TBH, the D/L didn't screw South Africa. 298 is a huge total to chase in 43 overs.

Not sure D/L is really setup to take account of the ridiculous high scoring that goes in the in the last 15 overs now, after they changed the rules. I think SA would of much preferred playing out the innings and putting up 350+.

I did enjoy the Mither Mages series. Written by Orson Scott Card (who wrote ender game series). Only 2 of the 3 books are out though, so you get left on a cliffhanger of sorts.

Published order is the best. Maybe read Ender's Shadow straight after Ender's Game, since they are somewhat similar in style and such.
 
That being said, the sequels to Ender's Game (the non-shadow series stuff) are a bit different in tone to Enders Game. But its worth pushing through the odd start of Speaker of the Dead, because its quite a good book. I actually found the sequels more enjoyable than the shadow series.

What kind of media machines do you have? I am looking at something which would be good to throw a few TV capture cards in, and use it over a normal PVR.

I assume that is part of the risk, and part of the hit on your ROR. An A grade loan goes from 0.08% to 0.27% default rate, so I imagine if you diversify your loans well (say across 50 loans) you would be safe.. They also seem to have third party collection agencies, and they offer reduced interest on secured loans, so there is a little bit of backing before someone can bail out on the loan.

My biggest concern is

Harmoney does not attempt to certify the ability of a potential Borrower to service any specific loans. However, Harmoney does make an assessment of the affordability of a loan for a potential Borrower based on the verified financial data provided by the potential Borrower, including income, expenses and debt servicing information.

So I guess you could get screwed over by someone who on paper looks safe, but can't correctly manage the repayment on the loan.

Another one i use is dhgate. Mainly to buy phones/tablets, but they have a huge range, and a consistently much faster to ship than DX.

If i could jump in for a semi hijack. Anyone know whats one of the cheaper routes to fly from europe to canda? Will initially be in holland, but likely to travel around a bit, so could tack it off any destination reasonably close to holland.

My point wasn't "Why do we have a tetanus vaccine"
I completely understand having it prior to the fact, at scheduled intervals, to build immunity..


What I was saying was, it's quite common practice for people to be administered the vaccine, after they have been exposed to the real thing, (e.g. going to hospital after impaling yourself on a rusty nail) and I was wondering how that was actually helpful.. "Oh you have been infected with tetanus, here, have more dead tetanus"


I was genuinely interested if anyone had any insight into the reasoning behind that practice, because it doesn't make sense to me.

I did some googling, because that is an interesting question. Only thing i could find, was the live version of the tetanus effects antibody production, so the real tetanus won't produce a response. But that was just one source, and i got sick of googling.

From the trivia page on imdb.

Michael Bay considered to direct this film until he later decided he didn't want to.

Quote from toofast: September 21, 2014, 11:33:16 am

lower turnout this year.

Really?
Fuck'n... derp.

By lower turnout, I mean at the place i went to. About 150 less people this year. Probably didn't make that clear.

National really cleaned up in the party votes across the electorates. Looks like they won pretty much everything except south auckland (no surprises), and Dunedin (and that was a 28 vote win).  I kinda knew national would win again, but I am surprised that they won so comfortably. Also no fucking clue why epsom keeps voting ACT.

I voted for the legalise weed party as they seem to be the only party that is honest about what they're going to do.

Wasted vote really.

I am still unsure who to vote for. Internet-mana seem the obvious vote because of how unappealing the other parties are. Yet it seems safer to put my vote into the labour-green corner, to stop national.