Text 12891, 74 rader
Skriven 2014-03-17 13:56:51 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 12861 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Kyoto anyone?
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Hello Ward!

17 Mar 14 01:35, you wrote to me:

 RC>> Point is, dont consider the nobel "powers that be" to be
 RC>> infallible or the penultimant source of knowledge, authority much
 RC>> less legitimacy.

 WD> At the same time they should not be considered to be imbecils either.

I think in this case they can be, for the real reason they gave the prize to
him had only to do with the fact of his race, but they couldnt come out and say
that.. Turns out he didnt really do that which they said he would do.

 RC>> Just like you have always know to bow to royalty, we have never
 RC>> been known to worship Govt.

 WD> There we go again ... I'm an anti-monarchist, unfortnately it takes a
 WD> constitutional ammendment which requires a 2/3 majority. Reaching
 WD> those numbers is virtually impossible ... rather than bowing to them,
 WD> we're stuck with them. Consider yourself lucky.

Were you not bellyaching about those over here talking about the
constitutionality of things??? Now you know...


 RC>> No, but perhaps they heard of the fallibility of the Canadian and
 RC>> British systems. Montana is a red state, Montana citizens are more
 RC>> likely to have a gun than any other.. Montana citizens trust the
 RC>> govt less than anyone else, except perhaps the Michigan militia
 RC>> nutz.

 WD> That is spot on.

Including the part about the fallibility of the Canadian and British systems?

 RC>> Many of us over here dont like some of these decisions in the
 RC>> hands of those subject to the political winds to keep their jobs,
 RC>> which is contrary to doing the right thing, more often than not.

 WD> Although I'm there a lot, I fail to grasp why a basic simple
 WD> health-care system like here isn't possible there. I don't register
 WD> complaints here.

Thats because of whats been in place longer over there..

POST-WW2 you all were able to devote more of your economies to it, as you had
the US and UK to fall back on for defense purposes.

 RC>> Regardless of make of jetliner Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed et al, why
 RC>> on earth would the cockpit controls of any jetliner have a button,
 RC>> switch et al to turn off transponders or other beacons that emit a
 RC>> signal for ground and satellite use? It is my opinion that those
 RC>> devices should only be able to be turned off by the ground crew
 RC>> when the jetliner is not going to be flying anytime soon. I see no
 RC>> need for the flight crew to have any ability to influence the
 RC>> operating condition of those safety devices.

 WD> I have no immediate answer, though i wonder if there's any relevancy.

 WD> A transponder does not send an automatic blip, it only responds when
 WD> querried by radar by sending the type of aircraft, the flightnumber
 WD> (if any), direction, altitude and speed.

Logic would dictate that there is no need for the flight crew to disable any of
that equipment.

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Ross
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