Um, no, being a Canadian who doesn't even understand temperatures in Fahrenheit at all, I understand Celcius perfectly well, thank you.
I stand by my original statement. With a surface temperature at 17 degrees celcius, carbueretor icing is a problem, as the air inside the carbueretor is 15-20 degrees celcius cooler than the air outside.
Please go back and read my post in its entirety and you will understand.
I do agree with an above post that icing COULD be a possibility, but with a surface temp as warm as it was, they would have to be flying pretty high.
Huh? A surface temp of 17 celcius is the perfect temperature for forming carbueretor ice. The air cools 15-20 degrees in the carbueretor as it rushes through the venturi tube. Of course, as soon as this starts to happen, the process accelerates, since the ice effectively narrows the venturi tube, making the air even colder in there.
Ironically, when the surface temp is near or below freezing, carb icing ceases to be an issue, since the air in the venturi is so cold that ice crystallizes quickly before the moisture gets on the walls of the venturi. However, at this temperature you need to wtart worrying about surface icing (does surface icing affect helicopters? I only fly planes.)
Yeah, but his post says: "I'm glad to be out of that country and now living in New Zealand (which is not even a signatory nation to the Hague Treaty)."
So it seems like New Zealand is the obvious answer
In a big plane, maybe, but remember that small aircraft have some insane glide ratio, like in the neighbourhood of 8:1. So each extra 1000 feet in altitude means an extra 8000 feet of horizontal gliding distance (like, a mile and a half). If you keep yourself just 3000 feet above ground, you have 24000 feet (4.5 miles) to find a park to land in or head for the water to ditch, or whatever.
Anyway, I really hope that warflyers bring along someone to do the electronic stuff. A plane requires a hell of a lot more attention to fly than a car does to drive, and pilots should be only flying.
If your friend flew "between sky scrapers", he wasn't flying legally.
Here in Canada, you have to stay at least 1000 feet above any obstacle less than 2000 feet horizontally from you (except while taking off or landing). This means that for all intents and purposes, you need to stay 1500 feet AGL (because of all the 50-story buildings around) when you're flying over a city.
Work was interviewing somebody for a non-technical position. However, he had put on his resume that he knew HTML. The company's president (we're really small), who was interviewing him, quickly came to the conclusion that he didn't know a thing about HTML, but he wanted to see the guy sweat. So he said, "Here's my computer; I'll be back in 10 minutes. I want to see a web page".
Well, 10 minutes later, the president came back in the room, and there was a web browser displaying his creation -- a single sentence, "Hi Tim, I wrote a web page" in bold and italics. Up on the screen were other web browsers containing internet searches about basic HTML, as well as the output of "view source" from one of our web pages.
Three years later, this guy is still with us, by far the best customer service manager we've ever had.
I guess the point is, give the person a puzzle that you know that they have no idea how to solve, and give them the resources to figure out how to solve it, and see what they do.
This has gotta be taxing on usenet (I don't know if this message will cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, but it probably costs something) as well as Google, for no real good reason.
If only these people could've used their talents to come up with a real way to help humanity.
What entrapment issue? Entrapment only happens when a person is convinced by a law enforcement official to do something that they wouldn't ordinarily do.
If someone gets stuck in a honeypot, he ordinarily would've been attempting to scan my system...
I am getting tired of hearing that company/organization XYZ has more control over something I own than I do.
Seems to me that company XYZ will be having control over something your parents own.
I have seen some real jackass teen drivers. It always struck me that if their parents could see how they were driving the car that they borrowed, that they would be allowed to borrow it for another year (or even better, they wouldn't drive like that in the first place).
Parents have every right to monitor how their children are driving their cars.
I get paid to sit around all day and think. After that's done, I go to night school and think some more. After I get home from school, I often sit at my computer and code and think some more.
But you know what? Sometimes I need a break. Sometimes it is useful to just kick back, relax, and watch something just because it's entertaining. I'm not pretentious enough that I have to pretend not to enjoy some mindless entertainment once in a while.
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How could a picture of the body of a female member of your species be not appropriate?
How could the goatse.cx guy not be appropriate? That's a picture of the body of a male member of your species!
We were in a U-Haul, and AFTER dropping the truck off, we found out just how high the charge would have been.
Keep in mind that U-Haul's charge is far higher than ordinary Ontario residents would've paid. U-Haul charges you some huge amount that would be more than you would ever pay, to cover all of their administrative costs, etc.
The actual tolls on the ETR aren't horrible (only a couple bucks per trip), but still higher than, for example, the I-90 in New York.
they send you a bill and you disagree with the charges they can keep you from getting your license/vehicle permit renewed.
Not anymore. There were far too many problems with people trying to dispute, but not being able to reach customer service reps, or the folks that own the ETR just plain screwing up, that they ditched the plate-renewal-denial stuff.
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Um, no, being a Canadian who doesn't even understand temperatures in Fahrenheit at all, I understand Celcius perfectly well, thank you.
I stand by my original statement. With a surface temperature at 17 degrees celcius, carbueretor icing is a problem, as the air inside the carbueretor is 15-20 degrees celcius cooler than the air outside.
Please go back and read my post in its entirety and you will understand.
Huh? A surface temp of 17 celcius is the perfect temperature for forming carbueretor ice. The air cools 15-20 degrees in the carbueretor as it rushes through the venturi tube. Of course, as soon as this starts to happen, the process accelerates, since the ice effectively narrows the venturi tube, making the air even colder in there.
Ironically, when the surface temp is near or below freezing, carb icing ceases to be an issue, since the air in the venturi is so cold that ice crystallizes quickly before the moisture gets on the walls of the venturi. However, at this temperature you need to wtart worrying about surface icing (does surface icing affect helicopters? I only fly planes.)
In this post, he mentions being glad to have moved out of Australia, and that he is now living in New Zealand. That post was less than a week old.
Yeah, but his post says: "I'm glad to be out of that country and now living in New Zealand (which is not even a signatory nation to the Hague Treaty)."
So it seems like New Zealand is the obvious answer
Um, getting the access is the bad thing. Criminal tresspass and all that.
I love how this sentence is written as if it's some sort of contradiction.
Um, the law allows you to fly lower than normal when you are doing it "for the purpose of takeoff or landing".
In general, flying that low over a big city, just for the fun of it (ie, when they could have flown higher but chose not to), is stupid stupid stupid!
Here's hoping that you will never be licensed to fly an aircraft.
In a big plane, maybe, but remember that small aircraft have some insane glide ratio, like in the neighbourhood of 8:1. So each extra 1000 feet in altitude means an extra 8000 feet of horizontal gliding distance (like, a mile and a half). If you keep yourself just 3000 feet above ground, you have 24000 feet (4.5 miles) to find a park to land in or head for the water to ditch, or whatever.
Anyway, I really hope that warflyers bring along someone to do the electronic stuff. A plane requires a hell of a lot more attention to fly than a car does to drive, and pilots should be only flying.
If your friend flew "between sky scrapers", he wasn't flying legally.
Here in Canada, you have to stay at least 1000 feet above any obstacle less than 2000 feet horizontally from you (except while taking off or landing). This means that for all intents and purposes, you need to stay 1500 feet AGL (because of all the 50-story buildings around) when you're flying over a city.
The laws in the USA are similar.
Well, the USPTO might be idiots, but I don't think that writing styles can be patented.
And suing The Onion for "patent infringement" may be especially stupid given that The Onion has been around for so much longer than SatireWire.
Well, 10 minutes later, the president came back in the room, and there was a web browser displaying his creation -- a single sentence, "Hi Tim, I wrote a web page" in bold and italics. Up on the screen were other web browsers containing internet searches about basic HTML, as well as the output of "view source" from one of our web pages.
Three years later, this guy is still with us, by far the best customer service manager we've ever had.
I guess the point is, give the person a puzzle that you know that they have no idea how to solve, and give them the resources to figure out how to solve it, and see what they do.
Actually, junk mail subsidizes your mail. Mail would be more expensive if it weren't for the junk mailers.
Yep, I'm an old fuddy-duddy.
This has gotta be taxing on usenet (I don't know if this message will cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, but it probably costs something) as well as Google, for no real good reason.
If only these people could've used their talents to come up with a real way to help humanity.
What entrapment issue? Entrapment only happens when a person is convinced by a law enforcement official to do something that they wouldn't ordinarily do.
If someone gets stuck in a honeypot, he ordinarily would've been attempting to scan my system...
Seems to me that company XYZ will be having control over something your parents own.
I have seen some real jackass teen drivers. It always struck me that if their parents could see how they were driving the car that they borrowed, that they would be allowed to borrow it for another year (or even better, they wouldn't drive like that in the first place).
Parents have every right to monitor how their children are driving their cars.
Oh, come on.
I get paid to sit around all day and think. After that's done, I go to night school and think some more. After I get home from school, I often sit at my computer and code and think some more.
But you know what? Sometimes I need a break. Sometimes it is useful to just kick back, relax, and watch something just because it's entertaining. I'm not pretentious enough that I have to pretend not to enjoy some mindless entertainment once in a while.
How could the goatse.cx guy not be appropriate? That's a picture of the body of a male member of your species!
Don't get too excited about this if you, like me, already have a gasoline-based car. This will only work if your car is already diesel-based.
Bah, I knew I should have bought a German car!
Of course, if you owned a car rental company, you'd just take people at their word that they would eventually pay you, right?
Keep in mind that U-Haul's charge is far higher than ordinary Ontario residents would've paid. U-Haul charges you some huge amount that would be more than you would ever pay, to cover all of their administrative costs, etc.
The actual tolls on the ETR aren't horrible (only a couple bucks per trip), but still higher than, for example, the I-90 in New York.
Not anymore. There were far too many problems with people trying to dispute, but not being able to reach customer service reps, or the folks that own the ETR just plain screwing up, that they ditched the plate-renewal-denial stuff.
Well, mabye a lot of people already did that, and that's why the site is shashdotted.
If you keep pressing tab it will cycle through all the choices.
I dunno, it still sounds dirty to me.
Apparently you are not one of these people. Otherwise you would know that français as a noun is masculine.