Concordeboy makes a good point; for a first visit, a package might be better. I organised my own holiday the first time - it's nice to pick and choose only the things that you're interested in - but there are greater disadvantages to this in China; obviously, the language barrier is quite high, and ...
Jump to postRussophile appears to feel that the wishes of the Chechens, or declarations of independence, do not grant any legitimacy to Chechen nationhood, any more than they do to Taiwan; greater military power and widespread slaughter are the only way to settle geopolitical arguments. <i>Not completely false....
Jump to postChechnya is an integral part of Russia and always has been.
Completely false.
If anybody gets a virus-infected email that appears to be from your email address, the chance that it <b>actually</b> came from you is extremely small. All the recent mass-mailers have spoofed source addresses; usually using the same sources (any address list they find on your computer) that they us...
Jump to post<i>Taiwan is no more a country than Turkish-controlled Cyprus is a country. You cannot become a country by simply stealing reserves of another nation, skipping town and setting up your own nation. Even if the new has government and such.</i> Then how did any of today's 200-300 countries originate? W...
Jump to post<i>I want to know is Taiwan an independant country or is it a part China?</i> Depends who you ask. If you ask Beijing, it's a rogue province. If you ask most other people, it's a country. It looks, acts, smells, and tastes like a country. It has its own government and elections and ministries and in...
Jump to postVery sorry; bobrayner is doing a 3 month sabbatical, in a region without any internet access.
(no, it's not prison )
Missing y'all...
<i>Climate - good. Only few days in summers (if at all) are very hot, it's never over 40C. Only few days in winter (if at all) are cold. Although you will be able to see and feel snow during most Christmas, but it shouldn't be more than -5C in days (and temperatures are raising with greenhouse effec...
Jump to post<i>Possibly Spain will donate some of <acronym title="Iberia (Spain)">IB</acronym>'s old clapped out 320's.</i> 1. Donating airliners is hardly an effective form of foreign aid, unless your main intention is to support the aircraft manufacturer. It would be better for Iraq - and the donor - to sell ...
Jump to post<i>I believe that if Germans wouldn't have attacked Russia, Russians would have attacked Germany, albeit probably later.</i> Stalin was <b>scared</b> of German power. Through Stalinist eyes, the partition of Poland looked like a glacis to protect against future German aggression. For Russia, the fir...
Jump to postThe EU could of course also introduce a totally new language like Esperanto. It would be very easy to learn because of its simple structure: three tenses, no double letters etc.
How many people would vote for that? 0.001%?
Im taking some CDs with me on a trip. My question is will the X-Rays through the X-ray machine at the airport could cause the CDs to be damaged by radiation?
Or secondly, will they cause the data to be corrupted?
No.
<i>Nah, there wasn't a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. It is just another fake excuse made up by the President. Certain people on this forum have said this so it must be true.</i> And? You could invade, for example, Germany; I guarantee you that within a few months of the invasion, some Al Qae...
Jump to postLaunch costumer of the 7E7?
Perfectly suited for them.. long routes.. not to big.. not to small
...and expensive.
I'm not completely morally against it, but what exactly is the point??? Perfect humanity???
No; medical research.
<I>In reality its only really US airlines that complain about not being able to get access. From a world perspective who cares??? All the rest of our flag carriers can fly there.</I> It's only US airlines... and all the non-flag-carriers... and those who can't afford slots, whilst <acronym title="Br...
Jump to post<i>EADS get plenty of rich defense contracts as well as government money to develop specific airliner models.</i> Who earns more from defense sales - A or B? <i>They just got a huge contract to build tankers for the RAF.</i> Which was far, far more open and competitive than the last major tanker dea...
Jump to post<i>Does Dassault have anything to do with Airbus' products?</i> Airbus already makes heavy use of services from Dassault Systèmes. Dassault is under the EADS umbrella but I don't know how independent DS is. It might be under the umbrella too, or it might have separated years ago... can't remember. G...
Jump to postBermuda 2 treaty is a dinosaur aviation agreement and is anti-competitive and restrictive, it needs to go.
I couldn't agree more. It stifles competition and hurts consumers.
<i>The fact is that the multiplier effect ensures that free flows of capital self-generate as investments and purchases are made. A $1 investment results in a further $5 in ongoing investment until it peters out.</i> How does a positive feedback loop peter out? <img src="/discussions/graphics/...
Jump to postI used to drive a xsara like that on public roads Rally drivers are wusses.
I like this method. It's logical. Some other countries have a standard "range" of fines, with income-testing to decide where in the range your punishment will be; very wealthy people would typically pay the maximum amount. The main difference is that Finland has removed the upper limit. For all the ...
Jump to postWhy must it be snakeheads? The news reports I've seen don't mention anything like that...
Are all hard-drug dealers Colombian?
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<i>Silly?! Why when dealing with religious and biblical text word choice is everything. "I am that I am" can have a completly different meaning from "I shall be what I shall be" as the great Rabbis have taught us.</i> Whilst it certainly is an interesting terminological point, I think we can get a l...
Jump to postOops - small omission. I meant "most of the country's helicopter fleet".
Jump to post<i>Why doesn't airbus build the guppys for commercial cargo airlines? It seems like it would probably sell pretty well.</i> As said before, they are available for charter (to some extent). However, if there was enough extra demand to justify another one (or two, or ...) then you can be sure that Air...
Jump to post<i>how does the iranian <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> and airlines get spare parts for all their american hardware, ie. 727, 747 and Chinook helicopters with all the embargos. Who would do the conversion to tanker if they are used for this purpose?</i> As well as buying from other countri...
Jump to post<i>Ts-ior initiated this whole thing with his deragotory and pathetic comments. Of course you would deny that. Nowadays it's perfectly fine to mock the Christian faith as long as the other faiths aren't mocked. Such hypocrisy</i> Marco, not everybody who disagrees with you is either a brainwashed ex...
Jump to postWhat's next, pre-date urine tests?
Have you seen Gattaca?
<i>Sorry for what? The French trying to make the United States of America look like the world's most evil nation and making Saddam Hussein look good? Gee, if I have to apologize for that, what's next?</i> What's next? You could calm down a little, put down the strawman, and try to say something fact...
Jump to post<i>Maybe you should go back and read who called who an extremist first.</i> The word first appears here: <i>Thank God my destiny is not in your extremist hands</i>. Who was first? I thought it was you, but perhaps one of the brainwashed masses provoked you with a comment that subsequently got delete...
Jump to post<i>Still pretty stupid. You can make it so it will turn on and disable the keyboard so when you press enter nothing happens and still have a bomb in it. This is the same crap security we had before the terrorists and its the same crap security we will have forever.</i> To do that, you would need to ...
Jump to postWhats an opel when its at home
It's a Vauxhall with a different badge.
Indeed. Don't like walmart? Shop somewhere else. If enough people change their shopping patterns, then shop development patterns will change too. It seems likely that your favourite old stores close because they <i>aren't selling enough</i>. If more people wanted to shop there, they would. Walmart i...
Jump to postWould anybody want to go to Charleroi if flights weren't subsidised?
That is correct, Perot is the reason Clinton was elected the first time.
People voted for Clinton, didn't they?
<i>Don't you want F/A's, pilots and ground crew to have jobs?</i> I want them to have jobs if they can earn a living. The employees who benefit from subsidies are those that wouldn't earn a living otherwise; this is wasteful. You could reduce unemployment levels to zero by paying half the unemployed...
Jump to post<i>Why do manufactors skip series? For example why isnt there any 757-100 767-100, 777-100, and A-340-400.</i> <b>It's just a number. It doesn't mean anything.</b> The manufacturer might choose a particular sequence of numbers to symbolise something or other, or to emphasise some discontinuity in pr...
Jump to postHe's just telling us what the brainwashed masses of the Middle East believe. Prove to us, ts-ior, that the Koran hasn't changed.
Brainwashed masses? Are you generalising about muslims, about arabs, or making some other generalisation?
<i>PLEASE READ <acronym title="Anderson - Regional (County) (AND / KAND), USA - South Carolina">AND</acronym> PASS <acronym title="Air Nauru">ON</acronym>. THIS <acronym title="Island Airlines (USA) and Eagle Air/Arnaflug (Iceland)">IS</acronym> VERY SERIOUS. WARNING!!!!! If a man comes to your fron...
Jump to post<i>And when are the subsidies and government ownership of Alitalia and Air France going to end? Is the Czech Republic going to sell off CSA when they enter the EU? I'm sure there are a few more European airlines receiving state assistance. Let's get government assistance out of all airlines and not ...
Jump to post<i>Does anyone know how far north it is capable of going, Copenhagen perhaps?</i> Define "capable". The main technical problem is electrification. Different countries have different electrification; standardisation is coming gradually, but the remainder of some national networks still use a differen...
Jump to postHow exclusive are the discounts, does the airport have to keep details a secret? or can they offer similar discounts to other airlines?
If any airline can collect - and if the bidding process is open - then it shouldn't be illegal.
<i>has boeing only a 35% share of the design process? up to now i theought that it would be disigned by boeing and then the parts would be produced elsewhere.</i> No; it's a 35% share of structures. Building an airplane requires more than just structures. We can assume that more of the design will b...
Jump to post<i>The difference is that the <acronym title="Lajes / Terceira Island / Azores (AB4) (TER / LPLA), Portugal">TER</acronym>'s and TGV's are directly and shamelessly subsidized by the state and/or region whereas does not receive any more government subsidies. Therefore it is unfair competition. I boyc...
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