Saw a low-flying rental... let the FBO know?

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
Look at the rest of his text (in this and other notes). English is his
second (or Nth) language.

I doubt that. I suspect English is his first language, possibly his only
one. Most non-native English speakers are MUCH more literate than he is,
especially those that post to Usenet.

Peter Duniho wrote:

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
Look at the rest of his text (in this and other notes). English is his
second (or Nth) language.

I doubt that. I suspect English is his first language, possibly his only
one. Most non-native English speakers are MUCH more literate than he is,
especially those that post to Usenet.

I see a fair bit of traffic on the more techie USENET groups with the broken
English of non-native speakers, so I'm not quite ready to go with your
"most non-native ..." assertion. These are often people at least somewhat
knowledgeable in the field under discussion (networking, programming,
etc.), but for whom English is a bit of a stretch.

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon wrote:

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

I would guess that it's because most people who earn enough to be involved in both
aviation and usenet needed a fair amount of education to get to that point.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
I see a fair bit of traffic on the more techie USENET groups with the
broken
English of non-native speakers, so I'm not quite ready to go with your
"most non-native ..." assertion. These are often people at least somewhat
knowledgeable in the field under discussion (networking, programming,
etc.), but for whom English is a bit of a stretch.

I suppose that depends on the techie newsgroup you're talking about. But
the two that I follow most closely are populated almost entirely by people
for whom English is not their native language. They all write better than
the person in question here (and some are pretty hard to understand).

In any case, like I said...I think it's a pretty good bet the guy's first
language is English. Non-natives don't get their panties in such a twist
over perceived conspiracies like the one he's ranting about, and his utter
lack of facility with the English language in no way rules out that language
being his first (and only).

Pete

G.R. Patterson III wrote:



Andrew Gideon wrote:

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

I would guess that it's because most people who earn enough to be involved
in both aviation and usenet needed a fair amount of education to get to
that point.

USENET is cheap (take that however you wish grin), but your point about
aviation is a good one. That may be it.

- Andrew

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
...
This is a RANT read at your own risk.

This thread starter shows you how most of today's society are skull ****ed
by the public indoctrination system public school & news media to be
tattle
tales (AKA Rat's or Nark's). People should be aware of their own
surroundings and mind their own ****ing business. It makes me sick seeing
all these people out there rating each other out so stupid **** that don't
hurt anyone. Ohh that's right they keep building more prisons and find new
way to fine us well you know that makes us a commodity. Prisons are full
of
people that are there because they did not pay a fine because some one
ratted on them for riding their bike through a park at night.

Prisons then contract with large corporations to build their products no
we
are not talking about license plates we are talking about consumer
electronics and other household items??? The corporations get charged very
little for the works space and pay the prisoners min wage per hour no
benefits. The prisons get 80% of this wage and the prisoner is taxed on
the
full amount. Thus only receiving about 3% of that money. Sounds like
modern
day slavery to me hum lots of hard work for little or no money come on
guys
open your eye's.

Point of this rant is don't support the system don't be a mind controlled
rat mind your own ****ing business and stay out of others unless invited.

OH, NOW YOU ****ED ME OFF!

Let me see if I have this right. Don't tell on someone who is doing
something that will , in the end, result in freedom you now enjoy, being
taken away. Is that it?

Sounds pretty stupid, when it is put that way, doesn't it? If no, then keep
your attitude, and you will end up with more permanent flight restricted
areas that you will be able to keep up with. Perhaps we will all end up
having to park our little toys.

My guess is that you are under 30. Your attitude I see in our youth today.
It is counter productive. It hurts yourself. Your free and unnecessary use
of the F word gives you away too.
--
Jim in NC


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"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
...
This is a RANT read at your own risk.

This thread starter shows you how most of today's society are skull ****ed


So..... really enjoyed that grammar class, huh?

"NW_PILOT" wrote

open your eye's.

Open my eye's what?

The world you are blind to and the world of rats that are being created to
make you a commodity

I like this humor-based approach to prodding the grammar-impaired to
clean up their act. Interesting that the target doesn't even recognize
that he's being made fun of.

Kind of a shame, since the topic is an interesting one. And I tend to
side with NW_PILOT that in general it's best to MYOB, unless someone
is being put into obvious danger by the pilot's actions. Whether it's
the socialist public schools that are at fault for engendering a "narc
on your neighbor" ethic I don't know. I do think the socialist public
schools are at fault for not teaching people how to write.

Jim Rosinski

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:45:24 -0400, "Bob Martin"
wrote:

Who are you quoting when you write "minimum altitude over dense
metropolitan areas". The FARs refer to "congested area".

Have you ever found the FAA's definition of a "congested area?" I've
never seen it.

They decide it case-by-case to be whatever they need to bust someone.

Allow me the privilege of awarding you a "virtual" gold star for
hitting the old nail square on the head.

Bela P. Havasreti