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The major cost is not my use of the PCs but the 24/7 crunching. Didn't mind this when I felt things were fair, but extra costs on fuel, food, 10p tax rate has made being charitable impossible. This government takes do much tax that you cannot control what you do with disposable income (if any).
BTW I thought by now I would have been banned for political statements but to me it is only common sense.
Always looking on the positive- the waste heat from my two PCs in my shed keep all my tools and equipment free from condensation.
Question - would any New Labour MPs - most of whom have never had a proper job understand any of this.
I am a retired physics teacher and ex-engineer and for the last 18months have driven a private hire car on the school run with special needs pupils to make ends meet.
Crunching is fun and there is the (it shouldn't matter but it does factor).
Unfortunately this government, while championing choice, does the exact opposite in preventing us from deciding how to spend our money.
Quite prepared to be banned now.
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Voulantry driving for your local Ambulance service is a very good way to raise extra cash. You can choose what hours you do and even though the milage rate is not good the loot mounts up. I do one day a week , sometimes two and I get a very respectable cheque every month.
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Hello folks
Thanks for the replies and support. People seem so compliant her - in the USA there is fury that failed banks are being rescued and their criminal CEOs are not being locked up - or is it just a few people in New York the networks can find to interview.
BTW how can it be legal to sell shares you don't own? Surely the share owners are accessories to a crime before the fact and the Hedge Fund bods are accessories after the fact. So both groups should be locked up as they are at least conspiring to defraud ordinary shareholders since they are both intending to force prices down. Hold on, the owners don't care as they are paid a guaranteed fee and the sellers can start any rumour they like to force prices down, as well as the act of large-scale selling will also.
Best of luck if you own shares - only owned some for a few months due to Building Society becoming a bank, then sold them - what a disaster losing the Building Societies turned out to be and what a joke are these light-hearted bank TV adverts now.
End of rant,
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Hello folks
Thanks for the replies and support. People seem so compliant her - in the USA there is fury that failed banks are being rescued and their criminal CEOs are not being locked up - or is it just a few people in New York the networks can find to interview.
BTW how can it be legal to sell shares you don't own? Surely the share owners are accessories to a crime before the fact and the Hedge Fund bods are accessories after the fact. So both groups should be locked up as they are at least conspiring to defraud ordinary shareholders since they are both intending to force prices down. Hold on, the owners don't care as they are paid a guaranteed fee and the sellers can start any rumour they like to force prices down, as well as the act of large-scale selling will also.
Best of luck if you own shares - only owned some for a few months due to Building Society becoming a bank, then sold them - what a disaster losing the Building Societies turned out to be and what a joke are these light-hearted bank TV adverts now.
End of rant,
Cheers
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Hi All
Apologies for all that! Back to the original question, my admitedly obsolete PCs average about 80W, approx £10 per month to crunch 24/7
Have shut down one PC in my shed and left one running 24/7 which has no case at 70W (can do with waste heat).
Will run main PC during the evening with no printers on standby and external backup HD off (not needed anyway) and summer case fans disconnected,
so will run at approx 90W with router.
Cheers
peahouse05
Hi All
Apologies for all that! Back to the original question, my admitedly obsolete PCs average about 80W, approx £10 per month to crunch 24/7
Have shut down one PC in my shed and left one running 24/7 which has no case at 70W (can do with waste heat).
Will run main PC during the evening with no printers on standby and external backup HD off (not needed anyway) and summer case fans disconnected,
so will run at approx 90W with router.
Cheers
peahouse05
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