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Just about to lay the table. Never been able to face 1/4 ton of dead bird and veg before 6p.m. Hope your all having a great one. @Todd, lovely mate, just right

Oh yeah! Cheers Kev. This is the match for the B29 landing vid posted by Blubear. Now you know how it got the ripples in the fuselage!

, Yep, you're right. I have foolishly just read the blog JP posted not researched the facts. The blog says murder and you and I both know thats not how our criminal justice system works in the case of murder. But this isn't murder as defined by our criminal justice system is it? If you remove the bits about "illegal immigrant, benefit fraud, muslim," etc. that are put in to get our juices flowing but just consider what the case rests on then the facts are; Man carries out brutal killing. Man charged with murder. Trial judge mis-directs jury and man wrongly convicted. Man given leave to appeal. Appeal allowed on grounds that trial judge mis-directed jury. Man convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility - he's a nutter! Those are the facts. Man has received due process and has been convicted. Important to cut the BS outta this stuff and remember that people of all persuasions and backgrounds are capable of doing terrible things. Wonder what this POS would have been charged with if he hadn't topped himself too? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3988181/Sacked-cop-kills-his-wife-and-child.html

How do you embed youtube vids here? I've forgotten, Doh!

Is it true? No, it's bollocks. You shouldn't read this sort of stuff JP, it'll make you go blind. Murder carries a mandatory life sentence in the UK. You can be released on a "life license" after consideration by a committee nominally chaired by the Ministry of Justice. I think the last figures available gave the average time spent in jail by a convicted murderer at around 19 years. That's an average though. There's obviously lots of people who will never be let out and there's a surprising number of people still in jail after 25 years for single murders who don't become eligible for parole as they, rather unsportingly, keep protesting their innocence even after all that time ! Try googling "Carl Bridgewater murder". At the time of passing sentence the judge can also give a recommendation on the minimum length of time the convictee can spend in jail before becoming eligible for release under a life license. This is not subject to appeal in murder cases and since a life sentence is mandatory the length of this is not subject to appeal either. As a convicted murderer is given a life sentence he can never finish the sentence and cannot be paroled either. Release on a life license means he or she can be returned to prison at any time the authorities have concerns about their behaviour in free society. They do not have to commit a crime to be returned to jail. This happens rather more frequently than people think. Have a great christmas and new year, JP and hurry up and come fly with us again. You'll recognize FT and I in the coop lobby-we're the ones wearing a Hajib!

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+About 1000%. The original Luc Besson movie is fantastic and then Hollywood turned it into a POS vehicle for Bridget Fonda without changing the script one iota just managing to lose everything that made the original fantastic. Why do they do that?

I've read the book-it's fantastic-the first of a trilogy, but I haven't seen the film-yet.

"Tipsy Nipper" ? Thats not really a name for an aeroplane to fill you full of confidence is it?

@Jabo and FT, further to our conversation tonight. Check this out; Handy illustrated guide to what we're discussing I knew the banana forum would come in handy for something eventually!

'Kin 'ell

I believe I'm sharing the Presidential Suite (it's got a sofa) with Jabo and Fruitbat.

I'm going. Will be there on the Friday.

Thats interesting FT but is it worth splitting up the set? Is there something wrong with the stick? I'd feel rather better if you e-bayed it to recover some of your outlay. Edit; Just seen what you did with the stick part of it in another thread. O.K. Could be interesting. I'd need Jabo's Bodnar board to make the connection between throttle and 'puter? What about a power supply? Hmmm......gonna need a soldering iron with a bit more finesse. And plastic lunch box for the Bodnar board, no?

Have at last managed to get my hands on a Microsoft force feed back stick. Am now looking to go the whole-hog and get a throttle so I can have trim on a slider, extra buttons, etc. Anyone got a throttle from a Saitek X45 or X52 going spare? I'm ready to make a generous(ish) Xmas offer for it!!

Whats so interesting? Looked like a fairly average bunch of paratroopers to me. Yawn.

Happy birthday, chief.

Is your Dad Frank Carson, Blubear?

Lets see, nine o'clock in the evening here so quite a few must now be succumbing to a Turkey, beer and football induced snooze! Hope y'all enjoying Thanksgiving.

Ah....is this the time to say "Happy birthday" Mayhem!?

I think thats an excellent idea. Lets do it all together. I must admit I don't have any problem with this approach as these days I only fire up 1946 in order to fly with the Dogz.

Hi Leon, I can see from your screen shots that you've got everything to the max at the moment. You've got a pretty decent system there that should give really nice results with CLoD. First of all just check that you are running the latest version of CLoD. You should be showing version 1.05.15950. I'm sure you are, Steam is pretty reliable. To get a measure of frame rates bring up a quick mission. When its running and you're in cockpit press Q to bring up the console commands. Now type in fps START SHOW and press enter to bring up the ingame frame counter. When flying, get rid of the mirror immediately. It does nothing at the moment and you will see an immediate gain of 5 - 15 fps, depending on your system. Now go into the video menu and bring up the options. Have you got trackir btw? Set your resolution to your monitors native resolution and your refresh rate to that of your screen too. Set anti-aliasing to 2. Again, this is another feature that does not work at the moment. Make sure the anti-epilepsy filter is unchecked. Uncheck the SASSOA thingy too. Once again, this is a feature that did work but is now no longer needed. Vysinc? Depends on whether you have trackir. If you have then put it on but it's worth experimenting with. This is air combat so who gives a shit what the ground looks like? Leave those beautiful shadows on and effects to high but reduce all the ground 'enhancements' to low and then see how you get on. That means land detail to low, building detail and frequency to low, trees to low, roads off, grass off, etc and see how you get on. What would be nice in a future patch would be to have the option to disable ground shadows whilst retaining cockpit shading. Look at all those trees and the blobby shadows they cast. Thats eating up your systems resources for no useful reason. Fly around and see how smooth you run the game and what fps you are getting and then start turning the effects back up until you reach that compromise between eye candy and game performance that you can live with. Flying with CEM off will give you better frame rates but once you've got to grips with the basics I'd try and fly with it on as much as possible as online it's mandatory and there is something rather satisfying in having mastered it. Nothing too difficult either it's just that each 'plane has it's own method. Can't think of too much else at the 'mo as I'm on my lappy not my game machine. Good luck and have fun.

Excellent! I always like to read reviews of the graphic card I'll be using in three years time