Bayer is still handicapped in the US when we stripped their property rights to Aspirin during WWII. If you don't think the US government wouldn't take a long look at responding to that, you're imagining things. It would be disastrous if the EU singled out a US company for a copyright strip. Responding by stripping EU intellectual property in the US would be strongly considered. Thousands of companies all over the world would be severely compromised.
LA is also built in a semi-arid bowl valley with a predominant eastward wind -- blowing right up against a wall of mountain. It's kind of a perfect storm of haze.
Compare to Chicago, which doesn't have that wall -- no haze.
For the most part, the big linkage are already reasonably railed.
Richmond - Boston is well-traveled. Coastal CA too. St. Louis to the arterial spread from Chicago. But good luck getting a railway connection to, say, Nashville. Amtrak runs E-W via Chicago and New Orleans. (And yes, this was down to just Chicago for about 6 months last year)
So we basically have three main railroad corridors, but damn near nothing linking them up.
Lots of corporations do internal handling of the phone network. So once a call disappears into company Foo's switching system, it's lost to the sending system.
So 555-555-1111 and 555-555-1112 both appear as a call to 'Foo', where only Foo knows to whom those phone lines route.
I grew up around long-hair dogs. I'm allergic to dogs. Not that it particularly bothers me, but all the same, stereotypes have all kinds of exceptions.
The US sits on the world's largest reserve of ground fresh water. We share it with a physically large country of similar culture with a small army and more extensive ice caps. Why on earth would we invade an infrastructure-poor, geographically distant nation for their own dodgy fresh water supply?
To be fair, the true meaning of the acronym -- "television" -- probably better matches what your grandfather was doing than our current sense of that term. It actually was tele-viewing.
2004 is the 50th anniversary of Godzilla's first film. Toho says Tokyo:SOS is the last planned film in the series for the foreseeable future.
Connected with the silver anniversary is a series of events in the US, similar to the roadshow the uncut sub-titled print of the first film had earlier this year.
Tokyo:SOS, as the last G-film, is something of a gala, similar in nature to Destroy All Monsters. In this one, G is traveling the world and fights somewhere around 10 monsters, one of whom is the American Godzilla from G'1998. G'98 will be done in CGI, whereas Godzilla and the other monsters will be suitmation.
The concept of a ship using sonic booms as an attack weapon isn't that far-fetched. The Pluto project used a nuclear cruise missile to do something very similar.
Of course, it also spewed atomic bomb and went core-critical over the final target, but just cruising around at 200', obliterating everything in its path with a shockwave was its main weapon.
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The collateral damage would be immense.
Bayer is still handicapped in the US when we stripped their property rights to Aspirin during WWII. If you don't think the US government wouldn't take a long look at responding to that, you're imagining things. It would be disastrous if the EU singled out a US company for a copyright strip. Responding by stripping EU intellectual property in the US would be strongly considered. Thousands of companies all over the world would be severely compromised.
LA is also built in a semi-arid bowl valley with a predominant eastward wind -- blowing right up against a wall of mountain. It's kind of a perfect storm of haze.
Compare to Chicago, which doesn't have that wall -- no haze.
For the most part, the big linkage are already reasonably railed.
Richmond - Boston is well-traveled. Coastal CA too. St. Louis to the arterial spread from Chicago. But good luck getting a railway connection to, say, Nashville. Amtrak runs E-W via Chicago and New Orleans. (And yes, this was down to just Chicago for about 6 months last year)
So we basically have three main railroad corridors, but damn near nothing linking them up.
And yet, Chicago has the worst gridlock of a non-seaboard city. Heck, it's probably third after NY and LA (and possibly worse than NY)
Of course, it's braindead highway layout doesn't help.
I think technically they are viaducts.
Lots of corporations do internal handling of the phone network. So once a call disappears into company Foo's switching system, it's lost to the sending system.
So 555-555-1111 and 555-555-1112 both appear as a call to 'Foo', where only Foo knows to whom those phone lines route.
Guns and violence vs alcohol and sex. Guess which side would win?
I grew up around long-hair dogs. I'm allergic to dogs. Not that it particularly bothers me, but all the same, stereotypes have all kinds of exceptions.
Ingesting venom is not a problem. Stomach acid denatures the relevant proteins. It's injection of the venom that is troublesome.
The US sits on the world's largest reserve of ground fresh water. We share it with a physically large country of similar culture with a small army and more extensive ice caps. Why on earth would we invade an infrastructure-poor, geographically distant nation for their own dodgy fresh water supply?
EMTs don't cut you out of anything. Firefighters do.
In other news, water is wet.
To be fair, the true meaning of the acronym -- "television" -- probably better matches what your grandfather was doing than our current sense of that term. It actually was tele-viewing.
The Onion got this best:
Man Lands on the Fucking Moon!
It's amazing how mundane that seems now. How it fulfilled *thousands of years* of human hope and effort.
45min to Toledo/Ann Arbor...
Meijers, Wal-Mart, Staples, K-Mart...
You live in Monroe, don't you? When did the Wal-Mart go in? And Jesus, is K-Mart *still* hanging on?
Isn't there a Babbages or whatever in the mall?
Here's the basics:
2004 is the 50th anniversary of Godzilla's first film. Toho says Tokyo:SOS is the last planned film in the series for the foreseeable future.
Connected with the silver anniversary is a series of events in the US, similar to the roadshow the uncut sub-titled print of the first film had earlier this year.
Tokyo:SOS, as the last G-film, is something of a gala, similar in nature to Destroy All Monsters. In this one, G is traveling the world and fights somewhere around 10 monsters, one of whom is the American Godzilla from G'1998. G'98 will be done in CGI, whereas Godzilla and the other monsters will be suitmation.
That's pretty much what the blurb was saying.
I'm pretty sure he was made in a uterus, actually.
You have an 11 lb bat?
A kite?
The concept of a ship using sonic booms as an attack weapon isn't that far-fetched. The Pluto project used a nuclear cruise missile to do something very similar.
Of course, it also spewed atomic bomb and went core-critical over the final target, but just cruising around at 200', obliterating everything in its path with a shockwave was its main weapon.
So that explains why the German guys I've spoken to seem to react to praise like it was crack.
Do you call your computer the "One Thousand ac"?