Richard Porter wrote:


No, I want a public service broadcaster that caters for as many
viewing preferences as possible over the course of a week, and doesn't
just go for instantaneous ratings.

Not the BBC then, because the BBC has been a rating whore for decades.

In article ,
Chris Morriss wrote:
Dave Plowman appears to be a perfectly reasonable chap, but he is
somewhere to the left of Pol Pot. To those of us of a more libertarian
viewpoint, he gets rather tiresome.

Nice to know you agree with Firth that all taxation is theft and

'Taxation doesn't exist to make poor people better off. It exists for two
reasons, so that politicians can prove to themselves that they have
power over ordinary people's lives and to put money into the Treasury to
pay for the stupid ideas of politicians'.

But perhaps you simply didn't read or understand his statments.

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*'Progress' and 'Change' are not synonyms.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Richard Porter wrote:


I thought we'd nailed that one before. The AP box most certainly does
have a three element torque converter. I could drive it in fourth in
slow moving traffic using only the torque converter. You can't do that
with a fluid flywheel. They were normally used in cars like Daimlers,
Lanchesters and Rileys with preselector boxes.

And the Rover 105R

Jim

In article ,
Richard Porter wrote:
That's because it didn't have a torque convertor but a fluid flywheel
instead - doesn't cushion changes as well, as many an old Rolls or Merc
owner would testify too also.

I thought we'd nailed that one before. The AP box most certainly does
have a three element torque converter. I could drive it in fourth in
slow moving traffic using only the torque converter. You can't do that
with a fluid flywheel. They were normally used in cars like Daimlers,
Lanchesters and Rileys with preselector boxes.

A fluid flywheel allows that if the selector mechanism does. In a similar
way as you can start a manual Mini in top gear by slipping the clutch.

The original description of the AP box stated it had a fluid flywheel
instead of torque convertor to reduce losses - and hence the use of four
speeds when all other TC autos of the time had three - or less.

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*Why is the word abbreviation so long?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

But perhaps you simply didn't read or understand his statments.

Or perhaps you have a naive and rather trusting view about the real
reason that taxation exists.

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
But perhaps you simply didn't read or understand his statments.

Or perhaps you have a naive and rather trusting view about the real
reason that taxation exists.

Unlike you I don't see only in black and white.

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*I don't suffer from insanity -- I'm a carrier

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
But perhaps you simply didn't read or understand his statments.

Or perhaps you have a naive and rather trusting view about the real
reason that taxation exists.

Unlike you I don't see only in black and white.


One advantage of being a sound engineer I suppose, no one notices how
short sighted one is (or more likely becomes [1])?... :~P

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
But perhaps you simply didn't read or understand his statments.

Or perhaps you have a naive and rather trusting view about the real
reason that taxation exists.

Unlike you I don't see only in black and white.

Just black.