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Thanks for the FB invites, once I find my FB password or reset it again I will accept. Rarely use it but since having to change it due to some European bastard logging in to it (or maybe FB having a look at my weak as Yankee Beer old password) and Facebook blocking it till I changed my password I now have a blind reindeer with no testicles.
Funny thing is Linked In gave me a list at the beginning of the week of people I should link with and all four of you were in the first two pages.
I blame Maunder!
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Maunder is as good as anyone else to blame.....it is friday after all..
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...and there was me assuming this was going to be a homophobic joke... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...and there was me assuming this was going to be a homophobic joke...
You were the only CPian from the first two pages not to give me an invite. But then again we're already linked aren't we? Or is that Linked In we're linked and not FB?
Faarrrkkkk it, I'm getting another beer.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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LinkedIn, and I think Google+.
I have an FB account, but I don't use it.
Mind you, I don't use my LinkedIn or G+ accounts much either. I guess I'm just antisocial!
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OriginalGriff wrote: I guess I'm just antisocial!
NSS!
speramus in juniperus
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OriginalGriff wrote: I guess I'm just antisocial
I think you are very social on CP.. 
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Mmm, beer...
speramus in juniperus
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So England apparently had has a Massive Collapse[^] on day one of the ashes and the Oz press go hyper, stupid bastards, Oz doing exactly the same tomorrow is almost inevitable. The Oz sports press are some of the most parochial, one eyed bastards on the planet. wheres the disgusted smiley
I like watching it when Oz play NZ in rugby in NZ, despite the almost guaranteed loss the commentators are at least balanced in NZ.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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 here it is.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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"We must follow in the wake of those men who made great discoveries … Marco Polo, Captain Cook, Hughie Green … yes, that lost island will become a bastion of the great British Commonwealth and the primitive people will learn how to wear detached collars and ties, and how to beat us at cricket!"
A tip of the hat to Tim Brooke-Taylor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: the commentators are at least balanced
the closest I've heard to how it is...(from an Irishman[^])
(I came up through that system.)
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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You're taking about the game we just one by 300+ runs?
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You're assuming I give a rats. I can just about watch and enjoy a 1 day match, a 5 day test is well beyond my attention span.
As cricket is only available on the premium cable channels over here (there are a shed load of Indians here) I don't ever watch it any more.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've got of buses at the wrong stop, before.
Mind you, I wasn't driving the bus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I would have let the passengers (if any) take their leave and watch them trying to figure out where to go and what was going on, and just as a show of good faith I would've picked up new passengers and took them to the place where i should've landed originally 
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Looking at the map and the proximity and orientation of the landing strips it looks like it was a fairly easy mistake to make especially since it was a night landing.
From listening to the recording, ATC did sound a little bit gormless so I wonder if they gave clear directions to the pilot.
[edit - typo corrected]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 22-Nov-13 3:43am.
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Mmm in fairness though what happened to the GPS, I know the panic when I flying in the back of helicopter and the GPS failed! 
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FTFY. That's a bit like saying it's raining and the runway is wet so we'll land on the river instead, an easy mistake to make. Bollocks, I now recall someone did land on a river.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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There's an area of pilot training called 'Human Factors' that covers this sort of area.
Basically when a decision is needed in a short period of time your perception of events can lead to disaster if this perception is not backed up by a correct reading of the aircraft instrumentation - stick a western trained pilot in a Russian aircraft at night and watch them crash the aircraft rather quickly(the artificial horizon on a Russian aircraft is completely different to that on a western aircraft).
It looks like there could be a whole bunch of reasons that could have led to what happened:
The pilots not looking at and understanding the charts, in advance, of the area and not noticing another airport nearby that also had runway lights.
I say this because from the recording the pilot had to ask the name of the airport they had landed at.
Assuming that they were either too high or too low on their approach, depending on their bearing, then making a decision that led to landing at the wrong airport.
The airport they were landing at had two runways - it may be that only one runway may have been lit and they may have seen the other lights of the other airport and headed for those on approach.
There may have been low cloud leading to seeing the lights late, making the wrong decision and heading for the wrong airport.
My bet is that they had a disagreement on the flight deck as to which lights were the correct lights, combined with not knowing that there was another airfield nearby, and then made the wrong decision based on the disagreement.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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What grabs attention is usually not the content of article but ...[^]
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He may still have an acting career, at least if they ever film this in live action:
Shrek: Ogres are like onions.
Donkey: They stink?
Shrek: Yes. No.
Donkey: Oh, they make you cry.
Shrek: No.
Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs.
Shrek: NO. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.
Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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When I saw the subject line I expected an empty message.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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