Well, I guess we can agree to differ on how we perceive the air disaster site, being a pilot, I don't particularly like its ghoulish qualities, others are free to disagree with me of course, so it's 'whatever floats your boat'.

Incidentally, I left the newspaper industry because of a disagreement over my dislike of the poor journalistic integrity which had become the editorial policy of the paper I was working for. Specifically, they didn't want to publish a piece I wrote warning about the danger of poisoning from a particular substance, because they felt it would affect advertising revenue. So it is no longer 'my industry' and I'm sincerely glad about that.

Chock :D

Good to hear that you stuck to your guns on that! :up: Sorry it cost you what you like to do for a living however. :down:

-S

PS. Did you take a look at their sister site? Check this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=114811

Not a big deal, I still write freelance pieces in addition to my main job of training people on software. In any case, teaching people stuff is far more rewarding than writing, and so like a lot of things in life, it turned out for the best.

I guess honesty really is the best policy sometimes eh?

It is the best policy in more ways than one, since I find honesty has actually gotten me out of quite a bit of trouble at times. Honesty to cops for example when you are obviously speeding etc. - do you know that most cops will let you off with a warning if you're just straight up with them? Every cop hears all day long denial and negativity, and when you are straight up and fess up, they are so blown away that they have what I describe as shock! The end result is getting off whatever you did, or taking a lesser hit at the very least.

A long story short - I told this to my brother in law about a month back and he got caught later doing 70 km/h in a 30 km/h (It was about the time school let out but no children were out). This was bad because they could take his license, throw him in jail, etc., so he was in a world of hurt. Hit didn't deny any of it, and the cops were so blown away, they let him off (though he was already in the computer, so they had to write him something - so they gave him no registration instead - something that would be dropped in court), and saying we need more citizens like you, yadda yadda yadda.

Trust me - honesty works! But I think you already know that. Good to hear you like your new job better. I always been asked, but I avoid teaching people myself. It's more I lack the patience then the ability though. The ability to teach effectively day in and day out is a very good trait! :up:

-S