands of judges and not requiring warrants. Ask yourself why should it be a politician rubber stamping approval on access to browsing history for example, or to get to my medical records. Good thig about databases the waybthey are now is they are seperate. Tax, medical, criminal history, etc etc its not so easy for one bad actor to get his hands on but what may wants will make that easier. Whih imo is EXACTLY what they want.

     

    Dont be fooled by this they have an agenda and its all linked and they are getting it.

     

    Can you believe that out of 18 countries onky the UK and China! Want more government control of the internet. I dont beleive that one bit, or perhaps they played a blinder and made the public swallow this bull. You never hear anyone on the news backing up claims from tech industry telling you its not safe to put backdoors in encryption.

     

    Ooft sorry went a bit light headed there.

  9. My my, that's a lot to cover! Cory, I think I covered your points in a prior post, in any case, don't have any of them anywhere near me.

     

    Andy, most of the incidents you refer to involve the illegal sourcing and use of information, I would imagine that the information was probably available from other sources perhaps not in the case of each victim but where one person would have been protected another more vulnerable person would take their place, My eldest Brother is a retired Senior Police Officer, I also have several friends who are retired Officers. In the case of the Officer who took the picture on his phone, is that really an example of wrong doing by anyone other than the individual? What changes to 'censorship' would prevent that incident, most effective would be the removal of cameras from 'phones but the individual could use a Polaroid or even a photocopier to carry out the task. Perhaps your point is the photograph on the DL. which I don't have.

     

    In the main my comments which have been taken to extreme, were centered on the current view of the Govt. that is to say the either end encryption on the likes of whatsapp. I would suggest that by far the vast majority are the same as me, hundreds of pictures and videos of children, grand children and not forgetting, the new puppy!

     

    In this context, the only people who have any fear or indeed, anything to hide are carrying out illegal activity. Not forgetting of course that just because ISIS is flavour of the month, does not mean there are no other extreme viewed religious, environmentalist, animal rights or whatever type of activist out there right now.

     

    the cencsorship, the abuse, the spying and the state approved hacking of the public are all one and the same debate imo. its all connected.

     

    my point is that a lot of the abuses of held data by the police on THEIR database will soon be ever more reaching and with more authorities (food standards agency?) being allowed carte blanche to everything and with an iron fist in the not to distant future now that the IPB has been approved by the queen while large parts of that legislation are still to be completed (blank cheque anyone ?)

     

    They have used this data to intimidate they have bent the rules waaaay out of their scope to get what they want even for personal stuff using their position of trust to do it. is that really the way we want things to be like in the UK. No thanks. I see it nothing more than having a stasi like police force who are above the law and allowed by our government to continue by putting in place pish poor procedures to stop it "do you promise not to abuse these super powers", "yes sir", "ok heres the password "username: admin, password: admin"

  10. and another thing. if you are caught out or stitched up with any of these new terrorism laws and they gain "proof" from hacking you or intercepting communications you are not allowed to question, research or even see the evidence they hold on you, as such they are allowed to lie about the evidence and they do not have to produce it in court, you are not allowed to even speak of it, your lawyer cant speak of it and if you do, bad things may happen.

  11. oh yes and the government supposedly giving permission to use rules intended for combating terrorism and the technology to the BBC to find out what addresses are watching Iplayer without a license.

     

    scare mongering rubbish but you never know these days tbh.

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  12. terrorism, our government and authorities love it. I may get shot down on here for that but I think its true. they push for more and more every time an incident occurs and ask.... no.... they demand, for things they know little about and ignore their advisors who are nothing more than a token gesture that the gov listens :doh:

     

    I remember the terrorism act bullshite being used by local councils to spy on people putting their bins out early! feature creep indeed Steve. terrorism is a handy buzzword for people like Vitae who has nothing to hide. news flash, it has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with an overly paranoid and increasingly totalitarian government.

     

    I think I'll move to china.

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