Bangbangman
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Wanted: 30mm QD cantilever mount (picatinny)
What have you?
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Speaking as an NHS consultant, the only part of the original post that rings true for me and my colleagues is:
5) They will have the vaccine
I've had first dose (last tues), next in about 3 weeks.
We have stopped all operating in one hospital to free up staff for Nightingale units (which we didn't use in the first wave) and to fill shortages in the main acute hospital.
I suppose it's true that we aren't having to worry about budgets in the usual way, because nothing "usual" is happening.
My family had planned to visit relatives at Christmas but we've cancelled in light of the rapidly rising cases in our area.
As for some NHS workers enjoying a "hero status", that might be true of some, though I don't know anyone who would be so shallow as to see themselves as heroic. It's a job. It's often been **** even before COVID. It's just more **** now, especially for those who have been redeployed outside their usual role and often away from usual colleagues and work friends. Morale isn't helped by cancellation of Christmas leave and the social media backlash of the petulant, frustrated keyboard-warriors pedalling their misinformation, paranoia and rumour.
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Ditchman, while you are getting a few sensible and informed answers here, most are regurgitating old myths and ill-informed opinion.
You would get better advice on an EV forum like this one: SpeakEV
I got an EV for rather selfish reasons, rather than any noble environmental concerns (though there are genuine benefits, despite the naysayers). It has, to my surprise, been a revelation.
For your purposes, an EV should be ideal.
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Also interested in what network/unlocked.
What memory capacity and what is the current battery health report in "Settings"?
Thanks.
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1 hour ago, Sciurus said:
Thanks, Bangbangman. Very interesting, I have learned something. I had a look on the Octopus and understood most of it. As you say, it does take some involvement/commitment - much more than I would like to undertake . For a technophobe like me , it does seem to make life far too complicated.
That's exactly why I went for their "Go" tariff. Easy compromise without having to nag wife/kids about timings of usage nor buy loads of tech kit to save pennies over the pounds I'm already saving.
Edit: For anyone who wants to switch, if you use this referral code you get £50 off your bill (as do I!)
share.octopus.energy/blond-sage-128
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28 minutes ago, Sciurus said:
Thanks oowee and John for your response. Call me a cynic, but I just think smart meters are there for energy suppliers to monitor our energy use and help them introduce dynamic pricing. I can certainly see the benefits of charging less for ‘off peak’ electricity but I am blowed if I will give them the ammunition to charge me more on between 6 & 7 pm on a Sunday because they know Mrs Sciurus cooks a nut roast at that time!
I can’t ever envisage suppliers producing so much electricity they have to pay us to use it off peak.
As per my post above, negative pricing already occurs and those on the Octopus Agile tariff get paid to use power at those times.
This is a fact, so you don’t need to envisage it. You can download the OctopusWatch app if you fancy monitoring the prices “live”, out of curiosity. On Octopus’s website you can also download the previous year’s prices for your area (hour by hour- so make plenty of coffee!) to get an idea of hourly costs and how they vary.
These negative-price periods are rare, however, and to get the most out of such a tariff requires more involvement than my family would be bothered with, so I am on a different tariff that is predictable.Most people, myself included, would be better-off on the Agile tariff but find it hard to accept the big variations from peak to off-peak periods.
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8 hours ago, oowee said:
Because in time we will get 'free' electricity or paid to take it off peak and charged very high rates at peak. You currently use energy you dont need to even though you are are not aware of it. Washing machines, fridges etc can all run off peak no issue. We are also moving to electric cars that may be handy as feeders and off peak offset earning money for the owners. Much of it is mind set. Of course you can have your roast dinner at 1700 but you may have to pay £5 for the privelidge.
The grid is currently dumb where solar from house roofs is mostly burnt off as heat. We want to use this power and put it back in the grid and the grid needs to be more responsive. Electric (with small scale nuclear) will become the power that we rely upon more and more as fossil fuels tail off and we move to 2050 targets. At the same time we dont want to build hundreds and hundreds of new power stations so need to spread loads.
Octopus Agile already has negative pricing periods ("plunge events") where Smart meter users can make (a little bit of) money by using power. Eg. Charging up a power wall or equivalent (like a re-purposed old EV battery array) for use in peak periods (4-7pm)
5 hours ago, Fisheruk said:And what happens when they have dug all of the Lithium out of the ground?!
You should Google that (both source of lithium and battery development)
You can recycle/repurpose EV batteries (see above) more than you can oil.
There is a lot of misinformation about EVs, smart meters etc. People seem to be happy to regurgitate this stuff without actually fact checking or doing their own research. If they did, they might be surprised (I was, and made changes, and I'm glad I did.)
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We have second gen smart meter. It's been good and we've saved money on Octopus Go tariff.
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Thanks and we'll done!
Could I have the small gillet for my teenage daughter, unless you think it would swamp her (she's 16 and likes things to be on the loose side.)
Very Happy to donate to RBL!
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1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
Essential can be a very large word!
Indeed! But did you see the report about the man who just went shopping for "essentials" at Tescos in his boxers?
They made him leave. Does this mean clothes are essential in order to shop, and therefore he should have been able to buy them?!
He did it as a stunt, to illustrate the point.
Personally, I don't believe anyone HAS buy clothes or TV, phone, pots, pans etc during a specified 2 week period but if it were longer, that would be different.
Everything is about compromise at the moment: there is no single correct answer to the problem that doesn't create a different set of problems.
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Are the red and the dark green (?) North Face Jacket's waterproof? Would you do a discount for the pair?
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I reported this user- he approached me in response to my wanted ad for a PRS stock.
This is not an unusual modus operandi; it happens on other forums. They PM you giving an email address of their good friend who is selling just what you want at a low price.
You can do your own detective work and have a bit of fun with them too.
Pictures they send can be searched for and foto-forensics will help reveal photoshopping (in this case the metadata/exif info revealed that Photoshop CS6 was the last-used program to save the images.) I found the original images were lifted from a Reddit post and a random “what’s it worth website”.
The language/English was a little suspicious, but not as bad as many scams.
The seller wanted PayPal as gift, to his son’s account, though the “son” had different surname.
Initially he quoted a price in $, despite “being from Yorkshire”. His dates were in US format and the info he sent about the item was cut-and-pasted from an official website description, not his own words.
Using his previous forum-posts text, I searched the internet and found he had started forum identities in various places, all around the same time, about a month ago.
I gave him a run around, asking for extra pics (these he sent but were of a gen2, not the gen3 in the original pics) and I made him write a “code” on a bit of paper in a pic with the stock. The code I gave was 1-5C4M-U (I scam u) but it didn’t look as funny as I’d hoped. The paper in the pic was photoshopped in, complete with dodgy shadow.
I also asked him to include his UK drivers licence in a later pic, which was badly photoshopped (shadow of levitation, ghosting around name, “Ss” clone-stamp error at end of “Gardens”, large area of repeated clone-stamping too-right corner) The image quality on PW may not allow you to see these features:
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Sadly he stopped playing along as my requests became more unreasonable.
On this occasion, a high index of suspicion and some lazy mistakes by the scammer made it easy to spot and pretty low risk if I had paid. However, other similar scams have included requests to meet up in secluded locations to exchange a firearm that was being sold, raising the much more serious possibility of being ambushed and having your guns safe emptied and...
So be vigilant!
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Dear all, I’m looking for a Magpul PRS Stock (prefer Gen 3) with all original fittings as it’s going to be used for a Ruger Precision Rifle.
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I'm looking for a 5/8UNF (5/8x18) bridge for a Wildcat Evo moderator.
I would swap for my unused 1/2UNF bridge.
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4 hours ago, Rewulf said:
You stopped wearing that tin foil hat didnt you ..?
They have you now, veganism next ..
Wash your mouth out!
Greta would weep at the three freezers I run for game meat!
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2 minutes ago, McSpredder said:
I think you are almost certainly quite correct, but I wouldn't dream of buying an electric car at the moment -- if the technology develops as promised, anybody who can wait a couple of years should be able to buy a vehicle that is much better and much cheaper than today's offerings. The smart people that you mention will make a great deal of money for themselves, and won't need my contribution. If EV technologies diverge, some customers may discover they have bought into a "dead end" system (a bit like VHS/Betamax).
EVs may suit a lot of city dwellers and commuters, but banning the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles will impose maximum inconvenience and financial burden on locations that have the minimum atmospheric pollution (remote communities and rural areas). Doesn't seem a very bright idea from the point of view of national economics, just virtue-signalling by politicians.
I think we can all agree that the motives of politicians are not necessarily transparent nor in the best interests of the average member of the public. They also tend to have city-centric views.
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On 18/02/2020 at 12:23, udderlyoffroad said:
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The biggest failure with this policy of not selling any new internal-combustion engine cars from 2035, is that the government has no strategy for where the extra required generation capacity will come from. So, for instance, a network of large batteries all wanting charging at night means we could finally get away from the appalling waste of money that is subsiding wind farms not to put energy into the grid.
Interesting you should say that.
The Octopus Agile tariff (already available and in use) tracks wholesale electricity prices and this is reflected in the price the consumer pays for electricity.
Because the grid, and particularly wind power, often has a surplus at off-peak times (night), Octopus actually pays the consumer to charge their EV (or run tumble dryer, or charge power wall etc.)
Furthermore, VTG (vehicle to grid) can allow owners of EVs and powerwalls to charge cheap (night) and then sell back to the grid at high peak (4-7pm, for eg.) Likewise using car to power house at peak time, avoiding high tariff from grid, then charge car at night. Those who have solar can combine EV battery, power wall (which may in future use repurposed EV batteries) and VTG to flex their energy use to improve self-sufficiency or just minimise costs.
These scenarios do not require the owner to run back and forth, plugging in cars and setting timers, the tech and software already exist.
There is huge potential already and yet we are only on the bottom rung of the ladder.
Re-read this thread in 10years, maybe even 5 years. I think it will be amusing, unless we all got killed-off by Coronavirus.
For those who talk about cobalt, lithium, shifting pollution, hydrogen is better, slow charging, limited battery life, battery-swap doesn’t exist yet, etc...
...do a bit of digging and test your opinions. Lies and misinformation are being spread by all “sides” but the most honest/least dishonest seems to be the pure electric option (as opposed to the “self-charging hybrids” and hydrogen/hydrogen fuel-cell options).
While the naysayers stand stand on the sidelines, sniping and moaning, the visionaries and smart investors (look at Tesla stock/company value) are quietly getting on with proving them wrong.
Flight will be a big hurdle, which is why I’m all in favour of any non-oil based fuel for vehicle use: we are going need the remaining oil for planes.
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On 26/02/2020 at 10:51, NoBodyImportant said:
Electric cars are fine for fixed routes like to work and back. But until you pull into a station and a robot exchanges the battery instead of charging it won’t be viable.
Already exists.
Google Nio battery swap. Currently only in China but EVs are in their infancy and development is moving fast.
There is a lot of misinformation about EVs out there, both positive and negative. Most of the negatives are being solved and some are just myths.
I have been guilty of perpuating a lot of a lot of these myths as I had a very sceptical view of EVs . Ironically, in the process of fact-checking my opinions, I’ve come to realise that there are a lot of smart people and a lot of money working to advance the tech. It’s much more advanced than I had realised, though consumers won’t see the “petrol/diesel parity” for a few years yet.
I don’t own an EV but now I find myself looking forward to the day when I do. I’m not really sure why I was so entrenched in my opposition to them now.
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It is difficult to guarantee that the scope will have enough adjustment as the top of the rifle's action is not always true to the bore (eg barrel droop.)
I have had no problem dialling to 600m and beyond with 223Rem, 20inch barrel, 77gr bullets, using a Vortex PST with a 30mm main tube n a 0moa mount.
However, using a scope at any extreme of its adjustment range is not ideal so, since you are going to need mounts/bases anyway, why not get a 20moa base/rail or use the Burris Signature Zee rings (or better yet, XTR) and get up to 40moa extra elevation (depending on ring separation.) BTW, the XTR are pricier (often around £60 secondhand, though) but include a set of inserts and are very solid, whereas the Signature Zee rings are lighter weight, cheaper but don't contain the offset inserts. Both are kind to scope tubes.
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What an extraordinary game. 31:0 at half time to a 38:38 finish.
Johnson timed that side-step perfectly for Scotland's last try. England did well to dig deep and engineered that last try under pressure of the clock.
Seems grossly unfair that Scotland (and Italy, for that matter) are at the bottom of the table.
Makes you realise that you aren't safe at halftime (as I'm sure many Welsh supporters like me thought we were) even with a sizeable lead.
God I love rugby
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9 hours ago, Mice! said:
can't think if it was last last year or one before, Ireland v Wales the second half was just constant attack by Ireland and a master class in defence by Wales, not sure if a point was scored in the second half but it was a captivating game, and I've no idea who won, I'm expecting the same today.
I was there with my Dad and son. Wales won 22:9
Fantastic day, great memories that get a bit blurry for events after the game (my Dad took my son home before shenanigans got too disreputable!)
The Irish were magnanimous (and sloshed) in defeat!
Wish I was in Cardiff tonight!
My prediction of a close game was wrong, though penalties certainly played a roll!
Da iawn, pob!
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Shame about the roof, though it's understandable Ireland want it open. Would have made for a better game closed. I'm sure Ireland will have taken notes during the second-half of the Wales/Scotland game and noted the strong Welsh defence but also the effectiveness of well-placed grub kicks and chips by the Scots to create opportunity.
The game could go either way and I'm sure it will be close. Maintaining discipline will be crucial: the game could be won by a timely penalty (or drop goal, for that matter.)
Cymru am Byth!
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On 05/02/2019 at 20:10, Benthejockey said:
🙈 it’s one of those bloody words I can never spell!!! For the abuse you two have got to buy something now 😂
It has all the vowels in alphabetical order, if that helps?!
311 / 303 bullets 180 gn winchester
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Are these still available? Could you combine postage on the two bags?
Thanks.