Stalins Organ
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Any 100 seat airliner is complex - they have pretty much all the systems that a 747 has and are massive undertakings.
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3.9 - these 50 yr old eyes aren't too bad....yet
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I can assure you it's not a problem limited to the US nor to Chinese made bulding supplies - relaxation of regulations led to a crisis in New Zealand where brand new homes weer not waterproff & were literally rotting away within a few years of construction - the latest case was just a couple of days ago where tenants were given 1 hours notice to move out!
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I think the gun in Chuckey's left hand would break the thumb of a normal man - jsut as well it's Chuckey
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Ahem......
Japan and this one too
Canada (3rd largest airliner producer in the world in terms of numbers....)
India - just starting out
Indonesia - an almost ran cancelled because of the 1997 financial crisis
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Yeah 'cos Venzuela and Bolivia (and Cuba) are gonna invade the USA and make it a communist state.........like ...real soon now......
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It's a bit of a rose-tinted comparison with the 747 development - it kind of neglects to mention that not only did Boeing bet the whole shop on the 747 but they bloody nearly lost it too - the first aircraft were months late into service, engine and flight characteristic problems had to be fixed, bankers had to roll over on loans, etc.
there's not really a lot of difference now regardless of how people feel about it - ambitious aircraft design has always been like that, and Boeing have done well to get through it - unlike, say, the whole British large aircraft industry from the Brabazon onwards......
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Our sequel to "Silence of the Lambs" is going to be titled "Suddup Ewes".
But the Ausies are still crass kings down under......
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yeah....nah...
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Meh - the younger generation has solved it with an "m" and putting it at the start of the sentence...
that and who cares anyway
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shouldn't you keep that maniacal laughter until after you become emperor of the planet??
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500 years ago New Zealand was hit by a fairly big wave & it's interesting to see how much it affected a stone age society without quite managing to wipe it out.
In hte present day we can see that the quality of crafted items fell, presumably due to death of many skilled workers, and family-trees (whakapapa) often now only go back 15 generations or so again persumably because the holders of the oral history were killed.
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Just 'cos she's female you still expect her to mend socks??!!
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A demographic study of Islam has just been released - only 20% of moslems live in the Mid-East & Nth Africa, the 4 highest populations are all in Asia and one of them, India, is not a moslem-majority, 2/3rds of moslems live in Asia, russia has more moslems than Libya and Jordan combined, China has more than Syria, etc.
If there's power plays going on inside Islam (and I don't doubt it) it's going to be an interesting time to live!
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Either that or there's a recession, it's a steady job and and no-one ever believes they will be the one who get shot...
As an old former miltary aquaintance of mine says......when you tell guys that chances are 1 of them will get shot they all think how they will miss whoever gets killed!
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Doom is a game - of course it has a preduictable story - it's following the game storyline - WTF did you expect?!! rofl.....
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Yeah - he knew he had none. His little terrorist mob was aimed at overthrowing the Govt of Jordan & he continually refused o have anything to do with AQ or the Taliban until he figured they might be "serious" AFTER 9/11....and he went from Iraq TO Afghanistan to fight - he had no plans to do so earlier, he didn't formally join AQ until 2004...so much for your precious pre-9/11 AQ cell in Iraq - pure fantasy - like the rest of Bush's bull....Tell that to al Zarqawi (AQ #3) who was in Iraq, long before OIF ever started. Fleeing Stan to Iraq. And in pre-OIF Iraq, outsiders were not there, who Saddam did not want there or allow there. Saddam new very well who Zarqawi was and his afflication to Zawahiri / AQ.fail, fail, fail...and how many dead Americans because of it?
No-one begrudged the US attacking AQ and the Taliban - but the Iraq was nothing to do with any WoT and no amount of post-hoc irrationality is ever going ot change that - it was pure stupidity - lethal, warmongering, war-criminal stupidity, and that's how it's going to be remembered for a long long time!
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It is foolish to think that simply because Saddam didn't directly support the attacks on 9-11 ...that therefore, Iraq isn't / couldn't be part of the WOT. The WOT was not simply a war on AQ. Reality is Saddam was a brutal dictator, who had started two wars, was a State sponsor of terrorism, had used WMDs in the past and was an incredibly unstable wild card in the heart of the ME. After 9-11 no reasonable person could allow that man to stay in power.
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do people still actually believe this??
SH had nothing to do with 9/11, wanted nothing to do with AQ, had no designs on the USA other than getting them off his back while still looking "strong" in the ME for purely local/ME political reaons, and was no more a warmonger than a few other dictators/states we can probably all think of.
He was entirely predictable to anyone not blinkered by the sort of stupidity echoed in the quote above!
Afghanistan, OTOH, harboured and supported AQ who launched 9/11 - they US had so much sympathy from around the world after 9/11 that IRAN offered to help the USA in Iraq (and to stop supporting Hezbollah & Hamas at the same time!!) - an offer brusquely turned down with "We don't talk to evil" - an example of GWB's "leadership" that has cost thousands of US and otehr lives for no good purpose.
That people can continue to believe the gist of that quote is just astounding and bodes poorly for the future - those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it and all that!
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So...anyway....how's that Afghanistan thing going??
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Didn't we get rid of most of their attics??!!
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Amazing how people are amazed by the photo quality from WW2 - do ppl think they are still taking shots with chemical flashes by uncapping the lens then??!! :/
As an aside, the rear gun of the Fw has an interesting mount - it is offset in the glassed tail-cone, so to get different angles of fire the whole tail-cone rotates - eg in this photo from wiki you can see it in a different position
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However, if your media is state run (BBC) or favors big government - well you wouldn't know about crap like that because it wouldn't get reported.
rofl.....boy are you paranoid........
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That would be SOME Govt emplyees...in some parts of the world, at some times.....
In htese parts we have NO Govt retirement schemes any more - or at least none that are specific to the Govt outside the armed forces....which are contributory of course......the last disappeared decades ago although a few ppl held onto them because they were seriously good.
The whole of the New Zealand civil Service has just been told to expect a 5 year pay freeze....
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Bad Boeing - how to go wrooong
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so what?
that's like saying the 787 isn't complex because the Space Station is an order of magnitude more complex.
We get blase about such things because all we have to do is turn up & expect to have safe, fast & cheap air travel - without having to think about the massive amount of work that goes into every airliner, regardless of size.
Building large passenger aircraft (and 100 seaters _are_ large passenger aircraft!) is a horrendously complex business, especially for a country that has never done it before.
Sure they get partnerships with Boeing or (formerly) Lockheed, or whoever - but that's not hubris - that is necessity, and also commercially driven on the part of hte partners, and technology transfer is tightly controlled and paid for.