SeanMacGabhann

Gentleman; def:self-preservationist

Mick! I so feel your pain. Good point about room temp tho

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but for a good steak at home... Buy a good steak to begin with. No amount of expensive griddle pans will turn a pre packed supermarket steak into flavour but assuming you have a decent steak, pepper but don't salt it, put it on an already very hot pan and depending on thickness cook on each side until done to taste. I'm medium rare so assuming a 2cm thick steak about 2 to 3 mins each side. Ish

Not great phones no but fine but I will disgree with you forever about the battery. Or at least until you show me another device that does as much to get used as much and has a better battery life

Preferences are one thing but what did you DO to the poor thing??

y'know, like Enoch tried to "avoid trouble"

the .ext Hal refers to us whatever extension the file has - in this case .psp so he is correct in saying that if the filename is exactly unchanged his method is cleaner. But if it's slightly different then, as with teh Vista searches, you will draw a blank oh and the /s makes it search all subdirectories instead of just the current one

Declan Can you open a command prompt in Vista? if you can, type: cd\ dir *.* /s > c:\declan.txt that should create a text file in the root of c with every file name - open it in any text editor and you should be able to search for the file name that way hopefully that file hasn't ALREADY been renamed in the past of course!

I thought *bob* was satirising once again... but maybe not

Apologies if this is too low-tech a solution, but I don't even bother with bluetooth. I have a long audio cable going from the headphone sockets to the AUX in a nearby amp/stereo Cost = about the same as a pint Quality = leagues better than any standalone speakers Cons = well, there is a cable knocking around. But as I don't move the laptop that much, the cable is hidden behind trunking and shelves

lilith - about 5 threads down from you's Administrator has already answered the question

I think the clue was in jimmy jimmy's original question

ok .. now I'm slightly worried that you really think that I think Fur Q is a) a philosopher b) a real character and not a satire by Chris Morris The link between capital punishment and the the sketch is exemplified by huncamunca's comment - ie if you want a totally crime free world then it's possible but.... Of course hunca being hunca I can't be 100% sure he/she doesn't also genuinely believe that ;-)

well, quite, snunca It reminds me of the great philosopher and rapper Fur Q You gotta kill people so they respect you.. but you can't kill all of them.. because... @ theChair - that IS on topic as it shows up the absurdity of capital punishment!

5 years as an altar boy, what do you think!

It might be a generational thing but I'm more interested in what works London was famous for it's public executions and it was a hell of a lot more dangerous back then (say Tudor or Elizabethan times)

so you want to introduce the death penalty and hand it over to a corrupt judiciary? No thanks Could it be Steve, that the death penalty doesn't deter crime? Could it be that if you were interested in reducing crime rates (instead of killing people) you could look for solid examples of democracies across the world without the death penalty?

you using flint and dry twigs to get the heat going for the water as well *Bob*?

Steve why do you persist with this? I will ask the question again. If the death penalty is so effective then why bit go for a walk after dark in neighborhoods in any large American city ?

I think the plan is to project onto the walls Simon. Might see you there then...

sorry - it wasn't a pavlovian response, I was picking from the article in question "HOW MANY QUALIFY FOR A PENSION PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS? Five million employees in all. That includes 1.3m health workers with the NHS, 1.6m in local government, 600,000 teachers, 600,000 civil servants, 200,000 in the armed forces, 150,000 police officers and 50,000 firemen. " In retrospect I should have just quoted the paragraph in full But I genuinely (and I'm not saying this for arguments sake) don't get "We - all of us- can't afford a levelling up...so a levelling would be more socialist and equal" We can't influence a levelling up maybe - but I don't necessarily buy the private-sector company line about how they can no longer afford to keep employees pension schemes in some sort of decent shape And again, I'm not arguing - there isn't any point because I am totally serious when I say your vision of ditching the schemes in the public-sector will definitely happen. I just fail to see how this is a good thing. More equitable, arguably. But not a desired result if you were having this conversation 30 years ago

I remember when he was just a wee shallot

I know I'm supposed to be outraged somewhere but remind me again where exactly? So, I get taxed a little bit more and nurses, teachers etc get a hardly-lavish pension in a world where private-sector pensions are being jettisoned. So those of us working in private sector are lef to fend for ourselves, I get that bit but I would rather a levelling up than a levelling down. I'm sure in time under some government or other the public-sector will also have their pensions scrapped and the world will be a better place. Now I'm depressed I note the article compares public and private sector jobs but not like for like. So the private sector jobs will include all those minimum-wage jobs which will drag the average down significantly no?

I see Dulwich paradiso have posted this in teh what's on section but as people like Louisa have posted historical info in the Lounge before I thought I'd mention it here as well and see if anyone else is going?

Good shout Huggers We watched El Lobo yesterday - based on infiltration of ETA back in the 70s. WOuld be interested in hearing Mockney Piers take on it. It was interesting and some great performances but as a film 7/10