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gezmoor
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Quote from Jakg :Coca Cola hasn't had it totally removed, though, the US Coca Cola bottling plant is the only place in the US with a license to import the leaves used in the production of Coke...

The coca leaves are used because the formula has always had coca leaves extract in it. Originally this extract would have also contained Cocaine, (presumably the reason the extract was created in the first place). Today there is no cocaine in Coca-Cola, and hasn't been any since cocaine was made illegal in the states. However, in order to preserve the "flavour" of Coca-Cola the company continues to use a non narcotic extract of the Coca leaf.

Also, Coca-Cola themselves do not process the coca leaves. The processing is done by a chemical company which then sells the coca leaf extract to Coca-Cola.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07 ... ola-obtains-its-coca.html
gezmoor
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Quote from amp88 :It's also got a lot of pesky mountains, hills, valleys, canyons, lakes, lochs etc.

You must be living on a different planet then.. it's all perfectly flat around here
gezmoor
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Quote from Migz :Im not sure if this one has been said before but

Diet coke is aimed at women.
The majority of people who drink diet coke alot cant go back to drinking normal coke.

Because of the two above facts Coca Cola company made a new diet coke aimed at men *cue Coke Zero*

Coca Cola is the only product out of a long list of products to survive the removal of cocaine from its ingredients list. (they replaced it with caffeine).
gezmoor
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The Earth isn't a perfect sphere, it's slightly flattened at the poles.
gezmoor
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Inconsiderate people. That covers a lot of things such as...


People that push in at bus stops (and queues in general)

Groups of people (usually on holiday) walking slowly 5 abreast on the pavement so that no body else can pass them.

Mothers having mothers meetings in the street with their prams blocking the pavement completely oblivious to everyone needing to get past.

On that note.. anyone else noticed how the concept of driving massive tanks on the roads is now happening in push chairs? I mean c'mon just how much public space does your 3 month old baby need to take up on the street, supermarket isle etc. and laughably there was a report recently complaining about the lack of space on buses for mothers with pushchairs !! well hey if you want to buy a push chair that's twice the size of a normal one that's your idiotic fault.

oooops..
gezmoor
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Finite Element Analysis. Coupled with the ability to interpret the outcome and the ability and experience to translate it in to an actual engineered chasis.

That's how it's done properly. Of course first of all you have to have someone who even knows how a chasis should be designed initially. Most people just copy exisiting known good designs and try and improve it with use of different materials and engineering techniques obviously adapting it as they go along to account for differences in materials properties etc.

All of which is way out of the grasp of a hobyist. Of course assuming you have the basic skills you can easily knock up something that will hold all four wheels in the right place and allow you to drive it around a track, (anyone that has ever watched scrapheap challenge knows that), but as Tristan has stated making something that is safe and will perform reliably and well is something else entirely.
gezmoor
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Quote from ajp71 :The speed at which you lap at is irrelevant on a track day, there's no point using slicks or road legal competition tyres on a car that only does track days/non-competitive events. The compounds in semi-slick tyres are usually effected by heat cycles meaning you're only going to get a few uses out of them before they become hard and old, still good for track days but not as good. Semi-slicks on road cars also produce a lot of road noise and wear out quickly (due to the small amount of tread they start with), not to mention they'll slow you down and waste fuel driving down a motorway. For a track day a set of non-budget tyres comfortably within their speed rating preferably worn but not damaged will be fine.

Don't see how any of that relates to what I said but nevermind.
gezmoor
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Like Forbin says, tyre pressures will have some effect.

But ultimately there really isn't anything can do to stop turning your tyres to mush except maybe fitting a set of harder compound ones for the day but that really defeats the point of a track day.
gezmoor
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A young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little
old lady following him around.
If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him.
She finally overtook him at the
checkout, and she turned to him and said,
'I hope I haven't made you feel ill at ease; it's just
that you look so much like my late son.'
He answered, 'That's okay.'
'I know it's silly, but if you'd call out 'Good bye, Mom' as I leave the store, it would make me feel so happy.'
She then went
through the checkout, and as she was on her way out of
the store, The man called out, 'Goodbye, Mom.'
The little old lady waved, and smiled back at him..












Pleased that he had brought a
little sunshine into someone's day, he
went to pay for his Groceries.
'That comes to $121.85,' said the clerk.
'How come so much?
I only bought 5 items..'
The clerk replied,
'Yeah, but your Mother said You'd be paying for her things, too.'

Don't trust little Old Ladies!!!

.......

Sipho's sister was pregnant and was in a bad car accident, which caused her to fall into a deep coma. After nearly six months, she awakens and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.
The doctor replies" Ma'am, you had twins - a boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them. The woman thinks to herself, "Oh no! Not Sipho; He's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor "Well what's the girl's name?" "Denise," the doctor answers.
The new mother thinks." Wow that's a beautiful name! I guess I was wrong about my brother. I really like that name Denise." Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?" The doctor replies. "Denephew."

........



An elderly man in Queensland had owned a large property for several years. He had a dam in one of the lower paddocks where he had planted mango and avocado trees. The dam had been fixed up for swimming when it was built and he also had some picnic tables placed there in the shade of the fruit trees.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the dam to look it over, as he hadn't been there for a while. He grabbed a ten litre bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the dam, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his dam. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.

One of the women shouted to him, 'We're not coming out until you leave!'

The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the dam naked..'

Holding the bucket up he said, 'I'm here to feed the crocodile..'

Moral: Old men may walk slow, but they can still think fast.
gezmoor
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Dave,

For future reference. The reason you could connect when using the IP and not the "name" of your PC is most likely because somehow a protocol called NetBIOS was disabled on one or other of the machines. It's on as default so resetting everything would have turned it back on if it was off.
gezmoor
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A guy stuck his head into a barber shop and asked, "How long before I can get a haircut?" The barber looked around the shop full of
Customers and said, "About 2 hours." The guy left.

A few days later the same guy stuck his head in the door and asked, "How long before I can get a haircut?" The barber looked around at the shop and said, "About 3 hours." The guy left.

A week later the same guy stuck his head in the shop and asked, "How long before I can get a haircut?" The barber looked around the shop and said, "About an hour only."The guy left.

The barber turned to a friend and said, "Hey, Bill, do me a favour, Follow that guy and see where he goes. He keeps asking how long he has to wait for a haircut, but then he doesn't ever come back". A little while later, Bill returned to the shop, laughing hysterically. The
barber asked, "So where does that guy go when he leaves?"

Bill looked up, tears in his eyes and said, "To your wife !!!





Another one....




Two Irishmen walk into a pet shop in Dingle, they walk over to the bird section and Gerry says to Paddy, 'Dat's dem.'



The owner comes over and asks if he can help them.




'Yeah, we'll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere,' says Gerry.




The owner puts the budgies in a cardboard box.




Paddy and Gerry pay for the birds, leave the shop and get into Gerry's truck to drive to the top of the Connor Pass.




At the Connor Pass , Gerry looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, 'Dis looks like a grand place.'




He takes two birds out of the box, puts one on each shoulder and jumps off the cliff.




Paddy watches as the budgies fly off and Gerry falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself stone dead.




Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Paddy shakes his head and says, 'Fook dat. Dis budgie jumping is too fook'n dangerous for me!'






THERE'S MORE...






Moment's later; Seamus arrives up at ConnorPass.




He's been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another cardboard box in one hand and a shotgun in the other.




'Hi, Paddy, watch dis,' Seamus says.




He takes a parrot from the box and lets him fly free.




He then throws himself over the edge of the cliff with the gun.




Paddy watches as half way down, Seamus takes the gun and shoots the parrot.




Seamus continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom and breaks every bone in his body.




Paddy shakes his head and says, 'And I'm never trying dat parrotshooting either!'






IT IS NOT OVER YET...






Paddy is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Sean appears.




He's also been to the pet shop and is carrying a cardboard box out of which he pulls a chicken.




Sean then takes the chicken by its legs and hurls himself off the cliff and disappears down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine.




Once more Paddy shakes his head.




'Fook dat, lads. First dere was Gerry with his budgie jumping, den Seamus parrotshooting... And now Sean and his fook'n hengliding!'

gezmoor
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Quote from Becky Rose :Does that meen I can have 20mbit down 2mbit up now? *listens to sound of pin dropping* Nope. Not leading.

Thatcher granted BT a monopoly so they could invest in infrastructure, it's now out of date and BT no longer have their monopoly. On the plus side we dont pay 10p for a 1 minute local call now, on the downside, my internet sucks - and not in a multi-threaded way either.

You've missed my point.

Whether BT has the latest technology available actually deployed in its network is irrelevant to the fact that BT's technology labs have played a major role in driving forward Telecommunications.

But as a point in fact within the UK it is BT, not any other operator, that is actually pushing forward the deployment of FTTC and FTTH. So again, despite the fact that people love to hate them, the only reason the UK is ever going to get fast internet access is because BT is prepared to spend the money. No doubt, just as with ADSL, they'll spend the money deploying it, all their competitors will just reap the profits using it under the UKs LLU regulations.
gezmoor
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Quote from amp88 :tens of thousands of people die every day from starvation, thirst and preventable diseases. The world should put those people first, not other animals. Something i don't understand is that people are so shocked that some countries would eat dog meat or horse meat. Why are dogs and horses so different from cows, chickens, pigs etc? If dogs have been bred for food in these countries for tens or hundreds of years what's wrong with it? Are there more inherent problems in the production of dog meat than 'traditional' meats?

+1
gezmoor
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Quote from Becky Rose :Dual core CPU's are literally two processors shoe-horned into the same chip with a few adjustments. To the software author, and even to the OS, they appear as two distinct CPU's.

For a long time the Windows OS has had multi-tasking where different programs can run concurrently and these programs can be allocated to any CPU core.

Multi-threading is where a software application repeats this process within itself. Just out of interest the concept is not new, the Amiga OS had support for this back in the dark ages when cavemen where still using telephones connected to phone sockets on the wall, Windows cottoned on a little later, but MS where not nearly as slow as British Telecom who took 17 years to prove the transistor worked before the cavemen could have digital exchanges.

Ok thanks. Having read through most of the rest of the thread now, (specifically yours and JeffRs posts), I get it now. It's pretty much what I was trying to say, but badly. I was thinking more of "threads" as seen from the OS perspective as you yourself said in one post about creating a multi-threaded application and just letting the OS get on with deciding which CPU or Core to allocate it to, (thanks for clearing up the point about whether multi-core CPs are seen as logical or physical by the OS btw).

Oh and on your point about BT. It may very well be the case but that says even more about the other Telcos around the world as BT were the first to go digital. The UK lead the Telecoms "revolution" of the 80's and 90's.

Poor customer service they may have but BT have been, (and continue to be), a driving force in world Telecommunications technologies and development.
gezmoor
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Haven't read the entire thread so appologies if this has been asked/answered already.

Am I just being dumb here but I thought that dual/quad cores were kind of seen as "logical" devices by the OS. As in the OS acts as if it is dealing with a single CPU but the internal structure of the CPU decides how to task out the instructions etc between the cores. Isn't multi-threading more about working on machines that actually have physically two discrete CPUs where the OS has to make the decisions about how to divide up an applications instructions between the two CPs?? Or has Windows been "adapted" in this way in order to work as if it has two physical CPUs when actually its a dual/quad core single CP ??
gezmoor
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Well IMO the simplest and cheapest (long term view) of protecting your PC from hackers is to put it behind a NAT enabled router. That way only the router is exposed to the outside world and hacking a router isn't going to get anyone very far very quickly.

TIP - Make sure whatever you use be it on your PC or a router doesn't respond to pings on the public IP port. First port of attack for any hacker indiscriminately looking for a "target" machine is to do scans for machines that announce their existence by replying to ping requests.

After that I can whole heartedly recommend CA Anti-Virus from here : http://shop.ca.com/virus/antivirus.aspx

Been using their AV product for over a decade now and haven't had a single significant virus on my PC. (i.e. never had any performance or data loss issues that have subsequently been attributable to a virus).

Get yourself some decent Malware/Spyware application such as Ad-Aware or MalwareBytes. I run Vista so it comes with MS Defender built in but I still have MalwareBytes, which I run on occasion.

Last but definitely not least. Keep your PC up to date with security patches. This is just good practice and should be something that is done on a regular basis.

But as has been said already, the best bit of security you can get for your PC is your own common sense. Treat everything that wants to run on your machine, (that you didn't explicitly request), as highly suspicious and err on the side of caution.
gezmoor
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Quote from amp88 :Thanks for the spoiler.

My appologies.

I just assumed that anyone who was interested enough to care on here would have either watched the race itself or have seen it on the news already anyway.
*** SPOILER *** MotoGP
gezmoor
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Valentino Rossi wins his 100th GP and becomes only the second motorcycle racer to do so, thus securing his place in history as a true legend of the sport.
gezmoor
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Irrespective of what people may think of Max, I for one am in agreement with him on this specific issue. FOTA have been going on about the need for proper governance in the sport and then they go and pull a school playground stunt like as this to start spreading misinformation and misrepresenting the deal that was made. All extremely unprofessional and immature behaviour. If that is how FOTA and it's representatives behave they are no more worthy of running things than Max or anyone else at the FIA.

IMO F1 if full of arrogant immature egotistical idiots with no understanding of fairness or sportsmanship who are willing to do "whatever it takes" to "Win" on all sides. From half the drivers up through the team managements and through to FOTA and the FIA.
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Quote from sinbad :That was something, but it can't have been planned so I wouldn't call it a move. Jorge slipstreamed past and then simply braked earlier than Rossi, so Rossi had no choice once that happened but to go back past him on the outside and try to make the corner. Amazing riding nonetheless.

The last corner move was preconceived though, he knew he had that one last chance, got a run through the corner before and pulled it off perfectly. Nobody expected it though, which just made it all the more incredible.

No Valentino outbraked him pure and simple. Jorge braked at the normal braking point for that corner and Valentino left it a fraction of a second longer, way past the point where a rider would normally be able to still make the corner, but somehow he managed it. You have to see it from the aerial view to realy appreciate it. Even the commentators were amazed he made the corner.

Valentino is a phenomenom of the modern era, he hasn't "just done" something on a track since way before his 125 days. Everything he does on a track is either precalculated or the result of a split second decision based on years of experience and understanding of his own ability. He's as far from a "devil may care" or "crazy" rider as it's possible to get. He is just incredibly gifted.
gezmoor
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Somebody please remind me how boring MotoGP is again !!

The move that really stuck out for me wasn't actually Valentino's last corner dive up the inside balking Jorge's drive out to the line. It was the move he made the previous lap where he braked late at the end of the straight passing Jorge on the outside of the corner and still manged to make the corner and keep Jorge behind him. A truely amazing move.

All in all, just reminds me why I'll always prefer Motorcycle racing over any form of Car racing.
gezmoor
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Quote from oli17 :geezer or whatever your name is, you were late to this thread, so why are you reading through everything and trying to restart the argument, it seems a little pointless to me.

Sorry I thought this was a discussion forum, and the point of a thread is to read it. Sorry once again I appologise for my evident stupidity, but I grew up at a time when people had the ability to read more than one paragraph with out complaining about "wall of text".
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Quote from spookthehamster :
BTCC was dominated by FWD cars because of the rules since the old 4WD domination. ...

Corrected for you. When Audi introduced their 4WD quatro cars in to national racing series across Europe it blew away all the competition, RWD included. The cars were promptly given heavy weight penalties but still kept wining, so in 1998 the FIA banned the drive system.
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Quote from dadge :that's not what i wrote. and putting a comma after the word "shops" was not the point i tried to make. try to keep up at the back.

Sorry, I didn't understand the point you were attempting to make. Must be because I'm stupid, because your witty put down clearly proves it.
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Quote from dadge :i don't think common courtesy has anything to do with it. the fact that you are communicating is effort enough in my books.

what's the difference in me typing something like "He went to the shops when I asked him." or "he went to the shops when i asked him." when the point being made is exactly the same?

So you don't understand the difference between

"He went to the shops when I asked him"

and

"He went to the shops, when I asked him"

then??
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