There is no need to apologize, Alfredo.
Prefacing any comment about a BBC (or for that matter, The New York
Times as well,) story with the now-required "If this story is true," I
will simply add that I am surprised there is not some form of reasonable
limit check on the program that spewed out the ticket. I am also
surprised that a radar, especially a police radar would be able to
produce that kind of reading. We are talking 4 digits here, where the
appearance of the 4th digit indicates Mach 1 or thereabouts. Somehow,
blaming the radar sounds hollow to me. Who was it that said recently
it's a lousy worker who blames his tools?
It also shows how detached and mind-numbed some bureaucrats can be when
the ticket is actually forwarded to Belgian prosecutors to follow up.
FYI, there is no plane in existence that can travel at Mach 3 low enough
to be detected on a police radar. Mach 1 is about the maximum that a
(very) few planes can travel at sea level and that's on a good day,
going downhill, with the wind at their back. :-)
Denys
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Subject: [HP3000-L] More than 3k (not quite a MINI computer, but...)
With apologies to Denys, here is a link to BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3613715.stm
These little babies (with a minuscule kind of market share,
so I must also apologize to Wirt ;-) seem to engender the same
kind of loyalty that the MPE-Image team enjoys.
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