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I have a friend who found it extremely difficult to get across to the Americans she met professionally that a broken arm didn't cost $5000. If you were paying cost price it would not be much over $200 in time, materials, consultancy and maintenance etc, so + 50% for margin and profits too. What...

And so say all of us! Holding each others beers since 2943, yo.

Hot damn!

From what I have read Africa is really ramping up so a later start than the rest of the world with it just waiting to kick in, but the Congo particularly in peril as they have Ebola and Measles outbreaks at the same time too. Middle east UEA has instilled lockdown and has the only data I've so...

Covid Catharsis Corner: Reports from the world from today Saturday 13th of June. - China: Beijing struck by new cases after two months clear fears of a second wave arise as a result. - Brazil: Overtakes UK to second place for highest number of recorded deaths to the virus while the city of São...

Uh... yeah, and that one.

Oh yeah! I remember that one, "Star Wars Episode 1 Racer"! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bLkcCZFKvA

Great point on the 7 days :glorious: If you have it, use it. If you don't like it melt the Nox and use your credit to buy-back the LTI Dragonfly (assuming you have not used this quarters store credit buy-back token yet) I've done this myself a few times to have a try of something not too much...

You can't even rely on games not to have loot boxes later on - some have, after a couple of months, introduced them with patches. Modern games suck arse.

You know the bit in Star Wars episode 6 where they are on the forest moon and most of the speeder-bikes ended up exploded in trees? That's the Nox. As in it explodes on the scenery a lot. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74IATQJw_Y Ka-booooooom.

Oooh! I've just realized one of my screenshots is in the article :love: For the GLORY of TEST!

For the GLORY of TEST!

Well done, chum.

I once asked Mrs 'BobFace exactly why she had never, ever went to vote. People had called her lazy to get up and go to the polling station, people had suggested she wasn't intelligent enough to form an opinion in the first place, people had caller her apathetic. Her response: "None of them have...

Welcome aboard, if you can make sense of anything around here take one beer orally and repeat until you can't. 🙂

As someone who passes on reports of the news, I have to remain impartial. As someone who lived 3000 miles away at the nearest point of each respective country, I don't get a say. As someone who recognizes a health crisis when he sees a health crisis, if it's a big enough danger to make people...

Covid Catharsis Corner - Updates from around the world from today Friday 12th of June: - UK: Figures reveal GDP shrank by 20.4% over April, the biggest contraction on record, however it is worth remembering this was the middle of Lockdown when literally everything but essentials was closed. -...

The main influence over the BBC is the government and its control over the unique way its funded, by the licence fee which is essentially a tax which doesn't go to the government it goes to the BBC for public service broadcasting. Although it is independent from the government, the charter is...

Something, something, something Dark Side.

Part of me wonders how are you going to get a message to everyone in the country all at once in any other way? While the media is a very powerful tool for public education, information and indeed cooperation in times such as these, it's also a very powerful tool for shaping public opinion which...