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That sex god Charlie got some boobies today, much nicer ones than than he's used to I imagine http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3210865a10,00.html Bare-breasted protest for Prince Charles 08 March 2005 Two women bared their breasts at Prince Charles today and a small group of protesters temporarily disrupted his royal visit using a megaphone to call him a parasite as he greeted 500 fans in central Wellington. The group of six carried placards reading "honour the treaty" and "death to the monarchy". Another waved a red flag with a picture of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara on it. As Charles conducted a walkabout chatting with some of the 500 or so fans who had assembled to see him, clapping and cheering his arrival, the protesters called the prince a parasite and recited a history of what they believed were the wrongs done by the royal family. Two women also exposed their breasts. Hannah Plant, 23, had "Get your colony shame off my breasts" written on her body but was quickly removed by police. Earlier another protester was dragged away from the crowd near where the prince was shaking hands. The prince appeared unfazed and smiled towards the protesters as he entered City Gallery for the launch of the Urban Design Protocol. Earlier, another bare-chested woman carrying a small child was hauled away by plain-clothed police moments before the prince would have been confronted by her as he greeted a line of well-wishers. The woman, also bare from the waist up, was dragged away shouting, "I just want to feed my baby." Police later confirmed that two women had been arrested for disorderly behaviour in unrelated incidents. They were to bailed this afternoon to appear in Wellington District Court on Friday March 11. National commander of the police security operation Superintendent Rob Pope said the arrests happened as Prince Charles was about to go into Wellington's City Gallery. "Officers dealt quickly with the incidents and security was not compromised."

The answer is RTFM. (Rebuild The Fucking Machine) In all seriousness, have you run spyware removal tools? another possibility is a rogue app that has a memory leak. If I were you, I'd backup all your data, wipe it, re-install the OS plus service packs, then Baseline it!! (plenty of info on the web re this). Then install your applications one at a time & see how the system performs. Russ

Hmm, so Damian Hirst (of pickled sheep fame - http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hirst/hirst_flock.jpg) has moved onto humans now?! Yay.

Is there something u wanna tell us, ifall?

I always said she was a horse faced old bag, and its true!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers, thats the funniest thing i've seen all week russ

But who Would you declare it to anyway?! Every single time I've gone through terminal 3 at Heathrow there has NEVER been any customs guys prowling around. Even peering into the 'red' channel you never see any. They're all too busy catching white van man & his 10,00000 cigs bought on the continent to worry about a handful of rigs being sneaked in every year The only 'official' I've met at Heathrow is the extremely bored lookin dude on the 'EU passport holders only' desk who takes one look at your passport (im gonna stick a photo of big bird over the top of me next time to see if he notices), grunts at you then waves you through.

You mean that book of quotations? Ya, I agree, Nile grass or whatever they smoked in those days must have been pretty damn potent LOL

Im 29....30 in August. 30! I can't be 30 dammit!! I aint ready to let go of my 20's just yet A whole decade until POPs though Russ

Yeowch. Another (albeit small) nail in the coffin of the idea I had of moving back to the UK for a few years. UK = Crap weather, crap DZ's (based on what people have said on this forum), ridiculous BPA fees. I'll stick to jumpin down under. NZPF annual membership = NZ$75 or a mere 28quid. Wouldn't suprise me if it gets to 150quid before anything happens/anyone does anything about it. Russ

We all had a laugh about this at work the other day. No doubt a few weeks after the final release of MS Antispyware, a major security flaw will be discovered and Microsoft will release a 'critical, should be applied to all systems' patch.

NZ's an awesome place, you'll have a fantastic time. I did exactly what you're doing, came here in 2000 for a 4/5 month trip to see a good friend of mine & travel round the country. Fell in love with the place, got a job, permanent residence & never went home!!

There'll be more airports than you think that can handle it. London Heathrow is spending 100 million quid to accomodate it, & is knocking down & rebuilding an entire pier at terminal 3 just for the A380. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3617407.stm Even here in the quiet little backwater that is NZ, Auckland International is preparing for it, spending $25 million widening the runway. QANTAS and Emirates have apparently stated they will be flying A380s into Auckland

You're correct, I don't know much about satellites or their control systems but I do know a fair amount about datacomms & networking. In this case there was no redundancy - a component of a communications system failed and completely cut off several pacific island nations. Because of their isolation and relatively small number of customers/users, it would have been prohibitively expensive to install undersea fibre or duplicate satellite links should there be a problem which meant they were relying on one satellite. Now Intelsat knows this - do you think that Intelsat would come clean and announce to its shareholders, not to mention the governments of those nations and corporate customers such as telcos/airlines that lost data circuits "that err, one of our operations staff killed the satellite and now all your comms are dead, sorry". Hmmm, I doubt it, especially after losing another satellite earlier and on the eve of the company being purchased by a venture capital co for $3bn. http://money.cnn.com/services/tickerheadlines/djh/200501162053DOWJONESDJONLINE000285.htm Conspiracy theories? Does Intelsat know more than it's letting on? Or was it just old & tired and a component unexpectedly failed? I guess we'll never know. Either way, its big news down here in our quiet little corner of the world, even the sheep are talking about it Russ

LOL, nice flying dog kennel you got there

I find it hard to believe how a satellite, sitting there motionless in the vacuum of space can 'move out of alignment' (unless its been smashed to bits by a space rock!) sounds like someone fucked up lol From todays NZ Herald: Loss of satellite cuts Antarctic and Pacific communications 18.01.05 1.00pm The "total loss" of a US$73 million ($106.19 million) satellite on Saturday morning left several Pacific Islands and Scott Base in Antarctica without telephone communications to the outside world. The Bermuda-registered Intelsat IS-804 Satellite, on which Telecom New Zealand rents capacity, moved out of alignment and was lost at 11.32am on Saturday, leaving Scott Base, the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Chatham Islands, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Vanuatu, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Tonga without communications to other countries. Scott Base has access to emergency-only back-up services through the United States' McMurdo Base. Telecom says communications have since been restored to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Western Samoa and Solomon Islands through alternative satellite options. Most of the islands still without satellite services have local phone and data services but will be without international calling and data access until alternative arrangements can be made, Telecom spokeswoman Sarah Berry said in a statement. Several other countries not serviced by Telecom were also affected but have alternatives available. New Caledonia, Tahiti, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, East Timor, Vietnam, Korea and Saipan were among those with alternative arrangements. "Telecom customers in New Zealand, along with customers of all other providers internationally will not be able to make calls or send data transmissions to those islands which have been isolated," Ms Berry said. "Bank services, eftpos services, Reuters, and airline data circuits have also been impacted and this could lead to some flight delays to and from these locations. "Some services out of New Zealand and Australia may also be partially affected to east Asian locations such as Vietnam and Beijing." Prime Minister Helen Clark and several other MPs are due to travel to the Chatham Islands on Thursday for official engagements on Friday. A spokeswoman for Miss Clark's office told NZPA they were planning for the trip to go ahead. Intelsat Ltd CEO Conny Kullman said the satellite was not insured. "The loss of a satellite is an extremely rare event for us, and our first priority must be restoration of service to our customers. "Intelsat remains firmly committed to the region that was covered by IS-804, and all necessary effort and assets will be allocated to ensure Intelsat satellite coverage throughout the Asia-Pacific region."

You have to remember that Prince Harry is Prince Philips (THE master of 'foot in mouth' syndrome) grandson, so it doesnt suprise me young Harrys been a bit obilvious to his own insensitivities. Wearing the nazi uniform so close to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz does put old Philips gaffes in the shade a bit though (on a visit to China he remarked to a group of young Brits that "if they stayed here much longer, they'd all have slitty eyes" and on a tour round a hospital in the UK asked a disabled woman in a wheelchair if "people tripped over her?" Kind of confirms my suspicion that being gaffe prone is hereditary I just like to sit back and let the royals get on with it...makes for amusing news stories In all seriousness, the UK press have blown this way out of proportion. Hundreds of thousands of people have just died/been seriously injured/lost loved ones in Asia and all the UK tabloids can focus on is the antics of Prince Harry at a private party. Yes Harry made a mistake, but he's apologised for it and thats where the matter should end. Russ [edited for schpelling]

Trust me, someone nicked the damn thing . Beer light was on, my rig had been packed & was sitting in the corner with everyone elses rigs. DZ shuts for the night, went to pick my rig up & head home - right legstrap had been undone (left one still done up)...hook knife was missing Since then it amazes me how careless a lot of people are with their gear. Everyone moans and bitches how expensive the sport is yet people leave their gear/personal stuff lying around without a 2nd thought

I've not been in the sport long, & have already had something nicked. First day jumping my brand new jav, some light fingered fucker nicks the hook knife I'd put on one of the legstraps. It's only a hook knife I know, but thats not the point. Man was I pissed off. This really woke me up & I checked the fine print of my insurance. It states: "You are not insured for: Loss of or damage to or theft of any item left unattended in a public place" Its very probable most insurance companies will have a similar clause in their policies - If you leave your rig in your usual corner once its been packed and it goes missing while you're buying a coke/having a smoke/chatting up that cute whuffo student then you very likely are not insured. Not a pleasant thought. Someone recently told me: Don't trust ANYONE these days. Sad i know, but unfortunately a sign of the times From now on, my rig doesn't leave my sight. Check your insurance people, and take care of your gear. Russ

Back at work today, spent the day looking out the window at clear blue skies. Last week (when i was on leave) we had rain, nasty winds & grey skies. Typical!

Can ya send me one too? Only prob is, i'm in New Zealand.....we don't have Go Fast here Nearest thing for us is Red Bull and a disgusting, foul suggary substance the goddamn aussies make called 'V'

Gday all, my names Russ & I'm a pom now living in Auckland, New Zealand where i work as a project manager for an IT company.

Nah. I've just got my new rig which is a b!tch to pack. Plus I'd rather spend time in the air than on the damn packing matt. I can pack (takes ages though), once my canopy has got more jumps on it and is easier to pack, then I'll pack it myself. And anyway, thats why we have packers eh? Russ

WOOOHOOOO!!! Booked my flight to Syd today

Hmmm. Bigway I'd suggest you get your facts straight rather than just post hearsay from your mate at Mercer. My home DZ is Taupo Tandem skydiving and I've heard no talk about getting rid of our 750. On the contrary, everyone seems pretty pleased with it. We are mainly a tandem & AFF DZ that does some sport jumping as well (did 200 tandems in one DAY last summer) & the TMs have no problem getting ready or getting out of it. If we're on a full load it's a bit tight, but this isn't a major (we have 2 rows of benches down the middle in ours). I reckon that the 750 that was jumped by the guy who stated their TMs didn't like sliding about in it doesn't have benches, which I agree, would be uncomfortable. When I was down there a few weekends ago there was a staff/sport jumpers 8-way which had no problem whatsoever with the tail (total of 13 on the load). one of the guys in the 8-way was bloody huge (at least 6'4 and built like a brick shithouse lol). All the remaining jumpers were simply asked to be as far forward as possible when the 8-way exited. Personally, I think they are awesome a/c. I've done about 40-45 jumps out of the PAC & similar number in the Cresco we had before getting the 750 & a few jumps out of the porter at Mercer & the fletcher in Motueka. The 750 IMHO wins hands down every time. This will sound a bit bizarre, but I have yet to have the pleasure(!?) of jumping out of a Cesna lol. Oh, and our other a/c is a Nomad, not an Islander Russ

found a piccy of it at http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/news/1999/0081187.html