Digsy

According to teh interwebs the US Navy uses them in their Ohio class submarines as well. No one wants to "bring about the end of the world" by firing a nuke. They want to gain a strategic advantage while still being left with something to conquer after the exchange has ended. There is no can be no strategic advantage with nuclear war because of MAD. The cold war nuclear triad of ground based launchers, nuclear armed bombers and submarines ensured that no side's entire retaliatory strike capability could be wiped out in a first strike. If you wanted to keep just one of those options, submarines would be the way to go because of their length of time on station and low detect ability. Its possible that some nutball or terrorist group may eventually get hold of a nuke and use it just to make a statement, but they won't "wipe out" an entire country or opposing ideology that way. It is unlikely they would get hold of several devices, or a single large device. Also, that country or group would instantly become an international pariah - of this I am certain. The question then arises of "could the target country, or one of its allies retaliate in kind?" Very difficult to do against a terrorist group because there would literally be no one to aim it at. If someone like N.Korea dropped an egg, they could probably be taken out in a conventional war (that I am pretty sure several countries would be happy to join in) but the nuclear option would definitely be there. However, the idea of a "limited nuclear war" between nation-states isn't something I really believe in. I think it would quickly escalate, so you have MAD again. So you are saying if someone else manages to get a first strike in, as we will be wiped out anyway its pointless retaliating? How do you think a possible enemy's war planners would look upon that kind of strategy? I don't really like nuclear weapons and it is very possible that global warfare is moving into a realm where they are becoming less and less relevant. It could very well be that conventional warfare is becoming less relevant, let alone nukes. But remember the one and only time nuclear weapons have been deployed was when there was absolutely no chance of retaliation on the same scale, ever since then they have kept a sometimes uneasy but lasting peace between the major global powers.

I wonder if people who believe in homeopathic remedies are terrified by this prospect of heavily diluted poisons in their tap water?

Just to restore your faith in feats of aeronautics, this one is real. https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wing/

By the end of the series I had actually got into it and warmed to all the presenters, with the possible exception of Eddie (who only seemed to be there for occaisional comic relief) and Sabine, who IMHO wasn't being "used" correctly, for want of a better term. I think she would have been better as a co-reviewer / presenter rather than occaisional sidekick working to a script. The "star in a rally cross car" segment really drags, though.

Isn't all this data already available through a myriad of other sources, though? Your votes can be traced via your unique identifier on your polling card, your internet habits can be tracked via cookies an used for targettted advertising (thankfully oron sites don't seem to have cottoned on to this yet ), gender - pretty sure trying to hide that would be pointless. Wasn't the NHS medical database opened up to the highest bidder a few months ago? We willingly tag ourselves and our freinds in social media posts, or our apps do it for us, so our whereabouts generally are not difficult to trace. And phone records have been available as a tracking tool for years. If anyone was really worried about people tracking their comings and goings online, we would all use Tor, shun social media, and never post anything in an open forum about what we were doing and when we were doing it. I get were you are coming from, but I don't think for one second that any of this is new. Its just the increased efficiency that the data can potentially be gathered, and the fact that it is set against the backdrop of the general distrust / paranoia surrounding the gubberment.

Crexit?

I just think of the mucky 90's top shelf model.

I think the traders have realised that, in fact, nothing has really happened yet. The more cautious investers scattered as soon as the news broke and but have now realised that today is pretty much like yesterday and have gone back to doing their job, which is making hay while the sun is still shining. I think that the real financial turmoul will happen, but it is a good way off yet. Probably on the other side of the Tory / Labour leadership contests and Article 50.

FTSE100 just closed on a 2-month high. Go figure! The 250, which I believe is more UK-centric, still has some ground to make up but has recovered half its Brexit tumble in just two days. All the reports I read seem to be stating that the markets are fairing well, but at the same time emphasise that this could just be the calm before the storm.

Seems to be fixed. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread.

Going a bit deeper it seems I have a problem similar to the one described here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/cabxxxx-files-found-in-windowstemp-folder/2e86137e-7e6b-4cb7-9a3c-4ee73f665742?auth=1 It looks like once or twice a day my machine puts a cab_XXXX file into Windows/temp which is exactly 128,511kb in size, and has been doing so since 10th March this year. I can't te this down to a specific software install so I will follow the instructions on that website and see if the problem goes away. Edit: More info here: http://consek-blog.azurewebsites.net/cab_-files-eating-space/ Seems like it might be caused by not restarting the PC for an extended period, which fits as my PC is normally left on 27/4.

Goddammit. How annoying / embarrassing... I used WinDirStat and it immediately identified 41.5Gb of data in my Windows/temp folder. Thing is, these files were not showing up in the size reported for the Windows parent folder, so I missed them. Also, they do not get deleted when you use Disk Cleanup to delete temp files. Grrrrr...! I assume it is safe to delete everything in Windows/temp?

I remember when I was good at this computer lark... I have an SSD as my Windows 7 system drive. Recently it has been filling up t almost full capacity. Recently I did a bit more digging and found that out of all the files I can actually see (this is with "view hidden files" turned ON and "hide system files" turned OFF) only accounts for about half of the disk usage as reported by Windows explorer. Note that this includes the pagefile.sys which weighs in at 8Gb. From Googling, this seems to be a common issue and the usual fixes are: Turn off hibernation and delete hiberfil.sys - DONE Turn off indexing on the C: drive and rebuild the index - DONE Turn off System Restore - DONE Run disc cleanup to remove temporary and other files not required. - DONE Empty the recycle bin - DONE Run checkdisk - DONE So far this has only freed up a couple of Gb so I am starting to think that something is up with the file system on the SSD. I only have two accounts on the machine: One for my day to day use and another admin account which has no files at all in user areas. In fact I don't store files at all on my C: drive. It is all Windows and Programme files. The only thing I have not tried in anger is to power up the machine without the SATA cable connected, which is supposed to allow the SSD to do its "garbage collection"/ I have also changed the hard drive settings in power management so that the hard drive never powers off. This is supposed to do a similar thng by letting the drive remain "live" while the rest of the PC sleeps, which should give it time to do its garbage collection overnight. Apart from the above, has anyone got any ideas?

The FTSE100 has recovered 3 straight days of losses (about 120 points) within the space of a few hours trading (ignoring the break overnight). Almost half of the recovery happened within a few hours of yesterday's announcement that both sides were suspending their campaigns. Just goes to show how volatile things are right now.

Wow, turns out I timed that right. I feel like The Wolf of Wall Street* right now [ATTACH=CONFIG]212573[/ATTACH] *Apart from the drugs and hookers.

As it is an ISA, my only restriction on how much I re-invest is the annual ISA limit of £50k, which I am nowhere near so it depends on how quickly things take off. However the last three times the FTSE has grown from about 6200 to its all-time high of 7000 (as suggsted might happen after an "in" vote) it has taken between 1 and 2 years to get there, and then every time it has tumbled immediately after reaching 7000, so I would probably pull out again then, anyway. My feeling at the moment is to stay out until after the US elections and see what happens then.

...aaaand I'm out This article says pretty much what is going through my mind.

There have been links to a couple of articles on Yahoo Finance suggesting that selling up in the run up to the refferendum is the wrong thing to do, as the long term impact on the markets will be small, however some of these refer to short to medium term investments whereas I've been "in" for 20 years, so I think I have something to lose. I'm just picking my moment to say "Aahm oot", but the FTSE100 is currently on a month high after three consecutive days of gains.

Companies with laser cutters should be easy to find, they are more common than you might think. I have one locally who I have used a few times - they usually charge a few quid for one-offs if I can supply them with a DXF file for programming the machine and a simple drawing.

The markets seem to be up a bit today and I have missed the deadline for shouting "SELL! SELL!! SELL!!!" today, so I will wait until Monday in case there is some profit-taking before the end of trade or when the markets open next week.

I will definitely swap out for something. I am planning to take the money out tomorrow, having got a valuation today. However I will probably get the unit price from Monday's trading though so not sure if trading over a weekend is a smart move in case the markets open low. If things stay relatively steady I will probably re-invest again sooner. Hopefully I will be able to find a fund with low or zero entry fees, or I may do something altogether different. I've had some money in equity for decades as this all started out as a failed PEP mortgage. The values were up and down like crazy over the first few years, so much so it was impossible to gauge what the true long term growth was. It was supposed to average out at 7.5% over 25 years in order to pay off the mortgage. As I said above it has actually fallen short by about 2% after 20 years (good job I went back to straight repayment when I bought my ex out of her half of the house).

Just wondering what people on here are doing (if anything) to protect their long term savings and investments during the upcoming EU referendum / US elections in case the stock markets go down the rabbit hole for a while. I have a significant portion of my long term savings in an equity ISA. Nothing earth shattering but not something I would want to lose. I've been tracking the growth for 20 years and it has stabilized out at about 5% growth per year and stayed steady for the last 5 years. In recent years I've had one big blip which took 30% off the total value and took 2 years to recover and another smaller blip which took 10% off the value and recovered within a year. I'm thinking that something like this could happen again in the near future. For people who like the details, the units are spread over three different funds which are rated as "medium risk" (5 out of 7 risk / reward rating). I can withdraw the funds instantly with no fees. I was doing some calcs and I reckon if I do nothing and we have another "big blip" (worst case scenario) it could cost me about £15k between now and when I retire. That's comparing to the projected growth if nothing bad happens and growth carries on at about 5%. The best case scenario is that I pull my savings out and we have a crash, and then I re-invest right before the recovery starts. I reckon that could gain me nearly £15k in the long run. I figure the potential risk of staying in outweighs the penalty of taking my money out for a couple of years and putting it somewhere where it won't grow as fast, so I am more or less decided on this course of action. I know there are a few financial people on here so wondering what others are doing?

Fired up Firefox (46.0.1) today after work as normal to find that ALL my cookies had been deleted. Not really a bother apart from having to remember some old passwords, but has anyone else had this happen? Its not set to delete cookies when I log out, and I sure didn't do it myself. Not a peep from my virus scanner and the PC was fine yesterday.

Shame they haven't actually shown the layout. I susect it will be like two of the previous generation compound sequential setups working in parallel. http://www.mostreliablecarbrands.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bmw-diesel-4-turbos-200615-02.jpg

...with a BMW quad-turbo engine http://www.enginetechnologyinternational.com/news.php?NewsID=79497