The Alexander Nevsky cathedral has a great collection of icons downstairs, and if you go around yourself, rather than as part of a guided tour, security didn't seem too tight, so you could probably steal one from there.

(I don't know what you mean - which icons?)

It truly is Fimbulvetr...

I shan't pray, because my Gods are metaphorical - but I did throw some money at MSF India.

I think it's apropos:

Billy Bragg - Between The Wars - YouTube

Some relatively subtle points - ISIS has become Daesh, just like the USSR became "the reds" and Germany became "the krauts". Nobody will say the W word.

I'm not sure why these things worry me, but they do. Almost as much as nobody knowing what a "victory" looks like.

Quote:If you drink another persons blood all you get is a liver disease.

-- Nasty Wet Smear

Quote:And I've been thinking of going medieval

I was born in the Skyrack, in the Shadow of Rombald, in the great Jorvik Empire. My people are descended from the Great Heathen Army lead by Sigurd Snake-In-The-Eye of the Danish Vikings.

If you want to go to war, I am a Dane. You have already lost.

You can't say "effective immediately" on a mutli-user site and not expect a huge kerfuffle.

Even if the changes are universally accepted as the best thing since sliced bread, you can't say "effective immediately" on a multi-user site. Never have been able to, never will.

I was slightly annoyed by this. The 10c for a new referral meant you at least got something for your efforts, even if they were inactive. So yeah, it was annoying to lose it, but you also acknowledge that paying for inactive referrals is plucking money out of the air, and just isn't sustainable.

Then I checked my stats, and it turns out, I'd have earned more this way, even though most of my referrals are inactive, so it's not actually annoying at all.

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In fairness, I knew it was there, and it took me about five minutes to find it. It should really be more prominent.

I like this song, but I love this video.

I love how it's perfectly okay to take a man hostage, hold him against his will bound to a chair, surrounded by heavies, roll him up in a carpet and dump him in a lake, and it's perfectly okay to smoke...but the actual cigarette packet needs to be censored.

PRESLAVA - FENOMEN / Преслава - Феномен - YouTube

Pfft, quotes from everybody else's religions get likes...

Let's try again.

Quote:If a poor man reaches the home of the rich,
Let him wisely speak or be still;
For to him who speaks with the hard of heart
Will chattering ever work ill.

-- Odin

This month, 11 was the highest. Looking at random pages of my history, six seems like the average.

Highest ever? 105 on September 28th, 2011.

(Because you used to get 100 with your upgrade).

The best way to get a deal shopping is simply to take an Indian with you. It's not so much that they're good at barter, it's more that we're terrible at it. Even a crap Indian shopper will run rings around a good UK/US shop keeper. I save all my major purchases for when my mate's aunt visits from Punjab.

If you don't have access to an Indian, an alternative method is to go live in India for a bit - it's a culture thing, not a race thing, so you can learn to do it yourself over a few years.

If you can't do either of those, shopkeepers are just as bad at it as you are, so "The price tag says $whatever, but what is it for cash?" and about three quarters of all shop keeps will have offered you a discount before they even realised what happened. Note this doesn't work in large stores, as you need to be talking to someone with decision making authority. If you have to send someone to get their manager, they've got time to compose themselves, and this only works because it abuses gut instincts.

Speaking of winter....

Quote:
Brœðr muno beriaz
ok at bǫnom verða
muno systrungar
sifiom spilla.
Hart er í heimi,
hórdómr mikill
—skeggǫld, skálmǫld
—skildir ro klofnir—
vindǫld, vargǫld—
áðr verǫld steypiz.
Mun engi maðr
ǫðrom þyrma

Quote:
Brothers will fight
and kill each other,
sisters' children
will defile kinship.
It is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife
—an axe age, a sword age
—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another.

-- Völuspá on Fimbulvetr - the first sign of Ragnarok

I think this quote is from QI (emphasis on think - I do verify quotes, because misattribution annoys me - but I don't keep any record of where they came from, and my database is seventeen years old now). QI is a 45 minute TV program, and if that is where it was from, it'll will have just been used to wrap up that five minute slot. It's far from exhaustive.

Quote:Scottish inventions and discoveries include: Adhesive stamps, the Australian national anthem, the Bank of England, bicycle pedals, the breach-loading rifle--you'll notice I'm going in alphabetical order--Bovril, the cell nucleus, chloroform, the cloud chamber, cornflower, a cure for malaria, the decimal point, the Encyclopedia Britannica, fountain pens, fingerprinting, hypnosis, hypodermic syringes, insulin, the kaleidoscope, the lawnmower, lime cordial, logarithms, lorries, marmalade, matches, motor insurance, paraffin, piano pedals, the postmark, pneumatic tyres, RADAR, the reflecting telescope, savings banks, the screw propeller, the speedometer, the steam hammer, raincoats, tarmac, teleprinters, tubular steel, typhoid vaccine, ultrasound scanners, the United States Navy, universal standard time, vacuum flasks, wave-powered electricity generations, and wire rope!

-- Stephen Fry

GoDaddy are pretty scummy, and should be avoided really. NameCheap is what all my peers use, and what I've been meaning to move to for years, but never get round to. Nobody ever has anything bad to say about NameCheap.

99.9% of domain registrars offer domain forwarding, so you can point your domain at anything that exists.

For hosting, if want a VPS, use FitVPS. They provide excellent value, excellent support, and are great guys. They speak good English, but it is their second language - the slightly strange wording on their website is because they're foreign, not because they're cowboys.

If you want shared hosting, contabo.com is pretty good, and I hear good things about arhoster.

Free Web Hosting with PHP, MySQL and cPanel, No Ads is free, and also ad free. It offers pretty limited service for free accounts though, so check it can do what you need first.

I assume you mean me, (since I'm the only person with any calculation in this thread)?

I based my calculation on elementary mathematics.

Let's say there are 100 payout requests a day.

They pay 30% of all requests each day.

On day one, you have 100 requests, and you pay 30.

On day two, you have 170 requests, and you pay 51.

On day three, you have 219 requests, and you pay 65.

On day four, you have 254 requests, and you pay 76.

On day five, you have 278 requests, and you pay 83.

Assuming you clear the queue completely, say, once a month or two, nobody waits more than three working days.

This is a UK story because the components are manufactured here (or were, anyway, before HotPoint got bought out). They're sold in most of the world.

If they're doing 30% of cashouts a day, and they get the same number of cashout requests each day, 81% of cashouts will be completed by day 2. 146% of cashouts will be completed by day three.