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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (1204)	12/8/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

< Expensive Lunch.....Doesn't Dominos deliver...?.> Pilot Who Left Plane for Food Gets Fired DETROIT (Reuters) - A veteran pilot who left a loaded plane standing at an airport gate for 90 minutes to search for food because he did not like the in-flight meal has been fired, Northwest Airlines said on Tuesday. Captain Floyd Dean of Reno, Nevada walked off the plane at Las Vegas airport, telling the crew of the Boeing 757 he was leaving to find something else to eat, according to airline officials. Unable to turn up anything he liked in the departure lounge, the pilot took a cab to buy food outside the airport before returning to the plane and 150 frustrated passengers waiting to fly to Detroit on Nov. 23. One passenger told the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday the plane was loaded and waiting to leave the gate when the crew announced the pilot had left because he could not get a ``decent meal' at the airport. Dean, a 22-year veteran of the Eagan, Minnesota-based airline, was terminated late last week. ``Clearly, the actions in this instance were to the detriment of his passengers, his fellow employees and the company, and that's not acceptable to us,' said Northwest spokesman Jon Austin.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (1204)	12/8/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

Thanks Mucho, I have a puter full of nigga gangsta rap at the moment, thanks to some wayward offspring [who know to keep the most egregious of the grotty noise they make off the airwaves in my presence]. Even the sacred English language with taxpayer-funded universities full of professorial management and the French fanatics anti-Franglais laws can't stop the onslaught of linguistic and other cultural mayhem going on. Maoris are moaning about the demise of their language and trying to rescue it with taxpayer money. Ebonics will go the way of the Dodo after some short airtime. I find myself using American rather than English as there is no use meowing at a dog - you have to bark or not be understood [unless telling it off in which case they understand any language at all]. It's funny seeing people trying to put an ostentatious air on whatever grunts they make into the airwaves. It usually involves them being superior to other people. I haven't got a clue whether it's true, but apparently, although all people have innate linguistic structures waiting to be filled with language, some languages have much more sophisticated mechanisms for expression than others. Subtleties of tense and things, not just vocabulary size. I think that It will define the new lingua franca and there will be spinoffs into little cultural enclaves in 3D, like the mainstream of a river, but with little eddies around islands, logs, up banks and over bumpy bottoms. Turbulence on the fringes of the mainstream. Initially, It will speak American. But I doubt that will stay intact for too long. Young people who don't depend on the comfort of long-ingrained language will smash it around and new stuff will emerge. American has a few spelling simplifications, but that's about it. I can't believe that as a visual or oral representation of reality, English or American is the end-game. It's too inconsistent for a start. But then, even the very structure of it might be no good. It's more like digital language than the pictorially derived types and has a lot of advantages because of that. Only 26 letters to make it up. Why not cut it down to two letters? That would be seriously digital! Morse code here.. babbage.demon.co.uk I guess words would get too long to fit on paper. The GSM Guild says: Da dit da dit, da dit dit, da da, dit da, dit dit dit, da da da, dit, dit, dit!! Major Paradigm Shift Happens! Microsoft gets the heeby jeebies and is trying to stop Qualcomm becoming as big as Microsoft, IBM and Intel combined. Microsoft forms a joint venture with Ericky. Some would call that a hagfish mating ritual. I think it's a continuation of the hagfish training school started by Mighty Q! Mqurice