it's possible, but what chav is describing is exactly what happened to mine and we had to get a new computer (to be fair the old one was worn out but nowhere near dead)

that happened to my old computer, and the hard drive and graphics card had had some sort of catastrophic meltdown....so your computer really is screwed

Quote from duke_toaster :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/jacqui_sacky/

Time to crack open the champagne?

buy the champers maybe, I wouldn't actually crack it open until Pa Broon vacates his seat

Quote from Blas89 :

I'm not scared of flying and I even like watching trough the windown when I'm in a plane, I don't mind the turbulence or anything BUT once I think about the plane going fast as shit down scares me... Weird stuff becuase I get excited of flying too

I've been unfortunate enough to endure severe turbulence on a plane before. We flew through a trememdous thunderstorm coming in to land at Biarritz airport a few years back, at one point the plane dropped about 2000 feet in a matter of seconds. Our first landing attempt was aborted after a massive gust of wind blew the plane towards the terminal building just as we were about to touch down which made us have to endure half an hour of circling above the airport in the extreme turbulence. When that plane dropped it was possibly the most scared I have ever been in my life and I'm not afraid to admit that

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

I guess we'll never know until the black box is fished up

if it is ever fished up you mean...it's lying at the bottom of a very very deep ocean, and provided it survived the impact on the water then the bleeper beacon thing attached to the outside only has a battery life of 30 days

I'm thinking with this catastrophic depressurisation that the officials are talking about, my theory is that at some point in the storm it flew through it was hit by lightning, this caused the electrical faults (whatever they were) and at some point on the aircraft it damaged the fuselage. The fuselage then ruptured a bit further into the flight (possibly as a result of the turbulence) causing the catastrophic depressurisation and the crash

yes if you are out of radar range. The only contact they have is the automated systems

the plane when it came down was in the area of no radar contact anyway, but all was fine when it left the Brazilian radar range. For a plane to just 'disappear' it must have had some sort of catastrophic mechanical failure causing it to plummet from the sky, otherwise there would have been more data to go on sent out by the plane's automated systems including the one that reported some sort of electrical fault half an hour or so before it crashed. The plane wouldn't have had a chance of staying intact, as I'm sure you know hitting water from that height is the same as hitting concrete so the chances of anything being remotely intact are slim....and the black box is at the bottom of the sea

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

NEW EPISODE OF AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION NO MORE REPEATS WOOOOO

I was thinking that whatever the outcome this would make for an interesting episode of it

been following this story all day since it first appeared on the news, looks like it's going to be a worst-case scenario

Squarepusher - A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)

Quote from piggy501 :

But is he really? A bastard is a person born from unmarried parents, and at no point do I think earmelon has mentioned or even hinted that he is a genuine bastard.

pedantic to the point of me wanting to kill something...

you can finish off that Munchy Box with a nice battered Mars Bar

Quote from 91mason91 :

This may sound like childish off topic nonesense but its funny how folk that have been here for a while and probably are not going anywhere get away with insulting other forum members.

For example, Sam calling earmelon a bastard.
Many other people get away with similar incidents.

But someone like me who isn't very well known around gets an infraction for calling one a faggot !?
Why? Why isn't everyone treated the same??

Please reply maturely and answer my question.

that is because earmelon WAS a bastard. Calling people names for no reason is mean, but with certain people it is kind of par for the course (not mentioning any names)

"The assailant, named only as Sebastian P., was drunk at the time"

well I'll be damned.....

Underworld - Dirty Epic

hardcore LFS eh? Is that the porn mod?

Quote from S3ANPukekoh3 :

Ok I'll go first. My girlfriend who I had been going out for 4 months dumped me a few weeks ago, just out of the blue. I'm 16 and she was the same age as me. I just feel like shit and I don't know how I'm going to "get over it" It's almost been a month now. Hmmm, yeah.

If anyone else has been dumped recently I'd like to know how you got over it.

enjoy your hand

it's not bad to laugh at it - after all, you're laughing at what comes out the guy's mouth, not the guy himself

Quote from dadge :

read my answer again. i was asked if ican't be arsed, or don't care. i answered "i don't care"
how does don't care fall into lazyness? it's not lazyness because again, i'm not really that concerned what people on a game forum think of me, just because i don't use uppercase.

I can't be arsed to thoroughly read posts that contain little to no correct grammar (with some exceptions). That is just the way I am. It doesn't take a lot of effort to use capitalisation, and it pays dividends as you begin to come across as someone who actually does care about how people percieve him/her, and my perception of you and your 'I can't be arsed' attitude isn't good, and it is an attitude that probably extends into real life (prove me wrong).

Simple laziness, that's all it is. No other excuses.

have to say the bit where the guys mate blurted out 'John dyes his pubes ginger' was well funny

Quote from tristancliffe :

But by failing to type like a grown up human being with a brain you give judgemental people, like me, the impression that a squirrel stole your brain and used the new space to store acorns.

LOL

Quote from SamH :

That's actually why I just banned the little bastard rather than stripping the thread. It seemed somehow.. important.. historic..

good man