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"The tricky thing to learn on the higher wind is knowing not to go too far on the downwind leg and risk being unable to make it back." A neat phrase I picked up in Texas for those windy days.... Never fly over anything you don't want to land on. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Sorry for that, the link timed out for me too. Stoopid British company, (RS Components). They are standard bits and should be available over there. Google, it appears you guys also know them as DIN or Mini DIN. This company, for example has them in California. http://www.action-electronics.com/ppdin.htm#Minicable part numbers PP-MD9P (9 pin MiniDIN Male) and PP-MD9S (9 pin MiniDIN Female) at a buck and a half for each end. Attached are some pics and pin outs for various configurations of these connectors. "the best looking connectors I've seen have been s-video ones," They are exactly like the S-video connectors, sizewise, but they are known over here as Mini DIN connectors. I hope this helps. You can get up to 9 connections on a single connector, and you can always split your cables if you are having difficulty sourcing 9 pins or other multipin connections. They are fiddly to solder though, so you may want the slightly larger ones known as DIN connectors. You can even get panel mounts so you could have a connection flush on the back of your helmet and connect the leads to that, Matrix style. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

But if 'they' are listening to the calls (shouldn't be difficult if they already have the numbers to monitor), it won't take long to figure out who you are... EG a typical call might be.. Nac>"Hey Tonto, its Nacmacfeegle here, fancy a beer." T> Yes usual place? N> No I'm meeting the Yeti at O'Grady's bar at 8. T> cool. Google for Nacmacfeegle and it leads you to this site, clicking on my profile will show all the nasty subversive posts I've made. This will confirm my status as a subversive, anti-freedom, left wing miscreant. A quick search for O'Grady's bar in the vicinity would give you the rendezvous, and you, me and the Yeti would be linked on some data base somewhere by the dark forces..... Its just a good job we're not plotting to overthrow a super power's government, otherwise we'd already be incarcerated in some unpleasant place, wondering what the fuck we'd done wrong. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"This stuff" was... "They" will know everything about you, where you go, what you eat, how much money you have, how you travel, where to and when.... " Every time you use your credit or charge or debit card, 'They' can track your purchases. Every time you pick up a phone, 'They' can access your records, if 'they' so desire. People who have store cards for example, are already having their purchases analysed so that stores can provide a targeted service to their consumers. 'They' being dark forces that have nothing better to do with their time than watch me. I guess the point I was trying to make was, I don't see how ID cards will make things any different from our current status quo. An article on this here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3661199.stm Of course none of this works if you use good old fashioned, dirty, untraceable, cash. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Dude, pretty soon all visitors to the US will need biometric data on their passports to enter your country. Except Canadians of course. Puhleese, its already happening to you guys too. I say again, biometric data does not necessarily mean DNA, its far more difficult to verify than a retina scan, a fingerprint, or even a photograph of your face. "Citizens from the 27 countries will still be allowed to visit the US without a visa, although they will now have to be fingerprinted and photographed before they enter. " From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3595221.stm -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Phew, thats a relief. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"LYING govt." And we all know there is no such thing as a lieing government. Okay, we're agreed that the cards will NOT carry DNA information. But what if they carried other stuff, that might prove useful. An access reference to say a medical database that might contain information such as next of kin, allergies to medicines, blood types , whether or not the card carrier is an organ donor etc. Could it be that there is possibly some benefit in this? And to those who believe that this scheme will be the start of of the erosion of your rightly defended freedoms, this type of card is in widespread use in a number of European countries, in many cases such cards have been commonplace since the war. Its already too late to nip it in the bud. Personally, I'm still mulling things over and haven't gathered enough opinion to make my mind up as to whether this is a good or a bad thing. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Dude...I think there's a mystic-cyber-law that would prevent us from agreeing on anything..." There is definitely hope for the world after all. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Just out of interest, Bill, are you guys getting into biodiesel over there yet? I just noticed my TDi unit will run on the stuff unmodified. All I have to do now is find a place that sells the stuff. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Its great to see people bringing a sense of humour to the 'embittered arguments' forum. Yay. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Kewel, cheers. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Lack of knowledge can get you killed. Lack of imagination just means you can be quite boring. You need both to maintain balance in your life. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Ok I didn't write the stuff, I plagerized another website.." Its all good Slappie, you know I like you. You wanna watch that CtrlC and CtrlV though, it got our prime minister into a spot of bother with a dodgy dossier of dubious data not so long ago. Caused a bit of a ruckus. And how do you do the picture thing? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Calm down to a frenzy Malfunction, biometric data currently proposed consists of fingerprints, and or retina scans. These are easily verified in the field, or via any number of portable devices. DNA currently is not. If someone really wants your DNA, they can take it from you without you knowing, in restaurants, bars, the barbers, your hotel bed linen, even from your trash. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"One email was from Scotland. It’s a good thing he wrote it because I wouldn’t be able to understand a word he said. Never did get through Braveheart. " Dayumm, I got busted. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Okay, If I hadn't met both of you, I'd swear that you and Aggiedave were one and the same person. "If driven more moderately a single 7.5 liter (13.7 gallon) tank" Umm, what ? 7.5 litres is just under 2 US gallons(which are smaller than our gallons neener, neener, neener) 13.7 gallons is about 52 litres. Edited to add, dayumm, PiisFiish beat me to it while I dawdled about converting crazy non standard units of volume........ -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I suppose that the village of Kurds that Saddam gassed really don't matter as well as the lives that were saved when the U.S. forces took him out of power." That should read Coalition Forces, surely? Also 'that village' was Hallabja, and we continued to support Saddam and his regime through that particularly unpleasant period. "A UN security council statement condemning Iraq's use of chemical weapons in the war was issued in 1986, but the US and other western governments continued supporting Baghdad militarily and politically into the closing stages of the war." source:-http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_iraq_timeline/html/chemical_warfare.stm Mind you, 'we' supported the other side (Iran) as well. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for the swift response. Cheers! One reason for the Q was to highlight the difference between what the camera sees (frame grabs and internet video) and what is shown on TV screens.

"They" can already find this stuff out about you, and more, pretty quickly. I've not made up my mind over this card thingie yet. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Hmmm....Nice rack....of skateboards. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1050884#1050884 Tell your son to be careful.

I don't know if this has anythingto do with it, but the last time I flew via CDG was pre pre 9/11. The Air France flight was to/from Lagos, and this was the first time I'd seen air marshall type heavies on a flight. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Okay, the concept of "Dulce et decorum est, pro patri mori" slipped from fashion around the time of the writing of the poem of the same name. This is no reason to disrespect a fallen soldier though. I guess I might be classified as an extreme liberal, far centre? But I share your disgust at this 'dumb jock' headline. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

To be honest Cronin, I'd never heard of her either, but I'm always keen to expand my horizons. The last 'French' concert I was at was in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, Les Negresses Vertes were playing. Their accordion player was so drunk he fell off the stage. It was a quality night nevertheles. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Google mon vieux, Google..... http://www.mcgonigels.com/CHARLOT.htm -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson