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lol - fair play, mate. It does look good.

'scuse my ignorance, but isn't the top panel the most worthwhile bit to get done? Surely that's the panel that generates the most reflection?

I think I see what you did wrong there! To be honest, I'm not sure it matters, anyway, as a 1080p TV will be de-interlacing a 1080i signal to display a 1080 pixel image anyway. Just means you're getting 25fps rather than 50fps. That's my understanding, anyway.

Well - it's true - if we're at risk of actual depressive deflation then dropping the rate is not only reasonable safe, but actually might stop entire industrys (shipping, I'm looking at YOU!) going under. Problem is that when the currency drops (and it will, and probably should!), if it goes too far too fast, inflation could suddenly leap, rapidly spiralling out of control. According to your "Location" (Macedonia) - you should be aware of the risks of this. Hasn't Macedonia had double-figures inflation for most of this year?

Depends on your mortgage, of course. A&L tracker mortgages from 2+ years ago are all base rate-driven, so they will drop (hurray me!). But the A&L SVR mortgages are unlikely to change any time soon. If you had a drop last time, then I think you must be on a tracker like me, because A&L didn't drop their SVR (hurray you!). Suggest you put the extra cash aside (silver or Yen are probably good choices at the moment!) ready for when the resulting inflation kicks in!

1080p needs twice the bandwidth of 1080i. It will be a long, long time before we see 1080p on satellite or terestrial broadcast television IMO.

I am convinced that they actually just put poorer quality blades into the "older" razors these days. I bet a disposable razor back when they came out was as good as a Allthewayto-11-mega-deluxe-20-blade-vibrating-or-your-money-back razor is now. They just make new productions of the older ones worse to get you to buy the more expensive ones instead.

Unfortunately, general mortgage rate cuts will still be a long way off. They are driven by the LIBOR rates rather than the BoE rate. Normally the two are pretty close together, but because there is still a lack of trust between lending institutes, the LIBOR rate is now over 2.5% above the BoE rate. The drop in the BoE rate SHOULD drive the LIBOR rate down, but not yet..... only then will general mortgage rates drop.

6.5k? For an auto TT? You might have gotten that money, say, 3.5 years ago......

Hovis?

LOL Tsk - what is it with all these chavs signing up in the last few years, eh?

Probably the best way to look at it. I haven't studied economics for a few years now, but (I'm afriad to tell you) even the best economists really have no idea how big the impending recession will be, and therefore what is really the best thing to do with the BoE rate. Even if my over-the-top apocalyptic predictions are reasonable accurate, only a small minority of people really suffer seriously - and I seriously doubt that minority includes anyone who would be frequenting a performance car enthusiats forum!

I take it all back. All those politicians and bankers have never proved themselves anything except 100% trustworthy!

Why is it unmaintainable? Because you can't pay your mortgage? I'm sorry about that, mate - really I am - I guess you'll be downsizing. But some people are going to suffer because of all this - we've all had it good for the last 20 years and now it's over...... Edit: (in response to your edit ): Yep. There's going to pain and it's going to be really messy. But don't think that happily propping up stupidly high house prices stops it happening - it just delays it. I'm not worried about "propping up the economy" - there's much more important things than money that are at risk in the long term.

Well, mine IS going down. My A&L mortgage is contractually tied to BoE base rate, so I will be saving. However, I'm still strongly of the opinion that dropping the interest rate like this is absolutely the worst thing for the country. It will stave off depression for another couple of years, but then we'll just be looking at an even worse crash. And in the meantime, house prices will be staying at unsupportable levels and inflation will be going through the roof. It's a pretty insane decision if you ask me. Don't be surprised if hyperinflation happens within just a few years - the Pound will be going the same way as the Zimbabwean Dollar and then we're all completely screwed. The cynic in me suggests that senior banking officials, the rich people of the world, govenrment bodies etc. are all for just dropping rates to prop up the economy for a couple of years - just long enough for them to get their personal investments out, and then they'll p*ss off to various islands in the sun and leave the whole lot to come crashing down. AND ANOTHER THING! Japan's spent the last 20 years suffering as a result of trying to buy their way out of a depression and they at least are a country that's a net creditor nation! As a country we ARE going to suffer by going down this route - as a net debtor nation it's going to be 10 times worse than Japan had it. The only way out is to take the pain ASAP. Put up rates. Cut state handouts. People will end up homeless, starving on the streets. Yes. I'm afraid so. But it's going to get exponentially worse the longer we leave it!

Tyres that came free with some alloys?

Usually if no-one will quote, it's because they're just bashing your details into the system and "computer says no", then they try and guess which one of your details was the cause. If you ask one of the Sky guys here to have a closer look, I'm sure they'll tell you exactly what parameters are causing the problems if they can.

My Supra was my first >200bhp RWD car. It was my only car, and I used it as a daily driver all through winter rain and even snow only a couple of months after I bought it, on pretty worn Pirelli P-Zeros with absolutely no problems. If you are having problems in wet then there is something wrong with either your car or your right foot.

You think? It looks to me like that was the perfect result for the FIA: - "possibly the most exciting finish to a season ever" - that'll have all the punters lined up to watch it next year, and all the advertising money to match. - Hamilton, whilst not popular in the pit lane, is a global crowd favourite. FIA couldn't afford the backlash if they were perceived to have handed the title to Massa. - Ferrari still win the constructor's championship - they won't be too disgruntled at the FIA; certainly nothing a few favours in the rule changes bank for next season won't fix. If the end of that race was fixed (I'm still jury out on it), then it was the FIA throwing cash at Toyota that did it, IMO.

Hehe - guilty as charged! As per sig, I'm already driving a chauffeur-mobile, unfortunately.

If I had 15k to spend, I'd be seriously considering this 450hp bad boy!

I played the first one on X-Box, but having played lots of Morrowind before it, found it frustratingly linear and restrictive. It also ended before you felt like you'd actually gone anywhere.

Bit of a longshot, but does she have any product management experience or interest? How about travel domain knowledge?

This forum is built using an off-the-shelf forum product called vBulletin. You get a company like GlobalGold to provide it - they provide hosting and the vBulletin installation itself for a monthly fee - anything from £10 to £100 a month depending on how busy the site is going to be (that's what the mkivsupra.net memberships pay for). Alternatively, you could find hosting somewhere independent and then buy and install vBulletin (£100 one-off fee) yourself. Then you need someone to configure it, install extension modules, etc. and then look after it going forwards. Probably quite a few days work (having never done that sort of thing I'd guess a couple of weeks?) to get it all sorted and working, I guess. And then on-going work is probably quite a few hours per month (probably at least a couple of days' worth of effort added up).