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The bracelets are normally fine. I must confess the bracelet on my 45mm UPO feels nicer to put on that my 42mm. The best upgrade you can get for your PO - bar none - is to get the proper AR done by the guys that can do that here; they can even have the crystal taken out and installed for you. It makes a phenomenal difference.

I think this story from today's papers (and there's a half-decent chance Offshore knew the guy who died) proves your point: Lauryn Eagle leapt out of a white Mercedes and raced towards the jetty, choking back tears and screaming. The shattered remains of the speedboat in which her father, Peter, had been driving was moored in the water at the NSW Police Marine Area Command in Balmain. "Is he alive or is he dead? Just tell me? Is he alive or is he dead?" she cried. Grieving family members....confirmed her father was dead. Later, pouring out their grief over the shell of the badly damaged boat, members of the Eagle family watched as a parade of powerboats moved slowly past on a lap of honour for the family patriarch. Eagle, a 10-time Australian water-skiing champion from Oatley in southern Sydney, died when his seven-metre Bernico boat flipped on Sydney Harbour yesterday morning. It was another tragedy for the family. The crew of the HarbourCat ferry Pam Burridge discovered the capsized vessel near Balls Head Point, on the north-west side of the Harbour Bridge, about 9.15am. Rescuers found Eagle's body beneath the upturned hull. His racing partner, former world disabled water-skiing champion Geoff Burgess, was pulled unconscious from the water and put on a NSW Maritime vessel. A Maritime officer performed CPR on Burgess, who had no pulse, for nearly eight minutes. He was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital with serious head and leg injuries. His condition was downgraded from serious to stable last night. Ferry master Mark Verrills said the rescuer "just didn't let up" on Burgess. "He wasn't going to let him die. If that guy lives he will owe that Maritime bloke a beer every day for the rest of his life," he said. @Marrickvilleboy - there's a gap between caring about the question and putting in a paper to get you through the class without doing your head in. Away from the (very interesting) ethical implications - it's fundamentally a philosophy class style question, getting into the mechanics of it. Unitarianism, Consequentialism, find out what everyone else thought of Bernard Williams' arguments and then use that as the basis of the thrust of your argument (after all, they put more time into worrying about it), reference other modern philosophers / ethicists, spin it together in a coherent way. College is about learning how to think so that you can apply it later in life: specifically "how can I get this paper out of the way so I can go to a bar" can later be useful for "how can I get out of this meeting so that I can go to a bar".

One thing that occurred to me was the non-resident withholding tax - it might be worth just checking through the tax implications too.

How do you like it on the gen rubber? The gen mesh bracelet isn't for me on gen or rep.

Wow - very impressed as well.

Check out these folk http://www.raboplus.co.nz/ I think the additional liquidity of having the money on call is well worth the difference; or rather, I don't think not having access to it, or to future interest rate rises, is worth the extra. I suspect that the AU$ is a less volatile bet - but don't quote me on that. I don't think so, not in a period of high inflation. Possibly in real terms they might, but when things are getting stormy property is not a bad bet - people will always need homes, and there some some decent tax advantages over income from interest, say. Whatever the papers say - there's plenty of dough around at the moment, no question - people have cash. And onto that economy they're about to throw a massive tax cut in July.....

Amazing review - this raised the bar for sure!!

:clap2: Fantastic news, and best wishes for your continuing recovery.

I would consider betting on the NZ$ as fairly risky because its rate is heavily influenced by cross-rates out of its control; it could be volatile. But don't listen to me, because I am in the process of making a fairly similar investment move myself (really)

Wear it well - it looks fantastic!

As Pugwash pointed out, often these kinds of PM's are spammed out to a dozen people - everyone ends up running around answering the same question. They annoy me when they're exactly the kind of question that can be asked on the forum.

Wow - deeply jealous of that one. Absolutely fantastic.

OWNED! Best signature of 08 - classic work. EDIT: This link may come in handy On a more serious note - awesome watches, another vote here to see the full collection!!

Could it be something to do with being set to beep if it goes in and out of standby / hibernation / or upon some kind of battery power event? If there's nothing wrong other than the beep, it could be that it's just set up to beep at that time and that you can change the setting. Looking in the BIOS settings might be a start.

Or get yourself a "Jungle Master" Perhaps I could 'reverse engineer' a GMT out of it, point it North and it tells me the time in Paris...

I think given the circumstances, that can be arranged....

No worries! (Upon discovering you had fixed it, I had to hurriedly amend my post telling you to give up, pour lighter fluid over the laptop and burn it ) I was also going to say, Avast is a good choice so keep with that one.

Step one is 'Safe Mode', which means as you reboot you press the F8 key, and in theory it gives you some options to start in safe mode and so on. In that list may be: Last Known Good Configuration If you can boot it in safe mode you may be able to access system restore, not sure. Failing that if you boot from the original CD there should be a repair option. That's not a solution in of itself necessarily, but it's a decent place to start. Your problem may be too much anti-malware/virus protection - some of them are too aggressive, as if the whole system exists just to stop viruses. Norton was taken out to the back of barn and shot years ago - caused ten times the grief that any virus ever did.

Thread cleaned up of some of the personal abuse. TeeJay and Hambone, please take a few chill pills. All future posts in this thread are to remain ON-TOPIC; this is not a general 'The Complete Business History of Trusty' thread.

Check out this story on Franken Ferraris being found in Italy: News story: Fake Ferraris Busted in Italy I liked this bit: "None of the engines was made by Ferrari, but the gang used internet hobbyists' sites to accumulate visible parts that were genuine. These included dashboards, steering wheels and, of course, the Big Red's distinctive black and yellow badge. What most impressed investigators was the quality of the workmanship that went into shaping the fibreglass bodywork so that the cars looked authentic. One said it was evidence of extraordinary ability." I guess the fake car forum have their own Ziggy !! Hey, speaking of which, has anyone seen Dependable-Bayerische-Motoren-Werke-Person around here lately

This week we had a guy knock at our door trying to sell us security upgrades for our house - he flashed me his brochure and got one sentence into his sales spiel when I opened the screen door and released the dog.... I took it from the way he backed away and left down the driveway that he rated our existing security system quite highly. [it's vet day today for our poor dog though - a check-up. UPDATE: He's back and he lives to attack another mailman ]

Wow that looks a lot of fun. 81 kph with your arse on the floor would be, shall we say, brown trouser time!

Sorry to hear that - what a nuisance for you. By the way - please never start an article called "Be always alert!" with the word "drag" - you had me scared for a minute there!!! :lol: I thought you'd had a "ladyboy" moment

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Welcome! Looking forward to seeing this Seamaster of yours