Now what about all the interviewers who have no training in recruitment, ask questions so stupid that they can't be answered and are already weighing you up as a potential threat to their job?
How many interviewees have desperately tried to help the interviewer conduct the interview in a manner which will actually assess their suitability for the role?
How many interviewers have lied to hire someone on a false pretext? More or less than dishonest candidates?
Given that there are already plenty of members of the public who want to impose their prejudices upon others why should doctors be any different?
Yes, alcohol and smoking are better subjects for their unsought lectures but guns attract the ire of certain types no matter what the facts.
However this is nothing compared to the twisting of the UK law that ACPO and the BMA have come up with to encourage GP's to pass any concerns they have regarding licensed gun owners to the police.
Having done a bit of Rapid Prototyping in my time, I have to say this piece is garbage on many counts.
Owning a 3D printer doesn't make you a manufacturer any more than owning a paintbrush makes you Van Gogh.
Owning a Lexmark now doesn't make you Harper Collins!
The CAD files that are used to create things are never released to the public. There are 3D laser scanners in existence but they can't reverse engineer!
How many people could turn a kit of parts into a new Robosapien, car or TV?
You can buy home CNC lathes and milling machines but Ford is still in business isn't it?
>>>>"3D model complete with cavities, but without overhangs (as these would have to be suspended in the air while the connections were laid down)"<<<<
NO! 3D printers can extrude at least 2 materials already. One, the build material and one for the support matrix. So something like an open umbrella can be grown self-supporting. The support matrix is soluble and washes off leaving the finished part.
It will be a good hundred years before these machines can make other machines or replicate themselves. Making a cosmetic shell is one thing. Making high value structural parts is currently inconceivable.
You want a Daily Rail red-top scare story? People could "print" knives and guns AGGGHHHHHHH !!!
BAN THEM, think of the children etc. etc. etc.
Don't extrapolate a Bit Torrent into the real world.
Aviation, being a rather conservative industry, is usually a century behind in its use of technology.
Air to ground radio is VHF AM as are ILS and nav aids which also use phase reference techniques. They already suffer from ground interference so it's highly likely that nationwide signals added to power lines is a high risk.
"Currently firearms applications require applicants to fill out the paperwork at pre-arranged police station meetings"
Can't speak for Sussex but no, the forms are usually posted to the certificate holder a few weeks before expiry then posted back. Unless circumstances have changed a visit is not required or normally conducted.
The county Firearms Licensing Office administers these matters, police stations are never involved. The poor beggars are usually understaffed and overworked. Online renewal makes sense and cannot impact safety by itself.
A confused mess of assumptions. An increase in bottom-line value shows a causal link to higher volumes? Oh please, spare us.
The landscape has changed, yes. The UK doesn't make heavy manufactured goods or consumer goods. It's just economics no point in getting upset about it. No British cars, locomotives, ships, aeroplanes or plant.
There is a thriving export trade in high-value luxury goods and low-volume speciality items though. After 25 years in manufacturing I've moved from mass volumes of bearings to low volume electronics. Value is higher though.
Of course everybody knows that increasing supply will increase demand it's so obvious. A bit of free tax-payer's money never hurts either so who could object?
"At base, though, the issue is about whether the law needs to regulate almost all significant interactions between adults and children. As it stands now, the answer appears to be yes"
Quite so. Parents must be vetted from the moment of conception. You just can't be too careful.
Only an advanced, right-thinking society like ours knows that children and the vulnerable are actually to be thought of as prey and victims in the making.
The bloke's never going to get an aviation story out without all the details being dissected is he?
Lower air density (thin) reduces aerodynamic lift and also the power of engines. Air density reduces with a combination of altitude (height above mean sea level) and high temperature.
Ground effect is a reduction in drag and an increase in lift experienced when a wing is flying close above a surface.
With the powered rotary wings on an egg-beater this means reduced torque (power) needed from the engine when hovering in ground effect.
I think this article is saying that an iPlod wants to be able to hack any PC which has NOT yet been subject to a warrant.
Well if iPlod Central doesn't have the resources to scan disks they physically possess as fast as they arrive, how will remote, and undoubtedly covert, abilities help?
Would I be excessively cynical to suggest that they want to eliminate the wearisome intrusion of the judiciary into their work?
Secret warrant-less PC tapping, trojans and officially mandated backdoors in hardware and software?
I say, d'ya hear the Brass want to replace all the fine officers with bally peons ? !!
As I was saying to my Batman, a fellow should know his damn place and not try to rise above it !
Look, just think of the poor old chaps on the receiving end !
If a chap's gonna have his family turned to bally mincemeat from some fellow five miles up that never sees him then he should be able to rest assured that it was done by an officer and a gentleman doncha know?
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The point is?
The same would apply to laserquest players
So you can still get degrees in "The bleedin Obvious"
Hand-eye co-ordination can be improved with simulations. So what?
Sitting on your butt at home staring at a screen, flight sims don't make you a pilot, shoot em ups don't make you a badass soldier.
Seriously?
"the un-named female claimant - who worked for the Human Relations Section "
I mean, SERIOUSLY ?
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I jus fgt 2 put wels dn . . LOL :)
A bit one sided?
Indeed all true.
Now what about all the interviewers who have no training in recruitment, ask questions so stupid that they can't be answered and are already weighing you up as a potential threat to their job?
How many interviewees have desperately tried to help the interviewer conduct the interview in a manner which will actually assess their suitability for the role?
How many interviewers have lied to hire someone on a false pretext? More or less than dishonest candidates?
Eeee lad You were lucky.
"BT Retail invests heavily in bandwidth to ensure its customers get a good online experience during the busy periods. "
Oh really?
Well to be fair my HALFmeg never drops - PFFFFFT !
Sperm donors nicer than average.......
Perhaps so but I still wouldn't want to shake his hand.
"No dear I'm actually doing something altruistic for the good of the people. Why is Baywatch on? err . . . "
We know what's best for you !
Given that there are already plenty of members of the public who want to impose their prejudices upon others why should doctors be any different?
Yes, alcohol and smoking are better subjects for their unsought lectures but guns attract the ire of certain types no matter what the facts.
However this is nothing compared to the twisting of the UK law that ACPO and the BMA have come up with to encourage GP's to pass any concerns they have regarding licensed gun owners to the police.
Not necessarily pilot error
Best not to speculate on these things especially if you've never actually been up the pointy end stick stirring.
Weather could have produced the same situation too..
CPL & Instructor
"a mixture of curiosity and terror"
Kittie porn?
Will no-one think of the Chinchillas?
Sooooooo, "Ethical Treatment of Animals" through exploiting and abusing (presumably consenting) human females?
Oh the delicious irony of claiming the moral high ground from the bottom of a pit of degradation.
I've no doubt that this is merely a cheap publicity stunt and any such website will just be Rickrolling for their intellectually vacuous philosophy.
hmmmm
.. but half the population can't find it! ;o)
Getting one past the authorities? Never !
How could anyone possibly slip one past the authorities....
;o)
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=EOLX
RE: England
Although there is a certain despoiler and snatcher in Surrey who will soon be getting more wood.
My abject apologies.....
Stop It!
You are clearly just baiting the commentards with stories like these for the cheap ratings.
You know they'll just go off half-cocked at the gratuitous titillation....
oh damn....I'll get me coat.
The I.T. Crowd :o)
# Moss: "I think this might be a bomb disposal robot, Roy..."
# Bomb disposal guy: "I'm having a couple of problems with it."
# Moss: "What system does it use?"
# Bomb disposal guy: "Vista."
# Moss: "We're all going to die."
Too soon to know.
In spite of Neil Fried's appallingly illiterate verbal vomiting, the principle of a free market may be correct.
Any provider who interfered with their service provision to excessively exploit their subscribers would haemorrhage customers in short order.
Phorm came to be perceived as a pariah.
Pre-emptive government action does seem to be unnecessary.
Utter Hogwash !
Having done a bit of Rapid Prototyping in my time, I have to say this piece is garbage on many counts.
Owning a 3D printer doesn't make you a manufacturer any more than owning a paintbrush makes you Van Gogh.
Owning a Lexmark now doesn't make you Harper Collins!
The CAD files that are used to create things are never released to the public. There are 3D laser scanners in existence but they can't reverse engineer!
How many people could turn a kit of parts into a new Robosapien, car or TV?
You can buy home CNC lathes and milling machines but Ford is still in business isn't it?
>>>>"3D model complete with cavities, but without overhangs (as these would have to be suspended in the air while the connections were laid down)"<<<<
NO! 3D printers can extrude at least 2 materials already. One, the build material and one for the support matrix. So something like an open umbrella can be grown self-supporting. The support matrix is soluble and washes off leaving the finished part.
It will be a good hundred years before these machines can make other machines or replicate themselves. Making a cosmetic shell is one thing. Making high value structural parts is currently inconceivable.
You want a Daily Rail red-top scare story? People could "print" knives and guns AGGGHHHHHHH !!!
BAN THEM, think of the children etc. etc. etc.
Don't extrapolate a Bit Torrent into the real world.
Well
People say I'm easily distracted but I just tell them to F...... oooooh that phone is shiny !
What again?
Labour and conservative have been playing ping-pong with the qualifying term for years.
Nail em up I say!
Well that was proportionate huh?
Tomorrow's forecast...
Warm and sunny. Pollen levels low with a slight risk of ASBO.
Woohooo! Only two more points until you are officially a victim...
*sigh*
Taxi for Ms. Konrad
Best get your resume updated. Just in case ;o)
On the plus side.....
You can make excellent spaghetti in the pool.
Lovely for a poolside barbecue . . . ummm
Pffffft!
Using French for effect is just so passé
Actions speak louder than words
What does it matter what PR spin ACPO or a force puts out? I really don't want to hear it !
All that matters is that cameras and memory cards WILL continue to be vanished away as they see fit.
Crazy days
How can there be no jobs for graduates when bad government legislation is making such fertile ground for lawyers?
It'll all end in tears.... er no, I mean it'll all end in new Beemers all round
Is it?
Parametric Solid Modelling please?
Not M.Mouse Surface Modelling
Terry Jones?
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
This is going to keep happening
Until someone with the resources to bring a judicial review puts them in their place.
Fair enough
20,000 Metres? Wow.
At that height Indicated Air Speed is about half True Air Speed so it has some accelerating to do !
It's all very Heath-Robinson and terribly British :o)
I wish you clear skies.
Details, details!
Please put an end to this speculation.
Can you tell us the Specific Wing Loading figure?
The semi-symmetrical wing profie is an interesting choice and have you worked out the centre of lift and centre of gravity lines?
Thanks El Reg
Don't want to be left in the dark about these important issues ;o)
There are two sides to every story
Is this a problem of people wanting to know too much or of old laws incapable of addressing the modern world?
Ahhh an example of noise interference :o)
VHF Aviation comms and navaids are pre WW2 developments. Get someone to do the math for you :o)
Did you get the memo that the 20th century ended ten years ago?
OVER. . . *CLICK*
Feel free to make some more noise while I smirk behind my CAA commercial licence and instructor rating.
Could happen
Aviation, being a rather conservative industry, is usually a century behind in its use of technology.
Air to ground radio is VHF AM as are ILS and nav aids which also use phase reference techniques. They already suffer from ground interference so it's highly likely that nationwide signals added to power lines is a high risk.
Ahh iphone, I can imagine it now......
HELLO.....
IT'S A REMINGTON.....
NAH, IT'S RUBBISH....
Trigger Happy T.V. how very apt ;o)
"Currently firearms applications require applicants to fill out the paperwork at pre-arranged police station meetings"
Can't speak for Sussex but no, the forms are usually posted to the certificate holder a few weeks before expiry then posted back. Unless circumstances have changed a visit is not required or normally conducted.
The county Firearms Licensing Office administers these matters, police stations are never involved. The poor beggars are usually understaffed and overworked. Online renewal makes sense and cannot impact safety by itself.
Stick it to the man !
Yo Be-ach 8! Step off outa ma face dawg!
Dohne mess wid me o' ah unload a shutter on yo ass!
Cameron's cuts just can't come soon enough can they?
Cobblers
A confused mess of assumptions. An increase in bottom-line value shows a causal link to higher volumes? Oh please, spare us.
The landscape has changed, yes. The UK doesn't make heavy manufactured goods or consumer goods. It's just economics no point in getting upset about it. No British cars, locomotives, ships, aeroplanes or plant.
There is a thriving export trade in high-value luxury goods and low-volume speciality items though. After 25 years in manufacturing I've moved from mass volumes of bearings to low volume electronics. Value is higher though.
No more amateur Sir Digby Jones analyses please.
Some fresh thinking !
You have to give credit to the government for the myriad of new ideas of how to put their hands in our pockets.
Can you hear that?......
It's the sound of an axe grinding.
Of course everybody knows that increasing supply will increase demand it's so obvious. A bit of free tax-payer's money never hurts either so who could object?
No Exceptions !
"At base, though, the issue is about whether the law needs to regulate almost all significant interactions between adults and children. As it stands now, the answer appears to be yes"
Quite so. Parents must be vetted from the moment of conception. You just can't be too careful.
Only an advanced, right-thinking society like ours knows that children and the vulnerable are actually to be thought of as prey and victims in the making.
God bless the government. They'll keep us safe.
Agghhh, Lewis be a pirate !
Notwithstanding the rights and wrongs of the arguments, you SO hi-jacked this story Lewis !
I don't understand this...
If this, and stories like it are true, why doesn't the same thing happen on the ground?
Aircraft are pressurised to about 8 thousand feet. Mexico City is at about 7400 feet. There are many places on the ground above 8000 feet so why don't "Spontaneous Breast Rupture ©® whilst on the ground," stories appear in the news?
Bye bye
I wonder if the new buyers have ever heard of the name Napster?
I'm a little teapot, short and stout...
This is my handle, this is my spout.....
PETA will go totally Buddhist soon and demand everyone goes barefoot so as not to harm ants.
Somebody tell the veggie-nazis how many poor innocent microbes the human gut and immune system kills daily. Oh the humanity !!!
I disagree..
Anyone found sharing Billy Bragg's ...erm... "output" should definitely face a three strikes rule.
Hanging, drawing and quartering.
Is he the most sympathetic figurehead the FAC could find?
Lewis?
Are you quite alright chap?
Not been to the pub or anything? Talking to The-Incredible-Bullshitting-Man at the bar?
Even if true the solution is simple......
We enter into mass production of huge jam jars and cardboard sheets. Oh yes and tranqs for all the squealing women who will be running about.
Poor Lewis..
The bloke's never going to get an aviation story out without all the details being dissected is he?
Lower air density (thin) reduces aerodynamic lift and also the power of engines. Air density reduces with a combination of altitude (height above mean sea level) and high temperature.
Ground effect is a reduction in drag and an increase in lift experienced when a wing is flying close above a surface.
With the powered rotary wings on an egg-beater this means reduced torque (power) needed from the engine when hovering in ground effect.
What you talkin bout Willis?
I think this article is saying that an iPlod wants to be able to hack any PC which has NOT yet been subject to a warrant.
Well if iPlod Central doesn't have the resources to scan disks they physically possess as fast as they arrive, how will remote, and undoubtedly covert, abilities help?
Would I be excessively cynical to suggest that they want to eliminate the wearisome intrusion of the judiciary into their work?
Secret warrant-less PC tapping, trojans and officially mandated backdoors in hardware and software?
What Ho !
What Ho Algy old bean !
I say, d'ya hear the Brass want to replace all the fine officers with bally peons ? !!
As I was saying to my Batman, a fellow should know his damn place and not try to rise above it !
Look, just think of the poor old chaps on the receiving end !
If a chap's gonna have his family turned to bally mincemeat from some fellow five miles up that never sees him then he should be able to rest assured that it was done by an officer and a gentleman doncha know?
Please, please please.... !
Swine Flu....
Please can we have "Piggin contagious" ?
http://www.xystos.co.uk/Piggin/browse.aspx?category=10
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