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1992 - Israeli Embassy destroyed by car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 die. 1992 - Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh. 1993 - World Trade Center bombing 1993 - 13 bombs, mainly packed in cars, go off in Mumbai, India, killing 257 people and wounding more than 1,100. 1993 - IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children. 1993 - IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage. 1993 - A bomb at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills 10 people, including two children. 1994 - Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 86 and wounds 300. 1994 - Baruch Goldstein machine gun attack on mosque in Hebron. 1994 - Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed. 1994 - A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack. 1995 - Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment. 1995 - Tokyo Sarin Attack 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing 1995 - Bombing of a US military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1996 - A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 67 dead and 161 wounded within 10 days. 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111. 1996 - IRA break their cease-fire and kill two in a bomb at the Canary Wharf towers in London. 1996 - Manchester bombing by IRA 1996 - Khobar Towers bombing 1998 - Two U.S. embassy bombings 1998 - Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29. 1999 - Gunmen opened fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25. 1999 - David Copeland nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London. 1999 - Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the US-Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot 1999 - Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot 1999 - Indian Airlines Flight 814, which just took off from Kathmandu, Nepal for Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India is hijacked, one passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released 2000 - The last part of the 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot fails, as the boat meant to bomb the USS The Sullivans sinks 2000 - Beginning of a campaign of attacks on civilians in Israel - see Terrorism against Israel in 2000. 2000 - USS Cole bombing 2000 - German police foil plot to attack a cathedral in Strasbourg, France

Why? I'm thinking thin wall 4130 is a better choice for lightness and strength:

What kind of steel? 1018, 1020, 4130, 6150, stainless? How are you going to weld it? Any kind of coating after? What temps do you expect to see? I've seen 18 ga 1020 steel headers last 5 years and I've seen them last 6 months. If you're worried, move up to 16 ga and then get them JetHot 2000 coated.

Here's how I see things like cutting corporate taxes evening out: 1. Corporate taxes are cut. 2. Well run corporations make more profit. 3. Shareholders of the well run corporations see their share values increase. 4. Shareholders realize those profits when they sell the shares or receive larger dividend checks. I've had this happen to me as a shareholder (Loral). Cutting taxes IS ALWAYS a good thing, whether its corporate, personal, sales, or property taxes. Reducing spending IS ALWAYS a good thing. And now I'll wait for someone to throw out Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, Worldcom, etc. FYI... those were initially well run and profitable corporations until crimminals looted them.

Here's a long winded post about why a very intelligent person will most likely vote for John Kerry: http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001683.html And here's another long winded post about why another very intelligent person will most likely vote for George Bush: http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/archives/001564.html

I think you need to take a step back for a moment and really evaluate what you have. You've got a great opportunity to make something special but you've got a lot of crap work to do before you even think about mods. Spend a couple months going over the car completely and check every nut, bolt, washer, mount, stamping, cable, grommet, wire, panel, gear, shaft, bushing, bracket, etc. Inspect and clean the stuff that never gets inspected and cleaned now while you have a chance. Despite the car being on jackstands for decades, its still a 32 year old vehicle. And, IMHO, the order of priority for anything you do to the car should be: 1. Safety 2. Reliability 3. Repeatability 4. Speed and cosmetics What that means is, if you've got $100 and you can buy a $100 part that increases safety, buy that first. Once you've spent all your money on the safety items, then you can start spending money on reliability stuff. And on down the list. Just some advice from an old racer...

COPO cars can come in many different ways. I know of a COPO Camaro that was ordered with a 6 cylinder, automatic, tangerine color vinyl interior, and tangerine paint as a dealer promo unit. COPO is just a special, special order, car although the term has become synonymous with special muscle cars.

This was a reply/comment to an article that slammed Bush for the mistakes the US military has made in Iraq:

Its that very basic mechanical thing called: A Lever. http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverIntro.html

This is who/what Foreign Affairs is (http://www.foreignaffairs.org): Despite the assertions in this thread, it really is one of most unbiased journals on foreign relations. Much more open minded then Foriegn Policy in my view. Articles from all perspectives are published and if you look at the various authors and the staff (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/about/staff) you'll see they have a great deal of "liberal" minded people. And the author of the article I referenced regarding outsourcing (Dan Drezner) is voting for John Kerry. Also, the board of directors of the Council of Foreign Relations consists of the following members: Fouad Ajami Madeleine K. Albright Jeffrey Bewkes Henry S. Bienen Lee Cullum Kenneth M. Duberstein Jessica P. Einhorn Martin S. Feldstein Richard N. Foster Helene D. Gayle Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Maurice R. Greenberg Richard N. Haass ex officio Carla A. Hills (Vice Chairman) Richard C. Holbrooke Karen Elliott House George J. Mitchell Michael H. Moskow Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Ronald L. Olson Peter G. Peterson (Chairman) Thomas R. Pickering Robert E. Rubin (Vice Chairman) Warren B. Rudman Richard E. Salomon Anne-Marie Slaughter Joan E. Spero Laura D’Andrea Tyson Vin Weber Andrew Young Fareed Zakaria I would hardly call that a list of right-wing reactionary conservatives.

No it didn't. As I posed above, it put out about half of what some of the Nuclear Winter threories predicted. Ultimately, all this global warming stuff has shown us how little we really know or can predict about the climate. Hell, we don't even understand the El Nino (and La Nina) phenomenons enough to accurately predict their onset or severity. The computer models used to predict and/or prove global warming have such large assumptions regarding pollution numbers pre-1900s that slight variations in those assumptions show no global warming or the planet buring up by 1920. Again, its a classic example of garbage-in, garbage-out. What bothers me is that policy decisions worldwide are being based on such faulty science. I'm not for or against reducing carbon dioxide emissions but I'm totally against this stampede to action caused by a bunch of politically motivated Chicken Littles.

Liberia consistently returns to this form of collective disorganization every few years and is probably the best "implementation" of anarchy. Somalia is another example. Countries that fall into a severe revolutionary pattern (France in the late 1700s, Cuba, Russia from 1917 through 1919, etc.) all have experienced anarchy. But, its an unnatural and only temporary state for a country and for mankind. What most commonly rises out of anarchy is a dictatorship. From there, the form of government can go towards socialism, capitalism, totalitarianism, or back into anarchy (most likely) via another revolutionary process. And no country has any "pure" form of any type of government. There's always some adaptations to local conditions. And to bring us back on topic, no individual has a "pure" form of any political leaning. There's no such thing as a "typical" Democrat or Republican. Myself for example: I can be described as socially liberal, fiscally conservative, hawk.

Communism, as defined in Marxism, is the final, stateless stage of society that is reached after a long period of Socialism. All so called Communist states that have existed to date have referred to themselves as various forms of a "Socialist State" and did not use the term "Communisn" in their descriptions (Soviet Socialist Republic, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, etc.) From history it looks like Marx's ideal (Communism) societal state is unobtainable because no state that has adopted Marxism has been able to progress very far beyond a revolutionary dictatorship. Although the People's Republic of China and Yugoslavia under Tito had came the closest. Ultimately, history has proven Marx was wrong.

No, Pinatubo disproved the Nuclear Winter theory because the amount of dust and aerosols thrown into the atmosphere by its series of eruptions was close to about half the mean of worst case scenarios envisioned by the early proponents of the Nuclear Winter theory. We survived it just fine. 20 Megaton thermonuclear weapons are awesome but they ain't squat when compared even to a small volcanic erunption. Pinatubo's big eruption in June 1991 was the second largest in the 20th century and its series of eruption from 1990 to 1993 put cubic miles (that's plural) of dust and 20 million metric tons of sulpher dioxide, unknown metric tons of hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride, and unknown huge quantites of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

I have a more fundamental question regarding global warming: What's bad about it? We lived fine through a two year global cooling of about 1.5 degree C as a result of the aerosols thrown into the upper atmosphere from the Mt. Pinatubo erruption in 1991 (which, incidentally, totally disproved the whole "Nuclear Winter" hypothesis - another example of bad science).

Kyoto was a really, really bad treaty from legal, administrative, scientific, and execution standpoints. http://www.techcentralstation.com/112000A.html

An external view of the current state of Democrat vs. Republican: http://www.economist.com/World/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3286037

http://technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_muller101504.asp

So, you completely discount the content of the article based on the publisher of Foreign Affairs? Amazing...

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Anyone? Does anyone know a member serving in those two countries?

As always, don't let election year political BS hide reality: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay83301/daniel-w-drezner/the-outsourcing-bogeyman.html

Always remember, Republicans opposed slavery while Democrats supported it and Democrats supported the civil rights initiatives while Republicans opposed them. Both parties are easily capable of switching sides on an issue when it will help them remain in office (or enter an office).

Man, have we been stupid or what!? Are there ANY HybridZ members serving in Iraq or Afghanistan? Does anyone know?

Only a "fool" like Bush would even try, but wait... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23012-2004Oct10.html Probably only a fluke. We need to get back to the September 10th way of looking at the world... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?