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First Maglev Installation Going Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the above-ground-above-speed dept.

berniecase writes "After hearing about the 500kph Maglev in Japan on Slashdot, I caught wind of this installation which is going up in Norfolk, Virginia. It's the first Maglev installation in the US. Here's another photo, too."

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  1. CmdrTaco - US flag desecrator and Anti-Delawarian! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    As noted on the Smithsonian Institution's site, the first official American flag had thirteen stars and thirteen stripes, each representing one of the thirteen original states.

    The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!

    This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?

    This intentional disregard of a vital national symbol is unpatriotic. Why, the flippant remarks CmdrTaco made about our flag border on terrorism! I urge you to join the protest in each 'United States' story. Sacrifice your karma for your country by pointing out this injustice. Let's all work together to get our flag back. Can you give your country any less?

  2. What SHOULD be going up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Burning crosses on the lawns of niggers. How DARE they own property, which was fought hard and won by WHITE men.

  3. where would you rather spend your money? by gotih · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    where would you rather have your money spent:

    1. US Military (build huge stockpiles of advanced weapons, aircraft and troops for defense from that other major superpower, um, Iraq (?)

    2. a maglev which, at a cost of 1 trillion, could be built within 6 years based on a 50% reduction in the military budget (currently about 396,000,000,000).

    damnit! what do we have to show for all that money getting spent? 'freedom and democracy' i hear. BULLSHIT, freedom from whom? has there been a real attempt by a legitimate threat to conqur the US within the past 20 years? have we done anything with our massive military that could not have been done with a reasonably sized one? i don't even feel like arguing these points anymore -- i'm getting closer to taking the advice of those people who don't like my ideas and just leaving the country.

    *the military has brought us some good technological advances (computers...) but what about solving the problems we already have like making a clean maglev for folks who need to go visit thier family across the nation?

    please don't reply. this is probably a flame -- you all know there is way too much money in the military anyways.

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