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Originally posted by: gurrgkudI wish I could get a tighter grip on this anti-grid and diagonal thing. sigh...quote>You can. Check out Lucky7's tutorial in his NYC recreation CJ. It covers how to make non-gridded straight streets: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=97906&STARTPAGE=2 (It's near the bottom of the page). He's used a sheet of paper to make reference points along a straight line not on the SC4 grid. His method is considerably easier than mine. The method I used was slopes...because each tile of road is $10, it is easy enough to calculate. The problem is that it is very tedious in the beginning. Now that I've gotten the hang of it, I can spot the curve or slope required to meet up two ends of the road immediately. But this probably didn't come until 3 or 4 months of using the method extensively. It certainly requires a conceptual grasp of algebra (and maybe higher math to a lesser extent), but I would guess it's the fastest method (if you get the hang of it...)

Well, it's quite the bump, but here's some more Anti-Grid (btw, I've seen a few CJs emerge with this style lately...hopefully we'll have some more great pics here shortly) Yes, I do plan on making a CJ out of this (I actually have about 2 updates completed for it, though I plan to get 5-7 ahead of posting here because they each take a week or more to do. So for the flow of the CJ, it's going to be a while)

Originally posted by: coolotter88 burning dairy products cause environmental hazards? isn't it just fatty molecules, like oil?quote>You mean like Crude Oil? Or like Cooking Oil? And either way, yes.

Wow, all of a sudden there's this resurgence of anti-grid CJs...This one in particular is very nice.

Originally posted by: Duke87 Originally posted by: david1314 Originally posted by: Duke87 ADD? Really? quote>Yes, really.... Did anyone read the article?quote> I quote: The purported target is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.quote> The teacher teaches kids with ADD. That doesn't mean the kids involved have ADD. There are other kids in the class, after all. And, actually, it's doubtful we'll know what exactly the kids have since due to their age the authorities can't disclose any specific information about them (we don't even know their names) without the consent of their parents.quote> Well, did you read my post? "ADD and the like" But, back to the point, "disabled" is an unacceptable assessment of the various conditions listed in the article.

Originally posted by: Duke87 ADD? Really? quote>Yes, really.... Did anyone read the article?

Deion, read the article. No one was disabled. The kids had ADD and the like. I'm sure some stone are coming my way after this one, but....if a whack up-side the head is the cure, it is NOT a disease. Edit: also, I have plenty of friends who were diagnosed with it...and they are in no way societally disabled, nor mentally disabled, nor physically disabled.

Originally posted by: Frankie_Grove Only in Georgia. Rather amazing that such a minor incident was enough to send a single student to unite others against the teacher - he must be one motivational speaker of a 3rd grader!quote> Lol... apparently I'm not the only one who remembers the third-grader mentality. I hate to point it out, but no teacher who was connecting with the children would have motivated such an attack...While the children identify the proximate catalyst in the situation (Standing on a chair), they are probably omitting the fact that they all dislike the teacher and likely with good reason. Remember, the spokeswoman for the school district herself said they were otherwise good children.

Very convincing airport bighaben. You have a mastery of scale that extends from runway length to pax/year and airport utilization. Nicely done. Though, I feel I should point out that Denver's FAA code is DEN not DIA

Originally posted by: SkiGeek Originally posted by: david1314 (Edit: that said, formal air conditioning dates to Movie Theaters and Department Stores in the US East Coast and South East from about WWI to difinatively address the first question)quote> Yes, in practical terms, what matters is when the population at large can use it, not when it was first available in a laboratory setting. quote> I assume I'm protected from the wildly off-topic nature of this comment what with it being in discussion with 2 mods... But that WAS when it was widely available to people. These were not laboratories, these were previously one-purpose establishments that now served as either entertainment or shopping as secondary to a place to escape summer heat. It was widely-known, accepted technology. A comparable analogy would be that nuclear power, while inconceivable (edit: for production) in the home, is widely used and accepted. We wouldn't claim this to still be in a laboratory setting...I hope...*cough* 3-mile island *cough*

Originally posted by: Voar Tok Originally posted by: david1314 ^ Heat exchanger technology dates back as long as sealed plumbing. (Edit: @ voar tok)quote> There's a significant difference between primitive heat exchange technology and freon cooling. quote> Ammonia cooling actually. It was the first intentionally evaporative refrigerant and dates to the 1820s-40s (Edit: that said, formal air conditioning dates to Movie Theaters and Department Stores in the US East Coast and South East from about WWI to difinatively address the first question) Also, there's a lot to be said for holding the position that it definately will not destroy the world. You cannot be wrong. If you are wrong, there is no evidence of it left for anyone (or anyone left for that matter) to examine.

Originally posted by: krbe Originally posted by: david1314 I will point out the rather poetic (if wholly unscientific) justice in this. The US Supreme court has recently excluded the ICC as an additional venue of appeal in US federal jurisdiction. I get the strange feeling that regardless of the outcome of this (US) federal case, CERN will not feel particularly bound by the ruling quote> Let's remember that the ICC is for criminal cases, not these cases. However, I bet CERN's lawyers just convinced the board of the necessity to defend themself in a US court just to get to go to Hawaiiquote> So rry, I meant ICJ...not ICC (stupid acronyms)...not that it changes jurisdictional questions. Article here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/25/scotus.texas/index.html But It seems you've missed the point that the case was brought against a decidedly international piece of technology, the CERN accelerator on the FR/CH boarder, in a US Federal court. There will be no love lost in defying its rulings...

^ Heat exchanger technology dates back as long as sealed plumbing. (Edit: @ voar tok)

Originally posted by: MrCinatit Unfortunately, when ignorance confronts science, ignorance usually prevails.quote>That's just unfounded. Science is continuously (and prudently) challenged. If it's legitimate, it will prevail. Additional scrutiny is vital in a world where scientists cannot comprehend malicious use of technology at the same rapid-fire pace as new ideas. I will point out the rather poetic (if wholly unscientific) justice in this. The US Supreme court has recently excluded the ICC as an additional venue of appeal in US federal jurisdiction. I get the strange feeling that regardless of the outcome of this (US) federal case, CERN will not feel particularly bound by the ruling

A couple of things to point out: 1. This is the evening commute...we all know the bugs that exist here. 2. The one-way road around the bus stop at the ferry most likely goes away in both directions (as is default for all one-way roads with te lots placed on top unless specifically changed)...this is important because all sims must take bus out since there is no out for cars 3. There is no return access for bus. So, while the bus commute is properly calculated in, the only available route is calculated out but not calculated into the games timing...its not even a glitch so much as a compromise for game performance.

Originally posted by: belfastuniguy he achieved to unite all the countryquote> Yeah he did under the threat of fear and violence....quote> ...and we have divided the country with the threat of fear and violence. It's not rose-tinted (the redness comes from blood), but the US-UK vision is decidedly bloodier.

Emporis is quite out of date. I can see 3 constructions in Denver that exceed the 50m mark (I think one is actually a renovation), they were weeks behind the announcement that construction had restarted on the Spire (it was only about a week before construction restarted that they listed it on hold), and the do not have the Four Seasons Tower listed yet despite the fact plans are finalized, renderings exist, and approval is granted. But, back to the topic of Chicago, they might not put them up as quickly, but as life-limited buildings start maturing, there will be no choice but to continue the build up.

I think they should protest and take a cue from the 1960s US civil rights movement. CONFRONT THE LAW HEAD-ON! CALL ON YOUR NEIGHBORS TO DROP DEAD, PEOPLE OF FRANCE!

The old saying about not being in foxholes as an atheist is based on the fact that while religious individuals believe they are sending someone to heaven; humanitarianism tends to pervade atheist beliefs. So it isn't that something about being under fire makes you believe in god, just that not believing in him makes it difficult to kill.

Originally posted by: SkiGeek Back in the early 80s, I worked with a woman whose son happened to go to the same high school that I had. She asked if I knew him. I, rather undiplomatically, replied that I remembered him; he was one of the burnouts. She asked what a burnout was. I told her it was someone who had done so many drugs that he didn't have many working brain cells left. Naturally she took offense at this description. But the fact remained, you could tell to look at the guy he was a major stoner.quote> Some might say you lack tact... Maybe you shouldn't offer your opinion as fact.

Why would anyone EVERY judge the marijuana to be more serious than the SHOTGUN????? [Marc- Edited for language.] is marijuana doing as the tag word for the article?

^ Unfortunately, you sanction people, not their leaders. So in that sense, the sanctions are both failed and wrong.

Uh.... people, the thread is about Interstate Highways.

The problem with interstates is that unlike their Autobahn / motorway predecessors, there was no concept of scenic drive. They were purely utilitarian straight-line roads... The only nice sections of interstate highways are those that are FORCED to be nice by necessities of the terrain. And most parts of the nation where people want to lay interstates there are cheap, flat, boring lines to take it on. I also remember some very nice sections of I-15 when it (briefly) goes through Arizona. I also think the I-70 / I-55 interchange in St. Louis probably should qualify for a nice stretch too. It is the only place I can think of that I have missed a turn on an interstate because I was looking at the scenery (the Arch at 3am ). Not to mention, after the East Colo/Kansas stretch, ANYTHING would look nice.

I'm with JaWood with I-70 (the ONLY nice portion!)