How many madmen does it take to change a light bulb;?..

In message , tony sayer writes

A friend of mine flew gliders, he had a pipe with a funnel on top that fed "fluid" to the outside world. I used to enjoy watching gliders fly overhead, not so sure now though!!!!!!!!!!!!

It would have come down as a mist many feet away from him :-)

Dave

Now what do you call that tube that sticks up into an airflow and sucks up fluids?

Air flow > | | \ | \ | \ | | | | | |

I hope this works

Dave

Venturi?

Just ... don't look down

In message , tony sayer writes

Just brought to mind that photo of lunch on the girder

"Er Doris, did the weather forecast say rain today?"

In message , Dave writes

No - that's "number twos" in german

... which is why Cussons "Irisher Mist" didn't take the market by storm over there

In message , Bill writes

Gone again :-(

Back again!

I wonder if youtube can put a permanent block on people uploading a particular video? I assume there must be a way of automatically detecting it. May not be in their interests though?

It is also at

If it is the same video then I would expect it to be pretty easy to detect identical copies by running a hash function on each video that is uploaded. Identical hashes mean identical content so they could pull the plug on multiples just like that. However, edit one frame from the end (or modify one bit of one byte) and it will have a different hash value so that one would be ok for a while. I'd expect youtube to already be running hashes on their uploads under pressure from the heavyweight copyright owners.

That said I do sympathise with the guy who is getting nervous at the attention, I'd probably respect his take down request and not put it up again.

But it was taken down for "copyright" reasons. I'd like to know who is losing out from youtube hosting this clip.

In article , fred scribeth thus

Well FWIW on other broadcast ENG sites its thrown up an industry wide problem with some rather dubious practices like this which others are doing and putting themselves at severe risk. Course thats what happens on some jobs where things get subbed out further and further ;!..

I think they said it had guy wires! ;-)

Certainly for the bloke climbing below you!

Yup having now seen the original - I can confirm that was not it!