Snafu
If you press it at midnight - well, your neighbors will show up sooner or later, and they will be VERY angry. The problem is - they will not show up immediately in any case, and the bulgar/killer/rapist has a plenty of time to do his job. But your neighbors will probably find your body and call 911.
Anyway - that's not what I'm looking for, and an artwork of Pietro Beretta with 15 hollow point bullets works much better in such cases. Sure, you need to buy a new carpet after that - and, probably, fix some holes in the walls. It's not a perfect world :))

Alarm will scare an intruder. I do not think he will realise what is going on and what is the sourse of loud sound. But leaving, I bet, he will get all attention. Our good neibours are 50m away and we are "watching" after their house and vice verse.:-)
We are not fans of any weapon.

http://www.autotransponder.com/
looked at the selection of the cars in their list
No, we are not even there, I mean both Peugeots 406 and 407...

Inna - maybe your wipers were stolen a day before, and a poor guy running away from your car was a policemen, trying to give you a parking ticket? :))

Snafu...a shy policeman...a parking ticket...
your perception of our life here is a far cry from reality))))))

I know, I know... Bears on the streets, matreshka, ushanka, balalaika, vodka from samovar... :) Well, at least you have a police now, after the rebranding of militia, so 50% of my statement could be true. You may not have parking tickets though...
Let's break it even - it was a policemen who stolen your wiper blades :)))

Snafu
Happy MLK Day! #-P
I saw an empty little bottle from vodka on a parking lot today - Vodka Popov with Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral on the background. Russians are here!(c)

It depends on the parking lot. On some lots in Rockville you can find not just empty bottles of Russian vodka, but drunk Russians themself. Ten years ago I saw a drunk Russian paratrooper in uniform, with all decorations, sleeping on the lawn in the New York Central Park. Maybe he was looking for a fountain.
Speaking of MLK day - hmmm, am I really looking like a ni... sorry, Afro-American? Yo yo yo, wassup sista from another mista :))
But having an extra weekend is a good thing anyway. I found a time in my buzy schedule to watch Mission Impossible 5: The Ghost Protocol. That was awesome... Russian supersecret assassin - a blonde girl with a face of a sad cow... Another Russian secret agent looking like a permanently drunk redneck dressed in a leather jacket or smoking... A blast of the Kremlin with preloaded charges... Infiltration into the Kremlin in 30 minutes after getting a mission... If 15 minutes of a good laugh really gives you an extra day of life - I became at least a week younger yesterday :))

Snafu,
We watched MI-5 a couple weeks ago. L-edOL too.
Lately we've seen "Thinker. Tailor. Soldier. Spy." Also involving Russians and then "The girl with the dragon tattoo" where the girl has Russian roots(actualy it was Ukranian). At least in the book and the original(Sweden) trilogy.

The Russians are here.(c)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

I think americans (producers and scipt writers to start with) are now taking their chance to show those stupid russians...to counterweight commonly acknowledged and wide spread opinion of those stupid americans. Time to pick up the stones..
Anyaway
"Watching every motion of my foolish lover's game....
on this endless ocean"....
turning and returning to some secret place inside..."
So many years passed after and I still feel thrilled by the cords ...)))

"Don't try it at home, I'm a professional Russian"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Russian wood art as it is, without a single nail :) I love this guy, especially his accent and t-shirt. Is there any way to order it online?

A joke.

Mujibar was trying to get a job in India. The Personnel Manager said,'Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one. Unless you pass it, you cannot qualify for this job.'

Mujibar said, 'I am ready.' The manager said, 'Make a sentence using the words
Yellow, Pink, and Green.'

Mujibar said, 'The telephone goes green, green,
And I pink it up, and say,
Yellow, this is Mujibar.'

Mujibar now works at a call centre.
No doubt you have spoken to him.
I know I have. He is in Bangalor. ;-)

Reminds me another old joke:
- Make a short statement which includes God, Kingdom, Love and Mistery.
- Oh my God - said the Queen - I'm pregnant again, and I have no idea who he is!
Speaking of Indlish - well, tell me about it... It's a part of my job - run meetings, conference call and interviews with Indian developers. You start picking up their accent sooner or later, and it's not so bad as Ruglish :)
Speaking of accents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Puns for Educated Minds

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you'd be in Seine ..
21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'
22. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
23. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'
24. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Laura Dekker, 16 years old, successfully finished her solo world-around trip. As of today, she is the youngest person who sailed around the world alone. She was 15 when she started her trip.
"I would like to go to the New Zealand" - she said to reporters - "but I have to finish my school first" :)
http://www.nydailynews.com/new ...

Hi gals! Welcome back from the immigration thread. The same bull... hm-m-m... I mean nosense trash as usual. Let them bury their own dead.
Mila - are you really from Scotland? I mean your remark about a bagpipe. "Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion" :)

Thanks Snafu for lifting the thread up!
No, I'm not from Scotland, but actually from the UK..))))

Too bad. I was sure that you could teach us to play a bagpipe :)
In the immigration thread I asked all English-speaking immigrants to join us here, so we could communicate on a little bit higher level than "зыс ыз э тэйбл". Let's see how it works...

Lost and found! Yey!

Let's hope for the best, Snafu!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tra ...

I've seen it several times but want more!

Have never seen those lights.
It's a shame you need to go to all those cold places far North to see them...(((

I would like to see the aurora as well. Have never seen it. Have been on Cola Penisuila a couple of times but was unlucky to see it. You should actually live there to see it for sure sooner or later.

I wonder if one can see the lights from a plane if flying near abouts...Is it possible?

Apologies, guys.
I am off. Falling asleep....
See you soon!

In theory - yes, but I have never heard about such occasions. Worse than that, all transatlantic routes between Russia and US are far below the Arctic Circle. And I am not so rich to buy a yacht and go to the North Pole by myself.

Good night and sweet dreams :)

Mila Love

I wonder if one can see the lights from a plane if flying near abouts...Is it possible?

Exacatly! That's how I've seen it!
And also we watched from a cockpit Hale-Bopp comet.))))

Snafu

In theory - yes, but I have never heard about such occasions. Worse than that, all transatlantic routes between Russia and US are far below the Arctic Circle. And I am not so rich to buy a yacht and go to the North Pole by myself.

Sometimes the planes fly "North tracks" - closer to the Arctic.
And to be more specific actually planes on this route do not fly straight West as we imagine it on a Globe. They fly North.

It is just 8p.m. but I am already sleepy.)))

To be even more specific - most of intercontinental air routes based on so-called Great Circle Arc or Ortodromy - a curve which represents a shortest distance between two points on a sphere. In a perfect world it's the fastest and most efficient route from point A to point B (not too easy from the navigation standpoint though). In a real world you should also count for country boundaries and airspace, jet streams, cyclones, hurricanes and so forth. As a result, some real-world air routes are far away from the ortodromy, but most of them are close enough.
Here is the air route map of United Airlines. Just pick up your departure and arrival ports - and get your route.
http://cgi.ua.flightlookup.com ...

Morning or Day everybody!
Thanks Стервоточинка.
We will be heading North when flying from LHR to Hong Kong. So perhaps there is a chance that one could see this show. Need to book seats on the portboard side I reckon...)))

Borrowed from Blue side of the forum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

...and add a bit more about my favourite holiday destination
http://www.lima.com.my/langkaw ...

Once I saw so called silver clouds approaching Novosibirsk this summer. Very rare and beautiful phenomenon. Really beautiful sight. I even took the photos of it. Unfortunately I had nothing to shoot but the mobile phone, so the quality of pictures leaves much to be desired, and doesn't deliver all the magnificence of the view :-(((.

It looked very much like this:
http://www.astronet.ru/db/msg/ ...

Hi MSL
Nice ones. I think you could see those at certain hight above the ground.

Hi Mila,
Of course it was seen from approx FL350 (check E-mail). But as far as I know, the phenomenon could be observed from ground level as well.

MSL
Thanks
Confirm. Checked. Replied. :-)

http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rappo ...

Power Drive Unit (вверху справа) как перевести?

Mila Love
Morning or Day everybody!
Thanks Стервоточинка.
We will be heading North when flying from LHR to Hong Kong. So perhaps there is a chance that one could see this show. Need to book seats on the portboard side I reckon...)))


Keep your camera ready.)))

Авиадиспетчер
не берусь точно переводить..наверное, наши участники -лётчики помогут...
у меня только как "трансмиссионный блок..." проходит..

Авиадиспетчер
http://www.moog.com/products/a ...

ВСУ?

Трансмиссионный блок - это imho механическое, с шестернями. И, конечно, совершенно не ВСУ. Для Power Control Unit у меня есть вариант БЛОК УПРАВЛЕНИЯ МОЩНОСТЬЮ. Есть нечто подобное в системе привода закрылков CRJ?

drive можно как "привод" перевести...Это по-моему больше похоже на правду...)))

A Power Drive Unit is used to convert electrical or hydraulic power into mechanical motion (often rotary) and drive a mechanical actuation system.

По контексту - электромотор или гидромотор, в зависимости от типа закрылков.

power drive unit = гидромотор/гидронасос/гидропривод, в данном контексте

ВСУ = APU = Axillary Power Unit

Тьфу, блин! Auxiliary

Это называется по-русски РП (рулевой привод). Несмотря на то, что ничем, кроме привода закрылков, в данном случае не рулит.