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Sign on my 800 mile trip today:
Socialism (noun)
1. Trickle up poverty
2. Promises and chains
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03-19-2011, 10:31 AM
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Completed my project this morning unexpetedly quickly so I get 1/2 a day off this weekend.
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03-20-2011, 01:03 PM
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A few good ones
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03-20-2011, 04:57 PM
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No completely Em PC I know but I'm modelling one of these just now.
The ending takeoff is amazing - they go down the runway and then straight up. Back when we knew how to make stuff. 
Full story here. Key passages for me
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In 1984, during a major NATO exercise, Flt Lt Mike Hale intercepted an American U-2 at a height which they had previously considered safe from interception. Records show that Hale climbed to 88,000 ft (26,800 m) in his Lightning F.3 XR749. This was not sustained level flight, but in a ballistic climb or a zoom climb, in which the pilot takes the aircraft to top speed and then puts the aircraft into a climb, trading speed for altitude.
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In British Airways trials in April 1985, Concorde was offered as a target to NATO fighters including F-15s, F-16s, F-14s, Mirages, F-104s - but only Lightning XR749, flown by Mike Hale and described by him as "a very hot ship, even for a Lightning", managed to overtake Concorde on a stern conversion intercept
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03-23-2011, 07:04 AM
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Today's my birthday.
Normally I'd put this in the Annoyance thread, since everyone celebrates my b-day when I couldn't care less.
But it's a smile today, since I bought a small bag of mini-donuts. All for me
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e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be
What matters is where you're going, not how fast.
"... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell
[Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread
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03-23-2011, 09:28 AM
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Happy Birthday Nyom nyom nyom
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03-23-2011, 09:40 AM
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Well, Happy Birthday to you! 
{I tried to swipe a donut, but for some odd reason, I couldn't quite reach it?}
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03-23-2011, 06:39 PM
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In the UK budget today fuel duty was lowered 1p a litre (woo) and mileage for business was upped to 45p (40p before) double woo.
I did decide I finally needed to fill up (625 miles on my Fabia) tonight as the price had lowered and got stuck behind a really aggresively driven Focus on my way to Morrisons.
I arrive and find this Focus blocking the entry to the station because no pump is available for the RHS of her (yes its a woman) car. Mine also fills to the right but I pull past and use the "fill up both sides" pumps to, er, fill up. No fuss.
In the meantime of course she is sitting at idle, just on top of tanks containing loads of combustable fuel and on the mobile phone.
Hmmm.
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03-23-2011, 10:19 PM
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...beats walking...
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...beware: "...what one hand giveth, the other taketh."
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03-24-2011, 05:24 AM
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...beware: "...what one hand giveth, the other taketh."
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Yep, I had the street party cancelled as fuel just went up by 1p just before 6pm, and then down again with the rate cut. So no difference. 
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