Soop Dogg

It's known as 'Cash for Clunkers'. The whole point is to get RID of older cars and replace them with newer ones. It's got nothing to do with arrogance! The law says they have to be destroyed, so they're doing their job. Take a look around youtube using the search term 'cash for clunkers' - there's probably hundreds of similar vids.

It's part of the American equivalent of the car scrappage scheme. Once a car has been given over to the scheme, it has to be put beyond use. Usually they put some water into the oil, drain the coolant from the radiator and then do this until it siezes. My mechanical sympathy gland goes into overdrive whan I watch these!

I recently bought the HTC Hero. So far so good - impressive array of apps now and I haven't had to pay a penny for any of them. Would have liked to have a flash on the camera, but it's not that much of a worry. (Might feel differently about that once the clocks go back later this month) It has a pretty good video camera too. Has a built in PDF reader, plays adobe flash and can read (but not edit) MSOffice docs. (word, excel, powerpoint) Fully integrating with Facebook has actually meant I know what my nieces & nephews are up to these days! (And other family abroad etc) I haven't ever used twitter or flickr, but the phone can link to those too. It seems to me to be the phone equivalent of having a PC with Linux on it as it seems to be very 'tweakable' if you're willing to dive in and have a go. So far, so pleased.

Downloaded the HD version of the intro the other day on the PS3 via GT5 prologue - great video! (Sorry - don't have a PSP)

Didn't Eddie Irvine drive one of these too? Possibly in the same era as HH? (I seem to remember a photoshoot of them taking place in front of the cars sometime around 1990ish.)

No good for modified vehicles. From their website:

Beatles - double A-side, Daytripper/We Can Work it Out God this makes me feel old! There are lots of songs being mentioned here that remind me of times when I was well into my teens!.

I only drive my 'Fun' car at weekends. I bought a Saab 93 diesel for work. My work commute amounts to only about 14 miles a day. I filled up on 10th August and I don't expect to fill it up again until October!! (Which means when I drive the 'vette, I can afford to DRIVE the 'vette!! ) If only I'd thought of that when I had the Supe!

The Millau viaduct is spectacular indeed! We're off later this month to France in the 'vette. We're travelling down to Italy to do the Stelvio Pass, then back home through Switzerland/Germany (maybe a 'ring visit) and back home after 2 weeks of finding the best roads we can! Can't wait. Millau at midnight:

I remember back in the 80's the IRA put a 500lb bomb in a culvert under a road (fairly common back then) and detonated it when a Police patrol passed by in one of the old Hotspur Land Rovers. (The grey armoured ones) It basically threw it over a hedge where it landed on it's roof. On-one was badly hurt. Less than a week later another was put under another road, but this time they filled the culvert to it's roof with well over 1000lb of explosives. When that one went off, the land rover just disappeared. It left a 15ft deep, 26ft wide crater in the road. The bodies were recovered in many small pieces. As I remember, the spare tyre from the roof was thrown hundreds of yards back along the road and injured some colleagues in another Land Rover despite it also being armour plated. Mind boggling power released in the blink of an eye.

You can specify permissions on a folder. It might have a check in the box to 'Allow inheritable permissions' at the moment. If the parent folder to the folder in question doesn't allow access, then this one will inherit that attribute. Try unticking that box for the properties of this folder and then adding 'Everyone' to the list of users and grant them 'Read' access. Might work....

Duplicity.

Also, just out of interest, how hot did the engine get? Nothing to do with your code 55, but these engines normally never get 'too' hot unless something is wrong somewhere.

You scored: 17/20 You are the king of petrol-heads, the Rolls-Royce Phantom of cars and almost fit to join the holy trinity of Hammond, Clarkson and May. Missed out on the greatest driving song ever, the car NOT awarded the best car of the year and the comic relief special.

I don't think they'll get away with asking more than about 60k for a new 'vette. I'd expect it to be between 50 and 55k though. Add another 10k for whatever the Z06 equivalent will be and heaven knows how much if they build something equivalent to the ZR-1. If the next generation evolves the way the C6 did, expect the 'normal' C7 to be where todays Z06 is (505bhp) and the C7 Z06 to be substantially more than that.

I haven't looked at GT in ages! (Which is not like me.) When's it out?

I'm on 10Meg with Virgin. It's actually looking pretty good!

Hopefully they'll take a lot of the styling cues from this concept. It'd be a shame to waste it. Money will make the decisions I guess.

for the next generation Corvette! Only got 3 years to get the cash together... CLICK And yes, I know it was in Transformers!

Which ABS sensor is that then? I don't recall that one. *edit* sorry - I was looking at that pic all wrong. I see where it is now. DOH!

Total waste of time IMHO. He spent years running from Justice - so what if he 'couldn't lay his hat for more than 5 mins' or had to spend years keeping 'an eye over his shoulder'? He volunteered for that lifestyle - nobody forced him to go to S. America. If he'd styed in the UK and faced the music at the time, he'd have been able to enjoy his old age. As they say - if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. But Biggs didn't have the balls to stick around and take what was coming to him. As it is, he waited until he was getting old and infirm before coming back to the UK where we have a nice national health service to look after him. No doubt he thought that coming back at that age would mean he wouldn't do much time inside if any at all. And now my route to work is full of news teams making me late in the morning as I work right next door to the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital!

And you seriously believe that promoting Irish produce got the whole economy out of a recession, do you? No - the Irish economy was helped in a much bigger way by joining Europe. They got masses of European money for development of their infrastructure and for grants etc for business start-ups. Promoting their products abroad probably brought in at least as much cash as the guaranteed Irish scheme did at home. (Guiness, anyone?) Could this be why our govt. is screwing our economy so hard - so that eventually we'll have to go into Europe just to survive! Oh yes, while we're talking about the virtues of the various British regions, don't forget Northern Ireland. It's nice there too!

That would've taken him by surprise if he'd got into your van only to find a copper in the back.