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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Edit: Also, I did not say it, just agreed with it :-) But you never sourced it to begin with, making it appear you were the author. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Edit: Also, I did not say it, just agreed with it :-) Check my post again, it actually quoted another post which had a report - that report ... Edit: - Also, do you know what these mean? "" |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
I'm pretty positive that all my posts over the years have included "" whenever I quote comments from links either referred to on others posts or those that have been quoted. "" are quotation Marks for those who are unaware of them. I believe in the States they just use ' ' As for a truce, I did not know there was a war - saying that, no war can be successfully won without Logistics :-) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
With all that is coming to light, I'm very surprised that there will be no prosecutions. Glasgow Update It won't be long before the security at airports will be extended to train stations. French train shooting |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Sirius B wrote: Gary Charpentier wrote:Sirius B wrote:Edit: Also, I did not say it, just agreed with it :-) Oh, I saw them, and an article in which not one word of the material appears. Upon doing a find for a phrase in the material on the page with the article, I'm taken past some advertising, which usually signals the end of anything, to another place on the page, so it does appear to be there. You might have said it was an anonymous user comment left on the article. Being in that form however, you still might be the author of the comment. Not that it matters. Ed, see an example of quote bbcode in this post. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
http://abc7.com/news/1-killed-5-injured-in-multi-car-crash-on-60-freeway-in-boyle-heights/951588/ The photo tells most of the story. Box truck sitting on top of two cars. Well the major parts of two cars. By the time the photo was taken the fire department had pulled them out and cut them open to get people out. Only two ways this happens. But some background. The ramp you see merging on there is one I use leaving work. The freeway begins a slight rise and slight right curve just before there. It is right before it branches into three directions. At that hour the left lanes which go to the Santa Monica 10 freeway are usually coming to a stop. The center and right lanes are usually free flowing, center goes to the Hollywood 101 freeway and the right lane to the Golden State 5 freeway. Only two ways this happens: 1) Truck is going in the center lanes and some dolt who is in the backup pulls out in front of the truck without looking in his mirror. 2) Truck driver is head down reading the text message with his next destination or his wife's message and plows full speed into the stopped traffic. I guess I should allow a third, mechanical failure, although unlikely. <ed>Google street view of scene https://goo.gl/maps/juwKE |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Ooooops .... Isn't that a jobs bill for the UK? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Fascinating :-) Articles/reports/links posted on a forum for all to comment on - those comments read & commented on where applicable, yet no one reads the comments in the reports/articles/links? Hmmm... ...had they did so in this instance, they would have seen the commenter identified :-) Airshow Crash Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. What makes you think they haven't? The restriction that is needed is to keep buildings, hence people, away from airports. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. Hmmm, I've never seen a 747 do aerobatics at Heathrow or Gatwick. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. I've only seen a 707 do a barrel roll and then it was on youtube. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. Perhaps because they are not certified for acrobatic flight? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_factor_%28aeronautics%29#Design_standards http://rgl.faa.gov/REGULATORY_AND_GUIDANCE_LIBRARY/RGFAR.NSF/0/9c54cb14e91a41b8852566cf0067b9fe!OpenDocument |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
What about main roads (Freeways) as that was where it crashed. Edit: - Gotta love this one Halfords "We Fit" truck didn't fit |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. That was fast. Restrictions announced |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Think it's about time they set height restrictions for aerobatics. BTW it isn't just vintage jets flown by retired jocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCnK4kh65U |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I'm pretty positive that all my posts over the years have included "" whenever I quote comments from links either referred to on others posts or those that have been quoted. On the contrary, we use "" (at least those of us who give a fart about grammar and such). I always thought you lot used singles. When I was a young Dr. Who fan, I acquired several Who novels (mainly novelizations of TV episodes). Some were published in the US and had " like all my other books, while others were imported from England and used ' where I expected ". David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22158 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
A question (probably for Sirius) On the M6 across Birmingham in the rush hours the hard shoulders are open to allow four lanes of traffic. Sixty mph signs posted over all lanes. But I rarely see anyone using the (very) empty hard shoulder (which is effectively lane 1). Is there any LEGAL reason why, in this very specific situation, traffic should not be using the hard shoulder? Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
A question (probably for Sirius) None that I know of Rob. Have done that many times over the years, especially where accidents have occurred. This might sound daft but the only reason I can think of is that people are too scared of getting a ticket & unaware that the police have the authority to open the hard shoulder. There are a lot of drivers out there who really do not understand the highway code & are too set in their ways. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
I'd agree that it's mostly psychology. The same thing happens on the bus lanes round here: there are clear and repeated signs saying when bus-lane rules apply, usually two hours in either the morning or the evening rush hour, five days a week. The other 158 hours of the week, the timid drivers still avoid them. During the 10 hours when it's illegal, there's a noticeably higher occupation by the rich and aggressive drivers (usually heading for a rat-run at the next turning). |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22158 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...despite the big signs saying "congestion use the hard shoulder", speed limits (not red-x) over the hard shoulder. And not all the trucks are from outside the UK. I saw the classic last Friday, 60mph signs over all four lanes (including hard shoulder), two lorries pegged on their limiters at "their version" occupying lanes 2&3, BMWs crowding lane 4, and virtually nothing in lane 1, the lane I joined at J6 south - next vehicle ahead in lane 1 (former hard shoulder) was just vanishing out of sight on the bend, somewhat over half a mile ahead, and a faster (56mph limited?) truck making its feelings known to the lorry in lane 3.... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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