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On the other hand if temperature drops under 15C we put our winter coat on 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Buy a new car, one with a very nice big touch screen...
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tesla?
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the any key okay
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OriginalGriff wrote: any suggestions on how to get my desktop and monitors in there?
Power inverter that plugs into the cigarette lighter?
Try not to overload it though...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, any suggestions on how to get my desktop and monitors in there? 
Get a long extension cable and a power bar?
Alternatively, get a laptop and use WiFi (or a long Ethernet cable) to connect via remote desktop?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Interesting. Having done a quick search the people who want to sell me this service say that 10% of refrigerant can escape each year and the air con should be recharged every couple of years.
Does anyone do that? Is it true?
My car, a 15 year old Honda CRV that is proving to be utterly indestructible has never been re-gassed but was struggling a bit in the 33C heat of the M11 last night.
Problem is at £50, well that's a sizable chunk of the car's value...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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My current car, a Toyota, old enough to drink in a pub, is still running on its original gas. Might be a little down on cooling efficiency, but not much.
However a previous car, GM product, lost all its gas suddenly just after the 3 year warranty expired (of course, Mr Murphy). Compressor seal was shot.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nope, but I only bought it in March second hand, so it was worth a try.
Halfords do a "while you wait" re-gas for £30 which worked fine for me, and I think the initial "will it charge up at all" test is free.
Air-con also improves demisting in winter, because the air that it pumps is dryer than straight outside air apparently.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Air-con also improves demisting in winter, because the air that it pumps is dryer than straight outside air
Exactly (unless you have freezing conditions)
It was during such a manoeuvre this week I discovered mine has had enough. Still though, 14 years and 380,000 kms isnt such a bad run..
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My wife took her parents car (a nice SLK) for the weekend...
She was not lucky as the aircon decided to fail and started to throw hot air instead of fresh/cold air...
After one hour of super-sweating she parked at our house and left the car there parked for all the night.
The next morning everything worked fine.
PS: Just park inside your house, leave doors open and full throttle at the aircon... perfect balance and comfort.
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probably froze and blocked the compressor output pipes - in really hot conditions the compressor works a bit too well.
Germany doesn't get proper hot Summers so by default their air-cons are not factored for real heat - can be (should have been) adjusted to suit local conditions.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Spending this week at my in-laws (upstate New York), working remotely.
Coming from South Carolina, the humidity is considerably less, but people here are complaining about it, so it really is all comparative.
Having said that, even though I'm working out of a camper in the yard, so no air conditioning, I do enjoy the atmosphere and view... and lack of commute to the office.
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I lived for 30 years in Alaska, and I don't remember ever having a car with this thing called 'air conditioning'. It was only after I moved to Tulsa, OK to work on autmated drilling rigs that A/C became a 'nice thing to have'.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Lazarus Long
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When I first moved to Tulsa (from southern Germany) I was shocked at the lack of mountains there - also at the fact that everything had A/C.
I lived in my A/C house, got in my A/C car and drove to my A/C office. After work I drove to the A/C mall (on 71st street), then to the A/C supermarket (Albertson's, I miss you) to do some grocery shopping and then back home to A/C comfort!
If everyone in Tulsa relocated to Alaska I think the Global Warming issue would just go away.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah, lack of mountains was disturbing. I hadn't realized that a large part of my 'compass' involved seeing which mountain(s) were where. Then I realized that the natives were calling these little lumps with trees (!!) growing on the tops - wait for it - mountains! No self respective mountain would have trees on the top 
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Lazarus Long
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Yes. ...and even the trees were stumpy! My wife is originally from OK but even she left as soon as possible for Colorado so she knows what mountains really are!
When we moved to MD she was a little nervous because there were 60+ft trees all over the place and she expected them to fall over at any moment!
She says some places are great but Oklahoma is only OK.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A new low today when I am offered human hair from India rather than the usual frequent invitations to heavy-industrial equipment expositions in China, solicitations to purchase autos (US), to order fresh produce (US).
After years of their digital eyes scanning my e-mails, and, I assume, reading my location via IP address ...
Don't they have a clue ?
errr ... perhaps better they don't ?
I am, often, using a VPN (Nord) now to "digitally manifest" in the US so I can see more Netflix content : that may account for ad content from Walmart.
The price we pay for sticking with a browser out of habit.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Ahhh. You don't realize the true nature of the problem!
Someone has been impersonating you (MAC's, IP's, emails, everything). We don't yet know who it is, except that they like dark-haired wigs (and perhaps, ripe bananas).
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Someone has been impersonating you
Good grief ... of course ! It's the same people that film me with hidden cameras and insert embarrassing short videos of me into nightly news programs !
Thanks for the wake-up call 
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Unarmed and disturbed the boss liked to ramble! (7)
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MEANDER - to wander, anagram of UNARMED. (oops - not quite. still puzzling the anagram pieces.)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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 Your anagram-fu needs a little work!
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Maunder.
Anagram of unarmed, Mr Maunder is the boss of this site, and it also means to ramble on when speaking.
Andy B
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Is the correct answer! You are up tomorrow.
Was it a bit much giving three solutions in one clue?
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Not at all, it can act as a red herring if you're not aware of one of the factors e.g. that to maunder is a synonym for ramble.
Andy B
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