From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <452BC738.CA6DEC36(a)earthlink.net>,
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>Lloyd Parker wrote:
>>
>> They were calling on frequencies the pilot probably wasn't even monitoring.
>
>
> How much do you know about commercial and military aircraft
>communications?
>
>
I've posted a reference now twice.
From: John Fields on
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:04:44 +0100, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:

>
>"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:452BED9D.6573EB54(a)earthlink.net...
>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:11:04 +0100, Eeyore
>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >You make more mistakes simply because Americans are sloppy about
>>> >everything.
>>> >
>>> >Graham
>>>
>>> Everything? ICs? Jet aircraft? Agriculture? Electronics design?
>>>
>>> John
>>
>>
>> No, just letting British trolls on usenet.
>
>Better than boring American trolls.

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Are you kidding? It seems that's about all you do... ;)


--
John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer
From: John Larkin on
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:04:44 +0100, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:

>
>"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:452BED9D.6573EB54(a)earthlink.net...
>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:11:04 +0100, Eeyore
>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >You make more mistakes simply because Americans are sloppy about
>>> >everything.
>>> >
>>> >Graham
>>>
>>> Everything? ICs? Jet aircraft? Agriculture? Electronics design?
>>>
>>> John
>>
>>
>> No, just letting British trolls on usenet.
>
>Better than boring American trolls.
>


Is there a CE standard for usenet trolls? There seems to be for
everything else.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6037958.stm

John

From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> > "TuT" <edwarddotwilsonatbaesystemsdotcom> wrote:
>
> >>Wahhabi
> >
> > Thank you. I get all these names mixed up and it doesn't help
> > that every book I read spells each slightly different. That
> > comes from growing up and getting trained in a country that
> > is homogeneous w.r.t. lanugage, spelling, and no meat in
> > the history elhi classes.
>
> It depends which language you are using for it. For example house is spelt
> different in English, French and German. It is the same with Arabic and
> English. (Arabic comes in many "flavours" as well).
>
> Centre is a good example of how even English has spelling variations.

House is spelt *very* differently in French indeed but to take a few
examples....

House - English
Haus - German
Hus - Swedish and probably several other N.European languages too....

Curiously Hus is pronounced like hoose as in moose and in fact you can find
this pronunciation used in Scotland too !

Graham




From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote
>
> > From my understanding, the Iraqi people were the most capable
> > of changing to some form of capitalism.
>
> So what?
>
> It strikes me that pretty much all the middle eastern countries are
> capitalist in nature.

It's my understanding that a popular name in that culture is Malik which
loosely translates as 'middleman'. Trading has long been a big feature of their
economies.

Graham