I'm currently learning to fly, with 27 hours under my belt. I fly a Grumman AA5A 'Cheetah' which is a great little plane. I soloed last September, have done a few solo jaunts outside the circuit but the Dreaded British Weather has meant I've not managed to start on cross-country flights yet as i've had two flights in the last three months!
It was something I always fancied doing, but after I'd had a trial flight that made my mind up. I'd recommend anyone here who has ever thought about flying to find a local flying school and book a trial flight.
It's expensive, yes (although not as expensive in the US as it is in the UK), but in my opinion it's worth every penny.
Here in the UK we have a big problem with people wanting to shut airfields down - either town councils who want to sell the land to property developers, or people who move next to an airfield and complain about the planes.
Private Flying is not as big in the UK as it is in the US, by a long chalk, but it's still a sad thing to see airfields replaced with warehouses or the like...
By far the best thing to do with an old airfield is to open it up again - even if it's just a case of refurbishing the runway and putting a bowser (fuel truck) there.
Nothing I had ever heard about this movie boded well, but the trailer is just absolutely diabolical. They've taken an intelligent well written comic by one of the masters of the genre and created a complete travesty! It looks absolutely fucking awful, a mad sub-matrix mindless special effects extravaganza. (Excuse me? Mina Murray coalesces from a swarm of bats? I think they missed a major point here in that she's not a fucking vampire!)
Alan. Alan, why do you let them do this? Do you really need the money so much?
When it comes on TV I may watch it if I have nothing better to do, but I'd not pay money to see this piece of shit, and I suspect anyone who enjoyed the comics will do likewise.
If people don't want to see someone say 'Fuck' in a movie, then they shouldn't watch the fucking movie! If people don't want to see tits in a movie, then they shouldn't watch the fucking movie! If people don't want to see violence in a movie, then they shouldn't watch the fucking movie!
If I was a moviemaker, I'd be pretty pissed off at the idea that people can bowdlerise my movie any which way they like.
Hollywood are right on the ball here, and I support them wholeheartedly.
Mr Bowdler was WRONG, people! His name is remembered as an verb of wrong-headedness.
It's just as evil and fuckheaded to take all the 'fuck' out of 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' as it was to give King Lear a happy ending.
Only a stupid right wing pigfucker would want one of these creations of evil, and Hollywood is perfectly right to want them stopped.
The web is full of weirdos showing off photos of UFOs, faces on mars, alien crop circles, water finders, magic spirals, health magnets and garbage like that.
Why does NASA care what these people are quacking about? Don't they have anything better to do?
Put it another way. Why should the nutters have it all their own way? What we need on the web are more sites saying that all this UFO, face on mars, crop circle, dowsing stuff is a load of old cobblers, to redress the balance in the name of science, sanity and common sense. For every Bad Astronomy or James Randi there are dozens of web-enabled nutcases spouting the most insane bollocks, and where this concerns something NASA is involved with I think they've got a perfect right to put the case straight. Good for them.
Am I the only person here that thinks that Harry Knowles is a total raving fanboy with no journalistic integrity?
No you're not the only one. AICN is just utter fanboy wank of the worst order. I'm horrified that Knowles is now rearing his ugly head (literally. Big misshapen fat head with a very stupid looking straggly beard. Eeuwww!) in a film programme on Sky One. The adverts in which he appears make me dash for the remote before he pops up. A real face for radio and a voice for silent movies, that guy has. Sickening.
If you can get there on a segway, you could ride a bicycle or you could WALK. It would do you a hell of a lot better than standing on some ridiculous overpriced machine.
Politicians have got the right idea if you ask me. I don't want some idiot riding one of those things on the same footpath I'm walking on.
You ask the computer for a cup of tea, and it spends all its time thinking why an ape descendant should want dried leaves in boiling water with juice squirted from a cow...
To be fair, Babylon 5 did get the Starfuries right. Rather than flying like aeroplanes (I'm talking to you, X-Wing) they had thrusters along each axis, so a burst from the rear thrusters would accelerate the ship forwards, and then it would coast along, until a burst from the forward thrusters stopped it. So someone had a grasp of elementary physics...
If you agree to work for nothing, you are being exploited. Not only that, you are making it easier for your peers to be exploited. After all, if a company can get someone to work for them for free, why should they give anyone else a decent salary? And that includes yourself if you see a better job. "Hey, you worked for that company for free, why should we pay you £60,000 to work for us?"
Also my experience is that many companies will not count any unpaid work you do as valid - except perhaps for charity work which is only good on your character reference.
Wake up! Working for nothing is a mug's game that in the end benefits no one.
16 colours? Luxury. When I were a lad we just had black and white, unless we stuck coloured cellophane over t'telly, and we were lucky if we had so much as a beep...
Come ON, CN, just create an all-anime channel like the silly "all-60s-70s-craptoons" boomerang and get it over with, and return CN to its former glory.
You mean like CNX?
Annoyingly, CNX is only on Sky satellite or NTL Cable, and I have Telewest cable and Telewest wouldn't buy it. And there looks like some stuff on there I'd like to watch.
As European users know the Governments run trucks up and down the streets day and night monitoring to see how many televisions are in each house and assessing taxes for each
You're talking bollocks. I have never ever seen a TV Detector Van except in adverts.
Check out Elder Scrolls: Morrowind if you haven't already. You can easily get lost in that game for days at a time without touching the main story.
And that's the problem. Lots of aimless wandering around with nothing but the odd crab or flying thing in sight. It gets tedious very quickly.
The thing that really gets me is the complete lack of life in any of the towns. You can guarantee that the person who told you to go get the thingummy is going to be in the exact same location the next day. Don't those shopkeepers get tired of standing at the counter all the day and all the night. Don't the people at the guilds ever sleep?
How come the shops aren't shut at night? How come on completing a task for someone you don't end up having to wake them up because it's the middle of the night? How cool would it if if you returned only to be told that so and so was on a trip to the next village and you could try and meet them there?
A game like Morrowind would be a lot better if it at least tried to give the impression that everyone else was going about their business and not just there as plot tokens who never leave their houses or shops and never sleep.
Really, the model here is the rescue of Star Trek for one more season, 30+ years ago.
That brought us such wonderful gems as "Spock's Brain", the one with the space hippies, and the one where Kirk swaps bodies with some woman so she can run the starship...
Yes. That third season of Star Trek was so worthwhile.
Why go to all the trouble of making this massive, errr, "thing" to scoop up sea water when we know that just sprinkling the clouds with silver-iodide and salt (or whatever it was in 1952) works effectively.
Well, it could just be because you can't sprinkle clouds with anything when there are no clouds there to begin with.
A translated hardback version of the original Domesday Book is in the shops right now. How accessible is that? I was able to look up the Norman record of the village where I grew up.
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But why the hell would anyone still be running Windows 95 in 2025? Or running games which run on Windows 95 in 2025?
The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was the first ever computer designed to be used by business, and was developed by Lyons Bakery. There's a site about it here.
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Just a thought, but perhapse your (valid) point would be better accepted if you could state it without using fuck 4 times, amongst other prophanities.
Telling people off for using profanities works a lot better when you can actually spell profanities. And there's only one 'e' in 'perhaps'.
I'm currently learning to fly, with 27 hours under my belt. I fly a Grumman AA5A 'Cheetah' which is a great little plane. I soloed last September, have done a few solo jaunts outside the circuit but the Dreaded British Weather has meant I've not managed to start on cross-country flights yet as i've had two flights in the last three months!
It was something I always fancied doing, but after I'd had a trial flight that made my mind up.
I'd recommend anyone here who has ever thought about flying to find a local flying school and book a trial flight.
It's expensive, yes (although not as expensive in the US as it is in the UK), but in my opinion it's worth every penny.
Best use for an old airfield?
An airfield!
Here in the UK we have a big problem with people wanting to shut airfields down - either town councils who want to sell the land to property developers, or people who move next to an airfield and complain about the planes.
Private Flying is not as big in the UK as it is in the US, by a long chalk, but it's still a sad thing to see airfields replaced with warehouses or the like...
By far the best thing to do with an old airfield is to open it up again - even if it's just a case of refurbishing the runway and putting a bowser (fuel truck) there.
Flying absolutely rules!
Nothing I had ever heard about this movie boded well, but the trailer is just absolutely diabolical.
They've taken an intelligent well written comic by one of the masters of the genre and created a complete travesty!
It looks absolutely fucking awful, a mad sub-matrix mindless special effects extravaganza.
(Excuse me? Mina Murray coalesces from a swarm of bats? I think they missed a major point here in that she's not a fucking vampire!)
Alan. Alan, why do you let them do this? Do you really need the money so much?
When it comes on TV I may watch it if I have nothing better to do, but I'd not pay money to see this piece of shit, and I suspect anyone who enjoyed the comics will do likewise.
If people don't want to see someone say 'Fuck' in a movie, then they shouldn't watch the fucking movie!
If people don't want to see tits in a movie, then they shouldn't watch the fucking movie!
If people don't want to see violence in a movie, then they shouldn't watch the fucking movie!
If I was a moviemaker, I'd be pretty pissed off at the idea that people can bowdlerise my movie any which way they like.
Hollywood are right on the ball here, and I support them wholeheartedly.
Mr Bowdler was WRONG, people! His name is remembered as an verb of wrong-headedness.
It's just as evil and fuckheaded to take all the 'fuck' out of 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' as it was to give King Lear a happy ending.
Only a stupid right wing pigfucker would want one of these creations of evil, and Hollywood is perfectly right to want them stopped.
The web is full of weirdos showing off photos of UFOs, faces on mars, alien crop circles, water finders, magic spirals, health magnets and garbage like that.
Why does NASA care what these people are quacking about? Don't they have anything better to do?
Put it another way. Why should the nutters have it all their own way? What we need on the web are more sites saying that all this UFO, face on mars, crop circle, dowsing stuff is a load of old cobblers, to redress the balance in the name of science, sanity and common sense.
For every Bad Astronomy or James Randi there are dozens of web-enabled nutcases spouting the most insane bollocks, and where this concerns something NASA is involved with I think they've got a perfect right to put the case straight.
Good for them.
Am I the only person here that thinks that Harry Knowles is a total raving fanboy with no journalistic integrity?
No you're not the only one. AICN is just utter fanboy wank of the worst order. I'm horrified that Knowles is now rearing his ugly head (literally. Big misshapen fat head with a very stupid looking straggly beard. Eeuwww!) in a film programme on Sky One. The adverts in which he appears make me dash for the remote before he pops up. A real face for radio and a voice for silent movies, that guy has. Sickening.
If you can get there on a segway, you could ride a bicycle or you could WALK. It would do you a hell of a lot better than standing on some ridiculous overpriced machine.
Politicians have got the right idea if you ask me. I don't want some idiot riding one of those things on the same footpath I'm walking on.
You ask the computer for a cup of tea, and it spends all its time thinking why an ape descendant should want dried leaves in boiling water with juice squirted from a cow...
Bullshit sense... Tingling!
This story is obvious nonsense.
To be fair, Babylon 5 did get the Starfuries right.
Rather than flying like aeroplanes (I'm talking to you, X-Wing) they had thrusters along each axis, so a burst from the rear thrusters would accelerate the ship forwards, and then it would coast along, until a burst from the forward thrusters stopped it.
So someone had a grasp of elementary physics...
If you agree to work for nothing, you are being exploited. Not only that, you are making it easier for your peers to be exploited. After all, if a company can get someone to work for them for free, why should they give anyone else a decent salary? And that includes yourself if you see a better job. "Hey, you worked for that company for free, why should we pay you £60,000 to work for us?"
Also my experience is that many companies will not count any unpaid work you do as valid - except perhaps for charity work which is only good on your character reference.
Wake up! Working for nothing is a mug's game that in the end benefits no one.
Repo Man!
They replaced 'fuck' with 'flip', and 'motherfucker' with 'melonfarmer', so...
"Flip you, melonfarmer!"
"Don't flipping call me a melonfarmer, you flipper."
The director Alex Cox said that he liked the TV edited version, as the bowdlerised dialogue made the film seem even more surreal.
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:s/stuff I just made up/Cool News?
What, you're taking editorial lessons in publishing groundless fanboy bollocks from fat Harry at Aint It
I can't remember. Can companies sue rumourmongers if said rumours drive down their stock price?
16 colours? Luxury. When I were a lad we just had black and white, unless we stuck coloured cellophane over t'telly, and we were lucky if we had so much as a beep...
Come ON, CN, just create an all-anime channel like the silly "all-60s-70s-craptoons" boomerang and get it over with, and return CN to its former glory.
You mean like CNX?
Annoyingly, CNX is only on Sky satellite or NTL Cable, and I have Telewest cable and Telewest wouldn't buy it. And there looks like some stuff on there I'd like to watch.
As European users know the Governments run trucks up and down the streets day and night monitoring to see how many televisions are in each house and assessing taxes for each
You're talking bollocks. I have never ever seen a TV Detector Van except in adverts.
Hmm what next "Extreme Ironing" anyone ?
You forgot the link. It's here.
Check out Elder Scrolls: Morrowind if you haven't already. You can easily get lost in that game for days at a time without touching the main story.
And that's the problem. Lots of aimless wandering around with nothing but the odd crab or flying thing in sight. It gets tedious very quickly.
The thing that really gets me is the complete lack of life in any of the towns. You can guarantee that the person who told you to go get the thingummy is going to be in the exact same location the next day. Don't those shopkeepers get tired of standing at the counter all the day and all the night. Don't the people at the guilds ever sleep?
How come the shops aren't shut at night? How come on completing a task for someone you don't end up having to wake them up because it's the middle of the night? How cool would it if if you returned only to be told that so and so was on a trip to the next village and you could try and meet them there?
A game like Morrowind would be a lot better if it at least tried to give the impression that everyone else was going about their business and not just there as plot tokens who never leave their houses or shops and never sleep.
Really, the model here is the rescue of Star Trek for one more season, 30+ years ago.
That brought us such wonderful gems as "Spock's Brain", the one with the space hippies, and the one where Kirk swaps bodies with some woman so she can run the starship...
Yes. That third season of Star Trek was so worthwhile.
PS. Farscape is shit. Flush it away
The operative word here being 'Mad', of course.
Good video, though not as good as the one for "Babushka"...
Why go to all the trouble of making this massive, errr, "thing" to scoop up sea water when we know that just sprinkling the clouds with silver-iodide and salt (or whatever it was in 1952) works effectively.
Well, it could just be because you can't sprinkle clouds with anything when there are no clouds there to begin with.
This system is making the clouds.
A translated hardback version of the original Domesday Book is in the shops right now.
How accessible is that?
I was able to look up the Norman record of the village where I grew up.
But why the hell would anyone still be running Windows 95 in 2025? Or running games which run on Windows 95 in 2025?
Much better things will be available by then.
The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was the first ever computer designed to be used by business, and was developed by Lyons Bakery.
There's a site about it here.