Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

wouldnt it just be the app deleted off the screen, not actually uninstalled..
or does ifail remove it totally when you delete it? dont see how it would though.. cant you check the apps folder to see whats in
there...

Andy Duffin's Race 3 from Thunder in the Park 2014. This is round 2 of GTRNZ for the 2014/15 season.

Vehicle is a Mazda FD RX7 with Green Brothers 20B Triple Rotor Engine making 340kwatw.

Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55

Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.

The Welsh New Romantic icon - best known for the hit Fade To Grey - died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Ex-Visage bandmates Midge Ure and Rusty Egan said they were "devastated" to hear of his "untimely passing", adding: "Steve was a major face of the 80s."

Boy George tweeted he was "heartbroken" about the death of Strange, saying he was "such a big part of my life".

Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon tweeted that Strange was "the leading edge of New Romantic. God Bless him".

Fellow 1980s pop star Billy Idol tweeted: "Very sad to hear of my friend Steve Strange passing, RIP mate."

Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp dedicated the band's performance in Italy to "a maverick to the end", while his brother and the band's bassist, Martin Kemp, tweeted: "RIP Steve Strange goodbye my dear friend. I will miss you!"

Now we're looking like a proper Charity Rally car

February 13, 2015: The police crackdown on inexperienced drivers who are a menace on our roads. A Current Affair has been granted exclusive access, including vision of a dramatic P-Plater car chase.

Obama on the state of the world (Full Interview)

Vox.com
Duration: 39:43
4 days ago

Obama talks with Vox Executive Editor Matthew Yglesias about war, peace, the Middle East, China, terrorism, foreign aid and more

'Fifty Shades of Grey' Can Be Watched by 12-Year-Olds in France

Fifty Shades of Grey has been a global literary phenomenon, translated into around 50 different languages, and sold everywhere from Estonia to Turkey. This weekend, the film adaptation will appear in theaters around the world, and that means national film boards have been figuring out how to rate it and whom should be allowed to see it.

Malaysia banned it. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rated it "R," meaning that children younger than 17 need to be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. The British Board of Film Classification gave it an "18."

And then there's France.

The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) gave the film a rating of "12," meaning that only children under the age of 12 are prohibited from seeing it.

Very French, indeed.

The justification for the rating was the theme of sadomasochism and the casualness with which the film presents it.

According the president of the CNC, Jean-François Mary, the board wasn't unanimous when it came to the rating, but probably not for the reason you'd expect: some members thought there shouldn't have been an age restriction at all, merely a warning.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" isn't a film that "can shock a lot of people," Mary said. It's "a romance, you could even say schmaltzy."

And that's how 12-year-old boys across France suddenly became very interested in cinema.

This story originally appeared at GlobalPost.

Air Force sending 'tankbuster' jets back to Europe

(CNN)The U.S. Air Force is sending its "tankbusters" back to Europe.

The service's European Command said this week that 12 A-10 Thunderbolts would be deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve, which was formed after Russia's intervention in Ukraine over the past year.

"The Air Force is increasing rotational presence in Europe to reassure our allies and partner nations that our commitment to European security is a priority," Lt. Gen. Tom Jones, vice commander, United States Air Forces in Europe -- Air Forces Africa, said in a statement.

The Air Force said besides operating in Germany, the A-10s will be forward deployed to other partner nations in Eastern Europe. U.S. forces have operated out of bases in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland, among others, in the past year.

The A-10, also known as the "Warthog," was designed in the 1970s to support ground troops in Europe against the tanks and armored vehicles of the then-Soviet Union. Though the jets can carry a variety of bombs and missiles, they are best known for their nose-mounted, seven-barrel 30 mm Gatling gun that can fire almost 4,000 rounds per minute, enough to quickly blow apart a tank. The planes are also durable, with the pilot protected from ground fire by a wrapping of titanium often called "the bathtub." And they are designed for easy maintenance in battlefield areas, with interchangeable parts for the right and left sides of the aircraft.

Those capabilities have been battle-proven in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

Late last year, A-10s were deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in January that the A-10s had flown 11% of the Air Force's missions against ISIS despite coming into the conflict more than two months after initial U.S. involvement.

Despite its current usefulness, the A-10 is on the Defense Department's chopping block, with the Air Force wanting to turn over the jet's ground support mission to its newest fighter, the F-35.

Critics of the move say the A-10 can do better than the F-35 because it can get lower and slower, allowing pilots to get real eyes on targets. And they say it is way cheaper than the F-35, with a flight hour for the A-10 costing roughly half of what it costs to operate the F-35, according to numerous reports.

The Air Force says it just doesn't have the money to support the A-10, which will be more than 40 years old at its planned retirement in 2019, and its newest, more advanced aircraft.

"It's not about not liking or not wanting the A-10. It's about some very tough decisions that we have to make to recapitalize an Air Force for the threat 10 years from now," Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, said in January.

The dozen A-10s, along with 300 personnel from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, are expected to be in Germany by the end of February, the Air Force said. The deployment is expected to last about six months.

A-10s have not been deployed to Europe since May 2013, when 21 A-10s that were stationed at Spangdahlem were removed, according to a report from Stars and Stripes.

I was going to take the Corolla like usual but it was all overcast when I woke up and had been raining. Just went back to sleep. Was there a big turnout?

All 2015-2019 Formula One races on Fox Sports, only 10 per year on Channel Ten

Channel Ten has extended its Formula One TV rights deal until the end of 2019, but will only broadcast 10 races per year on free-to-air. All F1 races, including those shown on Ten, will be broadcast live on Fox Sports.

With its current F1 TV arrangement set to expire at the end of the 2015 season, Network Ten has renegotiated its deal, extending it until the end of 2019.

The financially embattled free-to-air network, which is reportedly subject to a buy-out bid by Foxtel and Discovery, has retained rights to all Formula One races, but has decided to strike a new sub-licensing deal with pay TV network Fox Sports.

As part of the sub-licensing agreement, Fox Sports will air live, in high definition, all F1 races, practices and qualifying sessions from 2015 to 2019.

Channel Ten will simulcast 10 out of the 20 races per season from 2015 to 2019, including the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. For all races that it broadcasts, Channel Ten will air the practice and qualifying sessions, as well as stream the events via its Tenplay website.

The free-to-air station has yet to indicate which races it will broadcast this year, aside from the Australian fixture that kicks off the 2015 season from March 13 to 15. For races that aren't shown on Network Ten, a one hour highlights show will be screened on One at 9.30pm on the Monday following the event.

Last year, Ten and Fox Sports struck a similar deal with V8 Supercars, where Ten will simulcast six events — the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide, Townsville 500, Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast 600 and Sydney 500 — with the remainder screened live and exclusive on Fox Sports.This V8 Supercars broadcasting arrangement will run from 2015 to 2020.

so Australian free to air audiences are getting increasingly shafted by pay tv - we've seen it with the lack of World Cup coverage. here's another example

(oh and also mentioned at the bottom of the article, no v8 coverage of the regular rounds, just the big main races.)



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