what exactly constitutes a troll?

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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Stefan wrote:
Sylvain schrieb:

Mixi is an American living in Paris.

ok, I understand now: bad influences/environment :-)

Actually, I know a lot of French, and most of them are very pleasant
people. (E.g. they drink and smoke in public, they don't drive insanely
thursty trucks, they don't carry firearms, they don't start wars...)



Sure they start wars. What they don't do is finish them. Also, I was
going to argue about them not driving insanely until I saw the following
line. My bad.



But they are pretty macho when it comes to attacking Green Peace ships.
While doing this normally wouldn't bother me there is something just wussy
about it when GP is the toughest guys you ever go up against as a nation.

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:24:20 +0200, Stefan
wrote in :

I have to agree in this point: They *do* drive insanely.

You haven't been to Italy. I once witnessed a Mercedes sedan cross
the centerline of a highway in Rome from behind a bus waiting to turn
left, and proceed directly into oncoming traffic and make its left
turn across four lanes. Parisian drivers are pussycats by comparison
to Italians. But in those European countries you don't have to dodge
bullets like you do on Los Angeles freeways:
http://blogging.la/archives/2006/02/...ooting_1.phtml

Larry Dighera schrieb:

I have to agree in this point: They *do* drive insanely.

You haven't been to Italy.

Actually, yes. Living myself pretty much in the middle of Europe, I've
been in many countries over the years, and not in "visit whole Europe in
7 days" style. Frankly, I prefer to drive in Italy than in France. I
think Italian drivers, while also insane, drive more forseeable. But
this may be just personal taste.

That said, there are nice people and assholes everywhere, in France, in
the USA and among pilots. No such thing as "the whatever".

Stefan

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:58:10 +0200, Stefan
wrote in :

Frankly, I prefer to drive in Italy than in France. I
think Italian drivers, while also insane, drive more forseeable. But
this may be just personal taste.

I will say, that in my experience, Italian drivers, while they may
gesticulate frantically, lack the malice in their hearts that pervades
those of drivers on LA's streets.

So, how do you characterize the temperament of pilots of various
European nationalities?

I have a feeling you wouldn't want to be heading to an English airport
cafe while being handled by French ATC, only to be violated by a
German air regulation enforcement officers? :-)

Recently, Larry Dighera posted:

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:24:20 +0200, Stefan
wrote in :

I have to agree in this point: They *do* drive insanely.

You haven't been to Italy.

No kidding! I was driving on the Amalfi Coast toward Naples when two buses
travelling in opposite directions approached a tight turn. That slowed
traffic to a near stop, which was quite reasonable under the
circumstances, but then some jerk on a motocycle tried to pass *between*
the two buses! Ay yi yi.

Then, there's Torre del Greco... a town about 6 blocks long and 4 blocks
wide that you can find on almost any map of Italy. After driving there, I
figure its inclusion on the map is a warning.

Neil

Stefan wrote:

Yes, hunting... I overlooked the word "countryside". Although I'll never
understand this fascination either, I was talking about guns in
otherwise civilised environment. Heck, I assume you understood very well
against which mindset I was tackling.

yes I did understood what you meant (I think); I just was pointing out that
this mindset might be more widespread than you thought, :-)

--Sylvain

Larry Dighera wrote:

to Italians. But in those European countries you don't have to dodge
bullets like you do on Los Angeles freeways:

where is the fun then? :-)

--Sylvain

ps the only time I got shot at while in my car was in Europe, but
I digress

What's a troll?

Just a tad faster than I can row to keep the bait off the bottom.
All I catch that way are a few weeds and bottom feeders.:-))


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Grumman-581 wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Wikipedia has a rather interesting article on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Interesting read... Of course, it just confirms my opinion that trolls
should be shot on sight...

Agreed. Boyer's newletter is really appalling, annoying, and intended
just to irritate.

Think the stresses on the metal tank might have anything to do with it?
I also like Grumman's explanation above, but just speculating...

mike

"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
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"mike regish" wrote:

The expansion only lasts until the tank is full to ambient pressure-a very
short time. Then it is all compression.

No, this is the same argument I met with at the scuba group.
You have to use the volume of the gas and the pressure of
the gas. You start with oxy at say 2000 psi =P1 in the main
tank of volume V1, and you let it expand until it's filled
the main tank V1 plus the empty small tank of V2 at a final
pressure of say 1600 psi=P2

starting volume of gas=V1
starting pressure = P1

final volume of gas= V1+V2
final pressure = P2

--
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and
metal.

- Ernest K. Gann, 'Fate is the Hunter.'