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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Zecc Bad grammar is permissible for members from third world countries, Poland and Wyoming, but intentionally spiking @HardwareGeek's blood pressure is a bannin'.
I'm not sure how I feel about being lumped in with Wyoming...
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090613063643AAPKLzf
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
"Worse. Wisconsin."
Meh. That one's not even square.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Typical politician mentality: we have to do something, so lets do it now and leave actually thinking it through after the elections.
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The Amsterdam city hall now has gender-neutral urinals.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
The Amsterdam city hall now has gender-neutral urinals.
is that the whole point in the term "gender" is to have a word that is completely independent of any set of physical (sexual) organs.
And before this post devolves to "garage stuff", keep in mind that in some European languages, "computer", "table" are of masculine gender ("he") while "toilet" and "locomotive" are feminine ("she") despite having no sexual organs (at least in most cases, if your situation at home is different please NO PICTURES!). Also, it is quite different in different languages, for example "chair" is sometimes "he" and sometimes "she" and sometimes "it".
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
The Amsterdam city hall now has gender-neutral urinals.
What are the red
X
s and what does the accompanying text say next to the one with the kilt? Are we actually certain that they haven't had a Scottish problem and are encouraging them to use the urinal instead of the sink or something?
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@boomzilla The text says 'Gemeente Amsterdam', I think. The three red st. andrew's crosses are from the city coat of arms.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
What are the red Xs and what does the accompanying text say next to the one with the kilt?
Presumably in Dutch on those signs.
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@PleegWat
I guess that also explains the note about not throwing toilet paper in the urinal.I should be fine then taking a dump in the urinal and throwing the tp in the sink, no?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Typical politician mentality: we have to do something, so lets do it now and leave actually thinking it through after the elections.
ERROR: "politician" has no attribute "thinking"
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
The Amsterdam city hall now has gender-neutral urinals.
is that the whole point in the term "gender" is to have a word that is completely independent of any set of physical (sexual) organs.
And before this post devolves to "garage stuff", keep in mind that in some European languages, "computer", "table" are of masculine gender ("he") while "toilet" and "locomotive" are feminine ("she") despite having no sexual organs (at least in most cases, if your situation at home is different please NO PICTURES!). Also, it is quite different in different languages, for example "chair" is sometimes "he" and sometimes "she" and sometimes "it".
That's why my current position is: "sex is biology, gender is grammar and everything else is Garage".
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
gender is grammar
Thatâs why my position is: you have all my support for political matters, but when you start gendering words and fucking with my language instead of your significant other, I tell you to get lost.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The owner had been refilling the bottle with 80% alcohol sanitizer that was supplied by her employer, officials said.
Hmmm, I think I can pinpoint the issue here.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I misread "Suburban" as "Subaru" and thought the title was referencing some model of car I'd not heard of rather than the location.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Details here:
Not everything to do with aviation news is bad for BoeingâŚ
This one seems like it will be mainly bad news for PIA and their training department. From the information available so far it looks like a really, really badly screwed approach followed by the worst possible attempt to salvage it. Mishandled go-arounds are the probably the most common cause of crashes lately.
TL;DR
- Pilots were coming in "hot", and apparently they were so distracted with a discussion about the Coronavirus that they lowered, then raised the landing gear while they descended steeper than normal.
- Pilots seemed to ignored pretty much all warnings.
- Last air traffic control point before the airport was saying that they shouldn't land this way. Since the pilots continued anyway the traffic control stopped following procedures too: the pilots should talk to the airport on the last bit of the landing, but instead this traffic control point played middle man by using a telephone call to pass instructions back and forth between pilots and airport control tower.
- Pilots landed without landing gear. Nobody informed the pilots that their plane was scraping the runway and hence taking damage (or it got lost in the "game of telephone" mentioned above).
- Pilots took off again but it seems the damaged engines failed, the airplane couldn't stay airborne long enough to complete the turnaround to do another landing.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
TL;DR
- Pilots were coming in "hot", and apparently they were so distracted with a discussion about the Coronavirus that they lowered, then raised the landing gear while they descended steeper than normal.
- Pilots seemed to ignored pretty much all warnings.
- Last air traffic control point before the airport was saying that they shouldn't land this way. Since the pilots continued anyway the traffic control stopped following procedures too: the pilots should talk to the airport on the last bit of the landing, but instead this traffic control point played middle man by using a telephone call to pass instructions back and forth between pilots and airport control tower.
- Pilots landed without landing gear. Nobody informed the pilots that their plane was scraping the runway and hence taking damage (or it got lost in the "game of telephone" mentioned above).
- Pilots took off again but it seems the damaged engines failed, the airplane couldn't stay airborne long enough.
Just wow. It's not every day that we manage to get a clear 5
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Whee, here we go again.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Whee, here we go again.
Require the government to make every bit of data they have publicly available and readable, then they can have everyone else's data.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perl 7? Are they done switching away from perl 4 yet?
Like all languages, there is a ton of perl4 out there and there will be for a long time, but perl5 has actually seen pretty good adoption.
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@Dragoon It helped a lot that Perl5 was significantly nicer to use than Perl4.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon It helped a lot that Perl5 was significantly nicer to use than Perl4.
It's Perl though, so still not as nice to use as being stabbed in the face
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon It helped a lot that Perl5 was significantly nicer to use than Perl4.
It's Perl though, so still not as nice to use as being stabbed in the face
Yeah, it is solidly in the middle when it comes to "fun" to write.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perl 7? Are they done switching away from perl 4 yet?
Mostly, I think. At least I haven't seen Perl 4 for a long time. It's Perl 6 that's been DOA for a decade. I guess they've finally given up on the idea of getting anybody to use it, as well they should.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon It helped a lot that Perl5 was significantly nicer to use than Perl4.
It's Perl though, so still not as nice to use as being stabbed in the face
Yeah, it is solidly in the middle when it comes to "fun" to write.
middle...fun
u
Yes, you do it.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
they were so distracted with a discussion about the Coronavirus
Their cockpit was not sterile, it got infected by covid. That was the main problem, really.
the traffic control stopped following procedures too: the pilots should talk to the airport on the last bit of the landing, but instead this traffic control point played middle man by using a telephone call to pass instructions back and forth between pilots and airport control tower
There is a comment saying this was perfectly reasonable of them and I tend to agree. The controllers were trying to leave the crew more time and mental capacity to sort out any issues they seemed to have by not requiring them to switch the radios.
Nobody informed the pilots that their plane was scraping the runway and hence taking damage (or it got lost in the "game of telephone" mentioned above).
I suppose the controller simply thought they must hear and feel it, and telling people things they already know and are trying to do something about tends to be contra-productive.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perl 7? Are they done switching away from perl 4 yet?
Eh, 5 has been pretty standard for a long time. 6 has been a running joke for nearly as long. Interesting (but not surprising) that they're abandoning it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perl 7? Are they done switching away from perl 4 yet?
Eh, 5 has been pretty standard for a long time. 6 has been a running joke for nearly as long. Interesting (but not surprising) that they're abandoning it.
You're not the first one to remind me. I must have perl and python confused or something.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perl 7? Are they done switching away from perl 4 yet?
Eh, 5 has been pretty standard for a long time. 6 has been a running joke for nearly as long. Interesting (but not surprising) that they're abandoning it.
They havenât abandoned it, as far as I understand. It just got released under a different name because itâs so different.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
They havenât abandoned it, as far as I understand. It just got released under a different name because itâs so different.
They haven't abandoned it, but it was abandoned, as in the amount of people using it is just a statistical error.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Perl 7? Are they done switching away from perl 4 yet?
Eh, 5 has been pretty standard for a long time. 6 has been a running joke for nearly as long. Interesting (but not surprising) that they're abandoning it.
They havenât abandoned it, as far as I understand. It just got released under a different name because itâs so different.
Well, abandoned in the sense that they're basing perl 7 on perl 5, not perl 6, which, yes, mutated into something else.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
I think a great way to mark the event would be to rewatch Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. A lot of it was filmed right there in the mall: the skating rink where Billy the Kid, Socrates and Sigmund Freud try to pick up a couple of teenage girls, the aerobics class that Joan of Arc took over (actually a sportswear store at the time), the sporting-goods place where Genghis Khan went nuts with an aluminum baseball bat, the piano & organ store where Beethoven learned to rock a sequencer. Even part of Napoleon's waterslide adventure was filmed at what is now Castles & Coasters on the mall's outskirts.
Follow-up story:
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
TL;DR
- Pilots were coming in "hot", and apparently they were so distracted with a discussion about the Coronavirus that they lowered, then raised the landing gear while they descended steeper than normal.
- Pilots seemed to ignored pretty much all warnings.
- Last air traffic control point before the airport was saying that they shouldn't land this way. Since the pilots continued anyway the traffic control stopped following procedures too: the pilots should talk to the airport on the last bit of the landing, but instead this traffic control point played middle man by using a telephone call to pass instructions back and forth between pilots and airport control tower.
- Pilots landed without landing gear. Nobody informed the pilots that their plane was scraping the runway and hence taking damage (or it got lost in the "game of telephone" mentioned above).
- Pilots took off again but it seems the damaged engines failed, the airplane couldn't stay airborne long enough.
Just wow. It's not every day that we manage to get a clear 5
And it's just getting âbetterâ âŚ
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
TL;DR
- Pilots were coming in "hot", and apparently they were so distracted with a discussion about the Coronavirus that they lowered, then raised the landing gear while they descended steeper than normal.
- Pilots seemed to ignored pretty much all warnings.
- Last air traffic control point before the airport was saying that they shouldn't land this way. Since the pilots continued anyway the traffic control stopped following procedures too: the pilots should talk to the airport on the last bit of the landing, but instead this traffic control point played middle man by using a telephone call to pass instructions back and forth between pilots and airport control tower.
- Pilots landed without landing gear. Nobody informed the pilots that their plane was scraping the runway and hence taking damage (or it got lost in the "game of telephone" mentioned above).
- Pilots took off again but it seems the damaged engines failed, the airplane couldn't stay airborne long enough.
Just wow. It's not every day that we manage to get a clear 5
And it's just getting âbetterâ âŚ
I guess it's time to extend this list:
I'm surprised that it isn't already on it, to be honest.
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@Carnage It depends on how PCAA will handle it. The EASA does not have the resources to check up on every airline in the world, so the bans are mostly based on whether they trust the civil aviation authority of the other state to be doing their job. Now it's time for PCAA to show it can do its.
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@Bulb
And if they fly to or over the EU. EASA doesn't care that shitty Pakistani airlines crash on internal Pakistani flights.
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@Luhmann I don't think airlines from all of the listed countries ever flew or wanted to fly to EU. The list also has some effect (though the description I found is vague, so I am not sure how big) on flights booked by travel agents in the EU, so it does make some difference for airlines not aspiring to fly to EU.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
And if they fly to or over the EU.
PIA most definitely do flights over the EU. Or at least did; there's quite a demand for travel between Pakistan and the UK.
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@Dragoon Sounds like something for the Bad Ideas thread.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Metrocenter mall
I was not even aware of this place.
In Phoenix, that's like admitting you're not aware of "left".