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Then there is the Kiwi Sheep...but let's not start on that...remember I lived in NZ for 8 years, married a Kiwi/Pommie and my first born is/was a Kiwi (now Aussie)

You are right...they have sky rocketed...I can retire soon: [ATTACH]47383._xfImport[/ATTACH]

It because you must frequent the Retirement Home web sites

Yes I can do that...there is a modification that I can install so any user can add their own Google Adsense code into a field in their site settings which will display a Google advert in every post they make...the modification can be set so the user gets 75% of the clicks money and the site gets 25% BUT, one sure way of destroying the site

You are referring to the Google driven advert that is in the right column of some site pages that I get a measly tuppence for if you see something of interest in it and click it...I am currently getting around a dollar a day. However, it displays advertisements based on your browsing history so not everyone sees the same advert...if you are seeing girls, well I wonder what your web browsing history is like

When I worked at 3KZ I use to do the Val Morgan Cinema Advertising recordings with Graham Kennedy and Rosemary Margon...boy I can tell you some stories that happened in the studio with them two...what a laugh

Until Zig ended up in the courts pleading guilty to child sex offences

Today my son asked what it was like when I became a teenager, what TV show was my favourite and what music did I remember. This sent me on a nostalgia trip down memory lane and I found these two little gems...hope you like them:

I was letting this go whilst it was a "general" and interesting conversation however, as usual when talking politics, it has sunk into the depths of disparity that will not end well...besides it isn't aviation so thread is now closed

I lived in Auckland when they introduced MMP and felt from that first alliance with Winston Peters, nothing ever got done in the country from then on as they were always so busy fighting with each other...not to mention the deals they had to do...you vote for one party yet they drop many of the things, the very reasons why you voted for them in the first place, just to form an alliance with another party so they could govern...so what's the point of voting for any party Corrine, the wife and a Kiwi, came an Australian citizen by simply filling in the form and going to a ceremony, the cost of it all was very minimal. My daughter was born in NZ and at 2 weeks old became an Australian citizen (by descent) by just dropping the forms of at the Australian consulate (???) in Quay St Auckland...if I recall there was just something like a $100 lodgement fee

NZ has MMP (Multi Member Proportional) instead of FPP (First Past the Post)...a disastrous political system that promotes a lack of ability to get anything done due to alliances having to be formed instead of being able to govern in a parties own right (although possible but extremely rare)...introduced in the mid 90's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation

Rudd isn't standing

A British woman convicted of racism after calling her New Zealand-born neighbour an Australian has had her name cleared. Last November, Petra Mills was arrested after calling her neighbour a "stupid fat Australian" during a drunken tirade on her front lawn. The neighbour, Chelsea O'Reilly, says Ms Mills knew she was born in New Zealand but used the term "Australian" to offend her. Ms Mills was charged with racially aggravated public disorder and fined $162. However, the local court in the city of Chester has overturned the decision, ruling that using the word "Australian" is not a racist slur. Ms Mills has since moved to north Wales to escape the embarrassment caused by her conviction. (source ABC News: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-11/british-woman-cleared-of-anti-australian-racism/4565290)

Many sites now use features that integrate with Facebook so every time a page loads that requires a connection to Facebook for this integration, it is at the mercy of the Facebook servers and the speed/connection to them. Facebook servers have recently been big problems for site owners to the point that I have recently been seeing more and more threads in technology forums asking the question of whether Facebook etc integration really is worth it Note, this is the same with Twitter and Google +1...they are all sweeping the world up into their control

Why Is Everyone on the Internet So Angry? By Natalie Wolchover and Life's Little Mysteries A perfect storm engenders online rudeness, including virtual anonymity and thus a lack of accountability, physical distance and the medium of writing With a presidential campaign, health care and the gun control debate in the news these days, one can't help getting sucked into the flame wars that are Internet comment threads. But psychologists say this addictive form of vitriolic back and forth should be avoided — or simply censored by online media outlets — because it actually damages society and mental health. These days, online comments "are extraordinarily aggressive, without resolving anything," said Art Markman, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. "At the end of it you can't possibly feel like anybody heard you. Having a strong emotional experience that doesn't resolve itself in any healthy way can't be a good thing." If it's so unsatisfying and unhealthy, why do we do it? A perfect storm of factors come together to engender the rudeness and aggression seen in the comments' sections of Web pages, Markman said. First, commenters are often virtually anonymous, and thus, unaccountable for their rudeness. Second, they are at a distance from the target of their anger — be it the article they're commenting on or another comment on that article — and people tend to antagonise distant abstractions more easily than living, breathing interlocutors. Third, it's easier to be nasty in writing than in speech, hence the now somewhat outmoded practice of leaving angry notes (back when people used paper), Markman said. And because comment-section discourses don't happen in real time, commenters can write lengthy monologues, which tend to entrench them in their extreme viewpoint. "When you're having a conversation in person, who actually gets to deliver a monologue except people in the movies? Even if you get angry, people are talking back and forth and so eventually you have to calm down and listen so you can have a conversation," Markman told Life's Little Mysteries. Chiming in on comment threads may even give one a feeling of accomplishment, albeit a false one. "There is so much going on in our lives that it is hard to find time to get out and physically help a cause, which makes 'armchair activism' an enticing [proposition]," a blogger at Daily Kos opined in a July 23 article. And finally, Edward Wasserman, Knight Professor in Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee University, noted another cause of the vitriol: bad examples set by the media. "Unfortunately, mainstream media have made a fortune teaching people the wrong ways to talk to each other, offering up Jerry Springer, Crossfire, Bill O'Reilly. People understandably conclude rage is the political vernacular, that this is how public ideas are talked about," Wasserman wrote in an article on his university's website. "It isn't." Communication, the scholars say, is really about taking someone else's perspective, understanding it, and responding. "Tone of voice and gesture can have a large influence on your ability to understand what someone is saying," Markman said. "The further away from face-to-face, real-time dialogue you get, the harder it is to communicate." In his opinion, media outlets should cut down on the anger and hatred that have become the norm in reader exchanges. "It's valuable to allow all sides of an argument to be heard. But it's not valuable for there to be personal attacks, or to have messages with an extremely angry tone. Even someone who is making a legitimate point but with an angry tone is hurting the nature of the argument, because they are promoting people to respond in kind," he said. "If on a website comments are left up that are making personal attacks in the nastiest way, you're sending the message that this is acceptable human behaviour." For their part, people should seek out actual human beings to converse with, Markman said — and we should make a point of including a few people in our social circles who think differently from us. "You'll develop a healthy respect for people whose opinions differ from your own," he said. Working out solutions to the kinds of hard problems that tend to garner the most comments online requires lengthy discussion and compromise. "The back-and-forth negotiation that goes on in having a conversation with someone you don't agree with is a skill," Markman said. And this skill is languishing, both among members of the public and our leaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpJM3DPIrA

It is local to your PC...malware

I am sure we all have some resolutions left over from last year that seam to stay on our list and keep rolling over and over each year...I know I do. But here are my New Year's Resolutions...what's yours? 1. Redo this site into an even more incredible resource for everyone 2. Increase the user membership here by 20% 3. Lose 17kg to end up at 90kg 4. Go on a family holiday to Qld 5. Reduce Credit Card debt (remove wife...carry over resolution!) 6. Fix the house up 7. FLY!

Guys, this site has been there and done that with vBulletin. Many users here on Rec Flying will know the trials and tribulations that has been with vb and the work loads that it has to maintain it plus the higher costs in hosting needed to run its very old code. At one stage when we were using vb v4 there was an update every 2 weeks to fix bugs, which caused more bugs, which caused another update...etc, this went on for about a year and ended up basically a full time job fixing things. The code in vb is extremely bloated requiring many more resources ram and processor power to run it. There is also the law suits between vb and Xenforo, vb and Wikipedia plus many others and vb is destined to lose them. vBulletin is owned by Internet Brands which owns Pprune and Internet Brands has been passed from one financier to another since it went bad about 2 years ago. The best version of vb was v3.8 many years ago and it has gone down hill ever since and their latest offering which is v5 is a complete dogs breakfast...it is up to Beta v21...with thousands of bugs still listed. What you guys are seeing is simply just a front end and not from a forum administrator's view, unless you are managing web site forums all day every day. Take it from me, having used vb for many years, to recommend vb would be setting a person up for failure unless they are an IT professional with extensive knowledge in web development and html/php coding.

I find it funny that a few years ago everyone jumped up and down about the "Australia Card"...the civil liberties people shouted it down however what do you think the "Medicare" card is? How many people in Australia don't have a Medicare card...at a guess not many. Plus, the way the Government is with cross matching of Social Security, Tax, Medicare, Workcover etc etc etc...you are recorded even down to your electricity bill. A great movie that I have in my collection is called Echelon Conspiracy (also known as "The Gift")...if you can get your hands on a copy from the video library or so then watch it, it will really show you what the internet is capable of when it comes down to who you are: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124039/

It does depend on many different things like age group of your audience, features that are required or like to have, your ability to create the extras that you want etc etc etc. Many of the free software versions become popular simply because they are free and therefore become the focus of hacking attacks...paid for software less often. Forum software is a business and the internet is littered with failed sites, empty forums or forums full of spam and crap. To do it properly you need to be aware of the forum software industry, know what is getting developed, what is up and coming and why, trends in technology, hosting administration, html/php coding conventions etc OR you can install a forum software app and hope for the best. For example many many many of these forums that are installed by non-IT people are continually hit with spam driven by the X Rumer forum attack software, software that even beats the Google recaptcha simply because they install a forum software app without knowing that running a forum is extremely hard work in ensuring that it runs properly. Note, I developed our own anti spam system here on Recreational Flying which is why we have never been attacked by X Rumer however many other sites are attacked on a daily basis. The point I am making is the first part of installing a forum software app is making sure you select the right one and 99.9% of the time the right one WILL cost you money, and secondly, once you have installed the forum software app the work you need to do is only just beginning. (don't forget the legal aspects of having a user integrated site...I spent a lot of money getting all this right not only in site rules but also the makeup of the behind the scenes ownership etc) Ring me on 03 9444-8025 if I can help

This is very scary at the end when you realise how he does it:

WOW, this is one incredible camera...pity it's not a phone as well but I guess, give it time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SYMXxTNbUc!

Well it's Melbourne Cup Day...a public holiday for suburban Melbourne and there are barby's galore going on...so who's a bit tipsy at the moment from a day on Champaign I know I am

It's also incredible spatial awareness