HarryWeezer

Good luck with that. We're the same age, but my "friend" George, appears to have retired, and to be living on a pension of occasional glimpses of Girls of XI tits.

No doubt, you and SOB are more full of shit than most other Idiots combined. Congrats.

(Waiting to hear, because I have the same issue)

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I don't think so. We should be able to discuss issues without them turning purely political. Sadly, some asshole will most certainly get on this thread - or any other where the opportunity exists - and turn it political.

When I was working night shifts at this time of the year and my shift was shortened by the clock change, I had the choice of working an "extra" hour or taking the lost hour off as time-off. I don't think what Harry says is strictly true, these days, in respect of digital devices as most change their own clocks. If one has an analogue clock on the wall, that's different of course. I tend to keep a couple of clocks/watches on BST even through the winter and call them my CET clocks! The major concern about messing with the system here (there's been a suggestion we should adopt CET like mainland Western Europe) is child safety as it is not a good idea for kids to travel to school in the dark. Re. "I don't think what Harry says is strictly true, these days, in respect of digital devices as most change their own clocks," yesterday, we had to reset the time of the following digital displays: stove, two coffeepots, two microwaves, two alarm clocks and one car clock, as well as on three "analog" clocks in the house and one in another car, plus two watches. The only things that reset the time on their own were various computers, and our "atomic" weather station clock.

Editorial I wrote on this subject: The semi-annual assault on our sleep cycle when we are forced to move our clocks ahead an hour to "save daylight" has been underway for better than a century and was just as inconvenient then, and it is now. We are told that the point of daylight savings time is to save energy. But it doesn't. What it does is kill people. The American Journal of Cardiology reported last year that heart attacks increase by 10 percent on Monday and Tuesday following the shift to daylight savings time, and not all of those victims survive. Traffic accidents increase eight percent on the Monday following the changeover, and not all of those victims survive either. Unless you live in a glass house, you generally need to turn the lights on indoors regardless whether the sun is shining. The U.S. Department of Transportation did a study more than 30 years ago that suggested DST "might" reduce the nation's energy use one percent during March and April. But, the National Bureau of Standards took a hard look at that report and concluded there were no significant savings. In fact, in some countries, the opposite occurred - Australia found that DST increased electricity consumption during hotter days. Japan looked at implementing DST six years ago but concluded doing so would increase overall energy due to the need for extra cooling - air conditioners consume more energy that lights. The sooner it gets dark, the sooner it starts cooling off. A 2007 study found DST had little to no effect on consumption of electricity; a 2008 study in Indiana that examined billing data before, and after it adopted DST in 2006, and found that energy consumption increased 1-4 percent due to extra afternoon cooling and extra morning heating. So much for energy savings. So what else do proponents of DST offer? Well, it's good for health because it promotes outdoor leisure activity in the evening, they say. But what does interrupting your sleep cycle twice a year do for your health? Certainly, it's not beneficial, never mind the social disruption of having to reset clocks twice a year. In the digital age, we have many devices that must be manually changed in our homes and the work environment. Collectively, that's a lot of wasted time. We often hear farmers like DST but there are not that many farmers anymore and truth be told, they never supported the concept. Farmers operate on sunlight, regardless what the clock says. How about public safety? A 1975 U.S. Department of Transportation study estimated that because of DST, traffic fatalities drop 1.5 to 2 percent. However, a later review of that study found no difference in traffic fatalities. And a more recent study found traffic accidents increase because drivers are not rested, In the 1970s, a study claimed a reduction of 10 to 13 percent in crime in Washington, D.C. But an examination of that study found crime reductions in only one category and decided it was impossible to conclude with any confidence that DST reduced crime. So why do we keep doing it? Why do we increase sunlight exposure which can lead to skin cancer, and disrupt sleep and reduce efficiency for weeks trying to readjust to DST? Isn't it well past time to either do away with daylight savings time, or, move the clocks ahead an hour and keep them there? In the latter respect, Russia is ahead of us - it already has done so.

Congrats Edd and thanks for all you do for XI

A triple slut - congrats!!!

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Welcome to XI. I have sent you an invite to join the clan Xfire group.

As of 11:26, there are seven players in MW and HLSW shows no problems with it. But I cannot connect to that or DM - keep timing out.

This is not good. I suffer OCD and have a need to kill. I rely on those servers to kill virtually, lest I go postal.

Well, there is that...

I use a Panther XL, a converted analog trackball/joystick device that came out in the very early days of FPS. A group of users got together and formed a clan called A3D (assassin3d) - I was one of them. As technology advanced, the clan broke up but the users kept in touch and the clan leader, Steveo, began modifying the device from analog to digital, first by replacing the trackball base with an upside down mouse to make it USB, later by using it in combination with keyboard emulation software, and finally by having a circuit board designed and placed in the device that converts it to full USB with keyboard emulation built in, so that it supports any game, regardless whether that game supports trackball or joystick. You can buy these directly from Steveo but they're not cheap: around $200. But for guys like me with a touch of arthritis, it keeps us in the game. No way could I play with just a mouse anymore. Here's what it looks like, and where to get more info on it: http://assassin3d.squarespace.com/

Looks like YouTube's latest efforts to prevent embedding. YouTube does this because it goes to great expense hosting videos for free, and makes its money by people going to its web site and viewing advertising there. But allowing embedding promotes YouTube, and drives traffic back to its site. It ought to encourage embedding, not try to stop it.

Get a lawyer

An equal partner - a woman who gives as I give, who receives as I receive, where the focus of each is to completely satisfy the other, that the other' s needs are more important than your own.

The hot dog thing began when the kids were small. When the kids come over for spaghetti, they still go fishing for the hot dogs - cut these into about quarter-inch slices. Thing about spaghetti sauce is that anything goes good in it; if you've some cooked chicken, pork chops, whatever, in the fridge, throw that stuff in too - great way to get rid of the leftovers. As to the ingredients, think I left out a few dashes of hot pepper - not too much.

Okay, not much hair on my head but hey, I've still got my beard. And every now and then I am graced with a stiffie, as SOB would call it (at which times the wife usually has a headache.)

The young cashier suggested to the elderly shopper to bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. "We didn't have this green thing back in my day," the shopper responded. The clerk answered: "Yah, That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to protect the environment for future generations." No, we didn't have the "green thing." Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store, which sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and reused. Groceries were bagged in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things including the household garbage and as covers for our schoolbooks so that we could write on those, rather than public property. We walked up stairs because we didn't have escalators or elevators; we walked to the grocery store rather than climb into a car to go only a few blocks. We washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have disposables, and dried them and all our clothes on a line in the back yard, rather than in an energy-gobbling dryer running on 220 volts - kids got hand-me-down clothes. We had one radio - later one TV in the house rather than one in every room and the TV had a small screen, not one the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred and ground by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do all that. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail we old newspapers, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. We didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the blades in a razor instead of throwing the whole thing away. We road bikes everywhere rather than have mom take us in the car. We had one electrical outlet per room, not a bank of sockets to power all manner of things. No, we didn't have the green thing back then - sorry about that.

Congrats!! But November is not the ideal month to be driving over the Rockies.

I don't know but last time I was over at his place, I noticed he keeps one in his bedroom. I saw it when I tripped over those tall boots at the bedroom door.

Welcome to the admin team! Be sure to let everyone know on BF3 server that they must salute you before they shoot you.