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Jim White[_3_]
July 7th 20, 09:28 PM
US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
demonstrate leadership.
God help us all
No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
Nick Norman
July 7th 20, 09:48 PM
Your mistake is to consider him the self-appointed leader of the
free world. He has no authority over nearly all the world except for
one country. By his own admission, in fact not an admission rather
a proclamation, he is leader of an insular country called the USA,
and that is all that matters to him.
At 20:28 07 July 2020, Jim White wrote:
>US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
>demonstrate leadership.
>
>God help us all
>
>No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
>
>
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 3:30:05 PM UTC-5, Jim White wrote:
> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
> demonstrate leadership.
>
> God help us all
>
> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
If you already have no doubt your post is politically incorrect here, then delete it yourself. Please!
BobW
July 7th 20, 09:52 PM
On 7/7/2020 2:28 PM, Jim White wrote:
> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to demonstrate
> leadership.
>
> God help us all
>
> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
Ummm (and in no particular order), I'll bite...
- Lemme know when software has "advanced" to the point of scrubbing usenet
servers.
- If you're into lemming-like "leadership", have at it! (This "lemming" is
*happy* we [i.e. the USofA] is abandoning the marxist WHO [if in fact is; I
haven't checked].)
- Please advise how the original post has to do with soaring. Perhaps I'm
missing something.
Respectfully,
Bob W.
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Bojack J4
July 7th 20, 10:29 PM
Again.. .nothing to do with Soaring!
Bojack J4
July 7th 20, 10:31 PM
Jim....there's a civil war newsgroup.
Perhaps you could go away and join it?
Dee[_2_]
July 7th 20, 10:41 PM
> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
First, let me thank those that stopped posting to that other non-soaring thread. Second, here are two other Google group forums (hang-gliding and aerobatics) that serve as examples of how ours might end up self-destructing:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.aviation.hang-gliding
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.aviation.aerobatics
Steve Bralla
July 8th 20, 03:03 AM
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 1:52:20 PM UTC-7, BobW wrote:
> On 7/7/2020 2:28 PM, Jim White wrote:[i]
> > US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to demonstrate
> > leadership.
> >
> > God help us all
> >
> > No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
>
> Ummm (and in no particular order), I'll bite...
>
> - Lemme know when software has "advanced" to the point of scrubbing usenet
> servers.
>
> - If you're into lemming-like "leadership", have at it! (This "lemming" is
> *happy* we is abandoning the marxist WHO [if in fact is; I
> haven't checked].)
>
> - Please advise how the original post has to do with soaring. Perhaps I'm
> missing something.
>
> Respectfully,
> Bob W.
>
> ---
> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
> https://www.avg.com
When it was guns a soaring we got this.
Dan Marotta
Jul 3
Good points, Jon. But why would any post which does not follow the
strict lines of the group's title cause the group to wither and die?
How hard is it to simply skip over those posts which are not of interest
to the reader? I simply right click on a subject which does not
interest me and select "Mark thread as read". Or "Ignore Thread".
Those work every time.
So now it has to be only soaring? Not both ways?
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
July 8th 20, 08:25 AM
On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:03:02 -0700, Steve Bralla wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 1:52:20 PM UTC-7, BobW wrote:[i]
>> On 7/7/2020 2:28 PM, Jim White wrote:[i]
>> > US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
>> > demonstrate leadership.
>> >
>> > God help us all
>> >
>> > No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
>>
>> Ummm (and in no particular order), I'll bite...
>>
>> - Lemme know when software has "advanced" to the point of scrubbing
>> usenet servers.
>>
>> - If you're into lemming-like "leadership", have at it! (This "lemming"
>> is *happy* we is abandoning the marxist WHO .)
>>
>> - Please advise how the original post has to do with soaring. Perhaps
>> I'm missing something.
>>
>> Respectfully,
>> Bob W.
>>
>> ---
>> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
>> https://www.avg.com
>
> When it was guns a soaring we got this.
> Dan Marotta Jul 3 Good points, Jon. But why would any post which does
> not follow the strict lines of the group's title cause the group to
> wither and die? How hard is it to simply skip over those posts which are
> not of interest to the reader? I simply right click on a subject which
> does not interest me and select "Mark thread as read". Or "Ignore
> Thread". Those work every time.
> So now it has to be only soaring? Not both ways?
A lot of the objections are from people who insist on using a web browser
to read news via Google Groups and can't/won't/don't use a proper
newsreader. Thats their choice, but as a result they don't have the
ability to ignore authors and/or threads.
--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org
Martin- Which newsreader do you recommend?
kinsell
July 8th 20, 01:50 PM
On 7/8/20 1:25 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
> A lot of the objections are from people who insist on using a web browser
> to read news via Google Groups and can't/won't/don't use a proper
> newsreader. Thats their choice, but as a result they don't have the
> ability to ignore authors and/or threads.
>
>
Everyone has the ability to not respond to off-topic crap, which would
help greatly in reducing the pollution.
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 4:30:05 PM UTC-4, Jim White wrote:
> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
> demonstrate leadership.
>
> God help us all
>
> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
Thanks for letting us know but I thought the who were English. That blind guy that played arcade games flew a hang glider in the movie so soaring related.
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
July 8th 20, 06:22 PM
On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:01:33 -0700, markmocho53 wrote:
> Martin- Which newsreader do you recommend?
I'm using Pan, which has been OK but is now apparently unmaintained - I
raised a bug via Fedora quite a long time ago but Pan hasn't been updated
since about 2017. Its available for all common operating systems (Linux,
BSD, OSX and Windows).
The fault which I raised is that sometimes when you hit 'send' you get
told that you haven't set a posting profile. So, you do a dummy update
(go look at your posting preferences, hit 'Save' without changing
anything, go back to your message and send it, which has always worked
this time round. So, it looks as though it sometimes stomps on its link
to the posting profile store and the dummy update reinstates the link.
Its strong points are that its fast and its facilities for blocking
authors and threads forever, or for a specified time, works really well.
The other really good newsreader I found, back when I still used Windows,
was Forte Agent - fast, nice to use, good author and thread blocking,
andcan stores any messages to tag for keeping locally for as long you
like. Its non-free but has a 30 day free trial period. However, it
appears to be Windows-only, which is a showstopper for me.
I tried Mozilla Thunderbird but didn't like it: its not in the same
league as their Firefox webbrowser. Firebirds GUI wasn't all that
wonderful, but the main problem is that it would periodically clear its
caches and stop working until reinstalled. Not good.
However, with NNTP slowly dieing, decent newsreaders are getting hard to
find.
--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
July 8th 20, 06:31 PM
On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:42:57 -0700, greggballou wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 4:30:05 PM UTC-4, Jim White wrote:
>> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to demonstrate
>> leadership.
>>
>> God help us all
>>
>> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
>
> Thanks for letting us know but I thought the who were English. That
> blind guy that played arcade games flew a hang glider in the movie so
> soaring related.
It really matters WHO is WHO, and which WHO you want. 'The WHO', WHO? and
the several plain WHO entities are all unrelated. One WHO is even
occupied by The Real Donald (TM).
--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org
Mike N.
July 8th 20, 08:02 PM
I'm sorry but I thought Who was on 1st....
Maybe I am just old....
Dan Marotta
July 8th 20, 08:06 PM
Read what you want, ignore the rest.Â* What's wrong with that?
On 7/7/2020 8:03 PM, Steve Bralla wrote:
> So now it has to be only soaring? Not both ways?
--
Dan, 5J
Dan Marotta
July 8th 20, 08:08 PM
Well that's just old fashioned, or is it new fangled, or are they
Luddites?Â* Just wanted to use that word again.:-D
I use Thunderbird as my email client (it's free, don'tcha know, so it
would fit every glider pilot's budget).Â* I created a separate folder for
Soaring and configured that to eternal september.Â* Works just like email
with all the frills.
On 7/8/2020 1:25 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:03:02 -0700, Steve Bralla wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 1:52:20 PM UTC-7, BobW wrote:
>>> On 7/7/2020 2:28 PM, Jim White wrote:
>>>> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
>>>> demonstrate leadership.
>>>>
>>>> God help us all
>>>>
>>>> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
>>> Ummm (and in no particular order), I'll bite...
>>>
>>> - Lemme know when software has "advanced" to the point of scrubbing
>>> usenet servers.
>>>
>>> - If you're into lemming-like "leadership", have at it! (This "lemming"
>>> is *happy* we [i.e. the USofA] is abandoning the marxist WHO [if in
>>> fact is; I haven't checked].)
>>>
>>> - Please advise how the original post has to do with soaring. Perhaps
>>> I'm missing something.
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>> Bob W.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
>>> https://www.avg.com
>> When it was guns a soaring we got this.
>> Dan Marotta Jul 3 Good points, Jon. But why would any post which does
>> not follow the strict lines of the group's title cause the group to
>> wither and die? How hard is it to simply skip over those posts which are
>> not of interest to the reader? I simply right click on a subject which
>> does not interest me and select "Mark thread as read". Or "Ignore
>> Thread". Those work every time.
>> So now it has to be only soaring? Not both ways?
> A lot of the objections are from people who insist on using a web browser
> to read news via Google Groups and can't/won't/don't use a proper
> newsreader. Thats their choice, but as a result they don't have the
> ability to ignore authors and/or threads.
>
>
--
Dan, 5J
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
July 8th 20, 10:28 PM
On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:02:39 -0700, Mike N. wrote:
> I'm sorry but I thought Who was on 1st....
> Maybe I am just old....
No - relatively late on the scene, which surprised me.
1964 'The Who' rock band
1930 WHO in the White House, (White House Office).
1924 Radio WHO in Des Moines, Iowa,
Are there any earlier WHOs?
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Martin | martin at
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Jim, don't forget the only Briton Mr Trump and fans are keen to welcome at the moment is Nigel Farage.
I wonder if he was obliged to quarantine when he got home.
On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:30:05 UTC+1, Jim White wrote:
> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
> demonstrate leadership.
>
> God help us all
>
> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
Steve Leonard[_2_]
July 9th 20, 12:30 AM
Didn't Horton hear a Who?
Waveguru
July 9th 20, 01:04 AM
I still wanna know who let the dogs out?.....
Boggs
Waveguru
July 9th 20, 02:06 AM
Who, who who, who who? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojULkWEUsPs
Boggs
bill palmer
July 9th 20, 03:25 AM
I’d join the argument, but I always have a hard time remembering whether it should be WHO or WHOM 🤔
Say, how ‘bout that wing loading?
Jonathan St. Cloud
July 9th 20, 04:59 AM
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-complicated-as-you-might-think/
I too want an Aerodynamicist To discuss wing loading vs span loading.
Jim White[_3_]
July 9th 20, 08:55 AM
At 22:35 08 July 2020, wrote:
>Jim, don't forget the only Briton Mr Trump and fans are keen to welcome
at
>the moment is Nigel Farage.
>
>I wonder if he was obliged to quarantine when he got home.
>
>On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:30:05 UTC+1, Jim White wrote:
>> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
>> demonstrate leadership.
>>
>> God help us all
>>
>> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
>
>
I certainly hope so. For a year or two at least!
Dan Marotta
July 9th 20, 01:01 PM
Oh Jon,
Then we'd lose the entertainment value of trying to read sentence's
using apostrophie's inappropriately, or using to, too, in place of two.Â*
And do we want to listen to all of there comment's on these endless
thread's?Â* Your really stirring up a bees nest when you go their.
Its to early to be doing this.Â* Their are to many other thing's to be
doing rather than wasting person hours on this... :-[
On 7/8/2020 9:59 PM, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
> https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-complicated-as-you-might-think/
>
> I too want an Aerodynamicist To discuss wing loading vs span loading.
--
Dan, 5J
Mike N.
July 9th 20, 04:53 PM
1953 Who's on first...
https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg
Steve Bralla
July 10th 20, 03:01 AM
On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 5:01:47 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
> Oh Jon,
>
> Then we'd lose the entertainment value of trying to read sentence's
> using apostrophie's inappropriately, or using to, too, in place of two.Â*
> And do we want to listen to all of there comment's on these endless
> thread's?Â* Your really stirring up a bees nest when you go their.
>
> Its to early to be doing this.Â* Their are to many other thing's to be
> doing rather than wasting person hours on this... :-[
>
> On 7/8/2020 9:59 PM, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
> > https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-complicated-as-you-might-think/
> >
> > I too want an Aerodynamicist To discuss wing loading vs span loading.
>
> --
> Dan, 5J
And yet here you are adding your "entertainment value" to this thread.
Shaun Wheeler
July 13th 20, 03:21 AM
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 3:30:05 PM UTC-5, Jim White wrote:
> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
> demonstrate leadership.
>
> God help us all
>
> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
I am appalled that one of the most famous "Who's" got left out entirely and that is the one from Abbott & Costello.
Dan Marotta
July 13th 20, 08:02 PM
Didn't Horton Hear A Who?
On 7/12/2020 8:21 PM, Shaun Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 3:30:05 PM UTC-5, Jim White wrote:
>> US to pull out of WHO permanently. Abstention is no way to
>> demonstrate leadership.
>>
>> God help us all
>>
>> No doubt this post will be deleted as politically incorrect....
> I am appalled that one of the most famous "Who's" got left out entirely and that is the one from Abbott & Costello.
--
Dan, 5J
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