The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[Takhisis]

I need a sarcasm smiley.

 

[Tigranes]

Why is it no one opened a thread about deliberate crash of Germanwings flight in French Alps? We have many Spanish, German and French members here, and there is a lot of things to discuss. Like how one can be locked from a cockpit if there is a special emergency code that can be applied from outside even if the door is deliberately locked from inside?

 

[Cutlass]

Why don't you do it?

 

[Atticus]

Like how one can be locked from a cockpit if there is a special emergency code that can be applied from outside even if the door is deliberately locked from inside?

It was said in the paper that the code can be disabled from the cockpit.

 

[Tigranes]

For 5 mins only. But the whole thing started in the last 10 minutes.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I need a sarcasm smiley.

No, just a more quick-on-the-uptake interlocutor.

But my dim-wittedness here has inspired a thread that I'll make when I have a moment to do it properly.

 

[Takhisis]

Post a link when you're done.

 

[Lohrenswald]

In the sentence "John went home", "went" is the verbal, right?

 

[madviking]

yea it's the verb. it's the past tense of go.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Well, yes, it's a verb, but it is the verbal in the sentence

 

[Takhisis]

No. According to wiktionary, a verbal is

A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.​

 

[madviking]

 

[Domen]

The plane took off from Barcelona and crashed near Barcelonette - a coincidence?

 

[Takhisis]

*waits for map in which main haplogroups of victims are conneced to geographical distribution, displaying clearly that Poland is very important related to this issue*

 

[Domen]

No, actually, I think that it might have had something to do with Muslims.

I mean, the crash. Perhaps French investigators did not tell the whole truth yet.

Spoiler :

Yeah, perhaps someone with a Middle Eastern haplogroup was involved.

 

[Cutlass]

Can you make a legally binding will without hiring a lawyer?

 

[Arakhor]

Yes, as will-writing packs are definitely a thing. I believe all it legally requires (in the UK at least) is some preamble at the start and end, your date and signature and (I think) a witness as well.

 

[Steph]

Why is it no one opened a thread about deliberate crash of Germanwings flight in French Alps? We have many Spanish, German and French members here, and there is a lot of things to discuss. Like how one can be locked from a cockpit if there is a special emergency code that can be applied from outside even if the door is deliberately locked from inside?

The purpose is to defeat a terrorist: if you make a request to open the door from outside, and there is reaction from inside, then you can repeat the request, and with still no reaction you can override and open.
This is in case the pilot inside is not conscious: you can open the door if there is no reaction.
But if the pilot actively refuses the opening of the door (which is a voluntary act), then you cannot override and have no other choice than to physically break the door.
Of course, this security procedure shows all its limitations with the Germanwings event...

 

[really]

Can you make a legally binding will without hiring a lawyer?

Yes - but it is easy to get it wrong. Unclear intentions, no executor etc.

 

[Farm Boy]

Yes - but it is easy to get it wrong. Unclear intentions, no executor etc.

It's super easy to get it wrong, and kinda hard to get it right.