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- The FAA, from the Federal Airport Improvement Program, will pay 90%
of the costs for airport improvement (runway widening or extension or resurfacing, taxiways, aprons, and so forth). That's because the Feds have decided that maintaining an aviation infrastructure is in the interest of the country, and they understand that a local government entity is too small to pay the entire bill. Thus, they spread the cost over many users, rather than over just the few in (for example) Iowa City, Iowa. Now I suppose that premise is open to debate, too -- but that's the concept at the heart of the Federal subsidy. In that regard, runways are no different than freeways. We all pay for them -- and we all get to use them, if we choose. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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We do, indeed, have the most dunderheaded legal system ever devised by
man. Yes, but are you willing to admit that makes YOU a dunderhead? That is, will you agree with the French who express their disbelief that people so dunderheaded ever spawned men like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams? Sadly, I suppose, I must indeed share the blame for having done NOTHING to fix our incredibly broken legal system. I fear nothing short of revolution will clear the decks. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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do you really think because of your security improvements (aheeem) since
'then' there has been no further attack by plane? Yes. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Move to the city - then there'll be plenty of nearby kids. That will
always be a problem in a rural area. If you live in high-density housing in a large city, there will always be random outdoor activities for groups of kids. We live in a city of 65,000, in a metropolitan area of over 120,000. True, it's not "high density housing" -- something most of us fight all of our lives to escape, at least in the Midwest. Having worked for the Chicago Tribune, there is no way I would live in a big city -- not for all the money in the world. My regular gaming friends live in England, Finland, Germany and the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, ping times are too bad to the US, I'd like to be able to play games with friends over there. For those of us past 45, can you please explain what that phrase means? What's a "ping time"? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message news Morgans wrote: "Dave Stadt" wrote Get used to it, China is the up and coming manufacturing world power. They will do what Japan did in the '60s and '70s at a scale that will make what Japan did look like childs play. I know, but I DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT. I CERTAINLY don't have to buy it. Is this same thing happening in Europe? How many years will it be until China's quality comes up, like Japan finally did? I'm estimating 3-5 years. Matt In some cases, electronics for example, it is there already. |
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"Martin Hotze" wrote in message ... "Jay Honeck" wrote: You would think after the train bombings in Spain, there would be as much -- as much as what? or more -- security efforts expended on them? hu? why? we _are_ crazy, but not _that_ crazy. (You only have to check what crazy things the secretary for internal affairs in Germany has in mind) do you really think because of your security improvements (aheeem) since 'then' there has been no further attack by plane? #m -- http://www.hotze.priv.at/album/aviation/caution.jpg In fact our own government says airport security has not improved since 9/11 and in fact the current government run security is not as effective as was the privately run security. This is no surprise to me. |
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"Morgans" wrote in message ... "Jay Honeck" wrote Now you've done it, Jim, you racist pig. How DARE you launch a wholesale assault on another culture? Chuckle ;-) Hey, I wonder how many years (months?) it will be before GA in China over-takes what's left of GA in France? ducking! You better! g Seriously, though, at least France has some degree of personal freedom left. The pity is, China is giving us (the US) exzacary what they want. Cheap, at all costs. I hope we wake up, before it is too late, and we have no manufacturing and quality in the US, but I fear we will not. I hope the consensus standards board, or if the Symphony (or any other made in China airplanes) are to be certified, I hope they tear it apart stem to stern, and check every part for hardness, fatigue, and any other test they can think of. I can only imagine airplanes falling from the sky, just like the public thinks is going to happen. One thing for certain; I will not be flying in a made in China airplane. I wonder how many others feel the same way. -- Jim in NC I have time in a Nanching (sp). It is an excellent airplane, solid airframe and bullet proof engine. I don't see a problem as long as they don't use Rotax engines. |
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In article SK5ae.8698$NU4.1859@attbi_s22, Jay Honeck wrote:
My regular gaming friends live in England, Finland, Germany and the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, ping times are too bad to the US, I'd like to be able to play games with friends over there. For those of us past 45, can you please explain what that phrase means? What's a "ping time"? Think of a submarine's SONAR. It goes 'ping'. The ping bounces off another submarine, and back to a transducer on the submarine that did the pinging. You can measure your distance to the other sub by measuring this time. The ping time is the round-trip time it took for the ping to go from your sub, be reflected off the other sub, and get back to your sub. Or think of how DME measures distances - by sending a signal to the DME station, which then returns it, and then the box in your panel works out the distance to the station from the round trip time. On the internet, your ping time is how long the round trip is from your computer to a remote computer. On a LAN, ping times are measured in fractions of milliseconds. On the internet, on hosts within a few hundred miles, ping times will be in tens of milliseconds. On the internet, to a host that's thousands of miles away, the ping time will be in hundreds of milliseconds. Over a satellite link, ping times may be in excess of a second. (Ever seen those live satellite linkups on TV where there's quite an obvious pause from when the interviewer finishes asking the question, to when the interviewee starts responding?) On the internet, ping time (or latency) is affected by many factors, such as how full your internet pipe is, what the transfer speed of the internet pipe is, how big the packet is you send etc. It is also affected by the speed of light through fibreoptics and the number of routers and repeaters the data must pass through. Therefore, ping times between Europe and the US - although more than adequate for web browsing, chatting on IRC etc. are often not good enough for fast-paced action games. To play a highly interactive 3D game, which simulates some real world situation, having a low ping time is important, because the actions of the different players must be reasonably synchronized for the game to make sense. For some online games, ping time is less important - think of a turn-based strategy game. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Martin Hotze wrote:
and AFAIK there is still no 100% prove who was the group behind the Yes, it is. Well, as 100% as you can tell before the court, anyway. bombing. Aren't the Basques (sp?) still one possibility? no idea. No. The former conservative government tried to tell so to gain a few votes in the election. They got what they deserved for this disgusting maneuvre. Just another difference between Europe and the USA. Stefan |
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"Peter" wrote in message ... Dave Stadt wrote: "Newps" wrote in message ... We have some fast trains too but we can't get them to stop so they have been mothballed for a while. The Boston to Washington high speed train is not running due to not being able to get brake parts. Anybody know where that train is made? According to the news report on the brake rotors they come from the consortium of Canada's Bombardier and France's Alstom. So it is the France and French Canadian's fault. THat explains things. |
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