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9 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Even if that is the case, Warne has us in the automatic promotion places with 7 games to go, having won plenty of games, scored plenty of goals, and conceded less than a number of the other teams in the top 7.

Soooooo relative to the difficulty of the league this season, the team is doing well…. Don’t you think? 

And already more points than we achieved last season in total.

Multiple points of progress but it will never be enough for some 'fans'

I don't care about performances now - just grit, determination and getting a result.

Excellent result today, hope the week off is time enough for those carrying knocks to get fit for the next cup final...

Elder... 1 touch, 1 assist 😛

13 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

That video is great and then, bizarrely, ruined at the end by adding Sea Dragon - a 1960s concept vehicle that only exists in videogames. Why? Why would they do that? Meanwhile, look at how far Starship has come in such a short time:

Ah right, I wasn't really paying much attention to the video tbh - just the increasing size.  Casually thought it was a future SpaceX design. Its still difficult to imagine something bigger than the Statue of Liberty weighing 5000 tons being lifted into space.

Yeah a lot has happened in the past 20 years after a period of stagnation, hopefully it won't be too much longer before we look up at the Moon and think someone's up there right now.  The last time that happened I'd not long been born.

4 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

The most amazing watch. Frequently I found myself applauding. As it happens, SpaceX is 22 years old today, and they have created such wonders. The Mars colonization programme is partly going to have to be funded by Starlink (genius business idea), which for the first time in history enabled us to get these views during reentry, when there'd normally be a comms blackout. Huge, huge congratulations to all involved.

Just watched some videos of the launch, incredible stuff - never gets old.  

IIRC the Starship weighed approx 5000 tons, is 40 stories tall and the biggest thing ever launched into space.  Every success is another step on the path to the Moon/Mars and beyond 

14 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

Edit: And, even as I typed this post, I get an alert on my phone that it's less than an hour until a SpaceX Falcon 9 is launching another batch of Starlink satellites. The Falcon 9's 25th mission of 2024. SpaceX is making the impossible look routine.

Routine indeed!

Saw this on X last night, sums up his attitude since he's been here.  Hell of a player if we could sign him, he seems to quite like it at Derby!

doh

On 02/03/2024 at 09:52, BaaLocks said:

Dune 2: was made to sit through the first one and ended up enjoying it much more than I expected. But the second one is just so drawn out. Scene after scene of millions of (CGI generated) soldiers swearing feilty to some leader or other while your ears are bombarded with dramatic music. It just goes round in circles and - guess what - leaves you then realizing the story isn't finished so another three hours to sit through to find out the conclusion (at least). Just feels like this all could have fitted more than easily into, maybe, two two hour films rather than three, three hour ones.

Similar... I've never read the books so went into Dune 1 'blind' and was pleasantly surprise - good story, great cinematics, soundtrack and cast. 

As you say, Dune 2 does feel drawn out and quite tedious at times.  Whilst I still found the cinematics (inc CGI) and soundtrack to be excellent, the first part of the film felt dragged out and the last part of the film rushed.  It would have been better split into 2 films but I guess the middle film would have been really boring - too much religious fervor for my liking and the Dave Bautista char just spent his time stomping around incompetently shouting at people.

Having said all that...

42 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Changed my mind on second watch. Brilliant film and story.

Craig Bryson / 10.

I'll find out next week whether I change my mind as well, taking my lad when he gets back from Uni 😛 

Putting a positive spin on things we were better when we were chasing, maybe dropping out of the top 2 will refocus us.

Ah crap, I was just thinking good result for Barnsley, now they can do us a favour by losing their remaining game in hand and we're 2nd on merit - but then Bolton go a score 😛 

TBH Bolton, Barnsley and now Peterboro are all strong teams in this division, assuming Portsmouth are up then along with ourselves its pick 2 from 4 for promotion - and the pessimist in me says both Barnsley and Peterboro are too strong for us on their day.

3 hours ago, Srg said:

Unlikely. The backlash over his racism would be too much. 

Nah, it was approx 10yrs ago now, surely its time to forgive and forget!?

Anyway, I doubt DC would go down the 'celebrity' manager route unlike his predecessor and as has been highlighted, his lack of English would present a huge problem.

Regardless, I recall this from a few years ago.  Sod manager, sign him up as a player 😛

For better or worse X is attempting to allow community moderation.  The alternative is Govt control and whilst you might like the Govt in power atm (I'm talking in the US that have the real power to control Google, X, Meta etc) Govts come and go.  Maybe you won't like the next lot in charge and what they deem acceptable speech. 

Alternatively we could let the mega corps such as Alphabet (Gemini AI haha) or Microsoft/Amazon etc dictate what we're allowed to see and say?  In a world a bad solutions, X is currently the best we've got (and for clarity I'm not saying its perfect, far from it).  If you really don't think it is, name one thats better.  If you can't maybe the continuing obsession with just Musk is a marker that you've been swayed by your political leanings rather than the current state of X. 

On a related note, did you see the kicking Zuckerberg and Facebook got in the recent US hearings?  Probably not because unlike Musk he's not in political opposition to the establishment.  In short, basically Meta's own studies show that they are having a detrimental effect on kids mental health and are pushing paedophilic content to those that search for it but are doing nothing about it.  But Musk bad man *shakes fist*

7 minutes ago, alexxxxx said:

I like the rams daily podcast. Living far, far, away from derby its a great way of keeping up to date.. along with RamsTV.

It'll be a massive shame when the BBC run out of money and they have to have one broadcast for each game.

Back in the mel era when I guess the budget was a bit higher, I really enjoyed the RamsTV meets series.

Similar for me.  Having the commentary etc on RamsTV and the daily podcasts made moving away from Derbyshire a lot easier - I'd be lost without them.

It was great to hear Ed Dawes back commentating (although I liked Dom's commentary as well) and I enjoy the different personalities they have on each week.  Some are arguably better than others and some more biased than others but when you listen to local coverage you expect a bit of that, its not like you're listening to a generic game on Sky this is our club!

We've got bigger problems than twitter if you've been following the Gemini AI drama.

An update from Tom Lockyer re. his cardiac arrest on the pitch back in December.

Seems to be doing okay, hope he gets the chance to play football again.

Stop 'booing him' 😛

Love his attitude, love his determination, love it if we sign him. 

Lovely bit if determination considering he's only here on loan. 

Hopefully there is a chance we can bring him in on a permanent in the summer, I've been impressed with the little bit I've seen of him.

If we find water on the moon it will slash the cost of future missions. 

We'll no doubt have a manned operation there as well as Mars in the near future.

This had a cult following at school back in the day...

1 hour ago, BramcoteRam84 said:

He needs to win the Euros now, this team is ready (injuries permitting) and if he does then he should be given the option to take us to the World Cup if he wants it.

Harry Kane will surely be desperate for a trophy after a season with Bayern Munich 👀

30 minutes ago, Fuertes’s Passport said:

Absolutely. More idiocy from a truly inept tactician. Rancid football - predictable and ponderous in attack . All the clapping the fans and trying to become the next Ian Holloway with media friendly antics  cannot hide the fact that he is a truly terrible coach . We should wipe out Shrewsbury ( themselves an appalling team ) with the players at his disposal .What does he actually do all week ? 

So what you're saying is you're still in the 'on the fence' camp with regards to Paul Warne then.

If you're quick there's a window round the back I've not got to yet...

2 hours ago, David said:

Think of it more as a security subscription than just a doorbell. 

Anyone trying door handles, causing damage, attempted robbery, anything it’s all there on camera with the subscription allowing you to look back.

Few months ago we had a resident from down the road that ask us for footage from a specific time as a car hit his without leaving any details. Heard the bang but by time he got to the window the car had gone.

We got the colour, make and model for him, reg plate obscured but gave him the footage and maybe he got more from down the road piecing it all together. 

It was a relatively low price to pay at £25 a year.

Not only that but Ring do indoor cameras, we have one in their bedroom which has solved many a mystery of who ripped up the book, who hit who first complete with audio.

The subscription covers that as well.

We've got the ring doorbell and half a dozen of the external cameras as well dotted around our property - we just pay the £8/month which I thought was a pretty decent deal for the amount of coverage we get. 

We went for the solar powered cameras (mainly because I'm allergic to heights and don't want to be up and down ladders every 3 months changing batteries!) and I've been very impressed.  Despite the fact that some of the solar panels aren't in the best locations - facing away from the sun and in the shade most of the day, the lowest I have seen their charge rate go is 96%.  Only 2 of the 6 are currently below 100% (99%) which isn't bad considering we're still only in February and I haven't seen any sun for days!

Picture quality is good and any footage captured is stored for approx 6 months iirc and the dogs don't generally trigger the motion capture.  If you can afford the cost (and I can appreciate the 100% rise in a couple of years is not something you signed up for) I'd recommend them as a good home security option.