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For a complete novice, tell me what — is itjust obvious that if theres too much wind, the balloon will be uncontrollable? theres a lot of that. its not that its uncontrollable, it means that the landing will be faster, so you need a bigger space in which to land the balloon. so, not ideal. that suggests this is quite a challenging place for this event to take place? it is, yes. yeah, its not the easiest. but i think thats what attracts most of us here is the challenge, so... the festival began...

You know where you take off, when you take off. you never know where you land and when you land. yeah, this is what i understood this morning listening to the pilot briefing — small changes, you know, that wouldnt affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting ...

Yeah, so at the moment, all were doing is keeping the balloon nice and level, so were putting in little bits of heat every now and again to keep the buoyancy up. uh-huh. so, tell me a little bit about the specific challenges of a landscape like this. so, obviously, up on the side of the mountains, theres a lot of snow, a lot of trees but not a lot of roads. so, youre having to land as close to a road as possible to make the retrieval of all the kit easy. the mountains also produce a different cl...

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Nick, can you tell me what youre doing? i mean, theres all sorts of things going on. yeah, so at the moment, all were doing is keeping the balloon nice and level, so were putting in little bits of heat every now and again to keep the buoyancy up. uh-huh. so, tell me a little bit about the specific challenges of a landscape like this. so, obviously, up on the side of the mountains, theres a lot of snow, a lot of trees but not a lot of roads. so, youre having to land as close to a road as possible...

And drop down into the valley, so we need to be flying early and landing early. for a complete novice, tell me what — is itjust obvious that if theres too much wind, the balloon will be uncontrollable? theres a lot of that. its not that its uncontrollable, it means that the landing will be faster, so you need a bigger space in which to land the balloon. so, not ideal. that suggests this is quite a challenging place for this event to take place? it is, yes. yeah, its not the easiest. but i thin...

You go to saying people like you and i are wrong saying we should decouple from chinas economy so we can eliminate all they pose to our safety and health and prosperity. microsoft has answers to provide here. the reporting ive seen suggests that you couldnt access these accounts in the government just through like an individual key but it would take something the equivalent like a master key and that should have been secure at microsoft and how did chinese come nests get their hands on that. als...

You and i are wrong when we say that we should decouple from chinas economy so we could eliminate all the threats they pose to our safety and health, our prosperity. so i think microsoft has some answers to provide here. you know, the reporting ive seen suggests that you couldnt access these accounts in the government just like an individual key. but it would take something the equivalent, what you might call a master key, and that should have been secure at microsoft. and how did chinese commun...