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I almost filled in the on-line form for a Shell Loyalty card. Until I started realising the amount of info they're gathering about me. Feck that. Anyway, you need to spend something like £5000 in fuel to get a £2.50 voucher for Waitrose. In the old days (20,30 years ago), you'd spend, I don't know, a tenner on fuel, and you'd walk out with half a dozen drinking glasses or a couple of C90 blank cassettes (remember those?). Bring back Tiger Tokens.

Drop fuel to 70p a litre and I'll reconsider. Thieving price-fixing oil company cunts.
 

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Not much funny about a monkey wearing a shock collar and dubbed laughter over the top
 

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I didn't actually see what was wrong with the image above for a while :(

The flag has ruffles on it. This clearly indicates the photo was taken not on the moon but probably on Earth in light wind conditions.

The guy in the white T and yellow shorts walking away is clearly working out how he can dump the plain frump of a wife he's with and start chatting up the 22 year old in the white bikini bottoms to his left. What he doesn't know is that she's post-op, and changed her name from Keith to Paquita. Good luck with that, bro. The old Bangkok exoneration of "I was wearing my reading glasses at the time" won't wash.
 

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The flag has ruffles on it. This clearly indicates the photo was taken not on the moon but probably on Earth in light wind conditions.

The guy in the white T and yellow shorts walking away is clearly working out how he can dump the plain frump of a wife he's with and start chatting up the 22 year old in the white bikini bottoms to his left. What he doesn't know is that she's post-op, and changed her name from Keith to Paquita. Good luck with that, bro. The old Bangkok exoneration of "I was wearing my reading glasses at the time" won't wash.

Are there day trips inside your mind Lamp, do i need to book or just turn up on the day?
 

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Are there day trips inside your mind Lamp, do i need to book or just turn up on the day?

Lastminute has some decent deals on if you don't mind flying RyanAir. And when I mean fly, I mean fly. The price of the ticket doesn't include the pilot. You have to get your commercial pilots licence beforehand.
 

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I'll be there Tuesday, around 10.30, and i'll bring a packed lunch
 

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Fine, but remember its illegal to import Marmite in Lampland, so make sure you pack your own sandwiches.

Of course for a small *cough* administration fee *cough* certain regulations have been known to be, shall we say, circumvented? From time-to-time.
 

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On last pages pregnant pic; No wedding ring and a semi-hidden frontal trampstamp. Yeap, not hard to see where that babbeh came from :D
 

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png v jpeg

Do jpeg's lose data over time / with repeated transfer across devices?

I read somewhere png's are the best format to store photos as they're "lossless". Or does it really not matter? In terms of file size, png's can be 5 times as large as a corresponding jpeg.
 

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JPG is lossy and best suited for photos, but for images with high contrast, sharp transitions and/or solid blocks of colour (line drawings, text etc...), PNG is the daddy. PNG is a bad format for storing photos precisely *because* it's lossless, you would need a much bigger filesize to achieve the same quality as a JPG.

And no, if you're just copying the JPG around between devices, it's just 1's and 0's and won't lose anything (this isn't VHS ffs, Lamp!). If you're re-saving it then you could be throwing quality away.
 

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Actually 0 and 1's can get lost, that's why we have error checking, especially over cables, the signal has to be reconstructed with repeaters on long cables, even undersea cables have these.
If a long string of either state randomly appears the electronics flips the data over to prevent the cable building charge like a capacitor...I did listen occasionally at courses.
Oh and fibre optics are adjusted for optimum signal strength for the receiving sensor by wrapping them around a tube, the more wraps , the more the signal is attenuated as the light leaks out of the bend.
There ends the lesson for today.
 

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About as useful as saying peanuts may contain nuts. The clue is in the name.
 

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