"polygonum" wrote in message
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On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics


Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit degrees
really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion of
their word count repeating temperatures in F.

You mean they waste a lot of time giving us data in a format foisted upon us
before giving us the temperature in *proper* units? ;-)

Tim

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:27:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Are you thinking of "Baldrick"? (Tony wotsisname.)

Oh the man who is singlehandedly turning EQUITY into a mechanism to
enforce a socialist message across the performing arts?

What a total **** he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ro..._personal_life

Doesn't seem too much of a ****, to be honest.

Again though, if it gets you exercised, that's a good thing, surely?

On 13/12/2012 12:05, Tim+ wrote:

"polygonum" wrote in message
...
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got
his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics


Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable
proportion of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

You mean they waste a lot of time giving us data in a format foisted
upon us before giving us the temperature in *proper* units? ;-)

Tim

But which forecasts use the kelvin? :-)

--
Rod

On 13/12/2012 12:42, Huge wrote:
On 2012-12-13, polygonum wrote:
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics


Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

Since when? The Beeb hasn't used F for a while.


Maybe it is only the local segments? But definitely they keep slipping
in an F.

--
Rod

On 13 Dec 2012 12:42:09 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2012-12-13, polygonum wrote:

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

Since when? The Beeb hasn't used F for a while.

Apparently there is og over much of the country today

Plenty of local forecasts mention the temp in F from time to time.


--

On 13/12/12 12:29, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:27:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Are you thinking of "Baldrick"? (Tony wotsisname.)

Oh the man who is singlehandedly turning EQUITY into a mechanism to
enforce a socialist message across the performing arts?

What a total **** he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ro..._personal_life

Doesn't seem too much of a ****, to be honest.

Again though, if it gets you exercised, that's a good thing, surely?

talk to any actor about what's happening to Equity these days, and what
they think of Tony Robinson, and why he only appears on time team..never
in any plays of films.

Full time Scargill basically.


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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On 13/12/12 12:46, Huge wrote:

But definitely they keep slipping
in an F.

When I'm watching Alex Dolan doing the weather on Look East, I'm afraid
that there's another kind of "slipping in" I'm thinking about.

You might say that, I couldnt possibly comment.





--
Ineptocracy

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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:30:08 +0000, polygonum wrote:

On 13/12/2012 12:05, Tim+ wrote:

"polygonum" wrote in message
...
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got
his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics


Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable
proportion of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

You mean they waste a lot of time giving us data in a format foisted
upon us before giving us the temperature in *proper* units? ;-)

Tim

But which forecasts use the kelvin? :-)

Should have done that when changing, as it's more useful. After all,
absolute zero is 0K.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On Dec 13, 12:00*pm, polygonum wrote:
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:







In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) *He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. *Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. *Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics

Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

--
Rod

They are still used in America. Along with inches, feet and pounds.
DegF is no more illogical than degC.
Now you might argue degK is logical.

On 13/12/2012 15:38, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 13/12/12 12:46, Huge wrote:

But definitely they keep slipping
in an F.

When I'm watching Alex Dolan doing the weather on Look East, I'm afraid
that there's another kind of "slipping in" I'm thinking about.

You might say that, I couldnt possibly comment.





I don't get the, umm, pleasure! Although geographically within BBC East,
and would more appropriately get London or, possibly, South from Oxford,
we actually get South from Southampton. Which almost entirely fails to
cover us! And misses Alex Dolan.

--
Rod

On Dec 13, 12:29*pm, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:27:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher

wrote:
Are you thinking of "Baldrick"? *(Tony wotsisname.)

Oh the man who is singlehandedly turning EQUITY into a mechanism to
enforce a socialist message across the performing arts?

What a total **** he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ro..._personal_life

Doesn't seem too much of a ****, to be honest.

Again though, if it gets you exercised, that's a good thing, surely?

Anybody that supported Bliar and NL is a total **** by definition.

On 13/12/2012 16:01, harry wrote:


They are still used in America. Along with inches, feet and pounds.
DegF is no more illogical than degC.
Now you might argue degK is logical.


They might use Rankine scale, Delisle, Newton, Réaumur or Rømer in other
countries for all I know. But I was referring to UK broadcasts. And I
really was not arguing about the logicality of F versus C so much as
consistency and unnecessary duplication.

--
Rod

On 13/12/12 15:56, PeterC wrote:
After all,
absolute zero is 0K.

Its NOT OK .

Its bloody freezing!

Brr


--
Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On 13/12/12 16:03, harry wrote:
On Dec 13, 12:29 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:27:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher

wrote:
Are you thinking of "Baldrick"? (Tony wotsisname.)

Oh the man who is singlehandedly turning EQUITY into a mechanism to
enforce a socialist message across the performing arts?

What a total **** he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ro..._personal_life

Doesn't seem too much of a ****, to be honest.

Again though, if it gets you exercised, that's a good thing, surely?

Anybody that supported Bliar and NL is a total **** by definition.

like having solar panels on yer roof really.


--
Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:39:54 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 13/12/12 15:56, PeterC wrote:
After all,
absolute zero is 0K.

Its NOT OK .

Its bloody freezing!

Brr

Now now - shivering won't happen at 0K.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

Perhaps you should stick in your nose back in your Daily Mail, and not
bother posting here, it's obviously vastly too intellectual a forum
for you (and I never thought I'd find myself saying that about
uk.d-i-y).

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:03:52 -0800 (PST), harry
wrote:

Anybody that supported Bliar and NL is a total **** by definition.
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On 13/12/12 18:09, Java Jive wrote:
Perhaps you should stick in your nose back in your Daily Mail, and not
bother posting here, it's obviously vastly too intellectual a forum
for you (and I never thought I'd find myself saying that about
uk.d-i-y).

Presumably as a top posting guardian reader you are back here because
the guardian's folding along with renewable energy and socialism.

Sheesh! it must be hard to wake up and find your dearly held beliefs
were all a total waste of your life and everyone else's time and money.

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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:46:39 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 13/12/12 18:09, Java Jive wrote:
Perhaps you should stick in your nose back in your Daily Mail, and
not bother posting here, it's obviously vastly too intellectual a
forum for you (and I never thought I'd find myself saying that about
uk.d-i-y).

Presumably as a top posting guardian reader you are back here because
the guardian's folding along with renewable energy and socialism.

Is the Grauniad folding? Where can I go to dance on its grave?

+1



--
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

*lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor

On 13/12/12 18:54, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:46:39 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 13/12/12 18:09, Java Jive wrote:
Perhaps you should stick in your nose back in your Daily Mail, and
not bother posting here, it's obviously vastly too intellectual a
forum for you (and I never thought I'd find myself saying that about
uk.d-i-y).

Presumably as a top posting guardian reader you are back here because
the guardian's folding along with renewable energy and socialism.

Is the Grauniad folding? Where can I go to dance on its grave?

+1


Its a matter of time.

Its selling autotrader which was the only profitable thing it had.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...ort-losses-44m



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Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On 12/12/2012 21:39, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Andy Champ
scribeth thus
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

In 1977 someone sequenced the entire genome of a virus. It was the first
time anyone had done any organism of any sort.

Now you can do a human for a couple of grand, and they are talking about
doing population studies with mass sequencing.

Yes, they go out of date.

Andy

Are we talking about the same thing?...


My degree is Biology. It's out of date. Nowadays I assume everyone
knows a _little_ about DNA... was I wrong?

Andy

Huge wrote:
[snip]

Well the actual degrees don't, but science moves on. My degrees are well
over 20 years old and some of what I was taught isn't just out of date, it's
plain wrong.

Indeed, and startling as it may be for you to hear, the phlogiston theory
was found to be incorrect.

--
€¢DarWin|
_/ _/

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:46:39 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Presumably as a top posting guardian reader you are back here because
the guardian's folding along with renewable energy and socialism.

I don't read The Guardian.

Is the Grauniad folding? Where can I go to dance on its grave?

The last issues will be used to mummify TNP before pickling him in
nuclear waste, so, do you really want to do this?
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 13/12/12 18:09, Java Jive wrote:
Perhaps you should stick in your nose back in your Daily Mail, and not
bother posting here, it's obviously vastly too intellectual a forum
for you (and I never thought I'd find myself saying that about
uk.d-i-y).

Presumably as a top posting guardian reader you are back here because the
guardian's folding along with renewable energy and socialism.

Sheesh! it must be hard to wake up and find your dearly held beliefs were
all a total waste of your life and everyone else's time and money.

--



And of course, it's not a forum ...

Arfa

"harry" wrote in message
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On Dec 12, 6:59 pm, John Williamson
wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
In article , John Williamson
scribeth thus
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:48:20 +0000, tony sayer wrote:
Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...
In the sense that the knowledge base of any subject changes as new
discoveries are made and old theories disproved, yes they do "go out
of
date".

IME all qualifications go "out of date", which is why, if you're
sensible, you keep up to date in your chosen field either by formal
education or just reading the specialist press.

Even as a driver, I need to learn a number of new rules each year as
they make new laws.

Yeabut you don't "loose" the qualification as such do you?..

In the case of the latest new rule, yes I do *lose* it. They have
introduced a "Certificate of professional competence" which has to be
renewed by taking a total of 35 hours "relevant" training in a five year
period. The first five year period for coach and bus drivers starts in
September 2013, if you've not done the 35 hours by then, you're out on
your ear. If you don't renew by the same date in 2018, same thing. Lorry
drivers have until 2014 and 2019 respectively. New drivers have had to
take this before they get their licence for a year or two now.

Pilots have similar rules.

I've also noticed that if you're looking for a job that requires a
degree, then you're less likely to be considered the older your degree
is. The "alphabet soup" in the advert charges, and if you don't have the
right blend, your CV doesn't even get looked at.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

I think there's a lot of beaurocrats out there makes a good living out
of inventing rules to cover non existent problems.
Especially in the EU.


Wot, like global warming ... d ;-)

Arfa

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:12:45 +0000, polygonum wrote:

If, during revalidation, a doctor says anything other than "use A" they
will almost certainly be failed. The small number who realise the need
to prescribe B and/or C will either have to effectively lie in order to
be seen to conform (answer that they would treat with A though actually
treat with B and/or C in some cases) or fail.

That is a failing with the validation system though not the Doctors.
That's always the problem when beaurocrats/box tickers get involved in
something that has no single "correct" answer.

--
Cheers
Dave.


That's kinda what I was thinking too. And going back to Shipman again, no,
of course it wouldn't have found him, and nor would any other test. The
bloke was a good doctor, but hopefully a one-off with his alternative view
on certain conditions. Hell, if there's any more like him in the system,
then we really do have a problem ...

Arfa

"Tim+" wrote in message
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"polygonum" wrote in message
...
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got
his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics


Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

You mean they waste a lot of time giving us data in a format foisted upon
us before giving us the temperature in *proper* units? ;-)

Tim

+1

Arfa

"harry" wrote in message
...
On Dec 13, 12:00 pm, polygonum wrote:
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:







In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago?
More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. Started the course but took time out
to
do rock'n'roll. Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got
his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics

Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

--
Rod

They are still used in America. Along with inches, feet and pounds.
DegF is no more illogical than degC.
Now you might argue degK is logical.


Except when they are being used on American produced TV programmes that are
distributed to Europe. I'm thinking as a 'for instance' Deadliest Catch. The
Scottish narrarator, presumably overdubbed for the European version, rattles
on about how many kilometers this boat or that boat is from Dutch Harbour
and what the temperature is in Celcius and how many kilometers per hour the
wind is blowing, whilst all the time on the 'real' dialogue, the captain is
talking about how many miles he is from wherever, what the temperature is in
Farenheit, and what speed the wind is in knots. Ice Road Truckers is
another. And Air Crash Investigation *really* does my head in with quoting
distances in kilometers and heights in metres, when the international agreed
units in aviation (with the possible exception of the Frogs who are a law
unto themselves) are Imperial.

Arfa

Arfa Daily wrote:

Except when they are being used on American produced TV programmes that are
distributed to Europe. I'm thinking as a 'for instance' Deadliest Catch. The
Scottish narrarator, presumably overdubbed for the European version, rattles
on about how many kilometers this boat or that boat is from Dutch Harbour
and what the temperature is in Celcius and how many kilometers per hour the
wind is blowing, whilst all the time on the 'real' dialogue, the captain is
talking about how many miles he is from wherever, what the temperature is in
Farenheit, and what speed the wind is in knots. Ice Road Truckers is
another. And Air Crash Investigation *really* does my head in with quoting
distances in kilometers and heights in metres, when the international agreed
units in aviation (with the possible exception of the Frogs who are a law
unto themselves) are Imperial.

I'm irritated by much of the stuff on Quest - they like to big up
the drama by quoting weights as umpteen thousand pounds, when the
much more appropriate unit TON is crying out to be used.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

On Dec 13, 4:39*pm, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
On 13/12/12 15:56, PeterC wrote: After all,
absolute zero is 0K.

Its NOT OK .

Its bloody freezing!

Brr



Fine in my house. In spite of no central heating.

On Dec 13, 6:09*pm, Java Jive wrote:
Perhaps you should stick in your nose back in your Daily Mail, and not
bother posting here, it's obviously vastly too intellectual a forum
for you (and I never thought I'd find myself saying that about
uk.d-i-y).

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:03:52 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Anybody that supported Bliar and NL is a total **** by definition.


These are the people that destroyed our economy, society and moral
values.
(New Labour that is)

On Dec 13, 11:54*pm, Steve Firth wrote:
Huge wrote:

[snip]

Well the actual degrees don't, but science moves on. My degrees are well
over 20 years old and some of what I was taught isn't just out of date, it's
plain wrong.

Indeed, and startling as it may be for you to hear, the phlogiston theory
was found to be incorrect.

--
•DarWin|
*_/ * *_/

I don't think even he was taught about phlogiston.

On Dec 14, 1:58*am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"harry" wrote in message

...









On Dec 13, 12:00 pm, polygonum wrote:
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:

In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) *He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago?
More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. *Started the course but took time out
to
do rock'n'roll. *Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got
his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics

Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

--
Rod

They are still used in America. Along with inches, feet and pounds.
DegF is no more illogical than degC.
Now you might argue degK is logical.

Except when they are being used on American produced TV programmes that are
distributed to Europe. I'm thinking as a 'for instance' Deadliest Catch. The
Scottish narrarator, presumably overdubbed for the European version, rattles
on about how many kilometers this boat or that boat is from Dutch Harbour
and what the temperature is in Celcius and how many kilometers per hour the
wind is blowing, whilst all the time on the 'real' dialogue, the captain is
talking about how many miles he is from wherever, what the temperature is in
Farenheit, and what speed the wind is in knots. Ice Road Truckers is
another. And Air Crash Investigation *really* does my head in with quoting
distances in kilometers and heights in metres, when the international agreed
units in aviation (with the possible exception of the Frogs who are a law
unto themselves) are Imperial.

Arfa

I dunno about that. We are still using knots for speed, the Yanks use
mph. The krauts use metres for height and we use feet. So there is
still confusion.

On Dec 14, 7:52*am, Chris J Dixon wrote:
Arfa Daily wrote:
Except when they are being used on American produced TV programmes that are
distributed to Europe. I'm thinking as a 'for instance' Deadliest Catch. The
Scottish narrarator, presumably overdubbed for the European version, rattles
on about how many kilometers this boat or that boat is from Dutch Harbour
and what the temperature is in Celcius and how many kilometers per hour the
wind is blowing, whilst all the time on the 'real' dialogue, the captain is
talking about how many miles he is from wherever, what the temperature is in
Farenheit, and what speed the wind is in knots. Ice Road Truckers is
another. And Air Crash Investigation *really* does my head in with quoting
distances in kilometers and heights in metres, when the international agreed
units in aviation (with the possible exception of the Frogs who are a law
unto themselves) are Imperial.

I'm irritated by much of the stuff on Quest - they like to big up
the drama by quoting weights as umpteen thousand pounds, when the
much more appropriate unit TON is crying out to be used.


It is concocted by journalists. What do you expect?

And Air Crash Investigation *really* does my head in with quoting
distances in kilometers and heights in metres, when the international agreed
units in aviation (with the possible exception of the Frogs who are a law
unto themselves) are Imperial.

Arfa


I was reading a rather sad report off the railway accident investigation
board website yesterday. In the same paragraph it quoted Miles and
Chains then Meters and Kilometres;!....


--
Tony Sayer

In article , Andy Champ
scribeth thus
On 12/12/2012 21:39, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Andy Champ
scribeth thus
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:
Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

In 1977 someone sequenced the entire genome of a virus. It was the first
time anyone had done any organism of any sort.

Now you can do a human for a couple of grand, and they are talking about
doing population studies with mass sequencing.

Yes, they go out of date.

Andy

Are we talking about the same thing?...


My degree is Biology. It's out of date. Nowadays I assume everyone
knows a _little_ about DNA... was I wrong?

Andy

DNA;?,Wotcha wanna know;?. Your point is what I said originally, once
you have the qualification then thats yours .. no ones going to take it
away. You still have it...


As olde as it might be..
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Tony Sayer

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:58:59 -0000, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

And Air Crash Investigation *really* does my head in with quoting
distances in kilometers and heights in metres, when the international agreed
units in aviation (with the possible exception of the Frogs who are a law
unto themselves) are Imperial.

Not the French, they often speak in French both at from the tower and in the air
but they fly at x feet at x knots

The Russians use metres


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In article
,
harry wrote:
These are the people that destroyed our economy, society and moral
values.
(New Labour that is)

They simply followed the guidelines started by Thatcher. Have you so
little knowledge of history?

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*Never kick a cow pat on a hot day *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Huge wrote:
On 2012-12-14, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
harry wrote:
These are the people that destroyed our economy, society and moral
values.
(New Labour that is)

They simply followed the guidelines started by Thatcher. Have you so
little knowledge of history?

Have you considered getting counselling for your obsessive hatred of a
politician a generation gone?

Absolutely not. Most of the present economic problems can be traced back
to her policies.

--
*Being healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 14 Dec 2012 11:16:04 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2012-12-14, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
harry wrote:
These are the people that destroyed our economy, society and moral
values.
(New Labour that is)

They simply followed the guidelines started by Thatcher. Have you so
little knowledge of history?

Have you considered getting counselling for your obsessive hatred of a
politician a generation gone?

She is quite rightly hated by millions because she caused massive damage to the
nation, more so than any other person in the past 1000 years. She wasn't
capable of running a grocery shop let along a country.

The totally ****ed up UK energy sector is but one of her lasting legacies.

--

On Dec 14, 11:31*am, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article ,
* *Huge wrote:

On 2012-12-14, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
* *harry wrote:
These are the people that destroyed our economy, society and moral
values.
(New Labour that is)

They simply followed the guidelines started by Thatcher. Have you so
little knowledge of history?
Have you considered getting counselling for your obsessive hatred of a
politician a generation gone?

Absolutely not. Most of the present economic problems can be traced back
to her policies.



Have you had your head up your arse for the sixteen years (was it) of
NL who f***d the country up more thoroughly than even Hitler could?
The socialist rewrite history syndrome.