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Can I stay in bed with the nurse then? 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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She's 36-24-36 and the other leg too!
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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At least I'm not supposed to be chained down to it! 
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Chains / straps / cables.
Let's not get into semantics.
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You can use a roof box as cover.
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What is the difference between cover and concealment? Cover shields you from fire, concealment merely hides your position. Depending on what you put in it, the roof box is almost definitely concealment and not cover. In fact, only two places on a car can function as cover, the rest is barely even concealment...
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There is a world outside the borders of the good ol' USA. 
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marie915 wrote: . And people are talking about something as trivial as roof boxes?
And people are posting in a place as trivial as the Lounge....go figure. 
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It'll be worth it, at long as it carries beer. 
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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Nobody WANTS a roof box! Some people NEED it, but they don't WANT it all the same... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Okay you're right, I need the roof rails for the bars for the box for all the bloody luggage the girls need.
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Have you considered a trailer?
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: parcel shelf for the back of the car;
How many parcels have you put on it?
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Do stop it. It was bad enough trying to work out what it was called. I thought it would be something sensible like a boot cover, no that goes under everything, or a privacy screen, those are for the windows.
Stupid names.
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Roof Box.
Car.
Superglue.
Solved.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I used to have a 1985 Olds Delta 88... a boat of a car.
When I needed to transport a quantity of items, I purchased a roof box, drilled holes, attached securing points and put it on top of the car. No racks, just the car top.
I then used ratchet straps from the securing points; the straps when just between the doors and the roof.
Low cost and effective.
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Long ago, when I'd commute now and then cross country, I bought a Sears "strap on" roof rack. Worked for a family of five for many years - best of all, removable when I didn't need it. Fit nicely atop a used Buick Century.
I hate permanent installations for transient needs.
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the real question here is.
How much Vodka will it hold when you are done?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: How much Vodka Gin will it hold when you are done?
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So, June 10 or so I bought Acronis True Image with the intent of creating a full backup of my system before M$ decides to force Windows 10 down my gullet without permission. To no avail I tried repeatedly to make it work, and despite the excellent assistance from their tech support staff, nothing we did would generate a backup that would run 100% to completion. I kid you not, these guys actually spend many hours poking around my system, making and unmaking settings changes to try to make the product work. They definitely earn their paycheck, if one counts hours spent and not results accomplished.
In desperation, I bought a new SSD and installed it, then tried the Acronis tool to clone my HDD on the SSD - no joy. So I removed the HDD and did a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro on the SSD. That was July 2, and I've spent all that time trying to get Windows 10 to install. I finally got the upgrade to install by running it from a DVD burned from an iso download, with a working system about 3 PM today. That, despite having Microsoft tech support inside my machine poking around and checking stuff. None of what they tried solved the problem, so I plowed ahead with the DVD I made as a last resort. Tech Support lied to me, though, when I asked if the Mail program could import Outlook data from another drive. Nope - it can't be done. So all of my emails and contacts are gone forever. I hoped that Gmail would let me import the contacts, at least, but I can find no way to do so.
Happily, a friend had a copy of Office with 3 licenses, and only using one, so she let me install a copy and use one of her licenses. That gave me the ability to import from the old .pst file on the old drive, and I have most of my emails and all of my contact info restored. I noticed in the imported data, though, that a lot of contacts have been disappeared, and I'm wondering if they might be stashed somewhere in the old Archive.pst file? Does anyone know?
I'm guessing it will take me several weeks to re-install some of the apps I've lost in the process, and many will never be recovered, since I don't have the license keys available - I'm a lousy file clerk. Oh well, at least my system isn't totally crippled. Thanks a bunch, Microsoft, for your usual performance and quality.
On the bright side, I now have a 750 GB SSD to boot from - very quick - and 2x 2TB plus 1x 1.5TB HDDs to use for other things. I haven't yet tried to start up the USB external drives. Who knows what joys tomorrow may bring?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Stuff Mail - it's a pile of rubbish.
Install Live Mail from the Windows Essentials pack[^] - it can import messages from Outlook (and it works a damn site better than Mail does).
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I've got no interest in anything "Live" from Microsoft. I'm quite sure that they manage their Cloud activities as competently as they do product development.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I know what you mean!
But in practice it's not even slightly cloud based - it's really the older Outlook Express tarted up to look "new-for-2012" and removed from Windows so you have to use Mail.
It's damn good.
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Thanks for the info, Griff. I'll look at it, though I do have things running rather well with the Outlook 2010 version I borrowed. I'm seriously thinking of moving to a Linux-based system, though, just to cut the cord with Microsoft. They've been a huge disappointment since Windows 95, in terms of quality and support. Maybe it's just time to go another way...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Microsoft helps pay for my mortgage, 2 cars, etc. They have been doing this for me for over 15 years now, I think. So, although I can relate to an extent, with your frustration for Microsoft, I can't kick them to the curb so easily.
Edit: I don't work for Microsoft, but I make a living with their stack.
modified 8-Jul-16 9:17am.
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