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Post by usrusr »

cyberferret wrote: post #110
nether wrote: post #41

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"Longer path" has no bearing on reality. A flat plate can generate plenty of lift even with both sides the same. It's also hard to define "path," as the air starts convecting well ahead of the wing in subsonic flow.

Sorry, but I don't subscribe to the 'flat plate' theory. There is a reason that almost every commercial (and most military) aircraft have leading edge slats to generate lift at lower speeds (by making the top of the wing more convex and the bottom of the wing more concave). If pure 'flat plate' theory was valid, then all those aircraft speeding down the runway with the leading edge of their wings canted downwards 20…

A bit late to reply, but I had to think of your post while spending some hours idly staring at at the top of an airliner wing today. Slats (and non-flat airfoils in general, I suspect) are there to allow a harder angle of attack ("amount of pointing up relative to the direction of movement") without stalling.

You can push the air hard on the underside, but on the top side, you have to gently accelerate the flow downwards, or else it forms vortices and you suddenly lose a significant fraction of the amount of air you would otherwise deflect downwards.

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Post by closeparen »

mark-r wrote: post #224
closeparen wrote: post #115

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>millionaires are largely Pedantic, but. Families with $1m net worth are largely late-middle-aged (newly retired) salary workers with paid-off mortgages on their median-priced houses in suburban flyover country, plus ~40 years of 401k contributions and capital gains. They drive Toyotas and fly economy for their 1-2 yearly vacations because that's what left when the 15% 401k contribution, mortgage on 3bd house, childr…

You're taking the term "millionaire" too literally. There was a time when a million dollars really was well beyond the reach of a salary worker, but a century of inflation took care of that. The term is still used as a synonym for "really really rich". Last time I heard the true threshold for really rich was about $100 million.

The internet personal finance community rallies behind The Millionaire Next Door, which talks about the habits of the people I'm describing as if they were the same rich elite that flies on private jets.

As a result, I try to call out abuse of the term millionaire whenever I see it.

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Post by gingerbread-man »

scrumper wrote: post #370
gingerbread-man wrote: post #350

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It's possible, but in my experience the stats NHTSA looked at were compiled by the police department, not the court. (They cared about how many tickets we wrote, not how many convictions were obtained.) A more likely explanation is the severe underfunding and understaffing of prosecutor's offices and state court systems. Most prosecuting attorneys are responsible for carrying hundreds of cases at a time-- they have n…

Ok thanks, and interesting. Understood re tickets written. (I don't think it alters your point at all because you're still talking about constrained resources and a need to prioritize, but in traffic court in my village the PD is the prosecutor; my negotiation was with a police officer and he in turn represented the results of that negotiation to the judge. Same with everyone else's tickets. Only more serious stuff i…

I'm actually really curious about the officer handling the DUI on his own. Those cases are often simple, but are also often very complex and involve defense counsel and evidentiary disputes. Which state do you live in?

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Post by tluyben2 »

komali2 wrote: post #346
pm wrote: post #190

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I can't say I know anyone who's indulged reiki, but I've got a lot of flak from my brother telling me that cannabis cures cancer, when I told him that I was doing chemoradiotherapy for my Stage 3 rectal cancer. Today I've finished a cycle of six weeks of treatment, and while I'm extremely tired, the signs are good that it's in remission. If I'm lucky, I'll have a full pathological response, i.e., it's gone. Despite t…

I'm not sure about cannabis curing cancer, but there's ample research to support that it can help tremendously with the side effects of chemo. Basically, it can make life more comfortable while you go through treatment.

I would advocate, for many reasons, taking regular treatment and cannabis at the same time, but refusing regular treatment because cannabis will do it is a bit over the top. I am a cancer survivor so people tend to talk to me about it.

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Post by mark-r »

closeparen wrote: post #372
mark-r wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're taking the term "millionaire" too literally. There was a time when a million dollars really was well beyond the reach of a salary worker, but a century of inflation took care of that. The term is still used as a synonym for "really really rich". Last time I heard the true threshold for really rich was about $100 million.

The internet personal finance community rallies behind The Millionaire Next Door, which talks about the habits of the people I'm describing as if they were the same rich elite that flies on private jets. As a result, I try to call out abuse of the term millionaire whenever I see it.

I see your point, but "abuse" is in the eye of the beholder. It might be time to retire the word Millionaire, but unfortunately nothing has arisen to replace it.

Re: Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down

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Post by scrumper »

gingerbread-man wrote: post #373
scrumper wrote: post #370

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Ok thanks, and interesting. Understood re tickets written. (I don't think it alters your point at all because you're still talking about constrained resources and a need to prioritize, but in traffic court in my village the PD is the prosecutor; my negotiation was with a police officer and he in turn represented the results of that negotiation to the judge. Same with everyone else's tickets. Only more serious stuff i…

I'm actually really curious about the officer handling the DUI on his own. Those cases are often simple, but are also often very complex and involve defense counsel and evidentiary disputes. Which state do you live in?

I live in NY but just to be clear this wasn't a DUI - I don't drink and drive! My ticket was for crossing a double yellow line, the offense in NY is called "Disobeying a Traffic Control Device".

The town prosecutor was handling the only DUI that day. (A town PD officer handled the lesser offenses, including mine.)

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