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This bitcoin stuff. So there are data banks all over doing “complex mathematical equations” to earn fractions of bitcoin for their operators.

Why are the computers doing that and who is paying them the bitcoin?
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Not sure how this Bitcoin malarky works but the energy consumption for it is getting out of hand
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^^^^ You're right
Iceland is facing an "exponential" rise in Bitcoin mining that is gobbling up power resources, a spokesman for Icelandic energy firm HS Orka has said.

This year, electricity use at Bitcoin mining data centres is likely to exceed that of all Iceland's homes, according to Johann Snorri Sigurbergsson.

He said many potential customers were keen to get in on the act.

"If all these projects are realised, we won't have enough energy for it," he told the BBC.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-43062264
Which one of them is pregnant then? :?
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sendô wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-43062264
Which one of them is pregnant then? :?
No idea, but I’ve also no idea why it is a news story on the bbc.
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When did indicating become optional and not mandatory?

My walk to and from work has become more interesting trying to guess which way people are turning at roundabouts.
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How on earth did Fred Dibnah live so long?

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hammerdivone wrote:How on earth did Fred Dibnah live so long?
'king 'ell. Him & John Noakes. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
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^^ What a character he was.

I genuinely wouldn't be able to climb a quarter of the way up that ladder! :shock:
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At the start when he hauls himself off the ladder and over the planks .... at the top of the chimney!!!!!

I watched it last night and am still getting clammy hands now, just thinking about it!!
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Northerners. They really were from a another planet back then ...

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hammerdivone wrote:How on earth did Fred Dibnah live so long?

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My take on it is because he knew what he was doing and had the confidence to do it. Once you trust yourself on high buildings things are usually OK (focuses the mind).

Health and Safety law is undoing all the good work that evolution has put in since we started walking upright.
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If I was to take my built in oven out and take it to the garden and pressure wash the inside, would it kill it, or if I left it for long enough to dry out would it be fine, or would I kill myself when I connected it back up?
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-DL- wrote:If I was to take my built in oven out and take it to the garden and pressure wash the inside, would it kill it, or if I left it for long enough to dry out would it be fine, or would I kill myself when I connected it back up?
Prob be fine, boss, but there’s easier ways to clean an oven.
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Why dont all the months in the year have 30 days giving us an even 360.
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DasNutNock wrote:
Prob be fine, boss, but there’s easier ways to clean an oven.
No doubt their is, but it's a job a totally hate. Messy, yucky, and the stuff proper stinks. :D

Seriously though, I wouldn't do it, but somebody planted the seed in my head to do that, and I was just wondering if it would be ok or not.
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I wouldn’t bother DL, there will be something in the oven that just won’t like the pressure wash
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westham,eggyandchips wrote:Why dont all the months in the year have 30 days giving us an even 360.

er....because it takes 365 days to go round the sun?




and because the moon is made of cheese?
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-DL- wrote:If I was to take my built in oven out and take it to the garden and pressure wash the inside, would it kill it, or if I left it for long enough to dry out would it be fine, or would I kill myself when I connected it back up?
I don't know if you'd kill yourself but I'm pretty certain you'll kill the oven...
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Drury Lane ham. Why Drury Lane?
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