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lol thats awesome pete... I love creative case mods... $120 is a bargain too -D

gorge road is a doozy, so is the route past the camelot castle - any of the roads within the hills are lots of fun the road from wistow to goolwa is pretty nice too - wide, long and flat (as flat as roads get around this place in any case) -D

got pron pics? link? -D

Yeah I agree... thats why I'd be challenging it - too much ambiguity in the legislation. If our pollies had even half a brain per person they would have seen how fundamentally flawed it is. My argument in court would be 'what constitutes "undue engine noise" as per a specific volume?' and then I would ask 'If exceeding (x) dB constitutes undue engine noise, can the officer in question supply credible measured proof as to the noise of the engine he believes to be 'excessive'. Theres a reason why they have noise analysers in police cars - for exhausts, loud parties as well as anything else that would breach the EPA act - if they don't use it, then they're not providing the defendant with all possible avenues to defend their innocence. That alone is generally a caveat that gets cases thrown out of court. -D

Unless they can point out the legislation which defines the maximum acceptable rate of acceleration, it'd never hold up in court. I also don't believe there's a law on 'engine noise' either. If you spin your wheels, you get done for driving with undue care... my point is tho, unless there is a written law, sure they can give you a fine or whatever, but it'd get thrown out in court if theres no legislation against it... Also this is apples vs oranges - a bike by nature takes off a hell of a lot faster than a car, even when its not being driven hard. Little thing called 'power to weight ratio' -D EDIT - Kye did you challenge it in court or did you simply pay a fine?

if he stopped at 60, no laws would have been broken. Rapid acceleration is not a crime. -D

lol well she is very fine but yer, surgically altered women arent my ideal of perfection I wanna see a video of u squeezing em as proof - cos even when they got fakies, most chicks will swear that theyre real... "Girl, you're lying on ur back and your twin peaks are looking like mt everest from the perspective of the ants..." -D

really starting to hate winter having a respiratory tract infection is great. you get to cough up multicolored wads of phlegm and then launch it into the distance having sore abs from coughing is not cool tho -D

When you say higher end, are you talking Intel ? -D

Car versus Bike. Hrrm. I guess he's a really intelligent person... -D

approx $550 (aud) delivered for a set of 6 550cc lucas injectors for rb20 (high impedance) - could be cheaper if our dollar goes up, cheaper still if you have a low impedance injector conversion (rb26 injectors cheaper than rb20 for some reason) -D

Cool. Want one. -D

pretty sure some SSD's have internal Raid 0 stripes with hardware TRIM - get two of those in series and u wont need to worry too much out wear levelling in addition to that, slashdot did a series of benchmarks at some stage and they estimated that even the worst SSD for levelling won't have issues until its at least 5 year old (conservative) if not 10 (optimistic) - most peoples computers dont even last that long if i can find it, ill post it up. also had some neat benchmarks comparing the IBM x25 series vs the OCZ and G.Skill brands - and there wasnt as big a difference as the price tag makes out... -D

+1 if they aint jigglin, then i aint dippin my lipton teabag -D

whats that? nismo master clutch cylinder or whatever? will be a long while before I need to change clutch/gearbox/etc but definately keeping my ears open for what folks are doing last firm clutch I drove was dion's when I was moving his car at loxton - much firmer than stock -D

50 seconds to post? turn all the shit off that u dont need to use ;P -D

dayum man just how much porn does a married man need? SSD's really do boogie. I put an ssd in my last eee and installed win7 - with 2gigs of ram, 1.6ghz cpu it booted win7 faster than win7 boots on a WD raptor on a quad core i7 920 with 12 gigs of ram... would love to get a pair of those 128gig ssd's and raid0 them - would be absolutely ballistic -D

im interested in how this drives compared to the stock clutch... is it more/less firm, has more/less travel etc... looks like a sure bargain for $580 wont be requiring one for quite some time but you've piqued my interest -D

Ahh true, apple pretty much has a monopoly when it comes to audio hardware and apps - mainly due to MS re-inventing the wheel (drivers) each time. I used to have a C-port DSP24 (CPort 2000) which only had ASIO drivers for Win2k. Was great until I tried to install it on vista. Didn't like it. Eventually someone hacked the drivers to work under XP but they certainly don't run under Win7 - which is great, a $1000 soundcard that doesnt work because the manufacturers are too pov to write new drivers... -D

to a degree, osX is hugely locked down - its also based upon NeXTstep which is based upon a unix kernel BeOS would have been a much better OS to put on the Mac but Jean Louis Gassee (ex Apple, Be Inc Founder) wanted too much money for it. Jobs, who had left apple earlier to found NeXT did his own behind the door dealings with Gil Amelio so he could get back in - turns out he took Amelios job, turfed BeOS out the window and spent the next 5 years converting NeXTstep into a viable OS... Windows 7 has come a long way and I'm pretty happy with it - only sometimes need to get to the command prompt which means their front end apps have matured enough for end user activities. That said, I like linux and BeOS more than the other OS's around these days and for the geeks, if you're interested there's an open source BeOS clone, 100% api, source and binary compatible called Haiku... www.haiku-os.org - u can even download the Alpha pre-release on a live cd and check it out - has been over 10 yrs in development, but its already more user friendly than the last 20 years of linux development - and this is a pervasively multithreaded OS that was designed to run on multiple CPU cores back when the only way to have more than one core was to physically mount 2 CPU northbridges on a single system and share the memory IO (Symmetric Multiprocessing aka SMP - used to have an MSI 694D Pro with two P3-800's back in the day when a P3-500 was considered ballsy... pity the chipset sucked... -D

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The thing stems from the whole 'cult of apple' where they used to use their allegiance to apple as a badge of honor against the 'totalitarianism of microsoft', which tbh was a good movement at the time. thing is, the ms cats have been spending quite a lot of money to improve their perception and have done so by modifying their products. Vista and 2008 office was a total f**kup, and they fixed a load of those issues with win 7 - I hated vista, but I LOVE win7, and I've never been an MS fanboy MS have spent money to become more consumer friendly after all the antitrust stuff - they probably deserved to have been punished more than what they got, but thems the compromises - a government can no more cripple a software manufacturer it relies upon lest it cripple itself... thank the gods that apple hasnt been implemented as a govt standard. I for one are happy with SELinux on RHEL and Fedora - much better to have live hdd encryption natively than having to pay big bucks to do the same thing from a proprietary company -D

the boss kit you need depends on which model of r32 you have - what year / month is it? i had to buy one as the one my car came with was not hicas compatible. Cost $80 odd delivered from rhdjapan. -D

+1 to all of the above not sure why people need smartphones. have a simple little k850i here that does everything I need, including email, web and java apps even tethers a laptop to nextG broadband which is very handy apple suck with their closed source/proprietary view... back in the day they were seen as being the good guy and microsoft the bad guy - how times are changing -D

try and find a local MP that'll be sympathetic... some of them are biased, but some of them are really good in looking after their constituents -D