My Dad always said "If you aim for the moon, you'll probably miss."

Shows you what he knew...

Assuming they didn't mess up on the metric>feet>metric conversions.

Galaxy is greek for Milky. But then again everything is all greek to me.

Much like planet is greek for wonderer.

Go on mod me funny and informative.

In England, castles are carefully placed around 20 miles apart so that the peasants who needed help could have received help on foot in half a day from any troups, or in a couple of hours on horseback.

It also allowed fast access to a fresh horse for messengers.

Dungeons and Dragons 4th edtion. Ragnarok Online - still going and available on private servers for free. Classic Battletech. Wargods of Aegyptus. Star Fleet Battles. Scrabble on my mobile phone.

Out of all of them Dungeons and Dragons is my favourite. Man do I sound like a geek or what...
You can't beat face to face gaming.

We pander too much to the politically correct...

Lets look at the last pandemics...

Asiatic (Russian) Flu 1889
Spanish Flu 1918
Asian Flu 1957
Hong Kong Flu 1968

The precident has already been created in using the name of the first case/s to name the flu pandemic virus.

No one should be able to object to the name Mexican Flu 2009.

You mean hamageddon

Ring a ring of nachos
A pocket full of tissues
Arriba Arriba
We all fall down.

I've got a Mac book to interface with alien technology in case this sort of thing happens, so between us we should be ok.

Having whacked the figures into excel and totalled them up.

The results are...
IE8 88.3 Secs
Chrome 88.32 Secs
Firefox 95.62 Secs

Way to go IE8 you are 2 hundredths of a second faster than Chrome overall...

Nothing to see here move along...

Call it a hunch.

Network Location Awareness (NLA) can cause such problems.

Disable and stop the service in services.msc

It's not needed unless you are changing networks a lot, and even then it can get by without it.

It took me a while to figure out when I was getting exactly the same results. Typically the s

I think that there is a more interesting point.

Who paid for the stamp?

If the company did, then the letter is from the company to the recipient, therefore, the company would be entitled to look inside the letter.