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    I am quite sure I saw that last woman in the people of Walmart!
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    After a marathon with the Telstra level 3 engineer this afternoon it looks like a break-through may have come by turning the network mode on the phone to 3G only instead of allowing it to search through 4G/3G/2G looking for the best signal. Data speed tests are considerably better at peak congestion times than previously, if that continues I will be a much happier camper. If not, tonight is a freakishly good night for internetting.
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    Gallagher opened the morning paper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned his best friend Finney and asked “Did you see the paper?, they say that I have died” “I saw it “ Replied Finney, “Where’d you be calling from?”
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    Sean is the Vicar of a Protestant parish on the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, Patrick is the Priest at the Roman Catholic Church across the road. One day they are seen together erecting a sign that reads: “The end is near, Turn yourself around now before it is too late!” As a car speeds past them, the driver leans out of the window and yells “Leave people alone you religious nutters, We don’t need any of your lectures!” From around the next curve they hear the screeching of tyres and a huge splash. Shaking his head Patrick says “Dat’s da tird one dis mornin’”, “Yaa” Sean agrees, “Do ya tink maybe da sign should just read Bridge Closed?”
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    Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had a very import meeting and couldn’t find a parking place anywhere. Looking up to heaven he said ”Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking space I will come to mass every Sunday and I will give up my Irish Whiskey!” Miraculously a parking space appeared. Paddy looked to the sky again and said “Never mind, I found one!”
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    That would be the attitude of the pilot.
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    Have you fallen out of love with the Lightwing?
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    That's not a very nice way to talk about your husband Sue.
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    Been there, it ain't a pretty option. One of the biggest issues with all these substandard internet options is that web page designers squander capacity on high definition images just because they can and everyone has broadband don't they. It should be compulsory to have programmed a Commodore 64 before putting up a web page. That way every bit would be carefully considered.
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    I have a satellite dish on the roof, carried over from the transition from dial-up. It never provided much better than fast dial-up anyway. The combination of throttling the upload and download speeds and latency issues made it about twice as good as dial-up with ranged from 28.8 - 31.2 kbps. It was also impossible to get to hook up under heavy cloud or rain. Really took the fun out of watching BOM radar! When we initially transferred to wireless mobile broadband it was a considerable improvement but it has got so oversubscribed now that is only any use to chronic insomniacs.
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    You can pick the high speed internet users by their disparaging remarks about people needing a paper magazine because they aren't moving with the times or they want to live in the dark ages. Thursday at 7.29pm I measured 0.11 Mbps download and 0.34Mbps upload, but that is only the beginning, if it was stable at all I would be able to depend on the pdf arriving, I used 1.1 Gb on Sunday(Took all day and half the night) trying to get a firmware update for my phone and the closest I got was 11% in about 8 attempts and still don't have anything to show for it.
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    Only used the Followmee android app.
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    I don't understand...explain it to me at your engine launch.
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    Does everybody have wildly variable GPS alititude values reported in Followmee. Just trying it out on my Android phone in my pocket riding around on my quadbike I am getting 400 metres variation in altitude, my hills just aren't that big!
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    In discussions on this forum, the value of the required fee increase to cover the ongoing paper magazine was given as $40, not $90. Surely the $90 price reflects the now much smaller circulation. Get it right when you draft the motion for the AGM.
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    This is the worry. I have a gravel road nearby but I don't suppose that is always an option. The crown is always a challenge on a formed road.
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    Mine is at Coolatai, started out just as you describe, was plenty good enough for most STOL planes, I did my training of it and it was described by Phil Martin from Superair as being in the top 3% he flies super off. So I tried to make it better Be very careful grading that you don't form gutter or banks that concentrate the flow of water and make the peddles wobble if you get out of line when you are landing. I graded mine myself and left a bank of dirt well off to the side of my cross strip which acted to gather and divert a significant amount of water straight down the middle, a second bank on the other side wouldn't let it off until I busted out about 200 m further down. A fair bit of consideration of letting water follow its natural flow is required. You don't need a crowned up road to land on, it may be more weatherproof but will take a lot more skill to stay up on top of, then give you a lively ride when you don't succeed. As far as grass variety goes, I haven't found anything that doesn't form tussock, is drought proof, frost proof and grows all year round, so just mow the native grass, which has proved it will grow there, and just mow it low to keep it smooth.
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    Doesn't leave a lot to be positives, does it?
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    Damn!
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    Not a problem on my Note 4, Apple is real bitch!
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    Would have had the road closed for the take-off, would have made corners a bit less hazardous. Always look at the Newell highway through the Pilliga Scrub and wonder if there would be a gap in the B-doubles the day you need one.
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    Keep following your dreams my friends!
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    I was joking Doug! The Journalist had a big chance for a free hit at getting it right with the Cessna tag and she missed it.
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    And they called it a Cessna?
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    Ross, thanks for sharing what you have.
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