More evidence of weak security at GA airports

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In article .com,
cjcampbell wrote:
If you're so smart, how would you have prevented this crime?

Based on your preposition, he couldn't have.

yours,
Michael

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"Jose" wrote in message news:xvB9f.4312

The period goes inside the quotation marks. That was my point.

That's stylistic more than grammatic. It is in fact logically incorrect
in this instance, where the quoted part is not itself a sentence; the
period is put (by some publishers) inside for looks primarily.

Trivia: The period is put inside the quotation marks because in the old
mechanical printing presses, the metal type piece for a period was almost
half as thin (but still as tall) as the double-quote ["]. At the end of
paragraphs, the [.] would generally be the last type piece, but it was very
fragile. If there was any slop in the machine, the type piece could wiggle
or lean out of alignment and break off. For that reason, typesetters
preferred to tuck he period inside the thicker doublequote metal type piece,
and that practice filtered up to publishers and editors until it became
standard convention.

So it goes. Editors still generally tuck he period inside the doublequote
because it has become familiar to the eye.

-Chris
PP/ASEL/IA

"gatt" wrote in message
...
Trivia: The period is put inside the quotation marks because in the old
mechanical printing presses, the metal type piece for a period was almost
half as thin (but still as tall) as the double-quote ["]. At the end of
paragraphs, the [.] would generally be the last type piece, but it was
very fragile. If there was any slop in the machine, the type piece could
wiggle or lean out of alignment and break off. For that reason,
typesetters preferred to tuck he period inside the thicker doublequote
metal type piece, and that practice filtered up to publishers and editors
until it became standard convention.

Hm, that story sounds suspiciously apocryphal. Do you have a source for it?

The vast majority of paragraphs end with a period and no quote, so the trick
you describe would seldom be available. Moreover, if the slimness of the
period type piece were really a problem at the end of a paragraph, the
obvious solution would just be to use a wider piece there that includes a
space after the period, or to place a separate space piece after the period
piece.

--Gary

("Gary Drescher" wrote)
The vast majority of paragraphs end with a period and no quote, so the
trick you describe would seldom be available. Moreover, if the slimness of
the period type piece were really a problem at the end of a paragraph, the
obvious solution would just be to use a wider piece there that includes a
space after the period, or to place a separate space piece after the
period piece.


7th grade Shop class in 1972 - Typesetting. One of my favorite shop
projects.


kcalbtnoM

by "Brian" Oct 31, 2005 at 04:09 PM


I agree let see if I remember correctly a couple Terrist Acts committed
with GA aircraft, The Head lines I remember a

1. Man Crashes airplane into White house Pilot killed, Wakes up those
sleeping inside..

2. Kid steals airplane crashes into skyscraper, Pilot killed, Windows
Broken.

I am sure we can find some more if we look...

GA has a great track record for Terrist attacks, Face It Ga Security
is just to make the Public Feel safer, it does very little to actually
make them safer. They were not in danger to begin with.

Brian"

Very good. We should wait until a terrorist seizes an "unattended" GA
light jet at an airport and does destruction before improving security at
the airports. Great.

Well, the only problem is: a car is not an airplane. (At least not yet.)

You seem to be proposing identical security measures for all modes of
transportation? Ok. Then why do airports even need fences?

by "Steve Foley" Nov 1, 2005 at 01:15 PM


Skylune would simply close the airports and crush all the planes.

"cjcampbell" wrote in message
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If you're so smart, how would you have prevented this crime?


For starters, I would hire baton-wielding security guards from the local
mall to check IDs and beat the hell out of trespassers or thieves. Such a
guard could have asked the pilot/thief for a registration to prove
ownership of the plane he was tearing down (or proof that he was
performing authorized repairs).

(I would of course demand that the FAA fund these security agents from
general taxpayer funds because of the vital economic benefits of GA to the
entire nation.)

Then, I would empower the security guards to take all reasonable measures
to enforce noise abatement procedures, in close contact with tower
personnel of course, so that only pilots that have unmistakenly been
identified as violators would be beaten.

Since most everyone obeys the rules, I would expect very few beatings to
occur.

Skylune wrote:

Then why do airports even need fences?

To keep livestock and wildlife off the runway.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

Oh. That makes sense. Like the electified gate to keep moose off the
runway at an AK airport.

Maybe opening up the areas surrounding the airport to hunting could help
here? The surrounding residents would benefit in several ways. First,
the rifle blasts would blend in with the whine of the engines/props, thus
reducing any noise complaints. Second, the presence of armed citizens
roaming around the periphery of the airport would discourage would-be
terrorists, thereby lessening the airport's security funding needs. Of
course NOTAMs would need to be issued by airports proposing peripheral
hunting, and the hunters would need to be instructed to voluntarily aim
low, in the event of poor aim.

I'm pretty sure pilots are required to carry firearms in Alaska

"Skylune" wrote in message
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Second, the presence of armed citizens
roaming around the periphery of the airport would discourage would-be
terrorists, thereby lessening the airport's security funding needs.