Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-29-2014, 09:12 AM
Weekend and Holiday Pilot
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01-29-2014, 09:17 AM
veut gagner à la loterie
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01-29-2014, 09:19 AM
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pfft. I'm not worried about climate change, but I'm extremely concerned about something we all ought to be concerned about - loss of sunlight.
Back in the late summer I started noticing that the sun seemed not to be up as long as it had been earlier in the summer. So I started keeping track, and sure enough we lost about 2 minutes of daylight per day in July. I need to put my excel spreadsheet on here.
But in August, we lost 3 minutes a day. So it got worse. It's not a constant loss of light, it's accelerating. Anyways, to make a long thought process short, c=a/2 x t^2, and what I figured out is by July of this year... we are completely out of light.
Now we started having a little more light every day recently, but it's not going to save us. No light by July then and everyone dead by September.
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Back in the late summer I started noticing that the sun seemed not to be up as long as it had been earlier in the summer. So I started keeping track, and sure enough we lost about 2 minutes of daylight per day in July. I need to put my excel spreadsheet on here.
But in August, we lost 3 minutes a day. So it got worse. It's not a constant loss of light, it's accelerating. Anyways, to make a long thought process short, c=a/2 x t^2, and what I figured out is by July of this year... we are completely out of light.
Now we started having a little more light every day recently, but it's not going to save us. No light by July then and everyone dead by September.
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But srsly, if the "climate change" hype was as advertised, they would be all over the "developing world" but they're not. This isn't about the planet, its about wealth redistribution and "social justice" schemes for global socialism. Thats why their solutions, like the abomination that was Kyoto and everything since, are about US reductions so the third world can go off the rails with their entitlement industrial revolution and exploding populations while slashing and burning a continent's worth of irreplaceable rainforrests yet its our SUV's that are going to end life as we know it. Pffft.
01-29-2014, 09:20 AM
Da Hudge
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I got short called for a cancelled flight. Debating on whether or not to battle the roads while waiting for scheduling to likely never call me back...
01-29-2014, 09:24 AM
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01-29-2014, 09:33 AM
Runs with scissors
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01-29-2014, 09:45 AM
Da Hudge
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Ha! Timbo, with my driveway, that's about right.
I called the conference line and finally got through. Oh, so you're not here yet? "Nah, I live about an hour away." Stand down, FO 80!
I called the conference line and finally got through. Oh, so you're not here yet? "Nah, I live about an hour away." Stand down, FO 80!
01-29-2014, 09:58 AM
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Had a BMW when I moved to MSP in 98. Having lived in that part of the country before, I put it in the garage and relegated it to a "summer only" car (about 3 weeks a year). MN puts so much salt on the road in the winter it seems like other states could come to collect it off the roadsides like a salt flat.
I went to a Subaru place, and picked out the cheapest POS lease return on the lot with manual transmission and A/L brakes (still an option then). Turned out to be a little green 97 Impreza Outback Sport wagon with 20k miles on it.
Drove cheap, felt cheap, looked cheap....BUT, after 16 years that car never stranded me and held on to the road like it was on rails in practically any condition. Snow, slush, ice, whatever. When the snow plows would bury your car in the parking lot, that little car would just climb right over them.
When I finally moved that car sat in the parking lot in MSP for a year and a half before I had a chance to get it. Started on the first crank.
My only true complain about the Subaru is that factory parts are priced like they're made of gold, and if you live somewhere where they're not common, trying to get anyone to work on them is $$$$. Mine has has some occasional electrical gremlins and fried switches which required factory replacements.
But Rockauto is your friend along with a set of metric tools. The AC finally seized up and the local place wanted $1500. Had the local shop drain the freon and purge the lines, got a $250 compressor from Rockauto and some busted knuckles and $90 for a charge later, back in business and colder than ever.
Still have it. 100k miles on it, and it still cleans up. I use it for my "throw crap in the back" vehicle.
Nu
I went to a Subaru place, and picked out the cheapest POS lease return on the lot with manual transmission and A/L brakes (still an option then). Turned out to be a little green 97 Impreza Outback Sport wagon with 20k miles on it.
Drove cheap, felt cheap, looked cheap....BUT, after 16 years that car never stranded me and held on to the road like it was on rails in practically any condition. Snow, slush, ice, whatever. When the snow plows would bury your car in the parking lot, that little car would just climb right over them.
When I finally moved that car sat in the parking lot in MSP for a year and a half before I had a chance to get it. Started on the first crank.
My only true complain about the Subaru is that factory parts are priced like they're made of gold, and if you live somewhere where they're not common, trying to get anyone to work on them is $$$$. Mine has has some occasional electrical gremlins and fried switches which required factory replacements.
But Rockauto is your friend along with a set of metric tools. The AC finally seized up and the local place wanted $1500. Had the local shop drain the freon and purge the lines, got a $250 compressor from Rockauto and some busted knuckles and $90 for a charge later, back in business and colder than ever.
Still have it. 100k miles on it, and it still cleans up. I use it for my "throw crap in the back" vehicle.
Nu
01-29-2014, 10:04 AM
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Not sure if climate change is real or significant or, if it is real, would be good or bad. But I think it is impossible to discuss it without considering the politics, because the sides of the issue were co-opted early on by capitalists and socialists with other agendas. Until I see gondolas on Wall Street or Polar Bears fishing the Gulf of Mexico, I'll have a hard time signing on to the proposition.
01-29-2014, 10:14 AM
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You at least put your hat on when you called...?So now you can collect Suit Up pay!
Try not to spend it all in once place.
Here's a song for all you guys that live in ATL but are stuck out and can't get home:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbGm2Yt7LO4
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