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Hi xroule so nice to have you and your sharp opinions backbiggrin
I'm honored you chose Base Camp
- it cannot surprise you we expect you to go on treks with us now, eh?
In August - ALL OF AUGUST - we happen to have a dirty deal with MOT - some sort of challenge.

Quote from 'A Bridge too Far': Just making sure whose side you're on ...
[General Sosabowski played by Gene Hackman after the briefing]


- I heard about it peripherically.
Parents must have some responsibility toward their children ....



EDIT: Just a test ....
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Little Mermaid,

Je suis d'accord sur le fait de bien choisir les mots. C'est d'ailleurs pour ça que j'aime la langue française qui est très riche. Et il y a beaucoup de subtilités entre les synonymes.

Par exemple, être second ou deuxième, ce n'est pas tout à fait la même chose. Au sens strict, second signifie qu'il n'y a rien derrière, tandis que deuxième implique qu'il y a un troisième. Il faudrait donc toujours écrire Seconde Guerre Mondiale, et jamais 2ème Guerre Mondiale (espérons qu'il n'y en ai pas une troisième).

Evidemment, dans le langage courant, on utilise l'un ou l'autre sans vraiment faire attention. Mais c'est intéressant de connaître la différence. Surtout qu'on retrouve ce genre de subtilités avec quasiment tous les synonymes. En faisant attention, on peut donc être très précis dans ce qu'on dit ou écrit.
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I agree on choosing the right words. That's why I love the French language which is very rich. And there are a lot of subtleties between the synonyms.

For example, being second or second is not exactly the same thing. In the strict sense, the second means that there is nothing behind, while the second implies that there is a third. So we should always write World War II, and never World War II (hope there is not a third).
(The English translation is fun, and shows that there are not the same subtleties in the language)

Obviously, in everyday language, we use one or the other without really paying attention. But it's interesting to know the difference. Especially that we find this kind of subtleties with almost all synonyms. By being careful, we can be very precise in what we say or write.

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A tous / For All,

Je ne parlerais pas de l'immigration, c'est déjà assez un sujet de disputes en France comme ça. Je ne vais pas en rajouter ici.

Une question sans rapport : Est-ce que vous savez pourquoi un frisbee vole ? Et pourquoi les striures sur le dessus sont nécessaires ?
(L'aéronautique, c'est quand même plus intéressant que la politique)
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I would not speak of immigration, it is already enough a subject of disputes in France like that. I will not add it here.

An unrelated question: Do you know why a Frisbee flies? And why streaks on the top are needed?
(Aeronautics is still more interesting than politics)

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stefada, thank you for your support as to words and their meaning and how we need to be careful how we use or misuse them. I’ll read your French version in a moment because I have a feeling that quite a bit got lost in translation here. As to the frisbees, I’ll leave that for Louloup and others who know about aerodynamics in a more amusing way than me.
acpartsman and Fossaw I may bring a mellow version of my viewpoints. I may not. If, it will hardly be today.
Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Shop talk
Omitted today, too. This post is devoted to flodisar.
As always, my posts come with a delay...but I know you understand. <3
I do. You have your obligations, you have a job, you need to sleep, you have posted intensely since your team was revived.
Little Mermaid, I feel that we understand eachother pretty well in our writings :)
I agree.
I so far have not cracked the mystery of the social code in society.
I don’t blame you. In many ways I have also felt off on many occasions most of my life.
Still do, but now it’s not all that important any more. You outgrow it, but that's a lousy comfort.
Perhaps you try too hard to get those pegs to fit the right holes.
In real life there is no way to get it right all the time. Either the pegs change or the holes do.
Women are to me what overclocking probably is to you (don't know it it makes any sense, but to me at 1AM it sort of does...I think) :)
What a wonderful way to put it! It makes sense all right. Around the clock.
I have been raised to be be very respectful especially to girls/women. Despite what some say about equality all the way, it is very different to me to have to deal with a man and a woman.
That sounds very nice!
I lived through an era where the equality was measured with a micrometer screw gauge
and men were discouraged (by women) to act as politely as you have been brought up to do.
I would hope your time has come, flodisar. You have to be a hardcore feminist
not to enjoy a door held open for you or be offered a seat on the bus.
On the other hand, I find it reasonable to hold the door for a man when he comes with his hands full.
Perhaps if I would have had more understanding people/friends in my early school years and onwards it would have been easier.
We will never know, and it cannot be replicated with different parameters.
That was then.
This is now.
And somewhere far ahead is a future which probably can be influenced to some degree.
Well, it starts with being drained after work …
What is it that drains you at work?
Are your duties difficult? Are you perhaps overly meticulous?
Are you under some pressure timewise?
Are your collegues or your boss unfriendly to you?
None of the things I thought of in the morning "I shall do this and than when I get home form work" no longer feel exciting or feasible.
As I see it, you’re running on empty.
You do not get recharged.
It looks as if this is the kind of stuff that could recharge you and give your head a holiday.
Did you enjoy this project?
I'm at a point where I'm sometimes thinking "should I feel ashamed of my so-called needs when things are the way they are? Are my need legitimate in this context? Am I being selfish if I choose to pursue what I believe are my needs? What are my needs anyway?"
You have needs. We all do. And your needs are legitimate as mine.
You may have ignored them or pushed them into the background for so long, that you no longer know what they are.
Very few things in life are so bad that we need to be ashamed.
Shame is a scary and very powerful tool and it's use ought to be restricted.
Many use it as a form of mind control.

I think I’ll take a break here.
Do you have a car?
You are very good at expressing yourself in writing whistling

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little mermaid.

Oui, la traduction ne veut rien dire ou presque. En fait, c'est qu'en Français il y a deux mots pour second. Second et deuxième, qui sont synonymes, mais avec la petite subtilité que j'ai expliquée. Il semble qu'en Anglais il n'y a pas ces différences.

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Yes, the translation means nothing or almost nothing. In fact, it is because in French there are two words for second. Second and "deuxième", which are synonymous, but with the little subtlety that I explained. It seems that in English there are not these differences.

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Frisbee !

Pour ceux qui ne s'y connaissent pas trop en aéronautique, je vous invite à regarder ce que j'ai déjà dit à propos des boomerangs. Et surtout, du principe de base d'une aile. Que pour le frisbee c'est un peu plus compliqué.

Nous avons vu qu'une aile à un sens, avec un bord d'attaque et un bord de fuite. L'accélération de l'air sur le dessus, entraînant une mini dépression, qui créé la portance (ce qui fait voler).

Un frisbee étant rond, et en rotation, on ne peut pas avoir de bord de fuite. Cependant, le profile du frisbee fait que l'air du dessus va aussi devoir accélérer (ou comment résumer le Théorème de Bernoulli en trois mots). Et on obtient le même principe qu'une aile, mais en moins efficace.
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For those who do not know much about aeronautics, I invite you to look at what I already said about boomerangs. And most importantly, the basic principle of a wing. That for frisbee it's a bit more complicated.

We saw a one-way wing, with a leading edge and a trailing edge. The acceleration of the air on top, causing a mini depression, which creates the lift (which makes fly).

A frisbee being round, and in rotation, one can not have a trailing edge. However, the profile of Frisbee makes that the air above will also have to accelerate (or how to summarize Bernoulli's Theorem in three words). And we get the same principle as a wing, but less effective.


(désolé, je n'ai pas trouvé mieux comme schéma / sorry, I did not find better as a schema)

On en vient aux rainures qu'il y a sur le dessus des frisbees. Vous voyez tous de quoi je parle ?
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We come to the grooves on the top of the frisbees. Do you all see what I'm talking about?



Ce n'est pas pour l'esthétique ! On a vu que le frisbee a le profile d'une 'sous aile' (mettez ça sur un avion, il ne décollera jamais). Je n'ai pas trouvé de schéma qui le montre, et je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir les bons mots pour l'expliquer. Mais entre chacune, il va se créer une sorte de tourbillon horizontal, qui va modifier l'écoulement de l'air, et augmenter la mini dépression, et donc la portance.
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It's not for aesthetics! We have seen that the frisbee has the profile of an 'under wing' (put it on a plane, it will never take off). I have not found a diagram that shows it, and I'm not sure I have the right words to explain it. But between each, it will create a kind of horizontal vortex, which will change the flow of air, and increase the mini-depression, and therefore the lift.

Enfin, pourquoi le 'coup de poignet' est si important ? Plus la vitesse de rotation va être importante, plus le frisbee va subir un effet gyroscope. Ce qui va permettre de stabiliser le vol.
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Finally, why is the 'wrist shot' so important? The higher the speed of rotation, the more the frisbee will undergo a gyroscope effect. This will help stabilize the flight.


Voila, je ne sais pas si cette 'minute de physique' vous aura intéressés, personnellement, j'aime bien comprendre 'comment ça marche'.
C'est avant tout des jeux sympa et accessibles à tous, et je crois que quand j'explique tout ça à Louloup, lui, il comprend surtout :
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Voila, I do not know if this 'minute of physics' will have interested you, personally, I like to understand 'how it works'.
It is above all fun games and accessible to all, and I think that when I explain all this to Louloup, he understands especially:


(C'est pas lui, mais ça pourrait / It's not him, but it could !)


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Amazing info on boomerangs and frisbees, stefada.
And, yes, it’s probably more productive than politics.
Good Morning Base Campers!
Shop talk
Team XtremeSystems created a very welcome team thread yesterday.
I think we need more activity in the Team section of these forums, so this is a step in the right direction as I see it.
So I joined team. Before having studied their membership list, I know
my benefactor OldChaps – the 36ish hugs - is Xtreme
- and to my surprise I discovered that PecosRiverM is a card carrying Xtreme, also.
I have a hidden agenda – which will not be hidden much longer:
I hope to persuade some of the Xtremes to join us for whatever they will and can spare during the month of August
where I committed us to arm wrestle MOT (My Online Team) which at any rate will be a big mouthful for us
– even as I think we made a great, cultured and civilized crew at our recent The International Team trek.

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For you Fossaw.

I hope we'll meet again.



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