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Hope they do their structural analysis on those things properly. Pretty neat though.

Seems rather pointless. the buildings in the CBD are probably the toughest in the city anyway, the suburbs would be where the protection would be needed. which, you know, makes it really not economical.

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose @astronelson: You don't know how to write a cheque? Good heavens, I wrote ten today. I can see your education has been stinted somewhere. You've had a deprived childhood, I see. Our milkman used to use a horse-drawn wagon, and the dry cleaner drove a panel truck. quote> I hope you can hunt, kill, skin and butcher your food. I mean, our ancestors did that, so we must have had a deprived childhood if we can't. The cheque is on the way out, and it isn't a great loss in my opinion. its just a way of paying money, invented in a time different to today. No great loss Originally posted by: A Nonny MooseThe electonic broadcast media are already dead. Both radio and television are services I only use if there is some particular thing I want to hear or watch, like the running of the Queen's Plate. I find myself spending more time buried in a book than watching TV. The programmng is getting less and less, and the number of poor quality commercials is increasing. There is a sign of desperation about it. It is getting so that the only stations worth watching are PBS and TVO and PBS is having a lot of trouble because they are begging all the time now. New, good PBS material is getting less and farther between.and the dry cleaner drove a panel truck. quote> Ahh, now this is an interesting point that you demonstrate. You don't like whats on TV and the radio. The fact of the matter is, maybe your tastes are chaning, or the tastes of the general consumers are changing, so the media themselves are. Just because some realitity TV trash with extra commercials is what's on TV, if its selling (which it seems to be, but perhaps to the younger generations) it means TV isn't dying. Originally posted by: Muck308 In conclusion, the future sucks. That's been a casual motto of mine for about the last ten years.quote> People have been saying that forever. Either it doesn't actually suck, or is just marginally worse and people get used to it. I'm not worried.

And because there won't physically be enouhg for the forseeable future its mined at the demanded rate. There's an old coal mine a little ways out of town here that's been restored pretty decently. put the creek route back in, planted lots of native trees, that kind of thing. Still feels a little too... human thouhg (trees in row, creek straight line)

Yes, the NAM does make it easier. In the sense that it makes the traffic not be stupidly hard and broken (sims taking shorter streets over longer and quicker highways, is one thing it fixes). So unless your a masochist you really should get it.

As much as i hate the whole "oh noes the government must be incompetent at everything" attitude, in this case the government stepping in would really be useless. I mean, think about it. The guy managing the cleanup might be different, but the people doing the actual work, the people doing the actual engineering, would all be exactly the same, except now theyd have a new boss controlling them who they don't know, who doesn't know them, or how any of the structure works. From an efficiency perspective, i'd say it'd be best to just keep things in their current form where it's all working (ish).

Luckily im used to that kind of heat. Still tough to get through, and days without a nice storm to cool it down at the end can be a killer, but i do feel for anyone who lives in an area that doesn't normally get it. odds are your houses and bodies really aren't used to it.

Originally posted by: Duke87 Loose lips sink ships, ya know? quote> If the US didn't want their subs seen, they just plain wouldn't have surfaced them at naval bases. You know, the one place that the chinese spy satellites would have been watching 24/7. As the article implied, china would have know about this. If the US didn't want its submarines to be seen, they'd have had them put in in sub pens with a roof (if they still have those) or not at all, instead of docking in a allies harbour and rising in the bay of another ally. As for it being a message? well, i don't know. the USA has always had a significant presence in the region (bases in Japan), to be honest i'm sure there's been times before when there's been many more explosives pointed at china than now, even with those 3 subs in the region.

Originally posted by: Duke87 Why are we publically discussing the locations of our ships? Doesn't the availability of that information compromise our national security? quote> Because your not a regime that cencors your press? think about it, there's submarine enthusiasts etc. who live at these places, they probably posted to a community like this one that they'd seen subs in locations xx yy zz etc. news site picks up on that, runs a story.

Originally posted by: Duke87 Another important item: the ability to easily swap out drained batteries for freshly charged ones so that range is not constrained by battery life. Battery design should be standardized so this can be done worldwide at gas station-like businesses.quote> Pardon my Nissan Fanboy-ness, but their new EV can swap out batteries. Its a little slower than a regular gas station fill up of course, and i really don't know how the economics of it would work. Regarding the articles comment on BMW to be the first to make a "from scratch" electric car, i'm pretty sure that Nissan and Mitsibuishi are both making theirs from scratch too. Originally posted by: Duke87Full theft proofing. Should the car be stolen, it should be possible for authorities to disable the car and bring it to a safe stop.quote> I, for one, am not comfortable at all with the idea of the police being able to remotely disable my car on command. That's a tool of oppression waiting to happen, right there. quote> You can already buy aftermarket kits like these. With proper management, a government controlled one wouldn't be opressive.

I fundamentally agree with what SC4boy is saying, but i ask you: is it the fault of the meterologists who (say, for regular weather) provide a detailed report including the odds of different temperatures being such and such, or the fault of the media outlets who just compact that down into a single number (and perhaps picture too) on their evening weather report? I'd consider opinion polls, for say, elections, to be a good analogy of the situation. The poll itself might state its size, the 95% confidence interval, which could mean the difference between the two different candidates having a huge margin between them, or the actual margin being slim, whereas a media outlet will just say "xx is more popular than yy!".

The lines have blurred between parties so much these days that I think anyone who just automatically votes for a party because "oh who they (the voter) are" is a bit silly. you really need to look at the policies that they're pushing through, its suprising what each party will do. Or than again maybe now thati 'm a poor uni student i'm just more pro labour than i used to be.

From what she's done so far, i'm liking her policy changes. For example, no more "Big Australia". of course, i'd probably wait to see what she actually does before i decide who to vote for in the election, whenever it happens this year. Edit: Actually, i change what i mean. From what she's said so far. And, well, we all know what politicans are like with thier word...

The vast majority of people seem to use barbed wire for fences down here in Aus, though most farm sheep and cattle. We never had any problems on our farm, though it was used mainly for cattle (and until just after I was born, goats and sheep), but at one stage we were running 13 of the neighbours horses on 45acers in total (nowhere near enough space, place turned into a dustbowl after a few months). However, one thing to note is that we don't usually have solid wooden poles as every fence post on the fence, It's usually a solid wooden pole every 30-40m with metal fence posts inbetween, mainly to keep the wires evenly spaced more than to keep it standing up. This means that if a horse does fall onto it, it can usually yield. There were a few horse escapes while we were living there (fireworks), and each time the fence that they got over would be squashed down to half its height or so. Would usually need to restrain the entire fence. The few places i have seen that use non barbed wire fences, for example wooden ones instead, are usually horse stud farms.

Something might happen, heck it might kill a lot of people (unlikely) or disrupt all of our electronics (semi-likely), but i rather doubt its the end of the human race or something similar.

Just mucking abound with the SPUI intersection, and the fractional angle. If my PC hadn't crashed i'd probably change the onramps to be 2*RHW4 to RHW8, then have a merging space instead of the 2*RHW4 to RHW6

Photobucket doesn't delete your pictures, lets you put them in albums and all sorts of fancy stuff, however there's a bandwidth limit unless you "go premium". you might be able to solve this by, say, alternating between different accounts every 2-3 updates.

Originally posted by: Barbarossa Did any of you know that BP has continually mislead the public by under-reporting the amount of crude being released daily?quote> That, perhaps. Putting foward your best estimate is not misleading anyone.

There's more to trades jobs than just building buildings too, of course. You've got things like fitter and turners, and other manufacturing jobs (though i guess they're getting less and less in the states). Plenty of work out there for only a little bit of pre education, i'd guess that full on degrees before getting a job are still in the minority.

Barbarossa: first you imply that BP is purposfully underrepresenting the spill rate, now your saying that they're not and instead should be able to determine it better? make up your mind...

Regarding those subs, exactly what type are they? i've only ever heard of them in passing before. Are they old ex WW2 style subs, or something more? do they have a capacity to mount some kind of cruise missile or similar?

People seem to be misunderstanding my point regarding the Ak-47. Is it slightly inferior? yes. Is it useless? no. will having them instead of m16's make a noticable difference? probably not. Hym, you seem to be grosly misinformed (or maybe just uninformed) on the development process of the ak47. there were infact performence trials against other weapons, (infact, some other weapons offered better performence. however, due to the country being communist, stealing other peoples ideas for your own design was good: it helped the country overall). A redesigned ak47 won the second round of trails (due, of course, partly to its cheapness of construction). Secondly, the Ak-47 was redesigned in the 50's. as it was origionally designed, the construction would be of stamped materials, however there were a number of manufacturing defects that meant that the more complex process of maching the parts was actually cheaper than stamping them. The revised model was introduced when they got the stamped parts working correctly, and they also added a few other changes, by all accounts reducing weapon weight by a full third. This was introduced in the late 50's if my memory serves me correctly, and called the AKM (most ak's made were this variant). As well as this, you could probably argue that the Ak series of weapons has undergone the same continual upgrades as time goes by. in the 70's, the ak74, with its reduced calibre was introduced, and recently more weapons have been designed in the 90's (such as the an-94), but aren't likely to equip the russian army due to cost. because of this, more recent ak74's have been made with composite stocks etc to reduce weight. in regards to the AA: that's a good theory Hym, but does the US possess the number of weapons, and more importantly, the number of planes, required to disable the entire network? what if the north doesn't turn on their entire radar system at once, instead turning it on at a critical moment when the souths air attacks are taking place? what about portable shoulder fired missiles, etc? the AA of Iraq was destroyed with impunity, but, like i said before, this took time. in korea, that time doens't exist if the norths army is advancing across the border. Re the submarines, that's another good point that i hadn't thought of before, but i doubt they could cause any significant damage to alter the effect of any conflict.

Originally posted by: trainguy4449 I exaggerated the inaccuracy of the AK to make a point. If your weapon can't hit anything at range, you have a useless weapon. When your staring down the bare iron sights at a target a few hundred meters away and can barely see him, much less hit him, and meanwhile the other side has hi-tech optical scopes, thermal sights, trained long-range snipers, and weapons that can actually reach out and touch someone. quote> Of course, but the north has those things too. They wouldn't just have ak47's, they'd have machine guns, sniper rifles, mortars, other support weapons aswell. With regards to optics such as thermal sights, you have a point, the south does posess an advantage. this of course only applies during the night. The north doesn't have to attack at night. Of course, this opens up counterattacks and other such oppertunities. however, the fact is, there's millions of troops, the entire war can't just be night special force style raids. To be honest i'm not sure what sort of a difference it would make. Ah, now i know which weapon you are talking about. pretty formidable, I agree. Still, you have all the problems about contested skies I was talking about before. Originally posted by: trainguy4449 The good news is that the majority of these weapons are located in two places: Pyongyang and the DMZ, so that leaves safe-transit corridors across most of the country.quote> Unfortunatly, this is where all the tanks, artillery peices, AA you want to destroy is actually located. Lexus- I don't watch the discovery channel because i dislike paying for TV. i also don't like to use it as a source as i find its likely to be bisaed, albeit from my limited view of it. (find me a discovery channel program that shows how a russian weapon is superior, without imediatly mentioning how the new US counter weapon will best it, and i might change my mind) Regarding the cluster bomb, its a very interesting weapon. The one I could find out was a cluster bomb with 40 submunitions that could cover an area of 1500m*1500m or so. Its been used in the war in iraq, but i can't easily find any operational use records. of course the US might want to keep that secret. Like you said, deployable from fighter aircraft. However, its deployment isn't similar to a JDAM, it needs to be dropped over the target area, as the bomb doesn't have any facilities for a guided glide to target like a JDAM. Oh, and there's plenty of AA that has a range of 30 km's mate. Regards to the shot down AC130, speed shouldn't be a huge problem for these missiles, after all they travel and many times the speed of sound. my point was that, an aircraft with the latest electronic countermeasures was shot down by a single missile shot at it. with 10000 missiles pointed at the sky, odds of at least something being shot down are high, and odds of many somethings are also pretty dam high. Its also worth pointing out that these missiles aren't "old 50's tech", the earliest were designed in the late 60's and deployed in the 70's, so one would assume what the north has would have to be one of these models, or newer. Not cutting edge, of course, but still a significant threat. artillery has a range of much more than "just a few miles", your looking at numbers upwards of 6miles/10km. The south has all of its defences along this line, from what i can gather, and the north should be able to get its guns to positions it can fire at the south from its side. that's my point Originally posted by: trainguy4449I seriously need to get a life.quote> at least with airchair generals, noone gets hurt

Heh, they're already going to bid it out. nice one, selling themselves short! As for the resources, i think the fact that they are productive is the whole reason for the fuss mate. I'm sure that leading geoligists aren't as silly not to factor in that.

like your farms mate, and that's an impressive station