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Good point actually. If you were to cut someones brake lines, Im fairly certain you could make a charge of attempted murder or similar stick. Interfering with such a critical component could be construed as being done with the intention of causing death or serious injury to the driver. Try pointing that out to the police and then suggesting if they dont take action you will be making formal complaints and writing to the IPC that they are refusing to take action on such a serious matter. Just thinking of all options really

In that case set up a discrete wired camera and light thats forward facing from your hedge/wall/driveway etc - so when he does the walk in backwards trick, you get a nice clear view of his face.

I think its best to hope that the dog was already dead when thrown from the car, perhaps the people in the landrover had already run it over earlier and decided in whatever wisdom that rather than report it, they could get away with making it look like someone else killed it. Hope the damage is not too bad, and also hope the culprits are caught. Shouldnt be too difficult with the specs cameras around that stretch and any description from other motorists. They should have the book thrown at them. Regardless of the fact it was an animal, it was a huge object thrown into motorway traffic. Manslaughter waiting to happen!

Ha, the giving pledge. If the governments around the world actually spent money as if it were their own, and ensured they got value for it, there wouldnt be any need for such ideas. It was a Union flag flying by the way (its only a Jack at sea I believe, though Im sure Martin will correct me) - it had been left up from Royal wedding day. We didnt do a full top to toe detail on the cars, more just a bit of a spit and polish and the chance to get some decent photos of each. Although it wasnt paid work and more just a couple of mates washing cars, detailing world decided that it could be construed as advertising for Mat, so removed the threads. Oh well. I got another coat of supernatural on and then red misted the following morning. It did look pretty damned good then, but I didnt get any photos. You will be pleased to know that both cars have been driven a bit since, so they are nice and dirty again now

Im actually starting to question this story that fraudulent claims are causing the rise. Why would a company pay out on a claim they know to be fraudulent... Also - with the fine being £200 then there is hardly a deterent. £200 fine plus car confiscated, and £100 to get it back = £300 down and six points. Of course the points mean naff all if you arent going to bother insuring the car anyway... I can see why there is an increase to be honest - but the insurance companies only have themselves to blame for having ridiculously high prices in the first place. If all these uninsured drivers, fraudulent claims and injury claims add only £120 to car insurance prices, why are they going up by several hundred?.... Its all a load of BS and the insurance companies are in on it.

Just try and get hold of a copy of the jolly rogers cookbook. You'll want to make sure your antivirus is up to date before going looking for it as it will only be found on dodgy sites - but there will be plenty of ideas on how to get your own back in there buddy Tennis ball grenades, home made thermite, floppy disk fire starters, blah blah blah..... all sorts of incredibly dangerous and pottentially revenge worthy stuff

The funniest I can remember in the Zed was at the lakes meet a couple of years ago. I was approaching a mini roundabout when a recovery truck driver two cars back decided not to stop in time and he shoved the car behind me into my rear bumper. The lady in the 106 behind was actually injured quite a bit and needed a neck brace fitted by the ambulance crew. While she was sitting in the car being attended to, she said to Tracy "I was just thinking how nice your car looked when I got pushed into it" Of all the things to say. Like most Ive been asked "what is it" or had it confused for something else too.

Indeed - thats why I really hope the Jaguar makes it in under the 100g/km. In fact the sooner all supercars and cars in general can reach todays level of performance and practicality while pumping out almost fresh air, the better. It may then force the governement at the time to look at a much fairer way of charging based on usage or wear and tear on the roads etc. Though how we will ever get a system like that without a whole network of "big brother watching you" roads, I dont know. Perhaps its better the stick in the throat of paying over the odds for minimal usage in a supercar than to have your movements monitored and the ability to press the loud pedal every now and then without being spotted by the eye in the sky... Anyway back to topic - a target of production for this car in 2013 is pretty ambitious. I know they've said the jet engined variety will be late in the production cycle, but still, developing a whole new turbine engine and coupling this to a cars drivetrain and making the whole thing work in 24 months is some goal.

Its not the cost of the road tax that would bother them, but more the principal behind it. Ive said it before and probably sound like a stuck record on it, but a system that uses emissions as its basis for deciding the charge should take into account the usage of the vehicle if its to be fair. The key is the KM part of the g/km figure they use (or dont as the case may be). Ive just had the MOT on the zed and its done about 1000 miles since last time. That equates to 437Kg of CO2. The Altea has done about 8000 miles which equates to about 2.1 metric tons of CO2, almost five times as much, but the Z costs £70 more in road tax. And Im one of the "lucky" ones whos Z is registered prior to 1st March 06, otherwise it would be £270 more, almost 2.5 times as much.

The concept of a Jet car sounds fantastic, but I wonder if Jaguar will learn from previous lessons of the XJ220. That was originally billed as a 6.2L V12, 4WD, 220mph, £360k car. What customers were presented with was a RWD, £400k+, sub 220mph car with a 3.5L V6 lifted mainly from a metro 6R4. So its certainly bold to start spouting figures of £700k for a jet powered veyron beater The performance figures however seem to be lower than the upcoming MP12-4C and for four times the price. The emissions are lower though - so at least the taxman wont be able to extract the urine on VED. For that reason, its brilliant! I really hope they get the emissions below the 100g/km figure - that would be just laughable! You could get away with driving a supercar and paying Zero road tax and avoid the London Congestion Charge :lol: Brilliant!

Ha - I just got mine through for the 2004 100bhp transit van that we have between myself and my brother for all the crappy jobs. Its probably done all of 400 miles this year. £860. Thats up from 500 last year. The things probably only worth £1500 at best! What a complete and utter joke.

Seven dwarfs and snow white all sat in a hot tub feeling happy. So happy got out, and they all felt grumpy instead. Im here all week.

[attachment=0]Screen shot 2011-05-05 at 14.43.16.jpg[/attachment] 64 posts per day is about 1/10th the rate we are running at here at the moment. Our stats going back since the start of the forum show an average of 363 posts per day, the volume today is quite considerably more than that average.

But kunena generates about 10x the sql queries of phpbb3 from what Ive seen. And we are already running phpbb3 Also in order to generate the things like the calendar etc, you need to integrate into joomla, which to be fair looks crap if Im honest. IPB or Vbulletin are quite professional with most all features already in them, or bolt on extras. Thats where the difference from phpbb comes in as the bolt ons are written specifically by the team that develop the main software, so there are no issues when adding them on - and if there are, their support team fix it. figuring out why our phpbb3 installation is not running as well as it should is the best course of action for now.

Its my understanding the kunena has less features than phpbb or IPB, at least out of the box anyway. There is a distinct lack of "skins", and is it not just a rework/rename of fireboard? While kunena may be a good fit if wanting to have the forums set within a website and integrate it into joomla, thats not the purpose of this forum setup. As before, if other installations of phpbb3 can handle ten times the volume of traffic we have, then I dont think the software is the problem. Its the configuration of it or the hardware its installed on imho.

Indeed phpbb3 was released in 2007. The latest update however was to 3.0.8 in November 2010, so about 6 months ago. The fact its been built up and supported since 2001 would suggest to me it has a proven track record, and there is a large enough community around the likes of phpbb to obtain information from when things go wrong. Kunena is relatively new, so the support is still fairly much lagging behind the likes of others. It also still uses MySQL, so I cant see considerable improvements being made in that area. While it works perfectly well when integrated into the likes of Joomla, the porting over of data from a phpbb installation to kunena appears to be a bit cumbersome to say the least. If a software move were made, it would probably be to the likes of IPB, and although this costs in terms of the license etc, the continued support available from the company for the installation is also useful. phpbb forum itself has at the time of writing over 1100 members online, including many bots, and is working just fine - so it would suggest the software is more than capable, we just have to look at resources and configuration to find our issues in the first instance.

Thanks for the tip! I shall give that a try too Im not looking forward to renewal premiums this year, they have become a joke over recent times. It makes me laugh how we are forced to have insurance by LAW but can only buy it from private companies whose profit levels the government has no control over. I'd bet there are many industries that would like the government to pass law stating that the public must use them. As an analogy, if it was LAW that every car owner in the UK had to register with an owners club for that model - how many free owners clubs would exist?

Simple answer is NO, because the systems is very old, outdated and uses extremely complicated long SQL queries that slow down the website at peak times as it happened yesterday in the evening again. Most likely the hosting is a big issue as well... The website however is not dropping out at peak times. Most users online normally occurs in the morning. Indeed the record of 140+ was set at 9.06, and the site runs perfectly fine at that time. There are other factors at play other than the software, which is fairly up to date. The resources according to the server stats are not be stretched to the limits during the times of outages either, as access to the control panel of the server etc is still available, so at the moment it is looking likely that bots (those which are not detected as bots) are causing issues, as unknown bots are not picked up and subject to the same restraints as known ones. This is being investigated.

correct. If there is the requirement to move/upgrade, we need to be concious to keep the feel and ease of use the same, and ensure any changes are positive additions instead of possible clutter that would not be used and detract from the elements that are used.

Octet, its not that the team have dismissed your offer of help, indeed all options are being discussed to fix the issues we have. We are aware that the problems can be off putting for members, but so is a complete change of the site layout and feel for users. Sometimes this is even more of a "put off" than the site being down for brief periods every now and then. While other buletin board systems are much more efficient than phpbb, they would have to have an element of customisation to keep the look and feel of this site as close to this as possible. While porting over to ipb or Vbulletin is a relatively easy process - it would instantly look considerably different to the site as it is now, which we know from experience alienates users in their hundreds. There is also the issue of trust, (and I dont mean this to sound disrespectful), but the administrators or keepers of the forum software/database at present have been known to each other here for in some cases many years. So while we really do appreciate members offers of help on any matters from meets to the forum itself, when it comes to the software/site we do have to exercise quite a bit of caution. For example we arent just going to hand over root access to our current server to someone we haven't met. I hope you can understand. There are possibly ways round this of course by providing copies of the database but we need to establish how this would be done because of course conatined within that database are the passwords/PM's/email addresses etc for every user on the board. So while we havent completely dismissed your offer of help, and actually appreciate it very much, we do need to think as a team how we can best resolve these problems and we may at some point be asking for advice or help, just not at this moment. Though if you do have any suggestions that we can implement ourselves, please feel free to PM one of the team as any advice/help is very much appreciated from any member. Can you provide the links to the other communities sites you have built?

No, thats nothing like the same thing. What the insurers are doing with renewals is just like any other business, if customers are too lazy to shop around, then why not exploit that? Its not like they are forcing you to renew at the automatic prices they churn out. You should see it in the energy sector, some companies automatic renewal prices are more than double the going rate. Ive seen companies go to the wall because of the prices of automatic renewals. Also, you need to provide termination notice on commercial energy contracts to avoid the rollover, if you dont give the supplier the appropriate notice (and some can require as much as 5 months, or have a window as tight as 2 weeks), then tough - you get the rollover prices for the next 12 months at least, and sometimes 24. Oh and in some cases they have no obligation to let you know when its time to give notice - its up to you to remember. Compared to that, the renewal process of car insurance seems pretty reasonable.

We have laws against racial/religious profiling, but it seems county/area profiling is acceptable. As for automatic renewal prices being over the odds, its the same in just about every industry. If the customer just sits back and lets it happen, then the companies are going to take advantage of the lazy.

Nope - the sharp dip to 16p was a shake, but the ask never went below 19p on that same day. I think its just reaction to the ludicrous option price that the brokers set for the placement when they bought 100% of TT. The Texas news was burried in the same RNS, so its just hovering around the placement price waiting for more news. In oz it actually shifted up over 3% yesterday, yet here seems stagnant or down slightly. Wait until that drill starts turning in June and watch people pile in. Also, burried within an RMP news post was the fact they are aquiring 20% stake in Strait, which includes 20% of the take in georgia. Not bad when you consider the market cap is some 10 times lower than Ranges. Still quite risky though as without TT and Georgia, they dont have much underpinning them. EDIT - also some reporting hasnt been very clever. One institution continually confuses Range Resources in the US with the Oz one, and also one article stated Range Resources fairly flat results for the quarter. Completely ignoring the 500% increase in Texas. Mind you, its a decent opportunity to top up or shift profits from other shares into RRL before some of these institutions realise their mistakes

It would take an incredibly stupid person to claim the killing of Osama if it were not real. If he appeared on tv now brandishing a copy of todays newspaper, then Obama would be shot, nevermind Osama. For this reason, then it cannot be anything but real.

Im going to top up as and when I can under 20p if possible to average down those that I bought for 23 yesterday. Given the buys going through, and the Texas and Trinidad update, I cant for the life of me figure out why the price is reacting as if the placing was solely dilution for cash I will laugh my arse off if those selling at 19.5p get to read about Georgia spudding tomorrow...