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Backup cameras are required by law here on new cars (2018+) which really sucks. Big trucks tend to be the problem--no reason to ruin normal size cars (or any vehicle IMO). It's what happens when lawmakers use feefees instead of brains.

How exactly does a backup cam it "ruin" a normal-sized car? Mine seems to run just fine, I've noticed no ill-effects to having one.

Backup camera is good, but not as good as making sure the kid isn't near when moving the vehicle. Just cuz the car has a cam don't mean everyone always looks at it

If I got $0.01 for every fake cPanel email spam I have received in the past few weeks, I would be rich.

I'm getting LESS phone solicitors and MORE scammer e-mails since the outbreak...

Chesnais in the membrane

Chesnais in the BRAIN!

It's not the fault of games, obviously, but the fault of that ASS guy.  Nobody seems to know who he is, but they're all pissed off that he owns every record.

Jokes aside, you know there will always be a witch hunt.  They did it to rock and roll music, they did it to comic books, they did it with metal music and movies; this is not the first nor will it be the last time they try it with video games.

I was gonna say Sweet!  They're not blaming Heavy Metal?   Anyhow Dugger beat me to it.  Good Job Dugger!

R.I.P.   And can we just agree the news sucks?  Before giving a headline that he has even died,  They have a story called Remembering Eddie Van Halen...I'm like,  What?  Did he die or something?

American news seems to suck a little more than it does over here. Eddie Van Halen dead? Let's build it up first so that people watch the news to find out why we're remembering him. It's all sensationalistic BS. Here, it's straight to the point.

The girl posted a thank you message on FB earlier today.

9 Year olds have Facebook?!?

Probably her mother's account. But, yeah. 9 year olds do have Facebook. It's not as if FB's age check is ... um ... foolproof.

Mmm. If everybody learns how to take personal precautions and behave, lockdowns wouldn't be needed. We interact with covid positives all the time.

Education and understanding are extraordinarily important. And you can measure how well you are doing by noting how often you're getting a cold or the flu. Or not getting them.

Another thing, wood homes that are destroyed have to be rebuilt. And that means more business. Big business. Like in the tech industry planned obsolescence.

@Kobra Kai - But what you don't want to do is make it easy for the houses to come down. Remember, it's not just the person living there, you have the debris flying around as well. In somewhere like tornado alley, you build cheap, you build twice. Around here, pretty much every house is built similarly to those in Guam, although with just standard concrete breeze blocks. I hadn't heard of houses being built around a timber frame before. The only timber frames may be for the inner walls, upon which we can put up plasterboard. Here we build an outer wall either with the concrete blocks or out of brick. We then have a cavity to insert insulation material and then a second inner wall of concrete blocks/brick. Wooden homes would have a hard time surviving here. Too damned wet! ?

At least 50 buildings made of brick or concrete were destroyed in Nashville yesterday.

Only found out about 3-4 months ago. She'd been in pain for some time but people, including the doctors and her family, called her a hypochondriac because she had mental health issues. It was the wife who urged her to keep pushing the doctors to take her seriously and eventually one of them arranged for her to have a scan. She had developed stage 4 by the time they found it. We urged her to begin legal action against the doctor but she wasn't in the mood. Looks like her kids are going to.

Uggh, that sucks. Sorry to hear and my condolences.

Sorry.  That IS way too young.

You know what IS still funny though?

Peg - "Hi Honey! Did you miss me?"

Al - "With every bullet so far..."

Loved DAVE ALLEN AT LARGE series, nobody tells stories like him! 

Allen's show needs to be brought to MeTV if it hasn't already.

Sorry for your loss.

At a first glance, I thought this was the opening of a Monty Python sketch, something inbetween the Dead Bishop and the Dead Parrot. Too bad it wasn't funny.

So sorry to hear!  

Very sorry to hear this.  It's deeply unfortunate, but at least you now know.

Man in the mirror?

Wylfa Newydd, Anglesey (Wales) apparently.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54158091

Your research skills are on par as usual. Yeah, Wylfa Newydd. The thing is that there was also going to be road improvements as well, which this road desperately needs. There seems to be an accident every few weeks during Autumn and Winter on just a 5 mile stretch of road. Just before it was originally mothballed, there was an article about the new station on the New York Post (I think) website. Now, it's been abandoned altogether.

Apparently Hitachi doesn't have that many nuclear projects going on in the world, so it was fairly easy to find.

babysitting, or parenting?

Yesterday the governor of Kansas announced that all schools in the state will be closed for the rest of the school year.

@KaeruYojimbo - What I've just heard is that the same will be happening here. Schools won't reopen until September at the earliest. @Flojomojo - Babysitting. Our 17 year old can look after herself. Grandkids will need entertaining. I'm going to order a clown costume off Amazon.

I've always said that Julia Roberts uses Smilex products.

Where -- US, UK, Europe, elsewhere? Depending on the jurisdiction, another generation or two back and you will reach the limit of available records. One ancestor came from near Belfast, Ireland ca. 1762. He was born about 1740, but without knowing the specific parish I have no hope of pursuing him any further. 

All UK - so far. There have been a few surprises. My grandad lost his mother at age 7 and was one of 14 kids, with the youngest being just 2 when my great grandmother died in 1913. One of her brothers died a year later during WW1 in a battle between a British and a German ship. I also always thought that that side of the family's roots were firmly on the island. Turned out they came from the North Wales mainland (a place called Abergele) and moved here between 1850 and 1853, judging by where the children of that generation were born.

True, but IIRC Codemasters was already half-owned by an Indian conglomerate.

I'm barely running one.

1Gig down, 30 up  -  $51.00 USD all in. Followed up on it and it would seem bursts going to 55 up when using two ports, but still really 940 +-  constant down.  I'm not all that excited... could be much better... as the earlier provisioning proved.

I'm currently paying £57. Close to $70 in real money.

WiFi, really? Alright. That's got to be for the dongle then. I can't imagine a mouse going through a traditional router like for networks.

There's got to be a manual or tutorial online. Lets look.

The Antenna Symbol (for wifi) I think just means dongle radio link..

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I can act as an intermediary but I charge a 4% fee on sale and a 1% retainer fee upfront.

My wife is Chinese.

Still cheaper than eBay.

Anything?  How about a modded light sixer if the price is right (NTSC Please)?  I don't eat liver anymore...And I couldn't see myself buying a cornea ("see" myself...Hahaa!  Groan)  Perhaps you should go to the Corn thread with talk of a Cornea...and just say you misread it...