Free Flight, Free Speech

*Microsoft Support here
*Hello
Blahblahblahblah
*Okay, right click on that thing, and select Delete from the menu.
*Done. Can I hang up? It says it will take 45 minutes.
*That doesn't sound right. What exactly are you deleting?
*C colon slash Windows
*[censored] CANCEL CANCEL I DID NOT TELL YOU TO DELETE THAT
Blah blah blah
*Why will my computer not turn on?
*....
From Reddit.
Know any funny ones?

Laugh along with GNU.
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: “File not found.”

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
“My Novel” not found.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

Error messages
cannot completely convey.
We now know shared loss.

EBEFOREI Invalid syntax
ECHERNOBYL Core dumped
ECRAY Program exited before being run
EDINGDONG The daemon is dead
EFLAT System needs tuning
EGEEK Program written by inept Frat member
EIEIO Here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ....
EIUD Missing period
ELECTROLUX Your code could stand to be cleaned up
EMILYPOST Wrong fork
END.ARMS.CONTROL Silo overflow
ENOHORSE Mount failed
ENONSEQUETOR C program not derived from
main(){printf("Hello, world");}
EWATERGATE Extended tape gap
EWOK Aliens sighted
EWOK Your code appears to have been stir-fried
EWOULDBNICE The feature you want has not been implemented yet

@Adam

Certainly a big step up in your signature
and this thread is perfect place for a good joke

[yet I am still trying to get the horse -humor]

On the other hand, I am glad to see you mentioning what thing you could be really helpful at.

How about planning for splash screens and thumbnails for the aircrafts in FGMEMBERS?

1) With the new code, we can install several splash screens per aircraft. Go artistic
Think of your Mirage 2000 one. Great job.

2) most thumbnails can do with a bit make up again. Maybe thumbnails that show more beautiful new shaders and stuff?
(also trying getting screenshots with all the FG sparkling stuff on?)

3) I suggest you use 1024x1024 for Splash-screens and the thumbnails are an standardized 320x240 (I seem to remember.. but verify this)

4) Do you want looking at the 727? This plane has some external model development and Refactoring of Splash screens is a bit on the run.


Best,
IH-COL

Will do this afternoon!

*squeaky 15 year old voice, on a 747, departing KLAX...*
Ah Jetblue seven niner six, caution wake turbulence, line up and wait 27R
Jetblue four niner six line up 27R
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY ALL 4 ENGINES FAILED CABIN ON FIRE APU EXPLODING AND WING CRACKED RETURNING TO AIRPORT
Ah, last aircraft calling, state callsign and intentions
ABC111 RETURNING AIRPORT
*does 180 in a couple of seconds, drops 3000 feet in ten seconds, comes in on runway where jetblue 796 is lined up at 300 knots...*
Touches ground at about -2000fpm and 280 knots, skids off runway ground loops into jetblue 796.
Taxies to gate and requests shutdown.
??!!
That is the stereotype of new pilots at VATSIM, ESPECIALLY "air force one" (which many controllers as a joke refer as air france 1 since proper callsign is A1, and spoken Air Force 1 supposedly).

Are you kidding, I'm pretty sure such isn't acceptable on VATSIM...

Well, it depends on the controller.
Some of them let them do it.
Others .wallop.
Others tell them to disconnect.
But this did not actually happen; it is the stereotype n00b AF1.