From: Lloyd Parker on 10 Oct 2006 10:52 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 10 Oct 2006 15:39 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. --- Are you kidding? It seems that's about all you do... ;) -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: John Larkin on 10 Oct 2006 15:39 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 10 Oct 2006 15:42 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 10 Oct 2006 15:49
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 |