Reason why DC mag field disturbs communications on a train

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What is "ski shine" and "ski light" ? Yes, I googled.

Bob

Sounds like his ski brain, making up ski words.

...Maybe if he could spell, he could also have the wherewithall to do some logical analysis - perhaps along the lines you so eloquently have provided.

No evidence yet that it's an approved system that's being affected.

Sylvia.

I don't see any particular link between an ability to spell (requires learning of ad-hoc rules) and an ability to perform logical analysis.

At best, one might tend to infer that a person who cannot spell may not have learned the other things they need to know. But even if that's true (I'm dubious - it could equally reflect an active mind with no time for trivia), much less do I see how learning to spell at this stage would provide an improved ability to perform logical analysis. On the face of it, the time taken to learn to spell would simply detract from the time available to learn whatever else might be needed to address the problem at hand.

Sylvia.

And so you politely asked them to please get off your property and let you get back to work, right?

You might also mention that their trains are causing irradiation beam misalignment and heating of your scan horn, and demand that they stop doing that.

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Guy Macon

Train management and control systems? You really are in the dark.

Good spelling habits, and one's capacity to learn and add new words to one's vocabulary IS a part of something one SHOULD invest time in, AS A RULE, in one's life. Casually casting off such a need is indicative of other, more serious issues with one's 'underpinnings'.

It's like once you have a felony on your record, you can't buy, own or handle a firearm, nor can you gain employment in any government position where a firearm is used. There are trust issues, as well as issues regarding US believing that YOU (the felon) will have enough brains to make the right decision in circumstances where the use of the gun is needed.

Sorry, but once that trust is gone, it is very difficult to regain.

It is sad but true that when you go to court, the judge looks at your past record when making his determination of guilt, and penalty.

Bad spelling habits does not necessarily inhibit one's capacity to perform a logical analysis, but no attempt to learn over a period of years (noted by folks here) does raise questions within the peer group. Especially among those that are more disciplined in such areas of their life.

The likelihood that their gear (the train folks) is approved, and that his gear is not.

I doubt that he can make any demands whatsoever on anyone. The train folk should be more forthcoming, but that alone does not change culpability in the matter.

That's all very well, but it fails to address the distinction to be made between, on the one hand, inferences that might be drawn from his inability to spell, and on the other hand, the extent to which learning to spell now would advance progress on the instant problem.

Sylvia.

It's called a character flaw, and I do not expect you to understand.

Or maybe you simply haven't throught it through properly.

Sylvia.

There's no excuse for sloppy spelling. When I see sloppy spelling, I immediately wonder, "Gee, does (s)he do equally sloppy work?"

Hope This Helps! Rich

I have done a bit of work with trains (mostly SCADA stuff), and it has been my experience that trains tend to have both approved an non-approved systems. If they tell him that he is interfering with, say, an AFAR or Safetran system, then of course he must stop interfering, but for all he knows he is interfering with the microwave oven in the food area. How is he to know whether he is interfering with an approved system if they refuse to tell him what he is interfering with? How is he to determine what to do? How is he to know if what he tried worked?

Sure he can. All he has to do is to do exactly what the train folks are doing; accuse them of interfering and demand that they stop without tellng them what they are interfering with. They don't know whether he is making toys or pacemakers.

Actually. I believe that it does. Not being given a reasonable opportunity to correct the problem is a valid defense, and may be used by the court to exclude a finding of liability. This is just common sense; you can't tell someone "you are harming me but I won't reveal how", give them zero chance to stop harming you, zero chance to show that it isn't them doing it, and zero chance to show that you aren't being harmed, and then expect a court to find them culpable.

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Guy Macon

Today we found out why the train is getting bothered!..

Apparently, not in use any more, there is an old steel drainage tube just under the vault and goes out side under the tracks and makes it's way to a drain that no longer exist.

When the system is on, I walked the path using a gauss meter and found this trial that lead to the trouble spot on the track and continued a few feet after that.

Looking at the old blue prints to the building, showed a drain pipe there constructed of steel and who knows what else, wouldn't be surprised to find asbestos also.

We maybe digging up a small section and removing it, this will get the DEP involved also to make sure we're not doing anything maliciously.

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Different folks have different definitions for "character flaw." For example, I consider quoting an entire 98-line post and adding a single

13-word line at the bottom to be indicative of a character flaw. Are my preferences any more or any less valid than yours?

I also consider a non-responsive reply to be indicative of a character flaw. The 13-word response in question, even if accepted at face value, only addresses an alleged inference that might be drawn from an inability to spell. It does not address the question of whether someone who has such a character flaw will be improved by efforts to treat the symptom rather that the underlying cause.

(Note: according to long-standing USENET traditions, any post discussing spelling of grammar will contain at least one spelling or grammar error.)

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Guy Macon

My sloppy spelling and grammar hasn't hindered me with my goals for the last 35 years in the job force. I have been in the field of my choice since the first day I got a job at the legal age (18).

For some one that is much farther in the field and accepting responsibilities much deeper than they ever wanted to be, maybe I should of taken up pig latin to slow it down a bit so I can be like those that sit back and collect on the backs of others, running around telling every one the world owns them something..

If you think my grammar and spelling is bad, you should see the memo's sent out from our plant manager. He's been at it much longer than I and no one is complaining about his inability's.

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Mr.Eko has many character flaws. What you come to expect from a fairy whose primary nym is AlwaysWrong ;-)

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I doubt that his inquiry was to the right person, as well as not sounding sincere or professional enough.