Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 18 October 2011 07:23, Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 17/10/11 22:55, alan c wrote: >> >> I think it would surely work better if it had a metal pyramid shape >> built over it? > > Only if the metal pyramid was inscribed with the correct hieroglyphs, > otherwise you're wasting your time. > > Sean > I

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread Victor Churchill
On 18 October 2011 10:04, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > It is just like all these scams, like cold-fusion. Unless they publish > how they do it, and scientists around the world are able to reproduce > the result, it is most likely a scam. Pyramids definitely do work, so > I give my +1 for that

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 18 October 2011 11:01:47 Victor Churchill wrote: > if I bought snake oil I would feel sheepish > about letting the rest of the world know , unless of course I really > believed it did keep the snakes away. You bought snake oil. There are no adders in your kitchen. What more proof do

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 18 October 2011 11:48, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2011 11:01:47 Victor Churchill wrote: > > if I bought snake oil I would feel sheepish > > about letting the rest of the world know , unless of course I really > > believed it did keep the snakes away. > > You bought snake oil. There a

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread alan c
On 18/10/11 13:35, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > On 18 October 2011 11:48, Lisi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 18 October 2011 11:01:47 Victor Churchill wrote: >> > if I bought snake oil I would feel sheepish >> > about letting the rest of the world know , unless of course I really >> > believed it did ke

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-10-18 Thread john lewis
I logged out and restarted with gnome 3, First impressions - UGH! lots of silly things don't work, the DEL key for example, whilst writing this email I can only use backspace to delete a character. but Del on the numeric pad works so I'll have to remember to use that instead. BUT WHY I hav

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-10-18 Thread Damian L Brasher
Hi John On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 14:57 +0100, john lewis wrote: > I logged out and restarted with gnome 3, > > First impressions - UGH! > I guess I can get used to the changes but I'm not a happy bunny ;-( I started using Fedora 15 in June, with Gnome 3. The visual appeal is immediate. Very clean

Re: [Hampshire] Chaos is here! - Mira fractal generator for Linux (C and SDL)

2011-10-18 Thread Damian L Brasher
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 18:29 +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: > Displays a selection of pretty dust type mira fractals one after the > other in colour rather like a slide show; 800x600. This simple fractal > demonstration uses the SDL graphics library and the dust type fractal > algorithm, mira. I c

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:48:22 +0100 Lisi wrote: Hello Lisi, > You bought snake oil. There are no adders in your kitchen. What more I heard they multiply quite quickly. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Where th

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread Ian Grody
On Monday 17 October 2011 15:06:37 Philip Stubbs wrote: > Can anybody tell me how this works:- > http://www.bluecarbon.com/how-it-works.html Nah, it's for real.. Ask RedSquare Services... They seemed to have gotten very embarrassed when I asked them about it Remember, Blue is the new Green

Re: [Hampshire] OT Please tell me how this is not a scam.

2011-10-18 Thread Gordon Scott
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 13:35 +0100, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > I've always thought that snake oil was supposed to have medicinal > benefits - nothing whatever to do with repelling snakes! I think it's to make sure the snakes are properly slippery. Or is that the sales guys that are proper slipp