I noticed a few people who had the ability to slow down (winter tires?), but forgot to check their rear mirror for the people who don't have winter tires.

Just because you can stop, doesn't mean the 10,000 lbs of Mack truck on your bumper will have the same stopping power. Never a bad idea to at least glance in the direction you are accelerating.

When a person warned that the men should remove the video before they go to jail, Hall fired back.

"Nobody’s going to jail," he wrote. You have a 2,000 lb boulder that is teetering on a 2"[sic] dirt ledge and about ready to fall off on it’s [sic] own. 5 minutes before this video we watched a family with many small children walk right below the rock to take a family photo. We didn’t do anything until they were gone because we didn’t want anyone to get hurt. One gust of wind and that rock was falling whether someone was there or not. ...

"I’ll take my chances with the cops rather then my conscience after hearing a family was crushed to death by a rock I was prompted to move."

Swalberg said just because a rock looks loose, it doesn’t mean people should knock it over.

I don't have a CDL license, but I used to drive semi trucks on back roads for my family farm, so I'll take a stab at a couple of the question/comments here.
>> ^sadicious:

How does it turn at an intersection?
This is a fair bit different from the trucks and trailers I've seen, but I've personally been at the wheel of a double trailer and seen quite a few triple trailers. In either case, I was quite surprised at how well the successive trailers track the path of the semi cab itself and the trailer in front of it. I could actually take corners sharper in a double trailer than with a standard long single trailer. So, I bet that this thing can take a fairly standard wide semi-turn and each trailer will follow almost exactly the same track as the one in front of it.

Backing up would be pretty much impossible, although I felt that way about the double trailer I drove and some of the more seasoned hands than mine could back it through a course around obstacles with seemingly relative ease. I've even seen veterans do the same with triple trailers, which just blows my mind.
>> ^mxxcon:

i'm surprised that wimpy truck could pull so many
Note that all of the trailers were empty! A standard semi with a single grain hopper trailer like my family farm used would weigh about 23-25,000 pounds empty, with a bit higher empty weight for a double/triple trailer. The limit on total weight for any such a rig in the US is around 82,000 pounds (with some more specific regulations on weight per axle, etc.) so you can legally haul a bit under 60,000 pounds of cargo. On back dirt roads with very very rare vehicle inspection, sometimes we would try to cram a trailer full and ignore the weight limits.

Most of our hopper trailers could get up to around 92,000 lbs for semi plus trailer if we did that, but the double trailer I drove on occasion could sometimes top 105,000 lbs.

My guess is that the truck in the video is hauling about all the weight that it can handle in empty trailers, and once they get loaded with sugarcane (I think?, from the tags) the 10 trailers get divvied up between either 5 or 10 trucks. They might not have weight limit regulations, or they might not be enforced. Without any weight limit laws, or lax enforcement, people will tend to load to the maximum their trucks can handle.

Well, next time he's throwing rocks at cars he'll probably stand on the side of the road instead in front of a moving car that weighs 4,000 lbs!!! When you're protesting you should always be thinking of your own safety.

Also, all of those adults were more preoccupied with filming the incident rather than helping the boy. Then they shoved him into that van rather forcibly. This video is ridiculous!

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^EMPIRE:
I have no idea why not... But it should be fucking mandatory.
There's no good excuse not to have this on all smaller planes and gliders. I doubt the extra couple of thousands dollars I'm guessing this system could cost, isn't too expensive if it can save your life.
I also always wondered as well why commercial passanger planes couldn't have a similar system installed (yes I know they travel much faster, but still there has to be a way).


Rans S-9 Chaos gross weight: 700 lbs.
747 gross weight: Around 650,000 lbs.

It's not the speed difference that prevents parachute systems from being used on commercial airliners, it's the massive weights.


Well, you can't forget that the space shuttle rocket boosters and tank are all recovered because they parachute down after use. I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard producing a parachute strong enough to support an airliner. (and it doesn't even have to be a single one. It could be sets of 3 for example on several key structural points). The problem with speed is if the plane is going at least at cruise speed, and suddenly deploys the parachutes, it's an extremely fast stop, and people inside would break their necks. Of course multiple stage 'chutes like Larsarus mentioned would do the trick.

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40 tons? Really? That's 80,000 lbs... gotta be an exaggeration.

>>That was actually a very delicate way the horse used to get the girl to stop beating on it. I think >>the girl should be grateful that the horse was so calm and reserved in that situation.

I agree. For a 2,000 lb animal that instinctively kicks when irritated, that was a very gentle bit of correction.

mostly cruise missiles, cluster bombs, and bunker busters.

it can carry easily twice as many bombs seen in the entire clip, in one sortie.
60,000 lbs of payload, and you're about the height of one of those engines.

they used to stop over at my base, usually on the way out to guam.
the takeoff shakes the ground for miles.

$1,000 of gold is ~1oz...approximately a single gold coin you can fit in your pocket
$1,000 of wheat is ~50 bushels, or 3000 lbs...
So to store a one year supply of emergency savings, $12,000, you would need 12 gold coins or 36,000 lbs of wheat.

If oil becomes very scarce, farmers won't be able to transport their crops, and the price of food relative to gold will go way up. An average house could easily hold 20 cubic meters of grain, or other foodstuffs. In the worst case scenario, nearly everyone's top priority would be acquiring essential housing and food, and having your own stockpile is safer than relying on trade for your food. Everything but food and shelter is just a luxury. I wouldn't have to barter because I would have all the food I need for a year in case transportation infrastructure breaks down. And when my neighbors are starving, they will pay anything for food. Even under a gold standard, inflation is possible when the amount of goods in the market decreases (while the money supply remains constant). Inflation is based primarily on the ratio between the money supply and the amount of real goods and services available. Any war can reduce the supply of goods and services, thereby reducing the amount of goods and services you can buy with a fixed quantity of gold.

You can't eat gold...
...if a great depression comes I would rather have a stockpile of wheat than a stockpile of gold.

You can't eat paper either, nor can you survive off wheat alone. What exactly are you proposing?

$1,000 of gold is ~1oz...approximately a single gold coin you can fit in your pocket
$1,000 of wheat is ~50 bushels, or 3000 lbs...

So to store a one year supply of emergency savings, $12,000, you would need 12 gold coins or 36,000 lbs of wheat. If a depression hits, what will you use to pay the storage costs for your 36,000 lb pile of wheat...

...wheat?

Bacon, sausage, sirloin, chicken, hambuger...


Mmm mmm mmm. All so tasty. Ain't no way in hell I'm giving it up.
And yes, I do complain about people and their carbon and other wasted energy. Just because I eat meat does not mean I can't be annoyed by some asshole driving a 7,000 lb vehicle getting 10 miles to the gallon all so he can look cool.

Saying I can't is retarded.

Armaments available to the Warthog:
* Guns: 1× 30 mm (1.18 in) GAU-8/A Avenger gatling gun with 1174 rounds
* Hardpoints: 8× under-wing and 3× under-fuselage pylon stations holding up to 16,000 lb (7,200 kg) and accommodating:
o Mark 82, Mark 83, and Mark 84 general-purpose bombs or
o Mk 77 incendiary bombs or
o BLU-1, BLU-27/B Rockeye II, Mk20, BL-755[27] and CBU-52/58/71/87/89/97 cluster bombs or
o Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (A-10C) or
o GBU-10 Paveway II, GBU-12 Paveway II, GBU-16 Paveway II and GBU-24 Paveway III laser-guided bombs or
o Joint Direct Attack Munition (A-10C)[28] or
o AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missiles and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles or
o LAU-68 Hydra 70 mm (2.76 in) and 127 mm (5.0 in) rocket pods or
o Illumination flares, ECM and chaff pods or
o ALQ-131/ALQ-184 ECM pod or
o LITENING AT/Sniper XR targeting pods (A-10C)