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You're assuming I give a rats. I can just about watch and enjoy a 1 day match, a 5 day test is well beyond my attention span.
As cricket is only available on the premium cable channels over here (there are a shed load of Indians here) I don't ever watch it any more.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've got of buses at the wrong stop, before.
Mind you, I wasn't driving the bus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I would have let the passengers (if any) take their leave and watch them trying to figure out where to go and what was going on, and just as a show of good faith I would've picked up new passengers and took them to the place where i should've landed originally 
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Looking at the map and the proximity and orientation of the landing strips it looks like it was a fairly easy mistake to make especially since it was a night landing.
From listening to the recording, ATC did sound a little bit gormless so I wonder if they gave clear directions to the pilot.
[edit - typo corrected]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 22-Nov-13 3:43am.
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Mmm in fairness though what happened to the GPS, I know the panic when I flying in the back of helicopter and the GPS failed! 
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FTFY. That's a bit like saying it's raining and the runway is wet so we'll land on the river instead, an easy mistake to make. Bollocks, I now recall someone did land on a river.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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There's an area of pilot training called 'Human Factors' that covers this sort of area.
Basically when a decision is needed in a short period of time your perception of events can lead to disaster if this perception is not backed up by a correct reading of the aircraft instrumentation - stick a western trained pilot in a Russian aircraft at night and watch them crash the aircraft rather quickly(the artificial horizon on a Russian aircraft is completely different to that on a western aircraft).
It looks like there could be a whole bunch of reasons that could have led to what happened:
The pilots not looking at and understanding the charts, in advance, of the area and not noticing another airport nearby that also had runway lights.
I say this because from the recording the pilot had to ask the name of the airport they had landed at.
Assuming that they were either too high or too low on their approach, depending on their bearing, then making a decision that led to landing at the wrong airport.
The airport they were landing at had two runways - it may be that only one runway may have been lit and they may have seen the other lights of the other airport and headed for those on approach.
There may have been low cloud leading to seeing the lights late, making the wrong decision and heading for the wrong airport.
My bet is that they had a disagreement on the flight deck as to which lights were the correct lights, combined with not knowing that there was another airfield nearby, and then made the wrong decision based on the disagreement.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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What grabs attention is usually not the content of article but ...[^]
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He may still have an acting career, at least if they ever film this in live action:
Shrek: Ogres are like onions.
Donkey: They stink?
Shrek: Yes. No.
Donkey: Oh, they make you cry.
Shrek: No.
Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs.
Shrek: NO. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.
Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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When I saw the subject line I expected an empty message.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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"Android patent royalties" 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Quite simple really, MS believe Android infringes on their royalties, so shake down all the smaller Android makers for their share.
I don't believe its been tested in the courts yet.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'm wondering what MS technologies they are using.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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If by "smaller Android makers" you mean everyone except Googlerolla I'll agree with you; otherwise when even Samsung has settled with Redmond your statement rather deceptive IMO.
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/just-like-one-week-ago-when-foxconn.html[^] (21 android royalty bearing licenses list at bottom of post.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Got an email asking me to join the App Builder Rewards program. I figured what the hell and wasted twenty minutes. The site is a disaster. It's slow, poorly formatted, poorly implemented, requires you create endless accounts on all sorts of crap without telling you why you need to. It's truly pathetic.
When will someone put adults back in charge at Microsoft?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: When will someone put adults back in charge at Microsoft?
I don't expect thia to happen at all. They went overboard when rhey saw things going down the drain and now get cazier every time they try the next great idea and fail again.
Edit: Corrected the mishappen quote
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
modified 22-Nov-13 1:23am.
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I think they are letting the windows media and windows phone people run everything now.
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ledtech3 wrote: I think they are letting the windows media and windows phone people ruin everything now.
FTFY
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Interactive Dr. Who Game is the Doodle du jour 
My time - 15m 3s
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
modified 21-Nov-13 22:13pm.
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Thanks Ron - Didn't occur to me that it wouldn't be global !
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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It's working in the UK now as well.
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