And all four are bullshit!

Mr Bean?

Hmm. Well I don't think we disagree here, but I admit my choice of words was poor. If a fireman could hold the key down and block the channel for a lengthy time, then the system would have a design flaw. My point was that the codec has nothing to do with it.

BTW, I'm a radio ham :)

Er, a fireman who holds a PTT down for 15 minutes would make the tactical public safety system useless by himself.

The mouse I got with my 386DX40 was called a Witty Mouse. I think it was rhyming slang though. Sometimes the cursor would move by itself - it was very erratic, but then work normally for a while the next day. Eventually i discovered that the translucent plastic case was a little too transparent - it was my angle-poise lamp shining through the mouse body and affecting the sensor. It worked fine after I painted it ;-)

fnord

I didn't exactly meet him, but he did nearly run me over in his dalek undercarriage when I staggered out of a pub, pissed, in Cambridge one night. I remember thinking that his wife was quite fit, but that could have been the beer goggles.

fnord

i heard the great Bob Monkhouse once say that mastering the art of faking sincerity was the most important of his accomplishments, although I must admit that I'm hard pushed to think of any others.

Don't forget the spam!

I thought that was just in the Russian Embassy, although according to the following link, it was probably all of them. http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=47ddf19823b89

fnord

Not all that surprising in a population of apes.

fnord

Perhaps. But, you don't get up and move (strafe?) sideways to take the shot. You just point your weapon at a different angle.

Aargh. I thought I'd completely forgotten 'Prisoner - Cell Block H', but you've brought the memories of Bee Smith flooding back.

Are you sure about this bit?

If a target is 100m away and moving perpendicularly to my line of sight at 1m/s, and my bullet travels at, say, 100m/s, i'd have to lead him by 1 milli-radian, roughly.

If the same target was 1km away, and moving in a similar fashion, my bullet would take 10 seconds to reach him, and he'd have travelled 10m in that time, subtending an angle of, wait for it ... 1 milli-radian.

Now I suck at trigonometry, so I could be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet your life on it. Please stand next to the 100m marker (I'm not sure I'd make the shot at 1km) and get ready to run when I shout 'now'.

Isn't it er, you know, "F"?

I remember seeing him come onto the stage at a Republican convention in the 1980's, to the sounds of the Monty python theme tune. I loved it!

I was waiting for the big foot to come out of the sky and squash him, but it didn't.