Corps used the internet to attack its critics

Read more Corps comments at http://levees.org Hiding their identities, people at the US Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans masqueraded as ordinary citize…

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The levee failed back on January 25, 2010 and it finally got fixed on May 18, 2011. It took so long to get fixed because the ground was too wet to get the eq…

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Q&A: Could the Mn I-35W bridge collapse occur due to added stress by 4 lanes being used to take on 8 lanes traffic

Question by felixnovak80: Could the Mn I-35W bridge collapse occur due to added stress by 4 lanes being used to take on 8 lanes traffic

At the time of the Mn I-35W bridge collapse, 4 lanes of the 8 lanes were under repair and closed off to traffic. This imposed a stress factor increased by diverting all bridge traffic formally using 8 lanes to 4 lanes.

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Answer by UCANTCME
Yes it could have and I have seen many bridges everywhere that will do the same thing and this has to put alot of extra stress on the remaining lanes that are being used, very good question…

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What is the Apple Tablet used in the Movie “Blank Check” the kid uses for tracking incoming shipments?

Question by bakegoodz: What is the Apple Tablet used in the Movie “Blank Check” the kid uses for tracking incoming shipments?

I recall it being a touch screen or tablet computer. Anybody know the model?

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Answer by Caffiend
it’s an Apple Performa 6100, Mac II Series .. as per

http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/sightings.html

but it doesn’t look like a tablet .. and apparently this is the one he used to print the 1mil dollar check ..

i’ll have to go watch the movie now, i’m curious .. 1994 seems a little early for commercial tablets or touch screens

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Q&A: limits used in predicting the failure of the levees in New Orleans?

Question by : limits used in predicting the failure of the levees in New Orleans?

How do you think limits were used in predicting the failure of the levees in New Orleans last year before Katrina hit?

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Q&A: Is there any other softer ware to be used instead of Winrar?

Question by Great Man: Is there any other softer ware to be used instead of Winrar?

I am really tired of these soft for unziping folders.
I couldn’t really get it, it is maybe very complicated or very stupid design.
so please tell me something new to use it for unziping files?
that is Software sorry for my misspelling.

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Answer by Mordak
7 Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.
The main features of 7-Zip:
High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
Self-extracting capability for 7z format
Integration with Windows Shell
Powerful File Manager
Powerful command line version
Plugin for FAR Manager
Localizations for 63 languages

http://www.paehl.de/english.php

Simplyzip is a FREEWARE multi archiver. It does not write any entries to the registry or anywhere else. Version 1.1 has been rewritten from scratch.
Main Features:
Open: ZIP, CZIP, ACE, CAB, RAR, TAR, GZIP, LZH, BZ2, SQX, RS, UUE, XXE, BASE64, UCL, ARJ, ZLIB, ALIB, RPM, DEB, 7-ZIP
Create: 7z, ZIP, CZIP, Cab, LHA, TAR, TAR GZ TAR BZ2, ACE (optionale DLL), Deepfreezer, SQX, UCL, RS, ZIP-SFX/LHA-SFX, RAR-SFX, UUE/XXE, ZLIB and Base64.
Multi-ZIP
Backup to disk (e.g. CD)
ZIP-Rpair
Crypt files with:Rijndael AES/Twofish (both 256bit keysize) and Blowfish (448bit keysize) incl SFX creator and an ArcConverter
Optional: See ArcConvert below
Create RAR/ACE (new version) and LHA SFX (with optional files from my site)
Localisation: English, German, Italian, Spanish, portugues-br, Swedish and Thai
ZIPSFX now in English, German, French and Spanish (in the setup)
Standalone: After installation you can copy all files from Simplyzip folder (excepted the uninst.exe) and use it whereever you want
Optional Plugins (ArcConvert, ACE DLL, LFB Archiver, Unpacker and a short german manual)

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