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  1. Between the 20th June and today, the oil price rose by $15, from $90 - $105. This is after a sustained fall from $125 , starting at the beginning of April. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/commodities/143908/twelve_month.stm
  2. Well we already have a " Sky at Night " topic, maybe " The Sky by Day " ? just wondering how much storage on Shetlink . I upload my photos to Photobucket then link to them. It saves Shetlink's space.
  3. I have to say, I've been having a similar problem, though not as often or for as long. DSL light stays green, but the Internet light goes red and my connection is lost. It usually comes back on it's own after a few minutes and if it doesn't, then a router restart usually sorts it. The last time I noticed this was a couple of days ago. I had torrent software running and the outage lasted about an hour and a half according to that, but that was an unusually long break for me. Phone works fine, so I've just been assuming it was the usual jittery microwave link. I'm with TalkTalk and in Lerwick Oh, and it only happens during working hours, 9-5 ish.
  4. Speaking of clouds: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/ArabiaTerra/photos032.jpg Taken through a window with a crappy 35mm compact.
  5. We used to get some pretty impressive Royal Navy visitors: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/ArabiaTerra/Rodney.jpg HMS Rodney http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/ArabiaTerra/Barham.jpg HMS Barham
  6. It is that you slagged off the Mareel parking while completely ignoring the fact that there are three large public car parks within 5 minutes walking distance of the place that is annoying. You've cherry-picked an issue, ignored the context, and then declared self-righteously that "everyone is entitled to their own opinion" and "I'm only saying". Fine, but don't then get all het-up when you then get slagged off for such an obvious attempt at trolling. You're entitled to your own opinion, and everyone else is entitled to call your opinion rubbish. Edit: And now I realise that the post I'm answering is 5 pages back and has been quite adequately answered by others. Oh well, any more for the pile-on? (I don't know, I take a couple of days off to watch Buffy and... ) Well said.
  7. Hmmm, I've read The Aarhus Convention, and it seems to be just talking about following proper planning procedures and releasing information when requested, with the following exception: It then goes on about ensuring people have redress to appropriate legal procedures to challenge decisions about the release of information. Given the commercial confidentiality clause quoted above, I don't think VE have breached any of the provisions in the Convention. As to how this applies to windfarm applications and the Scottish Government in a more general sense, I couldn't say. IANAL.
  8. They're doing a 30 day free trial offer, so I think I'll give it a try.
  9. http://vimeo.com/27505192 Awesome (and tragic) video.
  10. ^^^^ Tried that, didn't work. The drive cloned successfully, but the computer wouldn't recognise it as a boot drive. I'm going to try a fresh install of Win 7x64 on the drive then restore a full back-up on top of that. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
  11. Basic Arithmetic FAIL! What on earth gives you the idea that a tidal stream runs at full flow all the time except at slack water? The flow of the tides follows a sine wave. The only time the flow is at maximum is at the top of the wave. The average output from the tide and from any tidal generator is 50%. That is the maximum possible output for any tidal generator over a 24 hour period. And no technological innovation can ever make tidal generators as cheap to install or maintain as onshore wind because they are under the water. They will always be more expensive. And finally, how will tidal generators be exempt from exactly the same wear and tear and rising maintenance costs as onshore wind as they age, except that such costs will be much larger because they are under the water. You do post some drivel sometimes, Ghosty.
  12. It's routine: http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2012/07/12/burradale-blades-removed-for-maintenance-work
  13. Not from around here, but possibly the most bizarre ship ever constructed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57465526-1/bizarre-flipping-research-ship-turns-50/
  14. I'm looking to upgrade my 120Gb SSD to a 240Gb SSD, without re-installing windows, steam, skyrim and all the associated mods, if I can avoid it. Just making a clone of my system disc , C:, on the 240Gb disc and then swapping the 2 drives. Can anyone recommend a utility for doing this?
  15. I just received a text: WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT YOU REGARDING YOUR PPI, WE NOW KNOWHOW MUCH YOU ARE OWED,PLEASE VISIT {website} This is a scam, don't reply. More details here: http://www.bba.org.uk/blog/article/ppi-now-scammers-are-pretending-to-be-us
  16. A pessimistic view of global warming: http://guymcpherson.com/2012/06/were-done/ I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but I'm currently reading the links he's embedded in the article trying to find flaws in his reasoning. Nothing so far.
  17. Would that be line rental included? Yes. But note Post Offce have a very clear Fair Use Policy that points out that 'unlimited' accounts will penalised if 100 GB a month is exceeded. I've been looking for an alternative broadband supplier recently, and all the unlimited packages I've looked at have a similar fair-use policy with a 100Gb/month limit. It seems to be pretty standard across the industry.
  18. Very interesting, Koy. Except the part where Lovelock is wrong of course. This would be a textbook case of the Appeal to Authority fallacy. 1). Twelve years is not enough time to separate out the signal from the noise on climate change 2). The world has not stopped warming, just ask the sea ice in the Arctic. Oh, and there's the fact that 9 of the hottest 10 years ever recorded have happened since 2000. 3). The reason we haven't seen a steady year on year increase in temperatures has been because of ENSO. Over the last few years, La Niña conditions have predominated, which means the heat has been going into the oceans rather than the air. Interestingly, we seem to be heading back into El Niño conditions at the moment. Oh, and this argument is No9 in the list of things deniers get wrong at Skeptical Science
  19. So what do you think will happen here without VE, Kavi? The TOTAL development will, at best, employ a hundred people or so, and bring in a few million over it's lifespan. It might be enough to offset the decline and eventual closure of Sullom. The fishing isn't getting any bigger, and if the predictions for ocean acidification come true, it will be devastated. Likewise, the aquaculture industry is mature with the only possible change being down. Ocean acidification will have an even bigger impact on this. The knitting died out years ago. The tourism seems to be fairly flat and with fossil fuel prices driving up travelling costs, I can't see it compensating for the decline in the other industries, especially if climate change starts driving away the birdlife on which the bulk of the tourist trade depends. You seem to believe there was some golden age in the past when Shetland was some idyllic pastoral paradise of healthy, happy crofters farming the land and nipping oot t'da eela in the evening to catch their supper during summertime and gathering round the houses to play fiddle music and dance the winter nights away. WAKE UP! This idyll never existed. Crofting life before the oil consisted of hard, constant, back-breaking toil just to scrape together enough cash to keep the wolf from the door. It was a life of grinding poverty that every able bodied young Shetlander got as far away from as he or she could, the first chance they got. Shetlands "traditional history and heritage" is a tale of debt-ridden wage slavery and exploitation. A tale of plunder by Lairds and oppression by the Kirk. Is that the past you hanker for? Because I'm pretty damn sure I don't want it, for me or my descendents. In the fifties and sixties, Shetland was depopulating because there was nothing here for the young. This process was interrupted by the oil, but the underlying reasons for it haven't changed, and it will resume once the oil money is gone. Unless we have something to replace it. This replacement is the windfarm, renewable energy. The interconnector opens up this new chance to maintain our standard of living, to preserve this culture you seem to value so much. Nothing else can do it. So, unless you know of an alternative that can secure Shetland's economic future in the same way as the windfarm, then please stop this constant whinging. It's getting tiresome.
  20. Would that be line rental included? Yes.
  21. The Post Office are offering phone and unlimited broadband for £26.05/month at the moment, all in. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone-broadband-extra/details
  22. More on this particular aircraft. Seems I was wrong about there being no flying examples left.
  23. Anyone know the history of this particular plane? As far as I was aware, there were no flying examples left. They did pull one out of a glacier in Greenland a few years back, and there were plans to rebuild it, so could this be the result? Or is it a modern reconstruction?
  24. It should be noted that the hills of Shetland are littered with old concrete structures, mostly left over from the war or the cold war. Foundations, floor slabs, gun emplacements, magazines, tank traps, observation posts, footings for radio and radar emplacements, etc. It's all just quietly crumbling into the hill and doesn't seem to have caused any lasting damage anywhere.
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