Detroit news
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So a few days ago, the mayor of Detroit tweeted something along the lines of "What can we do to improve the image of our city". One wise guy jokingly replied "Giant statue of Robocop". Then the internet took over.[^]
I loved the comment from one doner; "Despite everything, we live in a great country, and every day, there's an opportunity out there to do something awesome," Hottelet, owner of Omni Consumer Products, told the Free Press. "You just have to find it." Charity has to start somewhere, but this guy thinks donating to build a statue is awesome. :doh: :doh: :doh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I loved the comment from one doner; "Despite everything, we live in a great country, and every day, there's an opportunity out there to do something awesome," Hottelet, owner of Omni Consumer Products, told the Free Press. "You just have to find it." Charity has to start somewhere, but this guy thinks donating to build a statue is awesome. :doh: :doh: :doh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I particularly like the bit about how he's "owner of Omni Consumer Products". C'mon Free Press. Is it really that easy to slip this stuff past you?
:thumbsup: Yeah, he probably paid for that too. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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If I remember the movie correctly, it took them millions (hundreds of millions?) of dollars to build Robocop. I'm not quite sure they can pull it off with $50,000. :)
If it took millions, it was clearly fiction, as Detriot has no money, even in the movie they were broke. Actually he was developed by an evil arms/security company under contract to clean up the city, and not created by the city itself. For 50k, give Johnny 5 a shotgun for an arm, a chain gun for the other, and an attitude, it'll work out. Hmm, what's Xe Services (Blackwater) up to these days?
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So a few days ago, the mayor of Detroit tweeted something along the lines of "What can we do to improve the image of our city". One wise guy jokingly replied "Giant statue of Robocop". Then the internet took over.[^]
I would have thought the best thing to do would be to clean up the massive section of it that is abandoned/ruined that I once saw a documentary on BBC about.
See if you can crack this: b749f6c269a746243debc6488046e33f
(This one is much easier than the last one!)The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob! "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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Vark111 wrote:
"What can we do to improve the image of our city"
Set off a small thermo-nuclear device and start over.
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So a few days ago, the mayor of Detroit tweeted something along the lines of "What can we do to improve the image of our city". One wise guy jokingly replied "Giant statue of Robocop". Then the internet took over.[^]
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Set off a small
series ofthermo-nuclear devicesand start over.FTFY.
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I thought for sure I was going to get flamed for posting but looks like I'm not alone.
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I thought for sure I was going to get flamed for posting but looks like I'm not alone.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut occasionally. http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] [My Site]
I was fixing flaws in your proposal; this is orthogonal to endorsing it (although it would be the fastest way to get rid of tens of thousands of abandoned buildings and dead neighborhoods). The problem with your original proposal is that Detroit is a large city, the total destruction footprint of a single bomb is smaller than most people think, and multiple small devices are much more efficient than a single monster.
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With all that unused land start market gardens.
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I was fixing flaws in your proposal; this is orthogonal to endorsing it (although it would be the fastest way to get rid of tens of thousands of abandoned buildings and dead neighborhoods). The problem with your original proposal is that Detroit is a large city, the total destruction footprint of a single bomb is smaller than most people think, and multiple small devices are much more efficient than a single monster.
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Dan Neely wrote:
I was fixing flaws in your proposal;
Ah I see thanks for the QA. This discussion reminds me of a pamphlet I got years ago while I was in college, Meet Mr. Bomb[^] Dang can't believe it's &50, not very many pages. I'll have to get it out and read it haven't looked at it in years. :)
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Dan Neely wrote:
I was fixing flaws in your proposal;
Ah I see thanks for the QA. This discussion reminds me of a pamphlet I got years ago while I was in college, Meet Mr. Bomb[^] Dang can't believe it's &50, not very many pages. I'll have to get it out and read it haven't looked at it in years. :)
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Mike Hankey wrote:
This discussion reminds me of a pamphlet I got years ago while I was in college, Meet Mr. Bomb[^] Dang can't believe it's &50, not very many pages. I'll have to get it out and read it haven't looked at it in years. Smile
It could be far worse[^]. I've wanted to read this since I first read about it; but $300 is WAAAAY too much. (The $100 source mentioned in one of the reviews no longer exists.)
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I would have thought the best thing to do would be to clean up the massive section of it that is abandoned/ruined that I once saw a documentary on BBC about.
See if you can crack this: b749f6c269a746243debc6488046e33f
(This one is much easier than the last one!)The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob! "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
I believe that's called everything inside the suburbs. IIRC Urban Detroit's set records for population decline; and the more abandoned houses turn it into a hellhole the faster it happens. The last I heard was that the mayor was planning to write entire neighborhoods off and concentrate the entire urban renewal/demolition budget in a few of the least fubar areas.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
This discussion reminds me of a pamphlet I got years ago while I was in college, Meet Mr. Bomb[^] Dang can't believe it's &50, not very many pages. I'll have to get it out and read it haven't looked at it in years. Smile
It could be far worse[^]. I've wanted to read this since I first read about it; but $300 is WAAAAY too much. (The $100 source mentioned in one of the reviews no longer exists.)
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Yeah they're mighty proud of that book. The one I'm talking about is of the Mad Magazineish type. I bought it because it was so humerous.
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I was fixing flaws in your proposal; this is orthogonal to endorsing it (although it would be the fastest way to get rid of tens of thousands of abandoned buildings and dead neighborhoods). The problem with your original proposal is that Detroit is a large city, the total destruction footprint of a single bomb is smaller than most people think, and multiple small devices are much more efficient than a single monster.
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Dan Neely wrote:
(although it would be the fastest way to get rid of tens of thousands of abandoned buildings and dead neighborhoods).
The should reinstate a land rush up there. If you want a building, then claim it. 27% of residential housing is abandoned in the city.
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Yeah they're mighty proud of that book. The one I'm talking about is of the Mad Magazineish type. I bought it because it was so humerous.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut occasionally. http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] [My Site]
Yeah. the big part of the price I think is that it's been repeatedly talked up in this[^] blog. The things I won't work with section is infrequently update; but is always a riot. I can'tshouldn't complain too much though; otherwise I'd've probably never heard of it in the first place. Sand wont save you this time[^] is probably the best introduction both to the blog section and Ignition itself. Regarding ClF3 Ignition has this to say: ”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
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Yeah. the big part of the price I think is that it's been repeatedly talked up in this[^] blog. The things I won't work with section is infrequently update; but is always a riot. I can'tshouldn't complain too much though; otherwise I'd've probably never heard of it in the first place. Sand wont save you this time[^] is probably the best introduction both to the blog section and Ignition itself. Regarding ClF3 Ignition has this to say: ”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
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Nasty stuff...would hate to come into contact with it or for that matter come anywhere near it.
Dan Neely wrote:
For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
To funny.
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So a few days ago, the mayor of Detroit tweeted something along the lines of "What can we do to improve the image of our city". One wise guy jokingly replied "Giant statue of Robocop". Then the internet took over.[^]
Ah damn Americans and their fad with robots, our ministers in India build their own statues worth millions (yes we are a poor country) while they're still alive :rolleyes:
I are n00b.
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Yeah. the big part of the price I think is that it's been repeatedly talked up in this[^] blog. The things I won't work with section is infrequently update; but is always a riot. I can'tshouldn't complain too much though; otherwise I'd've probably never heard of it in the first place. Sand wont save you this time[^] is probably the best introduction both to the blog section and Ignition itself. Regarding ClF3 Ignition has this to say: ”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
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Got to googling a little on the "Meet Mr. Bomb" thing and came up with this. This is an extremely rare 1983 magazine by the publishers of Mad Magazine with contributions from Ron Letchford (editor and publisher of Mad). I don't recall ever seeing it for sale at the time. I have certainly never seen it since. It is a 28 page magazine of Mad style humour pretending to be an official Government publication on what to do in the event of a nuclear war. It has articles, cartoons and fake adverts. It really is hilarious. I guarantee that if you like Mad you'll love this. I didn't remember it being an off-shoot of Mad Magazine but it makes sense now. Just thought you might be interested.
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So a few days ago, the mayor of Detroit tweeted something along the lines of "What can we do to improve the image of our city". One wise guy jokingly replied "Giant statue of Robocop". Then the internet took over.[^]
"...a team of skilled sculptures..." I hope the sculptors are better at spelling than the writers. :doh:
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