Should do. I run Cardiotrainer with a 1 second GPS polling interval (standard is 10 seconds I think) and that lasts fine over a ride.

The Raleigh Streetwolf with the soundbox on the handlebars. Too cool for school!

Splats.

Splats seemed to be everywhere at one point. Vinyl stick on splats for your car, flourescent pink and yellow splats on bike paintjobs.

And now they're gone.

Shimano Deore from around 2005. I'm pretty fastidious about chain cleaning etc. so it's possible that the mech has worn out before the rest, but I did bugger all riding for 3 or 4 years.

TJ can you provide me with the source for that – Very interested to know what data sets that are used in that ta.

It's David Nutt's research, him of opening his mouth and getting the boot fame.

A book.

This is collated from the best evidence we have for the relative harm from drugs

What's the scale?

I'll pull the cable and blast it through with whatever aerosol I have with two letters and two numbers.

I'll look at alignment etc. too.

Do jockey wheels wear and affect shifting or are we talking about really worn out before they're dead?

Cassette etc. seems fairly good – whole drivetrain is of the same age, so it's not been through 2 chains yet, if you see what I mean.

I'm able to set up a rear mech (which is why I know there's something mechanical wrong, rather than just setup), and normally I'd start with new cables (full length outer, so lubing is as more work than putting new ones on), but I'm being a bit cautious as I don't want to buy bits I don't actually need.

I think the round up was in MBUK

I think you're right. Read far too many comics lately. I might actually have it scanned.

The P7 is pricey and not light. There's a frame roundup in a recent issue of MBR.

I'd personally go for a Bluepig or a 456. Both are a lot cheaper, and the 456 has very similar geometry to the P7.

I've found Schwalbe to be good. No idea if they're heavy or light though.

Rammel.

Something I think has been alluded to but not mentioned so far is the timescales involved in this. There's a long lead time between deciding you want Trident 2 and actually getting it, and once you've got it, you've got it for around 30 years.

but dont we have to get the americans to service trident?
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its a national shame that we make so many things for making people die in different ways and then sell them to some of the most unscrupulous users of such weapons; saudi, israel, kazahkstan, china and in the past iraq and so on

The idea that we don't want to rely on foreign nations to supply our weapons is what leads to us selling weapons to others. If we manufactured them solely for our own use, they would be hugely expensive, so the government exports kit in order to spread the development costs. The defence business is really a very strange one.

Personally, I'd be quite happy for us to buy gear from the Americans, as they do it a lot more cheaply than we manage to.

As for comparing Australia, well how illegal wars has Australia joined in with?

I'm fairly sure Australia has sent troops to Iraq or Afghanistan. Most of NATO have, but we're the only ones who've really put a lot of troops there for a long time.

A lot of firms say either company car, or your own car, but with a lot of caveats. The main one usually being that it must be less than a certain age. So you may not save much.

I'm with David Mitchell on this one. For most drugs, the best possible result of you taking them is that you don't enjoy it.

I think that in 20 years time we could well be having the same discussions about computer games – once they're truly realistic, there's no reason that they won't provide the same level of escapism that drugs can.

Slight hijack but there seems to be a trend towards parking on pavements.

In some areas there seems to be a trend towards DRIVING on pavements.

As for my arguments holding no scrutiny – wrong I am afraid and I do not change my position at all.

Sorry, but this is patently untrue.

In the thread on DC/CDM as prime minister, you first took a position that the rich wouldn't leave to avoid tax, then you went for "Let the rich leave". When it was pointed out that the top 1% contribute a great deal of the UK's income tax payments, you then decided that the rich wouldn't leave at all.

Ever seen Gozu? An actual proper Japanese film with cinema release and the lot… One of the characters is knocking around with this bird, next thing everything goes very strange and the bird gives birth to his best mate, turns out it was him all along.

You don't want to spend a penny in foreign aid but are willing to spend billions on a nuke to deter Pakistan from nuking India?

This is becoming ridiculous. I say one thing, and you somehow produce a line of best fit that lists every other opinion I may possibly hold. I'm sorry to disappoint you yet again, but I'm not against foreign aid.

Go back to browbeating people into joining unions and cribbing from the Socialist Worker. You are a thoroughly objectionable character, and your arguments don't hold up to the slightest scrutiny – there's a simple pattern of ad hominem attacks, demands for references and you regularly change your position entirely once you've been wrongfooted.

so we have a nuke to nuke Pakistan with if they nuke India?

No, the fact that we're able to nuke Pakistan deters them from nuking India.

According to the Mirror there was also a stash of child porn.

Worth it to deter who from doing what?

Pakistan, North Korea, Israel etc. from doing anything stupid, including nuking their neighbours. Pakistan is probably the biggest worry on that list as we know they've got a working system and a fair risk of their government being toppled.

But are the Americans in the control loop, or do Cameroon and Clegg really have their fingers over the "fire" button?

Well, on Monday they said the first thing that happened after the new PM has his chat with the Queen is that he's briefed on how to nuke people. So I assume so. That's not to say we wouldn't normally have a chat with NATO or the US about these things.

I've been wondering about the range also – my understanding is that Trident operates in the Atlantic/Arctic oceans. Are you suggesting that it could strike N.Korea and China?

Trident has a range of 7000 miles, the world's about 25000 miles around, so you need to have it in the right place. However, nobody knows if you have it in the right place, and if you have two out at once, you've got near global coverage.

Is our Trident submarine system actually "independent"?

Isn't it American?

Well, we're in charge of it, and of setting it off. As for where the bits come from, I'm not sure it's relevant – even the stuff that's been designed from the outset to avoid using American technology (Eurofighter, for one) tends to end up with some kit somewhere that's bought in from America, simply because there are so many parts to machines of this complexity.

What cities are the warheads targeted at nowadays and are they the right targets?

Well, that's obviously not public. I suspect that they'd operate on the same basis as the artillery do – get a target, go and do the sums, aim and fire.

Wouldn't a tactical-nuke aircraft-based system be more flexible in this post Cold War situation?

Not really. A nuclear sub has the massive advantage of your enemies not having a clue where it is, and therefore the provides no advantage to a first strike strategy. A plane, on the other hand, takes a long time to get to where it's going, has to cross a lot of people's airspace ("Hello, [insert name of president of every country between you and your target], we'd like to fly a nuke through your airspace"), provides plenty of time for a counter attack, can be shot down, and is often a suicide mission – the Vulcan certainly would have been if it were ever used.

what the internet knows about you er about?

It demonstrates how the CSS that's used to colour links you have visited differently to links you haven't visited can be exploited. By sending a large number of links to your computer, it can work out your web browsing history pretty much completely. Or at least, enough to work out that you're a dirty boy 😆

The site is a demonstration by the way – it's not actually an attack site, more a proof of concept. It also tells you how to stop the attack, which is handy information.

Visit this page and see what you think.

http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/%5B/url%5D

In my view, if someone can get you to follow a link they provide, then there is a method for an attack that would work.

Yep. Haranguing. Pack of arseholes.

Wouldn't want one for DIY use myself, having used a Timberwolf.

I'm astonished to see that I seem to have out lefted TJ on regressive tax in the UK.

More tax inspectors with more powers and punative action on avoidence.

On the other hand, a simple tax code (the standard text on tax has doubled in size over the last 10 years or so), would allow us to inspect more thoroughly with the same number of inspectors, and reduce money used to pay for tax avoidance, which is a rather unproductive industry.

Can you please explain to me how I have not paid my fair share because as far as I can tell I paid more than my fair share?

The argument as I understand it is that people on low income spend a greater proportion of their income on VAT chargeable goods and other taxes (Road Fund Licence, Fuel Duty, VAT on heating etc.). Not to mention booze and fags, which are generally consumed most by the working and upper classes, but less by the middle classes.

Which means that they actually end up handing over a greater proportion of their wages to the treasury than a higher rate taxpayer.

Are they just standard cassette hubs with singlespeed convertors then?

Tron – thats why we should be putting a lot of effort in to fighting tax avaoidence – they will try to minimise tax yeas – of course – but leave – no.

Have a read about the Swedish wealth tax and its abolition in 2007.

However what the Trons of this world singularly fail to understand is that those people rarely, and only if stupid pay that tax. There are a 1001 ways to avoid it.

I've spent quite a bit of time in this thread explaining that the rich seek to avoid tax, and so the best way to collect is to not charge them horrendous rates, and use a simple tax code to remove loopholes.

The rest of the staff could be in Frankfurt or another european finance centre and work quite happily to the same hours as people working on GMT in London.

I hear Basel is pretty popular.

There is no evidence this has ever happened or would happen

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Surely the number of people who go to the effort of non-dom status, umbrella companies, and any other number of complicated tax avoidance schemes are evidence? Or what about the big tax incentives offered to attract investment?

As I pointed out – the top 1% pay 24% of the income tax. You only need to have a few leave / take up tax avoidance, or convince a few more to pay / take up residency here, to make a relatively large impact on total receipts.

I couldn't give a monkeys about the tax rate, so long as it's not regressive. The important thing is maximising the total tax take, not some ideological grab at the rich.

Tron how many bankers left when we taxed their bonuses this year and did we get less money for it than if we had not done it?

I'm told that a good number of bankers were signed up for the golden handcuff treatment before the 50% tax rate came in, and were paid several years wages in advance. They're determined not to pay it.

I'm sorry, but TJ and Junkyard, you just do not understand business or economics in any kind of depth. The top 1% of people who pay income tax contribute 24% of the total income tax receipts! And a great deal of the world's jobs can be done in almost any country in the world.

Take an investment bank as an example (finance as a whole contributes around 9% of the UK's GDP):

Even if businesses within the sector prefer to work within an enclave, in order to benefit from knowledge transfer and so on, there are a number financial centres around the world.

There are some geographically specific parts to the industry – specifically, high speed trading platforms (which buy and sell in intervals of milliseconds) require that your servers are closed as close as possible to the market, and preferably co-located. But that is about it.

All a hypothetical investment bank has to do in order to remain competitive is to ensure that they have some machines located in the UK, and perhaps an office to meet regulatory requirements.

The rest of the staff could be in Frankfurt or another european finance centre and work quite happily to the same hours as people working on GMT in London.

The end result is this:

The UK gets the revenue from the rent of the few locations the firm has in the UK.
If the firm is listed in the UK, then HMG will get corporation tax, and the CGT paid by the firm's customers.
The firms' staff, who are earning a lot of money (I would suspect are almost entirely in the top 50% of earners – more than £25k or so), aren't spending any of it in the UK.
All of the firm's staff can be paid under the rules of whatever jurisdiction they're in. So no income tax.

When you are talking about people who are earning wages in the hundreds of thousands range, then the UK is missing out on a lot of receipts. The firm is in effect exporting financial products to the UK. If they're within the EU, there's no way we can place tariffs on that.

You simply cannot say "We will bleed the rich white" because they will not stand for it, and we cannot afford to have them leave!

You can switch to solid flywheel, but you lose some refinement and there's a question of where the forces (big torque spikes) the DMF was soaking up are now going.

IIRC a solid flywheel is about £70, plus a clutch kit – £70? then labour – on the old Mondeos you had to drop the subframe to do the clutch, then realign it. Made it about a £500 job.

Be ready to grab. Terminology comes from driving where you'd "cover" the pedal with your foot.

They all seem to publish angles in their reviews.

No other area where we have avoiders we argue we change the law so they don’t have to avoid their responsibilities do we?

Because, as I pointed out, we cannot stop somebody leaving the country, which is the last resort for someone who wants to reduce their tax bill.