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In article <4cfb2253$>,
says...
>
> On 05/12/10 17:40, Lukagain Cos ThistleBounce wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:22:13 +1300,
> > Enkidu<> wrote:
> >
> >> On 05/12/10 13:25, William Brown wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:56:00 +1300,
> >>> Enkidu<> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 04/12/10 22:14, William Brown wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What they are telling every one you need a set top box, but
> >>>>> what they are not telling you is if you have a VCR you need 2
> >>>>> set top boxes.
> >>>>>
> >>>> What's a VCR? I looked it up and the only VCR I can find is
> >>>> "Video Cassette Recorder", but you can't mean those - they went
> >>>> out years ago.
> >>>
> >>> No you are totally wrong the are still being sold
> >>>
> >> The only reason I can think of for owning a VCR is to pirate tapes
> >> to DVD.
> >
> > Eh ... do you regard "thinking" as one of your stronger points..??
> >
> What other use would there be?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff

Probably the same reason you purchased one however long ago Cliff.

By your logic all the people at the end of my street in their 100s of
retirement units are all pirating DVDs then ? Very very few of them have
digital anything and they are probably the most law abiding group of
people I know.

Very unlike you Cliff to be so Lennier like

Bazz

Bazz

On 09/01/11 13:31, bAZZ wrote:
> In article<4cfb2253$>,
> says...
>>
>> On 05/12/10 17:40, Lukagain Cos ThistleBounce wrote:
>>> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:22:13 +1300,
>>> Enkidu<> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/12/10 13:25, William Brown wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:56:00 +1300,
>>>>> Enkidu<> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/12/10 22:14, William Brown wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What they are telling every one you need a set top box,
>>>>>>> but what they are not telling you is if you have a VCR
>>>>>>> you need 2 set top boxes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's a VCR? I looked it up and the only VCR I can find
>>>>>> is "Video Cassette Recorder", but you can't mean those -
>>>>>> they went out years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> No you are totally wrong the are still being sold
>>>>>
>>>> The only reason I can think of for owning a VCR is to pirate
>>>> tapes to DVD.
>>>
>>> Eh ... do you regard "thinking" as one of your stronger
>>> points..??
>>>
>> What other use would there be?
>
> Probably the same reason you purchased one however long ago Cliff.
>
I bought it to pirate tapes of course!
>
> By your logic all the people at the end of my street in their 100s
> of retirement units are all pirating DVDs then ? Very very few of
> them have digital anything and they are probably the most law abiding
> group of people I know.
>
> Very unlike you Cliff to be so Lennier like
>
Ooo! That hurt!

Cheers,

Cliff

--

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The end excuses any evil - Sophocles

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:05:13 +1300, Enkidu wrote:

>> Very unlike you Cliff to be so Lennier like
>>
> Ooo! That hurt!

LOL!


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2011-01-04 ~misfit~ <>:
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Anony Mouse wrote:
>> ~misfit~ wrote:
>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Anony Mouse wrote:
>>>> Gunnar Gren wrote:
>>>>> 2010-12-09 EMB <>:
>>>>>> On 9/12/2010 7:04 p.m., ~misfit~ wrote:
>>>>>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs victor wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 7/12/2010 6:16 p.m., Bruce Sinclair wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article<idk117$par$>,
>>>>>>>>> victor<> wrote: (snip)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think it's just Woger who calls them that, but obviously the
>>>>>>>>>> second unit would have to be a VCR top box.
>>>>>>>>>> Freeview calls them digital receivers.
>>>>>>>>> .. but they are actually decoders aren't they ?
>>>>>>>>> <sigh>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All receivers have decoders in them
>>>>>>>> <sigh>
>>>>>>> The receiver on my roof doesn't (TTBOMK).
>>>>>> Coat, yours, POQ, DCB
>>>>> QRO
>>>>>
>>>> Life is to short for QRP.
>>>
>>> Sheee-it, I got lost two acronyms ago....
>> Shhheish... The younger generation these days.
>
> LOL! Thanks for that, I'll be 50 this year.
>
> I got EMB's post but got lost after that. Even my towering intellect <g> and
> www.acronymfinder.com didn't help. I just assumed that it might be LGBT
> slang, Freemason-talk or similar?

Here is a bit of help for you

http://www.abbreviations.com/b1.aspx?KEY=170712
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRP_operation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRO

--
"Some secrets can bring only catastropy"

Valerij Legasov

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Gunnar Gren wrote:
> 2011-01-04 ~misfit~ <>:
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Anony Mouse wrote:
>>> ~misfit~ wrote:
>>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Anony Mouse wrote:
>>>>> Gunnar Gren wrote:
>>>>>> 2010-12-09 EMB <>:
>>>>>>> On 9/12/2010 7:04 p.m., ~misfit~ wrote:
>>>>>>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs victor wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 7/12/2010 6:16 p.m., Bruce Sinclair wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> In article<idk117$par$>,
>>>>>>>>>> victor<> wrote: (snip)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I think it's just Woger who calls them that, but obviously
>>>>>>>>>>> the second unit would have to be a VCR top box.
>>>>>>>>>>> Freeview calls them digital receivers.
>>>>>>>>>> .. but they are actually decoders aren't they ?
>>>>>>>>>> <sigh>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> All receivers have decoders in them
>>>>>>>>> <sigh>
>>>>>>>> The receiver on my roof doesn't (TTBOMK).
>>>>>>> Coat, yours, POQ, DCB
>>>>>> QRO
>>>>>>
>>>>> Life is to short for QRP.
>>>>
>>>> Sheee-it, I got lost two acronyms ago....
>>> Shhheish... The younger generation these days.
>>
>> LOL! Thanks for that, I'll be 50 this year.
>>
>> I got EMB's post but got lost after that. Even my towering intellect
>> <g> and www.acronymfinder.com didn't help. I just assumed that it
>> might be LGBT slang, Freemason-talk or similar?
>
> Here is a bit of help for you
>
> http://www.abbreviations.com/b1.aspx?KEY=170712
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRP_operation
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRO

Thanks for that.
--
Shaun.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also
into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche