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Perhaps it's mining.

But there's what plainly looks like a military installation just to the southwest of the place, with what seems obvious to be a test track for some manner of tracked vehicle.

For reference, this is what the manufacturer's test track for the Abrams tank looks like in Lima, Ohio.

Zooming in on the Lima site reveals the exact same sort of pattern as that in China.

But then again, when looking around the neighboring city I see a lot of stuff that is hard to explain, so who knows...

Perhaps it's mining.

But there's what plainly looks like a military installation just to the southwest of the place, with what seems obvious to be a test track for some manner of tracked vehicle.

For reference, this is what the manufacturer's test track for the Abrams tank looks like in Lima, Ohio.

Zooming in on the Lima site reveals the exact same sort of pattern as that in China.

But then again, when looking around the neighboring city I see a lot of stuff that is hard to explain, so who knows...

Perhaps it's mining.

But there's what plainly looks like a military installation just to the southwest of the place, with what seems obvious to be a test track for some manner of tracked vehicle.

For reference, this is what the manufacturer's test track for the Abrams tank looks like in Lima, Ohio.

Zooming in on the Lima site reveals the exact same sort of pattern as that in China.

But then again, when looking around the neighboring city I see a lot of stuff that is hard to explain, so who knows...

Perhaps it's mining.

But there's what plainly looks like a military installation just to the southwest of the place, with what seems obvious to be a test track for some manner of tracked vehicle.

For reference, this is what the manufacturer's test track for the Abrams tank looks like in Lima, Ohio.

Zooming in on the Lima site reveals the exact same sort of pattern as that in China.

But then again, when looking around the neighboring city I see a lot of stuff that is hard to explain, so who knows...

Looks like a mining operation, with the underground entrance at the bottom of the U shaped structure.

You're correct. Mining and refining.

Probably something with a low recovery ratio, like a rare earth. This makes it wasteful to ship the bulk of it elsewhere for refining, so it's done on site.

Some strip mining:
http://goo.gl/maps/ENccv

Post-process waste:
http://goo.gl/maps/cxjrV

Looks like a mining operation, with the underground entrance at the bottom of the U shaped structure.

You're correct. Mining and refining.

Probably something with a low recovery ratio, like a rare earth. This makes it wasteful to ship the bulk of it elsewhere for refining, so it's done on site.

Some strip mining:
http://goo.gl/maps/ENccv

Post-process waste:
http://goo.gl/maps/cxjrV

The Mountain View campus has on-site 24x7x365 security (with a minimum of 2 guards working at night). All the buildings (there are 5) require active/working badges to open the doors, and Microsoft's security policies for badge access is managed incredibly well (in fact, almost too aggressive at times). Here's a Google Maps view of the campus; it is unknown to me which building was for R&D, but Building 5, at least many years ago, was the "Apple building" (large numbers of Apple and Mac-oriented posters visible on all the walls). Oh, I just saw the newspaper clipping scan at the 2nd link; this confirms it was at Building 5.

So how did this happen, unless it was an inside job?

Big rigs are what damage the roads. If they pay for the damage they do it gets spread around to all of us and doesn't penalize all of us who try to drive efficient cars.

http://goo.gl/Meqg1

Besides the fact that it's pointless (why does it matter that my 180km drive is 180,000 meters?) there are reasons to not change. I'm from Brazil, IN:

http://goo.gl/maps/GQt46

Take a good look at all of those squares. Want to guess how big they are? The land is platted in acres, of which there are 640 per square mile. Normally in that area, the townships are 36 square miles - known as sections - and individual pieces of land go down to 1/16th of that. Obviously they can be subdivided smaller, but the 40 acre plot is common. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_surveying)

People who advocate for changing to all metric don't know what kind of clusterf*ck they're wishing on themselves.

these facts

Watch as your precious facts are deconstructed for the heavily biased misinterpretations that they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRjxEAWwagc

Does gun ownership make for a safer, better, society, or something else? Statistical correlation is not the same thing as causality, but what do these facts tell us?

We have much stricter gun laws in Australia, and without any sort of proof or statistic I am going to put it out there that America has more then 10 times the incidence of these kinds of senseless killings. So if it is not the gun laws themselves then what is it? I think it is a cultural thing. So I think it might take a generation for tighter gun laws to take affect. In Australia most gun related crimes are criminals killing criminals (like my close friend Luke http://goo.gl/RFJuV). I left out his whole name on purpose. Its almost unheard of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant) et al. Otherwise.

I wasn't always opposed to Windows 8 and I generally look forward to new operating systems of all flavors with excitement. The same way I look toward new game consoles and new video cards. It wasn't until I was able to try it for myself that I soured on it. True, you can (more or less) have a (primarily) Windows 7 experience. However, it's still too Frankenstein-ish. I don't like the bland look, the focus on single-application interfaces, the Live-tie-in, and the touch-focus.

That said, even if they refused to change most of these things in Windows 9, simply getting rid of the stitched-together stuff would be an improvement so it was all one thing or all another and even with a touch-focus, it would ideally more properly wrap the new style around more traditional input methods for people not looking to have an iPad "one thing at a time" experience.

This is the image that popped into my head, when I tried Windows 8.

I don't expect Windows 9 to take an entirely new direction and shrug off all these changes that they seem to be pivoting the entire company around, but I believe it will be more refined, more targeted, and less schizophrenic. I want to see a change to that as quickly as possible and I think that a lack of community and developer support of Windows 7 would only drive the urgency of that focus and production to Microsoft.

There are a lot of things VLC could work on that I'd chip in $10 or $20 for, but Windows 8 isn't one of them (even though I'm sure they would justify it as a necessary thing, to maintain the continued relevance of VLC through Windows 8 and into the next iteration of the OS beyond it).

My thought, exactly. I saw it almost immediately after it went life. I've backed more than 400 crowd-funded projects. I dig VLC. I use VLC all the time. I understand the desire to spread VLC to everyone, everywhere. However, I can't bring myself to chip in even a few bucks to a project that just encourages Windows 8 and the Windows 8-style environment and presentation, which I'd like to see die as soon as possible, so they'll have more reason to get their sanity back for Windows 9, sooner.

Maybe I'm being petulant, but at least I'm not contributing to Windows 8.

The Colockum Pass is a state route, but it is by no means a route that any semi should take, yet about twice a year truckers from out of state try taking this route from Seattle to Ellensburg to Wenatchee, as it's shown on GPS as the shortest route (I had to manually move the Google Map to take this route). They physically cannot make this route, but several try per year anyway.

I had a buddy that grew up in Huntington Beach, CA. We went to a strip club one night, and to find it (he'd been there before) he had to use his turn-by-turn GPS. To leave and get back on the interstate, he had to use is turn-by-turn GPS, which meant waiting in the parking lot while it calculated (I told him to go out, take a right, the next right, then a right at the light would head it towards the interstate. His GPS told us to go LEFT, then LEFT, and then right, ultimately one block west of where I would have brought us to the same road (left around the block, or right around the block). He didn't trust me, and NEEDED the GPS to find the way back to the interstate, which was 1/2 mile away (straight shot to the interchange).

Or here in Tennessee. Before you get to that point, ruts can be a foot deep and there's banks on both sides, so turning around isn't an option. After a good rain, the creek can be over a foot deep and if you're going the wrong way, your car will float downstream and you won't make the road.

Bolivia is the place with the worst road in the world. Seatbelts - optional. Parachutes - not so much.

Most people I think believe their information is too mundane to worry about. They don't care if the FBI, Police or whoever read it.

The problem is even mundane information unrelated to a crime can be used to convict you. This is true even if you are not actually guilty of the crime! It's the same reason you shouldn't talk to the police (let your lawyer do it for you). http://goo.gl/B12W

Home Pregnancy Test http://goo.gl/DJx0v Home pregnancy test, If you think you are pregnant, you may want to test yourself at home with a home pregnancy test. Home pregnancy tests have been most women's first choice to confirm their suspicion they might be pregnant.

Sure. Here's a google docs spreadsheet of it that I keep fairly up-to-date (maybe not to-the-minute, but I update it maybe weekly or more).

I might write an article some day about it or something, but other than that, I have no particular "claim" to the work, so people are welcome to use it however it may be of interest to them.

http://goo.gl/AiGW2

Pregnancy Yoga http://goo.gl/s9sAn Pregnancy yoga is a complete way to ensure a fit pregnancy.Yoga for Pregnancy classes focus on gentle postures, breathing techniques, positions for labour and relaxations.

Pregnancy Yoga http://goo.gl/s9sAn Pregnancy yoga is a complete way to ensure a fit pregnancy.Yoga for Pregnancy classes focus on gentle postures, breathing techniques, positions for labour and relaxations.

So no, you're talking out your rear end. How about some authoritative information? rjejr is correct. You can go into your Wii Settings and turn off the background data options--you know, the one that updates your weather and news and all that while your Wii is in standby mode. If you don't use your Wii for weather/news, you can save yourself some electricity/money by disabling the standby mode. http://goo.gl/uavVx

Home Pregnancy Test http://goo.gl/DJx0v Home pregnancy test, If you think you are pregnant, you may want to test yourself at home with a home pregnancy test. Home pregnancy tests have been most women's first choice to confirm their suspicion they might be pregnant.

Aerosolised oil might ignite merely with the heat, same way a diesel engine ignites without a spark, so it may not help.

It will happen if you adiabatically increase the atmospheric pressure around the pot at a compression ratio over 14:1 or you use fuels to deep fry the bird or just slowly raise the temperature of the pot to the point of it glowing-red

Cooking oil
* flash point (emits fumes capable of ignition by an external source): over 200C
* autoignition point (no open flame present): over 400C - iron glows deep red, visible in the dark.

It's quite common in some parts of the world. Have a look at the tops of the walls in this Google Street View - A random street in Johannesburg.

Israel's army is made of hotties. http://goo.gl/7HSr1

Wow! They are hot.

No wonder the Hamas 'rockets' keep "going off!"

http://goo.gl/LDMgp

Look! Wires and things!

Has anyone ever found a watch, clock, or cellphone that couldn't be used as a trigger device?

Maybe this guy was carrying the dreaded screwdriver? No average person should be able to open a device without at least getting a rectal exam when entering the USA.

http://goo.gl/LDMgp

Look! Wires and things!

Has anyone ever found a watch, clock, or cellphone that couldn't be used as a trigger device?

Bears that share are probably the MOST dangerous thing on the internet!

Yeah, here a map to an area outside San Bernadino, with tract house built DIRECTLY ON the San Andreas fault. In fact here's a site, and you can travel over the entire Google Map with the San Andreas fault superimposed on the map here.

I'm pretty sure if they're willing to sell you a 3 bedroom delux ranch style sitting on the San Adreas fault, pretty much anything goes

Yeah, here a map to an area outside San Bernadino, with tract house built DIRECTLY ON the San Andreas fault. In fact here's a site, and you can travel over the entire Google Map with the San Andreas fault superimposed on the map here.

I'm pretty sure if they're willing to sell you a 3 bedroom delux ranch style sitting on the San Adreas fault, pretty much anything goes

Unfortunately for you, Colorado is the least obese state. http://goo.gl/6G8ns

That can happen just about anywhere. You'd have to be down the road from a power plant to have any real assurance of power availability. (something Apple and Facebook, and the state of NC, have done. 'tho NC built their backup facility in Forest City which is a good distance from 3 plants, but on top of the new single turbine coal plant in Cliffside.)

You mean like this place http://goo.gl/maps/5pUhY that is built on a runway? With facilities large enough to house a B52 with room to spare? http://airpigz.com/storage/2010-december/Air_Force_Museum_B-52.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1292113924915

14 of the 50 have fewer than 100k people.

Yes. But unless we're talking tiny towns with easy ways to evacuate, that doesn't play that much of a role.

Evacuating 11,647 people from a 0.52 km^2 area (the smallest population on the list is Bunpur, India) isn't going to be easy. You'd need 2,912 cars, 195 buses (assuming 60 passengers/bus) or 146 train cars (assuming 200 passengers/car).

And depending on the lead-up time, this is going to result in people dying.

Have a look at that particular proper. Sure, there are only 11,000 people in that area, but you go ahead and tell us how you would evacuate it safely in a hurry - let's say 12 hours warning..

I mean, judging by the way you're scoffing at that particular list, this should be a piece of cake, right?

And keep in mind, that an evacuation doesn't mean to the edge of the town proper. As such, you have to keep in mind that Bunpur is right next to Asansol. Asansol is a tiny city with a population of 1.2 million people, but a relatively sparsely populated one compared to New York City (4,434/km^2 vs 10,518/km^2).

Go on - I'll wait.

Oh, and by the way - only 9 cities in the US "even crack 1M". Not sure what your point was in complaining about that, though. For instance, even though Los Angeles has a population almost 4 times the size of San Francisco (3.8 vs 0.8 million), I think most people would agree, that it'd be easier to evacuate Lost Angeles, simply because there's much more room (3,124/km^2 vs 6,633/km^2).

14 of the 50 have fewer than 100k people.

Yes. But unless we're talking tiny towns with easy ways to evacuate, that doesn't play that much of a role.

Evacuating 11,647 people from a 0.52 km^2 area (the smallest population on the list is Bunpur, India) isn't going to be easy. You'd need 2,912 cars, 195 buses (assuming 60 passengers/bus) or 146 train cars (assuming 200 passengers/car).

And depending on the lead-up time, this is going to result in people dying.

Have a look at that particular proper. Sure, there are only 11,000 people in that area, but you go ahead and tell us how you would evacuate it safely in a hurry - let's say 12 hours warning..

I mean, judging by the way you're scoffing at that particular list, this should be a piece of cake, right?

And keep in mind, that an evacuation doesn't mean to the edge of the town proper. As such, you have to keep in mind that Bunpur is right next to Asansol. Asansol is a tiny city with a population of 1.2 million people, but a relatively sparsely populated one compared to New York City (4,434/km^2 vs 10,518/km^2).

Go on - I'll wait.

Oh, and by the way - only 9 cities in the US "even crack 1M". Not sure what your point was in complaining about that, though. For instance, even though Los Angeles has a population almost 4 times the size of San Francisco (3.8 vs 0.8 million), I think most people would agree, that it'd be easier to evacuate Lost Angeles, simply because there's much more room (3,124/km^2 vs 6,633/km^2).

Doubtful. This damn hurricane didn't even give us a waterspout or funnel cloud. Isaac was kind of a flop too, but at least it lit up the Miami and Fort Lauderdale TWDR like a Christmas tree with tornado vortex signatures (TVS) for a couple of hours as it approached. Sandy? I think I saw maybe a dozen TVS over the span of 3 hours between KAMX, TMIA, and TFLL, before I got bored and went to bed.

Actually, there WAS one thing about Isaac that was *very* cool. When I was driving to work, I noticed about 20 cars pulled over to the side of the ramp from eastbound I-595 to northbound I-95, and I quickly discovered the reason: for the first time I can remember, jets were making "Kai Tak" landings at Fort Lauderdale airport. there was a major rain band further west, so they couldn't use the normal "straight in" approach to runway 13 (31?). Instead, the jets made their final approach by flying south (directly above I-95), cleared the bridge over the New River and the tall bridge for State Road 84, then made a 45-degree hard left turn above the cheering crowd standing on the ramp from eastbound 595 to northbound 95. (aerial view: http://goo.gl/maps/kojPF )

I enjoyed the festivities for a few minutes (the jets were coming in about 1 every 2 minutes), then got back in my car and headed to the office, timed to see one jet approaching the bridge as I drove over the river, and another jet flying by overhead near Oakland Park. It was very cool. It's a shame they're getting rid of that runway next year. Personally, I think the airport's making a mistake, because without that runway, they would have been forced to shut down the airport completely for most of the day when Isaac was passing over.

> Can anybody honestly say there's anything in the US that is so uniquely spectacular

Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicate_Arch

http://www.uilleann.org/Piperlink-Moab/Delicate-Arch-Trio.jpg

I'm Canadian and so I totally understand and sympathize with the desire to not go to the US, the world is a big place. (Although I think I'm excluded still from a lot of the shit the rest of you have to put up with)

But I've been a *lot* of spectacular places in the world, and Delicate Arch blew me away. The shape, the SIZE, the shaped ground-smooth rock and formations framing it, the bowl below it, it's isolated surrounded by canyons and hills.

Everyone in the world should see Delicate Arch.

( And while you're there, hit Canyonlands, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, etc. Here's my trip plan in google maps (note two pages of itinerary to show the entire loop). http://goo.gl/maps/V6VfY Took us 6 days to do the full circle and we skipped San Juan National Forest. You could easily spend 12 days doing the same route. )

Apparently, this is where the 6'2" Bob Smith lives. http://goo.gl/maps/1wGxN. That might be his daughter leaning against the pillar, texting. She'll be very upset if he's extradited. Wonder who he murdered? I mean allegedly murdered.

They die quickly when you buy them from OCZ... then when you RMA them, they say they'll replace it, never do, and hope you just forget about it or something.

http://goo.gl/H34U6

http://goo.gl/maps/XfYm3
Look at step 16

Looks like you can also walk, but not bike or "transit" that route.

http://goo.gl/maps/XfYm3 Look at step 16

Well you always stop at Hawaii, this just infers your on the ground when you travel..
Which for me would be very nice for a change.

I've been to Hawaii four times and never once got off the plane, either it was a quick fuel stop.or raining too hard.
.

http://goo.gl/maps/XfYm3
Look at step 16

You. Fail. At. Internet. Forever.

FOR. EVER.

I'm a foreigner living in India, and presentation skills are not a strong point of... well... almost anyone... because most people don't have to make presentations, and it's not really taught here.

Forgetting the language/accent issues (I can deal with those), often they're just incredibly boring - I've had to fight the urge to fall asleep at almost every conference I've been to - there's no charisma at all and they frequently ramble on about nothing.

Those that can present well were often educated overseas, and the resulting hierarchy/society, unfortunately, reflects it: those that got the advantage to begin with keep their advantage and those that learn from these local guys that teach you to "speak like James Bond" (yes, seriously - http://goo.gl/GRQoK), well... you get where I'm going.

To add insult to injury, I've also seen people try to fit WAY too much stuff on to each slide (8 point text even on a large projected screen is still damn near impossible to read), though this isn't strictly limited to India - I've seen this in the west as well.

Gibralta is a region just north of Africa that is under British rule and all the inhabitants are perfectly happy with this state of affairs

While true it is a very odd description for a parliamentary off Spain. Yes Spain is "a region just north of Africa", and the inhalants are happy being a British territory. Its odd not to mention that Spain are not very happy with "the rock" being under British rule.

Damned spell check .. that's "Promontory off Spain" though Peninsula may have been better

Gibralta is a region just north of Africa that is under British rule and all the inhabitants are perfectly happy with this state of affairs

While true it is a very odd description for a parliamentary off Spain. Yes Spain is "a region just north of Africa", and the inhalants are happy being a British territory. Its odd not to mention that Spain are not very happy with "the rock" being under British rule.

Yes, that seems to be the trend and I wonder why. It would be easy to put a killer battery in a phone by changing the form factor back to something like this instead of making phones smaller and smaller. Surely there must be other people like me who don't mind a larger phone if it means significantly longer battery life?

Human beings have been living on earth since ~200,000 years.
And they learned writing ~3000 years back.
http://goo.gl/12i7v

No, sorry, that was my main point, which is why I titled the post to refer to the famous aphorism "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Don't try to hijack it.

The GP said that windmills are so obscenely ugly that he's willing to fight against them being put in my backyard, where my neighbors and I damn well want them (because we, the actual local property owners, happen to like them much better than the obsolete Fukushima-style BWR nuke plant we've already got). He is explicitly rejecting my viewpoint, and that of most people in my state, and saying he will fight our wind projects because they are ugly. Read what he wrote!

Incidentally, the windmills I specifically mentioned in my post sit in beautiful mountain woodlands... not too far from from existing strip mines and coal-fired power plants, of course, since that's where the existing high voltage lines coincide with high wind potential areas - near existing Appalachian coal mines and gas wells.

Perhaps you'll be happy to know that 64 windmills won't be built in Pennsylvania because of local community groups protesting how ugly and environmentally devastating they are. What a triumph for aesthetic values! ...And for Big Coal, of course, those paragons of beauty and woodland preservation.