Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:52:58 -0500,
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Notice the pictures on page 116 (beginning of article) and 122 ("With a
deafening crescendo"). Brick and fired clay is still not good enough
for that. Many of the houses are built of wood to be less intrusive.

There's that. Though not all fire burns that hot, and likely there'll
be more left of the building afterward. Whether that's an advantage is
something else again.

But it is quite feasible to adjust buildings to be more fire resistant,
just like one can make buildings able to survive tsunamis[1]. The ``less
excess trees in the vicinity'' is a good start, as already mentioned.


California has rules against brick construction because it
doesn't do well in seismic events. Choose your disaster...

Alright. :-)

Though there's bound to be more choices than brick and mortar or wood.
Sky scrapers employ all sorts of tricks against earthquakes, so one'd
expect at least some of that would be down-scaleable to single homes.

Then again, I don't know whether letting the home burn then build it
again and re-stock with the usual consumerist crap isn't cheaper.

The mementos and other valuables are another story, of course. A small
heat-resistant vault in the cellar (or the nearest substitute -- some
sunken compartment in the concrete slab underneath the tinder?) might do
it.


Not knowing how active they are (rate per million flying hours), it's
hard to say.

If it's a lot, then it's not significant. If it's a few, post a
NOTAM and leave it up to the airmen's own discretion.

If we're going to be indivualist and independent we might as well
be left our own responsibility. AFAIK this has been the culture in
aviation; to make decisions ourselves, and make sure we can do so
responsibly by being well-informed.


There's also a height restriction (13.5 feet/4,11 meters), but the
bridges usually ignore the blinky lights and signs.

Cue stories of youth sticking heads out of opened skylight on a
double-decker touringcar and getting beheaded by a passing bridge.


(we have few places where you exit to the left, rather than the right
mainly because the st00pid highway engineer is trying to save a few
coins).

Ugh. What I've seen is things like splitting the N available lanes
in two with each continuing to be a motorway but going in different
directions. Single-lane split-off on the left, uhm, no. This may work
somewhat better in places that allow overtaking on the right.


40km/h or 25km/h, depending. And you can see 12 y/o kids driving the
heavy farm machinery -- there's an exception that allows that.

15 1/2 for a learners permit, and must be accompanied by a licensed
driver in the front seat. No, the 12 year-olds are not allowed to
drive on public land/roads. (Was I 12 when I did that? Perhaps.)

They're not allowed that here either, maybe except for the bit from farm
to land and back (which would happen anyway). Probably with a 25km/h
restriction even if the thing itself would've been allowed 40. Still,
big huge large machines with all sorts of pointy bits sticking out in
all directions aren't my favourite encounter no matter who drives.


There was a bit of a spat where tractors with (multiple) trailers were
taking heavy loads accross the country on rural roads.

That varies by state, and I think they are legal on designated roads
here. I know that is the case in California.

Any road that's not a motorway, basically, though you usually don't see
them on state roads (numbered Nnnn, with Ann for motorways or nothing
for un-numbered roads). Doesn't strike me like there's much excess road
for designating.


[1] By making the ground floor a sacrificial area with figuratively
cardboard walls and have the upper floors stand be solid and stand
on a couple struts, leaving lots of room for the water to pass once
it has knocked away the cardboard and all the crap you were too lazy
to throw away.

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