
Can anyone tell me how to make illustrator let me change the colour of the paintbrush. Everytime I try to change it it keeps reverting to black.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:22,
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oy vey! that's a princess! back axles - useless. a girl picked me up in a lime green one , her first car. and its arse fell on the floor after 50 miles.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:20,
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whoa. i just figured. you're entering this in the stock images. gahhh.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:22,
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I know very little about makes and models of cars but I wanted one of the characters in a strip I was doing to drive a crappy one

so I did a Google search for 'ugliest cars' and this was the winner ;)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:23,
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so I did a Google search for 'ugliest cars' and this was the winner ;)

What IS that thing?!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:25,
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I know several people who have nice ones!
A good yellow one here.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:48,
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A good yellow one here.

The one that looks a bit like a frog...
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:53,
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We never got them in Merika, thanks to Fiat going away for a while...
(they are coming back with the 500 and sales are fair to poor so far.)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:58,
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(they are coming back with the 500 and sales are fair to poor so far.)

I know they brought out a more 'normal' looking model soon after, which still looks like a big blocky piece of shit.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:07,
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But never had a chance to check out the interior. I think Fiat was trying to be Citroen on that one!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 21:19,
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Looked nice and roomy, and it seemed to piss off everyone within eyeshot...which tends to endear inanimate objects to me :)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:53,
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Like Fiat wanted to push the boundaries a bit, try and make that beg step into a new era of concept cars, and failed miserably.
At the time, I thought it was interesting, but on closer inspection, it's just... eugh...
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 21:01,
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At the time, I thought it was interesting, but on closer inspection, it's just... eugh...

Don't keep asking me why Reg
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:25,
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had a great evening watching his show at London uni theatre many years ago
edit- seems like a good place for this:

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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:53,
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edit- seems like a good place for this:


I used to love 500 bus stops....
Edits, another classic motor right there!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:57,
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Edits, another classic motor right there!

I don't put the TV on untill late, and just surf untill I find something, it always seems to be american dad or whatever it is on BBC3 so have never watched it..
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:21,
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:25,
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Just BBC3 seem like the wrong kind of trash for me ;-)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:27,
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still doing a little bit of telly occasionally apparently www.imdb.com/name/nm0271516/
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:07,
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But my mate was always to lazy to go :-(
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:13,
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I met the drummer out of Angle Witch as well you know ! ;-)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:45,
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Later became part of AUDI.
the sedan version
They also made a later sportier version with a better body
(and even a convertible!)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:56,
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the sedan version
They also made a later sportier version with a better body
(and even a convertible!)

He loved to drive it, but when he'd fixed it he sold it straight away in case it broke again and he couldn't get spares for it again...
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:01,
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They were glorious shit.. soz back to lurking
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:07,
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I'm pretty sure the grille badge was the right way round though ;)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:29,
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and took my test in a mk1 Vauxhall Viva.
Happy b3taday.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:46,
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Happy b3taday.

Mate had a Viva - we drove from London to Southend in about 1980 & it boiled over half way there. We'd passed a scrapyard a mile back - were able to get a new thermostat & water pump, repair the car with a minimal set of tools, and all for about a tenner.
/all fields blog
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:50,
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/all fields blog

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Tue 24 Jan 2012, 0:41,
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look, I wrote it down on this piece of paper ages ago
*searches at back of drawer*
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:41,
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*searches at back of drawer*

oh. and by the way. thank you for doing this with the story. you are a true genius. obviously a magician. i am flabbergasted.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:04,
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:05,
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how's about you jib the date with bourbon and you and me get together?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:11,
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yes. doesn't surprise me to know you know about sp. not that i am saying your work is derivative. you have something special all your own. the plot twist came as a great relief to me, because the girl i love, well, it just means a lot to me. again. thank you. stand out work. really amazing. don't know what else to say
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:08,
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;o)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 21:05,
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Fucking hell. And this is only as far as I've gotten, oh well.
Better plonk it down nonetheless. WooYay and thanks for these.

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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:16,
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Better plonk it down nonetheless. WooYay and thanks for these.


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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:56,
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I'm glad Maria survived... ohh those stockings... ahem.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:26,
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Nice to see Bromfield spunked as he.....
It's how he would have wanted it....
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:39,
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It's how he would have wanted it....

The hedgehog in the pic above looks like it might be in for a bit of a kicking though!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:17,
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IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING

Cannot wait to see this in print! :D
A truly epic endeavour!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 20:56,
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A truly epic endeavour!

isn't this a graphic novel? It needs to be one and it needs to be one NOW.

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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 21:25,
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Though I have to say I'm not usually ones for Hollywood endings.
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Tue 24 Jan 2012, 13:24,
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Click for bigger (177 kb)
No idea why but i saw this, and some reason i think he missed a trick there..

i believe the "The naughty Leicestershire Flashing Oak" does that..
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:51,
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:54,
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the one with all the elephants and tigers in, but they have no pants
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:07,
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apart from the odd naked emperor?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:56,
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is the swimming pool one, he must of had something on his mind painting the wood purple..
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:08,
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or the man stroking his cat while his misses looks put out
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 21:58,
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Nice.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:26,
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well. hitler's barber posting... is that close enough mediocre?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:15,
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oh sorry. i should really rein it in. i'm out of my depth here. sorry
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:17,
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Sounds great, I have been meaning to take lessons at one near me. It's expensive but you must learn a few secrets.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:32,
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Secret 2: refrain from spunking in the curry.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:40,
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I have an ice cube tray in the freezer full of it. Makes a well good base gravy.
Edit: It can only be of Indian/Sri Lankan origin though.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:43,
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Edit: It can only be of Indian/Sri Lankan origin though.

And as a matter of fact, I'm going now. Byyyeeee.

i actually noticed when bourbon fox requested this. but now i fancy bourbon fox and i feel disturbed...
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:13,
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can't you draw anything nice, like hitler buying some melons?


I think I might have a go at doing some Nun of the Above art soon. ^^
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:34,
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I could post some Nun of the Above now, or wait until tomorrow...it's up to you guys.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:41,
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And if you have any Nun of the Above, go for it. :)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:45,
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I'll do more in the future, but for now they have to rest (until I get my other projects going).
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:50,
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*clicks*
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:25,
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:44,
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:10,
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if they were real... I definitely wouldn't.
Real furries would look fucking terrifying. XD
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:21,
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Real furries would look fucking terrifying. XD

A couple of years ago in The Metro they had a picture of that hill. It's really dull.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:49,
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Hmm.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:07,
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No dickheads were harmed during the making of this video. Gaming Company Dialogue: Request #157202 Not good enough Dec-19 03:48 Tried 5 times. Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off antivirus off remove ,patched files, Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files, Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files,Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files,Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files. Not into paying money for something that doesn't work or that requires this amount of messing around. I don't have time to mess around doing stupid things to get something I paid for to work. Make the game work properly. You do the work. I am the customer. You are the service provider. I paid for the service. You provide it. Make the game work or find another solution.Comments Kris D Rockstar Support Hi Before we can help you with your game we will need some more information about your computer. For this information we will need to see your DXDiag and MSinfo files.To get these files Press the Windows key +'R' on your keyboard Type dxdiag Click OK Click Save all information Press the Windows key +'R' on your keyboard Type msinfo32 Click OK Select File and then export and save the file as a text file(*.txt) Log in to your support ticket and then select the "attach file" option under the comments box to attach the files to your case. Alternatively respond to this email with the files attached.If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact ourselves.Kind regards Kris Dec-19 2011 08:10 Sending attached files as suggested. DxDiag uh oh 19 dec.txt system info uh oh 19 dec.txt Dec-19 2011 08:41 Kris D Rockstar Support Hi The error log seems to be missing from the end of the msinfo. Can you try launching the game and then create a new msinfo making sure the error log is included and then resend it to us.Kind regards KrisDec-20 2011 04:57 Hi Kris Tried msinfo twice after launching game. Neither text result contained an error report. Regards, Dec-20 2011 07:08Hi So. As I was saying. Everyone on B3ta is a total fucking wanker, and except for two or three people, are draining their life essence away in meaningless head games, when they should be using their talents to produce something with soul. How about making the problem with the game that cost money that was paid for and bought from a shop so that it can actually be used. I find it pretty shoddy that I have not had a response since my last message. It's a really really poor service and you are verging on me contacting a watchdog service about how this whole thing is run. Rockstar might think it is too rich and successful to have to bother with "the little guy" but actually, there are still laws about businesses trying to shaft the customer right? Thanks, so far, for nothing except wasting my time. Gaming company stock letter: Since when did the customer/service relationship change to one where the customer does all the work? It's not my job to fix the product I paid for. It's your job to make it work. It's not my job to do anything but have the product work after having paid for it - a basic consumer right. Here is what you do: fix the problem, replace the product, or give me my money back. It's very simple.Your responsibility.What you can do: 1.Provide a direct answer that works. An answer that doesn't involve me doing anything more than sending you the initial email, or brief follow up emails.Or... 2. You keep replacing the faulty product until it works. And if those simple tasks are not fulfilled...? 3. You refund me.As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find it โ and why we should care. Here's why. If the Higgs is discovered, it will represent perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the human intellect in recent memory, vindicating the construction of one of science's greatest theories and the most complicated machine ever built. That's the good news.But if the Higgs is all that is found at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a huge amount will remain to be discovered. Crucial experimental guidance that physicists need to understand fundamental questions about our existence โ from whether all four forces in nature are unified in some grand theory to determining what may have caused the big bang โ will still be absent. Answering these questions may be beyond our technical and financial capabilities in this generation. If our ideas about the Higgs boson turn out to be correct, then everything we see is a kind of window dressing based on an underlying fabric of reality in which we shouldn't exist. The particles that make us up โ which bind together to form protons, neutrons, nuclei and ultimately atoms โ have mass. Without the Higgs, these particles would be massless, like photons. We all know from our own experience that how heavy something feels depends on where it is located. For example, objects that are heavy on land appear lighter in water. Similarly, if you try to push a spoon through treacle it appears heavier than if you push it through air.The standard model of particle physics implies that there is a "Higgs field" that permeates all space. This field interacts with particles, and does so with varying strengths. Particles that interact more strongly experience more resistance to their motion and appear heavier. Some particles, such as photons, do not interact with the field at all and remain massless. In this way, the mass of everything is determined by the existence of the field, and mass is an accident of our circumstances because we exist in a universe in which such a background field happens to have arisen. Playing subatomic catch. But why a Higgs particle? Relativity tells us that no signal can travel faster than light. Incorporating this into quantum mechanics tells us that forces which we think of as being due to fields are actually transmitted between objects by the exchange of particles. The way particles transmit forces is a bit like a game of catch: if I throw a ball and you catch it, I will be pushed backwards by the act of throwing and you will be pushed backwards by the act of catching. Thus we act as if we repel each other. So if there is a Higgs field, it turns out that there has to be a particle associated with this field, and this is the Higgs particle. This seems a fanciful framework, rather like imagining angels on the head of a pin. What would drive scientists to imagine such a scenario? Joel Veitch? One of the greatest successes of the past 50 years was the unification of two of the forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak interaction. In this "electroweak" theory, electromagnetic forces arise by the long-range exchange of massless photons, and the short-range weak force is due to the exchange of massive particles called W and Z particles, predicted in the 1960s and discovered in the 1980s at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, which is now the home of the LHC. In order for this theoretical unification to make mathematical sense, all three particles have to be massless in the underlying theory, and therefore the forces they mediate would be almost identical. Only if the W and Z particles obtain a mass by interacting with a background field โ the Higgs field โ will the underlying unified theory explain why the two forces appear different at the scales we measure them today, while remaining mathematically consistent. High mass.Theory suggests that the mass of a Higgs particle should be about 100 times the mass of the proton; however, the exact mass is not predicted. For over 25 years since the discovery of the W and Z particles, experimental physicists have been trying to build particle accelerators with the energy necessary to produce a Higgs particle, if it exists. The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, was able to reach up to about 120 times the mass of the proton (about 120 gigaelectronvolts) but did not find the Higgs. The LHC was designed to probe for Higgs masses heavier than this. If the Higgs particle is announced with a mass of 125 GeV, as the rumours suggest, it will be the crown jewel of our theoretical understanding of the electroweak unified theory, our own origins and the origin of almost all mass we measure in the universe.
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SOURCE: ORIGINAL ANIMATED GIFs1.b3ta.com/host/creative/90410/1326197774/LTWTETRAXION.gif- POSTED AT B3TA A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. TWO RESPONDENTS TO THE POSTING OF THE ORIGINAL ANIMATED GIF - The Hedgehog From Hell b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=45371, AND Starshine b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=91354 - INSPIRED THE IDEA TO MAKE IT 'BOD AT CERN LABORATORIES'. BETA'S ONGOING THEMES OF TOILETS, AND MAGENTA COX (she's a tv presenter), AND GOATSE, SOMEHOW HORRIBLY, STRANGELY, VERTIGINOUSLY... INEVITABLY, BECAME INTRODUCED INTO THE CONCEPT.
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*Terms and Conditions: Expect disappointment at absence of boiling piss, or spermatazoic ejaculation at end scene dรฉnouement. Further Note: Everyone who called me a c""t (list too long to mention and besides, they are too lame to get a mention), or a nรคive c**t, or attention seeking c**t, can FAOD. Everyone who cast aspersions on my character, and /or handwriting, can FAOD. Everyone who made ham references after I publicly supported internet piracy can FAOD (yes, that includes you Manuel and Wildish). Everyone who told me to get an icon on the pretext that would somehow back up my argument can FAOD. Everyone who works for the British Press and whose sense of humour revolves around the same old tired clichรฉs, while pretending to themselves it ranks as satire, well they can FAOD too. And everyone who is a Hitler supporting, gay fearing racist and misogynist, can also FAOD. No nuclear scientists were harmed during the making of this video. No dickheads were harmed during the making of this video. Gaming Company Dialogue: Request #157202 Not good enough Dec-19 03:48 Tried 5 times. Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off antivirus off remove ,patched files, Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files, Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files,Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files,Uninstall re-install (over a half hour waiting process), firewall off anti virus off remove ,patched files. Not into paying money for something that doesn't work or that requires this amount of messing around. I don't have time to mess around doing stupid things to get something I paid for to work. Make the game work properly. You do the work. I am the customer. You are the service provider. I paid for the service. You provide it. Make the game work or find another solution.Comments Kris D Rockstar Support Hi Before we can help you with your game we will need some more information about your computer. For this information we will need to see your DXDiag and MSinfo files.To get these files Press the Windows key +'R' on your keyboard Type dxdiag Click OK Click Save all information Press the Windows key +'R' on your keyboard Type msinfo32 Click OK Select File and then export and save the file as a text file(*.txt) Log in to your support ticket and then select the "attach file" option under the comments box to attach the files to your case. Alternatively respond to this email with the files attached.If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact ourselves.Kind regards Kris Dec-19 2011 08:10 Sending attached files as suggested. DxDiag uh oh 19 dec.txt system info uh oh 19 dec.txt Dec-19 2011 08:41 Kris D Rockstar Support Hi The error log seems to be missing from the end of the msinfo. Can you try launching the game and then create a new msinfo making sure the error log is included and then resend it to us.Kind regards KrisDec-20 2011 04:57 Hi Kris Tried msinfo twice after launching game. Neither text result contained an error report. Regards, Dec-20 2011 07:08Hi So. As I was saying. Everyone on B3ta is a total fucking wanker, and except for two or three people, are draining their life essence away in meaningless head games, when they should be using their talents to produce something with soul. How about making the problem with the game that cost money that was paid for and bought from a shop so that it can actually be used. I find it pretty shoddy that I have not had a response since my last message. It's a really really poor service and you are verging on me contacting a watchdog service about how this whole thing is run. Rockstar might think it is too rich and successful to have to bother with "the little guy" but actually, there are still laws about businesses trying to shaft the customer right? Thanks, so far, for nothing except wasting my time. Gaming company stock letter: Since when did the customer/service relationship change to one where the customer does all the work? It's not my job to fix the product I paid for. It's your job to make it work. It's not my job to do anything but have the product work after having paid for it - a basic consumer right. Here is what you do: fix the problem, replace the product, or give me my money back. It's very simple.Your responsibility.What you can do: 1.Provide a direct answer that works. An answer that doesn't involve me doing anything more than sending you the initial email, or brief follow up emails.Or... 2. You keep replacing the faulty product until it works. And if those simple tasks are not fulfilled...? 3. You refund me.As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find it โ and why we should care. Here's why. If the Higgs is discovered, it will represent perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the human intellect in recent memory, vindicating the construction of one of science's greatest theories and the most complicated machine ever built. That's the good news.But if the Higgs is all that is found at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a huge amount will remain to be discovered. Crucial experimental guidance that physicists need to understand fundamental questions about our existence โ from whether all four forces in nature are unified in some grand theory to determining what may have caused the big bang โ will still be absent. Answering these questions may be beyond our technical and financial capabilities in this generation. If our ideas about the Higgs boson turn out to be correct, then everything we see is a kind of window dressing based on an underlying fabric of reality in which we shouldn't exist. The particles that make us up โ which bind together to form protons, neutrons, nuclei and ultimately atoms โ have mass. Without the Higgs, these particles would be massless, like photons. We all know from our own experience that how heavy something feels depends on where it is located. For example, objects that are heavy on land appear lighter in water. Similarly, if you try to push a spoon through treacle it appears heavier than if you push it through air.The standard model of particle physics implies that there is a "Higgs field" that permeates all space. This field interacts with particles, and does so with varying strengths. Particles that interact more strongly experience more resistance to their motion and appear heavier. Some particles, such as photons, do not interact with the field at all and remain massless. In this way, the mass of everything is determined by the existence of the field, and mass is an accident of our circumstances because we exist in a universe in which such a background field happens to have arisen. Playing subatomic catch. But why a Higgs particle? Relativity tells us that no signal can travel faster than light. Incorporating this into quantum mechanics tells us that forces which we think of as being due to fields are actually transmitted between objects by the exchange of particles. The way particles transmit forces is a bit like a game of catch: if I throw a ball and you catch it, I will be pushed backwards by the act of throwing and you will be pushed backwards by the act of catching. Thus we act as if we repel each other. So if there is a Higgs field, it turns out that there has to be a particle associated with this field, and this is the Higgs particle. This seems a fanciful framework, rather like imagining angels on the head of a pin. What would drive scientists to imagine such a scenario? Joel Veitch? One of the greatest successes of the past 50 years was the unification of two of the forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak interaction. In this "electroweak" theory, electromagnetic forces arise by the long-range exchange of massless photons, and the short-range weak force is due to the exchange of massive particles called W and Z particles, predicted in the 1960s and discovered in the 1980s at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, which is now the home of the LHC. In order for this theoretical unification to make mathematical sense, all three particles have to be massless in the underlying theory, and therefore the forces they mediate would be almost identical. Only if the W and Z particles obtain a mass by interacting with a background field โ the Higgs field โ will the underlying unified theory explain why the two forces appear different at the scales we measure them today, while remaining mathematically consistent. High mass.Theory suggests that the mass of a Higgs particle should be about 100 times the mass of the proton; however, the exact mass is not predicted. For over 25 years since the discovery of the W and Z particles, experimental physicists have been trying to build particle accelerators with the energy necessary to produce a Higgs particle, if it exists. The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, was able to reach up to about 120 times the mass of the proton (about 120 gigaelectronvolts) but did not find the Higgs. The LHC was designed to probe for Higgs masses heavier than this. If the Higgs particle is announced with a mass of 125 GeV, as the rumours suggest, it will be the crown jewel of our theoretical understanding of the electroweak unified theory, our own origins and the origin of almost all mass we measure in the universe.
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why not post it there as well
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:41,
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And that was before I clicked the video!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:33,
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absolutely hilarious. i was banking on the horse "pay the judge" tho
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:04,
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Do you mean that like him your mother serviced sailors against the walls of docks?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:43,
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If it's your own work I'd suggest 99% less text. If it's a video just put it in /links and click the 'I did this' chick box.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:47,
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All is not that rosy, however. The Standard Model gives no explanation of why the masses of the Higgs, the W, and Z have the scales that they do. Indeed, other arguments suggest that one needs new physics to ensure that this scale of masses is not driven up to much higher energies due to quantum mechanical effects that can be calculated. One of the most exciting ways in which this behavior might be kept in check involves a new possible symmetry in nature, called Supersymmetry. If supersymmetry is manifested in the real world, the number of elementary particles would double, and it turns out that because of this one would need not one Higgs particle but two particles to do the job of giving masses to the other particles in nature. Thus, many elementary particle physicists expected to find not one Higgs particle at CERN, but two, wouldn't you say?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:42,
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I've had beers with him. I wouldn't put him down as a wanker.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:48,
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which has "Joel Veitch" inserted unexpectedly at word 1499.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:54,
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sorry. i know the feeling. and apologies to Ninj, sorry, I went a bit mad....
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:07,
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If you're going to criticize, you really want to do it when the action's happening.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:41,
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but I'm pretty sure you wanted /links board. :D
(cunt)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:47,
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(cunt)

Nicely done!
....and thank god we're back! A whole 2 minutes down, my world was crumbling...
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:21,
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....and thank god we're back! A whole 2 minutes down, my world was crumbling...

THREE DICKHEADS!
For nearly three dickheads, I was incarcerated on Robben Island
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:39,
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For nearly three dickheads, I was incarcerated on Robben Island

That's so old, the beard on the joke has a little man with a really long beard living inside it.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:53,
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But I'm old too, so I thought I could get away with it ;)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 19:21,
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Pork! PORK!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:50,
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/satire
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:55,
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Depending on how pious you are
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:58,
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wrong, right, wrong, right, preach, convert, guilt, extract money, cross, moon, wrong, right.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:08,
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Watford Gap does a decent all dayer.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 18:38,
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Now I have. Carry on.


They used to creep me out... a pale, blank-eyed doll staring at you on the toilet.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:50,
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This abomination.
3.bp.blogspot.com/_z7I0tSLzUD4/Sn5SJkWc1_I/AAAAAAAAJ_c/Q1iTFqRLCR8/s400/20080524162652.jpg
And yes, I screwed up the link just then.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:53,
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3.bp.blogspot.com/_z7I0tSLzUD4/Sn5SJkWc1_I/AAAAAAAAJ_c/Q1iTFqRLCR8/s400/20080524162652.jpg
And yes, I screwed up the link just then.

what we do to bridesmaids to make sure we look best on the big day.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:57,
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I'm not much of a housekeeper. In other news, did you see my new video and tell me it was brilliant? I think not.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:02,
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I always wonder.....
Do you poo on your dress?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:04,
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Do you poo on your dress?

I did not think the picture through. I was asked to draw a girl on the loo, and did so. As I didn't actually get anyone to pose for it, there are certain mistakes.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:07,
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I can appreciate kitsch at the best of times, but THAT... that takes some beating.
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:00,
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You know, the kind where you start seeing loo roll covers everywhere?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:06,
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Sadly though, this is another angle of yesterdays "Dong ribcage".
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 17:01,
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The Royal Shakespeare Co. love the software too! Result!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:04,
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there's a smooter Flash version here: www.earlyshakespeare.com/Shakespeare_festival.html
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:10,
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my brain hurts just thinking about how you do these
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:13,
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Just like a jigsaw really and you can chew the corners here and there to make them fit!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:15,
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So at least you could look at a board with nothing being posted on it!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:04,
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*hopes I'm not too late!*
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:11,
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The wee bastard!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:18,
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late edit: apologies for posting twice, it all went weird around lunchtime

www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtH2h7s9G8
(apologies from reminding you of crap simpsons, but it was relevant to your choice of sound effect)
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:25,
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(apologies from reminding you of crap simpsons, but it was relevant to your choice of sound effect)

Black space party?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:26,
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Nice work Ninj, but why the black space?
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:27,
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So that's how glow-sticks are made!
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Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:43,
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