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Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

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joecct said:
Why? Metro is just as farked up.
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There's no romance to it, though. And the complainers on the Metro are just tepid, winging bureaucrats. They do not have the full throated rage of the NYC commuter -- they are not just one more static-laden Central Asian barely accent-distinguishable PSA from a three state murder spree. They're losers.

The awfulness of NYC is like lake effect snow. It's horrible, but once you have been steeped in it everything else is just shallow and pedestrian. I swear if I was ever mugged in DC I'd just hand over my money, roll my eyes, and walk off muttering under my breath about candy as-s posers. If I'm ever murdered here my dying thought will be, "Srsly? That's all you've got?"
 
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The Sicatoka said:
This guy's making bombs at work! And here I felt guilty pulling some UniStrut out of the dumpster to make some legs for some seating from the old REA (now the site of the HPC) that I acquired over the summer.
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Oh, I hadn't heard they'd torn it down. Then again, not much news comes out of North Dakota. :D

I like my old seats better though:
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
FadeToBlack&Gold wins forever
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My grandfather did all of that work, and he is not a Tech grad - he didn't even go to college. In his day, he was able to apprentice as a civil engineer without an engineering degree.

If my grandparents were to secretly change their wills and not leave me the cottage, I'd be happy with what grandpa did with those seats.
 
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One of the stories about the would-be suicide bomber* in Manhattan yesterday said he used instructions he found on the internet to build his pipe bomb.

Which makes one think, why isn't Homeland Security and/or the FBI flooding the internet with sites that purport to give instructions on how to build bombs, except that there is always a flaw in the design of some sort or another. Not only would the bombs not work, but also we would collect lots of IP addresses from visitors to those sites.




* Talk about "pathetic losers"! though I am really glad the bomb failed. :) Several friends of mine go through that area every work day.
 
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FreshFish said:
Which makes one think, why isn't Homeland Security and/or the FBI flooding the internet with sites that purport to give instructions on how to build bombs, except that there is always a flaw in the design of some sort or another. Not only would the bombs not work, but also we would collect lots of IP addresses from visitors to those sites.
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Why would you think they're not doing this?

We famously sold computers to the Iraqi government through cutouts and third parties which told US bombers exactly where they were. In 1991 we had a map of where all these computers were clustered -- exactly where their command and control was located. Iraqi air defense went down faster than Caprica's.

That kind of deliberate sabotage is intel / counter-espionage mother's milk. We "lost" incorrect designs to the Nazis and Soviets to slow down their weapons development. I'm sure we do the same thing domestically. Your plan makes perfect sense.
 
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I sure hope that the Amtrak train derailment in Washington (state) is not a result of deliberate sabotage.

It was running on brand-new track in its first journey on that track. Hard to imagine what else might be behind it, usually the testing protocols are pretty sound.
 
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FreshFish said:
I sure hope that the Amtrak train derailment in Washington (state) is not a result of deliberate sabotage.

It was running on brand-new track in its first journey on that track. Hard to imagine what else might be behind it, usually the testing protocols are pretty sound.
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I hope they figure out why and publish the results. If it wasn't sabotage, somebody screwed up royally.
 
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Monday’s deadly Amtrak train derailment appears to have been caused by an object on the railway, according to a government official briefed on the crash.

A preliminary investigation suggests maintenance problems are unlikely to blame because the incident took place on brand-new tracks, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
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https://nypost.com/2017/12/18/object-on-tracks-may-be-cause-of-deadly-amtrak-derailment/
 
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What does that have to do with terrorism? Unless a bomb went off, I think that belongs in the HLN thread.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
80 in a 30.
Not sure what to say now.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...iled-in-washington-has-speed-limit-of-30-mph/
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From the story:

The railway route had recently undergone a $181 million retrofit program in order to speed up passenger service that previously traveled away from the freeway and along the coast. Part of that retrofit was to include “positive train control” systems that can prevent dangerous situations such as excessive speed.

The 14.5-mile corridor is now equipped for positive train control equipment, but the train controls aren’t operating yet in that area, said Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson. An Amtrak spokesman said the equipment was still being tested
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Huh. Maybe don't run the train until that system's working?
 
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