Ebayers be aware

Cane wrote

AOL, with reservations.

While what you say should be true I somehow have doubts about the
intentions of our current government. Details of what we are up to en
mass is just the sort of thing which would appeal to Teflon and all his
Christian Democrat mates.

Fortunately for us though they are a bunch of muppets. Just imagine the
control they could exercise over us sinful citizens if they had a clue.

Much more scary.

 

berlin.de:

Yes but not in my name.

I mostly agree and it doesn't worry me much in my day to day.
There is still a principle at stake which we ought to defend though,
otherwise the erosion of civil liberty will become so bad that it really
does affect us in our everyday lives.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

All with points ignition. Try it with a black box.

 

This is the point really. When they can swipe yiour card and instantly
pull up all sorts of info. It's not so much the card itself but the
linking of databases which goes with it.

 

<Points repeatedly at TS250>

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73063../..16931.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

How far do you want to move the fucking goalposts?

All right, then - my old power-valve RD350.

 

ISTR the 400/4 uses a field coil in the alternator, so unless your one has
been converted to a permanent magnet jobbie, or there is enough residual
magetism lurking around there to induce enough current in the windings to
fire the coils, I can`t see where the leccy is coming from to make it start.

<back to original sub-topic)

My CB200, like many old, jap perm magnet jobbies, will just start with just
about anything from a dead battery to a Maris Piper spud wired up to the
bugger.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

A paragon of reliability those RD's - LOL!.

 

Apathy would rule if anyone could be bothered.

What exactly?

 

Nor me. All I do know is that with an utterly fucked battery[1] (as
opposed to no battery at all), it'll start with the kick or, if all else
fails, a bump.

[1] As in "despairing click from starter solenoid, headlight fading
swiftly to a brown glow and neutral light disappearing altogether"

 

Well, reliable, as in could be relied on to start, run and get one
there, but bloody short-fused, as in "bores and crank died early".

A little hint - you're getting positively Des-like as you drift off the
original topic. Accept you were wrong, eh? Or you'll make yourself look
a bit of a twonk.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

The original topic was about the disclosure of personal info by ebay to
3rd parties. I should know because I posted the original post.

It was Bonwick who decided to have a go about brit iron vs japcrap.

On the subject of people making a bit of a twonk of themselves, have you
got the list of names of banks which use keylogger vulnerable transactions
systems yet?

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

I said flat battery, not fucked battery. Try not to drift off the original
topic now.

 

And there is a difference between that and currently asking you your
name?

 

<Shrug>
Well I think they are the thin end of an increasingly authoritarian wedge,
but I don't spend much time worrying about it either, as I have lots of
other stuff to do too.

The fact that we all lead busy lives doesn't change the fact that our
spurious leaders have an increawsingly worrying agenda though.

 

Yep, you did pretty well for a one line cast there

 

That'll be 400 *Four*, you ignoramous.

 

I'm not obliged to tell anyone anything unless arrested.

Of course failure to comply with a demand to produce your ID card will be
an arrestable offence...

 

Well, if I said my name was Ben in a West Midlands accent they'd never
suspect it wasn't me; Simon, whose formative years was in the East
Midlands.

Whereas with my Sainsbury's Nectar thingummy they'd know I'm not a
"so-called" asylum seeker living in a three bed room council house
without a driving licence.

Bostin.

 

Always good for a laugh innit.