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broadblues wrote: @Franko Quote: I will say this though it reveals that in certain areas of the UK 40% of web usage is used for porn... You should go for a carreer in politics or marketting. It says 40% of men have viewed internet porn. so that's 20% of the internet using population ( assuming that women don't which was not stated) and I doubt that 40% only used it for porn., so that's even less. statistcs 67.485% are made up on the spot.

Well as it's quite clear in the video that it does say "40% of men" then there wasn't much point in repeating all of it here if folk had watched it...

Dunno how you can half that down to 20% by taking out women from the equation as women weren't included in that part of the statistics, it clearly said "men" so you can't half the result to manipulate the figures just because they didn't ask women that question...

Actually in figures just made up in my own head 210% of all statistics are made up on the spot and 350% of those turn out to be right (give or take a couple of percent) ..

PS: My venture into politics in the 80's ended quite abruptly with my Labour Party membership being removed as I was considered so far left that I made Derek Hatton sound like a right wing nutter...

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@Franko

The 2010 restoration is missing less than 7 minutes now and is much much more watchable than the previous 2008 which was said to be missing more than 40 minutes. If you haven't watched this version already I suggest you do, all The Thin Man scenes are now in there whereas in the 2008 version a lot was missing and you never really got to meet the character.

Yeah after watching the movie I looked on Wikipedia, like I do with a lot great movies and found the Radio Ga Ga mentioned - didn't occur to me until after the movie had ended. Yes, mentions Blade Runner in there - haven't seen that movie for yonks either.

Great movie.

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I didn't know they had restored so much of it in the 2010 release, need to look online and see where I can buy it, cheers...

If you like Metropolis then I highly recommend Forbidden Planet (1956) a cult Sci Fi movie (my all time favourite) that again inspired most of the great Sci Fi directors and producers...

Forbidden Planet (1957)...

Or Dark Star (1974) an offbeat wacky Sci Fi film by John Carpenter on which Ridley Scott based Alien on and I'm pretty sure it's where the inspiration for the "Boing Ball" came from...

Dark Star (1974)...

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djrikki wrote: We only need BT for the telecommunications infrastructure

What communications infrastructure ?

I would not call 512 kbps an exceptable telecommunications infrastructure these days. But that is what BT limit my line to. The line rental is a complete ripoff for those getting inferior service, at no reduced cost compared to those who get full broadband speeds with their BT lines.

To rub salt in the wounds the ISP Plusnet even charges me MORE for a lousy BT line restricted service than those who get better service at their cut price rates.

Unfortunately I have to have a BT line to get broadband even at the patheticly slow rate, BT have the monopoly on the broadband network. If there was an alternative I would get rid of the BT line yesterday, I hardly use the phone so its just not worth it.

The UK broadband infrastructure sucks.

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I would not call 512 kbps an exceptable telecommunications infrastructure these days. But that is what BT limit my line to. The line rental is a complete ripoff for those getting inferior service, at no reduced cost compared to those who get full broadband speeds with their BT lines.

BT don't "limit" your line at all. They wuld run it as fast as they could to get the most business out of you. If it's slow then there will be a reason, nmost usualy that your house is along way from the exchange.

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To rub salt in the wounds the ISP Plusnet even charges me MORE for a lousy BT line restricted service than those who get better service at their cut price rates.

Change ISP then! Don't blame BT for plusnet.

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Unfortunately I have to have a BT line to get broadband even at the patheticly slow rate, BT have the monopoly on the broadband network. If there was an alternative I would get rid of the BT line yesterday, I hardly use the phone so its just not worth it.

No Virgin Cable (or equiv company) in your area?

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@BillE

I changed from BT to Sky after 1 month of using BT's line service. BT told me that at max I could only get 1Mbps because of the old copper wire landlines in my area and I actually only got an average of around 800Kbps...

However when I switched to Sky for line rental I now get 2.6Mbps, cheaper than BT and strangely enough using the very same old copper landlines that BT claimed couldn't supply me with anything over 1Mbps because I am at the furthest point possible from the exchange...

If I were you I'd get rid of BT ASAP and switch to someone like Sky as they are cheaper and provide a better service and are easy to get discounts from if you tell them your leaving every couple of months...

At the time BT couldn't care less about me leaving them but at least once a fortnight I get some junk mail from them trying to get me back, not a snowball in hells chance of that ever happening though, as their customer services stink and has to be one of the poorest customer services I've ever found (only British Gas are worse than them but that's another story)...

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@djrikki I didn't know they had restored so much of it in the 2010 release, need to look online and see where I can buy it, cheers... If you like Metropolis then I highly recommend Forbidden Planet (1956) a cult Sci Fi movie (my all time favourite) that again inspired most of the great Sci Fi directors and producers... Forbidden Planet (1957)... Or Dark Star (1974) an offbeat wacky Sci Fi film by John Carpenter on which Ridley Scott based Alien on and I'm pretty sure it's where the inspiration for the "Boing Ball" came from... Dark Star (1974)...

Yeah I watched the 2008 version first, found the 2010 version and watched it the following day and all the pieces just fell in place.

With a spectacular title such as Forbidden Planet it makes me think deeply whether I have seen it or not - I don't believe I have though. I saw the most recent version of The Thing and was greatly surprised how good it was with respect to the original. I wouldn't call it a remake, as if you watch it - it is not.

In regard to BT:

The only reason they are even around today is because we are FORCED to pay the landline fee. You want Broadband? You can't get it unless you sign up to a landline as well - most people use mobile phones these days living the home phone unused.
Also, if you ask all your neighbours whether they use BT or not and they say no, BT will not come to your street and remove the Pole and over-cabling. I know this for a fact, because my parents car is parked underneath one and is subjected to the seagulls bowels.

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With a spectacular title such as Forbidden Planet it makes me think deeply whether I have seen it or not - I don't believe I have though.

Monsters from the ID? Robbie the Robot? If those don;t ring bells you need to watch t

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I saw the most recent version of The Thing and was greatly surprised how good it was with respect to the original. I wouldn't call it a remake, as if you watch it - it is not.

Which original? The original original or the original remake?

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The only reason they are even around today is because we are FORCED to pay the landline fee.

No you are not you can go cable or not have any landline at all.

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You want Broadband? You can't get it unless you sign up to a landline as well

That's because the broadband come doen the landline.

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- most people use mobile phones these days living the home phone unused.

Rubbish. Very large numbers of people use landlines because mobile signal is poor, or because it's cheaper. Or for many reasons.

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Also, if you ask all your neighbours whether they use BT or not and they say no, BT will not come to your street and remove the Pole and over-cabling. I know this for a fact, because my parents car is parked underneath one and is subjected to the seagulls bowels.

Quite clearly they wouldn't do that. The next occupants of the road might want to use the lines! They would likely take away the connection to your house if asked (probably charge for though I'd guess) but they aren't going to start removeing poles etc. for the sake of seaguls poo!

I'm coming over as a BT fan but I don;t use them these days but I hate this unfounded propaganda. You can also pay the landline fee to your ineterbnet provider by the way. and they then may or may not discount it.

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@djrikki

The Thing (1982) is the best version I reckon...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

If you haven't seen Forbidden Planet your missing one of the best Sci Fi movies of all time, just don't judge it by todays CGI standards though, it was made in the 50's after all...

Wow, your parents must live in a really old "untouched part of the UK", I haven't seen overhead telephone cables or even poles since I was kid (well over 35 years ago)...

Paying for a landline in the UK is just a rip off these days. I have to pay Sky for a landline (which is the exact same on BT uses) for my "Boradband". With Virgin cable you don't pay for a landline but you pay the equivalent for their fibre optic cable...

It's like the TV licence since around 1997 I haven't watched the BBC and yet the government still runs a protection racket along with the BBC that forces me to pay £145.50 per year for something I don't use otherwise you face a fine of £1,000 or imprisonment... they make the mafia look like amateurs ...

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broadblues wrote: That's because the broadband come doen the landline.

I've argued that one many times with Sky that even though they insist on calling all their internet packages "Broadband" that are not in fact broadband as they use the same old copper lines they lease from BT...

My package is called "broadband unlimited" and they pass it off as giving up to 20Mbps (i get an average of 2.6Mbps) and even in all the online tests I've yet to see anyone getting anymore than around 10Mbps using Sky's so called broadband...

Rip Off Britain is alive and well and making a tidy profit from the internet (and old phone lines)...

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Franko wrote: Rip Off Britain is alive and well and making a tidy profit from the internet (and old phone lines)...

So do something about it! Run for Prime Minister of Britain!

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