British Crash...

On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:10:02 AM UTC-7, Geoff Brown wrote:
At 22:53 10 February 2014, Gilbert Smith wrote:

Eric Munk wrote:



At 20:38 09 February 2014, Sean F F2 wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...der-crash.html





That refers to a 2004 accident. Not recent.

I do hope you are right, but the date in the header (Monday, Feb 10

2014) - the only date on the page - is very misleading if you are

correct.





And today the same page carries the date of Friday 14th 2014 - i.e. today's

date. This is normal for most web sites that want you to think they keep

them up-to-date.

That is simply bad web design and poor composition. The Internet is full of web articles that lack posting dates or carry the wrong (in this case) current date. Authors should date their own bylines.

On 14/02/14 16:12, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:10:02 AM UTC-7, Geoff Brown wrote:
At 22:53 10 February 2014, Gilbert Smith wrote:

Eric Munk wrote:



At 20:38 09 February 2014, Sean F F2 wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...der-crash.html





That refers to a 2004 accident. Not recent.

I do hope you are right, but the date in the header (Monday, Feb 10

2014) - the only date on the page - is very misleading if you are

correct.





And today the same page carries the date of Friday 14th 2014 - i.e. today's

date. This is normal for most web sites that want you to think they keep

them up-to-date.

That is simply bad web design and poor composition. The Internet is full of web articles that lack posting dates or carry the wrong (in this case) current date. Authors should date their own bylines.

Another good reason for using the "no-script" browser plugin.

The Daily Wail never lets facts get in the way of a good
scare story. Their audience is middle-aged women with too
much time on their hand - the so-called "worried well"

Typical article (described by Ben Goldacre, IIRC) was about
a dangerous chemical in food, saying they should ban it.
They /had/ banned it, 5 years earlier!

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The Daily Wail never lets facts get in the way of a good
scare story. Their audience is middle-aged women with too
much time on their hand - the so-called "worried well"

Typical article (described by Ben Goldacre, IIRC) was about
a dangerous chemical in food, saying they should ban it.
They /had/ banned it, 5 years earlier!

Which reminds me of a story I heard recently at Moriarty. Our pattern entry
point is over the water tower at a trailer park south of the airport. One
day an elderly lady who lives there contacted the airport manager to
complain about all those airplanes that turn off their engines over the
trailerpark (glider releases on a pattern tow and tug throttles back) on
their way to the airport.