Things you've always wanted to know......
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- Burningaham
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
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?
Why are the computers doing that and who is paying them the bitcoin?
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
Not sure how this Bitcoin malarky works but the energy consumption for it is getting out of hand
- Johnny Byrne's Boots
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
^^^^ 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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- sendô
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-43062264
Which one of them is pregnant then?
Which one of them is pregnant then?
- Burningaham
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
No idea, but I’ve also no idea why it is a news story on the bbc.sendô wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-43062264
Which one of them is pregnant then?
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
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.
My walk to and from work has become more interesting trying to guess which way people are turning at roundabouts.
- hammerdivone
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
How on earth did Fred Dibnah live so long?
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
'king 'ell. Him & John Noakes. They don't make 'em like that anymore.hammerdivone wrote:How on earth did Fred Dibnah live so long?
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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:
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!!
I watched it last night and am still getting clammy hands now, just thinking about it!!
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
Northerners. They really were from a another planet back then ...
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
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).hammerdivone wrote:How on earth did Fred Dibnah live so long?
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
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?
- DasNutNock
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
Prob be fine, boss, but there’s easier ways to clean an oven.-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?
- westham,eggyandchips
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
Why dont all the months in the year have 30 days giving us an even 360.
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No doubt their is, but it's a job a totally hate. Messy, yucky, and the stuff proper stinks.DasNutNock wrote:
Prob be fine, boss, but there’s easier ways to clean an oven.
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.
- BromleyHammer
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Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
I wouldn’t bother DL, there will be something in the oven that just won’t like the pressure wash
Re: Things you've always wanted to know......
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?
- Hammer1972
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I don't know if you'd kill yourself but I'm pretty certain you'll kill the oven...-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?
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