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Companion Kate · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 2014 Location: UK

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Oh, and if someone could translate this for us, that'd be grand!

Spacegirl32 · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Seattle, WA

Kate,

My sister in law speaks German. I will forward this message to her.

Love the podcast!

Very Happy

vandermore · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Illinois

It's a very rough translation, but Babelfish returns this:

Hello Mr. The signal, They received no more call for 90 days on your call Manager.de call number! Their call number: 01805-233633-00412 This email was produced automatically by the system. Yours sincerely, It call Manager.de - team
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Companion Kate · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 2014 Location: UK

Yeah, we already did the Babelfish thing, and we read that very text in our feedback section. (Kevin did a cool robot voice). What we don't know is whether or not the number is still valid.

Hey, wasn't the Sci-Fi Review good this week!? Very Happy

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jaldana2777 · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 3

Zoe did mention that her father was a military man. I'm sure she mentioned it in one of the earlier episodes of FireFly

F. Lauer · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject:

Hi - I've made a translation - dont't worry they dont shut your number down - it's only a notice.

Hallo Herr The Signal
Hi Mr. The Signal

Sie haben seit 90 Tagen auf Ihrer Call-Manager.de Rufnummer keinen Anruf mehr erhalten!
You havent received a message for the last 90 days on your Call-Manager.de Callnumber.

Ihre Rufnummer: 01805-233633-00412
Your Callnumber: see above

Diese EMail wurde vom System automatisch erzeugt.
This e-mail is generated automatically

Mit freundlichen Grüssen,
Yours sincerly
Ihr Call-Manager.de - Team

Stay shiny and keep flying

F. Lauer - a german browncoat

Companion Kate · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 2014 Location: UK

Right, so they're just moaning, and not actually cancelling it. That's good. Thanks.
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vandermore · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Illinois

It could be that the 57th were all volunteer, but it doesn't need to mean that they volunteered for the military, they could have volunteered for the unit from other areas of the military.

Just a thought.
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lhoward · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 271

I don't think it would be possible to maintain any large military unit as "pure" volunteer. If a career military person wanted to be in it, for whatever reason, they could in the worst case resign their commission and re-enlist as a volunteer. More likely I suspect that the military would sprinkle the unit with people from the traditional ranks to help with training and building of military skills. Another possibility is that Zoe may have been career military in a predominantly purplebelly unit. When the war started she left and ended volunteered into the browncoats. If I remember right, that kind of thing happened a lot in the US Civil War.
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gobluegirl · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 539

2 cents from the author:

Les, interesting point about Zoe perhaps switching sides. However, you are confusing volunteer with career military. Being career military and a volunteer are not mutually exclusive.

A volunteer is somebody who signed up of their own accord, and not by conscription or being drafted. Both a career military individual and a reservist could both be volunteers. In fact, the entire United States miliary is a volunteer force, whether or not the military is their career or if it its a second job that they undertake when called up.

It seems reasonable to me that both sides may have conscripted draftees to fight in the war, but neither Mal nor Zoe was drafted. There's no direct evidence to say whether or not Zoe was drafted per se, but I think with the info we have, it'd be hard to argue that she was (Her loyalty to Mal, her reaction to the Alliance officers in Bushwacked, and so on).

It's much more ambiguous as to whether Zoe is career military or not. It's something we'll all agree to disagree on, I think.

--gbg
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leaf on the wind · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Birmingham UK

Yes it is only to let you know that no one called this number, here is the actual translation one of my colleague, a german teacher gave me:

Hello Mr The Signal

You haven’t received a call on your Call Manager for the 01805-233633-00412 phone number for 90 days.

This email was produced automatically by the system.

Greetings

Your Call-Manager.de team

So I am about to call you on this number so you will have at least one message!
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lhoward · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 271

Shiny! We do love to receive voice messages.

Great point GBG! When I was thinking "volunteer", I wasn't thinking at all of volunteer vs draft/mandatory service. I was more thinking of "volunteer" in a militia vs regulars context.... which in hindsight is probably not the best way to look at it.
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leaf on the wind · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Birmingham UK

Well I have tried to call your German line but it rings engaged Sad

... very weird Exclamation

... I will try a couple more times... if all else fails I will call the UK one...
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Kaywin · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 77 Location: Graz/Austria/Europe

heya!

well, I did a testcall today and maybe you can hear my short message "test call" Smile

See you guys:)
let me know if it worked,ok?

mail me:fixoje@gmx.at
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Companion Kate · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 2014 Location: UK

Yes, it worked. We got it.

So - that number is still working. Cool!
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Kaywin · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 77 Location: Graz/Austria/Europe

i am glad to hear that:)

hi jill;)
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Dani · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 186 Location: Hemel Hempstead

after just listening to it again, I hear that you found some frames for the blueprints. Can you tell me where?

The only ones I can find are £9 ones sized A1 (quite a bit bigger than the blueprints) And at £9 per frame, Im spending twice as much on frames than I actullaly spent of the blueprints themselves.
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lhoward · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 271

I found the frames at Michaels (http://www.michaels.com/) for $10 each. I am not sure if there is a Michaels anywhere near you, and if so if they have the same inventory, but it might be worth checking out.
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Dani · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 186 Location: Hemel Hempstead

ah..... may be a bit hard.

im a UK resident
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lhoward · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 271

I found some 18x24 frames online for $9.

http://www.adorama.com/FRPFM1824BK.html?searchinfo=22834&item_no=1

Unfortunately, it looks like the shipping costs to the UK will more than eat up any savings.
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Dani · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 186 Location: Hemel Hempstead

hmmm.... well

$8.95 * 9 + $179.50 = $260.05

which is about £131.92.
Shocked

Thanks for trying though. It was a good idea. Im gonna start looking through charity shops. They often have huge clip frames in

I wonder if I can make frames.
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leaf on the wind · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Birmingham UK

Hi! another UK resident here (B'ham)
I got some frames from Ikea, £2 to 3... I can't quite remembre, they are just a bit bigger than the blueprint but it works well!
so now it just depends where in the UK you are...
hope this helps!
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Dani · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 186 Location: Hemel Hempstead

woah!
Ikea. Great idea.

Thankyou.