Extreme_biker0

I thought that was the name of the guy who started the topic :$

You're right! People are banning, closing and warning people so much, citing minor yet incontestable breaches. It seems like the forum's here for the rules now, instead of the rules being here for the good of the forum. Karlson, you're inflamatory, elitist topic sucks, get rid of it, get out of your own arse, and stop being part of the problem!

I don't like this 'don't even think about contesting it' thing. For one, the moderators are human, so they make mistakes. If they get it wrong, and interpret the rules wrong, why should that not be contested? A moderators job is to enforce the rules, and if they are seen to be wrong about the rules then that should be contested. The most immature thing about this forum is the way the moderators, especially karlsoneverret in this thread, consider themselves above the rules, by saying that their interpretation of the rules cannot be contested and is final. It sucks. Karlson, you want the rules to be followed more? That needs respect for the rules. YOU are not the rules. You just interpret and enforce them. So you can be wrong. To promote respect for the authority around here means not you saying 'don't contest my decision'. That's all wrong. Edit to add: I've been here from the start, so I know what it's like to have been a member here all this time. The way the mods are treating members is IMHO a contributory factor to the problem you describe!

Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation seems to be the best bank, only seen nominal falls in their share prices unlike the others which are now rock bottom. Contrary to its name, HSBC is Scottish origin, on a completely tangential and unuseful note! But yeah, enough of this shit, I don't even ride trials any more (so why do I still hang around here!?) but tonight we're (3 of us) going xc riding with our new lights. Total 120 watts bright white semi-focussed light shining form the helmets forwards - must remember not to look towards approaching cars!

So what can you do besides hold a cash buffer? It's no use trying to be a samaritan and propping up the bank with your savings; quite frankly a don't think any of use are rich enough! Right now the cash is much more sensibly held outside one of these institutions, just in case it becomes inaccessible. It's game theory. Right now we have a situation where the logical thing to do would be to hold cash. But if that happens everyone suffers, becasue the banking system collapses. So everyones personal motives conflict with the motives of the population as a whole, who need a working banking system. What is the likely outcome of a situation like this? Read up on game theory and find out

Yeah, it would be bad. But bad consequences is no safeguard against it happening is it!? People are nervous out there, and lots have already lost money due to a bank failing (see topic!). If it got out that a UK bank was in serious trouble, you can bet your ass people would be out of there like a shot.

True but interest rates are also low, so putting it in a bank hardly inflation-proofs it. Weighing up the risk of not being able to buy food, or more likely petrol to get to work, as opposed to the cost of the interest at 5% of a few hundred quid... I'd say it was worth it. And i'm not trying to instigate a run here. But should your debit/credit cards stop working for a few weeks while a bank gets taken over, could you all carry on, really? For the cost of about 1p in interest I know I can!

Yep, as soon as a critical mass of cash machines stop working there will be a run on *all* banks, as people begin to fear that they wont be able to get at the money in their account, and withdraw say £500 each 'just in case'. There is not enough physical cash for that to happen, so more ATMs run out of cash, and the problem worsens! The deposit guarentee serves to raise this initial triggering threshold of unworking cash machines, by giving people reassurance that they will *always* be able to get at their money. Do you believe them? BANK RUN!!!

Bah I can move mine half a pixel. (edit: It's a PC)

One of the funniest posts i've seen in a while. LLOL = literal lols.

How many mice appear on the screen = x How many 'touches' are useful = y x = y The above is irrevocable mathematical proof that macs are crap.

I heard Icelands assets are .

I'd love to see you. We should race sometime.

VIEWTY

You still don't get it. I know it works. I've used an iPod. It's just that, why does it do it? Why, when I'm at a mates house, and he wants a copy of my (non-copyrighted) song off my iPod, can I not just connect it up and use the file explorer of the OS to move the file across. Why do Apple insist on bloating everyones (apple and windows) computers with software to transfer music files to the device? Every OS already has a file manager. It's silly and frustrating. As hardware advances and is better able to cope with animations and graphics it was the natural progression for all OS's to incorporate these things over time. IF there was any actual sign of plagiarism of ideas by Microsoft do you really think Apple wouldn't have sued Microsoft for IP infringement? Or are all the guys at Apple just so cool they thought they'd let it slide?!

The logical thing to do would for Apple not to convert the files!!! Why can;t you see that?! You're saying you just have to do this and just have to grab a copy of that. It's purely Apples proprietary and closed way of doing things that makes this necessary and that's what makes enough people mad, having used a pc, to call a Mac simply shit!

Ok bad example, but you know damn well the point still stands. It's hardly convenient or even really relevant that you can 'just' dual boot to get Windows functionality on your Mac computer.

The only thing Apple excels at, and the only reason they're still around. Why the f**k should I dual boot though? Why can't apple just allow it to happen? You're doing a pretty poor job of defending Apples policy here by saying that you can 'just' dual boot. So that basically every time I want to log onto MSN messenger I have to shut down the computer and boot into Windows. What a joke. Apple should just allow it and stop being awkward. Open platforms are the way forward, where everyone can contribute programs (in windows) and even to the OS (linux). It means these platforms stay at the leading edge of what computers can do, keeping them as useful as they can be. Apple will soon find themselves falling behind Windows and Linux with only the Apple devs able to write stuff for the platform.

What a f**king fraud, you can even see the fingerprints in his fins. HE'S NOT EVEN f**kING REAL!!!

Why didnt they have it from the start then? Dare I say it.. they're just catching up!? Yeah it's s simpler interface, apparently, but at the end of the day it's like Brio instead of full blown Lego. It's for the retards of the world who like pretty icons for eveything, like to click around with no repercussions as to what it might f**k up, and no real control over the complex system which they are using. While for retards it might surfice, for people with more of a brain and less of a 'creative 'talent'' it is just plain bollox. This is not my humble opinion.

I'm f**king... yeah

Guys, pingu is to blame. Love, Timmsy

My last post was complete bullshit BTW, icesave are FSA, so the savers are covered. Someone in here said they weren't and I believed! But anyway... Yeah it's local govornment that's going to lose out, and you have to feel sorry for them (and us by proxy!)... While Mildred and Ethyl and the man on the Clapham Omnibus had the choice of investing in the icelandic banks or not, the LG's did not have the choice. The Local GOvornment Audit commission slates them for not getting the best return on investment on money they held, so for them it was a case of damned if you do, damned if you dont.

On the contrary, I consider it extremely fair. It is the fairest thing to do. If someone is investing £100,000 of their money, they should pay some attention to where they are putting it, especially if it is a large proportion (all) of their total savings. You're wrong saying that these Icelandic banks have not been considered risky a while. The cost of insuring against the risk of these banks defaulting on debts has been higher than for most banks for a while. A quick google search would have revealed this, in plain and simple English. Why should I pay for someone elses stupidity? But as I've said, this isn't even on the cards anyway, its the FSA fund that's going to re-imburse savers, not taxpayers per-sec. But why should IceSave(ers) have access to this fund when IceSave didn't contribute??!!