Do you know how a fire-engine sounds? " tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ... tuut ...

But at least "Bel me niet register" (call me not register) is working in my country because by the looks of it the bottom fell out of the telemarketing. lay-offs by the hundreds and a lot of those working in that branch are switching to that much hated profession of being a "traveling salesman", going from door to door .... in wind and weather ... "No sales at the door!"

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The panzer kunst is great in this one :)

Jaguar XM-AS is my choice, counter rotating turbo props, must be noisy as hell.

I bit like the XF-84h Thunderscreech wich could be heard over 40 km away and for wich groundcrews where using signal lamps to communicate with each other.

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I have to agree with "The Bryster", not so long ago these kinds of threads would turn into a flame-fest within hours, sometimes even minutes.

When Obama said something about "Restoring science in its proper place" i still had some hope, but no.

The Greens will be thrown under the bus for this, wich is actually rather sad, alternative energy is on itself not a bad thing, proper care for the enviroment is not bad at all, and so on.

entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" and this is excactly what Jones and Mann did with the "Trick to hide the decline"

Don't misunderstand, this is not about the lack of rising temperatures in the past 10 years wich can not be explained by the computermodels and the globalwarming theory. Its about the failure of treerings to show a rise in temperatures where our thermometers did from about 1980 (or 1960 in Keith Briffa's case).

Its about a failure of the theory that treerings are a thermometer of temperatures and climate-conditions in the past.

Now why did they need this theory? To show that the temperature rise in the 20th century was unprecedented. But there was still the Medival Warm Period and The Little Ice Age, in order to weaken those they selected tree-data (trees that have special growing conditions) sets that showed little of the MWP and LIA, and that is where the problems began because they started to divert from real world temperatures in the 1980'ties.

In order to set this straight, Mann and his ilk stopped the data-plots around 1980 and replaced the missing treerings with real world temperatures. They knew that they would get in trouble for this if it was found out, and that is the point where they entrenched themselves, retreated to their ivory towers and making up all kinds of bogus stories why the data and the methods used where not going to be released.

And now we found out, and is shown what sceptics suspected for years. The theory does not work.

Quote - odd how these documents came out JUST before a major climate change conference
Odd how the emial circulating about them suggests folk ditch shares in renewable energy companies These emails have not been verified as genuine.

Yes they have, both by the CRU and people on the outside who have been named within those Emails. Furthermore, its not just e-mails, its data and programs as well.

Its more likely that a whistleblower within the CRU has released those files and it is still even possible that one of the boffins like Phil Jones himself put those files on a unsecure server, because it is not the first time that this happend.

Still Jones has at least to answer for the FOIA's he refused and deleting data after such a request. Those FOIA requests have been documented and the content of the Emails confirm that Jones was not going to give access to that data, although university regulations and good science do require such requests to be granted.

One thing is sure, the science was far from settled.

Sorry to hear about your problems :(

As for the canvas printing (i have a HP Designjet Z6100 at my work), a 150-160 dpi should be enough, be it a minimum resolution. 6400 x 4800 (160 DPI) pixels should be enough for a "40 x "30 print.

300 DPI usually is a good printing resolution for most type of print, but on canvas it's not nessecary to go that high.

Have been thinking about it, its all about tires not getting used much (or not used at all because they haven't being sold yet), those tires tend to get dry. If you have a car without powersteering you would notice that taking a turn requires more effort, you have to pull the steeringwheel a lot harder.

That's a good indicator that something is wrong with the tires and the best thing you can do then is to let them being checked and replaced if needed. In our regular safetycheck (the APK as the call it here in the Netherlands) this is a point they are looking at.

Its either making the maximum distance with those tires (say ±60.000 km) or the tires reaching their maximum lifespan (say ±6 years), whatever comes first.

As for that spokesman for the American Tire-industry, criminal neglect and fraud comes to mind.

Also take in mind when you buy a seccond hand car (like i always do), one carefull owner etc. The car might be a few years old, and perhaps the tires are the same age as the car.

So with my latest car i had to replace the rear tires before even thinking of a serious drive. And i drive a lot so tires usually spend no more than two years beneath my car before being replaced anyway.

Another good thing and i don't know if the have this in the US is a regular safety check demanded by law, my car has to be checked every year on points like tires, steering, brakes, suspension, lights and so on. Failing to let my car being checked before the expire date of this safety check (27th of june this year for me) will result in a heavy fine.

http://sauerbraten.org/

I have a load of fun with it, especially with the level editor :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

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Their advice about 419 scams, don't walk away... RUN!!!

Is nice!