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Exactly my point. Power plants need enrichment levels around 3 to 5%. Weapons grade uranium is something like 99% or more. It is pretty easy to get the 3 to 5%, and the standard way since the Manhattan project has been gaseous diffusion of uranium hexafluoride. Getting weapons grade takes quite a bit more effort. If you believe their press releases they are just doing it for power generation ……

Israel has always wanted planes with conformal fuel tanks, as has the Arab nations. Our government tries to play the balance of terror by playing one side off the other. A few years ago, Saudi Arabia was buying F15’s from us. They also wanted the conformal fuel tanks, but Israel kept raising a fuss. Finally when we offered to subsidize the sale of a batch of F15’s to Israel, they dropped their objections to the Saudi sale. Conformal tanks not only give the aircraft range, but increase their loiter time. They make a lot of sense even without considering the increased strike range. Also Iran is quite a bit different than Iraqi. When Israel struck the Iraqi reactor, it was being built out in the open by a European firm. So Israel had an excellent idea of what and how to hit it. Iran is quite a bit farther away than Iraq. And, if you believe the article John C posted in another thread, they are dispersing their production. and moving most of it underground. Israel's chance of success would be quite a bit less than when they hit the Iraqi reactor.

There is a huge difference between a weapons enrichment plant and one for making power plant grade uranium. As everyone probably knows that was the key challange in producing the first nuclear bomb and is still the reason more countries don't have nukes: producing weapon's grade material. I don't think the Iranians are talking weapons, only fuel. Of course once they build their own reactors they can produce plutonium for weapons. Still think we should just offer to build power plants for them. Or at least have some other nation provide them with fuel in exchange for the spent fuel rods.

Where would I get that done? Regular machine shop?

Good article on the no fly lists http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6113896/ Q: How do people find out how they got on the list? A: They don't. Q: How many names are on the lists? A: The Homeland Security Department won't say, but says the lists have been greatly expanded since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Estimates range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. ..... A: Privacy advocates, both liberal and conservative, have blocked a similar plan. They were concerned about the government having access to large amounts of personal information about people. They question whether the Homeland Security Department has a strong enough commitment to a system for allowing innocent people to get off the lists. They're concerned about lists that are developed in secrecy and could be used to target people with politically unpopular positions.

Man, now I REALLY want a GT40. Wonder if I could talk the wife into a second (or third) mortgage.

Yes, way cool. I don't see many Z's on the road in Maryland. But in SoCal they are still pretty common.

sounds like you need to find a scrap metal yard. They sell leftovers by the pound

"God made abortion legal"

Hate to get back into this but you might want to go back 7 or 8 pages and look at the details more closely. Yes, technically a judge is required for all search warrants, but when you look how the PA has changed that process the judge is essentially nothing more than a rubber stamp.

Hey Kevin, here is a hypothetical for you. Let's introduce the concept of a discount rate. Say all the islanders pool their money in the bank, and for every $10 in the bank they can loan out $100 (a 10% discount rate). Then, lets say the islander borrows the $100, but sells his corn for $150. There is now excess funds available to support this. Doesn’t the island wealth now increase?

Roger that.

To keep things off topic just a tad longer. First I am not sure where the argument that invading Iraq took resources away from the Al Qaeda fight (how ever it is spelled) came from. There is only so much 200,000 extra troops could do in Afghanistan anyway. I am sure there were localized shortages at the troop level, but is anyone aware of any military commanders saying they couldn’t do what they needed to because of a lack of commitment? The brunt of the terrorist fight is going to be borne by groups like the NSA, FBI and CIA. Second, as far as the US is concerned “UN assistance†is more for moral support than material. We usually end up footing the overwhelming majority of the coalition expenses in any of these campaigns. Examine the UN budget and compare the troop commitments to the various police actions to see what I mean. In Kosovo, we ended up with the majority of the missions because most NATO countries have equipment that is so out of date as to be tactically incompatible with ours. For example, we were the only people with GPS guided bombs and stealth aircraft. In many cases the radios and IFF gear were incompatible. Finally, I believe it is difficult to distinguish the insurgency from the near state of civil war that exists in Iraq. There is a massive power struggle going on. If you look at the history of Iraq, they remind me to a certain extent of the former Yugoslavia. A bunch of historically combative people held in check by an authoritarian regime. Have to expect problems when a power void is created. Back on topic, I don’t think there are many people arguing that we should abandon Iraq now that we have upset it. Kerry is making campaign promises that I believe he has no intention of fulfilling. What we should use as exit criteria is probably a better topic of discussion.

I saw that show. An absolutely beautiful car. The show was a little slow and a bit too overdone (IMO). Still think I like the current GT40 better. Not sure what engine this one has, but the GT40 is very race oriented.

Maryland does the visual also. They use to do a treadmill test. Now they just to the visual and check the OBDII codes. The problem with the tailpipe test is it is not very stressing. It doesn't check the emissions when the engine is cold (probably the worst case scenario for a carbed vehicle), usually doesn't check them under load and can't check for gas fumes escaping from the car (for some reason something they worry about a lot ) This is why I want to mod my "exempt" vehicle to be legal anyway.

Hear you there. I upgraded my stock 240 brakes with the larger master cylinder and stainless steel brake lines. I am convinced the early 240's had insufficient MC volume. With the larger MC and no flex in the brake lines, the brakes at least feel more solid. Don't remember if you said what year Z you have, but you will need the larger MC with the 4x4 calipers anyway. So might give those things a try.

Really? Even with your ties to the Bin Laden oil fortunes?

There are a couple of other threads currenty in progress on brake options. http://hybridz.org/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=37139 http://hybridz.org/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=37113 I bought a complete 4x4/300ZX vented rotors set up with 240SX rear disks for my car but have yet to install them. From what I have read they work very well. What I can also tell you is they are extremely heavy. I got this set up becasue it was complete and a fair price. If you have the budget look into JSK/MM for the fronts. Do a little digging and there is also a guy making adapters to fit Mustang brakes on the front. More options and are suppose to have better seals for street use. BTW, on your current ride try bleeding your brakes. Many guys feel that is something you should do after every "track" type event. While you are digging look at some old posts about upgraded pads.

When Ross Perot was running there was a lot of talk about his flat tax plan. One article said the biggest drawback to any income tax plan is defining income. For people who get a paycheck it seems pretty straight forward. For people with businesses, stocks, capital gains, inheritances etc. it can get awfully confusing. Especially if you still want to exempt specific incomes to encourage certain types of investments, or tell home business people what expenditures are business expenses and what they have to pay out of their taxable "income". That means everything needs to be codified, which is then subject to political manipulation and before you know it nothing has been simplified. Point of sale and value added taxes seem just as complicated to me. But flat tax or not, you still have to decide what level of deficit spending you can tolerate.

Mike, that was a pretty interesting response. We talk about you so much, it is funny to put a person behind our talk. I just read Green Eggs and Ham to my 3 year old. As a kid I remember a teacher telling us the book was about trying something before passing judgement yada yada yada. Years later I read an interview with Dr Suess saying that was nonsense. He said the book was to settle a bet with his publisher that he couldn't write a book using less than 50 different words. Sam I am.

Mike Kelly is modifying a Scarab in two stages: first upgraded suspension then JTR engine set back. http://hybridz.org/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=37219 Sounds like the perfect platorm to test the theory.

Man you still don't get it. Go back a read a few of the posts that got people banned and you will see you are fitting the pattern. Look at the first post in this one from the Announcements thread http://hybridz.org/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=24477 That was a stressful time in our history. Don’t want to see it happen again. The number of post is relevant in two regards. You don’t have a feeling for the history of past problems and what constructive content have you added to this site? But don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to the warnings. Keep arguing with Mike Kelly. Keep telling Pete that you didn’t violate the rules and that you didn’t call him what you did. Keep displaying your ignorance by calling people things like “liberal pigâ€. I am sure it will get you where you want to be.

I hear you on the deficits. I didn't like them when Reagan was ringing them up. But then when Clinton actually ran surpluses I thought maybe they weren't such a big deal. Now with George W I don't know what to think. At least Reagan seemed to have a plan: specific cuts to stimulate the economy. But George, I don't know. Seems like he has just backed himself into a corner (with the war and all) and now he doesn't know how to get out. Hopefully I am wrong. But about these specific tax changes. I have to say Dubya is the first guy to give people like me a noticeable cut. Seems like the rich guys get theirs, and the poor have people championing their cause. But us in the middle seem to get nothing but lip service and the brunt of the taxes. Maybe we should just think of them as a reappropriation of taxes. The marriage penalty is very real. My wife and I actually got married in February of 93 rather than December of 92 because a December wedding would have cost us a full $1800 in additional taxes. Of course, now she stays home so I no longer have anything to gain, but I still think the marriage penalty is a good thing to get rid of. Telling people to give back the cut may be an amusing argument, but it still comes back to a fundamental question of fairness. At some point we need to pay the bills, so what constitutes a fair share for each of us? The percent of the budget that goes to debt servicing is a valid argument. I also believe the economic theories that says goverments can operate without a balanced budget, but what point is "too much"?

And what would this be? Check out the taxation thread. http://hybridz.org/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=37218 Who is sparking the first flame in that one?

Hey I vote we ban him. The guy has less than 50 posts, all but a handful on the Non-Tech board. In that short time he has somehow survived an argument with Mike Kelly about proper conduct, and now he is trying to tell the guy who wrote the rules what the rules are. Funny how he can call Pete a pansy and still congratulate him for making such a wonderful site. He came in at a weird time in HybridZ history when we have several, very political threads in progress. I know I have been overly consumed with them. But even still, he seems pretty clueless about taking advice. How many people here know the first rule of HybirdZ is to not argue with the moderators? His first post was your typical noob posting asking what you would do to build the "money is no object Z car". So far he has brought nothing but consternation to this site and unquestionably has no sense of history. IMO he would be happier on a Honda site anyway since he is simply a flame war waiting to happen.