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Pee-pee and poo-poo?
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Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
Close! The first is correct. He knows who his (its) master is. The second means that a smart dog knows that it is (it's) his own master. He is in control of himself and doesn't have to do what anyone else says. The point is that not knowing the difference in something as subtle as the addition of an apostrophe can completely change the meaning of a word or a sentence. Want to see why it's important to learn how to communicate correctly? Try leaving something like the orders for (police?) officers that were cited earlier, then fire someone for not correctly following those orders, and THEN see what happens when that document gets taken into court by the dismissed employee. What would you think if you went somewhere to take a first-jump course and you were handed a training manual of that quality? What if you had to promote one of two otherwise-equal employees to a managerial position--one of whom could write clear and concise instructions for employees, and the other who wrote like that? Come on. This isn't all that hard to figure out. Why encourage people to "dumb down," instead of becoming more literate? What could possibly be a good rationale for that? If it's not about how smart different people are, and it's not about their ability to improve their skills. What's left (disabilities aside)...laziness? -
Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
I think that whoooosh sound was a point going right over someone's head, Pops! -
"just remove the old HD and hook it up as a slave in the new computer." I agree with this approach--have done it several times and it only takes about 15 minutes. Unless the old machine is really worth saving, I just leave the slave drive in as extra storage for backup, etc. If you need to save the old machine, copy the files that you need and then swap it back out.
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Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
I've never tried it, but if you'd like to experiment ...? -
Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
Maybe, but it could go deeper than that: A smart dog knows its master. A smart dog knows it's master. -
Before you do any of that ... Have you tried to boot in safe mode? If you can, you can copy the files that you need to save. You might also see if someone local to you can figure out if the HD for that machine can be "slaved" as a drive on another computer, so that you can copy the files, then reformat afterward.
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"just one bite and Minnie's a widow!" (Louie on TAXI)
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Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
For the humor impaired, my apologies for not adding a -
Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
You missed "right" and "can't." -
Here's her baby picture.
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Then there are some poodles who have a different attitude ... http://www.marlysmagazine.com/load.html?content=http%3A//www.marlysmagazine.com/checklist/poodle.html
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Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
Yeah! Rite on! I got all the weigh thru 8th grade and I cant see how education has done me a DAMMED bit of good! -
Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
Of coarse you might mention how some words like airplane hanger are spelled wrong all the time but that would definately get some people upset. Alot! But their all a bunch of loosers. -
Rant time: Do the educational faults of today lie with students, or teachers?
wartload replied to grue's topic in The Bonfire
Not to mention, "boor." -
Still have mine, too. It packed small, had a great reputation for reliability, and was cheap back then. (Friendly USMC riggers)
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I had the same instrument cluster on my first rig. I ended up selling the (then bent) panel and altimeter, but kept the stopwatch. Coincidentally, I unearthed the stopwatch this past weekend.
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More to the point, though, what would anyone here have placed the odds on you being at the Vatican (or them allowing you in)!
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*** The "Eyes" have it...! The eyes are the mirror to the soul, when you look into the 'right' person's eyes....you KNOW! Conversation isn't required...it's bumpin' uglies time! Twardo, you are right ... and you express yourself so elegantly, too!
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Damn! That's it!!! We're Canadian and just never realized it. All this time I thought that my employing organization was just f-ed up by telling us that we get Columbus Day off, but we take it the day after Thanksgiving. Thanks for helping me to understand this, eh? I have a sudden craving for a Labatt's Blue!
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N8210X -- It clearly answered the old wuffo question, "Why do you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" Oddly enough, the FAA registry doesn't show that N number on the same make of plane it was, so just *maybe* there was a little hanky-panky going on with the registry, too. (Hmmm...maybe that's why the numbers were on it in masking tape?)
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Why airline tickets cost so much; Flying to Akron
wartload replied to Floats18's topic in The Bonfire
Maybe even the pilots don't wanna go to Akron? (Sorry Buckeyes ... it's a frakin' joke ... ok, I'll explain it to you slower.) -
good friends I jumped with got careless - in a hurry now they are craters
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http://www.avsec.com/asi/editorial/vesna.htm Here is an Interview with the lady. way down the pages she says she was told that they found her in the middle of the plane. She has no recollection of the incident herself. Just speculating, but a broken-off tail section could very well go into a flat spin, depending on where the CG ended up. Although it's certainly not something that I'd want to try at home with my own tail-end of an airplane, it's not unheard of for pilots to survive spin-ins in planes. This apparently happened several times during early WWII training in Stearman planes (pretty tough machines to begin with).
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Guilty as charged! Serves me right for trying to do something in a hurry ... and sober!