CAPT_Howdy
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Clearly, he is not to be trusted with a gun or a toothbrush...
That?s genius!!! If you don?t think so, you clearly haven?t been at the frontline in a war for a couple of days not finding the time to brush you teeth and your comrades slowly incing away from you because of the stench ... so now, no more unnessecary firing breaks. Just stick a toothbrush to your AK47 and be mint-fresh all the way to your purple heart ...
Tom DeLay: ?Americans Forget the Constitution Was Written by God?
http://issuehawk.com/tamar/2014/02/...rget-the-constitution-was-written-by-god.html
Cocking-up and making the best of your cock-up are different things and only one of the two is something good and admirable. But ordering trains on the wrong infos is a cock-up no matter how you look at that. That this will actually be a good thing in the long run ... yeah, I see that too.I don't why there is this brouhaha about that : it's a necessary maintenance work anyway : wider trains mean more passengers per travel. We must see further than this so called "scandal".
Speaking of trains and finnland ... you guys bought the Dutch trains that weren?t fit to operate in finnish winters and froze shut, rite?Something rather stupid with railways happened here as well, but in rather unfathomable way. They've renovated the railway station in my town, and as a part of that project they tore down old platform covers and built new ones that were almost identical. Except they made them too low for carriages to fit to the station. :lol: So all rails in the station had to be lowered..
I think you mean Denmark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4Speaking of trains and finnland ... you guys bought the Dutch trains that weren?t fit to operate in finnish winters and froze shut, rite?
I think you mean Denmark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4
I think you mean Denmark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4
No, no, if you're all talking about the high speed trains they got, it's even worse: they're Italian pendolinos, manufactured in Italy by FIAT Ferroviaria. An electric train, manufactured in Italy by FIAT, used for high speed rail in Finland. Yup.
We bought some new trains along with the Dutch a few years ago, called the fyra project.
Only the idiots in charge bought them from Italians to (AnsaldoBreda), so they were crap, and after only a few months of constant breakdowns and people getting ready to lynch the people responsible for the biggest purchase oepsie in recent history, they are now all permanently parked at a service yard, to either rust away into nothing or be scrapped.
Don't worry, the taxpayer will take care of it.......
To be fair, we don't exactly have the population density to offset the cost of high speed rail. And there's a whoooooole lotta track that has to be laid down between major cities.Yeh, but you at least still have some high speed rail in the form of Thalys. In Canada, we have nothing. Bombardier, a Canadian company, produces high speed trains in Canada and then proceeds to sell them in the US, Europe and China. The Zefiro 380, due to be one of the most advanced high speed trains to date, with a service speed of 380 km/h is due to be delivered to China. Meanwhile, our trains hardly reach 130 km/h in service, and those are NOT average speeds, they're top speeds on small segments. And those train sets are VERY old. Fucking politicians screwing Canada out of a good thing.