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Yeah, that or building everything on leveraged debt that is dependent on global real estate prices that crashed in 2008 causing the government to turn to the rest of the UAE for a bailout.

We have above ground subways in NY, they are all part of the light rail system.

From my understanding the 3 distinctions are light rail, commuter rail and freight rail.

Keep in mind that the NYC light rail system (the subway) is the largest light rail system in the world. Not to mention that there are many other rail systems intermingling, so there are many more stations then almost anyone else has to deal with. Couple that with the fact that the weather is abysmal a lot of the year…

The point is that every time their is a problem the GOP complains about too much regulation, when the issue is often not enough regulation or lax enforcement. Mortgage mess was a case of both for example.

The only restriction might be 'restricted airspace' which is government mandated not private property.

Then your friend assumes responsibility the same way he would if he borrowed your non self driving car. Your insurance would apply accordingly.

No one could sink those carriers instantly (short of 2 simultaneous Nuke strikes) and I doubt Iran could sink those carriers eventually.

It has little to do with the US because the EU is one of Iran's biggest oil buyers, the biggest outside of Asia. The US isn't. So our sanctions are more bark then bite, it wasn't until the EU sanctions were discussed and that Iran started sounding serious and now that the EU passed their sanctions things seem to be…

I don't have much confidence that the support craft could intercept 200 missiles simultaneously but yeah, was just guessing, which I think was pretty clear. Also, not that I like quoting the guardian but I don't have time to go digging for other articles. [www.telegraph.co.uk] talks about how the new shipboard systems…

well 10 nimitz, 1 enterprise class slated to be decommissioned in 2013. They are half way through building the USS Gerald Ford

I would bet not. Figure the Missile boats (destroyers and cruisers) take out about half, which may be optimistic. The phalanx missile defense systems probably take out another 10 or so. The unknown in my book is directed energy weapons.

I don't think that will ever exist. Strategic nightmare if someone were to nuke that stretch of ocean

The closure is in response to the EU's decision, and has little to do with us (since we don't buy any oil from Iran anyway) in this case. Egypt tried to close the Suez Canal back in the day and England stepped in preemptively. Closing strategic water ways is a tried and true method of screwing with people while…

What would a 'Furry' episode be like? A Muppet inside a plucked chicken?

Apple is in the middle of signing a multibillion dollar deal with Brazil (I believe Giz had an article on it a while back) to move a large share of their manufacturing their. That leads me to beleive that 'almost as low' is getting to be the same as 'as low' in this context otherwise they wouldn't be moving.

I'm assuming the red on the day shot is paint, and at night a light turns on to light the underside, giving the illusion of a real flame.

I'm amazed at your ability to turn something so crappy into a pretty good advertising idea lol

Yeah, but when you look at the stats Brazil labor rates are almost as low as China but the working conditions are way better. In fact, now that China has had several consecutive years of minimum wage raises a lot of manufacturing is moving to Brazil because it is becoming cheaper.