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OddJob, I am delighted for you. No this isn't dial-up but ADSL and, due to the fact that I live in a small hamlet in the countryside, there's a 3.4km-long cable connecting this place to the telephone exchange along which the data flows, hence the slower speeds. LaBob, the problem is not the speed of the game or the time it takes to download DLC but that the game is broken and always has been. I don't intend to expend any time on trying to get this fixed in the very near future as I have stuff to which I have to attend. So, Hammer, you are safe from M320 HE hits for the time being!

As some of you will be aware, I have been struggling with this game for a year and problems have accelerated in recent months as "fixes" have been released by EA/DICE. I am grateful for the many suggestions by admins and others as to how I could tackle the deteriorating situation with game disconnection. However, the reality is that by updating components like Punkbuster and repairing the game, it has become unplayable. I can no longer stay in the game long enough to collect any points I earn. So, I have come to the conclusion that, at my age, time is a commodity I cannot waste and I intend to uninstall the game completely from my system. A complete reinstallation to see if that might provide a fix is not beyond possibility but, with a 3-Meg download, we're talking a day or so uninterrupted. I am disgusted by EA/DICE's behaviour in releasing a broken game. I am having to quit both before I reached even halfway in the ranking system and before the final DLC for which I have paid has arrived. I believe my days of playing PC games are numbered. I'll see you all on the COD4 and COD5 servers. Farewell.

However... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-achieve-quantum-teleportation-breakthrough-that-could-prove-einstein-wrong-9462053.html

You can read all about Cryptowall here: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/18/whats-next-for-ransomware-cryptowall-picks-up-where-cryptolocker-left-off/

Thanks for thinking of me Damit but I've already set the first plug-in and the ESN one is unknown -not on my machine. Updated PB and repaired BF4 install - made thins worse. Game remains broken.

Apparently the booms rattled the windows of some houses directly underneath and were heard across many miles.

Sonic booms over Kent followed by a warning that the cargo plane would be shot down if it did not respond to the fighter pilot's orders... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2812950/RAF-jets-intercepting-Latvian-cargo-plane-cause-huge-sonic-boom-Kent.html

You work for Yorkshire Airlines don't you? Welcome aboard!

Welcome, Pud, and, if I can stay connected for more than a few minutes, I'll gift you a nade to celebrate!

They are certainly pastries but, without one being cut open their true nature remains unknown. The pasty has not been crimped in the traditional style and we have no clue as to their contents. The regional nature of this delicacy has been diluted by the expansion of Cornish pasty producers into the rest of England. Indeed, on the last occasion I went into a pasty shop in Tintagel to order a tray of them, I was served by a French woman! She had managed to bake some beautiful lamb and mint ones though!

@@Sonovabich Sen Perran tas sans Kernow ha stenoryon Wosa bos tedhys an sten a formyas crows wyn yn stoff-stenys du. Henwhethel a lever yth esa Sen Perran ena. (After smelting the tin formed a white cross in the black ash. Legend says Saint Piran was present.)

I'd bet the original Americans still speak their languages and take pride in them. Cornish is one of the original languages of this island - a Celtic tongue. It is ancient in a way I am afraid you could not understand Harry (it is over 300 years old! ).

If untreated, the excruciatingly painful erection would result in permanent impotence! The neurotoxin is, however, being looked at by drug companies researching erectile dysfunction. This may be of interest to men who have a reason to get an erection in the first place... (presumably not those married for 20+ years with a wife going through the menopause).

@@djMot et al, here's a link to just one of the press reports about these banana-riding pests. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/brazilian-wandering-spider-top-10-3227614

Can't stand him, personally...

Fire the cannon and bash the cymbals in time to earn points. I was crap and scored 120! http://games.usvsth3m.com/dance-dance-revolution-1812-overture-edition/

You do what you want to, mate. I have posted nothing suggesting otherwise.

You are spot on, SOB, and the law was intended to prevent publication, in newspapers or via radio or TV of anything that could prejudice a fair trial. Now we are all potential citizen journalists with access to the world via forums and YouTube, the law applies as much to us as to the paper publications. Jurors are instructed to behave in certain ways e.g. not to research cases on the Internet and, as we have seen recently, should they disobey the judge, they are imprisoned. Contempt of court, like perverting the course of justice, has always been seen as a very serious criminal offence. It has always amazed me that the press in the USA report on cases in minute detail right from the outset but the legal system is far from identical there. Courts without juries have operated during the Northern Irish "Troubles" and they were called Diplock Courts. @@codpiece We have not been able to exercise freedom of speech in this country for years. Even street preachers spreading the word of God have been arrested. Even saying some things inside private premises can be unlawful. I'm pleased to say that one public order offence has been amended so if someone merely finds what you are saying "insulting", they can't just summon a copper and have you arrested!

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Eternal rest, grant unto him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. Sincere condolences to you and all the family, Puppy.

Slightly more descriptive than than the usual message: "ERROR something went wrong"!

Is this it? http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/us-usa-washington-shooting-idUSKCN0ID25720141024