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Oi! Rain it in sunshine.

Yes, the weather is strange sometimes. :)

Meteorcre pun.

Awaits cyclone of puns..

Punami?

Schickrocco.

Split, Croatia

http://butdoesitfloat.com/A-Thousand-Year-Reich

I followed the link from this page to the LIFE website and this was the first image:

Does anyone else think Hilter is doing a distinctly "Oh, you!" pose?

Actually I don't care if anyone else does, it made me laugh.

Flushing sediment through the Yellow river.

The second largest river in China has been beset by problems of flooding, pollution and sediment silting behind dams for years. It failed to reach the sea most years in the 1990's, until a digital management system was instituted over its whole basin in order to help manage it. The system integrates diverse data sets, such as satellite images, rainfall predictions and dozens of reservoir level and pollution monitors spread around the river, its reservoirs and tributaries. Remote controlled sluice gates can organise the flow of water towards different needs, whether agriculture or flushing pollutants and sediments down towards the sea.

As a result, the pollution levels have fallen dramatically, and the dangerous levees towards the river's end are being flushed away. They posed a flood risk and lowered the gradient preventing the river from reaching the sea. The system is getting an upgrade in order to create the world's most advanced water rationing system, with the objective of restoring some of the damage resulting from human activity.

The situation isn't perfect by any means, but it's a big improvement on the recent past. Centralising the system also forces a single management plan on the different provinces involved, in order to try and balance the needs of upstream and downstream users, and prevent individual provinces from taking more than their share. In a world where fresh water resources are under increasing strain, there seems to be few other options available to us than to try and allocate resources between competing needs.

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Re the bunch of Nazi guys; the little fellow with the 'tache is Ferdy Porsche, right?

Oh, you! is right...

Remote controlled sluice gates can organise the flow of water towards different needs, whether agriculture or flushing pollutants and sediments down towards the sea.

As a result, the pollution levels have fallen dramatically

I'm not convinced that flushing pollutants out to sea counts as a method of pollutant control.

Works for Victoria BC

I'm not convinced that flushing pollutants out to sea counts as a method of pollutant control.

I certainly agree with this long term, but in the short term flushing pollutants into the sea where they will become radically diluted may be a lesser evil than having it sat in concentrated stagnant pools upstream. Obviously the long term solution is to combine the flushing with improved regulation to limit the number of pollutants released into the river but I don't know whether this is actually the case here.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/A-Thousand-Year-Reich

You've got to hand it to the Nazis, they really nailed the branding and marketing.

You've got to hand it to the Nazis, they really nailed the branding and marketing.

Dude! You are not allowed to saw that sort of thing. Look what happened to Brian Ferry

"You've got to hand it to the Nazis, they really nailed the branding and marketing."

Worked wonders too, across Europe (including GB) and the US... :

#scarybuttrue

Dude! You are not allowed to saw that sort of thing. Look what happened to Brian Ferry

God forbid we'd have an intelligent conversation about it, instead of writing the whole thing off as a disgraceful chapter of humanity that won't happen again

(yes, I clocked the irony)

Look what happened to Brian Ferry

"Marks and Spencer opted to sever their ties with him".

So what.

I don't see why they had to damage the clothes themselves, so wasteful.

I followed the link from this page to the LIFE website and this was the first image:

Does anyone else think Hilter is doing a distinctly "Oh, you!" pose?

Actually I don't care if anyone else does, it made me laugh.

reminded me of this
Vegitarian Hitler's You've Been Framed - YouTube

"Marks and Spencer opted to sever their ties with him".

So what.

It's a Japanese ritual, wherein all men must stand in a circle, bow low and their ties dangle forward and each man cuts the tie of the man to his left.

It ends a business relationship.

^ That may not actually be true.

No knowledge of the photo, just thought it was fucking cool.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/054cab9cafa2020fb5ef7b3bbc769a63/tumblr_mq1leeTm8O1qke845o1_1280.jpg

Giant parachutes descend onto the drop zone after conveying Humvees and other heavy equipment to the ground during an airborne training exercise Feb. 25, 2013, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA.

Paratroopers will descend once the heavy equipment is safely on the ground. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod.

Very cool tiles. I used to get pics from my ex-brother in law who was a boomer on USAF refueling planes in Afghanistan. Stunning pics of F-22s with the mountains 30,000 feet below. The pics are no longer with me, sadly, just like the ex-wife (not un-sadly).