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@lil fek wrote:
Yeah, how will that work if the site is in another country?
The geographical location of the server that is hosting the site you visit bears no relation to the content on that site or for that matter to the geographical location of the contributors.
JustChat is a so-called UK site but the server might be in Timbuktoo or wherever and a number of members are from countries other than the UK.
My take on this is that it is primarily aimed at children who are ‘bullied’ via text messages; social networking sites; and yes …. internet chatrooms and message boards. I suspect that their remit may well include adults, but their main focus will be on children.
Whilst ChatGuideGD is perfectly capable of looking after herself (and her excellent quizzes) I can heartily endorse Kaspersky Internet security version 7.0 (I think that there is a 2008 version just released).
It is an excellent real time anti virus; anti-spyware; and firewall combined. The two really good things about it is that firstly it (automatically) updates its virus etc definitions a couple of times every day – thus ensuring that your computer protection is always absolutely up to date. Secondly it runs in the background with really really low ‘overheads’.
This means that, unlike other anti-virus software, it doesn’t gobble up available RAM and so it doesn’t noticeably slow your computer down.
It is really quick to load at start up (unlike say Norton/Symantec which take seemingly ages) and it isn’t unnecessarily intrusive with loads of pop up warnings all the time (like McAfee).
So I urge you to give it a go. If you have any issues in configuring the easy to use interface then post here and I’ll help you to correctly set it up.
BTW – OK it’s not free but although you have to pay for using it, it is rapidly becoming the anti virus / firewall choice for computer professionals.
@bon bon wrote:
I like posting on these boards
I like the people (mostly) who post here
I have even started to like PB :?
(besides, where else could I ramble on :wink: )Now look Diane, let’s not get too carried away with all this stuff. I’m suposed to be the principal ‘Post Butcher’ and if you post this sort of comment you’ll ruin my ”street cred”.
As a friend of mine always said “There’s only two dead certainties in life ……. death and nurses!!!”
@sir Actor wrote:
…….My main gripe is how people can be so stupid as to spend £40 per week on something that is of no practical use.
I suspect that you could apply the same argument to other ‘recreational chemicals’ as well – like ethyl alchohol or Class A & B drugs etc.
It wasn’t ”good stuff”… it was unpleasant to read and totally unnecessary.
You missed nothing much Dawny … just a load of unnecessary squabbling and personal insults that spoiled several threads.
Order and calm have now been restored and all can relax again.
Welcome back to JustChat DC – hope you stay with us for a while this time and enjoy the site.
The thing I find most puzzling about the whole ”smoking” thing is – essentially this is a matter for each individual to decide on for themselves and yet ‘smokers’ are villified and publicly humiliated by what is in fact an extremely vociferous anti-smoking lobby.
If you drink alchohol (whatever flavour) sometimes to excess, this is somehow tolerated by most people. It is even considered something to boast about (“God I got hammered last night, but we had a fantastic time”). Poisoning oneself with ethyl alchohol doesn’t somehow seem to attract too much condemnation.
If you are a drug user – especially the so-called ‘harmless’ ones like ecstacy or cannabis – you may attract disapproval but not get attacked outright on all sorts of moral grounds. Point out that possession or use of these chemicals is a criminal offence and suddenly people spring out of the woodwork to defend their use as ”harmless’ or not as bad as smoking.
If you admit to smoking cigarettes then the whole world and its dog jump on you with howls of moral outrage.
At the moment, the purchase of tobacco is still legal. Smoking them is still legal (other than in ”banned” places). Tobacco carries punitive rates of Tax, the benefit of which accrues to the Treasury and is applied to support public spending.
it strikes me that there is a fundamental flaw in the anti-smoking argument. All the time the Government continues to permit the sale and use of tobacco and receives a huge amount of Tax revenue from this sale, people will continue to smoke tobacco. If they declare it illegal (and give up billions in Tax receipts as a consequence) then chances are that the amount of tobacco smoked in the country will drop enormously.
Perhaps THIS is what the anti-smokers should lobby for.
i’ve heard a rumour going round to that effect.
