Only idea I have is a friend who lives in Hamburg posting photos and updates about shops being boarded up and the town getting ready for protests.

Some protests have been stopped which is creating more anger as it’s a consitutional right to protest.

There’s heavy police presence and there have been a few kick offs already. He did advise carrying ID if you’re a foreign visitor. There’s likely to be check points and you will avoid trouble having the ID.

Good luck on the stag do, it could be all OK but the build up looks to be one of those things that could get nasty very quickly.

Posted earlier in thread, the link below is to the Coriolis Ship build site.

Dolphin with 6 person First Class cabin. Gives me about 4 million a tourist mission. You can get more passenegers in if you drop the class to business but the rewards don’t go up that much.

Dolphin is probably the cheapest way to start on passenger missions, Asp Explorer can work well, especially if you’re messing about with wanted or high risk passengers and may need to fight.

Dolphin build is about 8 million including the ship cost. You don’t need the 4A fuel scoop and Advanced Discovery Scanner at first so can save a bit there.

Just need another 20 or 30 million and I’ll have enough with trade in to exchange my Python for an Anaconda.

https://eddp.co/u/BFoFX1d3

If you’re bounty hunting at Nav Beacons then fit a Warrant Scanner if there is room. Standard scan gives you bounty for the current system only, the Warranty scan gives bounties in all systems so you can increase the rewards.

Day 1 – catch self on rusty barbed wire.

Day 10 (if lucky) die horribly of infected cut as 999 didn’t work, the GP wasn’t answering and a job in IT doesn’t really help when you have a raging infection and the internet is down 🙁

Is it possible to play ED online without becoming kiddy cannon fodder? I gave up on online gaming after respawn number 1000000000.

I play in Open on PC all the time, only once had trouble from other players, pair of Fer de Lance camping the Station Slot and blowing anything up that flew in.

Vast majority are OK. Went back on this weekend and hunted down a couple of Thargoid bases. Quite creepy to land at drive a SRV round.

Didn’t have the Unknown Artifacts for getting inside the base and playing with the Thargoid Machinery. YouTube video is impressive.

Easiest way of making money I found is Passenger Missions. I use this Dolphin build:

https://eddp.co/u/BFoFX1d3

Depending on reputation and the mission you can make 2 to 4 million a run. Bigger rewards if you’re willing to risk passengers with a wanted rating or long distance trips.

Biowaste from some Planetary bases can be lucrative as well.

I’ve got my Cobra and running transport missions to build money up to kit out a fighter next. It’s time consuming but you can play different mode including a fighting mode without joining the main game.

You mean you don’t start with a crap Sidewinder on PS4? Took forever to build up the cash for a Cobra on PC.

Top tip – never fly unless you have the cash to cover the insurance, you will cry, especially once you’ve got onto the bigger ships 🙂

Quick double check suggests the physics effect wouldn’t be a problem with the short ranges for WiFi.

Probably the router then.

Can’t remember all my physics, EM Radiation in a vacuum should work to the equation:

Freqency=speed of light/wavelength.

That changes in atmosphere as the molecules in the atmosphere intefere and instead of speed of light you get speed through the medium.

High pressure air is more dense so the wave slows down.

20 years ago I could probably write the equation down but not had to look at it for years. Hopefully someone who does radio for a living and knows the physics can explain it better.

My local rides are the perfect mix of road and bridleway for a Gravel Bike, bought a Giant Revolt a couple of years ago and it’s great.

Running 28mm Continental GP4000 II at the moment, fast on the road and OK on hardpack dirt, grass is OK if dry. Got a bit skittish on a forest track that had just been redone with new aggregate and was a bit lumpy and you can forget anythying resembling mud.

It is a bit easy to get caught up in the marketing detail. It’s a big scale with a bike for various points on the scale. Choose one or if you have the room and budget, buy more than one.

It’s good that we have choice 🙂

Buy your own tractor

https://www.orangebikes.co.uk/bikes/five-pro

Leeds – so pretty much the 80 goth scene. Sisters of Mercy, Mission and others. Quite a few of them were from the surrounding towns as well so it wasn’t really a Leeds thing it’s just it was a good night out. There was stuff going on around Leeds, like Futurama Festival in Bradford, but Leeds had The Phono, Chocolate Factory and The Faversham.

Used to see a few of the band members turning up for a pint in the Fav on a Friday night, even afetr some of them had minor success with US stadium tours.

Rocketmail,

I may be a little out of date.

No more out of date than anyone refering to Hotmail – it’s been through two rebrands since it was Hotmail 🙂

Hotmail is now Outlook.com and isn’t too terrible, GMail and Outlook.com have good bits and bad bits, try both, see which bad bits irritate you the most then use the other one. I use both.

Spam filtering on Outlook.com is as good as most other services these days. I find it a bit too enthusiastic at times.

From the brief and terrifying Dr Google earlier it’s same area, different thing.

Docs did ask if I’d noticed any strain first, one thought is it’s a strain or damage that grows back badly so the plantar ends up lumpy.

Ooo, thread resurrection reminded my I was going to rename mine to “Surrounded by ****”

That’s because it’s a story

Same kind of story as you disfuntional, multiple disablility, rpaidly breeding familiy 🙂

They’re all atories.

I don’t get how this would work? Tax would be paid on the invoiced income whether it was corporate or personal.

Fake invoice matched to cash wiwithdrawal – director doesn’t pay tax on the “bonus” as no one ever knows he got it.

Company paid £300, for example, on Grounds Maintenace. Company is profitable so there’s no effect on the overall figures.

Company remains small enough to qualify for audit exemption and as it’s a Private Limited Company where the Director is the sole Shareholder the Shareholder won’t be asking for an audit.

Small scale but like the storys of benefit fraud I have no idea how common it is.

Student Promo nights used to kill me, there’s a few things I can’t stand even now.

Huddersfield Poly Union, the old building in the middle of site, used to do some cracking specials about 88/89.

50p a double for Southern Comfort – can’t drink it nearly 30 years later, Tuborg Gold made my hurl after a can and half – like Special Brew but worse. Dodgiest one was some cheap barrels of Belhaven Bitter they got, tasted foul going down and coming back.

Have fond memories of skipping an afternoon of lectures to spend hardly anything on a two day hangover.

I also think it is safe to assume* that tax avoidance by corporations smashes benefit fraud into financial insignificance.

*(assuming as I do not have facts, but happy to be corrected)

Difficult to have facts as you’re looking for things that someone has hidden.

I do have a story from an old job where the Director played golf with the Directors of other small business. They all passed made up invoices for smallish sums to each other, the invoices disguised cash withdrawals that went to the Director as an untaxed bonus. In the grand scheme of things it was low sums of a few hundred pounds a time.

Companies were all small enough that auditing of accounts was minimal and it never cropped up when the accounts were sent off each year.

No idea how common that is, VAT fraud is probably more common, but again how do you know, run a new laptop through the company and not pay VAT as it’s a “work” item, despite being given to Directors son for University work.

Thunderbird Red Lable – probably responsble for 80% of student vomit in the late 80s 🙁

Slightly deformed Deepwater Redfish.

Certainly interesting, will listen more at home.

Not the biggest Danzig fan in the world so it’s kind of on the edge of what I’d normally listen to.

Know a couple of people in the Edinburgh with similar interests in the symbolism. Probably have mutual aquaintances 🙂

Without trying to wake up the tin foil hat nutters, I’ll ask if you got put on statins if you fell into a risk category.

I had them a few years ago and progressively became weaker, tried a couple of different ones before the docs agreed exercise was more important so I came off them.

Only mentioning as I was getting that feeling that I’d no more go in muscles as if I’d just done an epic ride.

Something to discuss with the docs, see if you can try different ones if you are on them.

Nearly did, but then the 3kg workstation laptop put me off.

I was planning to commute by bike more for this job but the laptop thing has been a sticking point. So damn big and bulky.

I’d like to see a country where children get to attend their local primary school, the one that’s within walking distance of their houses and the parents have enough time to walk them there. A small step that may start people on a lifetime of activity…

Good luck with that wish, our village primary has a queue of high end SUVs, with diesel engines running and stinking the place up where the doting parents have driven all of a mile to get there. I’ve even left our local station to walk my 2 miles home and seen people pulling out of the carpark and driving a few hundred yards up the road.

Not sure how anyone could deal with that level of it’s my car so I will use it even if I turn into Jabba the Hutt.

Some of us burn a lot of calories exercising each week and simple sugars are perfect for fuelling that.
Some of us also have health issues that make consuming energy dense foods more healthy for us than what is traditionally perceived as a healthy diet – maybe you’ll start providing coke on prescription?

Spot on, I don’t do the miles of many cyclists and most of my rides are between 10 and 30 miles – simple sugary stuff suitable for the ride duration is perfect. As one of those terrible diabetics destroying the world I can’t do the standard “healthy” diet to cope with exercise I have to eat around my activity levels. Simple sugary stuff staves off the hypos. I’ve maintained my weight pretty muc for that last 5 years now. Could probably drop another stone but the medical people aren’t too concerned so I’m not stressing either.

There was a BBC article a year or two ago showing a mother who had stopped her kids drinking sugary fizzy drinks and was feeding them mahoosive plate of white rice. Having seen what white rice does to my blood sugar and for how long it has an effect, I would be avoiding that kind of thing, along with added sugar in cerieals and yoghurts that are perceived as healthy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/01/death-from-above-the-ravens-slaughtering-newborn-lambs/

From last year but it’s been on the farming news lately as a problem in Devon and Dorset in particular. Eyeballs and toungues are tasty and easy to get as mentioned. Farmer on interview lost 20 ewes last year with flocks of ravens attacking at once. So yep they can be a pest.

They’re protected so the traps are the only legal method, although it was mentioned a limited licence to shoot was being considered. Apparently members of the crow family are quite tricky to hit though.

If there’s one thing I’ve taken from moving into a rural area, it’s don’t mess with what you don’t understand. Those who destroy the traps are no better than the hippy idiots that released mink into the wild.

If you don’t agree and think it’s illegal, photo it, report it and let someone who knows decide.

You’re not a vet? We wanted a Bear Doctor not a Bare Doctor…

igmc 🙂

Go for the older rigid Garmin Strap, the soft straps can fail after a bit as the salt in sweat contaminates the band and you get erratic readings.

Rinsing the strap every so often helps, but my premium one only lasted a year, before getting problematic. It would take a while to give a reading and then over time started to spike, then wouldn’t go above 130 and then stopped reading entirely.

Replacement rigid one has been faultless so far. Link to Garmin, there are cheaper prices elsewhere, Amazon was the best deal when I got mine.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/p/10996

The Instagram UI is pretty awful, the Stroy stuff is incredibly irritating and they’ve spread it to Farcebook too. I do like the app for photo sharing though – stick mine under allan.93. Meant to link it with a blog eventually but never get round to it.

Followed a few photographers and get a pretty interesting feed most days. Just have to be careful of the aggregator types who pinch and post other people’s pictures. Some do credit the photographer, some don’t.

Find it easy to avoid the influencer types, had to block a few random spam accounts but not had much trouble even with a public profile.

Not tried it myself, I was in an Elite: Dangerous Wing with a guy using the HTC Vive and Voice Attack. Sounded odd over Discord but he was pretty damn good.

I’m half interested, but if I had the cash to layout on a Vive then it would be at the end of a list of bike bits I’d want to buy first.

Leeeeeeeeeeroooooooyyyy Jeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnkiiiiiiiiiiins.

23 years since graduating in Chemistry and 19 years this summer since I did any lab work.

Salary was utter sh!t, loved the work though. Never found any job as interesting in IT as the ones I had in the lab.
Can’t remember half of what I studied in Chemistry, in 19 years of IT, there’s a hell of a lot of that that’s fallen out of my head too.

Is there a bike race going past anytime in the near future?

Shop owner could be a bit miffed when his can of yellow paint arrives and the bike has gone.

Someone at work said “waving our collaberative footprint” on a conference call at work yesterday…. I still don’t know what it means… today has been a day of trying to forget that someone actually got paid a lot of money to come up with that bullshit 🙁

Not necessarily untaxed.

One job a few years ago needed me to drive to a secure site. My car was registered on a non-disclosure list. No idea if it worked but anyone from the public phoning DVLA or trying to find out details from the Reg Number would be told the information was not available.

As far as I know the Police ANPR systems could see details.

Harrogate – it’s like someone gave all the worse people from the worse places listed in the previous 5 pages a lottery jackpot.

Perfect proof that you can have money and zero class.

Worked there for 5 years and pretty much there were no redeeming features about the place. Full of horrible selfish entitled arseholes.
If the modern attitude of not giving a stuff about anyone else outside of your tiny minded little world was a virus the source would be Harrogate Spa Water. Even Betty’s is shit!

Ah, feel better now 🙂

Like playing games but turning it into a profession isn’t what I’d want to do. Can’t say it’s any more strange than crap, hand\eye co-ordination “sports” like golf or darts.

Bit late to the conversation, but vote for Specsavers being OK from me too.

47 and I have macular degeneration, pretty much stable and onhold but there’s a noticable distortion in the centre of my right eye. I get appointments at the local hospital every couple of months for a checkup.

Treatment is injections in the eyeball so not too much fun.

Specsavers is my nearest optician and they’ve done alright for the general vision stuff, they can’t do anything about the distortion as that’s the retina that’s faulty rather than the optics. They have noticed the damage on the retina scan, so if I wasn’t already getting treatment they’d tell me to go get it looked at.

It is cool in itself. But surely lots of things were used by the knights templar at some point or another? And why are/were they special?

Illuminati, bad Dan Brown fiction and crap Nicholas Cage films, also because they were amazingly wealthy and no one admitted to getting the wealth after they were disbanded.

The Pope’s hat might have got a bit bigger and more golden and I suspect 🙂

Nope, I didn’t when I replace my car last year.

A friend is a traffic pollution researcher and lecturer so I had a heads up at how bad it was starting to look with new evidence on NOx emissions.

We got over the loss of 4 Star pretty quick, time to phase out the diesel now, earlier it starts the less painful to the wallet it will be.

Not read all the commets but stuff like this makes me want to finally do the mobile mechanic stuff.

They keep going bust near me as no one trusts a mechanic – wonder why reading the job list 🙁

OP, as others have said most jobs are easy enough with a basic toolset and once you get used to doing the work they can be fairly quick to do, so doesn’t intefere with riding time that much.

Quite a few of the more reputable shops near me will run basic maintenance courses, possibly worth a bit of research in your area.

Been through – chatter or whatever they called the Salesforce guff.

Yammer – only the marketing manager used it to tell employees the kind of crap you expect marketing to be telling prospective customers.

Teams – Tumbleweed

Slack – Here we go again.

Had a conversation with another techie and we were in agreement, profile pictures for the next one will be the Picard Facepalm one.