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Platinum and Diamonds are the jewellery de jour. I gotta sell another kidney soon...
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Pearls, surely?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You just haven't lived until you've spangled your dangle. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Unfortunately it is a mind destroying cognitive prion for destroying those with innate subconscious marker common to many humans. Kind of like spongiform encephalitis is to neural proteins. There is another form of this cognitive attack that is in German used with some success[^] during WW1 by the British against German soldiers;
I suspect a flood zombistic hords to attack our cities because of your republishing this content.
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Braaaaaaainzzzz!
Needzzz BRAAAAAAAAAINZ!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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My understanding is that it is a technique used by spammers and malware writers for determining deliverable email addresses. Yours has just been identified to them.
They send a message to a suspected account and look for absence of non-delivery messages. This process is typically done from a disposable account and the gibberish ensures that it is not snagged by a spam filter or dropped into a black hole.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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It is an outlook.com address so I cannot really filter it out. I am thinking to contact them for fun if they are real.
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What!
The!
F***!
I have one SatNav with all of Europe on it and a built in SatNav in the car with UK & RoI only. I thought, stupidly obviously, that I could transfer the maps from one to the other.
No.
No that won't work. I have to buy the maps for each device. Okay, so I go and see.
£105!!plus p&p because I can't just download it.
Elephant off and die! I'll take two SatNavs in the car then.
[edit - that's UK and RoI, not RoI only]
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Man up.
Buy a paper map from the petrol station for the whole of europe for a tenner!
(or print out a google map before you go)
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I tried one of them fancy paper maps once, once its all unfolded and stuck to the inside of the windscreen I couldn't see where I was going. 
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DaveAuld wrote: Buy a paper map from the petrol station for the whole of europe for a tenner!
I've spotted a mahoooooooosive flaw in your plan. To wit: I'm driving so she who must be obeyed is looking at the paper. Assuming she does look at it the correct way up, she does enjoy telling me that we need to take the current exit exactly at the point where is becomes impossible for me to take it.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Who said anything about letting the co-driver read it!
Quick squint at refueling stops and memorise key place names to head for. If all else fails just use sens of direction to head in the general direction...when need to refuel again take another look at the map.
This is called the "Wandering Salesman Theorum" (c) Dave Auld 2014.
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The first trans-European trip I did - Woking to Budapest in 23 hours - I was alone and only had only the company of a paper map, route list and copious amounts of coffee. After trying to follow the signs around Brussels [it's obvious they say; ha, bloody ha] I decided on a SatNav.
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Worst journey I ever made was driving around Belfast being directed by an Irishman:
"Turn left".
I turned left.
"Of course it should've been the other left cos I meant right".
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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DaveAuld wrote: memorise key place names to head for
You see, this was the normal system. It didn't survive the last visit to Wales, with place-names that sound like white-noise but road signage that I'm pretty sure is made up as a big joke. Looking for Haverford? Try Hwlfffffordddddd. Nope. I don't visit Wales very often, for some reason they treat my like I'm English c.f. Scotland we're citizens of the People's Republic are welcomed.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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That is why I use a Doris [my name for the SatNav].
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I stopped using my TomTom device. My cellphone does just as well and doesn't need the maps updated.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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In Europe that works as long as you stay in your country. but the cost of data roaming is prohibitive.
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The cost of data roaming was cut in half across the EU last week and all additional charges should be gone in the near future.
That bloody EU, looking out for its citizens.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I know, I just looked today with O2 for Cyprus and it is £2 per day unlimited data (for pay monthly users). 
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Still prohibitive, but atleast a mistake will only be half as painful.
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My condolences. Yeah, I imagine the data costs could get prohibitive. Here, that is not an issue at all; I've never gone over my 20 GB/mo limit.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I used my AT&T "unlimited" data plan when my home connection went wonky for a while. I connected through my phone via Tether and used the internet as usual - great! Until they sent a letter to me complaining that I was using my "unlimited" data plan too much! Apparently AT&T have an alternate meaning to unlimited. It means: After you have used it for a while we will slow down your connection to the point of it becoming useless; please note however, that your usage is still "unlimited".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have Verizon and I used my unlimited MiFi exclusively for a couple years. Never had any problem of complaints. These days I only use it when I travel.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I have a limit of 1 GB/Month of which I'm using only a fraction. 
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